Spanish Rice

1 lb hamburg
2 gloves garlic, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
1 green pepper (can substitute zucchini), chopped
1 1/2 cup rice, uncooked
1 tsp sea salt (can substitute regular salt)
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. crushed red pepper
1 can stewed tomatoes w/ juice
1 3/4 cup chicken broth

Brown hamburg and add garlic and vegetables. Cook until vegetables are tender. Stir in rice and seasonings. Stir in tomatoes and broth. Heat to a boiling; cover and reduce heat. Simmer 20 minutes, (until rice is tender and the flavors have run together). Adjust seasoning to taste.

Note: this is a meal that the entire family actually eats happily :)

Baking Powder Biscuits

These are Easy & Delicious. They are good with beef stew or for breakfast and I like them most w/ butter and jelly or a sausage patty and eggs :)

2 cups flour, sifted
1 tblsp. sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg, beaten
2/3 cup milk

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Cut in shortening. Combine milk and eggs and mix into flour mixture. Turn dough on a lightly floured surface and knead gently. Roll dough to a 3/4 inch thickness. I usually form the shape with a cookie cutter or a glass... Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake approximately 12 minutes or until golden brown. Enjoy :)

Beef Stew

From Volume II: Cooking with Mickey

2lbs stew meat cubed
4 tblsp. oil
4 tblsp flour
1 onion, diced
1/2 cup of carrots, chopped
1/2 cup celery, chopped
3 tblsp. tomato paste
4 beef bullion cubes
2 cups water
3 cups brown gravy
1 tsp. paprika
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. garlic, granulated
Salt & Pepper to taste
1 cup of frozen peas

Dust stew meat in flour. Heat oil in a stew pot and sear the meat on high heat until meat is browned. Add vegetables and water and simmer 15 minutes. Add remaining ingredients, (except peas). Mix well and simmer on low until meat is tender and vegetables are cooked. Remove bay leaf and adjust seasoning if necessary. 20 minutes before serving, add the peas.

The meal is delicious served with Baking Powder Biscuits, (see recipe on above). This can also be done in a crock pot; in which case I skip the searing part and just throw the meat in raw and add all the ingedients, (except the peas), immediately. Then I let it slow cook for 6 or 7 hours before serving. An good addition is a can of stewed tomatoes... but you may want to adjust the amount of water for the addition.

Enjoy :)

Crepes

This is another Lamothe breakfast favorite:

1 1/2 cups flour
1 tblsp. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups milk
2 eggs
2 tblsp. butter, (melted)
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Mix all ingredients together with a spoon. Heat a fry pan and spray well with cooking spray. Put ladle of batter into the pan and roll the pan so that the batter spreads throughout the pan. The crepe will cook quickly. Lift the edges with a spatula and flip. Let the second side cook briefly.

Repeat until the batter is gone :)

Of course you can fill a crepe with many different things. However, we enjoy a tablespoon of brown sugar spread over the crepe and then roll the crepe and enjoy :)