Fagan's Recipes

[Riley]

Hi Fagan I just thought I'd make a place just for you to share your wonderful recipes and talk about all the delicious food. 

[fagan]

Here is the perfect compliment to a Prime Rib!

Yorkshire Pudding:
have all ingredients at 75 degrees
Stir into a bowl:
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
Make a well in the center, into which pour,
1 cup milk
Stir in the liquid. Beat until fluffy and add:
2 eggs
Continue to beat until large bubbles rise to the surface.
Let stand covered and refrigerated at least 1 hour and beat again AFTER bringing it back up to 70 degrees.
Preheat oven to 400
Have ready a hot oven-proof dish (9x13) containing about 1/4 cup of hot beef drippings or butter or a combination of the 2.
Pour in the batter. It should be about 1/2 inch high.
bake the pudding 20 mins.
Reduce the heat to 350 and bake 10-15 minutes longer.
Serve at once!

[fagan]

Another easy recipe:

Tex- mex carnitas
Ingredients:
a 3-5# pork roast.
1 envelope of spicy taco sauce.
1 4 oz can of either diced jalapenos or diced chilis depending on how spicy you like it.

Bake the pork roast at 325 on a meat rack in a pan for 3 hours. Allow to cool. Shread meat, discarding the fat.
Place shredded meat into a pot and add the Taco seasoning and diced chilis. Add 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil and then simmer until the meat is stringy.. Usually about 2-3 hours. Allow water to simmer off so the mixture d9oes not have too much liquid as it will soak the tortilla.

Warm a large flour tortilla in the microwave for about 15 - 20 seconds.

Spoon on meat, add cheese, tomato, sliced avacado, olive slices etc, roll up and FEAST!!

[fagan]

New York Cheesecake
Cheese cake:
2.5 lb cream cheese
1.75 cup sugar
3T flour
1.5t grated orange rind
1.5t grated lemon rind
2T vanilla
5 eggs
2 egg yolk
.25 cup heavy whipping cream

Crust:
1 cup sifted flour
1t grated lemon rind
1.25t vanilla
1 egg yolk
.25 cup butter, melted
.25 cup sugar

1.Combine flour, sugar, rind and vanilla. Make well in center and add the gee yolk and melted butter. Work together til blended. Chill.
Roll 1/8" thick and place over greased bottom of 9" spring form pan. Trim and bake in 400* oven till light brown.
Cool, butter sides of pan and fit dough on sides of pan about 1/2 way up. Place bottom of pan inside.
Filling:
Combine cream cheese, sugar, flour, grated rinds and vanilla. Beat until smooth at a VERY slow speed to avoid getting air in the mixture.
Add eggs and egg yolks one at a time, stirring after each addition.
Stir in cream. Pour into crust.
Bake in 550* oven 12 - 15 mins. Reduce heat to 200* and bake 1 hour.
Cool and then ENJOY!

[fagan]

Chicken tortilla casserole

preheat oven to 350*

5 cooked boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 pkg of corn tortillas (10 count)
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
2 4 oz cans of either diced chilis (or jalapeno peppers if you like spicy)
1/2 2# block of sharp cheddar cheese, sliced. (you may need more)

this recipe calls for 5 layers ending with the cheese on top.

shred 1 breast into a 3 quart Corningware casserole dish.
dollop 1/5 of the soup over the chicken
sprinkle 1/5 of the diced chilis over that
layer cheese on top.
break 3 tortillas in half and arrange on top.

continue until you have finished all 5 layers.

cover and bake for about 50 mins then uncover for 10 mins to brown cheese on top.

Leftovers can be reheated in the microwave but I find it tastes better if reheated in the oven.

[fagan]

Easy stuffed pork chops

4 boneless center cut pork chops 1 1/2 to 2" thick butterflied.
1 pkg of sourdough stove top stuffing
1 can cream of mushroom soup

pre heat oven to 350*

prepare stuffing per directions on box, let cool.
arrange pork chops in 2 qt Corningware casserole.
stuff the chops and then fill the gaps between the chops with remaining stuffing.
cover with the soup.
cover and bake for 1 hour.

[fagan]

Ingredients:
Pound cake
Fruit preserves (I prefer raspberry or blackberry)
Fruit slices, i.e. peaches, strawberry, apricot, etc..
Cream sherry
Instant vanilla pudding
Whipped cream
Sliced blanched almonds

Slice the pound cake like bread and make sandwiches using the preserves as the filling. Be generous with the preserves.

In a trifle bowl, (you might want to Google trifle bowl but it can be any glass bowl with vertical and not curved sides..)
arrange the sammies to fill about 2/3 of the way up. Fill as closely as you can with out squishing them..
On top pf this layer arrange the fruit.. I usually use sliced peaches but sometimes use strawberries that have been sliced and sugared and set in the refrigerator overnight..
Now pour the sherry over this.. be generous.. about 3 or 4 cups.. (no wonder they call this "tipsy pudding")

Next.. prepare the instant pudding.. double the amount of milk so it is thin.. pour into bowl.. cover bowl..

Refrigerate over night so the flavors mingle..

Just before serving, heap with whipped cream and garnish with the almonds..

Do not drive for 3 hours afterwards and throw your scale away because it will just lie to you anyway.