My Favorite Kate Recipes!

Monkey Munch

9 cup Chex
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Put cereal in large bowl. Melt chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour over Chex cereal, put into a large plastic bag with powdered sugar and shake well to coat. Spread mixture evenly on wax paper and allow to cool.

Peanut Butter Play-Doh:

1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup honey
1 cup powdered milk
Knead until smooth but add a dash of flour for texture.

Sticky Buns

1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 cans (16.3 oz each) Pillsbury® Grands!® Homestyle refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
1/2 cup chopped walnuts, if desired
1/2 cup raisins, if desired
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup butter or margarine, melted

Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 12-cup fluted tube pan. In large plastic food-storage bag, mix sugar and cinnamon. Separate dough into 16 biscuits; cut each into quarters. Shake in bag to coat. Arrange in pan, adding walnuts and raisins among the biscuit pieces. Mix brown sugar and butter; pour over biscuit pieces. Bake 28 to 32 minutes or until golden brown and no longer doughy in center. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Turn upside down onto serving plate; pull apart to serve. Serve warm.

Tomato-Onion Salad Recipe

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 1/2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 large tomatoes, thinly sliced
1 medium-size sweet onion, thinly sliced
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil

Put together the first 5 ingredients in a large bowl. Arrange tomato and onions slices in rows in a serving dish. Sprinkle with chopped basil, and drizzle evenly with marinade. Cover it and let it stand at room temperature for at least 2 hours.

Korean Beef Bulgogi Recipe

Beef, sliced cross thin 450 gms.
Soya sauce 2 tbsps.
Sugar 1 tbsp.
Black pepper ¼ tsp.
Onions, chopped 1" pieces 4 nos.
Garlic, peeled/crushed 3 nos.
Ginger root, grated 1 tsp.
Dry sherry 1 tbsp.
Red pepper flakes 1 tbsp.
Peanut oil 1 tbsp.

Sesame oil 1 tbsp.
For the sesame salt
Sesame seeds, toasted As required
Salt 1 tbsp.
Instructions1.Mix the soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, sesame salt(grind both the ingredients mentioned below sesame salt), pepper, onions, garllic, ginger, dry sherry and red pepper flakes in a bowl.
2.Add the beef, mix well and marinate for 1/2 an hour.
3.Heat the grill, when hot apply oil to the beef pieces and grill the meat till nicely browned on both sides.
4.Once done garnish with sesame seeds.

Kate's Meatloaf

makes 10 slices
Ingredients
2 pounds organic ground beef
2-3 eggs
Finely chopped (I use food processor on pulse) celery, onion, green pepper, carrots- about 3/4-1 cup of each.
About 1½-2 cups of breadcrumbs- Italian seasoned if on hand. Otherwise, plain works too. May need more breadcrumbs depending on the consistency of the meatloaf.
About 3/4 cup shredded or grated Parmesan cheese (whichever's on hand).
About ¼ to ½ cup ketchup.

Grandma Vegetable Soup- Makes 10 Servings

1 Soup bone w/meat
1 Onion; chopped
3 Carrots; sliced
3 Potatoes
5 Stalks of celery
Green beans
Corn
1 can (large) Tomatoes
1 Handful Barley or alphabet macaroni
3 Bay leaves
Salt

Boil soup bone in water enough to cover for 1 1/2 to 2 hours - until meat comes off bone easily. Remove bone - when cool enough - remove meat and cut fine. Return meat to stock - add onion, carrots potatoes celery, greenbeans, corn (not creamed) and tomatoesand bayleaves - add more water if needed - cook on a low fire after first coming to a boil. After 1 hour stir in barley or macaroni - cook another 1/2 to 1 hour - stir often as the barley will stick to pan and burn. NOTE: Used to look forward to this on wintery nights!