Archive for February, 2012

Dad’s Cheddar Cheese Bread

By Shirley Kidd – Taken from my Aunt Ethel’s Lopez Island Cookbook.

Scald 2 1/2 cups milk.  Add 1/4 cup sugar and 2 tsp salt.  Stir and cool to warm.  Add 2 1/4 tsp (or l pkg.) of yeast that has been dissolved in 1/2 cup of warm water, then add 2 cups of flour and mix well.  Add 4 1/2 cups more flour and 3 cups cheddar cheese (shredded).  Knead until smooth.   Place in a greased bowl: brush with melted butter, cover and let rise until double in size.  Punch down and let rise again.  Knead once again and place in greased bread pans.  Cover and let rise to double.

Bake at 375 degrees for 50 minutes or until firm and bottom is brown.

Delicious toasted.  Dough makes wonderful dinner rolls, and/or cinnamon rolls.

Diablo Chicken – Sherry Renga

Mix together: 4 Tbs melted butter, 1/2 cup honey, 1/4 cup prepared mustard, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp curry powder. (I also add 1/2 tsp ginger and 1/2 tsp tumeric.)

Dip 4 to 8 boneless, skinless chicken breasts into above mixture and place in baking dish. Pour remaining mixture over the meat.  Bake covered for 1 hour at 400 degrees.  Turn over after 1/2 hour.  Serve with rice.

Pepperoni Bread – Shirley Kidd

Use the pizza dough recipe of Kelly Kidd.  Roll out!

Mix together: 2 beaten eggs, 1 tsp oregano, and a dash of garlic.  Spread 3/4 of this mixture over the rolled out dough.  Arrange pepperoni, cheese, and any other items you like: (cooked hamburger, sausage, olives, green pepper, onions, etc.  Roll up the long side and shape into an arc in a large pan such as a broiler pan.  Brush on the remaining egg mixture, poke holes with a fork and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.  Cut and serve.

Pizza Dough – Kelly Kidd

Dissolve 2 1/4 tsp or 1 package of yeast in 1 cup of warm water.  Add 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 2 Tbs oil, and 2 1/2 cups flour.  Stir and roll out for pizzas.

Baked Red Potatoes – Sherry Renga

6 cups small red potatoes cut in 1/4′s.

Mix together:  1/2 cup ranch dressing, 1/2 cup Italian 5-cheese blend, 1/4 cut bacon bits and add to potatoes and stir.

Cover with foil and bake in a 13 x 9 pan for 1 hour at 375 degrees.  Remove foil and bake 30 minutes more.

Oven Stew – Darlene Winter

Brown stew meat:

Mix together:

Potatoes, carrots, celery, green pepper, onion and cabbage with l large can of cream of chicken soup and one can of milk OR water.  Add the cooked stew meat and bake at 350 degrees for 2 hours.  Then top with dumplings (I use the biscuit recipe from the Bisquick box.)  Bake for 10 minutes with lid off, then 10 minutes with lid on.

Serve!!