Finnish Pasty Recipe

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Some of you know that my maternal grandparents immigrated here from Finland.  Many of the Finnish people went to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to live as did my grandparents.  The months are very long in the winter in the Upper Peninsula and very cold.  So, they ate heartily in order to sustain themselves and this is just one of the many recipes they made to do just that.

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Apple and Pumpkin Spice Muffins

1/2 Cup of skim milk
4 eggs whites, lightly beaten
1-16 oz of pumpkin
3 TBSP vegetable oil
2 Cups finely diced unpeeled green apple
1 Cup white flour
1 1/2 Cups of whole wheat flour
1 1/4 Cups  Sugar
4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp baking soda

Preheat oven to 350. Combine milk, egg substitute or egg whites, pumpkin,oil and diced apple.  Mix flours, sugar, pumpkin pie spice and baking soda together and add to the other ingredients.  Stir just until moistened.  Spoon into muffin tins that have been sprayed with cooking spray or lined with papers.  Bake for 20 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cranberry Muffins

1 Cup of fresh cranberries
1/3 Cup of confectioners sugar
2 Cups of unbleached all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 Cup granulated sugar
1 egg slightly beaten
1 Cup of whole milk
3TBS unsalted butter, melted

Preheat oven to 400.  Grease muffin cups.  Pick over, wash and drain the cranberries.  Sprinkle with confectioners sugar and set aside.  In a small mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and granulated sugar.  Sift a second time into a large bowl and set aside.  In a small bowl stir together the egg and milk and then the butter,  Add the milk mixture to the reserved flour mixture, stirring as little as possible, just enough to moisten the dry ingredients.  Fold in the cranberries.  Fill muffin cups 2/3 full and bake 20-25 minutes.  Cool briefly on a wire rack.

Holiday Broccoli Casserole

2-16 oz pkgs frozen broccoli
1/2-9 oz package of frozen corn
one 24 oz carton of cottage cheese
3 Eggs
1/3 Cup of margarine or butter
1/3 Cup of all purpose flour
2 Cups of shredded Swiss cheese
1/2 Cup of chopped onion
8 slices of bacon cooked crisp and crumbled
1/2 Cup of Wheat Germ

salt and pepper to taste


Preheat oven to 350.  Cook broccoli and corn, separately according to package directions; drain.  Combine cottage cheese, eggs, butter and flour in a blender or food processor until smooth and set aside.  Combine, broccoli, corn, onion, cheese and salt and pepper in a large mixing bowl; blend in cottage cheese mixture into a 9x11 baking dish;sprinkle with bacon and wheat germ on top.  Bake for 45 minutes.

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TA DA!

I wanted to categorize the recipes posted on this blog.  I was not certain how to accomplish this.  As noted, in a previous posting, I thought I could not have an index and an archive of the recipes.  However, with much determination to have both, I figured it out on my own. Nope, no help from "Bill Gates, Jr." (my hubby),  I did it all on my own.  Am I proud?  You bet I am!

After I finished the index, I took note of the most popular categories; Desserts and Appetizers.  Hmmmmm...what does that say..Hahahaha!  I will say this though some of the recipes are cross-referenced in their perspective categories.

Now don't forget we can still look at recipes in the archives.  Just scroll down a little further to view archived recipes.