LONG SILVER'S BATTER
Amount Measure Ingredient
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Bisquick
Pancake mix
Club soda
Preparation Method
With wire whisk whip together equal parts Bisquick & boxed pancake mix with
club soda till it's the consistency of buttermilk. Moisten fish fillets in
water & then coat lightly but evenly in flour. Let dry on waxed paper 5
minutes. Spear pieces one at a time with tip of sharp knife & coat in
batter. Deep fry in 385F oil, about 4 minutes each side, till crispy and
browned. Do not use tongs or coating will break apart.
LONE STAR STEAKHOUSE LETTUCE WEDGE SALAD
Why waste time chopping up the lettuce when you can just
hack a head into four chunks, dress it up and serve? This
unique presentation is not only easy to make, but also a
deliciously different way to serve your next salad. The creamy
bleu cheese dressing is a cinch to make from scratch and tastes
much better than anything you'll buy in a store. Add a bit of
extra crumbled bleu over the top, some freshly diced tomatoes,
and you're well on your way to a fancy-pants side salad that'll
surely impress.
Ingredients
Bleu Cheese Dressing
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup crumbled bleu cheese
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/8 teaspoon onion powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 head iceberg lettuce
1 cup crumbled bleu cheese
1 cup diced tomato (1 large tomato)
Do the wedge.
Preparation Method
1. Use an electric mixer to combine all ingredients for bleu
cheese dressing in a medium bowl.
2. Slice a head of iceberg lettuce into quarters through the
stem end. Cut the stem off of the wedges and arrange each one
on a plate.
3. Spoon about 1/4 cup of bleu cheese dressing over each lettuce
wedge.
4. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of crumbled bleu cheese over the dressing.
5. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of diced tomato over the top and serve.
Makes 4 servings.
LONE STAR STEAKHOUSE CHILLI
When the weather gets cold it's time to fire up the stovetop.
This chain makes a tasty chili that warms the bones on a nippy
fall day. This clone recipe is easy-to-make, low-fat and
delicious. And if it's super brisk outside, you might want to add
an additional tablespoon of diced jalapeno to aggressively stoke
those internal flames.
Ingredients
1 pound ground beef
1 diced onion
1 tablespoon diced fresh jalapeno pepper
1 15-ounce can kidney beans with liquid
1 14.5-ounce can peeled diced tomatoes
1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
1 cup water
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1 bay leaf
Garnish
grated cheddar cheese
diced onion
canned whole jalapeno chili peppers
Hot enough for you?
Preparation Method
1. Brown ground beef in a large saucepan over medium heat. Drain fat.
2. Add onion and pepper and sautÈ for about two minutes.
3. Add remaining ingredients and simmer for 1 hour, stirring
occasionally. Serve one cup in a bowl with the optional cheese,
diced onion and whole jalapeno garnish on top.
Makes 4 servings.
LONE STAR STEAKHOUSE BAKED SWEET POTATO
It saddles on up next to your entree at this huge steakhouse
chain, but it's not what it claims to be. Sure, the menu says
"baked sweet potato," but you're actually getting a sweet and
tender red-skinned yam underneath all that yummy melted butter
and cinnamon/sugar. And don't just get any yam for this top secret
clone. You want to use garnet yams, if you have a choice. Then be
sure to cook them long enough that the sugar in the yams begins
to squirt out and burn in a couple of spots. Each yam should be
tender, but not mushy. The skin on the outside will turn from red
to greyish-brown, and inside it will be a hearty shade of black.
Ingredients
4 garnet yams
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup whipped butter
Preparation Method
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake yams for 45 to 75 minutes
(bigger yams take longer to cook). When they are done, the outside
will have darkened and the inside will be soft. You may see liquid
from the potato oozing out and charring. When the potato is sliced
open, the inside of the skin will be charred black from the
caramelizing sugar in the potato. This is a perfectly cooked potato.
2. To serve, slice a potato down the center. Add two tablespoons of
whipped butter, then sprinkle some cinnamon/sugar over the top.
Makes 4 servings.
LITTLE DEBBIE OATMEAL CREME PIES
These soft, creme-filled sandwich cookies were the first snacks
produced by McKee Foods back in 1960. It was his 4-year old
granddaughter Debbie after which founder O.D. McKee named his
line of snack cakes. O.D. was inspired by a picture of the
little girl in play clothes and a straw hat, and that's the
image we still find today on every package. The secret to cloning
these mouth-watering snacks is re-creating the soft, chewy
consistency of the oatmeal cookies. To duplicate the texture,
the cookies are slightly underbaked. Then you whip up some of
the easy-to-make creme filling with marshmallow creme and spread
it between two of the oatmeal cookies to complete the sandwich.
Next stop, yum city!
Cookies
1 cup margarine
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon molasses
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups 1-minute Quaker Oats
Creme Filling
2 teaspoons very hot water
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups marshmallow creme (1 7-ounce jar)
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Preparation Method
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bowl, cream together margarine, sugars, molasses,
vanilla, and eggs.
3. In a separate bowl combine the flour, salt, baking soda, and
cinnamon.
4. Combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients. Mix in
the oats.
5. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until cookies are just starting to
darken around the edges. They will still appear moist in the center.
Be careful not to overcook - when cooled, the cookies should be soft
and chewy.
6. While the cookies bake, prepare the filling. Use a small bowl to
dissolve the salt in 2 teaspoons of very hot water. Set this
solution aside to cool.
7. Combine the marshmallow creme, shortening, powdered sugar, and
vanilla in a medium bowl and mix well with an electric mixer on
high speed until fluffy. Add the cooled salt solution to the filling
mixture and combine with the mixer.
8. Assemble each creme pie by spreading the filling over one side of
a cookie (the flat side) and press another cookie on top, making a
sandwich. Repeat for the remaining cookies and filling.
Makes 2 dozen creme pies.
LAWRY'S TACO SPICES & SEASONINGS
This is a clone for the stuff you buy in 1- ounce packets to
create, as the package says, "a fun-filled Mexican fiesta in
minutes." Isn't that so true? In fact, thanks to Lawry's my
last Mexican fiesta was filled with so much fun that I had to
take a siesta the next day. I owe it all to that fabulous little
packet of seasoning. And now I promise you just as much fun with
this TSR clone. Golly, maybe even a tad more fun if you're lucky.
Just mix the ingredients together in a small bowl, then add it to
1 pound of browned ground beef along with some water and let it
simmer. Before you know it you'll be up to your nostrils in good
old-fashioned, taco-making fun. Better rest up, gosh darn it.
Ingredients
1 tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon paprika
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon minced onion
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon ground oregano
Preparation Method
1. Combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl.
2. To prepare the meat filling for the tacos as described on the
original package instructions:
"In large skillet, brown 1 pound ground beef until crumbly; drain
fat. Add spices & seasoning and 2/3 cup water; mix thoroughly.
Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low, and cook, uncovered,
7 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Spoon meat filling into
warmed taco shells or tortillas. Top with shredded lettuce,
grated cheddar cheese and chopped tomato. Use fresh salsa and
guacamole if desired."
Makes meat filling for 12 tacos (about 3 tablespoons each).
LAWRY'S SEASONED SALT
This seven-ingredient clone of Lawry's Seasoned Salt can be
made in a small bowl, but is best used when poured into an
old spice bottle that you've cleaned out and saved. You've
saved one of those somewhere, right?
Ingredients
2 tablespoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon cornstarch
Preparation Method
1. Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and mix well.
2. Pour blend into an empty spice bottle with shaker top to store.
Makes 1/4 cup.
ALMOST LA VICTORIA'S GREEN TACO SAUCE
Amount Measure Ingredient
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2 lbs. Anaheim or New Mex. chiles -- Roast -- peel, deseed
1 lb. Yellow Hungarian Wax chiles -- seeded and chopped
1 Serranos and jalapeno -- seeded and chopped
2 1/2 lbs. Tomatillos -- slice 1/8" thick
7 lbs. Green tomatoes -- slice 1/4" thick
1/2 bunch Cilantro -- rough chop
4 cloves Garlic
1 med. White onion -- chopped
1/4 cup Lime juice
1/4 cup Apple cider vinegar
2 Tbs. Salt
4 Tbs. Corn Starch
Preparation Method
Heat a large cast iron skillet to hot and toast the tomatoes and tomatillos
without any oil. Do just one layer at a time and give each slice a nice
dark brown color on both sides without burning. Remove when toasted to a
glass bowl. Do not deglaze the pan.
In a blender, combine the onion, cilantro, chiles, tomatoes, garlic and
tomatillos in batch sizes to half-fill the blender jar. Pur|e. If any
dark brown liquid collects in the bottom of the toasted tomato and
tomatillo bowl, add this to the last blender load.
Mix the cornstarch in the lime juice/vinegar. In a large stewing pot,
combine the blender loads, add the cornstarch mixture and heat until the
sauce comes to a low boil, mixing constantly. Be careful here, if you
don't mix constantly the thick sauce will tend to erupt in hot little
geysers of taco sauce that could burn you. Allow sauce to cool and add
salt to taste. Transfer to clean jars, filling them 3/4 full and freeze
what you can't use in a few weeks. Be careful not to fill the jars too
full or they'll break when you freeze them.
I made a batch of sauce last year and it tastes just fine after a year in
the freezer. The sauce keeps OK in my refrigerator for at least a month.
* Adjust heat level to your personal taste. The La Victoria sauce is mild.
3 to 4 quarts
NOTES : Here is a recipe that I think comes close to the taste and texture of
La Victoria's Green Taco sauce.
Per serving: 258 Calories; 3g Fat (8% calories from fat); 11g Protein; 58g
Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 4371mg Sodium
NOTES : Half a recipes is plenty!
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