Tomato Soup

Ingredients

1/3 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

8 oz Carrots peeled and chopped (be sure to weigh!)

8 oz Yellow Onion chopped (be sure to weigh!)

1 Tablespoon Dried Basil

3 28 oz cans San Marzano Tomatoes in Purée Italian style

1 cup Chicken Stock/Broth

1-1.5 cup(s) Heavy Whipping Cream or Half & Half

2 teaspoons Kosher Salt or 1 tsp Sea Salt

1 teaspoon Freshly Ground Black Pepper

2 Tablespoons Fresh Basil leaves cut into fine ribbons

Instructions

Chop up the carrots and onions

Select Sauté or Browning on your Pressure Cooker cooking pot and allow to full heat.

Add oil and then add carrots, onions and dried basil. Sauté for 4 minutes, or until vegetables start to caramelize and the onions become a bit translucent.

Add canned tomatoes and chicken broth.

Lock on Lid and close Pressure Valve.  Cook at High Pressure for 5 minutes.

When Beep is heard, allow a full Natural Pressure Release.

Turn Pressure Cooker off and Select Sauté or Browning.  Using an immersion blender and blend until soup is smooth.  Add cream and allow to heat through.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

Grandma Stone/Secretan's Raisin Cookies

I feel a bit cheated finding out about the recipe of these cookies.
Every year for Christmas Dad would ask Grandma Stone for a bucket of these cookies, and every year she filled a huge bucket of these for him. They would sit in our deep freeze tempting me for weeks. I would sneak them and eat them in the bathroom, but because I didn’t like raisins I would pull out the raisins and throw them in the garbage, I was busted every time! Well, I thought they were some secret family recipe, turns out they are, just not our family! They were my best friend, Karmyn’s Grandma’s recipe!! They are so good, and I now like the raisins in them!!! These are super yummy! I always have to plan on giving them away because I will literally eat them all!

Stuff You Will Need
2 Cups Raisins
1 Cup Water
1 Cup Butter
2 Cups Sugar
3 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1 Cup Chopped Nuts
4 Cups Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
1 ½ tsp Cinnamon
1 ¼ tsp Nutmeg
1 ¼ tsp Allspice

Method
Combine raisins and water, boil for 5 minutes. Cool. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, and beat well. Add vanilla, cooked raisin mixture and nuts. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Add raisin mixture and blend. Drop by teaspoonsful onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-14 minutes.

Alisha Squire's Italian Soda

had this at a favorite's party one night. I miss Alisha. This stuff is SO good though! Who would have thought?

2 oz (4 TBsp) Flavoring Syrup

Ice

1 C Club Soda

1-2 oz (2-4 TBsp) Heavy Whipping Cream

Measure out 2 oz of favorite flavoring syrup, then place in as much ice as you will want in your cup, then add your club soda, and fill to the brim with cream…. You can add whip cream to the top, but for me it’s a bit of an overkill…. SO FREAKING GOOD!!! 

Gingerbread Men Cookies

Ingredients

3 cups flour

2 teaspoons Ginger

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup butter, softened

3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 cup molasses

1 egg

1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract

Directions

Mix flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and salt in large bowl. Set aside. Beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add molasses, egg and vanilla;mix well. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until well mixed. Press dough into a thick flat disk. Wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Roll out dough to 1/4-inch thickness on lightly floured work surface. Cut into gingerbread men shapes with 5-inch cookie cutter. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges of cookies are set and just begin to brown. Cool on baking sheets 1 to 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks; cool completely. Decorate cooled cookies as desired. Store cookies in airtight container up to5 days.

Kate Hulet's Trio Seasoning

Ingredients
2 TBsp Italian Seasoning
2 TBsp Season Salt
2 TBsp Garlic Powder

Mix them up well, and use on pizza crust, or even on the pizza itself! Yum!

Momma Roe’s Sugar Cookies

I basically grew up on these. If mom had a day off, we knew we were getting her sugar cookies. I can’t remember if it was this recipe or her brownies, but Kamdon once made the batter and then proceeded to eat the dough and not cook any of it! Ha ha!

4 ½ C Flour

1 tsp Salt

3 Eggs

2 tsp Baking Soda

1 ½ C Sugar

1 tsp Almond Extract

½ lbs Butter softened

Blend sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs. Then add dry ingredients. Bake at 350 until edges are just starting to turn brown. 

Karla's Coconut Crack

This stuff is SO good!!

½ Box Corn Chex Cereal 12oz

½ Box Golden Grahams 12oz

2 C Coconut Flakes

1 Small PKG Sliced Almonds

1 C Light Karo Syrup

1 C Sugar

½ C Butter

Mix first 4 ingredients, and set aside. Boil remaining ingredients for 2 minutes and pour over dry ingredients, mix well… try not to eat it all in one sitting…

 I LOVE coconut!