Dear Heloise: Right here’s one other trace for the lately married younger girl about cooking meats to be tender.
Use Italian salad dressing in your meats after browning or braising. Cowl the pan or skillet and bake in a low oven for just a few hours … or in a crockpot.
I’ve a skillet with a high-dome lid that makes it a Dutch oven, and it’s excellent for cooking meat to tenderness.
Thanks for all of your hints. Love your column.
— Margaret D., New Vienna, Ohio
Margaret, I really like a Dutch oven. They turn out to be useful for thus many alternative issues.
Heloise’s Italian Hen
Expensive Heloise: My husband and I had your Italian Hen whereas over at a buddy of ours, and my husband completely liked it. That was just a few months in the past, and he nonetheless raves about it. He likes to prepare dinner and want to make that recipe once more, however he doesn’t know what to make use of for the components.
Would you please reprint that recipe for him? He desires to make it for his deer-hunting buddies this coming fall once they all get collectively in northern Michigan.
— Sherrie-Ann, Flint, Mich.
Sherrie-Ann, that is certainly one of my hottest recipes, and it tastes nice all yr lengthy, however in chilly climate, it’s particularly good. Right here it’s:
1 rooster lower up, or the equal in components
1 (8-ounce) bottle nonfat (or common) Italian salad dressing
1 medium onion, peeled and sliced
4 medium potatoes, sliced (peeled or not) into bite-size items
Preheat the oven to 350 levels. Spray a casserole dish with a nonstick spray.
Place the rooster within the casserole dish and canopy with the Italian dressing. High with onion and potatoes. Then bake for about 1 hour or till accomplished.
You can even add (as an choice) diced carrots, mushrooms, zucchini or any variation you’re feeling would improve this recipe.
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Expensive Heloise: I’ve 4 teenage boys. Should you’ve ever been round teenage boys, you understand they not solely like to eat, some, like mine, eat virtually nonstop and by no means acquire weight. In reality, they don’t eat, they simply inhale.
Since they’re right here with pals half the time, I taught them to prepare dinner hamburgers.
I make the hamburger patties up by putting a sheet of wax paper between every patty till I’ve a stack of about six or seven. Then I place the stack of patties in a plastic bag and set them within the freezer, ensuring to maintain the hamburger patties stacked upright.
— Laura G., Canby, Ore.
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