Marilyn's Punch

Marilyn's Apple Cauliflower Salad

Rub bowl (wooden preferred) with cut garlic clove

1 head iceberg lettuce, chopped

½ or less of a cauliflower head, cut into bit size pieces

1 bunch watercress, rinsed & torn into small pieces

3-4 medium red delicious apples, chopped

¼ cup (scant) grated onion

3-4 heaping tablespoons of mayonnaise

Combine with same amount of Marilyn’s French dressing

Mix dressings & toss with salad ingredients.

 French Dressing:

 Sooo good!

 

Thanksgiving Turkey - Marilyn's Recipe

Note: I cook the sausage in a fry pan first, but I don't think she did. Marilyn grinds the onions and celery together for the dressing and grinds the giblets and adds them to the gravy. Use unsalted butter - you can always add salt later.

Cook breast down, then breast up last two hours.

My cook times - 20 lb turkey 2008:

8 hours (1st 2 hours = 300)

Easy Gravy:

Use gravy separater cup.

Shake togther in glass jar with lid: 2 c. chicken brother 1/3 c. flour.

Take 2 c. liquid from turkey pan, whisk in above mixture, cook in saucepan until thickened.

Lavin's Caramel Rolls

 

Update: Use 1 Tablespoon butter & 1 teaspoon brown sugar and the rolls will come out of pan really easily!

 

Bisquick roll recipe: 2 cups Bisquick mix & 2/3 cup milk.

Marilyn's Spaghetti & Meatballs

Don't let the amount of parsley in the sauce scare you - its one of the things that make the sauce so good.  Fresh parsley is best!

Marilyn told me that she got this recipe early in her marriage. She heard it on the radio when living in Santa Rosa where her husband was in the army.

I like to double the sauce portion and use only half the flour. Yummy!

Marilyn's Potatoe Casserole

The first time I made this, I didn't know a couple of things and it didn't come out as good as hers.  You cook the potatoes for 25 min., with the skins on (easier), then peel and grate after boiling. Any starchy potato works - I usually just use the russet potatoes because you can get a 10 bl. bag so cheap!

The key thing is to bake it for close to an hour (the original recipe says 25 min.).  It'll get some crispy spots around the edges and that is good - some people scoop out that part first!

It should have the texture of a big baked potato. Baking it longer takes away the hash brown texture.

 

6 potatoes 

1 c. shredded cheddar cheese
¼ c. melted butter
1/3 c. chopped green onions
1 tsp. salt
2 c sour cream

Par boil potatoes with skins on for 25 minutes, then let potatoes cool at little.  Peel and grate on cheese grater. 

Mix ingredients together. Bake in casserole dish with lid on at 325 degrees for 1 hour.

Feathery Fudge Cake

Clifford Cake

May 2001

Michael & Ryan's 6th Birthday

2/3 C. Soft butter or marg.
1-3/4 C. Sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
22 OZ.(Sq.) UNSWEET.Choc.
2 ½ C. Sift. cake flour
1 ¼ tsp. soda
½ tsp. salt
1 ¼ C. ice water

Cream together butter, sugar, eggs & vanilla till fluffy (beat 5 min. high speed). Blend in cooled choc. Sift together flour, soda & salt, add to creamed mixture alternately with ice water, beginning and ending with
flour. Beat after each addition. Bake in 2 9 x 12 pans 350 deg 30 to 35 min.

FROSTING

2 ½ Sq. Unsweet choc.
2 C. sift.conf.sugar
3 Tbsp. hot water
1 egg
1/3 C. soft butter or marg.
1 tsp. vanilla

Melt choc. in mixing bowl over hot water. Remove from heat. With elec. mixer blend in sugar & water. Beat in egg, then butter & vanilla. Frosting is thin, so place bowl in ice water & beat until spreading consistency.