Saturday cooking

Food Pyramid had ground white turkey on sale for $1 a pound this week. I bought 10 rolls and cooked it all into taco filling. Turkey looks a lot different than ground beef while it is cooking, but once it is fully cooked and seasoned, it looks and tastes just about the same as beef. I used this taco seasoning recipe multiplied times 10, but with a lot less pepper.
We had taco salads for supper and the rest of the filling is in the freezer for future meals.
I baked a loaf of Nut Bread, a recipe I found on SusanBranch.com several years ago. It is a very nice bread that calls for no oil or shortening.

Nut Bread

1 egg

1/3 Cup sugar

1 Cup Milk

2 C flour - (today I used 1 C all purpose and 1 C whole wheat)

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 Cup chopped walnuts ( pecans are good too)
Preheat the oven the 350 degrees.

Beat the egg and sugar together with a whisk. Whisk in the milk. With a spoon or spatula, mix in the dry ingredients. Add nuts.

Pour into a very well greased 8x4 bread pan.

Bake about 35-45 minutes or until it tests done.

Serve warm with a little butter. Jeff likes it toasted.

It seemed a little wasteful to have the entire oven heated up with just one thing baking so I mixed up a batch of bar cookies to bake at the same time.

Dream Bars

Preheat oven to 350. ( I baked these at 325 today so they took a little longer)

bottom crust

1 stick butter

1 Cup flour

2 T sugar

pinch of salt

Melt the butter. Stir in flour, sugar and salt. Press into a greased 9x9 baking pan. Bake about 15 minutes or until the crust is very lightly browned.

topping

1 egg

3/4 C brown sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

1 cup coconut

beat the egg with a fork. Stir in brown sugar and vanilla. Stir in coconut last. Carefully spread on hot crust. Bake about 15 more minutes or until brown.