Cooking with Demarle

Ingredients 1 cup butter 1¾ cups sugar 2 Tbs. orange zest 3 eggs ½ teaspoon vanilla ¾ cup buttermilk 2 cups fresh cranberries 2½ cups flour 2 teaspoon baking powder 1 tsp. salt ORANGE GLAZE 1½ cup powdered sugar 1 Tbs. orange juice 1 Tbs. orange zest 1-2 Tbs. milk or buttermilk ¼ teaspoon vanilla Instructions Preheat oven to 350’ In a large bowl, cream butter, sugar and orange zest together for 3 to 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time and beat an addition minute per egg. Add vanilla and mix in. In a separate large bowl, mix and combine dry ingredients together. Add dry ingredients alternatively with the buttermilk to the butter/sugar/orange zest/egg mixture. Fold in cranberries. Pour batter into mold of choice. I bake small loaves 20-23 at 340-350 degrees. My oven bakes hot. If using a larger mold. Bake approx 35-40 mins Unmold, cool and pour glaze over them.

This is a form of baked ziti with meat sauce, but all made in one pot. No more cooking in 2 pots on the stove and then in the oven in a third dish. The family loved this!  Ingredients: Olive oil 1 small onion, chopped 2 cloves of garlic, chopped (or these amazing frozen garlic chunks) italian seasoning (I just eyeball this, but I'm guessing I used 1 tsp of salt, pepper, 1 tbsp dried parsley, 2 tsp dried basil, or these fabulous frozen basil chunks) 1 lb ground beef (I prefer lean just so you don't have to drain it but up to you; could also use turkey, sausage, or no meat) 1 jar pasta sauce (I like the Trader Joe's tomato & basil marinara) 1 jar of water 1 15 oz can tomato sauce (or more of the jar, but this is how I made it tonight so those are the ingredients I'm listing) 1 lb your favorite tube pasta; we used penne pasta (tube just holds more stuff inside and tends to be better for this type of recipe) 1 cup mozzarella cheese, optional Se

I kind of copied this recipe but took ideas from multiple recipes, so here's how I made it. Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil (or enough to coat the bottom of the IP; I added more when I added the chicken) 1 small yellow onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 1 jalapeno, seeds removed and diced (we ommitted this to make it not spicy but added sauteed anaheim pepper as a garnish and it was yummy!!) 1 large bell pepper, chopped 2 cups frozen corn 1 lb chicken, cut into chunks; you could also use chicken thighs, shredded chicken or rotisserie chicken. I also seasoned the chicken with salt, pepper, chili powder, garlic powder before putting it in the pot. The chicken definitely needs seasoning, so use whatever kind of seasoning you like - spicy would work great here! Enchilada sauce; recommended is: 1 12 oz jar red enchilada sauce (about 1.5 cups) and 1 12 oz jar/can green enchilada sauce (about 1.5 cups). I prefer Rosarita red sauce and used 1.5 of the small cans and 1 12 oz