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Recipe Exploration: Blue Ribbon Chili
By: Renee (modified from All Recipe)
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 1 hr
Servings: 8
Ingredients:
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- ¼ teaspoon of red pepper chili flakes
- 1 28 ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 (8 ounce) jar salsa
- 1 package of chili seasoning mix
- ½ (15 ounce) can light red kidney beans
- ½ (15 ounce) can dark red kidney beans
- ½ (15 ounce) can of chili beans
Directions:
- In a large pot over medium heat, combine the ground beef and the onion and saute for 10 minutes, or until meat is browned and onion is tender. Drain grease, if desired.
- Add the ground black pepper, garlic salt, red pepper flakes, tomato sauce, salsa, chili seasoning mix and beans. Mix well, reduce heat to low and simmer for at least an hour.
Notes:
* Can spice up this chili with any seasonings you would like. It’s very versatile.
Episode 047 – Furniture Hopping
Intro
Coming to you, from Louisville, KY! It’s the @Valentine Podcast with your furniture hopping couple, J and Renee Valentine.Intro Music – Who Loves Me by Pretty Lights – http://www.prettylightsmusic.com/#/home
Today is Monday, February 6, 2012 and this is Episode 47!
Weekend Wrap-up
- Furniture Store (instead of club hopping)
- Packing
- Super Bowl Hating
Tech (Gadgets, Computers, etc.)
- gMusic giveaway
- Renee’s new headphone story
Media (Movies, Games, Books, Television Shows, Music)
- Movies By Chance: Result: 132 – The Brothers; 93 – The Burning Bed
- Movie for Next Week: 99 – Wristcutters: A Love Story; 134 – I Spy
- The Voice
- The Colony
- Downton Abbey
- Finished The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- Started Dead Reckoning: A Cookie Snackhouse Novel
- Failed to Play Demo…I fail
- Star Wars
Food
- Mike’s Meats
- Egg and Chorizo Burritos
- Chili
- Granola Bars Part 2
Odds and Ends (Bumper provided by Johnny Feisty)
- Packing is hard
Podcast of the Week (Until we run out of Podcasts)
- BT Radio Mixes and More (Follow on Twitter @BigTiggerShow! )
Feedback
- Email from Nora
Contact Information
You can reach us by email at thevalentinecast@gmail.com. You can also see our blog at valentinecast.com. The podcast Twitter feed is ValentineCast. Video can be seen at http://youtube.com/ValentineCast J’s Twitter feed is theCaoboi and Renee’s twitter feed is theIceflow
Outro Music: Pretty Lights – Solamente
Recipe Exploration: Chewy Granola Bars
By: Renee (modified from All Recipes)Prep Time: 5 minutes
Bake Time: 20 minutesServings: 18
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup honey
- 2/3 cup melted butter
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 1/2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup raisins
- ½ cup chopped peanuts
- ½ cup dried cranberries
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease one 9×13 inch pan.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the honey, melted butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract. Mix until completely combined.
- In another bowl mix the oats, flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Slowly add oat mixture to honey mixture stirring as you go. Stir in 2 cups assorted chocolate chips, raisins, nuts etc.
- Lightly press mixture into the prepared pan. Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 18 to 22 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for 10 minutes then cut into bars. Let bars cool completely in pan before removing or serving.
Notes:
- Feel free to experiment with the nuts and fruit inside these bars.
Recipe Exploration: Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cupcakes
By: Renee (Modified from Your Cup of Cake)
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 15-18 min
Servings: 24 Cupcakes
Ingredients:
Cinnamon Cake:
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup oil
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup sour cream
- Vanilla Cake Mix (not white cake mix)
- 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ cup finely sifted Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal (optional)
- (Crush the cereal in a bag or use a food processor and then sift out ¼ cup)
Cinnamon Toast Crunch Buttercream:
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ⅔ cup finely sifted Cinnamon Toast Crunch powder
- (Crush the cereal in a bag or use a food processor and then sift out ⅔ cup)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line pans with 20-22 cupcake liners.
- In a large bowl, gently combine eggs, oil, buttermilk and vanilla.
- Mix in sour cream.
- Add cake mix and cinnamon and mix until smooth.
- Stir in lightly crushed cereal.
- Fill cupcake liners ¾ full and bake for 15-18 minutes, or until an inserted knife comes out clean.
- Meanwhile, for the buttercream icing, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add Cinnamon Toast Crunch powder. Add vanilla and powdered sugar. Adjust the consistency using milk if it is too thick.
- Pipe onto cooled cupcakes and top with cinnamon sugar and Cinnamon Toast Crunch squares.
Notes:
- This also makes great mini cupcakes and cake as well. The mini-muffins were popable and great even without icing (turning them into muffins I suppose) and the cake is really moist. We made a layer cake out of it.
- If making muffins, less bake time is needed. If making a cake, more bake time is needed.
Recipe Exploration: Spicy Sausage Casserole
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Bake Time: 60 minues
Servings: 6
Ingredients:
- 2 lb fresh, ground spicy pork sausage
- 1 cup uncooked long-grain rice (I used instant with no problem)
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, crushed (can also use crushed tomatoes)
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a large skillet, brown sausage and drain grease.
- Stir in rice, onion, garlic and peppers. Cook 5 minutes.
- Stir in tomatoes, chicken broth, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. Pour into 9×13 inch pan.
- Bake for 1 hour or until rice is tender and most of the liquid is absorbed. Or, at this step, you can cover and freeze it.
Notes:
* If you don’t want it too spicy, you can either cut back on the cayenne pepper or you can get less spicy sausage
5 for 5: Favorite TV Shows
Iceflow and Caoboi bring you another collaborative video. This time we reveal our top 5 TV shows in this 5 for 5 format for Snap Post Vlog.
Even though Iceflow stole some of Caoboi’s shows, he comes back with a vengeance with some expected and not so expected entries.
Pardon Iceflow’s hair and her tiredness. Nothing really to pardon of Caoboi’s. He’s pretty damn awesome.
Intro by Caoboi (http://www.youtube.com/labozqec)
Uploaded for Snap Post Vlog (http://www.youtube.com/snappostvlog) (http://www.snappostvlog.com)
Music by Pretty Lights (http://www.prettylightsmusic.com)
gMusic App Review for iOS and Giveaway!
Giving away 2 codes for the gMusic App by IIS with this video. You will need to subscribe and comment! You will also want to subscribe to the Snap Post Vlog youtube channel and this video was originally shared at Snap Post Vlog!
Good Luck!
Diary of A Gamer: When Iceflow Met Caoboi
I am a gamer. And a serious one at that. But one cannot live by games alone. This is why I met someone who games too 🙂
This is the story of a Troll Rogue and a Tauren Shaman getting together!
In my first post for Snap Post Vlog (http://www.snappostvlog.com), I tell you how meeting someone online can be beneficial.
Intro by J Valentine (http://www.youtube.com/labozqec)
SnapPostVlog (http://www.youtube.come/snappostvlog)
Music by Pretty Lights
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