Below are a few tasty recipes courtesy of our Aunt Karen: a super aunt, stellar cook, and also a "Nye" Sista. I'm definitely making the Zucchini Cobbler to see if I can trick Greg into eating more zucchini.
BAKED CAULIFLOWER
1 med onion minced
1 garlic clove minced
4 TBSP butter, divided
2 TBSP olive oil
1 pkg (16 oz) frozen cauliflower, thawed
½ tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
¼ C dry bread crumbs
¼ C shredded cheddar cheese
In a large skillet sauté onion and garlic in 2 tbsp butter and olive oil until onion is tender. Add the cauliflower, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, sauté 2 minutes. Transfer to a greased 1 qt baking dish . Melt remaining 2 tbsp butter and toss with bread crumbs. Sprinkle over cauliflower mixture. Cover and bake 350° for 15 minutes. Uncover and bake for 10 minutes more. Sprinkle with cheese and bake 3-5 minutes longer until cheese is melted.
*We love this recipe. I just made it the other night using a mixed bag of frozen broccoli/cauliflower. This version was also good. I love the nutmeg on it; in fact I increase it to ¼ tsp.
MACARONI COLESLAW
1 pkg (7 oz) macaroni
1 pkg (16 oz) coleslaw mix
2 med onions finely chopped
2 celery ribs finely chopped
1 med cucumber finely chopped
1 med green pepper finely chopped
1 can (8 oz) whole water chestnuts, drained and chopped.
Dressing: 1 ½ C reduced fat salad dressing (or regular if you wish)
1/3 C sugar
¼ C cider vinegar
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
Cook macaroni according to pkg directions, drain and rinse in cold water. Transfer to a large bowl. Add the coleslaw, onions, celery, cucumber, green pepper and water chestnuts. In a small bowl whisk the dressing ingredients. Pour over salad, toss to coat. Cover and chill for at least one hour.
*I used a red pepper as I like their taste better and low fat mayo. It was good.
PARMESAN CORNFLAKE CHICKEN
½ c crushed cornflakes
1/3 c grated Parmesan cheese
¼ c seasoned bread crumbs
1 ½ tsp dried parsley flakes
½ tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
6 tbsp melted butter
1 cut up chicken (2-3 #), skin removed.
In a shallow bowl combine the first 6 ingredients. In another shallow bowl put the melted butter. Dip chicken in butter, and then roll in cornflake mixture. Place in a greased 13 x 9 baking dish. Bake uncovered at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until chicken juices run clear.
ZUCCHINI COBBLER
8 C chopped, seeded, peeled zucchini (about 3#)
2/3 C lemon juice
1 C sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground nutmeg
Crust: 4 C all purpose flour
2 C sugar
1 ½ C cold butter, cubed
1 tsp ground cinnamon
In a large saucepan over med-low heat, cook and stir zucchini and lemon juice for 15-20 minutes or until zucchini is tender. Add the sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, simmer 1 minute longer. Remove from the heat, set aside. For crust, combine the flour and sugar in a bowl, cut in butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir ½ cup of dry mixture into zucchini mixture. Press half of the remaining crust mixture into a greased 15 x 10 x 1 baking pan. Spread zucchini over top, crumble remaining crust mixture over zucchini. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake at 375° for 35-40 minutes or until golden and bubbly.
*This is a fooler and a great way to use those large zucchini. I did not take time to pick out seeds. I just peeled and chopped. We never noticed the seeds when we ate it. It makes a lot, so it was fun to cut it all up and Dan took some to work and made every one try to guess what the middle was. Everyone guessed apple.
This is a double pastry apple pie type of recipe that I found on AllRecipes.com. The almond flavor of the glaze is wonderful with the apples and the cornflakes turned into a kind of chewy sweet goo. The recipe says it serves 36, but I think that's a bit much. Just however many you usually feed with a 9x13 pan dessert.
