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MadJon's American Apple Pie Servings with Ice Cream Fall's First

Hello to all my foodies friends out there in web land its MadJon again and cooking's my game and am hoping that's its your game too.  Today we are going to talk about that fall favorite the American Apple Pie, yum yum.  I made these for a catering job over in Augusta yesterday and served it up with Byers Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, is there anything better.

Yes I used a ready made crust, nothing wrong with that if you are short on time.  I remember when I owned the cafe and they asked me to make a Apple Pie for a fund raiser and I had no idea that it was also for a contest.So came the day for pick up for the pie and I was making it up in the test kitchen and writing down the recipe as I went.  Well they picked up the pie and the following Monday a lady came into the cafe carrying a large trophy and a 100 dollar check for me, I won Best In Show, what a shock.  Any who it was nice to win first place for one of my creations.  You know that pies have been around for centuries and the first pies were make to cover the foods kind of like we use Tupperware and they were called coffins if I remember my history correct.  The sweet pies back then were made with honey not sugar.  I'd still like a pie with honey flavor and did you know that during the depression days they made Mock Apple Pies with that famous cracker the RITZ, which is the most sold cracker today.  It'd be nice to have a food history like that.  Any who I hope you give this recipe a try and also I'd love to hear from you all on this thing called a blog and pass some recipes along the way or just say hello.  Happy trails to you until we meet again and come watch the TV
shows at aikenstandard.tv.

As American As Apple Pie

 8 to 10 Apples, peeled and sliced
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 TBSP
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. Pumpkin Spice
1/2 tsp. ginger
1/2 stick melted butter
1/4 cup flour
2 tsp. vanilla

Slice and peel the apples and pour the lemon juice on them.  Then add all the ingredients to the apples and mix til they are well blended.  Pour apple mix  into a prepared pie shell and top with another crust.  Press the edges and prick to top of the crust with a knives to let the air out the top of the pie while its cooking..  Cook in a pre-heated oven at 400 until nice and brown.  You may also add some butter slices on the top of the apple mix before you place the top crust on the pie.  Bona Y'all.

Also this Saturday am going to another casting call for Master Chef so wish me much luck, thanks to all and God Bess, Cooking With MadJon & Friends.

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MadJon's Mexican Chicken With Mushrooms and some Angel Hair

 Madjon's Mexican Chicken with Cilantro & Lime

2 Boneless Chicken Breast, cooked mixed with 2 TBSP Corn Starch

Salt pepper to taste

1 tsp. onion powder & 1 tsp. Garlic powder

½ pound cherry tomatoes; cut in half,

1 onion; chopped

4 garlic cloves

onion-garlic powder

1 Jalapeno; chopped with seeds

1 cup mushrooms; sliced

1 cup chicken broth

½ cup fresh cilantro; chopped

2 tbs. Dijon mustard

Olive oil to coat pan

1 lime juice & zest
1 1/2 cups Cream or Milk (optional)

Angel hair pasta; cooked according to box directions.  Cut up and brown the chicken dusted with corn starch,  onion, garlic powders, with some oil in a fry pan, salt and pepper as needed.  Add the onion and garlic to the pan.  Add the jalapenos, and cherry tomatoes.  Cook the mushrooms in the mix as well.  Add the broth, cilantro, mustard, lime zest, and lime juice to the mix. You may also add the cream and simmer till the chicken is tender and mix thickens.

When you make this dish the Tomatoes are optional.  I steamed cabbage with this dish and I used Penne for the pasta this time.  Use what ever you like.  This is the third time I've done this blog the girls keep hitting the wrong keys and it takes the blog to blog heaven so am a little tried now of talking about this dish!  I hope you are running into fall like I'am with producing my food products to put on store shelves like am working on Whole Foods.  My products are all Natural and contain no gluten.  I've now added a hot salsa to the line as well.  This recipe came from one of the first TV shows I did for Cooking With MadJon & Friends.  I tried to make up recipes with spices that you normally have on hand.  The carrot Cake I made for a friends father who turned eighty and his favorite cake is Carrot and on this one I used my Pineapple Cake Syrup.  It was yummy I was told.  Write me with any questions at madjon51@aol.com, like my fan page on Face Book, twit me or p interest me and am on other places as well.  Happy trails to you until we meet again, Bona' Y'all.

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Life Events Ham & Split Pea Soup Blueberry Muffins Yum Yum Time for Comfort Foods

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land its MadJon again coming to you from the great state of South Carolina hope you are enjoying the cooler weather and with the cooler weather comes something that we have learned to call winter foods, comfort foods, what a name.  Very Southern and meant to warm your belly along with your outside body.  One thing that would also help keep you warm this winter is when you are outside remember to cover your head because that's where your heat goes out so I've been told.  Any who we've been busy with a food show last Tuesday and selling products to buyers.  Excited about that and also selling to a distributor in Japan, way to go me.  While I've been sitting around here thinking I was thinking about life events and I've had a few of them.  One is living in Dallas when the president was shot and our dad knew Jack Ruby and watching Jack Ruby shoot Oswald right there on live TV.  My older sister was at the parade when Kennedy got shot, talk about a life event.  We lived in Ca when the watts riots were going on and we could see the fire from the hill where we lived and the national guards coming out to make sure we had our lights out.  My dad moving us from Ca. when he closed down his furniture manufacturing plant because the mafia was wanting some protection money.  I was living in Houston and listened while B.J. Thomas recorded his first album, Rain Drops Keep Falling on my Head and I was waiting to use the recording studio after him there in Pasadena, Texas.   I have so many life events that I could share but I'll share more later.  Right now my life event is going from TV host to production host of my own food lines.  Tomorrow I need to figure out how to ship my products to Japan, any who that's for tomorrow right now we are going to talk about Green Pea Soup.  When I was little my mom used to make this soup whenever we had a left over Ham bone and it was yummy for our tummy's.    It is a very healthy dish and easy to prepare not to mention that its a cheaper meal to serve your families.  If you have high blood sugar you may be should hold off on eating it because green peas do have a high sugar content.   The peas cost me about two dollars and the ham was 3.99 for the piece I bought.  Any who let me know how you like this recipe by emailing me at madjon51@aol.com and come like my fan page on Face Book at Cooking With MadJon & Friends.

Ham & Split Peas Soup

1 bag dried green peas
1 peace ham cut up
1 diced onion
3 ribs celery, diced
2 carrots, ringed
2 TBSP Olive Oil
1 TBSP Onion Powder
Salt & Pepper to taste
2 Bay Leafs
2 Chicken Bouillon
water 2" above the peas in a pot

Brown the onion, ham, celery, and Carrots with oil in the pot.  Then add your peas and cover with the water.  Salt, pepper, onion powder, bay leafs, and chicken bouillon the peas in the pot.  Bring to a simmer and cook until the peas are tender.  Serve with your favorite Bread.  I served it with Blueberry Muffins.

Happy trails to you until we meet again.  Watch the TV show at aikenstandard.tv.  Bona Y'all.



  

Low Fat White Beans With Brown Rice Chicken Sausage & Shrimp SCSFA

Well Howdy, Y'all Its MadJon again coming to you from the great state of South Carolina.  I hope all is well with all my foodie friends out there in web-land.  I've been busy with getting my products into markets and Shop's around these parts.  I was in Columbia all day yesterday from like ten to five, that's a lot of hours to be on your feet and just talking and handing out food samples.  I did sell some product and I say thanks very much.  I sold some product today as well.  Tomorrow is another day and I will be selling products at the Aiken Farmers Market again with Aiken Dry Goods and its the start of their fall market.  I love the contact that I get to have with the people I meet, you learn so much about people if you just remember to ask them about themselves instead of just you. I met some restaurant and cafe owners who are trying their hands at selling SCSFA goods in their establishments as well  We met some great South Carolina vendors as well and I got to taste a whole bunch of great food. Got some good ideas as well.  I became a member in 2007 when I opened my restaurant to sell and test out recipes that I made up and developed more recipes.  I have a head full of recipes and dishes that I'd like to get to market some day.  The SCSFA helps with marketing vendors like me and hopefully our products take off and help us and our state.  This is a nationwide thing if you all are interested.  Next am seriously going to try making a cookbook and try to get it marketed myself.  I have one out there but I wasn't the one marketing it.  I do have publishers call me but they will be wanting more money then am willing right now to let go giving the environment that we are all living in these days.  I think am going to be sending more less expensive good tasting recipes ideas your way now today I saw a lady in the food store buying a beef roast and she paid like 25.00 for that roast, come on now I know the meat looked good but who can afford prices like that all the time.  Our government says there is no inflation, that's B--- S---.  They do a neat thing here by not adding our gas and food to their inflation but boy it is our inflation.  So to me if something keeps going up and up then I call that a bad inflation!  Then on top of that we are taxed to death with the hidden taxes that our companies have to pay the government like on breads and gas then we are taxed again on used items so our state governments and federal governments get paid triple or more when all's said and done.  I know we need to pay taxes to get our country running however I think they should live on a budget that some of these single women with kids are trying to live on after all not all the Dad's kids pay child support, sad thing.  Heck I don't know where this came from I meant to talk about trying to help your food cost go a little further and with this recipe it can.  Any who now if you make this recipe I used sausage made with chicken and I used the tiny shrimp frozen already cooked type for the shrimp.  I bought them for .99 a package.  This soups is made with White Beans and they are a healthy thing to eat and they go along way when your feeding a family.  You can also use chicken broth that you have frozen.  I make chicken broth when I have chicken bones that I boil from cuttings.  I add an onion and celery to the mix cook it and then freeze it.  Any who I hope you try this recipe and remember recipes can be changed up to your liking.

White Beans & Rice

1 pound white beans cooked with salt and Pepper, I like it cooked with chicken broth but you can use water: according to package directions.  Add to beans while cooking:
1 onion diced
3 ribs celery diced
4 cloves minced garlic
1 TBSP Onion & Garlic powders
3 Bay Leafs
2 tsp Cumin
2 tsp. Mrs's Dashes
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can french onion soup
2 Cups ringed Chicken Sausage or any other sausage
2 Bags frozen tiny shrimp
2 cups cooked Brown of white Rice , add the rice when your beans are tender then cook away cook away all.  Serve with some left over pan seared Corn Bread.  Yum Yum

Well write me at madjon51@aol.com  with any cooking questions and also come like my fan page on FB at Cooking With MadJon & Friends.  You can Twitter me as well #madjon51 with a follow because I follow back!  Happy Trails to you until we meet again.

Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: Review on MadJon's Salsa Football Dip

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Review on MadJon's Salsa Football Dip

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in webland, its me again, MadJon, and its late so am just passing along a review of my salsa.  I've been getting ready for a Food Show in Columbia so wish me lots of luck Please.

Madjon Review

Review for Madjon

 

 I love to cook and try new foods!  I also love having my family over and giving them great foods to try.  I'm always looking for the best for my family and part of me likes being complimented on how great a certain snack is.  Or being able to tell them where I purchased something. 
A big thing with my family is different types of dips and Salsas.  The dips I normally make from scratch, but I always buy my Salsa.  Lately at the store I've been very disappointed!  They all seam to taste the same and have no real flavor nothing that makes one stick up from the rest.  So I went on a new Salsa search scorching the internet trying to find that new great salsa.  By some stroke of luck I came across Madjon's page.  The food looked and sounded absolute amazing!  I contacted the owner to see if I could sample some of the salsa and be able to review it on my blog........  I was so excited when I received an email back telling me I could review!
For the next few days I've waited in anticipation so excited to try this!
The day it arrived I all but ripped the box open.  I couldn't wait for my hubby to get home so I got some out for me in my kids to try....
IT WAS AMAZING!  So many delicious flavors, never again will I be able to eat store bought salsa!
Madjon also has a new cook book out called:  MadJon Holiday
I can't wait to check it out!  If the recipes are as Delicious as the salsa this book is a must have!
Want to check out Madjon's yourself?  See my links below.
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Happy Trails to you until we meet again.

Football Dip 

1 can retried Beans, large

1 small carton Sour Cream

1 cup MadJon';s Salsa

1 Bag Shredded Cheddar Cheese

1 Bag Chips and a favorite Football game

Layer all ingredients and top with cheese.  Easy.  Serve with chips.

Disclaimer:  I received this product for the purpose of review .  I was in no way paid to 

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