Peanut Butter Cookies

Sausage Stuffing

Nov 282011

One of my favorite parts of a holiday meal is the stuffing! While I normally cook this on the side, I guess technically it would be called dressing right? But our family has always called it stuffing, perhaps it’s a Canadian thing.

This is our family’s favorite stuffing recipe. I start it off with homemade sausage, similar to the sausage hubby makes for his pizzas, but with a little less salt.

A note, if you are using this to stuff a chicken or turkey do not add the full amount of stock in my recipe! I would add 1/2 to 2/3′s of a cup of stock. Then mix it to gather and spoon lightly into the bird’s cavity. As the stuffing cooks it will absorb a lot of liquid from the turkey.

Sausage Stuffing

Rating: 51

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour, 45 minutes

Ingredients

For the sausage

2 lb ground pork
4 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Pepper
1 TBS Oregano

Bread mixture

12 Cups bread cubed
2 Cups Onion chopped
1 1/2 Cups Celery Chopped
1 Tsp Thyme
1 TBS Rosemary
1 1/2 TBS Sage
2/3 Cup Parsley fresh, chopped
1/2 Cup butter melted
2 Cups Chicken or turkey stock

Instructions

Bread

Cut bread into cubes and spread out on baking trays.
Bake at 350F for 5 to 10 minutes until toasted.
Set aside

For the Sausage

Cook ground pork and garlic, salt, pepper and oregano together.
Add onions and cook until tender.
Add celery and remaining herbs. Cook for 2 minutes.

Stuffing

Combine bread cubes and meat mixture in a large baking dish or roaster. If you are making this a head of time, cover the stuffing and place in the fridge. Do not add any liquid until ready to bake. If your baking right away continue to the next step.
Pour in melted butter and chicken stock.
Cover and bake at 350F for 45 to 60 minutes.

http://homestead-acres.com/blog/recipes/sausage-stuffing/

The Best Dinner Rolls!

Breads, Recipes 9 Responses »

Nov 182011

These are our family’s favorite dinner rolls. They are so easy to make, light and fluffy on the inside with just a slight crust on the outside. Yummy!

I make these in my bread machine, but they work up just great by hand to!

The Best Dinner Rolls

Rating: 51

Prep Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes

Yield: 23 Rolls

Ingredients

1 Cup Warm water
3 Tbs Sugar
3 Tsp Yeast
1 Tsp Salt
2 Tbs Butter
1 Egg
3 to 3 1/4 Cups All Purpose Flour

Instructions

To Make in a bread machine

Combine all ingredients in the order specified by your manual. Select the dough setting.
Form into rolls and place on greased baking sheet 2 inches apart.
Cover and let rise for 30 minutes or until doubled in size.
Bake at 350F for 20 to 25 minutes.
Rub the tops with butter.

To make by hand

Combine warm water, sugar and yeast in a bowl. Let sit for 10 min.
Stir in butter, salt and egg.
Stir in flour.
Kneed for 10 minutes.
Cover and let rise until doubled in size.
Punch down and forum into rolls. Place on a greased baking tray 2 inches apart. Cover and let rise 30 min or until doubled.
Bake at 350F for 20 to 25 min.

http://homestead-acres.com/blog/recipes/the-best-dinner-rolls/

Baked Apples

Desserts, Recipes 9 Responses »

Oct 212011

It’s been raining and windy here for the past few weeks. It’s perfect time for comfort food to cheer up the gloom. So I decided to surprise the little ones with baked apples for a snack!

Baked Apples

Rating: 51

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes

Total Time: 55 minutes

Yield: 6

Baked Apples

Ingredients

6 Cooking apples
1/2 Cup sugar
2 Tsp cinnamon
4 Tsp butter
1/2 Cup raisins
1 cup water (or apple juice or apple cider)

Instructions

Combine sugar and cinnamon in a bowl and stir well. Mix in raisins.
Wash and core your apples, leaving the bottoms whole.
Fill apples with filling mixture and place in a baking dish.
Top with 1 tsp of butter per apple.
Pour 1 cup of water into the baking dish.
Bake for about 40 minutes at 350F.

For The Topping:

Pour sauce from the baking tray into a pot, bring to a boil. Boil gently for abt 5 minutes or until thickened.
Pour over top of apples.

http://homestead-acres.com/blog/recipes/baked-apples/

Cold Weather & Recipes

Around The Homestead 3 Responses »

Jan 172011

Hi everyone! I didn’t intend for such a long time between postings. Dec/Jan is a busy time for us and often I would go to write a post and something would come up.

It’s really cold here today, last night went down to -15 C not including the wind chill. Burr!! I’m working at getting caught up on things today. Friday coming home the idler pulley broke on the van, so dh spent Sat. tracking down a part and fixing it. Then another snow storm moved in that evening. WOW were the winds ever strong! Many times that evening we couldn’t see out out windows for the blowing snow. The next morning we had a foot of snow in the driveway, and of course a small mountain at the bottom of the driveway. A nice gift from the snow plow. lol Only problem with that was the snowblower wouldn’t start! It took dh most of the morning to get it running. Turns out the float in the carb was frozen real bad. Not real impressed for a brand new snowblower to be giving us problems already. It has less then 15 hours running time on it. Some times I think you just can’t win. If you buy an old one your fixing it constantly. If you buy a new one it breaks anyway. At one time you would spend good money for a new item and it would LAST.

I’ve made a few new videos this past week. One is for my rice pudding recipe and the other for my hot chocolate mix. I hope you enjoy! I filmed a basic bread baking video this weekend as well. I hope to have that up soon to.

Zucchini Bread Recipe

Breads, Recipes 4 Responses »

Jul 062010

Our zucchini plants are starting to produce. So it’s time to start making our favorite quick bread. Zucchini bread! I started making this on Sunday only to discover I was short on eggs. Hmmm… I found some egg less zucchini bread recipes using yogurt as a substitute and decided to give that a try. It worked great, and I’ll keep making it that way. If you don’t have yogurt on hand then use 4 eggs to replace it.

Zucchini Bread

2/3 cup plain yogurt
1 cup oil
2 cups white sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups shredded zucchini
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg

Combine yogurt, oil, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and beat together. Stir in zucchini. Combine dry ingredients and stir into yogurt mixture.

Bake at 350F for 60 minutes or until cooked through.

Savin’O’ The Green Sale!

Homemaking No Responses »

Mar 172010

Living On A Dime is having a Savin’ O’ The Green Sale! They have teamed up with The Dollar Stretcher to bring you a wonderful package deal! 17 awesome ebooks ($109.65 value) for ONLY $12.50.

Don’t miss out on your chance to get this special package deal!

How To Can Beans

Canning, Recipes 1 Response »

Aug 122009

We are starting to can our bean crop. This is so easy to do!

Simply wash your beans, trim the ends off. Then cut or break into pieces about an inch long.
Fill the jars leaving 1 inch head space.
Add 1/2 tsp salt per pint, 1 tsp salt per quart. The salt is optional but does help to keep the color and taste.
Fill the jars with boiling water, leaving an inch of head space.
Wipe rims, add lids.
Pressure can pints for 20 min, quarts for 25 min.

How to Make Garlic Bread

Breads, In the Kitchen, Recipes 1 Response »

May 102009

This is how we make our garlic bread. Goes great with pizza or pasta. Hope you enjoy!

Also here is a link to our pizza making video. You can see how we make the dough and prep there.

Creamy Potatoes and Pork

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Jul 162008

Last night I wanted a quick and easy supper and needed to use up some left overs. I came up with the following recipe that is now a family favorite!

Creamy Potatoes and Pork

Rating: 51

Yield: 8-10

Ingredients

4 TBS butter
4TBS flour
1 large onion chopped
5 cups milk
7 pounds potatoes
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2-3 cups cubed cooked pork (or other meat)
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Peal and slice potatoes, boil until tender.
In a pot melt butter, add onions and fry until tender.
Whisk in flour, pepper and salt until well combined.
Pour in milk stirring constantly until thickened.
Remove from head and stir in cheese, potatoes and pork.
Pour into a casserole dish and bake until bubbly.
This dish freezes very well. Divide into freezer containers and thaw in the fridge. Reheat at 350 F until heated through.

http://homestead-acres.com/blog/recipes/creamy-potatoes-and-pork/