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Devil's Food Cake
By patticakes
no frosting required
- 1/2 cup butter
- 3 oz bittersweet chocolate
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 beaten eggs
- 1/2 cup sour milk (mix milk and a TBS vinegar or lemon juice and let sit)
- 1 1/2 ts soda
- 2 cups flour
- 1 ts vanilla
Lane Cake
By patticakes
Lane cake, an Alabama specialty, was created by a woman named Emma Rylander Lane, who wrote a cookbook around the t...
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup milk
- 8 large egg whites (reserve the yolks for the filling)
Trisha's Chicken Tortilla Soup
By patticakes
From a Halloween show with Trisha Yearwood on the food network
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- Three 14-ounce cans chicken broth
- 4 cups half-and-half
- One 10.75-ounce can cream of chicken soup
- 1 cup prepared salsa, mild or spicy
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, boiled, drained and shredded
- One 15-ounce can black beans, drained
- One 15-ounce can kidney beans, drained
- One 15-ounce can whole kernel corn, drained
- 2 teaspoon ground cumin
- One 1.27-ounce packet fajita seasoning
- One 16-ounce bag tortilla chips
- 8 ounces Monterey Jack, grated
- 8 ounces sharp Cheddar, grated
- 1/2 cup sour cream
Chicken Biryani
By patticakes
Roast spices in skillet add oil, saute onions add garlic,ginger and tomato paste add chicken and brown
- Chicken
- 3 pounds mixed boneless chicken breasts and thighs (or you preference)
- 1/2 cup oil
- 4 large onions
- 4 TBS garlic and ginger paste
- 4 tsp tomato paste, or 1 8 Oz can tomato sauce
- 1 TBS coriander powder
- 1 TBS cumin powder
- 1 TBS turmeric powder
- 1 TBS chili powder
- salt to taste
- 1 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 cup yogurt
- 2 TBS lemon juice
- Rice
- 4 cups basmati rice, half cooked with 1 TBS salt
Reverse Chocolate Chip Cookies
By patticakes
Lisa Ritter's 10-year-old son, Henry, loves dark chocolate and also, at the other end of the cocoa spectrum, sweet ...
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa, sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped into chunks
- 12 ounces white chocolate, coarsely chopped into chunks
Espresso "Pretzels"
By patticakes
Preparation Preheat oven to 325°F
- Parchment paper for lining baking sheets
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon finely ground espresso beans
- 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 large egg white
- 4 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened)
Koosa - Lebanese stuffed zucchini
By patticakes
Hollow out each zucchini, working from both ends with a small melon-ball cutter or an apple corer, removing all see...
- 6 medium yellow or Clarita zucchini (6 to 8 oz each)
- 1/2 cup long-grain rice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 3/4 lb ground beef chuck or ground lamb (not lean)
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 cups canned diced tomatoes including juice
- 1 cup chicken stock or broth
- 1/2 lemon
Brown Sugar Meringues
By patticakes
Preheat oven to 250°. In a large bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form
- 4 large egg whites at room temperature
- 1 cup lightly packed light brown sugar
- pinch of salt
Gingerful Biscotti
By patticakes
Cut the ginger into pieces about the size of small green peas, and set aside
- 4 oz (1 loosely packed cup) crystallized ginger
- 7 oz (1/14 cups) whole almonds (Pat note – recipe says blanched or unblanched, but I prefer blanched)
- 3 cups sifted unbleached flour
- 3/4 ts baking soda
- 3/4 ts baking powder
- 1/4 ts salt
- 1 1/4 ts finely ground white pepper
- 1 ts ginger
- 1/2 ts ground cinnamon
- 1/2 ts ground mustard powder
- 1/4 ts ground cloves
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 cup mild honey
Chicken Margarita Soup
By patticakes
In a medium saucepan warm 2 tablespoons of olive oil over medium high heat
- 4 TBS Olive oil
- 1 cup white rice
- 10 cups low sodium chicken stock, divided
- 1 cup chopped onions
- 2 TBS chopped garlic
- 2 TBS finely diced fresh jalepeno
- 1 lb chicken tenders cut into 1 inch pieces
- 1 1/3 cup chopped tomatoes
- 1/3 cup fresh squeezed lime juice
- 1/3 cup chopped cilantro, plus more for garnish
- salt and pepper
- lime slices