Wednesday - In Purrsuit of Flavours!

 We are PAWTICIPating...in 

butt NONE of the pictures were on the phone!

We did not know, but when Kozmo took Katie home on Awww Monday, they took a side trip to visit Austin in Wales...I found this photo when I went to download the cooking pictures!

 I wonder what they were doing?

This Month's Motto: feel good recipes

Ms Jean - The Canadian Cats (Shoko and Kali)'s Mom,  is not well, so the Weims, Da Phenny and Nellie are hosting by themselves.

We Made Creamed Chicken on Toast

This is a really quick and easy comfort food dinner. Mom usually makes it with leftover rotisserie chicken and turkey (at Christmas and Thanksgiving). It is a basic cream sauce with Chicken added. Mom likes it with peas, us cats (and Cinnamon) like without.

Make enough cream sauce for the amount of chicken or turkey you have. A rotisserie chicken works great. The recipe below is for a medium cream sauce, like thick cream. Add more flour if you want it thicker.

For each cup of sauce…

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 1 cup milk

Melt butter in saucepan over low heat, if you have time and like onions, you can fry some diced onions in the butter. When bubbly (and if you added onions, cook until they are translucent). Then blend in flour, salt and pepper. 

Cook over low heat, stirring until mixture is smooth and bubbly. Remove from heat, stir in milk. Then return to heat and heat to boiling, stirring constantly. 

If you want peas, add a quarter cup of frozen peas to a little bit of water and zap for 1 minute (or until steaming. Boil for 1 minute.

Turn off heat, add the drained peas and the chicken, stir, cover and let the boiling sauce heat the chicken. 

Spoon over toast and (if desired) sprinkle with paprika, lemon pepper or salt and pepper.  

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NOT Wordless Wednsday - In Pursuit of Iced Tea!

 Back 5 years ago, when Mom made Beary Good Stuff for the Farm Markets, a huge seller was Bing Cherry Syrup. Mom used to make Iced Tea from it as samples so people could see what they could do with syrup besides put it on pancakes.. 

Why Cherry Syrup? Cherries are notoriously hard to make jam from. Sometimes the jam just won't set. 

Back in June, the Cherries were out and Mom bough a giant box to make Cherry Jam and the jam did not set. After a couple of weeks, Mom re-made it and it still would not set. It has been sitting in the pantry waiting for the weather to cool of so Mom can make syrup out of it. 

Fast forward to this week. 

Shoko and Kali at The Canadian Cats and da Phenny and Nellie at Easy's Blog are doing Iced Tea this month! Mom started thinking about how delicious that Cherry Iced Tea was, but it is too hot to make the whole batch of Cherry (NOT) Jam into syrup. 

So she dumped a jar into the blender and buzzed the heck out of it and a jar of water, then she put a coffee filter into a funnel and let the good stuff percolate through.

 

She also made some Stash Chai Tea and let them both sit for a couple of hours.

Mom then put about 1/3 of a cup of the cherry syrup into the glass, along with some of the frozen cherries that were not made into jam (they are for a cherry pie when we can use the oven after the heat wave).

She added a splash of lemon juice (the syrup is sweet), ice and filled up the glass with the cool tea.

YUM! This is the best iced tea in the world! 

 

Or that was what Mom said. I really was not interested in it. I thought she should have made Catnip Iced Tea.

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Pete Lake and Sammich!

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 We are pawticipating in The Canadian Cats and The Weims to make a SAMMICH!

We are making his work lunch to take to Pete Lake.

And we are making Alex's favorite Sammich! Alex has allergies, some of which are gluten (so no bread) and  Tomatoes! 

The Pete Lake Sammich

 

 

The ingredients are:

Gluten Free Wrap (this one is made from Rice Flour)

Deli Pastrami

Lettuce (sliced thin)

Havarti Cheese (your favorite cheese shredded)

Cream Cheese

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1: Spread a thin layer of cream cheese on the wrap

Step 2: Add the shredded Lettuce 

Step 3: Add the Pastrami, you can squirt some Mayo or Mustard on the Pastrami, we used garlic Mayo.

Step 4: Add shredded Havarti or your favorite cheese.

Step 5: Carefully fold in the edges (rice wraps are fragile).

Step 6: Roll the wrap, note the cream cheese helps "glue" the wrap together.

Step 7: Slice! You can then EAT your creation or wrap it for later.

Now you can go to Easy's and see Phenny and Nellie's Creation

Or Shoko and Tybee's to see theirs!

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Cinquo De Mayo and Cooking with the Weims and the Canadian Cats!

Today we are joining the Canadian Cats Tybee and Shoko and the  Weimaraners Nelly and Phenny in making yummy goodies for Cinco de Mayo! 

We are making Nachos! This means we are making 2 recipes as our human brother has some allergies. Because he is allergic to Tomatoes, Mom makes Salsa Verde. We grew a bunch of Tomatillos  last summer and we diced them all and put them in freezer bags so they could make it fresh throughout the winter. We are including the Salsa Verde Recipe along with the the Nacho recipe! 

 

Salsa Verde

This is my favorite Salsa Verde recipe! If you like, you can roast the tomatillos and pepper  for a flavorful light char, then the ingredients are quickly blitzed in a food processor for an easy finish. Such a bright refreshing chip dip or taco topping!

Servings: 6

Prep10 minutes

Cook10 minutes

Ready in: 20 minutes

Ingredients
	1. 2 Cups Diced Tomatillo 2. 1 Fresh Lime Juiced (Approx 3 Tbsp) 3. 1 Diced Jalapano** 4. 1/2 Diced Yellow Pepper (or any color) 5. 1/2 Cup  Italian Parsley 6. 2/3 Cup Diced Onion 7. 4 cloves Garlic Processed with Lime Juice 8.  1 Can Green Chiles Not shown: 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 Tbsp Vinegar Additional water (if desired)

 

Process the ingredients

4. Add the diced ingredients to a food processor along with, cilantro, garlic, salt, lime juice, vinegar.
5. Pulse several times to a coarse puree.
6. Stir in more water, lime juice or vinegar to taste and to thin if desired.
7. Chill through in refrigerator in an airtight container.
You want the salsa to sit for a while so the flavor intensifies. We usually make it the day before.

Notes

• **If you don't like spicy food you can omit the jalapeno or, to make it more mild, remove the seeds before adding to the food processor. If you like it really spicy leave the seeds or double up on the jalapeno.
• Don't over process the salsa verde. You want it to be slightly chunky and have good texture!

 

 

 
We have put the extra salsa in single size serving containers. These can be kept in the fridge for up to a week or frozen. The salsa in the jar will be used for making the Nachos! 

Nachos recipe

 

Because of allergies we brown ground beef or chicken or turkey with 1 diced jalapeno, 1 clove garlic, salt (to taste). Alternatively you can use a Taco mix and follow the directions. 

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup cooked spiced meat
• 2 cups shredded cheese (Cheddar, Jack, Havarti, Mozzarella you choose or mix them up)
• Sliced green onion
• Package tortilla chips
• Sour cream 
• Optional sliced olives
  

1. Line a cookie sheet or a 13"x9" cake pan with aluminum foil
2. Add a layer of chips, 1/2 the meat mixture, some salsa 1/2 the cheese
3. Add a second layer of chips, 1/2 the meat mixture, some salsa 1/2 the cheese, sprinkle with some sliced green onions (and olives).
4. Place in the pre-heated oven for 15 minutes.
5. We serve with bowls and sour cream.
   
6. This is a messy dish! Make sure you have plenty of napkins! 

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In Purrsuit of Flavors - Cinnamon Sweets

 Hi Guys! We are doing a WORDY WEDNESDAY this week! 

 We are pawticipating IN PURRSUIT OF FLAVOURS with 

The Canadian Cats (Shoko & Tybee) 

and The Boys (Nellie & Phenny)

We have really enjoyed their creations and we wanted to pawticipate. This month it is supposed to be sweets. At Christmas, Mom promised Cinnamon she would bake her some cookies and that did NOT happen. We thought it was the purrfect time to make those Peanut Butter and Bacon cookies that Cinnamon wanted. 

First, we turned on the oven and got all the ingredients together. 

 

Then we made the dough (we used Mom's mixer). Jo Jo could smell the bacon and jumped up to see what Mom was doing
(Mom laughed and laughed about Dough-Jo, we did NOT get it...)

 

We rolled out the dough and cut the cookies. Mom found the dough was really easy to roll and it did not stick too bad. The dusting of flour worked wonderfully well.

 

We put the cookies on the sheet and put it in the 350(f) oven.

 

And we baked them (15 minutes was purrfect)!

When they had cooled, Mom put the cookies on a plate and took them to the living room.

Kozmo appeared (as if by magic) and was into them right away! He LOVED them!

(Mom had to break the cookie into cat treat size bites)

Cinnamon was ready for the taste test!

She wanted MORE! Mom also broke some cookies up for Jo Jo and Me and we LOVE them too! Mom had to put them away, Cinnamon, Me, Jo Jo and Kozmo have been mooching around ever since.

I have been trying to get the container open!

We give them 16 paws up! We ALL Loved  them (even Mom and Alex ate some)

All in all it was a pretty easy recipe, (click here to go to the site Mom got the recipe from) Mom used the blender to turn the oatmeal into Oat Flour, the top came off and the kitchen was all oat floured...and there were lots of HBO words...

We read in the comments about the cookies that 15 minutes was the right amount of time and that was purrfect! 

If making them again, Mom will use a pizza cutter to make cat sized treats and she would shred the carrot smaller. The dough was easier to work with than most cookie doughs and rolled out easily.   

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Its time to cleanup...where did everyone go?