(02-25-2010, 02:17 PM)Texican Wrote: Hope you like French cooking - I was recently given some old books by Jacques Pepin, and picked up a book about French cooking at a local bookstore, so I'll be reading those, 'cause that's all Greek to me.
I can probably share some S. Texas border recipes ( AKA Tex-Mex), although not many of them are very good for Lent.
I'll trade you for more baking recipes, 'cause I don't do a whole lot of baking, except for cornbread and biscuits. Oh, and brownies, now. ;D
And I've noticed that Satori hasn't been posting her recipes, like she has in the past...
That works for me. I get stuck in cooking ruts with my husband's food allergies and picky kids, so I like seeing new recipes!
I love Tex-Mex! I spent 4 years in northern Louisiana, not far from Texas (Shreveport,LA) so I got introduced to Tex-Mex while I was there. Up here in the midwest, people tend to be boring in their cooking!
For a new baking recipe, I will list one of the best Texas sheet cakes I have ever had:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup water
1 stick butter
1/2 cup vegetable oil (I use canola)
4 TBSP cocoa
1/2 cup buttermilk (use real buttermilk, it works better than trying to make your own with vinegar)
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla
Sift togethe sugar, flour, soda and cinnamon. Set aside. In a saucepan, place water, butter, oil and cocoa. Bring to a boil, then pour over dry ingredients. Mix well. In separate bowl, mix eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla. Add to chocolate batter. Pour into greased & floured 9 x 13 pan. Bake at 400 for 20 minutes.
Start the following icing recipe 5 minutes before the cake is to come out of the oven:
1 Stick butter
4 1/2 TBSP cocoa
5 TBSP milk (adjust as needed)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts (I leave these out b/c of allergies :()
Powdered sugar to thicken
Put butter, cocoa and milk in pan. Boil. And vanilla, nuts and sugar. Mix well. Spread on cake as soon as it comes out of the oven.
YUM!
BTW - Can you tell I like chocolate?! ;)