Grandma Berrett's Homeade Potatoes Augraten

6 cups boiled, cooked and diced potatoes (Usually boil them before and let them sit because it takes a while for them to cool before you peel them to make the potatoes)
( I usually double the recipe for two 9 by 13 containers of stuff )

Make a white sauce in heavy pan with 6 TBS of flour and 6 TBS melted butter

Bubble flour into butter, slowly add 3 cups of milk. Cook until thickens, stiring constantly one minute before removing from the heat.

Add 1 TBS small, diced onion dehydrated. 2 tsp of salt and 2 TBS chopped parsley. Grate 2 cups of cheese and add to white sauce. Pour sauce over potatoes. and stir until well mixed. Grate 1/2 cup of cheese and put on top

Cook 350 for 30 minutes. Enjoy.

Grandma Berrett's Homeade Macaroni

Cook 1 package 12 to 15 oz macaroni noodles...drain and set aside, or cook while mixing the following.
2 cups milk
2 tbsp. butter
1 tsp. salt and 1/2 tsp pepper

Heat in heavy saucepan.

Take 1 cup milk in a separate bowl and put 1/3 cup of corn starch in it. Mix it with a spoon.

Add this to your other mixture, it will start to thicken, cook until it starts to thicken and then add 3 cups...or more of grated cheese.

Add 1 tsp. worchester sauce(optional)
Put crackers on top (optional)

Add it to your cooked noodles....mix it and bake it at 350 for 30-35 minutes.

It is tasty tasty!

Gingerbread Cookies

I was shocked when I realized that I didn't have this recipe on this blog. I love making gingerbread and can't wait to have it tomorrow during my daughters Toddler Time. This is an awesome recipe and makes a ton of great and festive gingerbread.

Enjoy!


1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Cream together then add:

1 cup molasses
2 tbsp. vinegar (White)


Next, sift dry ingredients together (I just stir them together because I don't own a sifter, but the recipe said to do it)

5 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2-3 teaspoons ground ginger
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves

Mix wet and dry ingredients together. Let it chill in freezer for 1 hour or in the fridge for 2-3 hours.

Bake 375 for 5-7 minutes.

An Amazing Loaf of Bread

I have made a lot of things in my day...but I have never baked a loaf of bread in the oven. I have made it in the breadmaker, but today my friend inspired me to begin baking bread. I am glad she did. This bread was super easy to make and it turned out awesome. It is not the healthiest recipe I found, but it was easy and turned out well. I did substitute one of the cups of flour for wheat flour so that helped.

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 (.25 ounce) package bread machine yeast
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 3 cups bread flour
• 1 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Place the water, sugar and yeast in the pan of the bread machine. Let the yeast dissolve and foam for 10 minutes. Add the oil, flour and salt to the yeast. Select the dough option on your breadmaker.
   

This usually takes 90 minutes or so.

After it is ready....put the bread in a pan and then let it sit to rise again for another 30 minutes.

After it's second time rising.....it is ready to bake.

Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes. If it starts to get to brown....add aluminum foil to the top and it will help it. Mine cooked for 35 minutes and was perfecto!!!

Delicious Dressing

2 apples, diced, peeled, and cored. Usually use sweet apple, like a granny smith or braeburn.
½ pound of sausage....like the kind you buy in a circle tube with sage.
½ cup of onions chopped up.
1 tsp. Of garlic minced.
¼ cup of pinenuts.
½ cup of parsley chopped.
1 bag of Pepperidge farm stuffing mix....herb seasoned stuffing by pepperidge farm, blue bag, kind of in crumbs.
2 tsp. Of fresh sage chopped, or buy sausage with sage. (Can omit this if you get the sage sausage)
2 cups of chicken broth.
1 egg beaten.

Brown sausage and drain the fat off of it, add onion and garlic, and cook until it is kind of soft, not very long. Add apples, and keep stirring. Then add bread crumbs, salt and pepper a few shakes, add pinenuts, parsley, and the egg. Then add the chicken broth, and mix it up in a big sauce pan.

It should be kind of squishy, or add some more chicken broth. Sometimes you need to add more chicken broth to make sure that all the breadcrumbs are moist. It should be a little bit stiffer than cake batter.

Have the heat turned off while mixing everything up. Once it is all mixed, transfer it.

Bake for 45 minutes to an hour at 350. Bake in 9 x 13 glass baking dish or a 9 x 13 aluminum dish.

Roasted Sweet Potatoes

3 tbsp. Butter

3 tbsp. Honey

¼ cup orange juice(Just regular orange juice)

4 medium sweet potatoes.....2 lbs. Total.

On the potatoes, peel them, half them crosswise and quarter length wise. Chunk them so that they are all about the same size.

Heat oven to 400 degrees.

Use butter in the pan, use a big baking dishing, bigger than a 9 x 13 pans.

Or do in 2 batches.

Lightly butter the dish, 1 tbsp. Of butter throughout the dish.

In a small saucepan, melt 3 tbsp. Of butter, whisk in honey and orange juice. Add sweet potatoes into the buttered baking dish, then pour on the honey and orange juice mixture, toss it around so they are coated.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper, roast until the potatoes are brown and tender. 45 minutes.

Have them made and then throw them in the crock pot to keep them warm.

Stir them about every 15 minutes until they are tender and they seem done.

Fabulous Fettuccine Alfredo Sauce

1 tsp. garlic minced
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup parmesan cheese.....Shredded
1 tsp. parsley

In 1 tsp. olive oil saute garlic about 1 minute. Add cream, bring to a rolling boil, then add the parmesan cheese, bring back to a rolling boil. Turn down head to medium- let it continue to bubble until it thickens. This can take up to 20 minutes. Mix into your pasta and add parsley to add color.

This alfredo sauce is awesome, just don' t eat to much of it if you are on a diet.

Feel free to add shrimp or chicken to your pasta.