Recipes

Peppered Cheddar Muffins

Peppered Cheddar Muffins

The extra punch in these spicy muffins will wake you up in the morning. Serve them warm or at room temperature with butter or apple butter.
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Ingredients

Makes 1 dozen

Prep: 5 min., Bake: 20 min., Cool: 2 min.

Instructions

  • Stir together first 6 ingredients in a large bowl; make a well in center of mixture.
  • Stir together milk, egg, and vegetable oil until blended.
  • Add to dry ingredients, stirring just until moistened.
  • Spoon batter into greased muffin pans, filling two-thirds full.
  • Bake at 400° for 18 to 20 minutes or until tops are golden.
  • Cool muffins in pans 2 minutes; remove from pans, and serve.
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Course; Cheese / Cupcakes-Brownies

Hot Cheesy Biscuits

Hot Cheesy Biscuits

This is the perfect recipe if you want to make biscuits and don’t own biscuit cutters. You drop these lumpy favorites onto baking sheets just like cookie dough.
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Equipment

  • pastry blender

Ingredients

Makes 2 dozen

Prep: 10 min., Bake: 9 min.

Instructions

  • Combine first 4 ingredients in a bowl; cut in cheese and shortening with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.
  • Add buttermilk, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.
  • Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls onto greased baking sheets.
  • Bake at 450° for 9 minutes or until golden.
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Course; Cheese / Coockies / Biscuit

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Sweet Potato Biscuits

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Ingredients

Makes 14 biscuits

Prep: 15 Min., Bake: 15 Min.

Instructions

  • Combine first 3 ingredients.
  • Cut in butter with a pastry blender until crumbly.
  • Stir together sweet potato and buttermilk; add to dry ingredients, stirring just until moistened.
  • Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and knead 3 to 4 times.
  • Pat or roll to ½-inch thickness.
  • Cut dough with a 3-inch round cutter, and place biscuits on a lightly greased baking sheet.
  • Bake at 425° for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden.
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Course; Coockies / Biscuit

Bacon Biscuit Cups

Bacon Biscuit Cups

Enjoy these cheesy biscuits an extra day. To reheat, wrap biscuit cups in foil. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes or until warm.
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Ingredients

Makes 10 servings

Prep: 15 min., Bake: 22 min.

  • 2 3-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ cup 2 ounces shredded Swiss cheese
  • 1 green onion chopped
  • 1 10-ounce can refrigerated flaky biscuits
  • 5 bacon slices cooked and crumbled

Instructions

  • Beat first 3 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended.
  • Stir in cheese and green onions.
  • Set aside.
  • Separate biscuits into 10 portions.
  • Pat each portion into a 5-inch circle, and press on bottom and up sides of 10 greased muffin cups, forming a ¼-inch edge.
  • Sprinkle evenly with half of bacon; spoon cream cheese mixture evenly on top.
  • Bake at 375° for 22 minutes or until set.
  • Sprinkle biscuits with remaining bacon, lightly pressing into filling.
  • Remove biscuits immediately from pan, and serve warm.
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Course; Bacon / Coockies / Biscuit

Strawberry-Almond Cream Cheese

Strawberry-Almond Cream Cheese

Serve this hearty cream cheese as a sweet topping for scones, bagels, or English muffins.
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Ingredients

Makes approximately 1¼ cups

Prep: 10 min., Chill: 1 hr.

  • 1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
  • 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
  • ¾ teaspoon almond extract
  • ½ cup chopped fresh strawberries about 8 large strawberries

Instructions

  • Process first 3 ingredients in a food processor just until blended.
  • (Do not overprocess or mixture will be thin.
  • )
  • Add strawberries; process just until blended.
  • Cover; chill at least 1 hour.
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Course; Cheese / Fruit

Ginger Beer

Ginger Beer

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Ingredients

Makes 5 servings

Prep: 10 min. Chill: 4 hrs.

Instructions

  • Stir together all ingredients until sugar dissolves.
  • Cover and chill 4 hours.
  • Pour ginger mixture through a wire-mesh strainer into a large pitcher, discarding solids.

Notes & Wine Advice

Serve over crushed ice.
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Course; Cold Drinks

Rio Grande Limeade

Rio Grande Limeade

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Ingredients

Makes 12 servings

Prep: 10 min., Chill: 8 hrs.

Garnish:

Instructions

  • Stir together first 5 ingredients.
  • Chill 8 hours.
  • Serve over ice, and garnish, if desired.
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Course; Alcohol / Cocktails / Cold Drinks
Cuisine; American

White Sangría Fizz

White Sangría Fizz

Stir up this fruity beverage ahead, and add sparkling water just before serving.
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Ingredients

Makes 8 servings

Prep: 5 min., Chill: 8 hrs.

  • 1 cup fresh orange juice
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 750-milliliter bottle dry white wine
  • 1½ cups sparkling water chilled

Garnishes:

Instructions

  • Stir together orange juice and sugar in a large pitcher until sugar dissolves.
  • Stir in wine; cover and chill 8 hours.
  • Stir sparkling water into wine mixture just before serving.
  • Garnish, if desired.
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Course; Alcohol / Cocktails / Cold Drinks / Fruit

Oklahoma Sunrise

Oklahoma Sunrise

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Ingredients

Makes 16 servings

Prep: 10 min., Chill: 1 hr.

  • 1 12-ounce can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed and undiluted
  • 1 11.5-ounce can apricot nectar
  • 3 cups water
  • 1½ pints strawberry or raspberry sorbet softened
  • 1 750-milliliter bottle Champagne, chilled
  • 3 cups crushed ice

Instructions

  • Stir together first 3 ingredients in a large container; cover and chill at least 1 hour.
  • Spoon sorbet into a punch bowl; pour chilled orange juice mixture over sorbet.
  • Add Champagne and ice; stir gently to blend.
  • Ladle into stemmed glasses.
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Course; Cocktails / Cold Drinks
Cuisine; American

Garden Sangría

Garden Sangría

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Ingredients

Makes 24 servings

Prep: 10 min., Chill: 8 hrs.

Garnishes:

Instructions

  • Stir together first 5 ingredients in a large container; cover and chill 8 hours.
  • Add club soda and next 3 ingredients just before serving; serve over ice, if desired.
  • Garnish, if desired.

Notes & Wine Advice

*Substitute ginger ale for club soda.
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Course; Cold Drinks / Fruit
Cuisine; European / Spain