Hush Puppies

These are one of my favorite foods.

A deep fryer or Dutch oven filled with hot canola oil.
1 egg
1 cup self rising corn meal
1/2 cup self rising flour
1 onion chopped in very small pieces
1 teaspoon baking powder
Pour and stir in enough milk to make a moist mixture with all of the ingredients listed above

Mix and drop by tablespoons into the hot canola oil. Fry until golden brown all around. Remove from the oil and place on paper towels to drain off excess oil.

These are delicious with seafood or barbeque. Also, if you have extra batter, it will stay fresh to cook the next day if it is covered and placed in the refrigerator.

My Kind of Tossed Salad

I love a fresh homemade salad but Chilly doesn't care too much for them. He will eat one though if I put in the things he likes. This is what I put in this salad:
Iceberg lettuce
Large Romaine lettuce
Baby Romaine lettuce
Diced Roma tomatoes
One slice of American cheese and one slice of Swiss cheese, diced
Diced bell peppers, carrots and celery
Diced ham
Dried cranberries and dried pineapple
Sliced fresh strawberries
Croutons


I mix all of this together and end up with the beautiful salad you see here. I use Italian dressing on the salad. It is a great accompaniment to all of the different flavors in the salad. This mixture makes a delicious salad. Oh, and if you love salad like I do, a glass pie plate makes a wonderful dish to make it in.

Sometimes I add crushed bacon, cucumbers, a boiled egg, or cottage cheese. I also add a few olives and mushrooms to Chillys salad as well.

What do you like in your salad that I haven't tried?

Applewood Farms Apple Fritters

This recipe came from a apple farm in Sevierville, Tennessee. They had a restaurant there on the property and gave this recipe to the people in their paper when they left the restaurant. These are very good and very light. I always double the recipe when making these because they are eaten so quickly.

Makes about 24 fritters.

Combine in bowl one-half cup of milk, one egg, and two tablespoons margarine. Add grated rind and juice from one-half an orange, one-half cup of chopped apples (skin can be left on), and one-half teaspoon vanilla. Sift together one-and-one-half cups cake flour, one-quarter teaspoon salt and one tablespoon baking powder. Stir in milk mixture with a spoon until blended. Drop batter by spoonfuls into one-half inch hot oil. (I use canola oil for frying). Fry to a golden brown. Drain.

****I made these as you can see from the picture. I did vary the recipe a bit though and liked the fritters even better. I added another 1/2 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg. They were even better. I didn't cook all of the fritters at the same time. After the batter was in the refrigerator for a couple of days, the flavor of the fritters was better yet.****