The Devil's (666) Southern Comfort Hurricane

These SoCo hurricaines are delicious.  Not sure where 17 parts Tequila to 13 parts lime came from, but it works.

Ingredients:

• 6 ounces Southern Comfort
• 6 ounces Orange Juice
• 6 ounces Pineapple Juice
• 1 ounce Grenadine

Directions:

Mix all ingrediants, and pour over ice. Enjoy.

Andersen Family Æbleskivers

I visited my grandma, a few weeks ago, and asked her about Æbleskivers. She gave me her pan. Always wanted to try making them.

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups Buttermilk
• 2 Cups Flour
• 3 Eggs
• 2 Tablespoons Sugar
• 1 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Teaspoon soda
• 1/2 Teaspoon Cream of Tarter *

Heat an Æbleskiver pan over medium heat.

Beat the egg yolks.
Add the flour, sugar, salt, soda, cream of tarter, and buttermilk to the yolks, in a mixing bowl

Beat the egg whits until peaks appear, and then fold into the mixture.

Spoon about 2 tablespoons if the picture into each crevice of the pan.  Cook until the edged appear dry. This usually takes about three minutes.  Flip with a wooden stick, or a knitting needle.  Cook until the second side is golden brown.

* I added the cream of tarter to the recipe, because baking soda needs and to react with an acid.  I am not sure if the original recipe was confused with baking power.  Maybe I am just wrong.

Browned Pressure Pork Loin Sammiches

I was just using up some stuff that I had laying around the house, in a pinch.  This turned out so good that my wife said, "Would you be able to reproduce this?"

The spice ratio is approximate, as I just put some in a small dish.

Ingredients:
Meat:

• Pork Loin
• 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
• 1 Onion
• 1 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Teaspoon Black Pepper
• 1 Teaspoon Paprika
• 1 Teaspoon Chili Powder
• 1 Teaspoon Ground Cayenne Pepper
• 1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder

Grilled Sandwich:

• Light Rye Bread
• Butter
• Cheese (I used colby-jack)

Fixings:

• Lettuce or Spinach
• Mayo
• Onions (fried of raw)
• Pickles
• Tomatoes

Instructions:

Cook Pork:
Put the olive oil in the pressure cooker and bring up to temperature for browning the meat.

Mix the salt and spices together, and then rub into pork tenderloin.  After doing this place the tenderloin into the pressure cooker and start browning all sides.

Once the loin is fully browned, add a splash of water, to help build pressure  Put the lid on the pressure cooker, and pressure cook for 10 minutes.  Once done, release pressure, and then slice the pork into silver dollars.

Grill Sandwich:
Preheat skillet over medium heat.

Assemble like you would a grilled cheese.  Butter the bread, and the put cheese and pork between the slices.  Put into skillet, and cook both sides until the cheese is melted and bread is browned.  I like to put a cast iron grill press on it.

Assemble sandwich using whatever fixings you like.

Mr. Hopper's Peach Cobbler Moonshine

This is a peach flavored alcohol recipe, that I received from a friend, in written form.

Ingredients:

• 2 64oz Bottles of White Grape Peach Juice
• 2 Cups Brown Sugar
• 6 Peaches
• 4 Cinnamon Sticks
• 5th Bottle Everclear
• 1 Cup Peach Schnapps
• 1 Can of Peaches (Optional)

Directions:

Combine juice, peaches, brown sugar and cinnamon sticks in a pot, and bring to a boil.  What you want to do here, is dissolve the sugar.

Once it starts to boil, reduce heat and let it simmer for about 40 minutes.
After simmering the mixture, let it cool to room temperature.
Mix in Everclear and Schnapps, and then strain into mason jars, and keep refrigerated.

Optional: Divide the canned peaches between the jars.

Notes:
I have a feeling that this may be derived from the following recipe:
Peach Cobbler Moonshine

Joke:
Peaches reminded me of something my grandma says to ask people.

You are suppose to ask someone, "Hey, do you like peaches?"

If they respond that they do:
You say, "Why don't you take a sweet suck on my ass! it's a real peach!"

1713 Margaritas

These Margaritas are delicious.  Not sure where 17 parts Tequila to 13 parts lime came from, but it works.

Ingredients:

• 17 ounces Tequila
• 13 ounces freshly-squeezed lime juice
• 6 ounces Triple Sec
• 13 ounces Simple Syrup
• Ice
• Salt

Directions:

Mix Tequila, lime juice, triple sec, simple syrup & ice.  Pour into a salt rimmed glass and enjoy.

Split Pea Soup from Christmas Ham & Bone

My wife, and I, love split pea soup, and it ends up turning out good every year.  The problem I have is forgetting how I made it, year after year.  This recipe is more of an ongoing experiment.

Ingredients:
Basics:

• Leftover Ham, Including Bone
• 2 Pounds of Dried Split Peas
• 4 quarts of water
• 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil

Veggies:

• 2 Bell Peppers
• 6 Carrots
• 4 Onions
• 6 Stalks of Celery 
• 4 Tomatoes ***

Spices:

• 5-6 Cloves of Garlic Minced
• 2 Teaspoons Black Pepper
• 1 Teaspoon Ground Cayenne Pepper
• 2 Pinches of Marjoram
• 2 Teaspoons Oregeno
• 1 Teaspoon Tyme

Instructions:
Soak the dried split peas over night. (Trying a pressure cooker, to skip this step.)

Put two tablespoons of olive oil in the bottom of a stock pot on medium heat.
Cut Onions, Carrots, Celery & Peppers into small pieces, and pour into the stock pot.
Caramelize the vegetables.

Cut the ham off of the bone and dice into small pieces.

Put the ham bone in the stock pot, and add 4 quarts of water.
Bring to a boil, and the back off to medium heat.

Add ham, peas, spices & garlic to the stock pot.

Cook until peas and vegetables are broken down to desired texture.

Remove the bone.

Add diced tomatoes to the stock pot, and cook until desired texture.

Note:
*** Do NOT add tomatoes to the soup right away.  The acid retards the breakdown of the peas.

Grandma's Banana Bread

This is a banana bread recipe that my grandma got from who knows where.  I just know that it turns out great.

Ingredients:

• 1/3 Cup Butter
• 3/4 Cup Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 1/2 Cups Flour
• 1 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/3 Cup Chopped Nuts
• 1/3 Cup Chocolate Chips
• 2 Bananas
• 3/4 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350°
Cream butter & sugar.
Beat in eggs one at a time.
Sift flour, salt & baking soda together and mix with nuts & chocolate.
Mash bananas and add vanilla.
Add flour, nuts, chocolate & bananas to creamed mixture and blend thoroughly.
Pour into a greased & floured pan.
Bake at 60-70 min. @ 350° preheated oven, or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.

Notes: 
Sometimes I will use half white sugar, and half brown sugar.
Try this next time: French Toast Trick