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MAVEN'S RECIPES OF THE DAY
(8:00 to 10:00 P.M. [Eeastern Time]
and we each start our own tapes/DVDs at 8:30!). . . . They're good for any time or special times like . . . Fourth of
July Holidays . . . Birthdays . . . Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas . . . you get the idea now get the recipes!
You can also
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| It's Snack Time! |
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| Of course . . . it's always time for food when you have a loved one, a loved movie and FOOD! |
| A Fourth of July Cake |
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| Fourth of July CupCakes |
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July 2, 2009
A Fourth of July Cake
This is from Nancy Drew
Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking(C) by Carolyn Keene; Grosset & Dunlap; 1973, 2005; page 113.
Maven's family cooks would probably "play"
with the recipe to their own tastes like using strawberies instead so . . . if you have your own recipe, go for it!
Or you could take the cake recipe
and turn it into cupcakes instead . . . !
Flag Cake Symbol
1 package white cake mix
1 box confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons warm cream or milk
1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
Pinch of salt
Cocoa
Blueberries
Rasberries
Bake the cake, following the
instructions on the package, in a pan 9 x 13 x 2. Let cool. Make a white icing by combining the confectioners'
sugar with the warm cream or milk, the vanilla flavoring, and the salt. Beat well. Then frost the cake.
Decorate the top with a "flag picture." Use cocoa for the pole, blueberries for the stars, adn raspberries for the red
stripes.
*Come Clean!
If you use fresh berries, wash tem by letting them soak in cold water
for 5-10 minutes. Then put them in a strainer and gently run more cold water over them.
June 20, 2009
Let's get ready for a great
Fourth of July!
Yes, these are reruns but
. . . so is the Fourth and comfort food is comfort food, not to mention patriotic!
And if there are any resemblences
to Halloween treats . . . that's how those recipes got their start on this page. . . .
You can fix them that way
and have fun getting the kids to help or just play down the spooky titles!
Fancy Deviled Eggs
Frankenfurter Feet
Franken Fingers
Monsters Gone Wild
Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Treats
Home-Made Nachos
Slitherers
June 29, 2009
In honor of Charlie Chan in Honolulu at
Rush Glick's chat room tonight, Maven is rerunning a recipe of a dish she heard of in a Crime Doctor Movie:
"Crab Louis"
It's great as either an appitizer OR as a main
course so enjoy!
CRAB LOUIS
[NOTE:
This Crab Louis came The Crime Doctor’s
Man Hunt (1946) with Warner Baxter as Dr. Robert Ordway and William Frawley as Police Inspector Harry B. Manning.]
Serves 4:
[For Louis Sauce:]
1 tablespoon heavy cream
2 tablespoons scallions minced
2 tablespoons chili sauce
1 tablespoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon Worchester Sauce
Salt and pepper
Combine all ingredients except salt and pepper and blend well.
Line bowl with lettuce leaves.
Place shredded lettuce on bottom of bowl.
Pile crabmeat on shredded lettuce.
Top with Louis Sauce.
Surround with hard-cooked egg slices.
Sprinkle with chives or green onion.
June 22, 2009
Streusel Pound Cake
This recipe was made
up to use in a crock pot, baking for 3 to 4 hours* but Maven printed out the recipe for the Streusel topping:
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon flour
1/4 cup finely chopped nuts
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Combine them and sprinkle over whatever you want to, like the package
of pound cake mix (16 ounce size) that the original recipe called for and baked according to the box directions.
Heck, you could make cupcakes from the cake mix and sprinkle the
topping for mini-streusels!
Original Streusel Pound Cake Recipe
May 25, 2009
It's a fun movie to watch, more so if
you're a horselover . . . and it's great for Memorial Day with the fire crackers at the end!!
So check out the recipes below and the
ones on our RoW - Cookbook Form - to get ready to celebrate in honor of Memorial Day!
May 16, 2009
Family Matters for Families with Girls!
These are two recipes based on the Nancy
Drew Girls' Series by Carolyn Keene (Harriet Adams). . . . Maven hopes you enjoy them with your parents!
George's Peach Cobbler
Shadow Ranch Corn Fritters
May 14, 2009
CHARLIE CHAN AND FAMILY
So what could
Maven add to yesterday's Bourbon Slush (you can serve the bourbon to the adults and the rest of the recipe to the kids!)?!
She can add several recipes!
One is a recipe from our
Chan Cookbook . . . Coney Island Hot Dogs . . . and the other is several chicken casseroles that are great for families .
. . . Even better to enjoy while watching the beginning of Circus with Charlie and his wife and all their kids!
Coney Island Hot Dogs
Chan Fans Go Chicken!
May 13, 2009
BOURBON SLUSH
Maven found a recipe in the People
Magazine for May 18, 2009, issue. She started investigating recipes and found the range of ingredients to include:
1 1/2 cups white sugar
7 cups water
2 liters of lemon/lime flavored carbonated beverage (Maven
wonders what COULD that be?!)
1 (46 fluid ounces) can of pineapple juice
Grenadine or marashino cherry juice
And you can divide it between glass (with or without ice?!)
and fill 'er up with 7-Up.
At that rate, why should Maven bother with these recipes
for a bourbon slush?!
You have to start SOMEWHERE!
Have a Happy Memorial Day!
Bourbon Slush
| The Dangerous 5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake |
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| This Mug Cake Can Be Cut in Two! |
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May 11, 2009
DANGEROUS FIVE MINUTE
CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE
This recipe came from two "fellow" Charlie Chan Fans:
Jennie Blythe who sent it to Cathy Larson (aka Mrs. Pendleton) who sent it to Maven. . . . It brings a new meaning to
coffe breaks!!
Dangerous 5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake
May 4, 2009
HOMEMADE NACHOS
Maven thought that this recipe would go with the Jean Harlow Cocktail AND Charlie Chan in Shanghai!! Are
we hot tonight or what?!
1 bag of tortillas (either your favorite brand from the store or what you get with take-out
from your favorite Mexican Restaurant.)
1 can Refried Beans
Cheddar Cheese, grated
Jalapeño Peppers
Lay the tortillas out on an aluminum pan with sides (top keep the cheese from melting all over your oven).
Put a spoonful of refried beans in the middle of each tortilla and cover with grated cheddar cheese.
Top with of jalapeño pepper.
NOTE: Be careful handling the jalapeño pepper since your hands
can transfer the oil to your eyes so be sure to wash your hands after handling the peppers.
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May 3, 2009
What does a cocktail
named after a platinum blonde bombshell have to do with Shanghai? . . .
Nothing really but somehow
they seem to if you've ever seen the Versailles at the end of the movie!
JEAN HARLOW COCKTAIL*
April 29, 2008
Let's Horse Around!
It's time for the Kentucky
Derby again and time to pull out Maven's family recipe for Mint Juleps. Maven is adding another recipe so partakers
can have a choice!
GRANDFATHER CHAN'S MINT JULEP
Put some mint leaves in the bottom of a silver cup or glass and crush them with a teaspoon of sugar and some bourbon.
Fill the glass with crushed ice to the brim and add more bourbon.
THE
CLIPPER COCKTAIL
1 1/2 ounce light or gold rum
1/2 ounce vermouth
1/2 teaspoon grenadine
Combine all ingredients and pour over
cracked ice into chilled cocktail glasses.
Just be
sure to have a designated jockey for the way to the dinner table as well as home!
If you'd like a little something to go along with your drinks . . . you might try a recipe from
one of Maven's sisters-in-law:
Chop up some
jalapeno peppers (being sure to wash your hands after handling them) and some olives (green and/or ripe) and mix them into
cream cheese. You can either spread this onto a flower tortilla, roll it up to cut into rounds or spread it between
two tortillas and slice like a quesadilla.
Viva la Casa Chan!
| Katharine Hepburn |
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| Who Knew She Could Heat Up the Kitchen as well as the Silver Screen? |
April 27, 2009
BROWNIES A LA
KATHARINE HEPBURN
Maven has hit her family
cookbook again, because it not only has family recipes but others that she has collected!
One that she saved
is Katharine Hepburn's recipe for brownies. Are they really hers? Maven doesn't know and Maven doesn't care.
Just as long as you and your family enjoy them!
Brownies a la Katharine Hepburn
| Hurricane Glass |
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March 16, 2009
THE CLIPPER COCKTAIL
1 1/2 ounce light or gold rum
1/2 ounch vermouth
1/2 teaspoon grenadine
Combine all ingredients and pur over cracked ice
into chilled cocktail glasses.
MARCH 23, 2009
LEE SA’S JALAPENO ROLLS
Clean jalapeno peppers of their seeds (being careful to keep the oil from your eyes).
Dice the peppers and green olives and mix in with enough cream cheese to spread over flour tortillas.
You could also add avacados chopped/smashed up and blended in.
Roll the tortillas up and slice them into bite-size pieces and arrange on a plate.
OR: You could make a quesadilla, using the sprad over a tortilla and then
topping with another tortilla. Just cut it like a pizza!
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