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Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes Diet Turkey Burgers 2013 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land I hope this finds you sharing your love for family and Friends this holiday season.  However if you are alone I say go out and find a friend to cook with and share some laughter hopefully this Christmas.  I know that is not always possible to do depending on your family I know at my house when I was little the environment sometimes was not the best this time of year so when I got grown I decided to make sure my kids had a happy time and felt all kinds of love from me especially this time of year. Not only do I try to let them know I love them but I try to share the love I feel this time of year to others.  Remember the reason for the season. I will not be posting anymore for 2013 so I'll make this a blog for Christmas and the New Year.  Did you know that in the year 1813 what the most popular candy was?  It was Peppermint lifesavers every home had to have peppermint candy for the holidays.   Petite Madeleine's were popular desserts.  In 1813 the Pineapple was introduced in Hawaii.  Pride and Prejudice was first published in the United Kingdom.   Let's see in 1913 some small events were: The 16th amendment to the United States Constitution is raffied, which also means Income Tax.  New York City Grand Central Terminal having been rebuilt, reopens as the largest railroad station.Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as President of the United States.  The Camel cigarette brand is introduced by R.J. Reynolds in the United State, Hench, I'd walk a mile for a camel, not me.  Well I would go into 2013 but you all know what has been happening with that.  No need for a repeat. So for your Christmas dinner let's make some Mashed Potatoes.  You all know to cut your potatoes the same size so they cook the same amount of time.  You heat up your Milk and butter so your potatoes stay nice and hot and whip up easier for you.  Salt and Pepper to taste.   You may also want to add some Sour Cream to the mix.  However some people add a pinch of nutmeg tot hem to enhance the flavour so they say.  Now if you want to lighten up your mix of mashed potatoes, I suggest that you add Buttermilk instead add Sour Cream and Cream and add 1/2 the butter you would normally use.  You will add a little more of the Buttermilk.  It gives it a really nice flavor with  out the calories.  Any who what ever milk you use pour it into the potatoes before you mash them.    I can't seem to find a photo of my Mashed Potatoes but come on people you do know what they look like. hehe.

 

Mashed Potatoes

Season 04

5 pounds Potatoes peeled and diced, cook in salted water

1 stick Butter

Salt and Pepper to taste

1 cup Milk more if needed to smooth your potatoes

1 Cup Sour Cream

Cook the potatoes in salted water.  Heat your butter and milk on the stove.  Drain your potatoes when tender.  Start beating potatoes and add Salt, pepper and sour cream to the mix.  Slowly beat in your heated butter and milk.  Serve hot and if you want to cut the fat heat 1 ½ cups buttermilk instead of using the butter.

I did find pictures of the Turkey Burgers that I made the other night and my hubby loved them.  Very tasty and I gotta tell ya, that when I owned my cafe everyone came in after the holidays and for about two weeks they were all on diets then it all faded away from memory.  Any who the top foods googled for 2013 for your FYI trend was the word DIET!  Go figure, any who here a diet recipe that you will use over and over again.  By the way season two of the TV show I made Black Bean Burgers that were the BOMB I was told, are they still using the phrase?  Any who the Black bean Burger recipe is on my blogs as well, no picture because at the time I didn't know how to get it on this thing  called a computer. Any who here is your trendy diet Turkey Burgers bought to you by me, Madjon and Cooking is my game.  I also want to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to one and all.  Thanks so much for reading my blog and trying my recipes.  Please email me at madjon51@aol.com or like my facebook fan page ,"Cooking With MadJon & Friends."   Happy trails to you until we meet again.

 

Diet Turkey Burgers

1 pound ground Turkey

1 tsp. Onion & Garlic Powders

1 TBSP Worcestershire Sauce

Salt and Pepper to taste

1 Egg, beaten

Lite House Poultry Seasoning

Olive Oil for Grilling

 

I used my George Foremen to grille these burgers and FYI I also use it to grill a lot of Chicken Breast, best thing ever to cook them with, the breast stay moist and cook even.  Any who you are the mix all ingredients with the ground turkey meat and foam into patties and grill in a pan or if you are lucky enough to own a George Foremen Grill then use it.  I use about 2 to 3 TBSP of Olive oil to coat the pan with.

 

Texas Style Chex Mex Holiday Cranberries & Nuts Super Bowl Texas Latrine

Texas Style Chex-Mex

• 1 cup butter
• 2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp. seasoned salt
• 1 tsp. garlic salt
• 2 tsp. onion powder
• 3 cups corn chex cereal
• 2 cups wheat chex cereal
• 2 cups mixed nuts
• 1 cup small pretzels
• 1 cup garlic flavored bagel chips
• 1 cup pretzel rods
• 6 dashes Hot Sauce
• 2 tsp ground Cumin
• 2 tsp. Mrs. Dashes
• 1 Bag of seasoned Croutons with Garlic
• 1 bag of Dried Cranberries, add after the mix has cooked.

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Melt butter in large roasting pan in oven (5 minutes).  Stir in  wet seasonings. Add Dry ingredients meaning spices and mix until coated.  Then you add the cranberries after the mix has cooked and its cooling.  Bake at 250 degrees for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Spread on paper towels to cool, and store in airtight container.

Hello to all my foodies friends out there in web land, I hope all is well.  This recipe I made up for the Aiken Home Show for the VIP room and am just now getting it into recipe foam to share with you.  This is a great recipe that you can use over the holidays or at a Super Bowl Party and the play off games.  That is if you are into

that kind of thing.  I don't watch football mush and when I go to a bowl game I

usually just check out the foods and talk to people about how they made their dishes.  I remember my parents yelling at the TV when they would watch their team the "Dallas Cowboys" and I think my mom yelled louder then anyone else in the room.  Now my mother-in-law is the one yelling at the Texans, I guess things never change!  However when it came to food and cooking my parents always went first class all the way and whatever a guest wanted at our house they got.  My dad was a big steak man and when I left home I swear I'd never eat a steak again.  My hubby's grandparents gave us a half a beef while we were in college and I made that butcher cut all the meat into Hamburger meat and when Nancy went to pick up the order the butcher said to her," are you the nut that had me cut all this beef into hamburger" and Nancy said that she turned white and said I hope am not the nut!  She said that she could not believe that I had the butcher do that but I explained to her that for one thing I didn't care for steak and that I had to make that Beef last for almost a year, which is what it did.  My hubby only made 55.00 a week in college and we had to pay rent and electric bills.  I don't think we had a phone back then.  So we ate a whole lot of Chile and Mexican food, which my hubby still likes to this day, Frito pie was one of my favorites with a Blue Ribbon Beer!  Come on it was cheap back then! My brother came to see us and he was in the Army and when he came into the apartment he said," my God Eileen you live in a Latrine!"  Yea, I remember that I could see holes in the bottom of the metal shower floor and the water ran out.  Any way I had to give Chris a very fast bath the water didn't last long.  Well now I can say the water stays in my shower now. That's also the apartment that had been newly painted and I was cooking Pinto Beans in my new pressure cooker and the nozzle flew off and the beans all went though the little hole on the pressure cooker, what a mess I had to clean up in the kitchen ceiling, I never let that happen again, pressure was to high on the gage.  Any who I hope you all give this little recipe a try and come follow me on this blog and also come like my fan page on face book,"Cooking With MadJon & Friends.  Come join me on penterest and linkedIn.  Watch the TV show at aikenstandard.tv or .com, happy trails to you until we meet again.  Eileen Hutson, madjon51@aol.com with any questions.  Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

History of Chex Mex

Bag of commercially-prepared Chex Mix

Commercial Chex Mix

Chex Mix is a type of snack mix that includes Chex breakfast cereal (sold by General Mills) as a major component. There are commercially sold pre-made varieties of Chex Mix, as well as many recipes (often printed on Chex cereal boxes) for homemade Chex Mix. Though contents vary, the mixes generally include an assortment of Chex cereals, chips, hard breadsticks, pretzels, nuts or crackers

History[edit]

Chex cereal was introduced in 1937 by Ralston Purina.^[1] By 1952, recipes for "Chex party mix" appeared on boxes of Chex cereal. However, it was not until 1985 that pre-packaged products were introduced commercially by Ralston Purina and the trademarks registered to it.^[2] Chex party mix became popular as a holiday treat when purportedly in 1955, the wife of a Ralston executive in St. Louis served the snack at a holiday function. ^[3] However Chex party mix was not a unique idea: it was one of many popular "TV mixes" – snacks which could be consumed without interrupting television watching – which appeared in the 1950s with the introduction of television. For example, a 1950 Betty Crocker cookbook includes a recipe for a snack mix made with Kix cereal.^[4]
In August 1996, General Mills acquired the Chex product line from Ralston Purina along with other brands.

Christmas Caramel Pecan Pie Recipe With John Vaughn & Brooke Lundy

Well hello again to all my foodie friends out there in web land I hope all is well.  I don't know about you but I've been busy for the last couple of months which is a good thing to be.  I love it that way and the most thing I love is passing my love for you though food.  Any who I had the pleasure last Sunday to make a stop at the Wilcox Inn here in Aiken and visited my friend John Vaughn while he used his golden fingers to romance a full house but this time he had a great vocal lead named Brooke Lundy using her golden vocals to tunes like "Santa Baby" and lots of other Christmas tunes and oldies that am very fond of.  She had the audience waiting on every note to hear what she'd be singing next. They also enlightened us with a brief history on some of the tunes like, who wrote them and where they were written.  A few were written by song writers relatives who lived in the Aiken area.  John and Brooke will be at the Wilcox again this Sunday evening, playing and singing between the hours of 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. and I think you should go hear this wonderful duo preform, it will be for your enlightenment and help bring you fully into the Christmas spirit not to mention bringing back some fond memories to you as it did for me.. Please go and hear this wonderful talented team right here in Aiken where we can now call us the little New York of Broadway.  Thanks John for giving me a head's up about hearing you both at the Wilcox.  We are going to talk about making you a great tasty Christmas Caramel Pecan Pie.   One of the best things I find out about making this pie is that they now make baking caramels in little pellets so your not unwrapping 30 caramel candies which I always thought was a pain in the butt.  Also the pellets melt easier for blending.  Any who I hope you enjoy this recipe along with John and Brooke playing and singing along.  Any who happy trails to you until we meet again.  Go let my fan page on face book at "Cooking With MadJon & Friends".  Come join me on tweeter at @madjon51. Bona Y'all and Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to us all.

Christmas Caramel Pecan Pie

1 Cup Light or Dark Karo Corn Syrup
3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
3 Eggs beaten
1 tsp. Vanilla
3 T. Melted Butter
1 Cup Caramel baking Pellets
1/4 Cup Cream
1.5 cups Pecans

1 pre- made pie crust 9"

Mix the first 4 ingredients together.  Toss in the pecans and mix.  Then melt the butter, caramel, and cream together till they are blended.  Mix the caramel sauce with the first 4 ingredients.  Pour into the pie crust.  Bake pie in a pre-heated oven on 325 degrees for about 50 minutes or until the middle of the pie reaches a temp of 200 degrees F.  Cool pie and serve with your favorite topper.  I like to add a chocolate sauce with mine.