Brambles

What are brambles you might ask?! Well they are a delicious cookie made by rolling out a pie crust, filling it with a sugar, raisin, and butter mixture, then topping it all with another rolled out pie crust. The edges are folded over and marks are made on the top so that once it is baked you can go back over and cut the pieces easily.

The finished product reminded me a lot of fig newtons. Only instead of fig filling, it was a raisin filling. They were easy to make and quite delicious. I would certainly make them again especially as a holiday cookie.

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Seven Layer Dinner

Seven Layer Dinner. Talk about a funky recipe! Filled with layers and layers of different textures and types of foods. Start with a layer of potatoes in a casserole dish, then add some thinly sliced onions, cover with raw hamburg, salt and pepper. Next cover with a little raw rice, canned tomatoes, green pepper, celery, mushrooms and raw bacon. Finally the whole dish gets covered with water and then baked in the oven at 350 degrees!

It was actually quite delicious and a very popular dish. Not to mention easy to pull together!

Give it a try sometime and let me know what you think!

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Saco, Maine 04072

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Appetizer Loaf

I flew by this recipe one day and just had to stop and read it. The shear amount of ingredients in this recipe is amazing. It just made me chuckle! To mention a few, onion, olives, cracker crumbs, green pepper, pickles, hard boiled egg, salad dressing and old English cheese. All of this gets mixed together in a food processor and rolled into a log in wax paper.

It is chilled in the fridge. When it is unrolled this is what you get:

Served as samples on that day with crackers. It was an interesting combination, though the general consensus was that it was quite good! Have you ever seen anything like it?

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Saco, Maine 04072

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Famous Webster Squash Pie

I can't say that I loved this recipe and I'm still not sure why it is famous. The way I would describe it would be a pumpkin pie, except remove the pumpkin and add in squash. Delicious, though nothing to write home about. 

Does anyone out there know where the name comes from?

Blue Elephant Cafe 

12 Pepperell Square 

Saco, Maine 04072

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Lamb Stew with Dumplings

It has been a long time since I've worked with lamb! This lamb stew was really nice. It was simple too. It reminded me of beef stew, the browned meat with cut vegetables and spices.

The dumplings dough was made then dropped in the soup at the last minute. The puffed right up with the steam and were a delicious addition to the soup!

Lamb is a funny creature, people love it or hate it. Do you like lamb? Would you have enjoyed this lamb stew?

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12 Pepperell Square

Saco, Maine 04072

207-281-3070

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Pumpkin Pie

This pumpkin pie was so easy to make!!!! Simply cooked pumpkin, spices, milk, sugar and eggs mixed all together and poured into the pie crust. Baked in the oven it was so light and fluffy. One of the best pie recipes I've made in a while!

Blue Elephant Cafe 

12 Pepperell Square 

Saco, Maine 04072

207-281-3070

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Parsley Butter

Now this was an interesting recipe! I actually have been reading a lot about flavored butters in food magazines recently! its quite a trend right now. Simply parsley and butter blended together with a little lemon juice and salt and pepper.

Now had it been a nice catered affair I would have taken the butter and molded it or piped it out into a pretty shape. It would have been placed over a nice piece of steak or with delicious crusty bread. However, the way Marjorie had me serve it was on white bread. Parsley Butter Sandwiches. Mmmmmm mmmmm good!

I beefed it up a bit and served the parsley butter sandwiches on white bread with lettuce and tomato and a cup of soup. A huge seller???? I think they were a bit foreign but very creative!

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