German Potato Salad

Ingredients

  • 2 lb. potatoes,  cut into 1″ cubes
  • 6 slices bacon
  • 1 red onion, finely chopped
  • 6 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 3 tbsp water
  • 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 tbsp mustard
  • 1 tsp granulated sugar
  • salt
  • black pepper
  • 4 green onions, sliced

Directions

  1. In a large pot, cover potatoes with water and season generously with salt. Bring water to a boil and cook until potatoes are easily pierced with a knife, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain and let cool slightly before transferring to a large serving bowl.
  2. Cook bacon until crispy, reserve about 2 tablespoons of fat and transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate to drain.
  3. Add red onion and bacon fat and cook over medium heat until starting to soften, about 3 minutes.
  4. Whisk in apple cider vinegar, water, olive oil, mustard, and sugar. Bring mixture to a simmer, then turn off heat and season with salt and pepper.
  5. Stir in green onions and gradually pour mixture over potatoes. Crumble the bacon over the potatoes.
  6. Toss to combine and serve warm.

Savannah’s chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of softened butter
  • 1 cup of white sugar
  • 1 cup of brown sugar
  • 2 tsp Vanilla
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3 cups of flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups chocolate chips (or as many as you want)

Directions

  1. Cream butter and sugar
  2. Mix in vanilla and eggs
  3. Mix in dry ingredients — Don’t over mix 🙂
  4. Add chocolate chips
  5. Bake at 375° for 7-8 minutes

Super Simple Cobbler

Ingredients

  • Cake mix (vanilla preferably)
  • 2 21oz cans pie filling (choose your flavor)
  • 1 cup sprite (juice or water can work too)
  • ½ stick of butter
  • Tin foil

Directions

  1. Line the Dutch oven with tin foil
  2. Pour pie filling in the bottom of the Dutch oven (if you have two different kinds of pie filling you can mix them or have two flavors of cobbler side by side)
  3. Cover the pie filling with dry cake mix.
  4. Cut butter into small pads and place them on top of the cake mix.
  5. Pour the sprite over the cake mix
  6. Cover the Dutch oven and heat it from above and below for about 25 minutes

Notes

This recipe is for a 12″ Dutch oven. If you cook it in a regular oven with a 9X13 pan you might need to use half the recipe (and no tin foil)

Basic flavors like vanilla or yellow cake work best. Others like lemon, chocolate, or spice cake are more likely to detect from the cobbler than add to it.

Sprite is a traditional liquid for the recipe but a mild juice should work and even plain water is fine.

Whenever possible, cobbler is best served with ice cream.

Potato salad

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds potatoes
  • 2½ tsp salt
  • 3 hard-boiled eggs
  • ¼ cup pickle relish (we prefer dill)
  • ½ red onion (looking for about ½ cup)
  • 3 medium stalks celery
  • ¼ cup pimento stuffed green olives (about 4) chopped
  • ½ cup mayonnaise
  • 1 tbsp mustard
  • 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar (try replacing this with lemon juice or brine from the olives)
  • ½ tsp black pepper
  • Fresh parsley or dill as a garnish (optional)

Directions

  1. Cut potatoes into ⅔-¾ inch chunks and place with salt into cold water (enough to cover the potatoes with an extra inch). Bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer until the potatoes are fork tender (about 8-10 minutes)
  2. While potatoes are simmering, peel hard-boiled eggs and chop onion, olives, and celery.
  3. Drain potatoes and spread them out on a cookie sheet and sprinkle with the vinegar. Let them cool for 15 minutes .
  4. Combine mayonnaise, mustard and pepper, and the yolks of the eggs and stir together.
  5. Stir in celery, olives, and onion then dice the egg whites and relish into the dressing and stir to combine.
  6. Mix potatoes with dressing and add any garnish (dill and/or parsley)
  7. Potato salad gets better after it has been sitting in the refrigerator for anywhere between 30 minutes and 2 days.

Christiansen Potato Salad

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs potatoes
  • 3 hard-boiled eggs
  • ½ cup mixed Mayonnaise/Miracle Whip (1:1 or your preferred ratio)
  • Zested Lemon rinds
  • 2 tbsp Lemon juice
  • 1 tsp Chopped fresh dill (¼ tsp dried)
  • ½ tsp Lemon pepper
  • ⅓-½ cup green onion
  • ¼-⅓ cup Celery
  • 1 tsp Garlic salt

Amounts in parentheses are estimates until we can establish something solid.

Directions

  1. Cut potatoes in ½-¾ inch prices and place in cold water. Bring to a boil and simmer until fork tender (about 10 minutes).
  2. Spread out on a cookie sheet to cool for 15 minutes and sprinkle with some lemon juice.
  3. Separate yolks from whites on boiled eggs and mash the yolks then combine the yolks with mayonnaise and lemon juice.
  4. Chop boiled egg whites, green onion, and celery then mix together with all other ingredients.

Shepherd’s Pie

Ingredients

  • 1-1½ lbs Ground turkey (or ground beef)
  • 1 can Cream of chicken (or mushroom) soup
  • 1 lb bag frozen green beans (or 2 cans)
  • 1 lb bag frozen corn (optional)
  • 4 cups Mashed potatoes
  • 2 cups shredded cheese

Directions

  1. Cook the meat (basic seasonings)
  2. Mix meat and soup in a 9X13 pan
  3. Layer beans  (and corn if using corn) over meat
  4. Cover with mashed potatoes
  5. Cover shredded cheese (you can use sliced cheese if needed)
  6. Bake at 375°F for 30-45 minutes (cheese should be melted and frozen vegetables will want to be on the 45 minute end)

Marsha’s Funeral/Party Potatoes

Ingredients

  • 12 potatoes, baked, cooled, peeled, and grated or (32 oz frozen hash browns)
  • 2 cups sour cream
  • 2 cans cream of chicken or cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 ½ cups shredded cheddar cheese
  • ½ cup melted butter
  • ¾ cup milk
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp pepper
  • ⅓ cup chopped green onion
  • 2 cups corn flakes

Directions

  1. Mix all ingredients except the corn flakes and put in 9×13 pan.
  2. Cover with crushed corn flakes (butter not needed in flakes).
  3. Bake at 350° for 40 minutes. Do not cover.

Stuffed cabbage casserole

Ingredients

  • 1 head of cabbage
  • 1½ lbs ground turkey
  • 1½ cups rice
  • 1 large onion
  • 2 medium carrots
  • 2 tbsp breadcrumbs
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper

Directions

  1. Core the cabbage and put it in a pot of hot water for at least 20 minutes while making the filling.
  2. Cook the rice
  3. Shred the carrots and dice the onion.
  4. Add carrots, onion, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper, 2 eggs and rice together and mix well.
  5. Add ground turkey to the mixture and mix everything well.
  6. Lightly grease a 9X13 pan and line it with cabbage leaves (they should be fully covering the pan and hanging over the edges).
    • If the cabbage leaves have thick ribs you may want to cut the excess thickness from the rib before using the leaves (this will depend partly on how long the cabbage was in the hot water)
  7. Use half the meat mixture to form a layer on the cabbage leaf bed.
  8. Fold the parts of the cabbage hanging over the pan sides over the meat layer.
  9. Cover with another layer of cabbage leaves.
  10. Repeat steps 7-9 for the remainder of the meat mixture.
  11. Mix ½ cup of milk with the remaining egg plus some salt and pepper and pour it over the casserole.
  12. Use a fork to stab holes through both layers of the cabbage leaves to allow the milk/egg mixture to seep through.
  13. Cover with tin foil and bake at 350° for 40 minutes.
  14. Remove the tin foil and bake another 20 minutes at 375°

This can be served with sour cream or plain but I also think this would pair very well with yellow veggie cream sauce.

Homemade Biscuits & Gravy

This comes from Cowboy Kent Rowlins

Buttermilk Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 3 cups flour
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 4 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp cream of tartar
  • ¾ cup chilled butter (it should be hard)
  • 1 egg
  • 1¼ cups buttermilk

Directions

  1. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and cream of tartar.
  2. Cut ⅛ inch slices of butter into the mixture then break butter into crumbles in the mixture using a fork.
  3. Lightly whip the egg and pour into the mixture.
  4. Por in buttermilk and mix until incorporated into a moist, lumpy dough.
  5. Sprinkle flour over the dough and coat your hands in flour then knead into a ball (30 second should do).
  6. Spread for on the counter then place the dough on the counter and knead it for another minute to get everything well incorporated.
  7. Roll dough into a ½ inch thick sheet.
  8. Cut biscuits into 3″ circles and place in a little buttered baking dish.
  9. Bake at 400° for 25(ish) minutes (while you make the gravy). (Still figuring out the exact time as I did it by look the first time.)

Sausage Gravy

Ingredients

  • 1 lb sausage
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup flour
  • 4 cups milk

Directions

  1. Cook the sausage then set the meat aside.
  2. Melt butter in the pan with any liquid from the sausage.
  3. Sprinkle flour into the butter/fat mixture a little at a time and stir incorporate it using a spatula with holes to prevent any lumps.
  4. Pour in milk until it is a little runnier than you’d want the gravy and mix well.
  5. Add the sausage and simmer until you get the consistency you want.