I thought I would do something a little different this week 🙂
I’m sharing some recipes with you that I got from my Mom. She’s been on my mind lately, and I’ve been craving some of her cooking. Sadly Mom passed Christmas of 2018, but her cooking and baking always made me the happiest kid on earth! Mom worked for a restaurant for many years, and was known for her amazing desserts! So here you go, a couple of my favorites from the recipe collection of Lynn Cerkas:
Wondering what to do with 8 zillion zucchinis? I puree’ mine and freeze them in 2 cup amounts just for this recipe!
Zucchini Bread
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
3 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups zucchini (I blend it bu you can chop it small)
1 cup nuts (if wanted)
1 tsp vanilla
Beat eggs, add sugar, oil and salt
Add “dry ingredients” alternately with zuchini
add vanilla and nuts
Bake at 350 degrees F. for 1 hour in greased and floured bread loaf pans
Makes 2 loaves
Magic Swirl Cake
3/4 cup (1& 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
2 & 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 & 1/4 tsp baking soda, DIVIDED
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
**to sour milk= use 1 tbsp vinegar plus milk to equal 1 cup
3/4 cup Hershey’s Choc. Shoppe Topping
1/2 cup semi sweet choc chips
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Generously grease and flower 12 cup fluted tube pan. Beat butter, sugar, vanilla until well blended. Add eggs, beat well. Stir together flour, 1 tsp of the baking soda and salt. Add alternately to butter mixture with butter milk. Pour 4 cups batter into prepared pan. In remaining batter, stir in topping and remaining 1/4 tsp baking soda. Spoon over vanilla batter. Sprinkle choc chips over surface. Bake 50-60 minutes until tooth pick comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes then invert onto wire rack.
Pizza burgers (trust me on this one. They are amazing!!)
2 pounds ground beef, fried and cooled
Grind up:
12 oz can of Spam
10 oz cheese (aged is good)
2 medium onions
Add: 10 oz can of tomato soup
1 small can of tomato paste
1 teaspoon of garlic salt
3 teaspoons of oregeno
Mix all together. Put mixture on hamburger bun halves then into 425 degree F. oven for 8 minutes or until cheese melts. Makes 40 half buns. Mixture may be frozen.
I know Spam is weird to some people, but it makes this one work!!