~Cancer Recipes~

I was thinking maybe we can make a thread to swap some of our favorite recipes. :-) Afterall, we ARE the chefs of the zodiac!!!! 🙂

i knew it was only a matter of time before food was going to come up in this forum. but i was trying to make sure i wasn't the first to mention it... lol

Yes we ARE. And all Cancers i know, cook great. Maybe you just dont want too, but i bet if you did try you would be great CK!

BAKED FRENCH TOAST CASSEROLE

1 loaf French bread
8 large eggs
2 cups half-and-half
1 cup milk
1 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Dash salt
Maple syrup

-Homeade Praline Topping Ingriedients- (topping is not optional!)

1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

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Slice French bread into 20 slices, 1-inch each. (Use any extra bread for garlic toast or bread crumbs). Arrange slices in a generously buttered 9 by 13-inch flat baking dish in 2 rows, overlapping the slices. In a large bowl, combine the eggs, half-and-half, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and beat with a rotary beater or whisk until blended but not too bubbly. Pour mixture over the bread slices, making sure all are covered evenly with the milk-egg mixture. Spoon some of the mixture in between the slices. Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spread Praline Topping evenly over the bread and bake for 40 minutes, until puffed and lightly golden. Serve with maple syrup.

Serve with eggs and bacon/or sausage!

^^^ i just died and went to heaven. need, NOW.

alton brown method to cooking ribeye

LOL Rabid, what about YOUR recipes? Im interested.. hehe

hehe nothing original, I dont have any that aren't copies of others.

Posted by wineaux
@rabidtalker: so does this tell me we need to add some vegetarian recipes up in hur?

sure, lol. those pics are two of the meals i ate yesterday

~CG's EASY Shepards Pie~ ..I make this very simple and quick meal for my kiddos, they love it!.

10 Potatoes peeled,cut into slices
3 Cans French style Cut Green Beans
2 lb Hamburger
1 small onion diced
2 garlic cloves
1 Large can Cream Of Mushroom Soup
1 lb Extra Sharp Cheddar
Seasoned Salt to taste
Sea Or Kosher Salt to taste
Pepper To Taste

First peel and slice the potatoes, rinse off the starch on them. Put them in a large pot and boil. When they are almost done. Start frying the hamburger,add onion and garlic. Than while thats cooking put the cream of mushroom soup in a pot and stir with a little water or milk till creamy smooth. Put green beans in pot and warm up. Sometimes i add fresh mushrooms to it. Season the meat with some seasoned salt and pepper. Drain potatoes and mash them with an electric beater,a little milk and butter and a couple pinches of sea salt or one pinch of kosher salt. Set aside. Drain hamburger and dump into a 9x13 Glass baking dish.. Layer green beans on top of the meat.Take the soup and dump all but two large spoonfulls on the green beans, Than layer the mashed potatoes on top of the green beans and soup. Pour two spoon fulls of soup on the potatoes, layer cheese on top of potatoes, put in the oven til cheese is melted.

100 Ways to Use Strawberries:
http://www.endlesssimmer.com/2011/05/31/100-ways-to-use-strawberries/<BR>

~CG's Sloppy Joes and Sweet Potato Fries~ [Another one of my kids favorites,but everyone seems to love it, made it for dinner last night!]

SERVES 4

2lb's lean hamburger [I use ground chuck]
1 Large can Crushed tomatoes
2 Small cans diced tomatoes
1 bellpepper [Green bellpepper]
1 red pepper [Red bellpepper]
1 med onion
5 garlic cloves
1 chili pepper "Jalepeno"
Seasoned Sale to taste
5 Sweet POtatoes
5 sprigs of dill
Your choice of cheese for the sloppy joe.. OPTIONAL [I use Some shredded pepper jack]

Preheat Oven to 450*
Slice sweet potatoes with skin on them into "french fried shapes" than throw them in a strainer and wash them off. Pat them dry on a layed out towel. Put them in a large bowl. Drizzle olive oil on a cookie sheet, Drizzle olive oil in the bowl with the sweet potatoes and and chopped dill. and about 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt. Toss till fully coated. Place on cookie shet or pan. Place in oven. Bake for 1 hour uncovered.

Dice the bell pepper,red pepper,onion,garlic and jalepeno. Set aside. Fry hamburger till done, drain it. Than place hamburger back in pan on the stove. [i use an iron skillet] throw in the diced veggies. Season with a little seasoned salt. after a few minutes add the crushed and diced tomatoes. Let simmer for an hour. If you want it thicker add a little corn starch. Put a little shredded cheese on a sesame seed bun and top with some meat.. Yum!

~CG's Banana-Blueberry Bread~ [For wineaux]

Made this,.. this morning. It goes fast!!!!

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
3 1/2 mashed very ripe bananas (approximately 1 cup)
1 cup fresh blueberries

OPTIONAL Topping:
1 Egg white
Cinnamon & Suagr

Preheat oven to 350* and grease a loaf pan.
Mix together dry ingredients until well combined with a whisk in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mix eggs, applesauce, and bananas, Mix well than add blueberries and stir carefully as they crush easy. When the crust looks almost done, get an egg white and put it in a small bowl and beat it well with about 3 tablespoons of water. Brush it on the bread and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top. Put back in oven and bake till knife comes out clean.

So i went to Krispy Kremes this morning and bought 48 plain glazed doughnuts for a meeting i held at my home. There was about 30 left. So instead of them going to waste i made some really good bread pudding. Heres the recipe..

~CG's Bread Pudding~

1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
2 4 1/2-ounce cans fruit cocktail, with their juice
2 eggs, beaten very well
1 9-ounce box raisins
Pinch salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
24 doughnuts, cut into cubes
Butter Rum Sauce, recipe as follows below]
1 stick butter
1 pound box confectioners' sugar
Dark rum

Preheat oven to 350* degrees
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together all ingredients except for the donut cubes and Butter Rum Sauce. Add the donut cubes and toss until they have absorbed as much of the liquid as possible. Pour the mixture into a casserole dish and bake for 1 hour. Take out of the oven and top it with the butter rum sauce, serve warm.

I didnt have fruit cocktail today so i substituted it with 3 cups of milk. OR You can use 3 cups coconut milk, or two cans evaporated milk

SOUTHERN RED VELVET CAKE ~DELICIOUS! 5 STARS~ Made this for my man last night...

Ingredients
Vegetable oil for the pans
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon fine salt
1 teaspoon cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2 tablespoons red food coloring (1 ounce)
1 teaspoon white distilled vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream Cheese Frosting, recipe follows
Crushed pecans, for garnish

Directions😛reheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly oil and flour 3 (9 by 1 1/2-inch round) cake pans.
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. In another large bowl, whisk together the oil, buttermilk, eggs, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla.Using a standing mixer, mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined and a smooth batter is formed.Divide the cake batter evenly among the prepared cake pans. Place the pans in the oven evenly spaced apart. Bake, rotating the pans halfway through the cooking, until the cake pulls away from the side of the pans, and a toothpick inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Remove the cakes from the oven and run a knife around the edges to loosen them from the sides of the pans. One at a time, invert the cakes onto a plate and then re-invert them onto a cooling rack, rounded-sides up. Let cool completely.Frost the cake. Place 1 layer, rounded-side down, in the middle of a rotating cake stand. Using a palette knife or offset spatula spread some of the cream cheese frosting over the top of the cake. (Spread enough frosting to make a 1/4 to 1/2-inch layer.) Carefully set another layer on top, rounded-side down, and repeat. Top with the remaining layer and cover the entire cake with the remaining frosting. Sprinkle the top with the pecans

Cream Cheese Frosting:
1 pound cream cheese, softened
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
2 sticks unsalted butter (1 cup), softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


In with a hand-held electric mixer in a large bowl, mix the cream cheese, sugar, and butter on low speed until incorporated. Increase the speed to high, and mix until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.Reduce the speed of the mixer to low. Add the vanilla, raise the speed to high and mix till fluffy