Is Fritos Chili Pie Really just a Texas Dish?

Helo to all my foodie friends out there in web land its madjon again and to day we are going to be talking about a great tasting and easy dish for you to prepare for you and your family or even use it to serve as a fun party thing to do.

 

Yes you go from making a  great pot of Chili to serving it up as a great dish called Frito's Chili Pie.  I grew up in Houston and loved going to the local Dairy Queen or D. Q. as we called them and eating my favorite dish there and that was Frito's Chili Pie, if you have never tasted a Frito's Chili Pie then now is the time to come to the table and get a real treat.  This was invented in 1932 by a lady named Daisy Dean Doolin and she made up recipes from her home for something that we call Frito's today.  A relative named Elmer Doolin bought a recipe and a machine to make Frito's for $100.00 dollars and she used her kitchen to make dishes up to be used with the Frito's, she even made recipes for desserts.  Now that would be nice a sweet and a savory taste all in one.  I can remember that I ate Fridge Cycles and Frito's was one of my favorite snacks as a kid walking home from school in Ga, I can remember eating that combo together and I still enjoy it today.  Am going to try and get my hands on one of the cook books made by her for Frito's.  Can you imagine starting a business as big as Frito's Lay in a kitchen just for 100.00, only in America and hard work can that happen.  I wish I could have been a fly on Daisey's wall.  What a great cook she must of been.  Any who Texas it seems does claim to be where this dish was invented.  There is a eatery in Santa Fe that claims to have invented the Frito's Chili Pie however I think that claim belongs to Daisy.  Any who if you would like to try a good recipe try this one.  I have had fans write and say that they make Frito's Chili Pie out of Vegetable Soup to make their kids eat it.  I like to layer it like to layer the Frito's, chili, cheese and onions.  Sering this hot is a must and with the cheese melted.  Can chili may be used if you are in a hurry but doesn't give this dish its justice.   You know its OK for Texas to claim that the Frito's Chili Pie was made in Texas because the South claims to have made up the Red Velvet cake and it was invented in NY at the Waldorf I believe.  Interesting story the way our foods came to be in our country.  The manufacturing revolution with all its inventions has added a great deal of new dishes for us Americans to enjoy. Also I have a new article out that I'd like for you to read and like at  http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20130731/AIK0405/130739923 and its on Okra what a wonderful vegetable.  Here is the chili recipes for you to try with your Frito's Chili Pie recipe.

 

 

Frito's Chili Pie:

 

1 Pound Ground Lean Beef

 

1 Onion Diced

 

1 Green Bell Pepper diced

 

6 Cloves Garlic Minced

 

3 TBSP Olive Oil

 

2 tsp. Onion and Garlic Powders

 

1 TBSP Paprika

 

2 TBSP Cumin

 

3 TBSP Chili Powder

 

1 tsp Oregano

 

Salt and Pepper to taste

 

1 tsp. Yellow Prepared Mustard

 

1 TBSP Vinegar

 

1 TBSP Sugar

 

1 can 14 oz Diced Tomatoes

 

1 small can Tomatoes Sauce

 

1/1/2 to 2 cups water

 

1 Bag Frito's

 

1 Bag Shredded Cheese

 

1 Cup Diced Fresh Onion

 

Cook the onions, garlic, and bell peppers until done.  Cook the beef with the onion mix until brown and minced.  Add the spices, herbs, and salt, pepper to the beef.  That includes the chili powders and cumin.  Cook until well blended.  Add 2 TBSP flour to the beef mix and stir well.  Add the water, tomatoes, and tomatoes sauce.  Simmer about 30 minutes.  To plate your pie you just pour some Frito's on a plate, top it with hot chili and Cheese.  Add the onions on the top if you wish and eta hot where the cheese is melted.  Bona Y'all.

 

I hope you enjoy this dish and the chili.  Please watch my show at aikenstandared.tv.  Listen to my cooking show on the web at martinchristianradio.com in the mornings.  Read my new article at aikenstandard.com and email me with any recipes that you would like to share and let me use them on the TV show.  Follow my blog and like my fan page , Cooking With MadJon and Friends, on face book.  Happy trails to you until we meet again.  God Bless, Eileen Hutson, MadJon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lemon Juice Potato Salad and Allen

 Lemon Juice Potato Salad and Allen

 

Hello foodies out there in web land I hope our summer is full of sunshine, laughter, and love.  It’s a Saturday and we are traveling back home from visiting relatives in Texas and am trying to catch up on writing my recipes from the rest of the TV shows I owe the web workers at the TV station and I ran across one that reminded me of my brother Allen, his the one that taught me how to use Lemon juice instead of vinegar in my Potatoes Salads among other uses for the fresh taste of lemons in food.  Any who I got a phone call when I lived in West Virginal from my brother Allen and he would call me periodically just to check in and tell me where he was or if he needed money he always called and then I’d call my other sisters and anyone with extra money would send it his way.  This time he called to talk about a few things like, he had just been run over by a car and had to have surgery on is leg and that he needed money to get back to our mom in Tulsa where she lived at the time. 

Any way he died in 2004 a month before my older sister died any who that’s another story.  He always seemed to have a black cloud follow him around if he was around he was either in jail for some reason or another or got hurt he didn’t have one of the best lives in the world, well you get the picture.  We spent a lot of time together  whenever he would come around and we used to cook together  making potatoes salad and BBQ was one of his things. He never let anyone go hungry if he could help it and he always took up for little kids.  If one of them were hurt or needed anything he’d go help them.  He spent good times with his nieces and nephews they only have fond memories of him.  Yea he did have a drug problem among other things.  Any who I wanted to tell you the story of his death.   In January of 2004 I was in Tampa on a business trip with my husband and found out my brother was there in the hospital and went to see him and they made me wear a mask and gloves he didn’t look good then however I walked in and he looked thin and sick and he just says hi, Ms. Hutson, like he always did, he was surprised to see me any who the Doctors told me that he would live this time and not to worry so in February we got another call and off to Tampa again this time he was in the VA hospital and he looked really bad, I didn’t know who he was and when we had to leave him I wanted to transfer him to Augusta but they wouldn’t do it I blamed it on my sister not wanting to see him.   Any way he died about a month later all by himself but he didn’t have a family member with him but he had God, the day he died our mom had emergency surgery we were at the hospital with her for hours but before she went into surgery my niece was crying and standing at my mom’s bed and she asked Sam not to cry because God told her that she would be OK because God was going to send a guardian angle to be with her though the surgery and that guardian was my brother.  While my mom was in surgery and we were n the waiting room my brother in law called and said that. The VA called and said that Allen had died. When my mom wake up from surgery we didn’t tell her about our brother and about a week later her youngest grandchild came to see her in the hospital and Candy was sitting by her bed, mother said I want to tell you a story Candy, did you know that  that your Uncle Allen is dead, I know because he came to see me in surgery, he was hovering above me and was crying and he said I’ve been sent to tell you how sorry I’m for hurting you and to tell you for the first time in my life am happy.  She said, if you are happy why are you cryng and he said because I’ve never felt so much love before and he said your going to be OK  am going to stay with you until you get out of surgery.  I want you to know that I love you.  I don’t have to worry if his safe or hungry or has a dry place to lay his head.  The last words he said to me was am worth more then a grain of salt.  The only dream I had of Allen was him looking well with his arm around my grandson with a big smile on his face.  To you all I wish much happiness in this life.  God Bless and Happy trails to you until we meet again

Potato’s                                                 5 Pound White, Peeled Diced, boiled Eggs                                                      6-8 Eggs, diced Salt and Pepper                                     to taste Onion, diced                                           ¼ Cup Sugar                                                      ¼ Cup Sweet Pickle Relish                                2/3 Cup Lemon Juice                                           ¼ Cup Mayo or Salad Dressing                         1 ½ cups Yellow Mustard                                        2 tsp. Onion Powder                                          1 ½ tsp. Garlic Powder                                           1 ½ tsp. Celery                                                       3 Stocks, diced

DIRECTIONS

Peel potato’s and place in a pan of salted water.  Put your eggs on the boil for about 20 minutes, depending on where you live.  While your potato’s and eggs are cooking mix up the mayo, mustard, sugar, spices, pickle relish, onion as well, and lemon juice and set it aside while the potato’s are cooking.  When your eggs are cooked peel them as soon as possible.  Then when your potato’s are ready add the celery, and your salt and pepper while they are hot because it will pick up your flavors better that way.  Mix all your ingredients and cool before serving.  Bona Y’all.

 

 

Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: Nothing Better Then Peach Cobbler Summer's Best Fr...

Cooking With Madjon aikenstandard.tv: Nothing Better Then Peach Cobbler Summer's Best Fr...: Hello to all you foodie friends out there in web land hope all is well with you on this fine July day.  I'm in Texas now enjoyi...

Nothing Better Then Peach Cobbler Summer's Best Fruits

Hello to all you foodie friends out there in web land hope all is well with you on this fine July day.  I'm in Texas now enjoying visiting with our relatives and we will be traveling a lot while we are here.  While traveling we will be doing some eating as well.  Any where from seafood's to peach cobbler which is the subject of this blog today.  There are a few different ways to cook a Peach Cobbler a cake like dish or with a crust, which is the way I prefer a cobbler to be cooked.  Your crust should run though your cobbler after all that's the best part of a cobbler is the crust.  Yes we are at my sister-in-laws house and she wanted me to make a cobbler with the peaches that we bought to her from South Carolina any who after I make the crust she Say's, "O, I don't make my crust I buy it" however she wanted me to make my crust.  I guess you just had to be there.  Any who the trick to a great crust is butter and ice cold water while making the dough.  You also don't use too much flour to roll it out on.  My daughters birthday was last week and she wanted me to make her a peach cobbler but I made it the way she likes with a cake like batter any who she has now decided that she wants the crust for her cobbler so when I go home am going to be making her another birthday cake of cobbler and by the way the best way to eat  cobbler is with Ice Cream, of coarse.  We also made some good tasting Coconut Shrimp for dinner as well last night.   If you want the cake cobbler recipe just write me at madjon51@aol.com.  I hope you give this recipe a try and please go like my fan page on face book at Cooking With MadJon and Friends or watch the TV shows at aikenstandard.tv.

Peach Cobbler

Crust:

2 1/4 cups Flour, all-purpose
1 tsp. Salt
3 TBSP Sugar
1 stick Butter
2 TBSP Oil
3-4 TBSP Ice Water

Mix your dry ingredient's together and then blend in your butter and oil until its crumbly.  Then make a well in the mix and add your water one tablespoon at  time until it foams a workable dough.  It will look firm now divide the crust into balls.  Then put your dough in the refrigerate to harden a little, about 30 minutes to make it easier to roll out.  You will lightly dust your surface and top of dough for rolling and then roll out your dough to fit your 10" by 10" greased baking dish.  This makes a two pie crust.  One is for the bottom of the pan and the other one is for the middle crust and top crust of cobbler. If you are using a pre-made crust then add sugar sprinkled onto the pie crust top before adding your peaches for baking.                                                                                                                                                                                                           8 peaches peeled and sliced, save peelings
1 1/2 cup Sugar
1 tsp. Apple Pie Spice
1 tsp. Cinnamon
3 TBSP Flour
1 TBSP Lemon Juice
1 tsp. Salt
1/2 stick butter

Mix all ingredients together till they are well blended.

Sauce:

Place peach peels in pan with, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon Lemon juice, and water to top of peach peels.  Bring to a boil for about 10 minutes and drain off juice to add to the peaches.  Mix with the peaches. Then add to the peaches 1 cup sugar, spices, flour, Salt, melted 1/2 stick butter. Note:  Adjust Sugar according to your taste for sweetness, add or subtract. Another option for you is to bring out the sweetness in your peaches you may want to cook your peach batch with all your ingredients and then cool it and start layering for your cobbler.

Pre-heat oven to about 400 degrees and roll out your bottom crust.  Place bottom crust in your greased pan and bake until it stats to brown.  Now pour half of your peaches onto your bottom crust and roll out your second ball of dough and cut it in strips.  Put some strips on top of your peaches in the pan and return it to the oven and bake until its starting to brown.  Then add the rest of the peaches on top of your first layer and top the peaches with the rest of your cobbler and top with a little butter and sprinkle with a little sugar and butter and bake until that crust is nice and brown.

Now if you want to use a pre-made crust there is nothing wrong with that because that's what they are made for after all my sister-in-law does it and so do I when I need to save time.  Enjoy this recipe and your summer.  Bona Y'all.  Happy trails to you until we meet again.

Summers Lady Fingers in the color of Green Garden Okra

Well hello to all my foodie Friends out there in web land its MadJon again and am hoping that you had a great 4th of July, I've had a busy one so far.  Am doing more computer work and now  have about 20 recipes left to upload from the cooking shows left for this season and then I will be just about all caught up.  Am taking a couple of weeks off and I can catch up with all my work and then it builds back up again really fast, funny how that works, isn't it.  Well so far I wrote two articles for the newspaper and I've written a couple of blogs, then today I got another audio cooking show up for the radio station called Martin Christean Radio and they have started adding some of my shows for their listeners in the mornings and I think they have added a couple other cooking shows on there as well.  So am excited about that.  My show season has just about ended for filming this season and I have some holiday shows we will be doing after summer ends and we will be changing up the 5th season the show somehow maybe do less dishes in one sitting am not sure what they have in mind.  Any who am going to try and stay busy with cooking and writing more food articles.  Tonight we will be talking about that wonderful summer vegetable grown mostly in the South called Okra.  We are growing it in our garden again this year and it loves to grow in really hot weather however this has been a very weird year for weather.  Not as hot as it usually is down here in the South, its been really pleasant but a little wet is all.  Any who the Okra is still growing allot.  I hope you do know that Okra needs to be picked when it is about 5" inches long and still tender.  Did you know that during the civil war they dried the Okra seeds and ground them up to use for coffee.  Also that in some countries they make rope out of Okra, interesting.  However most people just think of Okra as being just plain slimy!  However some people like it that way.  I like it just about anyway you can cook it.  Every year I try to make up a new recipe for Okra and this year I removed the seeds from the pods and added some pepper Jack cheese with pineapple slices stuffed in the pod  and wrapped Bacon around the Okra and added a sauce brushed on them and then baked them in the oven.  Any who this is deli'sh and I think you should give it a try and not a slimy part could be found.  Okra is a natural thickener and also is good for the heart and intestines. Recipe follows

Pepper Jack Cheese Pineapple Stuffed Okra wrapped in Bacon

 

12 Okra Pods with seeds removed

12 pieces of Pepper Jack Cheese

12 pieces of fresh Pineapple

12 slices of cooked Bacon

Salt and Pepper to taste

Sauce:

¼ cup Cooking Sherry

¼ cup Oil

1 tsp. Onion Powder

1 tsp. Garlic Powder

Place the cheese and pineapple into the pod body and wrap the pod with bacon with a tooth pick in the middle to hold the bacon.  Mix the sauce and brush onto the okra pods and bake in a pre-heated oven on 375 for about 15 minutes covered.  Then uncover the okra for about 10 more minutes of baking time.  Serve Hot.

 

Happy trails to you until we meet again.  Watch the show at aikenstandard.tv and come like my fan page on face book at Cooking With Madjon and Friends.  E-mail me at madjon51@aol.com with any questions, Bona Y'all.

Fourth of July Red White and Blueberry Strawberry Ice Cream Cake

Hello to all my foodie friends Happy Fourth of July to ya and we cooked this cake for a shoot on Tuesday and am sending it your way today, I had to wait for the pictures to be loaded.  It was a easy cake to make and you can just make a double cake if you wish.  I wanted a tall one of this shoot.  At first I was going to make up a recipe for some Apple Pie Cookies but decided to make a Red, White, and Blue cake instead.  I made the recipe up while we did the shoot so it didn't have a lot of time to set up so it kind of wanted to slip while it was being shot for pictures.  The pictures are done by a great artist named Frankie Guzman he does a lot of shoots and pictures for people you can find him on that thing called face book.  This was a easy cake to make.  You just need to freeze the cakes hard before icing the cake.  Did you know that strawberries are the only fruit that carries its seeds on the outside and that there are like 200 seeds on each strawberry and it got its name they think from them using straw under the runners as it grows.  Any Who this is going to be a short blog and I hope you give this recipe a try.  This cake had a great flavor and is very festive to use.  Good luck with the recipe.

Fourth of July Cake for 2013

2 Boxes vanilla cake mix,with 1 box Blueberry Jello and 1 box Strawberry jello mixed in each cake mix and  cooked according to package directions and frozen for one 2 red cakes and 2 blue cakes.  I used a 10" cake pan, greased.
1 half gallon Vanilla Ice Cream, softened to spread between your layers
1 large container of Cool Whip and 1 large container of instant vanilla pudding mixed into the cool whip and chilled until ready to ice the cake.
Strawberries and Blueberries for decorating cake.  1 bag of Flags.

Cook the cake according to package directions except you add the jello to 1 box each for a blue and a red cake.  This makes 4 layers.  Then freeze the cakes.  Mix the icing and chill.  Place the Ice Cream in the middle of the layers and Ice the cake with the cool whip mix and decorate.  Keep froozen until ready to eat.

Happy trails to you until we meet again.  My email address is madjon51@aol.com and come watch the TV shows at aikenstandard.tv.  Bona Y'all.

How About That Salsa for Fourth of July Party Easy

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in web land I hope all is well as for me I've been busy with travel and a couple more shoots for the Cooking With MadJon and Friends show on ASTV 95 at aikenstandard.tv.  Last weekend I spent some time walking at a national park with my sister and hubby to the tune of 5.6 miles over boulders and woods and my feet are still sore.  My sister was so funny saying oh its not that far, not really and once you got started you were kind of stuck until you climbed your way off that mountain and your feet was the only transportation to use.  There were a lot of hikers up there and my sister finally left us behind and  every new hiker that we came across was very interested in making sure that I was OK boy did I have a few words in my mind to say but I waited till I got off the mountain.  It sure was pretty way up there with a lot of hills to climb and nature to look at total I think it took about 3 hours to make that climb.  Oh well I guess I'd do it again as long as I got ready for the hike with lots of water and juice for the bugs that decided to join in on the fun with me and it took about a week to get them off my skin.  I guess they just like juicy fat meat is all I can say.  Any who its the fourth of July tomorrow and I hope you are with family and friends and can enjoy the freedoms that I love having in this country we can bitch and mourn and grown but its still the \best place I think to live on this thing we call the planet earth!  If we don't like something we can at least Bitch about it and let our government know all about it even if they don't listen to what we have to say.  However am not getting into that tonight its late and I've been waiting to use the computer all night.  We did get to play some bridge and am happy to report my kicked the boys really good tonight they were so kicked that they only wanted to play two rubbers, so sad.  Heck I'll play bridge even if am losing hoping that the cards turn around and give us a break.  However I do tend to give the boys heck for winning, HE HE.  Any who am tried and ready to go to bed so am sending you this easy Salsa recipe for you to try and serve it with some chips, please.  I love Salsa because its healthy and low fat and gives you a chance to use up some of them home grown red and green things that we call Tomatoes, which we call a Fruit,.  Any Who Happy 4th of July 2013 hope you eat, drink and be Merry watching all the fireworks tomorrow.

Tomatoes Salsa

6 Red Fresh Tomatoes, Diced
1 Large Onion, diced
6 cloves Garlic, Minced
1 tsp. each Onion and Garlic Powders
1/4 Bunch chopped Cilantro
2 Limes, juiced
Salt and Pepper to taste
2 Hot Peppers, diced with seeds, fresh
1 can Corn Or Black Beans

Mix all ingredients together and serve with your favorite Chips, Bona Y'all.  Best served chilled.

Visit me on Face Book at Cooking With MadJon and Friends or watch the shows at aikenstandard.tv and come follow this blog that you have been reading.  Try my recipe's and email me at madjon51@aol.com with any questions or recipes you'd like to share on the TV show.  Happy trails to you until we meet again. goodnite.