Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
ritzy summer squash
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
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__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
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__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
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__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Ritzy Summer Squash
Ingredients:
4 cups yellow summer squash, sliced
1/2 cup onion, chopped
36 Ritz crackers, crushed
1 cup Cojack Cheese, shredded
2 eggs, beaten
3/4 cup whole milk
1/4 butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon dill weed
1 teaspoon salt
fresh ground black pepper, to taste
2 tablespoons butter
Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 400�.
2) Grease a 9 by 13 inch bakin' dish.
3) Put the squash and onion in a large skillet over medium heat.
4) Add a little water, then cover and cook for about five minutes,
'til the squash is tender.
5) Drain squash and put it in a mixin' bowl.
6) In a separate bowl, combine the crushed Ritz crackers
and shredded cheese.
7) Stir half of the cheese/cracker mixture into the squash and onions.
8) In yet another bowl, thoroughly combine the eggs and milk,
then add the eggs and milk to the squash mixture.
9) Stir in 1/4 cup melted butter, dill weed, salt, and pepper.
10) Transfer to the prepared bakin' dish,
then sprinkle the remainin' cracker/cheese mixture over the top.
11) Dot with 2 tablespoons buter.
12) Bake 'til lightly browned, about twenty-five minutes.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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