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Tachos and Twitter

February 17, 2019 by chrissy@mythankfultable.com
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Let it be known that while I want to love all that is sports, I am fairly lost on most of it. I know the key players, and I know the basics. However, when it comes to my snacks, appetizers, and desserts, my game is strong.

I love twitter. It makes understanding what just happened possible for someone like myself. This year the Super Bowl was on. I was invested. I still checked my phone for a head’s up. Sometimes, you need to enlist the resources that make sense out of the world around you. There is no shame in following the NFL or the New England Patriots accounts. It makes me feel better about the fact that sometimes…I just missed whatever it was that happened. Yay team. Do the thing.

Combine major sports with Library Cookbook Book Club. I know- trust me there is a connection. Every month our club has either a theme or a specific cookbook from which to choose a recipe. We prepare, and share the final product in a round table fashion and review how the recipe worked, what we changed, etc. It’s a really fun monthly event for your adventurous cook.

This past month the book was “The Hungry Fan’s Game Day Cookbook” by Daina Falk. Well worth the read. So many options to up your game day table. My selection, TACHOS. Tater tots, beer based queso, spicy chorizo…need I say more?

We have never had tater tots in my house the six years we’ve lived here. So, indulgent…I will cave to make this recipe again. Now, I doubled this recipe right off the bat. It filled a good sized casserole pan, which would be perfect for a sports party. I did not make my own salsa, I could not find the beer or the pepper in the recipe, but I did substitute a milder pepper, fresh store made salsa, and a great dark ale and the world was set to right.

Other than making the queso- which was really easy, this recipe will call people back for more and over all it was simple to put together. I would highly recommend…and I didn’t even need twitter to walk me through the steps. That, my friends, is a win.

I hope you enjoy this recipe, and as always, thank you for coming to the table!

Chrissy

Tater Tots Tachos
Tachos

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Tachos and Twitter

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Crispy tater tots covered in a dark beer queso, chorizo, green onions, sour cream. There will be no leftovers!!

  • Author: chrissy@mythankfultable.com original recipe from The Hungry Fan’s Game Day Cookbook by Daina Falk

Ingredients

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  • 6 ounces Chorizo, diced
  • 1/2 Cup dark beer (original recipe calls for Negra Modelo…I used Dogfish Head Ale Dark IPA)
  • 16 ounces Extra Sharp Shredded Cheddar Cheese
  • 1 Serrano Pepper (I used a Poblano) seeds and veins removed, chopped
  • 1 4 ounce can of diced green chiles, drained
  • 2 Tablespoons thinly sliced green onions
  • 2 Cups Tater Tots
  • 2 Tablespoons Sour Cream or Plain Yogurt
  • 1/4 Cup Salsa
  • 1 Tablespoon freshly minced Cilantro
  • Pepper (optional)

Instructions

  1. In a large saucepan, cook the disced chorizo until crisp and fat is rendered. Transfer cooked chorizo to a paper towel lined plate to drain and discard the rendered fat.
  2. Pour beer into the same saucepan (I did not wash between chorizo and beer phase) and heat for five minutes, to reduce just a bit. 
  3. Reduce heat to low, add cheese and stir until it has melted into the beer.
  4. Once the cheese has fully melted, add fresh pepper, diced green chiles, 1 Tablespoon of green onions, and half of the chorizo.
  5. Simmer sauce on the stovetop for at least 30 minutes to an hour.
  6. Cook tater tots in a preheated oven according to directions, making sure they are their crispiest.
  7. Arrange tater tots in container, top with cheese sauce, remainder of chorizo, add salsa and sour cream, cilantro, and green onions.
  8. Add ground pepper if desired, serve immediately.

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Posted in: appetizer Tagged: appetizer, Cheddar cheese, Chorizo, game day, peppers, Sour Cream, Tater Tots

Momma’s Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake

January 22, 2018 by chrissy@mythankfultable.com
Momma's Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Momma's Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Momma’s Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Growing up, the holidays for me meant two types of cookies, and these breads. Every Christmas, my parents would bake chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies, and this Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake.

If you were loved by my parents, you got one or two of these to eat Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and a tray of cookies. Our dining room table would be covered, as well as every other possible surface, with wrapped breads and cookies to be delivered. It was a confectionary wonder when I was little. My Mom and Dad worked together and it was a fun time. My parents were not everyday bakers, so for me, this was such a great tradition. Cookie dough batches were literally mixed in a lobster pot to accommodate the measurements of ingredients. Giant foil bows awaited to be placed on top of the breads and cookies. It was our pre-christmas tradition.

Momma's Sour Cream Apple Nut Bread

Momma’s Sour Cream Apple Nut Bread

I have only ever seen this coffee cake made in double, triple, or quadruple batches. The idea of only making only one of these breads has never happened- so this recipe actually makes two breads. Which is perfect, because it will be gone so fast you will be happy you have a back up. Or, you could be like my mom and dad and give one away.

This is a one bowl mix recipe, with a topping you combine either on the stovetop or after microwaving the butter to melt.

When I made this bread for the first time, I doubled the apples and the topping and essentially got hot, warm, apple cinnamon goo. It was awesome. But, it was not bread. So, if you add more of either, go a little at a time and see how it goes. For me, the topping is what makes this bread and it is amazeballs. It sinks into the bread and makes the apples sing.

Think apple dumpling or apple fritter into coffee cake but not cake cakey. As in, it doesn’t have the same crumb when you cut into it like a buckle.

These breads keep for a few days, if they last that long, but not much longer. Kept cold you may extend the shelf life, but I recommend eating it within the first day or two. We have never frozen these breads to my knowledge, but I can’t see why it wouldn’t freeze well, if warmed gently in an oven before serving.

I know every family has traditions, especially around the holidays. It’s funny that even as I am writing this, I am wondering why I never make this bread during apple picking season- but I don’t. It’s for the Christmas table. You, however, can make it whenever you want.

Momma

I have to admit, when I was helping my mom with these breads, and watching my daughter put the topping on, my heart was full. Three generations of family creating something wonderful and delicious for our loved ones.  In my world, it doesn’t get any better than that. The only thing that would have made it better would be if my Dad was there with us, but in a way, he was.

 

My Dad Mixing Christmas Cookies

I intentionally choose to live a life where I search for the blessings and view every day a gift. On days like these, with loved ones far and near and crossed over, I am thankful for the simple things like cinnamon and walnuts sinking into a sour cream apple bread. They will head out to other kitchens and rest on other people’s tables. My bread will have the most topping because I choose the one with the most (baker’s privilege). It’s that simple. Though the list of people who receive them has shortened, because some have already passed on, the people who do get them know that this is part of Christmas for us. They too, remember, and it will be something I carry on when Mom decides she is tired of making these breads (this will never happen).

For the two mornings after it is baked I will eat a breakfast of Momma’s bread and coffee and be thankful. Thankful for who I am lucky enough to call Mom and Dad, thankful for my children, thankful for this life we live.

I hope you enjoy this recipe, and as always, thank you for coming to the table!

 

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Momma’s Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Momma's Apple Nut Sour Cream Coffee Cake
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This sour cream apple nut coffee cake has been a part of my family’s Christmas for decades. Delicious apple coffee cake topped with a brown sugar cinnamon walnut mixture.

  • Author: chrissy@mythankfultable.com

Ingredients

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  • 1/2 Cup Shortening
  • 1 Cup Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
  • 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 2 Cups Flour
  • 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
  • 2 Cups Chopped Apples
  • 1 Cup Sour Cream

Topping:

  • 1/2 Cup Chopped Walnuts
  • 1 Cup Brown Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 2 Teaspoons Butter, melted

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350*
  2. Chop apples into small pieces.
  3. Cream together shortening and sugar.
  4. Add eggs, vanilla, and combine well.
  5. Add flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder alternately with sour cream.
  6. Fold in chopped apples.
  7. Spread batter in a prepared pan (grease and flour in advance).
  8. Combine topping ingredients and spread over the top of the batter.
  9. Bake for 35-40  minutes.

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