Oven Fried Tomatoes

Yesterday, I made oven fried tomatoes and zucchini.  They were so good!  The kids and grandkids had never had them, and they loved them.  I used the oven fried veggie recipe it is easy and quick.  Then today we worked all day on the car so supper was really simple.  Grilled hot dogs, baked beans, and chips.  My son has a great grill, so it was easy for me and the kids to grill the dogs. 

Have a great night, this ole girl is off to bed! 

Palitaw

Since I have moved into my son's house his Filipino wife has introduced me to several wonderful dishes!  The Palitaw is one of my grandson's favorite!   You should have seen the expression on his face yesterday when he came home from football practice and caught her making them as a surprise for him.  His eyes lit up like a Christmas tree!!  They were so good I thought I would share her recipe with you.  I hope you like them as much as we do.

2 cups sweet rice flour (Mochiko)
1 3/4 to 2 cups cold water
1 cup grated mature coconut
1/4 cup granulated sugar
toasted sesame seeds
water

Procedure

In a bowl, pour water over sweet rice flour in 1/4 cup increments, all the while mixing both ingredients into a soft, yet, pliable dough. Using a wide spoon, portion dough into 12 and shape each into flat, oval disks.

Meanwhile, in a deep, wide pot, bring about 5 inches of water into a rolling boil. Gently and individually drop disks into the boiling water. Do not overcrowd pot. When disks float to surface, remove from water. Drain well. Place on a parchment-lined platter in a single layer. Cover and allow to cool enough to handle.

Roll cooked palitaw on a bed of grated coconut to fully coat.

In a pan, toast sesame seeds over low heat until fragrant, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and in a small bowl, combine with sugar. Dust sugar mixture over coated cakes or serve alongside.

Tip:
I used 2 cups of water to make my palitaw and the consistency of my dough proved a tad difficult to form into shape. The resulting cakes, however, came out “makunat” (chewy) which is just how I like my palitaw. I managed my shaping task by very lightly coating my hands with olive oil to prevent the dough from sticking.

The Boy Can Grill

My oldest son has picked up quite a reputation for cooking on the grill.   Everyone you talk to around here will tell you that if you are grilling you have to bring it to his house.  Sometimes there are three families here!  We gal's will fix all the veggies and every family brings there own meat.

I can't decide which is my favorite!  He makes the best ribs in town, they are fall off the bone good!  He cooks them on the stove for a while before putting them on the grill.  Then there is his barbecued chicken, my oh my!  My grandson says he likes the chicken best, but he sure can eat his share of ribs!

His wife and I have been looking for him a new grill and we can't decide which one to get him.  He says that there isn't anything wrong with his grill, but we think that since he sometimes cooks for so many that we would like to get him one of those big grills that we saw at www.canadapost.ca/shopper/barbeque-grills-gas-charcoal-/sc/405.  Humm, maybe for his birthday if he promises to keep grilling!!!

Seasoned Oven Fried Potato Wedges

This is the same recipe as for the oven backed veggies, and they are so good.  I love stuff that's simple and good.

8 lg potato's 
1 c. seasoned bread crumbs
1 c. milk/you can add an egg to help the bread crumbs stick better

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Dip potato's in milk and drop in baggy with bread crumbs. Shake to coat. Spread in single layer on cookie sheet that has been sprayed with your favorite cooking spray. Bake in oven 30 minutes or until soft and brown.

Great basic biscuits

Guest post written by Casey Mondell

I'm learning how to cook a lot more stuff this year as a New Year's resolution, because I can't live off of frozen vegetables and entrees forever. I'm working on building up a collection of good and simple recipes to use because any cookbooks that I look at just don't have all the things that I would want or need the recipes for. But one thing that I hadn't figured out how to make yet from scratch were biscuits. So I decided that would be my next goal for myself in this cooking quest.

I went to my greatest resource for recipes, the internet, with my www.wildbluedeals.com/ so that I could find a perfect biscuits recipe. I found all kinds of biscuits recipes, I had no clue there were so many different kinds! I even found one for cheddar garlic biscuits that I bookmarked while I was at it.

But then I remember that I was looking for a simple and basic biscuit recipe. While I was going through all these biscuit recipes, I did find one for easy DIY biscuits that seemed a whole lot simpler than the ones that my mom used to make, so I'm just going to rely on that on

Stuffed Pattypan Squash

6 summer squash (yellow, crookneck, zucchini or pattypan)
Boiling salted water
1 sm. onion, minced
2 tbsp.  butter
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 c. fine dry bread crumbs
1/2 c. shredded Cheddar cheese
3 slices bacon or sausage  partially cooked

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut off stems of squash and cook in about 1 inch of boiling, salted water until barely tender (8 to 10 minutes). Cool, and for pattypans, cut a circle on the top or cut other squash in half lengthwise. Scoop out the pulp, leaving shells about 1/4 inch thick.Cook onion in pan until tender but not browned. Add squash pulp, salt, pepper and crumbs. Mix well and spoon into squash shells. Arrange in a shallow baking dish and top with cheese. Cut bacon strips in halves and put a piece on top of each cheese topped squash. Bake 15 minutes or until browned.
Makes 6 servings.