Holiday Recipes

[ZooTech]

Thanksgiving is this week! And Christmas is right around the corner! Time to share your favorite recipes! Here are a couple of mine (the two most requested from my family members):

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Jambalaya


Ingredients:

- 1 package Zatarain’s Jambalaya mix (or your favorite brand)
- 1 smoked pork or beef sausage (1lb.)
- 1 pound chicken tenderloins, catfish, crawfish tails, shrimp, scallops, or a combination
- 1 green pepper (diced)
- 1 medium yellow onion (diced)
- 2 cloves fresh garlic (minced)
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- 1 TBSP olive oil
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Hot sauce or crushed cayenne pepper (optional)

Directions:

Slice the sausage in half along its length, and then cut into ¼” thick half-circle slices. Heat a frying pan over high heat and add the olive oil. Once up to temperature (oil will begin to smoke) add the diced sausage, onion, green pepper, and minced garlic. Cook until the onion and pepper sweat and the meat begins to brown, then season with salt and pepper (and cayenne pepper if you’re up for it). Remove from heat and set aside.

Add two cups of water and the can of diced tomatoes (undrained) to a large pot. Bring to a boil. Add the Zatarain’s Jambalaya rice mix, the contents of the skillet you set aside, and any diced (raw) chicken you may be using to the pot. Return to a boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer and cook covered for 25-minutes.

If you have chosen to use seafood instead of or in addition to chicken, it should be added during the last 15-minutes of simmering to avoid overcooking, especially with scallops. If you choose to add shrimp, you can purchase pre-cooked cocktail shrimp and stir it in at the last minute of cooking just to warm it up. Raw shrimp or catfish nuggets should be treated like chicken and should be added after the first boil.
I usually add quite a bit of hot sauce or cayenne pepper during cooking and serve this dish up with a side of cold seafood salad as a welcome relief to the spicy heat! You can also use this recipe as a stuffing for Creole stuffed peppers. Enjoy!

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Dump it Cake


Ingredients:

- 1 can cherry pie filling
- 1 (20oz) can crushed pineapple (in juice)
- 1 classic yellow cake mix
- 1 stick sweet cream or salted butter
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts, pecans, or Grape Nuts cereal
- Cinnamon
- Brown Sugar

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325-degrees. Pour cherry pie filling into a large casserole dish and spread it around evenly. Pour crushed pineapple on top of cherry pie filling (do not drain the pineapple first!) and spread it around evenly. Dump the yellow cake mix on top of the pineapple and spread it around evenly. Slice stick of butter into 1/8” squares and lay on top in a checkerboard pattern. Sprinkle chopped nuts or Grape Nuts cereal (for kids or adults with allergies or aversion to nuts) evenly on top of butter layer. Finally, sprinkle cinnamon and brown sugar on top of the nuts and place the dish in the oven uncovered for one hour at 325-degrees. Serve with Breyer’s Vanilla Bean ice-cream.

[Sev]

Bucket O' "poo poo"

1 bottle everything white: (rye, rum, vodka, gin, tequila, gingerale, white wine)
1 bag frozen strawberries
1 old green gardening pail

Dump together and enjoy.


My uncle taught me that one, I'm scared to try it.

And he keeps telling me to be respectable.

Actually that's more of a camping recipe, but it makes me laugh every time I hear about it.

I feel sorry for you guys south of the 49th, we had thanksgiving a while ago, and have relative peace till christmas. I can still taste the stuffing mmmmmm stufffing.

[BuzZz]

We used to use any kind of fruit, not just strawberries. And we called it Yukka-Flux.

Baaaaaaad hangover flashbacks to this day......

[Sev]

My Uncle's an engineer, so he's pretty precise about these kinds of things...

[ZooTech]

We always dumped it all into a cooler and called it "Jungle Juice". And not just strawberries, but peaches, pineapple, cherries, and mandarin oranges, too!

I'll post my stuffing recipe when I get home this evening.

[Sev]

I asked, mom threatened me with death if I try to put hers up here. I decided I was more important then you guys getting to try it.

[9000white]

We used to use any kind of fruit, not just strawberries. And we called it Yukka-Flux.

Baaaaaaad hangover flashbacks to this day......

we called it "buck" in the chaingang.

[cb360]

We always dumped it all into a cooler and called it "Jungle Juice". And not just strawberries, but peaches, pineapple, cherries, and mandarin oranges, too!

I'll post my stuffing recipe when I get home this evening.

we did the same thing - it was called 'hunch punch' - we'd get a long flexible tube for a straw and put the cooler in the back seat so we could drink and drive at the same time. This was 20-25 years ago mind you, not that that made it a good idea. Just that I'm happy to be alive today and I'm real glad I quit drinking

[oldnslo]

Would that be a clean or well-used with debris gardening pail?

[oldnslo]

This one seems to taste pretty good. Sometimes, too good.

@ 4 oz vodka
@ 4 oz guava juice
@ 4 oz cranberry juice
@ 4 oz 7-up

Amounts are only estimates and you may want to adjust to taste--I half- fill a 20-oz tumbler with ice cubes before adding ingredients. Two of these will make you think [if you are average non-clinical alcoholic] about bed-time. It tastes a lot like cranberry juice, and can be guzzled the same way.