Here is the recipe. I don't have all the pictures, but if you want a step by step guide and to see the pictures, feel free to click on the link above. The general consensus on these was that they would be great with a dip like ranch or French onion or even a cheese dip would be good.
Avocado Fries
Avocado Fries are baked, crunchy and delicious,
and perfect as a side dish or snack.
Author: Stacey
Recipe type: side dish or snack
Ingredients
- ¼ cup flour
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1¼ cups Italian Style bread crumbs
- 2 firm-ripe medium avocados, pitted, peeled, and sliced into ½-in. wedges
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450
- Put flour in one bowl, eggs in another bowl, and panko in another bowl
- Coat avocado slices in the flour, then eggs, then panko
- Spread on a cooling rack that has been sprayed with non-stick spray
- Place cooling rack on a cookie sheet
- Spray the top of the wedges with olive oil or butter flavored cooking spray and sprinkle with salt
- Bake for about 20 minutes, or until they are golden brown
The second treat we had to sample was crispy turnip fries. Those were also a hit. I'm putting the recipe here, it came from allrecipes.com originally. Disclaimer here, while they are very tasty. I wouldn't describe them as crispy. They don't get crunchy like you think of fries being, but they are very good to eat. Much better when served hot.
Crispy
Turnip Fries
Ingredients
Original
recipe makes 8 servings
- 3 pounds turnips
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
Directions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a piece of aluminum foil and lightly grease.
- Peel the turnips, and cut into French fry-sized sticks, about 1/3 by 4 inches. Place into a large bowl, and toss with the vegetable oil to coat. Place the Parmesan cheese, garlic salt, paprika, onion powder in a resealable plastic bag, and shake to mix. Place the oiled turnips into the bag, and shake until evenly coated with the spices. Spread out onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven until the outside is crispy, and the inside is tender, about 20 minutes. Serve immediately.
The last recipe was roasted Kobacha squash. The recipe calls for salt and pepper on it, but I love my squash with a little brown sugar on it, so I made it both ways. Both were a hit as well. This is another recipe that I found on another blog. Here is the link to their blog.
She also has some beautiful pictures of the steps. Feel free to go to her blog for the step by step pictures.
Roasted
Kabocha squash
1
medium kabocha squash
2
tablespoons olive oil
salt
Freshly
ground black pepper
Directions:
I
preheated the oven to 400 F, rinsed the squash under running water, and
dried it.
Like
all winter squash, kabocha takes a sharp knife and a bit of brute force to cut
up. I’ve found that the best way to attack it is to cut off the top and the
bottom. I scooped out the seeds and cut the squash into thin wedges. Next, I
tossed the squash with the olive oil and seasoned the slices with salt and
pepper. I put the squash in a single layer on a foil-lined baking tray and
popped it in the oven.
I
roasted the squash for 30 minutes, flipping them over at the midpoint. The
wedges are ready to eat when they’re slightly crunchy on the outside and fluffy
and soft on the inside.
I also used brown
sugar on some of them instead of the salt and pepper. I just sprinkled the brown sugar over the squash. I found it baked a little bit better when I put it on a wire cooling rack on top of the cookie sheet.
Now I know you are wondering what was the recipe that we made that cost less than a dollar a serving. The answer would be a chicken pot pie. All made from scratch. This recipe incorporated two other recipes to complete. I started by boiling up the chicken with a few vegetables tossed in.
The first recipe was a pie crust that doesn't require rolling out. This pie crust can be used for any type of pie, and you can just put it together and press it into a pan. This pie crust is pretty simple, but when measuring the flour and oil and water, if the flour is packed down in the measuring cup, you might need another tablespoon or so of water or oil. We made a double recipe because this recipe is for a single crust pie and we wanted a crust for the top of our pot pie.
Easy Pie Crust
Ingredients:
1 3/4 c. flour
1/2 t salt
1/2 c vegetable oil
2 T water
Directions
In a medium bowl,
combine flour and salt. Stir in oil and water. Mix until combined. Then form it
into a ball. Spray your pie pan with
nonstick cooking spray. Put the ball of dough in the middle of your pie dish. And start pushing down on your ball of dough
and begin spreading it towards the sides.
Do as best as you can to evenly pull it up the sides too so you can
crimp it at the top edge. You can even
get in there with your knuckles if you need to.
Make sure you also press down into the bottom rim of the pan to spread
out the dough so it's not too thick. And
then you can start to go around and crimp the top edges of the crust. Remember this does not have to be perfect.
It's a bottom only pie crust. It's
rustic and it's homemade. It should look that way. Once it's ready, fill with your favorite
filing and bake according to your pies's directions. If you are using this crust in a recipe that
calls for a pre-baked pie crust. Before baking, just make sure you use a fork
and prick lots of little holes all over the crust. This will keep the crust from puffing up too
much while baking.
Just put this in your pan. We used 8 inch round pans for our pies.
The next recipe is for the cream soup that is the sauce in our pot pies. I love this recipe and I found it here. I make this recipe up in bulk and freeze it to use in casseroles all the time. I keep it on hand so that I have it whenever I need it. For the class, I used leg quarters and put a sliced onion, a couple of carrots and a couple of stalks of celery in my stock pot and filled it up with water and cooked them up. That is the broth I used to make the cream soup for the sauce. Usually, when I make broth, I strain out those veggies, but since we were using those same veggies in our pot pies, I left them in the pot when I made up the soup. However, I had a fair amount of the soup left over and decided to run it through the blender to blend up those veggies so as to not have chunks of veggies in my other casseroles when I use the remainder of the soup. It turned out beautiful.
- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt (or less; taste to test)
- 1/4 teaspoon parsley
- dash of paprika
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 3/4 cup flour
- In medium-sized saucepan, boil chicken broth, 1/2 cup of the milk, and the seasonings for a minute or two (longer if using fresh onions or garlic).
- In a bowl, whisk together the remaining 1 cup of milk and flour. Add to boiling mixture and continue whisking briskly until mixture boils and thickens.
*This yields about two cans of condensed Cream
of Chicken soup.
Chicken Pot Pie
4 Servings
2 cooked chicken leg quarters remove meat and cut into bite sized pieces
3-4 potatoes peeled and cubed
2-3 carrots peeled and cubed
1 small onion diced
1 stick of celery chopped fine
1 small can peas or 1/2 cup frozen peas
2 recipes pie crust
1/2 recipe of cream soup
I began by cooking the chicken leg quarters as stated above the cream soup. I used that broth to make the cream soup. Once chicken is cooked, cool and remove from the bone. Place veggies into a pot and cover with water add salt to taste and cook until tender. Put one recipe of pie crust into pan. Drain cooked veggies and mix in chicken meat. Mix in 1/2 recipe of cream soup and pour into pie crust. Use remaining pie crust and either sprinkle on top or pat out small rounds of the pie crust between your hands and place on top. Bake at 350 45-60 minutes until crust is golden brown. (It would be best to place pan on a cookie sheet to avoid drips in your oven.) I frequently make these up and freeze. If cooking from frozen, add about 30 minutes to the cook time. I put these in a 8 inch square baking pan and place in a ziplock freezer bag. Be sure you put the directions on the bag.
The Plan for Next Month
Next month I'm going to take desserts in for taste testing. I'm going to take in an avocado chocolate pudding, a garbanzo bean flourless chocolate cake and maybe the garbanzo bean chocolate chip cookie dough or some roasted garbanzo beans in a variety of flavors. Next month we are making homemade cleaners and talking about menu planning and shopping lists.
