Recipes: Western style
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(The index is in alphabetical order.)
- Orange Oven Braised
Pork
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- 4 pieces thick pork chops
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup cooking sherry (or marsala wine) [i.e. salted cooking wine]
- 2 cloves garlic
- white pepper, ground ginger, dried orange peel
- Preheat oven to 400
- Rub the pork chops with the spices (white
pepper, ground ginger, and dried orange peel)
- Brown the pork chops in frying pan with enough vegetable/canola
oil so it doesn't stick (roughly 4-6 minutes per side, can be longer
if desired)
- Place the pork chops in small casserole dish, bake covered for 15
minutes.
- Add orange juice, cooking wine, and garlic to casserole dish, bake
uncovered for 30 minutes.
- bake another 20 minutes, checking periodically to make sure the
liquid is not dried up (if the liquid is reducing too quickly, lower
the heat and cover the casserole dish).
- Serve pork chop on plate, drizzle with the reduced liquid from the
casserole dish.
- Grandma Matson's Meatloaf
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- 2 lbs chopped meat
- 2 slices bread, torn fine and soaked in
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 onion, chopped fine
- 1 stalk celery, chopped fine
- 2 strips bacon (optional)
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- Preheat oven to 375
- Mix bread, milk, and egg
- Add salt, and stir well
- Add meat, onions and celery
- Mix with hands
- (optional) Arrange bacon on top as garnish
- Bake for 1 hour
- Tourtiere (Meat
Pie)
- [makes 4 pies]
Crust: for each pie
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1/2 cup cold milk
Filling: for 4 pies total
- 2 tbsp margarine
- 1 lg onion, chopped fine
- 1 lb ground round
- 1 1/2 lb ground hamburger (fatty ground beef)
- 1/2 lb ground pork
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1 tbsp Bell's seasoning
- 3-4 potatoes, peeled, boiled, and roughly mashed
- 1 small box Bell's bread crumb stuffing mix
- water
- salt
- pepper
- Make pie crust -- mis flour and salt, add oil
and milk and blend. Roll and line 9" pan.
- Sauté onion in margarine. Add meat, spice, and seasoning.
- Moisten the stuffing mix in a separate bowl (not too wet -- its
function is to soak up moisture)
- Mash potatoes.
- Add potatoes and stuffing to the meat. Stir together until the
consistency is like uncooked meatloaf. (You may have extra stuffing.)
- Put meat mixture into the pie shells, top with more pie crust.
Brush with milk. Cut steam vents.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hr. Serve warm.