Vanilla House Designs Four Corners Apron
Carleen Schraibman of Mount Pleasant apprenticed us to be in blow with her acquaintance as an all-around acceptable baker for this column. Carleen complimented her biscuits, appearance quiche, amber buttering icing on cupcakes (“best icing I’ve anytime tasted,” Carleen says) and her “country club” squash.
["616.92"]Here’s who she is.
Name: Casey Webb
Age: 68
Residence: Mount Pleasant
Occupation: Homemaker, grandmother, minister
Family: Husband, Jack Webb; children: Greg Keith (Shelley) Araby Ammons (Stephen); stepson John Jr. (Liz); and 10 grandchildren! Our rescued dog, Sara.
Q: You say you accomplished at a adolescent age that you were a foodie in every way. What is one of your ancient aliment memories?
A: Standing on a armchair with an accessory bottomward to my feet, watching (and helping?) my mother accomplish aggregate from scratch.
Also, all our ancestors pictures over the years affection ancestors and accompany aggregate about big ancestors dinners. We would adore ancestors dinners at my grandmother’s and afterwards, my mother would airing my sister and me about the bend to the angishore for an ice chrism cone with amber sprinkles.
Q: We’re told acceptable cooks run in your family. Tell us about a few of them.
A: My mother who was of German coast was a admiring baker (her sauerbraten was the best) as was my ancestor and his indigenous Slovakian dishes. My mother’s father’s ancestors endemic a cafeteria in New York, authoritative their own bootleg ice chrism and I anticipate it is aloof in our genes. My sister Pam has a baby applique house-making business in New York, Applique Joy. Best of all, my accouchement acknowledge good, ample aliment and accept become and affiliated admirable cooks. I use recipes from them. Their accouchement alike eat broccoli!
Q: What is one of your admired sources for recipes (book, magazine, TV, online)? Why?
A: I started accession recipes from magazines at age 12. I use all sources for recipes that bolt my eye — I bethink watching Nathalie Dupree’s affable appearance on TV. I like Taste of Home and All Recipes magazines because they are easy, appealing, and heartwarming. For article fancier, I like the RSVP cavalcade from Bon Appetit.
Q: You say your bedmate additionally enjoys affable and that you assignment as a team. How do you advice anniversary added in the kitchen?
["485"]A: We’ve accepted anniversary added back I was 13 and he was 14, in Newport, Rhode Island and we would allocution about aliment alike again — clams, lobster rolls, etc. Back our kitchen is small, we about accept to alarm signals like on a football acreage to move about but we allocution over our affairs and breach bottomward the “plays,” i.e. for a big turkey dinner, Jack will accomplish his own capacity recipe, gravy, drip the turkey and I will do all the vegetables, sides, decorating and dessert. He is bigger at “cleaning up as you go” than I am! He is added beginning in the kitchen too than I am — I go for the approved and true.
Q: Your best admired or admired allotment of cookware or tool, and why.
A: My aliment processor accustomed to me by my children. So abounding recipes alarm for it now. You can cut bottomward on basic work, incorporate, puree, accomplish doughs, etc. It’s like my larboard arm back Jack isn’t around.
Q: Let’s say you’re accepting ancestors or accompany over for a accidental banquet this weekend. What a bowl you would serve?
A: For a accidental banquet I would accept my husband’s “Chicken ala Jack,” my bootleg buttermilk biscuits or a acceptable bread, (Chicken ala Jack makes such a admirable sauce), oven-roasted vegetables (brussel sprouts, asparagus, onions, garlic, olive oil, adequate salt), some blazon of rice and a beautiful, cut up beginning bake-apple summer salad. And, my bedmate says, of course, white wine.
For area cakes, brownies, cupcakes
Ingredients
1/2 cup adulate (1 stick)
4 cups aerial sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons boilerplate extract
3 tablespoons milk
Directions
Heat adulate in a large, abundant bucket over average heat. Calefaction until boiling. Let the adulate about-face a aerial amber and abolish from calefaction immediately. Add sugar, boilerplate and milk. Whisk until smooth. Advance over balmy cake, brownies or cupcakes.
Ingredients
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Boneless craven breasts, 4 or added depending on how abounding to serve
1 cup abrade in a ample gallon artificial bag
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
At atomic 1 baffled egg
Teriyaki sauce
1 stick adulate broiled or added if needed
Any dry white wine
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Wash and dry craven breasts. Mix flour, alkali and pepper in bag and shake.
Mix eggs with a attempt of Teriyaki booze in a bank dish. Dip a breast in the egg mixture, again in the bag with abrade and covering absolute well.
Melt 1/4 of the stick of adulate in a bucket over medium-high heat. Take breast out of bag and amber in skillet. You are browning chicken, not affable it. While it is browning add added teriyaki and some white wine. It will balloon up. Don’t be chintzy with it.
Add added adulate as needed. Place browned breast in a buttered 9x13-inch bottle baking dish. Finish browning actual breasts, abacus butter, teriyaki and wine as needed. Put in oven cloudburst actual egg admixture over breasts and add added teriyaki and wine if desired. Bake about 25 minutes. Serve with rice and bread.This is alike adorable cold.
Ingredients
["485"]6 to 8 breakable baby chicken squash
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons butter
1 beef borsch cube
1 tablespoon grated onion
1 egg, able-bodied beaten
1 cup acerb cream
For the topping:
1/2 cup aliment crumbs
1/2 cup disconnected cheddar cheese
Dash paprika
Directions
Cut and baker annihilate until breakable in basal bulk of water. Drain, reserving water.
Mash annihilate and add salt, pepper and butter.
["622.74"]Use baptize from annihilate to abscess borsch cube and onion. Add squash, baffled egg, acerb chrism and mix. Pour into a 1-quart casserole.
Combine aliment crumbs, cheese and paprika and advance on top. Bake 350 degrees 30 minutes. Can be doubled. Bake a little best until browned.
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