Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[pacerron]

Ron- this is a pecan pie recipe I use to use at the restaurant.

Jack Daniel's Chocolate Pecan Pie


Rich pie with a touch of kentucky bourbon to enhance an already amazing pie. Chocolate and nutty, this is a great pie for serving to guests and family, especially during the holidays.

Ingredients -

1 (9 inch) Pastry Shell
3 Extra-Large Eggs
2 Extra-Large Egg Yolks
2/3 cup Sugar
3/4 cup Dark Corn Syrup
5 tablespoons Butter, melted
1/4 cup Jack Daniel's or Whiskey
1/2 cup chopped Bittersweet Chocolate or SemiSweet Chocolate Morsels
1-1/4 cups Pecan Halves or pieces

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Place pastry dough into pie plate.

3. Trim dough even with the plate edge.

4. Place the pie plate on baking sheet.

5. Combine eggs, egg yolks, and sugar in a large bowl. Whisk together until well mixed.

6. Fold in the corn syrup, butter and whiskey. Blend well.

7. Dust 1/3 cup of the chocolate pieces over the bottom of the pastry crust.

8. Pour in the pecan pie mixture.

9. Dust 1/2 cup of the pecans over the filling.

10. Dust remaining chocolate over pie filling and top with remaining pecans.

Lou may like this one.

Charlie

Charlie,
Sounds good:thumbsup:
Same basic recipe my wife uses.... except

She uses White Corn Syrup and no extra egg yolks ( to keep TxDon happy )

We will have to try adding the chocolate and the booze.
Ours was delicious last night with a little vanilla ice cream on the side of a warmed piece of pie.

 

[Bird]

Charlie,
Sounds good:thumbsup:
Same basic recipe my wife uses.... except

She uses White Corn Syrup and no extra egg yolks ( to keep TxDon happy )

We will have to try adding the chocolate and the booze.
Ours was delicious last night with a little vanilla ice cream on the side of a warmed piece of pie.

My wife has made pecan pies with the white Karo, but I prefer the dark Karo, and she's not used the extra egg yolks, chocolate, or whiskey.

The house we owned from 1977 to 1989 had a wet bar and when we bought that place, I stocked it with just a little bit of a lot of different drinks. The bottle of Jack Daniel's black label and the bottle of Crème de Menthe were two bottles that were opened for one taste only and finally thrown away when we sold the house because I didn't know anyone who would drink either of those.

 

[jinman]

Well, during my previous dissertation I was busy multi-tasking making Ron's Chile Soup complete with potatoes.
Only used a third of the sausage.
Very easy and ready to eat tonight and tomorrow if we have a power outage and have to heat it in the micro.

Ron, traditional chili or not, I would not turn down a big steaming bowl of that Ron's Chile (Chili?) Soup. BTW: I've heard that Chile soup is very popular in Valparaiso and Santiago.

 

[jinman]

I avoid all of the frustration. I threw out the lights and never replaced them! :laughing: :cool2:

Oh no! You can't throw them out. You have to keep all those old lights in a big box so that your spouse or significant other finds them in 3-5 years and spends half the day trying to get them working while you are at work. When you come home and tell him/her that they are bad strings you just kept, well . . . the Christmas Spirit may be temporarily put on hold.:laughing:

 

[jinman]

My mom used to make lots of pies when I was a kid. Of course, I loved her pecan pie, coconut creme pie, peach pie, and apple pie. Still, my two very favorite things were her pineapple pies and blackberry cobblers. To this day, I love anything pineapple. I'd probably OD if I lived in Hawaii. I buy fresh ripe pineapples quite often and drink pineapple juices and mixes all the time. If you haven't tried Pineapple-Mango juice, you just don't know what you are missin'.

 

[pacerron]

Ron, traditional chili or not, I would not turn down a big steaming bowl of that Ron's Chile (Chili?) Soup. BTW: I've heard that Chile soup is very popular in Valparaiso and Santiago.

Yep..
What makes it good this time of year is the #4166 onion from the Andes mountains of Peru.
The veggie bins of our 2nd fridge are full of 4166 right now. They won't be available in this area
past December. The 4166 is a great onion variety. It will be down hill for the other varieties from now till
garden time when we raise the onion sets/bulbs. Texas Sweet onion plants ( I think you call them "sets" ) do grow well here too.

 

[Lou66]

Charlie that is all most the same receipt I use now.. Yes I.. I do most of the cooking now that I am retired.. I add whiskey or wines to a lot of my foods,, well not gravy,, real gravy made with milk,, whole or deluded,, back to the pie business,, I like to use Johnny Walker double black most of the time,, I will add it to my chili along with bittersweet chocolate,, I like the taste of chocolate with the Scotch favor taste,, I tried scotch and chocolate in biscuits one time.. I don't think they would have been a best seller.:confused3:. You get that feeling when someone say.. what in the He77 did you do to these biscuits.:shocked:. So you don't like them? is that what you are saying?..no body took seconds.. Lou

 

[Lou66]

Well I got to mow the lawn today,, with the bagger mostly to pickup pecan leaves.. that's the bad thing about pecan trees is the leaves,, They do put out there share,, these are native,, small but tasty.. lot of oil.. good in pies,, but lot of breaking.. I guess y'all get the picture.:laughing:. I really don't what to do it.. but I got no choice,, ask my wife.. Lou

 

[jinman]

I tried scotch and chocolate in biscuits one time.. I don't think they would have been a best seller.:confused3:. You get that feeling when someone say.. what in the He77 did you do to these biscuits.:shocked:. So you don't like them? is that what you are saying?..no body took seconds.. Lou

Way back in the mid-'70s, I was in the US Navy and bartending part time at the CPO Club on the Phila Naval Base. Two of my customers ordered drinks that I just cringed while making them. One was scotch and milk and the other scotch and tonic. I think scotch and milk or with heavy cream is fairly common, but scotch and tonic curls my toenails just thinking of it.

 

[Western]

Charlie, I am going to have to try that recipe:thumbsup: Pecan pie is usually too sweet for me, but the JD may knock some of the "edge" off:laughing:

Still pretty wet around my place, everything but the roads. The slow melt makes it feel like we have had a tropical rain storm for 3 weeks!. The "real" rain gauge I got this past spring measures moisture also in the form of Sleet,ice, hail and according to what I dumped after it thawed was 1.53"!!! WOOOT

I think it wad TXDon or Bird, that clued me into the Stratus gauge, now I see why the weather spotter folks use them:thumbsup:

 

[farmgirl19]

Oh no! You can't throw them out. You have to keep all those old lights in a big box so that your spouse or significant other finds them in 3-5 years and spends half the day trying to get them working while you are at work. When you come home and tell him/her that they are bad strings you just kept, well . . . the Christmas Spirit may be temporarily put on hold.:laughing:

I went through the phase of keeping all of the old junk, and am still a regular "pack rat", as my grandparents told me many stories about The Depression, and about saving everything. But, since *I* would be the one to have to work on them, and *I* would have to put them up, and *I* would have to take them down, I decided that *I* didn't need them!

I wouldn't mind the putting up so much, but I hate having to take things down. So, I have a windsock (appropriate for a pilot, dontcha think?) that looks like Scrooge, and wears a button that says, "BAH HUMBUG!" I have it out, and it won't take 2 minutes to undecorate and put it away. I can even do it, and not spill my drink!

 

[blueriver]

Charlie, I am going to have to try that recipe:thumbsup: Pecan pie is usually too sweet for me, but the JD may knock some of the "edge" off:laughing: Still pretty wet around my place, everything but the roads. The slow melt makes it feel like we have had a tropical rain storm for 3 weeks!. The "real" rain gauge I got this past spring measures moisture also in the form of Sleet,ice, hail and according to what I dumped after it thawed was 1.53"!!! WOOOT I think it wad TXDon or Bird, that clued me into the Stratus gauge, now I see why the weather spotter folks use them:thumbsup:

Very wet and soggy .. Everywhere the gator, the tractor or the truck dives it turns too mush .. Very nice around the hog feeders!!!!

 

[bindian]

I fed Purina Rabbit Chow, and since I had no idea what I was doing when I started raising rabbits, I bought a very good book on the subject at Tractor Supply Co. The book was published by the American Rabbit Breeders Association.

Bird,
Now that I think about it, the Albers pamphlet, I think, was sponsored by the American Rabbit Breeders Assoc.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Western]

Very wet and soggy .. Everywhere the gator, the tractor or the truck dives it turns too mush .. Very nice around the hog feeders!!!!

BR, I can only imagine!! When I was a kid, our neighbor had about 200 pigs, It was a total mess every time in was wet, but they seemed to love the **** out of it! They seemed to find all the mud in that Northern Arkansas rock!!

 

[bindian]

Brandi,
Your too young for the era back when animal feed used to come in pretty printed cloth sacks.
Maybe your lucky that way. Moms and grandmas used to make their daughters pretty little blouses
from the feed sacks.

Here is a little bunny raised on Albers
Rabbit feed is very basic compared to calf manna, but I'm surprised it has no Lysine.
We used to supplement our young horses with calf manna. It really helped them fill out.

We have a cat now that we got as a freebie at the animal shelter a couple years ago when they
had a free give away cat day. Within 2 weeks she had the sniffles and was sneezing out flem stuff.
Anti-biotics, Lysine and other goodies at the vet keep her breathing well for about 6 weeks with us using a childs vaporizer
next to her bed 2-3 times a day. We even make salt water nose drops to clear her up.
Some free cat :thumbdown: She is costing a bundle, but is the most loveable cat I have ever been around.
Most cats are like our barn cats, they could care less about people except at feed time.

The little bear in the second picture is made from cookie dough. One of my wife's associates made it and gave it to her
at Christmas time over 30 years ago.

My wethers would get (each day) a cup of calf manna, hen scratch, but I don't remember how much and a 1/8 block of alfalfa. Now that I am thinking about it....we fed our Momma rabbits a little calf manna after giving birth. Just mix it in with their feed. Maybe a handful.

I do remember our horse feed sacks being burlap. My brother and I cut out arm and neck holes and wore them once. They sure were sticky. We called them Toad sacks. or Toe sacks. Don't ask me why.

I think the reason my dogs trust and love me so much is I self medicate them. Only time I take them to the vet is for shots I can not give myself. Booger won't let me get out of the truck and into the house without me giving him some hugs.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

That sounds like it would be AWESOME. Thanks for posting that recipe.

That does sound awesome. I think I am gonna cancel the pecan pie I ordered from a coworker's wife and try making it next weekend. Any body got a recipe for bourbon balls?
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

I think it wad TXDon or Bird, that clued me into the Stratus gauge, now I see why the weather spotter folks use them

T'weren't me, must have been Don. My cheap rain gauge had about 2.75" of snow/sleet/ice? back on the 5th or 6th and when it melted I had about 1.62" of water.

We called them Toad sacks. or Toe sacks. Don't ask me why.

I guess I was nearly grown before I heard of burlap. We called them tow sacks, but don't know if that was spelled "toe" or "tow" or was an abbreviation for "tote".

 

[farmgirl19]

It was tow sacks around here.

 

[bindian]

It was tow sacks around here.

Okay, I spelled it wrong. Tow sacks it is.
hugs, Brandi

 

[farmgirl19]

Okay, I spelled it wrong. Tow sacks it is.
hugs, Brandi

I wish I had a nickel for every post of mine that I found a misspelled word in and got back in to edit and correct it before the window of time ran out!