Wierd Carving Today, but AWESOME FOOD

I had the weirdest craving today I wanted crab cakes and apple pie. After pulling out my grandmothers handy recipes coming from the store getting some ingredients I needed I came home and started cooking. ALL I CAN SAY IS OMGosh. This is a must try. I also threw in some remoulade sauce.

Crab cake

1 lb of Lump crab meat

1 c of Italian bread crumbs 

1 lg or 2sm beaten eggs

1/4 c of mayonnaise (Dukes)

1tsp Worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp of dry mustard 

salt, pepper, old bay to taste

Butter 

Oil

In mixing bowl combine all ingredients except crab meat. Add crab meat and gently fold in mixing thoroughly. Shape into cakes. Heat oil and butter to fry. Cook approximately 5 minutes on each side, or until golden brown. 

Remoulade Sauce

1/4 c of mayo

1 tablespoon creole mustard

1 table spoon of lemon

praprika 

old bay to taste

combine all ingredients together and refrigerate for 2 hours. 

Apple Pie 

6 Granny Smith Apples

1 9inch pie shell

1 tablespoon of lemon juice

3/4 c of white sugar

2 tablespoons of all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon 

1/8 teaspoon of nutmeg
1 teaspoon of vanilla nut extract

Topping to pie 

1/2 c of all purpose 

1/2 c of packed brown sugar

4 tablespoon of butter

Thinly slice and peal apples. Add lemon juice, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Make sure all apples are covered. in a separate bowl add ingredients for toppings mixing until it is crumbly. Spread the pie crust in the pan and spread apples over the crust. Put topping on the pie. cover loosely with aluminum foil and bake in preheated 375 degree oven or 25 minutes. remove aluminum foil and cook for another 30 minutes allow to cool and enjoy!

Tia's Creamy Alfredo Sauce and Garlic Bread

Tia's Creamy Alfredo Sauce

Since we moved and have more time on my hands, I have been trying to make everything myself instead of buying canned and jarred items. This is always something I wanted to do, but since I worked I did not have much time on my hands juggling work and a baby. Last night we had some company over and I served shrimp Alfredo AND IT WAS AWESOME! So I decided to share this with everyone. You want to time everything perfect so everything will be done at about the same time. It took me 45min with everything done at the same time.I wish my parsley plant was a little more mature I would have chopped that to top.

Ingredients for Alfredo sauce

1 stick of butter

2 cups of heavy cream

pepper to taste

pinch of salt

1 cup Parmesan cheese

1 generous teaspoon of garlic

2 table spoons of cream cheese

Start boiling fettuccine noodles and drain. Melt butter in a medium sauce pan. Add garlic, heavy cream, salt, and pepper to the pan. Bring that to a simmer, but do not let it boil over. Add Parmesan cheese (extra if you want it cheesier) and cream cheese and allow to simmer for 8-10 min until desired thickness. Mix fettuccine noodles and sauce together.

Ingredients for Shrimp

raw shrimp peeled, divined and tail off (unless you want to do the work)

1 teaspoon of garlic 

Butter to cover bottom of pan

1/2 lemon

cajun seasoning or old bay

Melt butter and add garlic. Let that cook for a minute then add shrimp. Add seasoning. cook until the shrimp turn pink. Once the shrimp is done pour lemon juice over the shrimp. Then add to pasta mix.

Ingredients for Garlic Bread

 Fresh Italian Bread Loaf

1 Table spoon of garlic

1/3 cup of butter 

Parmesan Cheese to liking

Cut Loaf into desired shape and size. Mix garlic, butter, and Parmesan cheese. Then spread it over the exposed white of the bread. Broil spread side up until golden.

Herbs

Herbs

For the last couple of weeks I have been wanting to grow some fresh herbs, so today I finally made the move!I thought about how "back in the day" how much time and effort they put in their food and I wanted to put that much love in mine. I decided to grow parsley, basil, and sage to begin with.  I also got some flower seeds to plant just for decoration. I came to the conclusion I wanted to eat fresher things instead of store bought all the time. This also saves money growing your own, as much food as my family eat and the amount of herbs I cook with this was a great choice.

Dolly's Golden Pound Cake

Dolly's Golden Pound Cake

What a beauty. I decided to start this blog with my grandmothers famous pound cake, the communities favorite. This cake brings back so many memories, people will actually gotten mad at you for eating the last piece. I donated this cake for the cake walk the army FRG group was having (my husband is army). Let me tell you it did not make it, the soldiers ate it before. A real hit!

Ingredients
 1 cup softened of butter
1/2 cup of Crisco
2 3/4 cup of sugar
4eggs
3 cups of flour
1/4tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup of milk
1tsp of vanilla
1 tsp of lemon juice
1tsp vanilla buttermilk extract

Instructions

Combine butter, crisco and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Cream well. Add eggs one at a time and beat well. In a seperate bowl combine all dry ingredients mixing well. Alternating add milk and butter until well mixed. Pour into a greased and floured cake pan (I used a bunt pan). This will be placed in a cold oven. Set the temperature at 325 and cook for one hour. Turn up the heat to 350 and cook for another 30 min. Allow to cool then enjoy!!