Salisbury Steak with Caramelized Onion Gravy

If you ever make this delicious recipe for Salisbury Steak with Caramelized Onion Gravy you'll never buy it in a box again. Yes it really is that good. In fact its one of the most delicious things you'll ever eat in your life.

Meat Patties

1. Two Pound Of Lean Ground Beef.

2. One Cup Cooked White Rice.

3. Two Egg Yolks.

4. Two Teaspoons Ground Sea Salt.

5. One Teaspoon Ground Black Pepper.

6. One Tablespoon Minced Fresh Garlic.

7. Two Teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce.

8. Three Tablespoons Dried Parsley.

9. One Tablespoon Dried Thyme.

10. Two Tablespoons Olive Oil. (Set aside to fry meat patties in )

Add all of the above ingredients to a large bowl and mix your ingredients together very well. Once you have all your ingredients very well mixed together you want to wet your hands with water and make the meat mixture out into eight equal size patties. Now put your reserved olive oil in a large skillet and cook the meat patties on both sides until well browned and done. You'll want to cook them over medium heat so they cook well and brown. Don't burn your meat patties. Now put your meat patties in your slow cooker or crock pot and turn on low.

Caramelized Onion Gravy

Now we are going to make our gravy.

Ingredients For Your Gravy

1. Two Large Sweet Onions Very Thinly Sliced.

2. Three Tablespoons Butter.

3. Three Tablespoons All Purpose Plain Flour.

4. Four Cups Beef Broth.

5. One Half Cup Dry Red Wine.

6. One Tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar.

7. One Tablespoon Tomato Paste.

Instructions For Making Your Gravy

Start off by melting your butter in a sauce pan over low heat. As soon as the butter is melted add your flour and with a wire whisk work the flour into the butter well and let it brown well.

Be sure not to burn your flour. You want it to be brown but not burned. Now add your beef broth to the pan and use the wire whisk to stir very well mixing all the flour mixture into the beef broth. Now stir everything else into your gravy but the onions and keep stirring until all the mixture is very well mixed and you notice the gravy getting thicker. Now turn the sauce pan down on low and add your onions into the gravy. Let the gravy cook on the lowest setting on your burner for about 35 minutes and your onions will be cooked just right. Now pour into the crock pot on top of the meat patties and allow it to cook for about four hours on low before you serve it. You'll have some of the best homemade salisbury steak that you'll ever taste in your life. I like to serve it over homemade mashed potatoes and people say its the best salisbury steak they have ever tasted in their life.

Million Dollar Pound Cake

Million Dollar Pound Cake

1. One Pound Butter, Softened.

2. Three Cups Sugar.

3. Six Large Eggs.

4. Four Cups All Purpose Flour.

5. 3/4 Cup Of Milk.

6. One Teaspoon Almond Extract.

7. One Teaspoon Vanilla Extract.

Your going to need a large bowl and a electric hand mixer. Start by beating your butter and then gradually add the sugar. Beat at medium speed with the electric hand mixer until the mixture is light and fluffy.

Add your eggs one at a time being sure to beat the mixture after you add each egg.

Add flour to buttery mixture alternately with milk. Beginning and ending with the flour.

Mix well after each addition and then mix in the flavorings.

Spoon the batter into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 300 degrees for one hour and 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool in the pan for 10 to 15 minutes and then remove to a wire rack.

Pound Cake

A pound cake is a dense, rich cake originally made with 1 pound each of flour, butter, and eggs. Today, pound cake might include a variety of other ingredients such as baking powder, sour cream, coconut, nuts, fruits, and flavorings.

To ensure your pound cake has the best texture, always measure ingredients precisely and mix batter properly. A critical step is beating the butter or shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.

This procedure takes about 5 minutes using an electric mixer and ingredients that have been at room temperature for 20 minutes. When adding eggs, flour, and liquid, mix until just blended. Over beating can cause your cake to be tough.

Orange Crush Pound Cake Recipe

Have you ever had a Orange Crush Pound Cake. They are so delicious.

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Everything You Ever Needed To Know About Coconut

In the photo above we have delicious homemade coconut cake. Oh man that cake is delicious. CLICK HERE for the recipe for the above coconut cake.

In the photo above are coconuts growing on a tree. Fresh coconuts are oh so delicious.

Coconut Information

The large husk-covered fruit of the tropical palm tree. It's filled with a milky liquid and sweet white meat. The coconut has a hard outer shell that's hairy with three soft spots, sometimes refered to as eyes, on one end of the coconut. Once the shell is broken open, the nut inside has a dark brown skin covering the white, firm-textured coconut meat. Fresh coconuts are at their peak from October through December. Canned, frozen, or packed coconut is sold shredded, flaked, and grated in sweetened and unsweetened forms. Coconut cream, coconut milk, and coconut oil are also available.

Coconut Storage

Store whole coconuts up to a month. Store fresh coconut meat in the refrigerator for 5 - 6 days or freeze it for up to six months.

Unopened canned coconut can be kept at room temperature for up to 18 months. After you open canned or packaged coconut keep it in the refrigerator for 5 - 6 days.

How Do You Crack A Coconut?

Start by piercing the three eyes of the coconut with a long nail, screw driver or ice pick. Hold the coconut firmly with a towel while your doing this.

Drain the milky liquid. This can be used as a beverage or used in cooking. But don't confuse this with coconut milk. Next place the shell on a hard surface, and gently, but firmly, tap it all around until it cracks and splits open. Break the shell apart with your hands and very carefully cut the white meat from the shell. Peel the brown skin from the coconut meat. The meat can be grated or chopped up fine.And now you know how to get the coconut meat out of the shell.

In the photo above are coconuts being harvested.

Coconut Cream

A rich coconut-flavored liquid made by pouring one part boiling water or milk over four parts coconut meat. The mixture is simmered until foamy, cooled, and then strained. The rich liquid is often used in Asian cooking. You can find coconut cream in the ethnic foods section of your local grocery store.

Coconut Oil

A dense, white buttery oil obtained by pressing coconut meat to obtain the oil that it naturally contains.

Coconut Cream Pie

In the photo above is a delicious coconut cream pie. And below is the recipe for this delightfully delicious pie.

Coconut Cream Pie Recipe

1. 3/4 Cup Sugar Divided.

2. 1/4 Cup Corn Starch.

3. Two Cups Half And Half.

4. Four Egg Yolks.

5. Three Tablespoons Butter.

6. Two Tablespoons Vanilla Extract Divided.

7. One Baked ( 9 inch ) Pie Shell.

8. One Cup Whipping Cream.

9. Toasted Coconut For Garnish.

Combine 1/2 cup sugar and cornstarch in a heavy sauce pan. Gradually whisk in the half and half and the egg yolks.

Bring to a boil over medium heat whisking contantly with a wire whisk. Boil for one minute and then remove from the heat.

Stir in the butter, coconut, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Cover with plastic wrap and let it cool to room temperature.

When cool pour into your baked pie shell and chill for thirty minutes or firmly set.

Beat your whipping cream at high speed with a electric hand mixer until foamy. Add remaining sugar ( 1/4 Cup ) and the other teapoon of vanilla extract.

Beat until peaks form and then its ready. Spread over your chilled pie and sprinkle with toasted coconut as a garnish.

This is one of the most delicious pies that you'll ever make and enjoy in your life. It is so delicious.

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Chipotle Grilled Pork Ribs

Chipotle Grilled Pork Ribs

Here we have delicious Chipotle Grilled Pork Ribs. If your looking for something special to do with pork ribs then here it is. For easier serving, cut spareribs apart into serving-size portions before they're cooked. If you ask the butcher, he will usually do this for you. To get them really tender, try precooking your ribs by baking them once to render fat and then bake them again with barbecue sauce, or place them on a hot grill and brush them with barbecue sauce.

Chipotle Grilled Pork Ribs

1. One Fourth Cup Butter.

2. One Medium Sweet Onion Chopped Fine.

3. One Tablespoon Minced Fresh Garlic.

4. One Large Jalapeno Pepper, Seeded And Diced Very Fine.

5. One Cup Ketchup.

6. One Fourth Cup Red Wine Vinegar.

7. One Fourth Cup Chipotle Peppers In Adobo Sauce Diced Very Fine.

8. One Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce.

9. Three Pounds Pork Ribs.

10. One Tablespoon Course Ground Sea Salt.

Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, and jalapeno pepper, and saute 3 - 4 minutes or until tender. Stir in your ketchup and next three ingredients. Bring to a boil.

Reduce heat and let simmer for 20 minutes. You can then reserve one fourth cup of your sauce for dipping if you desire.

Cut pork ribs up into small pieces. Sprinkle with the salt. Brush both sides of the ribs with the sauce.

Cook your ribs over indirect heat on a charcoal grill. This is where you cook the ribs on one side of the charcoal grill and have the charcoal fire over on the other side.

You will want to cook on a very clean grill and spray the grill grates well with vegetable cooking spray.

You'll want to cook your ribs about two hours turning them over about every thirty minutes. This is a popular way of cooking and preparing barbecue ribs in Key West Florida.

You will have enough ribs for about two hungry people. Double or triple the ribs if you need to.

Secrets For Cooking Pork

Almost all cuts of pork are tender and can be cooked by dry heat. But keep in mind that pork is lean and cooks quickly. Overcooking pork can make it dry and tough. We test thicker cuts of pork for perfect doneness with a meat thermometer. For thin pork chops, a quick sear on each side will usually be all you need.

Pork is the meat from hogs raised for food. Pork is light pink in color, full flavored, and has a finely grained texture. Most pork in the marketplace today is cured or smoked, such as bacon, sausage, and ham, or sold fresh.

Some slaughter houses have their pork graded by the USDA on a system based on the proportion of fat to lean. The grades are 1, 2, 3, 4, and utility, with grade 1 being the best. All pork is subject to state and federal inspection.

Look for pork that has pink flesh, a clean smell, and white fat. Cured pork should be rosy pink. Pork takes on a gray color when it's been in the meat case too long. Vacum sealed pork will be slightly darker because the meat isn't exposed to air.

Store pork in the package in which it was packed when purchased. Divide large packages of pork into smaller packages when you bring it home if you need to. Use freezer bags that sip shut and push out all the air you can when you are filling each package.

Cooking

Though pork is virtually disease free it's still recommended that you cook all pork to 160 degrees. Check the temp. in the thickest part of the meat. Rely on your meat thermometer for accurate doneness.

Grilled Chicken Cordon Bleu Recipe

If you've never had Chicken Cordon Bleu made this way then you have never tasted the best chicken recipe in the world because I truly think that this is the best grilled chicken dish that I've ever had in my life.

You could make this dish with chicken breasts but I think you'll believe that made with chicken thighs that this is quite possibly the best grilled chicken recipe that you've ever tasted in your life. Yes it really is that good. Try it and I think you'll agree. And chicken thighs have so much more flavor than chicken breasts. Try it both ways and I think you'll agree that chicken thighs are just packed with flavor compared to chicken breasts. And the chicken thighs are usually about a third the cost of chicken breasts.

I pick out a pack of large chicken thighs to make this recipe with and I look for large chicken thighs. I then carefully remove the bone from each chicken thigh and the skin. Once you have the skin and bone removed you'll want to marinade the prepared chicken thighs in liquid Italian Dressing for at least four hours. You can do it over night if you want to. After the chicken gets through soaking in the marinade shake off any excess dressing before you proceed with the recipe.

You want to split each chicken thigh carefully almost in half cross ways across the chicken thigh so you have a pocket to put a thin slice of baked ham and a slice of Swiss cheese in. I also put a teaspoon of real butter inside with the cheese and ham. I then secure the whole thing with a toothpick.

You want your grill to be hot when you get ready to cook your chicken. Spray the grill grates with vegetable cooking spray. Cook your stuffed chicken thighs on one side until they are done on that side and then flip the chicken thighs over.

You don't want the chicken thighs to burn or get over done and dry out. Keep a spray bottle of water near your grill in case you have to put out any small fires on your grill.

Chicken Cordon Bleu Sauce

You'll want to make the below sauce for your Chicken Cordon Bleu and serve it over your chicken and also over your mashed potatoes.

Chicken Cordon Bleu Sauce

1. One Cup Chicken Broth.

2. One Cup Whole Milk.

3. Four Tablespoons Butter.

4. One Tablespoon Dry Sherry.

5. Four Tablespoons Plain All Purpose Flour.

6. One Tablespoon Dijon Mustard.

7. One Teaspoon Ground Sea Salt.

8. One Teaspoon Ground Black Pepper.

9. One Tablespoon Dried Ground Parsley.

You will want to start by heating your butter in a large skillet until it is just melted and then with a wire whisk work the plain all purpose flour into the butter.

Let the flour brown slightly but do not burn your flour. When it is slightly brown work everything else into the pan and keep stirring with a wire whisk to get everything very well mixed together. Cook on low heat until it is thickened like gravy. You can then spoon some of this delicious sauce over each serving of Chicken Cordon Bleu.

I think once you ever taste this wonderful dish that you'll agree that its one of the best chicken dishes that you've ever tasted in your life. It really is that delicious.

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Crock Pot Beef Carne Asada Tacos

This is one of the best recipes for beef tacos that you'll ever eat and taste in your life. You use flank steak in this recipe and it really works out great. In case you've never thought of putting steak in the crock pot the flank steak in this crock pot recipe turns out perfect each and every time you make it.

What you do is rub the flank steak down with a spicy rub before you put it into the crock pot. I suggest rubbing the flank steak down and letting it set covered with plastic wrap or in a gallon zip lock bag for a couple of hours before you put the flank steak into the crock pot.

Spicy Rub For Your Flank Steak

One Teaspoon Black Pepper.

One Teaspoon Ground Sea Salt.

Two Teaspoons Chili Powder.

Two Teaspoons Cumin.

One Teaspoon Ground Cayenne Pepper.

One Teaspoon Garlic Powder.

One Teaspoon Onion Powder.

You want to mix all the rub ingredients together and mix them up well in a bowl. Then lay the flank steak down on a plate and rub the rub into the flank steak well. Now either wrap the flank steak with plastic wrap or place it in a gallon zip lock bag and refrigerate at least two hours.

You will want to have two pounds of flank steak.

When you get ready to put your ingredients together in the crock pot spray the inside of your crock pot with vegetable cooking spray to make clean up easier later.

Put your rubbed flank steak in the bottom of the crock pot and then put the below items in the crock pot on top of the flank steak.

1. Two Seeded And Sliced Jalapenos

2. One Seeded And Sliced Green Bell Pepper.

3. One Seeded And Sliced Red Bell Pepper.

4. One Purple Or Red Sweet Onion Peeled And Sliced Thin.

Cook on low for eight hours and then remove your flank steak and shred it with forks to pull your meat apart.

You can serve the steak and veggies on flour or corn tortillas along with avocado, sour creme, and guacamole. I guarantee you that these are some of the best tacos you will ever eat in your life.

You can cook your flank steak this way and make some delicious tacos this way.

No you do not add water to the crock pot. Just keep it on low and you'll have perfect flank steak that won't dry out.

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Crock Pot Chicken Tacos

Crock Pot Chicken Tacos With Three Ingredients

Here we have a delicious recipe for crock pot chicken tacos made with just three ingredients. If your looking for a wonderful meal that you can make quickly in the crock pot then this is it.

Ingredients

One Envelope Or Package Taco Seasoning

Six Chicken Thighs Cut Up In Small Bite Size Pieces

One Sixteen Ounce Jar Salsa

Cut your chicken thighs that you have removed the skin and bone from up into small bite size pieces and then put them and the taco seasoning in the crock pot. Now pour in the salsa and stir everything up well.

Cook on high for six hours. Be sure to stir up from the bottom of the pot several times while your crock pot tacos are cooking.

You can serve your chicken on flour tortillas with lettuce, sour cream, and guacamole for a delicious tasty treat. You won't find a better tasting chicken taco any where. Give them a try and see what you think. They really are oh so delicious.

Some people also like to add diced tomatoes, fine diced sweet onion and other things.