TUESDAY

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Apple Chicken (Or Bunny or Dove or Quail or Duck)

Ya take your meat animal and chop it up into legs and breasts and stuff
If you wanna be lazy just buy chicken breasts instead
Take a saucepan and fill it up about 3/4" deep witth apple juice
Dice up some mushrooms and peppers you like and sautee
(I like serranos)
Put in the bird or bunny parts and I like to add garlic and cayenne
Cook on kinda med-high for a couple minutes on each side then
put on medium-low and put the lid on.
When the chicken is cooked (15 minutes or so) serve on rice or cous cous

YUM.......Sweet and Sour and Spicy

Sometimes before the meat goes in I dip it in a light breading mix of flour
with jerk spices and quickly brown before it sees the sautee stuff

If you make it really spicy like I like people that come over won't steal your
food cos they're afraid of it which helps when you don't have a job most of
the time.

Tom H
Spicewood, TX

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Wild Rice Chili with Austrian Potato Torta

Chili:

1lb ground beef, ground turkey, or ground elk, venison, (for the hunters!)

1lb smoked sweet Kilbasa, polish sausage or venison sausage, cut into 1 inch chunks

1 large sweet onion (Vidalia or white onion), chopped

2 -3 cloves of garlic, chopped

1 large green or bell pepper, chopped

2 jalapeno peppers, chopped or sliced

4 celery stalks, chopped

1 16 oz can tomato juice, V8 or Snappy Tom

1 8 0z can chicken stock

1/4 C olive oil

1 8 oz can chopped tomatoes

1 8 oz can low fat refried beans

1 8 oz can red kidney beans (drained)

2 cups Minnesota Wild Rice, cooked

1 cup chopped walnuts

2 whole cinnamon sticks, or 2 Tsp ground cinnamon

Tabasco or hot sauce to taste

Chili Part ONE:

In a frying pan, brown the ground beef (or whatever) with half the onion. Drain fat & transfer to a large stock pot and turn heat on medium. Then add all the tomato juice, chicken stock, canned tomatoes, kidney beans, garlic, celery, green pepper, jalapeno pepper, and the rest of the onion. Slowly turn up heat until it reaches Medium High. Slowly add Olive oil, stir in can of refried beans, add the kielbasa or polish sausage then ad the 2 cinnamon sticks. Cover pot, turn heat down to simmer and let flavors blend together for at least 1 hour -- or use a slow cooker and let 'em go all day!.

Chili Part TWO:

Cook the wild rice, according to directions. Drain, set aside and let cool while the chili is simmering

30 minutes before serving, stir the wild rice and the chopped walnuts into the chili & simmer until ready to eat.

If you don't like your chili too thick you can always add more chicken stock or tomato juice, or just leave out the refried beans. Up to you. Careful not to dish up the cinnamon sticks into anybody's bowl.

Torta:

3 lbs potatoes shredded or ground in food processor

1 medium onion, chopped

1 Cup flour

1 Cup Olive or Canola Oil

2 eggs, whole

1 tsp salt

pepper to taste.

Shred or grind up the potatoes (slightly older potatoes work better than totally fresh for this recipe) and put them in a

big bowl. Add the flour, eggs, onion, salt, pepper and oil then, using your hands mush it all together really well, until thoroughly mixed.

Preheat Oven to 475f . Grease up two 12x12" cookie sheets & spread potato mixture evenly over the sheets and not too thick!. Brush the top with a little extra oil Bake the hell out of the torta for 1 hour 30 minutes -- or until slightly burnt on the edges and golden brown (done) in the center.

Take out of oven & let cool for 20 minutes. cut into squares and serve with Chili. The crunchier ends are great for dipping.

Plus you can get creative and add toppings if you want - like sliced olives or peppers, pepperoni, sausage, parmesan cheese -- like a big potato pizza (no sauce though -- yuck)

This meal is awesome! You don't want to eat too much, because it is really, REALLY filling -- but it makes a lot you can serve a LOT of people, so its really good party food - for football beer parties (tailgating), being in cool weather, or a Sunday afternoon dinner when you can just laze around and enjoy yourself, then take a big nap afterwards. Leftovers are awesome. The chili freezes really well, but the Torta should be eaten within a couple of days 'cause it won't keep longer than that in the refrigerator.

Polly, Green Bay WISCONSIN (GO PACKERS!)

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