Pam Carberry knows food brings people together; she’s been feeding Calvin Community residents, staff and guests for more than 40 years. Read on for her team’s recipes, tips and other culinary stories, and please share your own, too.
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Recipes from Calvin Community
We hope you enjoy these featured recipes from staff, residents, families and friends. Please share yours with us, too!
Sausage Links with Apples and Kraut
This makes for a tasty autumn meal when locally grown apples are plentiful. Serve with wedges of Oven Skillet Potatoes. Hint: Bake the potatoes while preparing this dish. Ingredients: 1 (12 ounce) package fully cooked chicken or pork sausage links with apple 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 small to medium…
Silver Dollar Cheese Biscuits
Recipe from “The Old Farmer’s Almanac: Comfort Food” 2021. Makes 18 to 20 biscuits. Small in size but big in flavor, these are best right out of the oven and “refreshed” when reheated. Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ½…
Summer Broccoli Salad
Ingredients: 1 bunch Broccoli, chop into flowerettes 1/4 c. Diced green onions 1/4 c. Sunflower seeds 1/4 c. Raisins 3 slices Bacon, cooked and crumbled 3 T. Sugar 1/4 c. Heavy whipping cream 2 T. Milk 1/2 c. Mayonnaise Instructions: In a bowl, combine flowerettes, green onions, sunflower seeds, raisins,…
Kitchen Tips
What’s your trick in the kitchen? Share your advice to be featured here!
Quick coffee fix
There’s nothing worse than going for the coffee in the morning only to discover you’re out of filters! In an “emergency” you can use a paper towel cut out to the size of your filter basket. It’s a quick fix but will get the job done!
Quickly peel an orange
To peel an orange quickly and neatly, simply soak the orange in a bowl of hot water for a few minutes and the peel will come right off – including the pith! Try this with other citrus as well.
Removing fat from a stock
To remove the fat from a stock of a roast you’ve just cooked, just add a few ice cubes to the stock and the fat will “stick” right to the ice cubes and you can lift the fat out and throw it away! This will work for any stock.