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Recipes: Side Dishes
Grandma's Noodles
Remember those wonderful noodles that grandma made? Guess what, they're easy!
- 3 eggs
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
Whisk eggs and salt in a large mixing bowl. Gradually add in 2 cups flour. Using the remaining ½ cup flour, knead dough until stiff. Divide dough into 4 parts. Roll dough out very thin on a floured surface. Use a pizza cutter to cut noodles into desired width.
Drop noodles into boiling beef or chicken broth. Usually takes approximately 20 minutes for noodles to be completely cooked.
I like to use a pasta machine to roll and cut my noodles. Cut's the processing time way down.
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Best Taco Salad
This makes a huge bowl of taco salad and everyone loves it. Makes a great fun meal.
- 1 head lettuce, chopped
- 8 oz. shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1 lg chopped onion
- 1 pkg. taco floavored chips
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- 1 lb. hamburger
- 1 small can kidney beans
- 4 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 1 pkg taco seasoning
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| Dressing: |
- 12 oz Thousand Island dressing
- 4 oz. taco sauce
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2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon taco seasoning
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Brown hamburger, add taco seasoning. Reserve 1 tablespoon for dressing. Allow hamburger to cool. Layer salad ingredients in bowl, starting with lettuce and ending with cheese. Cover and refrigerate. At serving time, toss salad with dressing and chips.
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Mama's Potato Salad
My grandmother makes the best potato salad I've ever had. So, here's the recipe.
- 2-3 chopped onions
- 2-3 stalks celery, chopped
- 6 quarts cooked peeled potatoes
- 1 quart salad dressing (Miricle Whip)
- ½ cup milk
- 1 teas. salt
- 1 teas. pepper
- 1 Tbls. mustard
Chunk up potatoes and mix with other ingredients (don't mash up the potatoes when you are mixing). Chill.
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Sauerkraut Salad
- 1 large can sauerkraut drained
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large chopped onion
- ¾ cup chopped celery
- ½ cup chopped or sliced green pepper
- ½ cup salad (or vegetalbe) oil
- ¼ cup dark vinegar
Mix and chill.
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Hot Crab Dip
- 3 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese
- 1/4 to 1/2 c. milk
- 2 cans crabmeat, drained
- 1/2 c. green onions
- 1 tsp. horseradish
- 2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
Cook all ingredients in crock-pot. Cover and cook
(about 30 minutes until cheese melts using high setting). Turn
to low and cook 3 to 4 hours. Add more milk if too thick.
Serve warm or cold on crackers.
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Stuffing
- 1 cup finely chopped celery
- ½ cup chopped onion
- ½ cup sliced mushrooms
- ½ cup melted butter
- 1 teas. poultry seasoning or sage
- ½ teas. salt
- pepper to taste
- ½ to 1 cup chicken broth
- 3 eggs
- 8 cups dry bread cubes
Mix first 8 ingredients. Beat eggs and add to first mixture. Pour over bread cubes and mix.
Stuffing can then be placed inside the bird for baking, or you can bake seperatly in the oven or a crock pot (30 minutes at 325 in oven, 2 hours on high in the crock pot.)
I usually stuff the bird and have stuffing left over. I put the giblets of the turkey in the bottom of the crock pot and cover that with the extra stuffing and
let that cook on low the whole time my turkey is baking (usually, about 4 hours).
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