Celebration Meal Plans: Laurie's B'day Dinner
Chopped Salad | Chicken Cacciatore | Dad's Mashed Potatoes | Laurie's Cake
Chopped Salad
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 6 |
Category: | Vegetarian Entrée |
Meal: | Laurie's B'day Dinner (Celebration Meal Plans) |
6 | oz | lettuce, mixed |
0.5 | cup | tomatoes, cherry |
1 | small | cucumbers, sliced |
1 | Tb | onions, chopped |
2 | oz | cheese, Romano |
0.25 | cup | mushrooms, sliced |
1 | small | celery ribs |
3 | Tb | cheese, Romano, grated |
0.125 | cup | olives, green |
3 | Tb | oil, olive |
0.5 | tsp | oregano, dried |
3 | Tb | vinegar, red wine |
1 | tsp | garlic powder |
1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Chop all ingredients into bite size pieces; including romano cheese. Place in a large bowl. Add olive oil, vinegar, garlic powder and oregano and mix. Add grated romano and mix again. Serve
Chicken Cacciatore
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 4 |
Category: | Chicken Entrée |
Meal: | Laurie's B'day Dinner (Celebration Meal Plans) |
2 | Tb | oil, olive |
4 | lb | chicken, whole, cut up |
3 | medium | onion, yellow ,quartered |
1 | lb | mushrooms, quartered |
8 | cloves | garlic, chopped |
0.25 | tsp | oregano, dried |
1 | tsp | celery seeds |
2 | medium | bay leaves, whole dried |
1 | cup | wine, dry white |
1 | 15 oz can | chicken broth |
0.5 | tsp | salt and pepper to taste |
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Brown chicken in oil, add onions, mushrooms and garlic sauté for 3 minutes. Add remaining ingredients, simmer for 30 minutes. Salt and pepper to taste.
Note: If you prefer red sauce, add 1 LB diced tomatoes, 2 TB tomato paste and substitute red wine for the white wine.
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Dad's Mashed Potatoes
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 6 |
Category: | Starch / Pasta |
Meal: | Laurie's B'day Dinner (Celebration Meal Plans) |
7 | large | potatoes |
2 | Tb | salt, kosher |
1 | cup | sour cream |
4 | Tb | butter, salted |
1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Peel potatoes, cook in large pot with salted water to cover until fork tender. Remove, drain and place in large bowl. Cut butter into small pieces. Add butter and sour cream to bowl. Using an electric mixture, mix until all lumps and gone. Salt and pepper to taste.
Note: Never use a food processor for potatoes, as they will turn to glue in the processor
Laurie's Cake
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 8 |
Category: | Dessert |
Meal: | Laurie's B'day Dinner (Celebration Meal Plans) |
1 | cup | cranberries, dried |
0.5 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
0.5 | cup | cornmeal, course ground |
1 | tsp | baking powder |
1 | tsp | salt, kosher |
1 | tsp | orange zest |
0.75 | cup | butter, salted |
1.25 | cup | sugar, granulated |
0.5 | tsp | vanilla |
4 | large | egg, yolks |
2 | large | egg |
1 | tsp | sugar, powdered |
1 | medium | orange, juice of |
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees with the rack in the
center of the oven. Place cranberries in a small
bowl and toss with 1 Tb of the flour; place aside.
Mix the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt and
the orange zest together. In the bowl of the mixer
cream the sugar and butter until light and fluffy;
add the egg yolks and eggs one at a time. And
beat for 3 minutes. Add the vanilla and the flour
mixture slowly on low until just mixed. Add the
orange juice and mix for 30 seconds. Fold in the
cranberries and pour into a greased 8” cake pan.
Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, in the middle of the
oven until brown and the cake is set in the middle
when moved. ( a toothpick will come out clean
when inserted).
Cool the cake on a rack; dust with powder sugar;
serve at room temperature.