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Showing posts with label Seasoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seasoning. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Spiced Pumpkin seeds

Save your seeds! For a nutritious and delicious snack, these seeds are everything you could want; salty, sweet and a little spicy

Ingredients:
2 cups of fresh pumpkin seeds
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon dry rub recipe here
pinch salt n pepper

Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and line a baking sheet with aluminum foil, spray with nonstick spray, and set aside.
1. Toss pumpkin seeds in soy sauce, dry rub, and salt n pepper

2. Spread out the seeds on the lined baking sheet bake in the oven for 10 minutes, stir the seeds and return to the oven for 5-10 more minutes, until desired doneness.

Cool and enjoy.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Enchilada Meatballs

These meatballs are seriously addicting! Full of enchilada flavor all in a meatball, both kids and adults love these and you can also make extra for freezing.**

 Makes 44 1 inch meatballs


Ingredients
2 lbs ground beef or turkey
1/2 of one medium sized onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup of cheddar cheese, divided
3 cups enchilada sauce, set 2 cups to the side
1/2 teaspoon 8 spice blend
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper

Corn bread ingredients:
1 package of Jiffy corn muffin mix
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 jalapeno, seeded and finely chopped
2 teaspoons taco seasoning

Corn bread directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. 

1. Mix together all corn bread ingredients until well combined (there will be some little lumps.)

2. Pour into a greased baking dish and bake for 15-20 minutes, until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Crumble and set aside.

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees
1. Line a sheet pan with aluminum foil.

2.Mix all meatball ingredients including crumbled corn bread, half of the cheese, and 1 cup of enchilada sauce, mash together using you're hands works best.

2. Shape meat into 44 1-inch sized meatballs and place 1/2 an inch apart on the foil lined sheet. Bake for 17-20 minutes, until the center of the meatballs is no longer pink.

3. Reheat the remaining 2 cups of enchilada sauce and top the meatballs with remaining cheese. 
Serve with toothpicks along side enchilada sauce.

** Freezing and reheating instructions**
Freeze meatballs on a baking sheet and after 1 hour place them into a freezer ziplock bag and they will keep in the freezer for up to 3 months. To reheat them just put them in your crockpot with more enchilada sauce and put on low for 2-3 hours or on high for about 1 hour.

Before baking.



Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rebecca's Dry Rub

I use this rub for all different things sprinkle it on anything that needs extra flavor. I especially love to use it on grilled meats and chicken, pork, beef, ribs, pork, fish, vegetables,  Better Than Restaurant Tortilla Chips, home-made potato chips etc.

Ingredients:
3 teaspoons garlic powder
2 teaspoons onion powder
2 teaspoons paprika
2 teaspoon cumin
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup sugar

Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and store in a airtight container.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Sweet n' Spicy Shrimp

 This shrimp is great for shrimp tacos or just plain with a few side dishes it can be a full meal.

 

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon sugar
pinch of salt
8 large shrimps deviened, shelled with tails left on
1 tablespoon oil

Directions:

1. Mix spice blend with sugar and salt, toss shrimp in seasoning.

2.Heat oil  to medium heat in a medium-sized skillet add shrimps to pan. The shrimps cook very quickly so keep checking the other side, they are done when they curl and are pink in color.


*The shrimp can be skewered and grilled, but make sure you soak the bamboo skewers for at least 30 minutes before putting on the grill.*

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Rebecca's 8 Spice Blend


Ingredients:

1 tablespoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
1 1/2 teaspoons cumin 
1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder
1/2 teaspoons black pepper

Directions:

Mix together and store in a airtight container