Evelyn’s Waffle Maker’s Potato Waffles

Hello, Darlings,

Yesterday evening, I had the desire for the old fashion potato pancakes my father use to make. He cooked the either on Sunday mornings or when he was grilling meats on the summer holidays. I don’t know why I thoughts of these potato pancakes, I was a little girl and my father has been dead many years, yet, his potato pancakes gain to my mind so much so that I want to makes and eat some.

Since I was a little girl between seven and ten years of age, I don’t know what his recipe was, but his potato pancakes to that long ago little girl were the best, mostly because my father made them.

Anyway, I decided to look up the recipe in my Betty Crocker cookbooks, because back then as today we always had and have a Betty Crocker cookbook around the house. I have two copies, but each one are from different decades in the Betty Crocker cookbook library; and among the many recipes I found online, only one had a recipe that looked like it may have been the one my father use. it is a photograph that someone posted it in Pinterest for people like me, who are always looking for vintage things. However, the recipe called for it to be cooked in a skittle. While the other recipes called for baking them the oven.

All of which I did not want to do, so I opted to use my waffle maker. After adapting the many recipes to my personal taste, I created the ‘Evelyn’s Waffle Maker’s Potato Waffles’

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Evelyn’s Waffle Maker’s Potato Waffles

Ingredients

3-medium raw potatoes, cubed

2 eggs, beaten

1/3 cup finely chopped onions

2 garlic cloves, minced

3/4 tsp. teaspoon salt

6 tablespoons flour

3/4 tsp. baking powder

¼ cup butter or margarine

 

Direction

1. Put eggs, onion, minced garlic, salt, flour, baking powder and 1/2 cup potato cubes into the blender container.
2. Cover and process on the nut butter setting until thick but not smooth; add additional flour if needed.
3. Preheat a well-greased waffle maker. (I use the Hamilton Beach waffle maker and vegetable oil, instead of butter or margarine )
4. Add the remaining potatoes, cover and food process on the nut butter setting
5. When the light on the waffle maker turns green, open and the lid light at this time should be red, if not, close and reopen the lid again, the lid should be red now
6. Pour 1/2 cup potato mixture onto each of the four hot plates of the waffle maker. Close the lid
7. When the light turns green again the potato waffles are ready. Place on absorbent paper towels and cook the second half of potato mixtures, following the directions above.
8. Serving size eight waffles
9. Top with soften butter, sour cream and chives, if desired

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I hope you enjoy the recipe below as we did tonight. I think my father would be proud of my effort to recreate his special pancakes in a new and fun way.

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Anaconda starring Jack Black, Paul Rudd and Steve Zahn – three overzealous and/or nitwit film producers wander into of heart of the jungle in search of a replacement Anaconda for their film. The portrayal is not so much about the hunt of the three films makers, as it is of the humongous anaconda hunting them. As this is a Jack Black film, expect plenty of laughs.

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Hello, Darlings

We are settling in nicely in our new place, picking on our usual daily routines. However, I must mentioned that I am not able to get around as I once could do. I have a bad habit of tripping and falling over things, so this move was very hard on me. Last month I fell twice, once on the left hip and once on the right hip. Somehow my right hip is more injured it does not allow me to stand and walk properly anymore. This past week has been the worst and I think I may has fractured it. Nevertheless, I have an appointment with my orthopedic doctor, and will get the verdict then. Am I in pain? 24-7, but I only take medication for it when reaches beyond my tolerant, which means bedrest. Some days were better than others but since this recent fall, I feel and believe the worst of my chance of ever walking normally again. 

Have I shared to much? Perhaps, but indulge me, because I am exhausted by the daily pain and the lack of knowledge of what is happening to me.

Well, of me. I don't want to lose the few followers that have remained with me all these twenty years. and on that note, many of you may have notice that the Halloween background image that I post up here  is once I created for another one of my sites site back 2013. I love making creepy Halloween backgrounds and because I still have all of them, I will probably resurrect some parts of them on these sites in the coming years. Many of the personal websites are limited to what you can add on them, certainly not is the early days of blogging and website creation. However, I see no reason not to reuse what I created over the years.

Remember this one from 3031?

Or, this logo from 2012.

Oh, the good old days, sic.

Until the next  time, 

           Chow,  Darlings

P.S. Speaking of the good old days, I have a good old soul food recipe for you.

Chicken and Gravy with Rice

Ingredients

Black pepper

Seasoned salt

Cayenne pepper for an extra kick

2 1/2 tablespoons garlic infused oil

4 chicken breasts half, or 2 large hindquarters, legs and thighs

3 tablespoons flour

2 cups of hot water

 

Equipment

Airs fryer

Large skillet

Casserole dish with cover

 

Instructions

• 1.       Preheat air fryer to 400 degrees. Add lower rack in bottom of air fryer bowl
• 2.       Wash and pat dry chicken parts and season with cayenne pepper, seasoned salt and black pepper.
• 3.       Spray with infused garlic oil
• 4.       Place seasoned chicken on air fryer rack, and cook for 20 minutes, turn once every 10 minutes.
• 5.       While chicken is cooking, heat the garlic infused oil in a large skillet over medium heat
• 6.       Add the flour, spreading evenly to avoid lumps, and then add the seasoned salt and pepper. Stir to blend well. Cook to golden brown.
• 7.       Add water and stir to blend well with the seasoned flour. Continue to stir frequently to avoid lumps.  Cook to a boil, and boil for 2  minutes
• 8.       Reduces heat and add air fryer chicken
• 9.       It is okay if there is still blood running from chicken and cooking it in with the gravy will finish the cooking process.
• 10.    If the gravy is too thick and more is needed; in a measuring cup add up to 2 tablespoons of flour and stir in enough water to make a smooth milky-like liquid.  Pour into skillet and blend with the other gravy.
• 11.    When chicken has stopped bleeding remove and the gravy then place in a rectangle casserole dish. If cooking place chicken in the refrigerator for later.

 

Reheating casserole

• 1.       Remove cold casserole from the refrigerator and pour up to a half cup of water to it.
• 2.       Do not blend. Cover the casserole dish and heat for 6 minutes.
• 3.       After the six minutes, stir heat water into gravy and coat the chicken at the same time. 
• 4.       Serve with rice.

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And for you Brian Lumley Fans, he has create a couple of new necroscope series. The new  necroscopers are Jake Cutter (Necroscope: Invaders: A New Necroscope Kindle Edition) and Scott St. John.(Necroscope: The Touch).

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Future of Big Boss 16Qt Air Fryer

 Hello, Darlings

As you know I am a great fan of the 16qt. air fryer, Big Boss. I have used the air fryer cook meals since discovering it in 2018.  To me it is an easy and quick solution to cooking meats and poultry in the time it was taking to cook to the same on the stovetop and in the electric oven. 

Air frying our favorite meals, like, roast beef from freezer to air fryer to table in 40 minutes and other meals has been incredible. Especially, as any homemaker knows, when time is running short to have dinner of the table before the family is home for the day, a quick solution always is preferable. 

Back in 2023, after breaking the 16 quart bowl, I discovered that Amazon no longer had the Big Boss air fryer, I panic thinking another good product lost. Because usually if a favorite product was out of stock for a long time or included a deadly message stating the store had no idea when the product would return, it usually spelled the discontinuation of that product. Luckily, I found the Big Boss Air Fryer on eBay and was able to replace the broken one.  However, the uncertainty of the air fryer’s future on the market figured as a reality in my mind.  My husband and I loved the meals we were able to cook in the air fryer, and did not want it to vanquish from the market as so many other favorite and well known products have done for lesser quality and not so lower cost brands.

As an example, the same problem exists with the Nesco “Real Tea” Automatic Tea Maker. If you own one, treat it as a national treasure, because it was discontinued back in December of 2022.  Will it return, not according to Nesco.

The Nesco “Real Tea” Automatic Tea Maker was the only tea maker to uses a timer to steep teas as tea should be done, and that is what made it a great product. While some of the high ends combo coffee/tea makers give you options like green, white, herbal and black tea, many other of today’s tea makers just boil the water and then run it down into the tea pot with no steeping involved.

Humph! For tea lovers like me, the loss of the Nesco “Real Tea” Automatic Tea Maker was akin to losing a limb. Not factual, but tea lovers know what I mean. You want that perfect cup of tea but you discover that to get it, you either have to buy a high-end product or steep the tea the old fashioned way, which is quaint but time consuming; dump, dump, dump.

Luckily, unlike the loss of the Nesco “Real Tea” Automatic Tea Maker, the Big Boss 16Qt Air Fryer, for reasons unknown to this reviewer, other than popular demand is not only still on the market but it has been rebranded as Granitestone Air Fryer Toaster Oven Combo 16Qt., and is manufactured by the same company and is in fact the same machine. It is my thought that with the arrival of the smaller and more disposable air fryers (more plastic parts) that the larger air fryers were being faded out of the market, regardless of the fact that price wise there was little difference

Well for a time, and we hope a very long time, we homemakers that love the quick and easy use of the Big Boss Air Fryer can purchased the Granitestone Air Fryer at all the our favorite online shopping sites.

The Key features of the Big Boss and Granitestone Air Fryer:

• Triple Cooking Power: Uses halogen, convection, and infrared heat to cook food faster and more efficiently than traditional methods.
• Glass Bowl: The glass bowl allows you to see the food as it cooks and is non-toxic.
• Multi-Layer Cooking: Comes with a mesh basket and two racks, enabling you to cook different foods at the same time on different levels.
• Versatile Functions: Can be used to air fry, bake, grill, roast, and toast.
• Easy Cleaning:  Dishwasher. However, Do not place the air fryer time setting lid into the dishwasher. Pardon me, but … as if?!!

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I am currently watching the kdrama “Oh My Ghost Client” with Jung Kyung Ho, which is a tale of the life of attorney after a near death experience.

 I am also watching “Countdown” on Amazon starring Jensen Ackles as a special agent with a short life span;

and I am just finish revisiting Shakespeare play “King Lear” with Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf for many) on Marquee TV. 

As all Shakespearean fans know, King Lear had no true understanding of what real love was in actuality. He, like the royals before him only knew that his subject agreements with everything the king said or did or else bad things would happen to them.

Until next time,

     Chow, Darlings

Single Serving Showtime Popcorn

 Hello, Darlings

Tonight, I had a  taste for homemade popcorn. Something I seldom want but tonight I just craved some.  I usually pop up a batch in my popcorn maker some with vegetable oil, but since I have been experimenting with difference cooking oils lately, I decided to use peanut oil instead.  I am glad that I did. Below is my quick and east recipe for old fashioned tasting popcorn.

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Single Serving Showtime Popcorn

Ingredient

• 1 Tablespoon peanut Oil
• 3 Tablespoons Popcorn Kernels
• Salt

Equipment: one 6 quart popcorn maker

Directions

1. Preheat popcorn maker about 5 minutes
2. Add peanut Oil and popcorn to the cooking plate.
3. Pop corn kernels using the popcorn maker as directed in the HOW TO OPERATE section; making sure the popper is well ventilated by keeping black plastic lid is off.
4. When popcorn kernels stopping, turn off the popcorn maker; let rest a minute ur two
5. Then add black plastic lid and flip popcorn maker to use clear top as a bowl
6. Add enough salt for taste

Note:

1. Peanut oil give popcorn the mildly rich nutty favor of my childhood
2. Can double or triple the recipe for extra servings
3. Extra popcorn can be stored in plastic freezer bags.

 

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Enjoy!

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P.S. Although, I have closed my normal entertainment pages, I still enjoy a good series or movie or two. This week I am watching “The First Night with the Duke”. In it our heroine is a romantic novel buff, who gets drawn into her favorite novel and unintentional spends the night with a handsome, ruthless duke, who in turns claims her as his bride to be.

I find the story charming and funny. The duke is delightfully obsessive in his pursuit in make our heroine his bride when she just wants to set the novel back on its original storyline and return home.

So will she succeed in set things right, or has her one night with the duke become life changing event of her dreams?

If you liked, “Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo”, you’ll like this one.

Both can be viewed on Rakuten Viki and KOCOWA on the Roku TV. 

Until next time,

     Chow, Darlings

Corned Beef Reuben Sandwich

 Hello, Darlings

 

Born and raised in the North, I have always loved Corned Beef Reuben sandwiches.  Since moving South we would  seldom visit the restaurants that serve them. Not that the sandwiches weren't good, because they were great. However, with our daily routines and the location of the restaurants, we just didn't go.

 Luckily, while looking at some Betty Crocker online recipes I found  this gem, which I am  sharing with you. 

 

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Corned Beef Reuben

Ingredients

• 8 (1/2-thick) slices rye bread
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup thousand island dressing
• 1 pound corned beef, divided into four servings
• 2 cups sauerkraut
• 4 slices Swiss cheese

Instructions

1. Spread butter on one side of each slice of bread. Spread dressing on other side of bread.
2. Toast rye bread in skillet.
3. Place corned beef, 1/2 cup sauerkraut, and 1 slice of Swiss cheese on each slice of bread.
4. Cover with remaining 4 slices of bread, butter side up.
5. Place 2 sandwiches on in skillet.
6. Toast rye bread in skillet as you would grill cheese.
7. Cook to desired brownness.
8. Repeat with remaining sandwiches.

 

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 Enjoy, and have a good  rest of your day.

 

Chow, Darlings

 

Deeper Fryer Cornish Hen

 Hello, Darlings

It’s been awhile since my last post. Since then, we have moved and the new house still looks like we just moved into it. At ages 74, we are doing well but this move has exhausted us. Although all of the boxes were labeled for which room they were to be placed, to my displeasure, many of them ended up in areas that now have us hunting for them.

Anyway, exhaustion aside, we will get the house in order soon. I am looking forward to setting up my hydroponic systems and growing my own lettuce, tomatoes and herbs. I miss the baby eggplants.

Below is little Cornish hen recipe just for you. If you have never done it, this is a deep fryer Cornish hen recipe and not a oven roasted one. I came up with this recipe, because I was hunger, tired and too impatience to oven roast it, so I quartered it instead, then battered it with flour and seasonings, like I would with a regular chicken. All the while I was wondering if this method of cooking a Cornish hen was ever done before, and believe it or not, after a little research, I never found a recipe for deep fried Cornish hen What I found was that many cooks use a little cooking oil and oven fried the hen like one would oven fry a regular chicken, and called it deep fried Cornish hen or game hen. That was not what I was looking, so below is my newly created deep fryer Cornish hen recipe.

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Deeper Fryer Cornish Hen

Ingredients

• 1 Cornish hen, washed, pat dry and quartered
• 3 cups of flour
• Salt and pepper
• Cayenne pepper
• 4 tablespoons Za'atar seasoning
• Cooking oil for the deep fryer

Directions

1. Add enough cooking oil to the deep fryer cover each quarter of the hen, then pre-heat the oil  to 375^o degrees
2. As stated above wash, pat dry and quarter the Cornish hen
3. Season it will salt, pepper, cayenne pepper
4. Add the quartered parts to a baggie that has been seasoned with the Za'atar seasoning  
5. Shake well to cover the hen’s parts
6. Carefully add each quartered  part into the hot deep fryer oil for 30 seconds
7. Remove the hen’s parts and shake them to remove the excess oil
8. Carefully add the hen to floured baggie again and shake to cover with additional flour, for a crispier crust.
9. Add hen to deep fryer again and fry for 15 minutes, or skin is golden brown and blood flows from the parts

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Yum, yum! Taste like fried chicken to me. As always, you can use you own seasonings,

Enjoy!

Chow, Darlings

 

P.S. I noticed that I entitled the recipe "Deeper Fryer Cornish Hen", instead of "Deeper Fryer Cornish Hen"; however, I decided to leave the title unchanged because "no one is perfect".

 

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