Jim's Buffalo wings lite
Ingredients:
12 to 16 wings ( to serve 2 )
Pam spray
1/4 cup hot sauce ( 25% African Peri Peri and 75% Georgia Peach Vidalia Onion Sauce )
1 Tbs. Worcestershire Sauce
2 Tsp. paprika
1/4 Tsp. cayenne pepper
2 Tsp.Barbecue rub ( Paul Prudhomme's or Emeril's )
1/2 cup blue cheese dressing, fat free
3 stalks celery, cut into sticks
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Put the chicken wings in an oven pan with a wire rack. Spray the rack with Pam and the wings also ( the side that's going on the rack ). Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes and than spray the top side of the wings with Pam and turn them over and bake for another 30 minutes. While the wings are baking make the sauce, adding the hot sauces, Worcestershire sauce, paprika and Cayenne pepper, blend together and set aside. After the wings have baked, switch the oven to broiler, sprinkle with 1 Tsp. of the barbecue rub and put under the broiler to brown and crisp up. When this is done spray the wings with Pam and turn over and sprinkle this side with the remaining 1 Tsp. of barbecue rub and put back under the broiler to brown and crisp this side too. Next plate the wings and pour the sauce equally over both servings of wings. Serve with the blue cheese dressing and celery sticks. Serves 2.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Side Dish - Country Corn Casserole
Country Corn Casserole
Ingredients:
8 oz. bacon
1 medium onion, chopped coarse
1 - (16 oz.) can shoe peg corn, drained
1 - (16 oz.) can creamed corn
salt
pepper
1/2 tsp. barbecue spice ( Emeril's or Paul Prudhomme's )
Fry the bacon and set aside to drain. Using the bacon grease saute the onions until soft about 5 to 10 minutes. Add the shoe peg corn and saute for a few minutes. Now add the creamed corn and stir in, add the salt and pepper and about 1/2 tsp. of the barbecue spice and let it cook for a couple of minutes to heat thru. Meanwhile crumble the bacon and add into the corn casserole.
Serve as soon as everything is warm. Serves 4.
Ingredients:
8 oz. bacon
1 medium onion, chopped coarse
1 - (16 oz.) can shoe peg corn, drained
1 - (16 oz.) can creamed corn
salt
pepper
1/2 tsp. barbecue spice ( Emeril's or Paul Prudhomme's )
Fry the bacon and set aside to drain. Using the bacon grease saute the onions until soft about 5 to 10 minutes. Add the shoe peg corn and saute for a few minutes. Now add the creamed corn and stir in, add the salt and pepper and about 1/2 tsp. of the barbecue spice and let it cook for a couple of minutes to heat thru. Meanwhile crumble the bacon and add into the corn casserole.
Serve as soon as everything is warm. Serves 4.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Tomatoes
Tomatoes
Last year in 2008 i decided to put a garden in for the first time in about 25 years, and decided to start from seed, which i had never done before. When i had a garden previously, i bought plants from a store and just had 2, maybe 3 plants. This time i planted 39 plants with 5 different species, which gave me a ton of tomatoes. I gave a lot to neighbors and i also blanched, peeled and seeded a bunch and put them in the freezer, which was great except for the fact that my wife wasn't a happy camper, there wasn't a lot of room for her to put in the meats etc. I had a total of 1,200 tomatoes in the freezer. The upside is my wife loves soup, specially tomato soup, which i made all winter long. She told me don't do that again this year, but of course being a typical male, did i listen. This year i refined my selection from last year and added some new species. This year i have 45 plants with 12 different species. I've managed to fine some interesting tomatoes and some unusual and some not so interesting. I laid out a plan so that i would have early season, mid season and late season, cherry to medium to large size, yellow to red and to green and even striped. My wife says, what's wrong with you, can't you put 4 plants in like most people. Anybody can do it that way. Here is the list of what i put in:
1- Piccolo - A small sweet red tomato 3/8", mid season producer ( about 78 days ). Good for
salads or as a garnish. I won't be planting this next year.
2- Ildi - An early high yielding grape tomato that is 1" yellow oval. It has a great taste with nice
sweetness. Early season producer ( about 54 days ). This will be a definite keeper for
next years garden.
3- Slava - A small 2" red tomato from the Czech Republic. Early season producer ( 65 days ).
It seems to be pretty much done in about 30 days. I will put a couple of these in
because they had a great taste and they were bigger than the cherry tomatoes. And
they were ready long before any of the large tomatoes.
4- Sweet pea currant- This is the smallest tomato that I've ever seen, it's the size of a pea.
It's really prolific, it produces thousands. I put them in salads and they
also make a good garnish. I will probably put one plant in next year.
5- Charlie's Green - A green beefsteak tomato that has some yellow hues in it when it's ripe.
If it turns completely yellow, eat it or give it away. They seem to be
somewhat mishapped, but they taste good. A mid season ( 76 days ). I'll
probably put one or two in next year.
6- Carmello - It produces a medium to large red tomato and bears a good amount of fruit, with
a great taste. A mid season ( 75 days ). I'll plant a couple of these next year.
7- Italian Tree - This plant was a big disappointment for me, but I'll give it another chance
next year, but I'll cut back from 5 plants to 2 plants. The plant is suppose
to get 15 feet tall and produce large amounts of tomatoes, put mine only got
7 feet tall and didn't produce hardly anything. A late season ( 81 days ).
8- Polish Giant - This is one of my favorites, it was new this year and will definitely be in my
garden next year. It produces a huge tomato with great taste & i mean
big, most of them 1lb. 4 oz and my biggest 1 lb. 7 oz. Late season ( 81 days ).
The number of plants will be increased next year.
9- Striped Cavern - This is an unusual tomato that i will not put in again. It's a 2 1/2 " tomato
shaped like a pepper, red with orange stripes ( kind of pretty ), put hollow.
It's meant to be stuffed with something, like shrimp salad. A mid
season ( 79 days ). I won't be planting this next year.
10 - Big Beef - An old fashioned beefsteak tomato, red and delicious. Grows a good crop.
A mid season ( 70 days ). This is one that i will plant again and increase the
number of plants.
11 - Mortgage Lifter - This yields large quantity's of big red beefsteak tomatoes. This is also
one of my favorites. It will be in again next year and i will increase
the number of plants.
12 - Honeybunch - A high yielding red cherry tomato about 1/2". It produces all season.
Great for a salad or snacking. This was in last year as well and will be
next year also. An early season ( 60 days ).
Most of my tomato seeds i get from www.tomatofest.com , and a few from www.burpee.com
I hope that my tomato trials are of some help.
Last year in 2008 i decided to put a garden in for the first time in about 25 years, and decided to start from seed, which i had never done before. When i had a garden previously, i bought plants from a store and just had 2, maybe 3 plants. This time i planted 39 plants with 5 different species, which gave me a ton of tomatoes. I gave a lot to neighbors and i also blanched, peeled and seeded a bunch and put them in the freezer, which was great except for the fact that my wife wasn't a happy camper, there wasn't a lot of room for her to put in the meats etc. I had a total of 1,200 tomatoes in the freezer. The upside is my wife loves soup, specially tomato soup, which i made all winter long. She told me don't do that again this year, but of course being a typical male, did i listen. This year i refined my selection from last year and added some new species. This year i have 45 plants with 12 different species. I've managed to fine some interesting tomatoes and some unusual and some not so interesting. I laid out a plan so that i would have early season, mid season and late season, cherry to medium to large size, yellow to red and to green and even striped. My wife says, what's wrong with you, can't you put 4 plants in like most people. Anybody can do it that way. Here is the list of what i put in:
1- Piccolo - A small sweet red tomato 3/8", mid season producer ( about 78 days ). Good for
salads or as a garnish. I won't be planting this next year.
2- Ildi - An early high yielding grape tomato that is 1" yellow oval. It has a great taste with nice
sweetness. Early season producer ( about 54 days ). This will be a definite keeper for
next years garden.
3- Slava - A small 2" red tomato from the Czech Republic. Early season producer ( 65 days ).
It seems to be pretty much done in about 30 days. I will put a couple of these in
because they had a great taste and they were bigger than the cherry tomatoes. And
they were ready long before any of the large tomatoes.
4- Sweet pea currant- This is the smallest tomato that I've ever seen, it's the size of a pea.
It's really prolific, it produces thousands. I put them in salads and they
also make a good garnish. I will probably put one plant in next year.
5- Charlie's Green - A green beefsteak tomato that has some yellow hues in it when it's ripe.
If it turns completely yellow, eat it or give it away. They seem to be
somewhat mishapped, but they taste good. A mid season ( 76 days ). I'll
probably put one or two in next year.
6- Carmello - It produces a medium to large red tomato and bears a good amount of fruit, with
a great taste. A mid season ( 75 days ). I'll plant a couple of these next year.
7- Italian Tree - This plant was a big disappointment for me, but I'll give it another chance
next year, but I'll cut back from 5 plants to 2 plants. The plant is suppose
to get 15 feet tall and produce large amounts of tomatoes, put mine only got
7 feet tall and didn't produce hardly anything. A late season ( 81 days ).
8- Polish Giant - This is one of my favorites, it was new this year and will definitely be in my
garden next year. It produces a huge tomato with great taste & i mean
big, most of them 1lb. 4 oz and my biggest 1 lb. 7 oz. Late season ( 81 days ).
The number of plants will be increased next year.
9- Striped Cavern - This is an unusual tomato that i will not put in again. It's a 2 1/2 " tomato
shaped like a pepper, red with orange stripes ( kind of pretty ), put hollow.
It's meant to be stuffed with something, like shrimp salad. A mid
season ( 79 days ). I won't be planting this next year.
10 - Big Beef - An old fashioned beefsteak tomato, red and delicious. Grows a good crop.
A mid season ( 70 days ). This is one that i will plant again and increase the
number of plants.
11 - Mortgage Lifter - This yields large quantity's of big red beefsteak tomatoes. This is also
one of my favorites. It will be in again next year and i will increase
the number of plants.
12 - Honeybunch - A high yielding red cherry tomato about 1/2". It produces all season.
Great for a salad or snacking. This was in last year as well and will be
next year also. An early season ( 60 days ).
Most of my tomato seeds i get from www.tomatofest.com , and a few from www.burpee.com
I hope that my tomato trials are of some help.
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