PW Penne A La Betsy

Oh my Goodness! This is amazing...hear me...AH-MA-ZING! You must make this...and here is how.

Ingredients:

1 lb shrimp (I used half raw)

3/4 lb Penne Pasta

Butter

Olive Oil

1 small onion

2 clove garlic

1/2 Cup White Wine (I used white cooking wine)

1 8 oz. can Tomato Sauce

1 Cup Heavy Cream

Fresh Parsley and Basil (I did not use fresh)

Salt and Pepper to Taste

Cook pasta until tender-firm

Thaw out shrimp by running under cool water a few minutes. Then heat 1 T butter and 1 T Olive Oil in skillet. Add shrimp and cook a couple minutes until opaque. Do not overcook. Set aside and let cool for a few minutes. (Eat a couple too!)

Finely dice one small onion and mince two cloves of garlic. In a large skillet heat 2 T butter and 2 T of Olive Oil. Add garlic and onion and saute, stirring occasionally. Now put the cooked shrimp on cutting board and cut into bite size pieces. After saute put in white wine and let evaporate a couple minutes, stirring occasionally.

Now add tomato sauce, stir until well combined. Then add 1 Cup heavy cream, stir. Turn heat down to low, and while low if you are using fresh herbs, use that time to cut about a T of each. Add shrimp in sauce. Add Salt and Pepper to taste. Then add the pasta!

Then devoure it...you will, it is soooo good!!!

You say Potato...

This recipe is adapted from Katie from Good Things Catered. Her website is so yummy so check it out. She used golden potatoes, but I just used red potatoes. We had our good friends Lindsey and Jeremy over and they seemed to like them a lot.

Accordion New Potatoes with Garlic

Ingredients:

8 medium sized red skinned new potatoes

3-4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced

1 tsp olive oil

garlic salt and pepper

Directions:

-Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

-Wash new potatoes and dry well.

-On stable cutting board, place new potatoes, wide side up, and slice a full inch down into the top in 1/4 inch increments (about 1/2 the width as slices in the picture above).

-Repeat with each potato and them place in a large bowl.

-Toss potatoes with the olive oil and a liberally sprinkling of garlic salt and pepper.

-Place slices of garlic clove in between every other slice in the potatoes you cut.

-Place the potatoes into a baking dish and sprinkle evenly with paprika.

-Place baking dish into oven and roast until potatoes are cooked through, about 35-45 minutes, depending on the size of your potatoes.

Brenda's Famous Banana Pudding

This is my Mother in Laws famous Banana Pudding that everyone asks for her to make. It's the most simple thing to make, and it's so delicious.

Ingredients:

1 Cup Sugar + 3 T Sugar

4 Tbls. of Self Rising Flour

3 Cups of Milk (make sure it is 2% or higher)

3 Eggs

1 teaspoon Vanilla

3 large bananas

vanilla wafers

1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar

In saucepan cook sugar (1 Cup), flour and milk. Mix well.

While that is thickening up. Separate 3 eggs. Spoon a little bit of mixture from saucepan into the egg yolks and then pour into sauce pan. Let mixture thicken to a "pudding" consistency and take off the stove. Then add vanilla

In 9x13 pour Nilla Wafers on the bottom of dish, then slice bananas over the wafers, repeat. Then pour pudding over the bananas and wafers.

In a stand mixer beat egg whites on high and gradually add the 3 T of sugar. Then and 1/4 teas. of Cream of Tartar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the meringue has golden places.

ENJOY!!

Wow...look at the time!

I haven't posted in a month and a half! I am ashamed of myself! I just wanted to let everyone know I'm still here. I am so disappointed in myself for not posting, I have things to post too. Things have been very busy in the Ashworth household and I haven't been cooking very much. But, never fear. I just got the pots and pans from Paula Deen (in green) for my birthday from my hubby. So I will be putting those to good use and of course I will start posting. Hang in there, I will post soon!

Stuffed Shells

Ok, these were really good! I can't believe how long it's been since I've cooked. I've been cooking some, but I have been cooking the staples. So here is a new recipe I tried, I got it from a post on What's Cooking on the nest from nestie busybodyk.

Ingredients

Jumbo Shells
1 lb of Ground Beef or turkey
1-1/2 Cup Spaghetti Sauce
1/2 Cup Moz. Cheese (then some to top)
1/4 Cup Ricotta Cheese

Boil 3/4 box of shells (around 25 feeds 4-5 people) and drain
Brown the ground beef, and the spaghetti sauce, ricotta cheese and mozzarella cheese and stir all together
Line a large cookie sheet with foil and spray with butter or olive oil
Put empty dry shells in rows on cookies sheet
Spoon Meat Sauce into shells and top with mozzarella cheese.
Bake 350 for 25-20 minutes

Two Awards!

Thanks to Stephanie of Macaroni and Cheesecake I received two awards...and here they are!

The Lemonade Blog for having a refreshing Blog.

And the Fabulous Blog...this is one of my favorite words too!

Here are the rules…- Add the logo in your blog.
- Add a link to the person who gave you the award.
- Nominate other (refreshing…like lemonade and fabulous) blogs of your choice.
- Don’t forget to add links to those blogs in yours.
- Also leave a message for your nominees in their blogs, informing them about the award.

So here are those blogs I am passing along these awards to.

Jill of Jills Party of Six

Katie of KT in the Kitchen

Joelen of Joelens Culinary Adventures

Kayla of Central Cooking

Katie of Good Things Catered

Julie of Jewels in the Kitchen

Homemade Corn Dogs

The story behind these boogers...well not real boogers, you catch my drift. But anyway, the story behind these is...I am doing a Winter Book Challenge (WBC) and one of the challenges to get 25 points is to read a book and make a meal inspired by the book. Well, I read Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, which book I highly recommend, it's a circus themed book back in the great depression, very interesting read. So I decided that I would make corn dogs because you can get those are the circus, and those would be "circus food". Which landed me 25 points for my Book Challenge.

Source: My Grandma - Margaret McConnell

This is an old cafeteria school recipe that my grandma used to make back in the day. If you scroll down and find the noodles...ahh, those are awesome and also inspired by my grandma.

Ingredients:
1 c. flour
2 T. sugar
1-1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1/4 tsp. paprika
2/3 c. corn meal
2 T. oil
1 egg
3/4 c/ milk
1-1/2 tsp. baking powder
hot dogs
wood sticks ( I omitted these and made little corn dogs, pictured right)

Mix all ingredients together. put hot dogs on sticks and dip into the batter. Drop in hot oil and cook until brown. It's that easy!!

This recipe is in a cookbook from my Mom's hometown called Gardner in Kansas. This is their 150th year cookbook. 1857-2007 I thought I would share the little note that was at the bottom.

Note: Marg and Russell came to Gardner in 1952. Over the years, Russell was Mayor of Gardner, City Clerk and was named Citizen of the Year.

My Grandparents were some pretty awesome folks! My Grandmother still resides in Gardner, but my Grandfather passed away right before I was born. Kind of neat getting recipes passed down through generations. This is my first time making this, but won't be my last.