Family Cookbook :)

Intro :

About Me : I was born around so many cultures food wise. From Mexican style food from my dads side. Then Asian food from my moms side. Then there’s all the other weird foods that my parents, and relatives learned to make along the way.

One of my favorites meals growing up was Craft Mac N’ Cheese and cut up hot dogs. Which always had to be served on my lady bug plate, that disappeared after I turned 8.

I filled this book with foods that I grew up with, and foods that I love to make. Foods from Homemade Mac N’ Cheese to Slices of Cucumber and lime. I hope you enjoy these recipes 🙂

Table Of Contents :

Breakfast : Pages 2 – 4

Lunch : Pages 5 – 7

Snacks : 8 – 12

Dinner : 13 – 15

Breakfast :

Biscuits & Gravy                             Serves : 5-6 

Ingredients :

1/4 cup flour

Half a Stick of Butter

2 cups milk

Breakfast Sausage

Salt and Pepper

1/2 cup Heavy Cream

Pillsbury Buttermilk Biscuits

Instructions :

1. Make a rue using butter, and flour
2. Then add milk to rue, after add heavy cream
3. While letting the gravy sit, cook breakfast sausage unitl brown
4. When the gravy is pretty thick add in Sausage
5. Heat oven, and put biscuits in oven
6. Add Salt and Pepper to taste
7. Once both are ready, plate and enjoy

Purpose : My mom use to make this every weekend since I was little. And I just learned how to make this, so I decided to add it to my book .

Breakfast :

     Burritos                                                        Serves : 5/6

Ingredients :

1 lb. of bacon / sausage

Half Onion ; chopped

Half Bell pepper ; chopped

Flour Tortillas

6 eggs ; scrambled

1 cup frozen hash browns

Hot Sauce of Choice

Instructions :

1. Cook Bacon / Breakfast Sausage
2. Put hash browns, bell peppers, and onions in a pan and cook on low heat
3. Once the hash brown & onion mixture is done cooking. Take 6 eggs and scramble them.
4. After the eggs are done, put the hash brown & onion mix in the pan with the eggs. And add the bacon / breakfast sausage.
5. Mix all those together.

Purpose : I put this recipe in my book because it was one of my favorites when I was little, but we didn’t make it that often.

Breakfast :

French Toast                                                  Serves : 6/7

Ingredients :

White Bread

5 eggs

2 tablespoons of cinnamon

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

1 cup milk

1 tablespoon sugar

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Instructions :

1. Mix together milk, eggs, and vanilla extract in a large bowl.
2. In a smaller bowl mix together cinnamon, sugar, and nutmeg.
3. Add the dry ingredients and wet ingredients.
4. Put a medium sized pan on stove with medium heat.
5. Take individual slices of bread, and evenly coat them in the egg mixture.
6. Then put the coated slices of bread, and place them on the greased pan.
7. Cook until brown.

Purpose : I always loved eating this , and making this. Even though I always end up making a mess.

Lunch

    BLT                                                          Servings : 1

Ingredients :

2 or 3 slices of bacon

Romaine Lettuce

Sliced Turkey

Optional : Cheese

Optional : Tomato

Bread

Instructions :

1.  Place ingredients on two slices of bread
2. Eat the sandwich

Purpose : I added this recipe because it’s really easy to make.

Lunch :

Taquitos                                                 Serves: Depends

Ingredients :

Shredded Chicken

Corn Tortillas

Hot Sauce of Choice

Instructions :

1. Cook Shredded Chicken
2. Put medium sized pan on the stove.
3. Place oil on pan
4. Evenly distribute chicken into tortillas
5. Roll up taquitos
6. Carefully place on pan . And cook until golden brown.

Purpose : I added this recipe to my cookbook because I never really see taquitos in cookbooks, and I really like taquitos.

Lunch :

Garden Salad                                        Serves: Depends

Ingredients :                                              

Romaine Lettuce

Sliced Cucumbers

Sunflower Seeds

Shredded Cheese of Choice

Optional : Cherry Tomatoes

Instructions :

1. Rinse Lettuce, Cherry Tomatoes, and Cucumbers
2. Slice Cucumbers, and Cherry Tomatoes
3. Toss : Lettuce, Tomatoes, and Cucumbers in bowl
4. Then add cheese, and sunflower seeds
5. Lastly add salad dressing

Purpose : I added this because salads are super tasty and they’re easy to make

Snacks :

Cucumbers & Lime                                  Serves : 2 

Ingredients :

One Cucumber

Half a Lime ( juiced )

Spicy Seasoning of Choice

Instructions :

1. First take a potato peeler and skin the cucumber
2. Then slice the cucumber into shape of choice
3. Put the slices in a bowl and take your lime juice and drizzle it over slices
4. Then lightly toss the slices and juice so it evenly coats each slice
5. Add Seasoning
6. Enjoy 🙂

Purpose : I added this because I’ve been making it for a while and it’s really easy to make

Snacks :

Pretzel Bites                                       Serves : 5 

Ingredients :

1 1/2 cup water

1 1/4 tsp. active dry yeast

2 tbs. brown sugar

1 1/4 tsp. salt

1 cup bread flour

3 cups white flour

2 tbs. baking soda

2 more cups water

2-4 tbs. butter ( melted )

Instructions :

1. Mix 1 1/2 cup water , and yeast until dissolved
2.  Add sugar, and salt, then add flour and knead dough
3. Let rise for 45 minutes
4. Meanwhile mix baking soda, and 2 cups water in a bowl, preheat oven 450 degrees
5. Once dough is done rising, pinch off little chunks of dough, and dip in baking soda mixture
6. Place on baking sheet, and bake for ten minutes
7. Coat pretzels in butter , and add coarse salt if you want

Small Disclaimer : this isn’t my recipe but I like making it

https://www.food.com/recipe/auntie-annes-pretzels-copycat-59462 ( that’s the link ) 🙂

Purpose : I added these because I love them. And they’re honestly pretty good. Plus they don’t take 3 hours to make

Snacks :

Beets & Balsamic                                Serves : 1-2

Ingredients :

1 beet ( sliced with potato peeler )

Balsamic Dressing ( preferably the Good Season Italian Dressing made with Balsamic Vinegar )

Oregano

Black Pepper

Instructions :

1. Take your beet, and skin it with a potato peeler or just slice into small slices.
2. Add balsamic, and beet slices in bowl
3. Toss ( like you would toss a salad )
4. Add light oregano, and black pepper
5. Eat it 🙂

Purpose : I’ve added this because it’s pretty healthy and it doesn’t taste really nasty. Even though beets without the dressing are gross and flavorless.

Snacks :

Fruit Salad                                              Serves : 3-4 

Ingredients :

Half a Watermelon

16 oz tub of Strawberries

Raspberries

Green Grapes

Instructions :

1. Take Melon Baller and scoop Watermelon
2. Cut strawberries
3. Add berries, grapes, and watermelon
4. Toss
5. Refrigerate

Purpose : My mom used to make this all the time when we would go the peoples houses for parties, but since were in quarantine I haven’t had it in a while 🙁

Snacks :

Peanut Butter Blossoms                   Serves : 48 

Ingredients :

48 Hershey’s Kisses

1/2 cup shortening

3/4 cup Creamy Peanut Butter

1/3 cup white & brown sugar

1 egg

2 tbs. milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/2 cup flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

Another 1/3 cup white sugar

Instructions :

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees
2. Beat together peanut butter, and shortening
3. Add sugar to mixture. Then add egg, milk, and vanilla
4. Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt
5. Take 1 inch balls of dough , and roll them into 1/3 sugar
6. Place on Baking Sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes
7. Take out of oven, then let the cookies sit for 10 minutes.
8. Add Hershey’s kisses afterwards.

Link to Recipe :  https://www.hersheys.com/kitchens/en_us/recipes/peanut-butter-blossoms.html

Purpose : I added these because they’re pretty good. Plus when I was little I used to get babysat by a family friend, and her husband liked these cookies so we would make them for him.

Dinner :

Gouda Mac N’ Cheese                    Serves : 5-6

Ingredients :

Boxed Macaroni

1/4 cup flour

Half a Stick of Butter

1/2 Cup Heavy Cream

2 cups Milk

1 cup Gouda Cheese ( shredded )

1 cup Gruyere Cheese ( shredded )

1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese ( shredded )

Salt and Pepper

Breadcrumbs

Instructions :

1. Heat stove to low/medium heat
2. Use flour and butter to make a rue
3. Then after the rue is brown, you add the heavy cream
4. After the rue and cream is well mixed, add the milk
5. Meanwhile put Macaroni in a pot full of boiling water
6. Once the mixture is thick, add the Gouda & Gruyere ; Mix Well
7. Then add salt, pepper, and Parmesan
8. After take cheese sauce , and take the noodles ( drained ) and mix until all noodles are fully coated
9. Preheat the oven to 375, and Put the Mac N’ Cheese in a separate pan and sprinkle breadcrumbs on top
10. Place pan in oven for like 20 minutes or until the breadcrumbs are golden brown

Purpose : I added this recipe to my book because it’s actually not that horrible tasting. Because every other time something has had Gouda is usually tastes gross. We also used to make it all the time during the holidays .

Dinner :

Grilled Cheese with Marinara          Serves : 1

Ingredients :

2 pieces of White Bread

Butter

Shredded Mozzarella

Jar of Marinara Sauce

Instructions :

1. Place a pan on a medium heated stove
2. Take both your slices of bread , and lightly butter them on both sides
3. Then add mozzarella and add it to the pieces of bread. Put both the slices together and make a sandwich
4. Before you put the sandwich on the stove take about half the jar of marinara and put it in a separate pot and heat it
5. Place sandwich on stove and cook until cheese is melted
6. Then plate the sandwich & the sauce a plate and enjoy

Purpose : I hadn’t ever had these until I was like 8. The first time I ever had them it was on a Sunday, when my cousins, aunt and uncle were all at my house to watch the Walking Dead. My aunt taught my mom how to make them. And mom makes them every once in a while .

Dinner :

Pasta Salad                                            Serves : 4-5

Ingredients :

A box of rigatoni pasta

A half a stick of salami

Cherry Tomatoes

Cucumber

Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing

Parmesan Cheese

Instructions :

1. Place a medium sized pot with water on a medium heated stove
2. Once the water is boiling add the pasta and cook for about 10 minutes
3. While the pasta is cooking, take the salami and cut it into little chunks
4. Cut cherry tomatoes in half, then take a cucumber and skin it then cut it into little triangles
5. When the pasta is done , wait for it to cool and then add salami, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and cheese
6. Then lightly toss until everything is evenly distributed
7. Add Dressing and toss one more time
8. Enjoy

Purpose : I added this because it’s a really good summer food, to serve at like a Family Dinner , or a Picnic.