PEACH FRITTERS

https://bunnyswarmoven.net/2013/08/delicious-fresh-peach-fritters

Yum! Yum!  These were such a fun treat!  Don't taste as good the next day.

Peach Fritters

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 TBLs sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon melted butter
• 1-1/4 cups diced peaches I used 2 fresh peaches which came to a little over 1 1/4 cups of peaches
• granulated sugar in flat-sided bowl or a powdered sugar glaze
• oil for fryer or deep frying pan
• Powdered Sugar Glaze
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• milk enough to make a drizzling consistency.
• Whisk the milk and confectioners sugar together until the desired drizzling consistency.

Instructions

1. Using a whisk, combine flour, salt, sugar, cinnamon and baking powder. Whisk in eggs, milk and butter. Fold in peaches.
2. Heat oil in fryer or pan to 375 degrees F. With long handled ladle, ladle about 1/4 -1/2 cup batter into hot oil. The batter will sink at first and then rise. Cook for about 2 - 3 minutes, depending on size of fritters. Remove fritters from oil with long-handled tongs. Quickly drain on paper towels or newspaper. Then place fritter in bowl of sugar or glaze fritters. Coat with sugar on both sides, or glaze tops of fritters.

BEST FUDGY COCOA BROWNIES

https://cafedelites.com/best-fudgy-cocoa-brownies/

BEST FUDGY COCOA BROWNIES
This came from Pintrest.  We loved, loved it!  They were so gooey good.  When I got back from Visiting Teaching they had eaten all of it but a little tiny piece.  Scott said it was hard to get them out of the pan so that is why they didn't save me very much...make sense???  Abagail said next time we need to double the recipe.  I loved this recipe because it used very few dishes and Abagail and I had it made in about 10 minutes.  They baked for about 25 minutes.

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter , melted
• 1 tablespoon cooking oil (olive oil or coconut oil are fine)
• 1 1/8 cup superfine sugar (caster sugar)*
• 2 large eggs
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup all purpose (or plain) flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 175°C | 350°F.
2. Lightly grease an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking oil spray. Line with parchment paper (or baking paper); set aside.
3. Combine melted butter, oil and sugar together in a medium-sized bowl. Whisk well for about a minute. Add the eggs and vanilla; beat until lighter in colour (another minute).
4. Sift in flour, cocoa powder and salt. Gently fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until JUST combined (do NOT over beat as doing so well affect the texture of your brownies).
5. Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing the top out evenly. (OPTIONAL: Top with chocolate chunks or chocolate chips.)
6. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the centre of the brownies in the pan no longer jiggles and is just set to the touch (the brownies will keep baking in the hot pan out of the oven). If testing with a toothpick, the toothpick should come out dirty for fudge-textured brownies.
7. Remove and allow to cool to room temperature before slicing into 16 brownies.

OPTIONAL ADD INS:

1. Crushed walnuts, peanuts, almonds, pecans, etc. Chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, chocolate chunks, dried fruit (cranberries, raisins, etc)

Recipe Notes

*Regular white, granulated, sugar can be used if you can't find caster sugar 
TIPS AND TRICKS:
1. Whisk your butter and sugar really well.
2. Beat in your eggs for a good minute. This step is crucial for that crackly top
3. Do NOT over beat your batter once the flour and cocoa powder are added. THAT creates air pockets in the batter which will give you cake-like textured brownies.
4. Do NOT over bake them! I like mine at exactly 21:30 minutes. You can go a little bit over if you like them set a bit more, but I don't recommend it if you're looking for the fudgiest brownies in this lifetime.
5. I bake my brownies on the top shelf in the oven. I find the middle shelf cooks them a lot faster and dries them out.

COWBOY CORN SALAD

COWBOY CORN SALAD
We love this recipe and it is so pretty.  It is found in the Cowboy Cookbook pg 49.  Is super easy to double.

2 16 oz cans whole kernel corn, drained
1 cucumber, peeled and chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1/2 -1 onion, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
1 tomato, diced
1/2 cup Miracle Whip (I have also done mayo and added a little sugar)
garlic to taste
salt to taste

Combine all ingredients. Keep in fridge.  This is not only tasty, but festive looking.  Makes about 6 cups.

PIONEER WOMAN'S PECAN PIE

PIONEER WOMAN'S PECAN PIE
Very yummy!!! This is so easy to make and everyone loves it!  Have made it for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Also made it for Kyle's birthday (2017).

1 whole unbaked pie crust (like to use Mom's recipe)
1 cup white sugar
3 T brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup corn syrup
3/4 tsp vanilla
1/3 cups melted butter (recipe calls for salted, but I always use unsalted)
3 whole eggs, beaten
1 cup (heaping) chopped pecans

Prepare pie crust (Pioneer Woman suggests "Sylvia's Perfect Pie Crust found on Tasty Kitchen).

Mix sugar, brown sugar, salt, corn syrup, eggs and vanilla together in a bowl.

Pour chopped pecans in the bottom of the unbaked pie shell.

Pour syrup mixture over the top.  Cover top and crust lightly/gently with foil. 

Bake pie at 350 for 30 minutes.  Remove foil, then continue baking for 20 minutes, being careful not to burn the crust or pecans.

NOTE: PIE SHOULD NOT BE OVERLY JIGGLY WHEN YOU REMOVE IT FROM THE OVEN.  

If it shakes a lot, cover with foil and bake for an additional 20 minutes or until set.  

Required baking time seems to vary widely with this recipe. Allow to cool for several hours or overnight. 

WHITE SAUCE

WHITE SAUCE
We had this at Justin & Jenn's house.  Jenn added cooked hamburger and we had on top of potatoes with all kinds of veggies.  My family really liked it.  You could add any seasonings and use this for anything.  Biscuits & gravy, homemade mac and cheese and any kind of soup.  She cooked all her potatoes in the microwave. In a bowl not wrapped or anything.

8 T butter
8 T flour
4 c milk

Melt butter in pot, then add flour, mix.  Add milk and heat on medium.  Stir every couple of minutes and you will feel it thicken.  Add your flavoring: chicken or beef boullion or juice, sausage, cheese etc.  To thin add milk.

DARK CHOCOLATE WAFFLES

https://cafedelites.com/2016/04/07/dark-chocolate-cake-waffles/

We loved these!  Had with peanut butter syrup and melted Nutella (200 for 5 min).  Would be super good with vanilla ice cream.

Dark Chocolate Cake Waffles

Dark Chocolate Cake Waffles are rich and decadent, chocolate cake transformed into waffles! Perfect for breakfast or dessert with no complicated steps!

Servings: 4 -6 Waffles

Author: Karina - Cafe Delites

Ingredients

• 2 cups all purpose flour (or plain flour)
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs , lightly beaten
• 1/3 cup oil (or reduced fat melted butter)
• 1 3/4 cups milk (unsweetened almond milk or skim/2% fat milk)

Instructions

1. In a large bowl whisk together flour, cocoa powder, brown sugar, baking powder and salt.
2. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients; add the eggs, oil (or melted butter), and milk. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry until the batter is well combined and smooth.
3. Cook waffles according to manufacturers instructions
4. Serve warm with powdered sweetener or sugar and melted Nutella or chocolate.
5. To make a Nutella Ganache: Melt 1/4 cup of Nutella in the microwave for 30-60 seconds until reaching a thinner consistency. Beat in 3-4 tablespoons of milk (it will look like its about to seize, but keep beating)! It will start to look glossy and smooth after about 30 seconds. You're welcome.

KALUA PORK

http://www.plainchicken.com/2012/07/kalua-pork-slow-cooker.html

KALUA PORK
We loved this!  Started it around 11:00 at night and then ate for dinner.  We had with coleslaw and BBQ sauce.  Used pretzel rolls from Costco.  Yum!  My favorite way to eat was with mayo, cheese and pickles on pretzel roll.  Loved it!  Would be so good with potato salad.  Used roast from Costco.  Just used the chunky pink sea salt from WinCo bulk.  Next time I might try saving some of the juice to mix in the meat - it got kinda dry.

• 1 (6 pound) pork butt roast
• 3 Tbsp Hawaiian sea salt
• 3 Tbsp liquid smoke flavoring

Pierce pork all over with a fork. Combine liquid smoke and salt.  Rub mixture over meat. Place roast in a slow cooker.

Cover, and cook on low for 16 to 20 hours, turning once during cooking time.

Remove meat from slow cooker and shred.