Share-a-Meal Plans: Good Cheer for Homebound
Mushroom Soup | Bread - Honey Moist Cornbread | Pecan Bars
Mushroom Soup
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Soups |
| Meal: | Good Cheer for Homebound (Share-a-Meal Plans) |
| 1.5 | lb | mushrooms, sliced |
| 3 | oz | mushrooms, dried black chantrelle |
| 0.5 | medium | onions, sliced |
| 1 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
| 4 | cup | chicken broth |
| 0.5 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
| 4 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 1 | cup | cream, heavy |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Bring mushrooms, broth , onion and lemon juice to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Place butter in frying pan, melt. Add flour and cook slightly to form a roux. Add heavy cream. Stir, cook for another 5 minutes. Add mixture to soup. Simmer for 5 minutes. Serve
Bread - Honey Moist Cornbread
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Gluten Free |
| Meal: | Good Cheer for Homebound (Share-a-Meal Plans) |
| 1 | cup | gluten-free flour |
| 1 | cup | corn meal, yellow |
| 1 | tsp | xanthan gum |
| 0.33 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 1 | Tb | baking powder |
| 0.33 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 8 | oz | cream, whipping |
| 0.25 | cup | oil, vegetable |
| 3 | large | egg |
| 0.25 | cup | honey |
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Heat oven to 400 degrees
Stir all dry ingredients then add the remaining ingredients
Pour onto a greased 9-inch pan
Bake for 20-25 minutes. ( for best results use a cast iron frying pan. Place in oven 10 minutes prior to baking, add 1 Tb of butter to pan then add the batter)
My wife has a sweet tooth; she recommends doubling the honey if you are making the cornbread for breakfast.
Pecan Bars
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Cooking for the Kids |
| Meal: | Good Cheer for Homebound (Share-a-Meal Plans) |
| 2 | cup | flour |
| 0.5 | cup | sugar, powdered |
| 8 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 1 | large | egg |
| 14 | oz | milk, evaporated |
| 1 | tsp | vanilla |
| 1 | cup | heathbar bits |
| 1 | cup | pecans, halved |
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Preheat oven to 350-degrees. Combine flour and sugar in bowl. Cut in butter until a coarse crumb.
Press dough into bottom of a lightly greased 13 X 9 pan. Bake for 15 minutes. Mix egg, milk and vanilla, stir in heathbar bits and pecans. Spread mixture over crust. Bake an additional 25 minutes.
Cool and cut into bars.
