Dad's Venison Backstraps

This recipe is by far my favorite venison recipe! If you don't have venison, you could use beef instead. We love to have it with onion potatoes and a vegetable. Hope you enjoy it! Here is the recipe...

Ingredients:
- 2 lbs. Venison Backstrap Meat (cubed)
- 2 cups Brandy
- 1/3 cup Butter
- 1 Pint Heavy Whipping Cream
- Salt and Pepper (To Taste)

Directions:
- Brown meat with butter in an electric skillet 
- Once meat is browned (not fully cooked through) - remove and set aside
- Add brandy to butter and meat drippings
- Heat and light brandy mixture - to burn alcohol off: SAFETY TIP - make sure you have plenty of height space for the flame to go - probably at least 2 feet. - sometimes we have done this step outside.
- Once your flame has died down, add heavy whipping cream.
- Bring to a boil and then return the meat to the pan.
- Add Salt and Pepper to taste
- Continue to cook (simmer) until meat has cooked through (about 20-30 minutes, check as it is cooking, you don't want the meat to get tough)
- Sauce will thicken as is simmers.
- ENJOY! :)

Serve with Onion Potatoes and a Veggie - we did Green Bean Casserole 


Here is the process:

- Brown meat with butter in an electric skillet 

- Once meat is browned (not fully cooked through) - remove and set aside

- Add brandy to butter and meat drippings

- Heat and light brandy mixture (Heat low) - to burn alcohol off: SAFETY TIP - make sure you have plenty of height space for the flame to go - probably at least 2 feet. - sometimes we have done this step outside.

- Once your flame has died down, add heavy whipping cream.

- Bring to a boil and then return the meat to the pan.

- Add Salt and Pepper to taste

- Cover and Continue to cook (simmer) until meat has cooked through (about 20-30 minutes, check as it is cooking, you don't want the meat to get tough)

- Sauce will thicken as is simmers.

ENJOY!

Grandma's Shrimp Dip

Seriously the best appetizer you will ever make for your next party! This is a family favorite that we have every year around the holidays. I hope you and your family enjoy the recipe as much as we do!

Ingredients:

·         8 oz. Cream Cheese

·         ¼ cup Mayonnaise
·         ½ tsp. Seasoned salt
·         1 ½ tbsp. Minced Onion
·         Dash of Garlic Powder
·         6 oz. Small frozen shrimp (drained)
·         Cocktail Sauce

Directions:

·         Mix first 5 ingredients together and spread on serving plate and refrigerate until ready to serve.

·         Spread cocktail sauce over cream cheese mixture; add shrimp over the top right before serving.
·         Serve with crackers

Fettuccine Chicken Alfredo

For this meal I did it in two steps. I cooked the chicken separately in the pressure cooker before doing the pasta.

Chicken
- 4-5 Chicken Breasts
- Salt and Pepper
- 1/2 cup of chicken stock

Cook Chicken in pressure cooker on high pressure for about 12 minutes. Remove chicken once it is finished a cut it up into bite size pieces and set aside.  

Fettuccine Recipe: 
CLICK HERE to go to the recipe I used


Once pasta is finished toss with alfedo sauce and cooked chicken. Enjoy!

Pressure Cooker Mongolian Beef

I have enjoyed finding new recipes to use with my pressure cooker - here is the link to the recipe I used to make this AWESOME dinner! It turned out so yummy! If you don't have a pressure cooker, you could probably do the same recipe in the crock pot.

CLICK HERE to go to the Recipe

Chicken Pot Pie

Ingredients:
- 3-4 Chicken Breasts  (cubed)
- Salt and Pepper
- Paprika 
- 4 golden potatoes
- 5 medium size carrots (peeled)
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 can cream of chicken soup
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- 2 pie crusts (I used Pillsbury)
- 1 egg white 

Directions:
- Cook Chicken and add salt, pepper, and paprika (set aside)
- Cook potatoes and carrots until tender (I steam cooked mine in the microwave)
- Combine sour cream, cream of chicken, and chicken stock
- Add cooked potatoes and carrots to soup mixture. Add peas and cooked chicken.
- Place pie crust in pan - poke holes in the bottom of crust and then add your filling
- Place top crust onto of filling. Poke holes on top.
- Whisk egg white and brush on the top of crust 
- Bake at 425 for 30-35 minutes.
- Let stand for 3-4 minutes before cutting

Enjoy!   

Italian Beef Penne

Italian Beef Penne

I just got a pressure cooker for Christmas and absolutely LOVE it! Tonight I made this pasta dish that I found on Pinterest. Here is the link to the recipe: 

 http://www.grouprecipes.com/131607/one-pot-pasta-dinner-pressure-cooker.html

This is a picture of the pressure cooker that I have: 

Love Story Sign

I made this awesome sign for my sister and brother in law! I love how it turned out. I used vinyl cut out from my Silhouette machine. I put it on a board that I got from hobby lobby that I painted blue then I sanded the edges. I also applied Mod Podge over the top to make sure the vinyl stayed in place. 

Here is a picture my silhouette file: 

And the final project with Brendan and Rachel...