Twisted Sister Food

TWISTED SISTERS CORNBREAD QUEST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 F . Grease an 8x8 baking pan & set aside.
• Stir the all-purpose flour, corn flour, salt & baking powder together in a mixing bowl.
• Add eggs, sour cream & vegetable oil to the dry ingredients & mix well with a whisk. You may use a hand-held mixer on a low setting if you wish (I did).
• Fold in the creamed corn until well-distributed.
• Pour into the greased baking dish & bake 25-28 minutes or until it tests done. I suggest the longer time if you are at all in doubt.
• Allow to cool until it cuts easily into 9 square pieces. Serve & enjoy!
• NOTE: For those of you who have cornmeal & prefer using it, this is 1 of the few recipes where cornmeal & corn flour can be swapped in the stated amounts. The texture will change somewhat, but not in a bad way. :-).

TWISTED SISTER'S CREAMY CUCUMBER SALAD

Steps:

• Peel & slice cucumbers in 1/2 in thick slices. Then half ea slice & transfer all slices to a lrg mixing bowl (See note).
• Roughly dice red onion & add to the bowl.
• Quarter tomatoes, remove seeds, rough dice the tomato "meat" & add to the bowl.
• Thinly slice 1/2 green pepper, cut slices in 1 in strips & add to the bowl.
• Toss prepared "veggies" to achieve a good distributional mix.
• Add last 6 ingredients to bowl, mix well & refrigerate at least 2 hrs (stirring at least once to redistribute ingredients).
• Notes: The cucumber cut is esp important. If thinly sliced, most cucumbers wilt & do not retain their crunch. -- When all ingredients have been combined, the mixture will appear dry & lack a creamy texture or appearance. DO NOT PANIC - that will begin to change almost immediately.
• Note added 7/24/06: In response to reviewer comments, the amt of salt has been reduced by half. If you reduce further, you will likely lose any salt component in the mix.

SLEEPY TWISTED SISTER'S G-N-G BREAKFAST RAMEKIN

Steps:

• Lightly butter 2 ramekins using a pastry brush.
• Put 2 ounces flavourful mashed potatoes or seasoned fried potatoes in the bottom of the ramekins. Layer hard-boiled egg you've sliced w/your handy-dandy egg slicer over the potatoes, putting half the egg in ea ramekin. Layer ea ramekin w/a ham slice. Top ea ramekin w/1 tbsp grated cheddar cheese & garnish w/chopped fresh chives.
• Refrigerate till your DH is ready to G-N-G & train him to be ever so quiet as he nukes his breakfast & leaves for work!
• NOTE: I thot the fresh chive garnish was a really nice "extra effort" touch. :-).