Monday recipes

Subject: Article from Braille Monitor Articles Section 2014 06 01

Recipes
This month's recipes come from North Dakota. Linda's Chicken by Duane Iverson
It is a simple and tasty way to oven fry chicken.
Ingredients: Chicken pieces, as many as desired
Flour
Bisquick
At least one stick of butter
2 eggs
A splash of milk
Parmesan cheese from a shaker,
optional Method:
Prepare a mixture of half flour and half Bisquick. Liberally grease the bottom of a shallow baking pan with butter; I melt at least a quarter pound. Combine eggs and milk and beat with a fork. Dip chicken pieces in milk mixture to moisten the chicken, then roll it in the flour and Bisquick mixture. Arrange chicken in baking dish and bake for one hour at 350 degrees, turning after thirty minutes. I find that adding a liberal amount of parmesan cheese to the flour mixture enhances the breading.

Marvin's Potatoes
by Duane Iverson
Ingredients:
Potatoes, peeled and evenly sliced
1 onion,
sliced Butter
Slices of Velveeta cheese
Method:
I used a Vegematic to slice the potatoes when I first made this dish. The slices should be just a little thicker than a Talking Book cartridge. Layer the potatoes in the bottom of a greased square casserole dish. Dot the potatoes with butter, spread with a layer of thinly sliced onions, then do another layer of potatoes, butter, and onions. Do three layers in all.
 Cook covered at 350 degrees for a little less than an hour. Test with a fork. If the potatoes feel almost done, that is, the fork goes in easily, cover the top with a generous number of Velveeta cheese slices. Put the lid back on the dish, and return it to the oven for about ten more minutes. The cheese will melt and infuse the potatoes. Since the potatoes are in a covered dish, they stay warm for long enough for you to get everything on the table.

Brad Martin's Meatballs
by Duane Iverson
Ingredients:
 1 pound of ground meat
 1 can chicken-and-rice soup
1 can tomato soup
2 eggs
1 small onion
Lots and lots of soda crackers.
 Method:
In a mixing bowl crack two eggs. Break up the ground meat into the bowl. Grate a small onion or part of a large onion into the mixture. Then begin crumbling and adding soda crackers to the mixture until it is sticky but fairly dry, about the consistency of modeling clay.

 Form the meatballs and place in the bottom of a shallow baking pan. The meatballs should be small, no larger than a cherry tomato. I'd say a golf ball is too large, and a grape is too small. Arrange the meatballs in a single layer in the bottom of the pan.

 Now combine the chicken-and-rice and tomato soups in the bowl you just emptied. Mix well with a fork. Then pour the liquid evenly over the meatballs.

Cover with lid or aluminum foil and cook at 350 degrees for about an hour. As the meatballs cook, they will absorb much of the liquid from the bottom of the pan. When serving, there will be liquid left that you can spoon over the meatballs.

This dish goes well with Marvin's Potatoes. Happily, you can prepare them beforehand. An hour before supper, mix the soups, pour liquid over the meatballs, and put the dish of potatoes in the oven. You don't have to go back to the kitchen until ten or fifteen minutes before the meatballs are done to put cheese on the potatoes and cook a vegetable.