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Pinto Beans - My best friend Karen makes the best Pinto Beans - soaks them, cooks them with cilantro, jalapeno, seasonings etc... all day long. I replicate her recipe - but they never taste the same. Now I just buy Bushes canned pinto beans and add all that Karen uses - but dang it - I absolutely LOVE Karen's beans and now that I'm in AZ and she is in TX I won't have them again in years I'm sure. :-(
Black Bean soup from dried black beans....I can never get the black beans to be done to the right consistency. So I just use canned and they just don't taste the same.
I saw fried pie and immediately headed down memory lane. My mom used to make fried apple pies using canned biscuits. She took 2 cans each with 10 biscuits in them. She took two of the biscuits and stuck them together, sprinkled a bit of flour and rolled them into a circle about 8 inches around, filled it with fried apples (we would buy a couple of bushels every fall, slice them and freeze them..yum) she had simmered on the stove with a bit of brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter in them. Fold the biscuits over and pinch the edges (didn't have to be exact or even really pretty) and them fry them in an iron skillet with about 1/4 inch of hot oil in it. When one side got brown, turn it over and brown the other one. Sprinkled with sugar while still warm, and a big glass of ice cold milk. Good God, I haven't had those in years.....thanks for that rememory!!!
Eeks... this one is embarrassing to admit. Rice Krispie Bars.
I can make a Beef Bourguignon that would make Julia Childs cry. Want some Coq au Vin? I make one so good it'll bring Jesus back early. But Rice Krispie Bars? You'd enjoy a bowl of Rice Krispies with Marshmallow Fluff more!
Tried making cream puffs years ago and stirred till my hand almost fell off and they weren't very light and as delicate as I was used to having as a kid.
A third vote for pie crust. I make a mean cobbler, though. I also can get a good pie crust from a local bakery, already rolled out and formed in a foil pan. Therefore, I also excel at one-crust pies.
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Mayonnaise! Argh, I can never get it right with my immersion blender. I am going to try it with my food processor next.
I use the blender, and drizzle the ingredients through the hole in the lid while the blender is whirring.
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