1L Activity

We had a 1L activity on Thursday night. It was fun to meet new people and get to know each other better. Included in the activity was a recipe exchange. Here are a few of the great recipes that were brought.

Pork Egg Rolls

DeAnn Mehr

This is a basic egg roll recipe and there are lots of things that you can add to it or change around - whole baby corn, finely sliced; bean sprouts; slivers of green beans or red bell peppers; 1 tsp toasted sesame oil. I sometimes make the above and do not add any pork so delicious.

Shred cabbage and carrots like you would grate cheese. The amount will depend on how many egg rolls that you want to make, but the proportions are probably 3:1, cabbage to carrots. For my family of 5, I probably use half a head of cabbage and maybe 3 carrots. Put this in a bowl.

Slice some green onions, white and green parts, and add to the cabbage/carrot mixture.

Add soem uncooked ground pork (6 oz or so). If working with uncooked meat freaks you out, you can cook it first, you may lose some flavor.

Add a significant amount of garlic salt and pepper. Mix all ingredients together, put on an egg roll wrapper and follow the rolling directions that are on the egg roll package. Fry in oil until they are golden brown. Enjoy!

Cinnamon-Crumb Biscuits

Tausha Bentz

Biscuit Recipe:

2 C Flour

4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp cream of tartar

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp vinegar

2/3 C milk

1/2 C butter

Mix vinegar with milk to sour while you sift dry ingredients together. Cut in butter. Add milk and stir just until moist. Form dough into ball. Roll out in a circle on a pizza pan to 3/4 inch thick. Cut biscuits into squares, but don't separate.

Cinnamon-Crumb:

4 T Sugar

4 T Brown Sugar

2 tsp Cinnamon

2 T Water

Mix cinnamon, sugar, and water together until crumbly and spread on biscuits. Bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Drizzle with icing.

Icing:

2 T Butter

1 tsp Vanilla

4 tsp milk

2/3 C Powdered Sugar

Beat butter until soft. Stir in milk, vanilla, and sugar until creamy.

Nutella Cookies

Lynda Stratford

1/4 C unsalted butter, softened

1/4 C Sugar

1/2 C Brown Sugar

1/2 C Nutella

1/4 tsp Vanilla

1 Egg

1 C Flour

1/4 C Unsweetened cocoa

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

Pinch of Salt

1/2 C Semisweet mini chocolate chips

1/2 C Toasted & Skinned hazelnuts, coarsely chopped (optional)

Preheat oven to 350. Cream together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in vanilla, then egg, and last nutella. Sift together flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Add flour mixture and mix just until incorporated. Add chocolate chips and hazelnuts. Drop tablespoons of dough 2 inches apart onto parchment lined baking sheets. Bake for about 8 minutes until the edges look set. Cool on baking sheet for 1 minutes then carefully remove to cooling racks.