I haven't talked about it much, but I love to cook. Over the years I have cooked in restaurants and done some catering for my friends...rehearsal dinners, graduation parties, New Years Eve parties etc.. My last two gigs were at the Senior Center, where I had a lot of volunteer help. Pizza for 70 and Chicken and Biscuits for 70. Next Friday we will be doing a Turkey Dinner. Yesterday
I picked a peck basket of beets and today I made half into pickled beets (the rest will be made into beet soup with sour cream and fresh dill). This cooler weather gets me going, so I also have some rice pudding in the oven.
PICKLED BEETS(Today I made 3/4 of a gallon container...it was 4 times the directions below)
Combine 1/4 cup water, 1/3 cup vinegar, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves. Heat to boiling and pour over beets (that have been cooked and sliced). I add onion, which absorbs the beet flavor, and when some of the beets are gone, I hard boil eggs (peel them) and let them marinate in the beet juice along with the remaining beets.
(from Better Homes and Gardens - New Cookbook)
SIMPLE RICE PUDDINGPreheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Combine 3 1/2 cup scalded milk (I use skim), 1/4 cup uncooked rice, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (somtimes I leave this off) in a greased 1 quart casserole. Bake for 2 hours. When it has baked for 30 minutes, stir in brown crust that forms on top of pudding. Repeat at half-hour intervals. Don't stir the last half-hour. Serves 6
(from The Redbook Cookbook)
I pretty much hate to cook dinner type stuff, but I love to bake (although I don't ever seem to do it). I am going to go make rice pudding right now. I've never even eaten it before, but it looks like something I can do! :)
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