Debbie's Family Recipe Book: June 2020

June 30, 2020

Homemade sloppy joes

1 pound hamburger or venison
¼ pound bacon
¾ teaspoon salt
½ cup chopped onion (opt)
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons prepared mustard
½ cup barbecue sauce
¼ cup catsup
⅓ cup brown sugar or maple syrup

Instructions

Brown hamburger with salt, drain. Cut bacon in bite-sized pieces, fry, add onions during last minute of frying. Pour into meat (including drippings). Add remaining ingredients, mix and simmer for 30 minutes.
Serve with your favorite bread or sandwich buns.
Serves 6

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June 29, 2020

Minty Peach lemonade

2 3/4 cup water, divided
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup packed mint leaves
4 medium peaches
1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice

INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare mint simple syrup by combining 3/4 cup water and sugar in a small pot. Set pot over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Stir until sugar dissolves and then remove from heat. Add mint and allow to steep until syrup has cooled. Strain and discard mint leaves. You should end up with a little over a cup of simple syrup.
While syrup is cooling, wash peaches, remove pits, and cut in chunks. Puree peach chunks in a blender or small food processor until smooth. Set a fine mesh sieve over a bowl and pour in peach puree, pushing it through using the back of a spoon. Discard skins/solids. You should end up with about 1 cup of peach puree.

In a pitcher, mix together 1 cup mint simple syrup, peach puree, fresh lemon juice, and remaining 2 cups water (reserve any leftover simple syrup for another use). Refrigerate lemonade until chilled and/or serve over ice.

Notes

Feel free to adjust this recipe to your taste, adding more water, lemon juice or simple syrup.
This recipe can easily be halved or multiplied. Basically, you just need to use 1 part simple syrup, 1 part peach puree, 1 part lemon juice, and 2 parts water.

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June 28, 2020

Sunshine smoothie

1 orange, peeled and segmented
1 banana, cut into chunks and frozen
1 cup frozen pineapple chunks
1 cup frozen mango chunks
1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt, or plain regular yogurt
1/4 cup almond milk, or your preferred type of milk
1/2 to 1 cup orange juice
Squeeze of honey, to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

Place fruit in blender. Add yogurt, coconut milk, and 1/2 cup orange juice on top. Start blender and, if necessary, add a bit more orange juice to get things going (or for a thinner consistency). Blend for a few minutes, until completely smooth. Taste and, if desired, add a squeeze of honey. Blend for 1 minute more. Serve immediately.

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June 27, 2020

Homemade gatorade

3 cups 100% pure coconut water
1 cup 100% fruit juice
2 tablespoons honey
1/4 teaspoon sea salt, such as RealSalt
4 cups water
2 to 3 teaspoons fresh lemon or lime juice, optional

INSTRUCTIONS

In a 2-quart pitcher, combine the coconut water and fruit juice. Stir in the honey and sea salt until completely dissolved. Stir in the water and add the lemon or lime juice, to taste, if desired. Serve chilled.

Notes

This homemade sport drink has a mild fruit flavor, and it it not as sweet as Gatorade or other store-bought sports drinks. If you prefer a sweeter drink, you may adjust the sweetness to taste (after combining all of the ingredients) by gradually stirring in additional fruit juice (up to 1 cup) and/or honey (up to 1 tablespoon) until the flavor is to your liking.
To wean my kids off of overly-sweet store-bought sports drinks, I started out making this recipe on the sweeter side (I doubled the fruit juice and added extra honey). Then I added slightly less fruit juice and honey each subsequent time I made it until I was eventually at the proportions called for in this recipe.
If you'd like to keep a smaller pitcher or container in the fridge, you may mix together all of the ingredients except the water. Then when you're ready to serve, fill a glass halfway with the homemade sports drink "concentrate," and then fill the remaining half of the glass with cold water.

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June 26, 2020

Minty peach tea punch

2 cups sugar
7 cups water, DIVIDED
4 family-sized iced tea bags
2 cups loosely-packed fresh mint leaves
2 1/2 pounds fresh ripe peaches , (about 9 average-sized peaches)
1/4 cup freshly-squeezed lemon juice
3 cans (12-ounces each)ginger ale, chilled
2 liters club soda, chilled, DIVIDED

INSTRUCTIONS

PREPARE THE SIMPLE SYRUP: In a small saucepan, combine the sugar and 1 cup of water. Set the saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and stir for a minute or two until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
PREPARE THE MINT TEA: In a large pot, bring the remaining 6 cups water to a boil. Remove the pot from the heat and add the tea bags and the mint leaves. Allow to steep for 10 minutes. Remove the tea bags. Cool to room temperature and strain the tea into a 2-gallon jug, punch bowl, or container, discarding the mint leaves.
PREPARE THE PEACH NECTAR: While the simple syrup and mint tea are cooling, add enough water to a large pot to cover the peaches once they are added (the pot will probably be about 1/2 to 2/3 full of water). Bring the water to a rolling boil. Gently lower the peaches into the boiling water and cook for about 30 seconds until the skins start to split. Use a slotted spoon to immediately transfer the peaches from the boiling water into an ice bath (a large bowl filled with ice and water). After 20 seconds in the ice bath, remove a peach, pinch the skin, and slip off and discard the skin.
Cut the peaches into slices, discarding the pits (you should end up with about 4 cups of sliced peaches). Add the peaches to a blender or food processor along with the lemon juice. Blend/process until smooth. Pour the peach puree through a fine mesh sieve into the jug of cooled mint tea. Add 1 cup simple syrup and stir well to combine all ingredients (cover and refrigerate leftover simple syrup).

Cover and refrigerate punch for at least 4 -- and up to 12 -- hours. Just before serving, gently stir in the ginger ale and 1 liter club soda. Taste and adjust the sweetness by adding more simple syrup (for sweeter) or more club soda (for less sweet) or both (for sweeter and fizzier).

Notes

The ideal peaches to use in this recipe should be sweet, soft, and ripe, not hard or green. If the skins don't slip off the peaches after the boiling water/ice bath, they probably aren't ripe enough.
You can actually make the punch early in the day (or even the day before) and allow the ingredients to chill. Just make sure that you wait to add the ginger ale and club soda to the punch until just before serving.
This recipe will use one full liter of club soda for sure. You may not use the second liter, or you may use only a portion of it, depending on how sweet/fizzy you prefer your punch. Any leftovers from the second liter of club soda can be used to "refresh" the fizziness of any leftover servings of punch the next day.
If peaches are out of season, you may substitute 4 cups of store-bought "peach nectar" (try to find a brand with all-natural ingredients) for the fesh peach puree.

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