Brine Recipe

This brine recipe is part of our early holiday preparation. =>Click Here<= for some very interesting recipe ideas.

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Get The Jump On Thanksgiving Boneless Turkey Breast

We're getting the jump on thanksgiving by giving you the recipes early. It will give you the chance to tool up early on ingredients like spices so that as the holiday moves closer you can concentrate on the main dish. Cranberries should be coming into the stores soon and we like to buy them early and freeze them until we need them. We always kept a spare freezer in the garage so we could store and freeze things like butter, milk, bread and of course meats and seafood of all kinds. 

 

Or try a really different idea this year by preparing your favorite restaurant meal =Click Here<= for details

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Duplicating Restaurant Sauces Yields Great Results

By Prudence Hilburn
Halifax Media Group

How many times have you returned to a favorite restaurant because you liked their special sauce, condiment or salad dressing? There's no need to ask for those “secret” recipes, because they are carefully guarded.

From time to time, readers will ask if I can duplicate certain recipes they have tasted in restaurants.

Sometimes I can come close, but there have been some I have not yet mastered.

One of my grandsons likes a certain dip for chicken fingers that is served at an area fast food restaurant. I tasted it and decided to see how close I could come to it. After my grandson tasted my new Cajun dip, he said it was very close to the one at the restaurant. He added that my version is even a little better. He knows how to thrill a grandmother's heart — just brag on the food.

My great-grandson likes honey mustard dip with his chicken fingers, so when I know he is coming over, I make a simple dip by combining ½ cup of mayonnaise with ¼ cup of honey and 1 teaspoon (or more) of Dijon mustard.He let me know he would rather have it than the “bought” kind.

Years ago, I was asked to see if I could duplicate a dressing served at a restaurant in the Birmingham, Ala., area. All the information we could get from the waitress was that it had honey, mustard and lemon in it. I was very pleased with my experiment and am still using this same recipe for Honey Dijon Dressing. If you are planning to serve a salad at your Labor Day cookout, this would be a good dressing to use.

If coleslaw is on the menu, a dressing my husband and I enjoyed at a seafood restaurant many years ago will please the palates of family and guests. After we tasted this special dressing, I decided to see what I could do with that idea. I seemed to detect a hint of fruit flavor in this dressing, so I added just a little apple juice, and it worked great. I call this my Johnny Appleseed Dressing.

After duplicating the coleslaw dressing and a favorite potato soup my husband liked from another restaurant, I decided to slow down on the experiments because it seemed when I duplicated those recipes, we didn't go out to eat as often!

Cajun Dip for Chicken Fingers

1 cup mayonnaise

2 tablespoons chili sauce

How To Make Pralines

Quite a few people have questioned me "what are pralines?" Well, rather than try to explain it I thought I'd share this short video with you. Keep in mind that there are dozens of praline recipes and if you've never been to New Orleans it's very likely that you've never tasted one. 

 

But Pecan Pralines have been a southern candy treat since before the Cival War. Praline Candy makers (called Pralineres) are masters at cooking the rare treat and its just not southern with out them. Today pralines are considered some what of a delicacy and are shipped around the world.

 

Louisiana Spicy Cajun Chicken Pasta

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Lemon And Herb Chicken

Lemon and herb chicken, another one of my favorite dishes. So, enjoy but also remember to maintain good health =>Click Here<= for great information on eating what you like and staying healthy. 

 

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Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings

I love garlic parmesan chicken wings. I sometimes get them from Pizza Hut, but believe me it's always better when you make it at home. ==Click Here<== for other delectable dishes that you can now also make at home. 

 Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings

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