Italian Curry Chicken (Betsy Codier)

4-8 chicken breasts or second joints (boil for 15 to remove skin)
1 T cooking oil
1 medium onion
1 clove garlic
1/2 c chopped pepper
1-2 tsp curry
1/2 tsp thyme
2 c canned tomatos

Skin and cut up chicken.  Saute vegets.  Add tomats and spices.  Cook at 350 for 30 minutes or simmer, covered, for 20.  Add chicken.  Cook.  Serve on rice, pasta, toast, or shredded lettuce.

Lemony Fish Fillets (Betsy Codier)

1 1/4 c crushed cornflakes (or breadcrumbs)
some lemon pepper (if no lemon pepper, crushing some coriander and adding that and some pepper until it looked right worked quite well.)
1/4 – 1/2 (or some) dill weed
1/8 tsp (or some) garlic powder
1/4 c buttermilk (milk works fine, too)
1 egg
1 lb fish fillets, 1/2 inch thick, cut into pieces (or don’t cut it up, worked fine that way, too)  Mix cornflakes, lemon pepper, dill weed, garlic powder  Blend buttermilk and egg.  Dip fish in buttermilk mixture first, then in the dry mixture.  Heat oil, add fish, ry 5-8 minutes.  Drain and serve.

Shepherd’s Pie (Betsy Codier)

1 lb burger (or other ground meat to your preference)
1 c peas or mixed vegets, cooked
2 c mashed potato (Actually, I’d suggest just making a lot and using however much you need.  Can always make mashed potato pancakes or something with any excess.)
1 egg
1/4 c parsley
1 diced onion
1 diced clove of garlic (or more.  or lots more.)
1 1/2 tsp Old Bay seasoning (I actually don’t follow this part anymore.  Tailor it now to what I think will taste right or what I think the people I’m feeding need.)
Hunter’s Gravy (or any decent brown gravy.  Can make pan gravy if you have the time.)

Saute onion and garlic and burger.  Mix with vegets, seasoning, sauce.  Add butter (as needed), salt (to taste), parsley, and egg to potatos.  Grease a casserole, fill with a third with potato mix, cover with burger, leaving enough space for a potato mix “lid.”  Brush with melted butter.  Bake at 400 for 30-40 minutes, covered for the first bit, uncover for last 10 minutes or so to let the top brown.  (Made a really random tasty sauce for it once that consisted of something along these lines, as weird as it may seem:  W-sauce, dill, curry, salt, pepper, basil, thyme, and a bay leaf.)

Norwegian Meatballs (Betsy Codier)

1 ln ground beef
1/4 lb ground pork
1/2 c bread crumbs
1/4 c milk
1 egg
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp allspice
6 T ch onion, saute lightly

Mix, make 1″ balls.  brown in 2 T oil.  remove from skillet, add 3 T floiur.  Brown well.  Add salt, 1/2 tsp sugar, dash nutmeg.  Make gravy w/ milk.  Add meatballs.  Cook slowly over low heat.  Serve over noodles or rice.

Chocolate Mountains (Betsy Codier)

Mix: 1 c butter, 2 c brown sugar (packed)
Add after combining:  2 beaten eggs. 2 1/2 tsp vanilla

Alternate this mixture:  3 1/2 c flour, 1 tsp salt, 2 tsp baking powder

with this one: 1 c milk, 4 oz chocolate, 2 T butter

After all that is mixed together stir in 2-ish cups of chopped nuts, chocolate chips, mint chips, etc…  I haven’t tried using any sort of fruit with this recipe.  Drop by tsp onto cookie sheets.  Bake 10-15 minutes at 350.

These are also wonderful with a tablespoon or two of minced fresh mint mixed in.

Welsh Rarebit (Betsy Codier)

In a double boiler:  Melt 1 T butter.
Add 1 c(ish) beer or ale (best with dark beer).
Warm.

Mix 1 lb (ish) shredded sharp cheddar (sharper the better) w/ 2 tsp cornstarch.

Add to beer.  stir until melted.  Add one beaten egg or egg yolk slowly.  Season to taste with good mustard and worcestershire sauce.  stir until hot.  serve on toast or with dipping chunks of bread.  Also good with yorkshire pud and sausage.

Italian Skillet Chicken (Betsy Codier)

3T olive oil
1 lb cutup chicken or turkey
1 med pepper, cut into strips
4 quartered tomatos
2T lemon juice
1 chopped clove garlic
1/2 lb or 1 can green beans
1/4 c chopped onions or scallions
1 can anchovies with capers

Saute onion and garlic.  Add beans and peppers.  cook lightly.  Add tomatos, anchovies, then chicken.  Add lemon juice.  Heat thoroughly.  Serve on pasta.