Patti's Own Mushroom & Wild Rice Turkey Soup

One turkey carcass
1 lb carrots sliced
3 onions chopped into larger pieces
2 cans peas drained
4 pkgs of sliced fresh mushrooms
6 large stalks of thinly sliced celery
2 lbs chopped red small potatoes
two cups wild rice cooked
one cup brown rice cooked
herbs de Provence to taste at least 2 palm fulls (French spice found in gourmet spice shops)
left over chopped turkey to taste
salt, pepper
1/2 cup minced fresh dill
1/2 cup of minced fresh parsley
1/2 cup of chicken bullion from a granulated container 8 oz size

Place carcass in very large stock pot-- Cover with water and simmer for 4 hours.  Drain broth thru collander.  Remove large bones and turkey meat from bones, straining broth thru a collander.  Set turkey meat aside and chill.  Skim off fat from top of chilled broth and discard fat.  Return broth to burner.  Simmer for few hours adding the following:  carrots, onions, celery,  and potatoes.  Add herbs to provence (very important).....Add fresh dill minced.. simmer.  Add both cooked rices.  Add turkey chopped and sliced fresh mushrooms....Salt dissipates in flavor add lastly along with boullion (taught this in cooking school---helps to use less salt!!!! This makes a HUGE amount of soup...I give my soup away

to friends, family, at work....This makes lots & lots of soup!!!  I freeze in 1/2 gallon freezer bags.
Defrost nite before,  heat the soup & serve with a good whole grain bread, presto dinner....

Herbs de Provence can be found at gourmet spice shops.  I found mine sold thru French Pariesien chef
I met in New Orleans.  In Paris herbs to provence in used in so many dishes---it contains a blend of
spices including lavender, yes it is edible...this spice gives the perfect touch to vegetables, soups, meats
and you will slightly recognize the taste as if you've had it before somewhere...Yes, a good French
or European restaurant.....

Pumpkin Dump Cake

1 can pumpkin
3 eggs
12 oz can evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
1 teas cinnamon
 teas grated fresh nutmeg
salt slight sprinkle
1 yellow cake mix
1/2 cup pecans chopped
2 sticks melted butter

In med. bowl mix pumpkin, 3 eggs, evaporated milk and sugar.  Add cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.  Place
in 9 x 1 baking pan.   Sprinkle cake mix evenly over pumpkin layer.  Sprinkle pecans over all.  Evenly
drizzle melted butter over pecan layer.  Bake350 degrees 1/2 hour or till set.  Remove from oven.
Serve after letting settle for an hour.  Cut in squares.  Pumpkin will be soft under crust but able to be
served as squares.  This is incredible!  Best pumpkin dessert ever...Thank you to Mrs. Tonika, my

friend Phyllis's mom....INCREDIBLE!!!

Articoke Green Bean Casserole

4 cans green beans french style drained
l 6 oz pkg Trader Joe's frozen artichokes thawed separated and root chopped

Mix and place in 9 x 1 pan. Add 3-4 garlic chopped cloves. Sprinkle parmesan
cheese 1 cup over all. Sprinkle with seasoned bread crumbs. Drizzle olive
oil over all. Bake 350 1/2 hour.

Family Recipe for Wassil

2 quarts of apple juice
3/4 quart cranberry juice
1/4 cup sugar
1 teas of aromatic bitters (very important)
3 sticks of cinnamon
tablespoon of whole allspice tied in a cheesecloth
one large orange peeled and studded w/many cloves
1 cup rum
lemon or orange slices halved

Combine all but lemon slices in crock

pot and cook on high for l hr. till
hot. Turn to low/warm. Serve ladling into mugs/cups. Float half slice
of lemon or orange in cup.

Grandma Sirek's French Canadian Bread Dressing

2 1/2 loaves of bread cubed with a knife
1 onnion chopped fine
4 stalks celery chopped fine
3 boiled potatoes peeled and chop
1 lb pork sausage lean
salt, pepper
1 teas. rubbed sage

Place cubed bread in large bowl or cover of roasting pan. Add onion and celery.
Add uncooked pork sausage. Mix in with fingers. Add potatoes mixing in with fingers. Add sage, salt & pepper mixing in with fingers. Place in large greased
pan (I use spray Pam). Bake 350 till slightly crunchy on top approx 1/2 hour.

Healthy Pumpkin Gingerbread

1 pkg of gingerbread mix
1 can of pumpkin

Mix together gingerbread mix and pumpkin. Pour in 11 x 6 pan.
Top with almonds or walnuts...Bake at 350 degrees till center bounces back.
Serve warm or cut in squares cover with foil serve later...
This is my own recipe I comprised for a healthy alternative to gingerbread.

Inside Out Stuffed Pepper/Cabbage Roll Soup

2 lbs ground sirloin
4 cans diced tomatoes with juice
6 cans tomato soup
2 cups catsup
2 pkgs coleslaw mix (shredded cabbage)
1 lb carrots sliced in food processor
3-4 diced onions
1 cup fresh chopped basil
6-7 bay leaves
small handful of celery seed
2 teas of allspice or more to taste
small handful of caraway seed (very important)
2 cups of cooked brown rice (1 cup raw cooked makes 2 cups)
7 chopped large sweet peppers
2

teaspoons of stevia to taste or sugar
salt, pepper fresh ground to taste

Brown gr. sirloin in very large stock stock pot. Add onion, carrots, simmer
20 min with couple cans of the tomatoes
with juice. Add shredded cabbage
(coleslaw mix),and soups, remaining 2 cans of tomatoes with juice, 6 cups
ofwater,fresh basil, bay leaves. Simmer half hour. Add celery seed, allspice,
caraway seed,cooked brown rice. Simmer half hour and add salt, pepper, stevia to
taste. This makes a LOT of soup!!! Halve the recipe for family. This was made
for a chilli/soup cook-off.