A Few Favorites of our Guests

Home Made Kaluha
Potato Soup
Hot Chicken Salad
Home Made Irish Cream
Chili
Jello Shots
Hot Buttered Rum Mix
Secret Corn Salsa
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Home Made Kaluha
      2 1/2 cups water
      2 cups sugar
      1 oz. instant coffee
      1 pint vodka
      2 tsp vanilla
      (you may want to add more vanilla to flavor to personal taste)
    
Combine: water, sugar, and instant coffee and simmer for 1 hour. Do Not Boil! After simmering for an hour, remove from heat and let cool completely. When completely cool add vodka and vanilla. Yeild: 1 quart

For a special treat, add about 1/4 of a vanilla bean to the bottle in which you store it. As the kaluha ages the bean will help turn it into something really tasty.

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Home Made Irish Cream
      1/4 cup Kaluha
      2 cups Whiskey
      1 can Eagle Brand Milk
      1 pint Coffee Rich
      1 tbsp Vanilla
      1 tbsp Instant coffee
    
Combine all ingredients together. (Mix well - it may take a while to blend in the instant coffee.) Refrigerate when fully mixed.

Yeild: 1 fifth & 1 pint

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Hot Buttered Rum
      1 cup Butter
      2 cups Brown Sugar
      2 tsp Nutmeg
      2 tsp Cinnamon
      1 tsp Allspice
      1/2 tsp Cloves
    
Mix all ingredients together. Add 1 well rounded tbsp of mixture and 1 shot of rum to mug of boiling water.
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Potato Soup
      6 - 7 Potatoes - diced
      1 medium onion - diced
      3 medium carrots - sliced
      1/2 lb. bacon - cut and fried
      2 tsp salt
      1 tsp pepper
      1/4 tsp thyme
      1 bay leaf
    
Combine all ingredients in a stockpot and add 1 1/2 times amount of water required to completely cover. Bring mixture to a boil and then cut back heat to allow to just slowly boil. Allow to cook down to desired thickness, stirring occasionally.
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Jon's $10 Chili
   This Chili is WARM!   
      2 lbs Meat (to keep this at $10 use hamburger, but you can use 
          whatever you want)
      4 cloves Garlic, minced
      1/2 lb Chili Peppers (the hotter the better; usually a mix of jalapenos 
          and habaneros)
      1 Green Pepper, chopped
      2 medium Onions, diced
      1 - 28 oz. can of diced Tomatoes
      1 - 15 oz. can of Kidney Beans, drained
      1 tsp ground Red Pepper
      2 tbsp Chili Powder
      1 tsp Basil
      1/2 tsp Oregano
      1/8 tsp dry Mustard
      1 can o' Beer
      16 oz. Spicy Hot V-8 Juice
    
Combine meat, peppers, onions and garlic in frying pan. Heat until meat is browned. Drain and save liquid but skim off fat. Combine all other ingredients in stockpot and add meat and liquid saved from browning the meat (less the fat). Bring to a boil and then cut back heat to simmer for 20 minutes. Like most chili, this recipe only gets better the more times you reheat it.
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Secret Corn Salsa
      6 cups fresh Tomatoes, diced
      1 1/2 lb Corn (frozen will work, fresh is better)
      1 1/2 Green Peppers, diced (not cups, 1 1/2 peppers)
      10 Jalapeno Peppers, diced
      3 medium Onions, diced
      4 green Chili Peppers, diced
      1/3 cup Vinegar
      1 tsp Salt
      2 tsp Sugar
      3 tbsp fresh Garlic
      2 tbsp Cilantro
      2 tbsp Cumin
      1 tbsp Chili Powder
      3 tbsp Lime Juice
    
Combine all ingredients. Mix well. Let sit for a couple hours in the refrigerator. Serve with chips.

Super Secret Scrumptious Appetizer: Serve salsa with shrimp that has marinated in Tequila overnight and then grilled to a fine perfection on the barbee.

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Hot Chicken Salad
      3 cups Chicken, diced
      1 cup Celery, diced
      1/2 tsp Salt
      1/4 tsp Pepper
      3/4 cup Almonds, slivered
      1 tbsp onion, diced
      Juice of 1/2 Lemon
      1 cup Mayonnaise
      1 cup Potato Chips, crushed
    
Mix together chicken, celery, salt, pepper, almonds, and onion. Combine lemon juice with mayonnaise and whip. Combine this mixture with chicken mixture and place in a buttered casserole dish. Spread crushed potato chips over the top. Bake for 20 minutes @ 350 degrees.
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Jello Shots

Most jello is made with 4 parts water; 2 parts hot in which to stir and dissolve the jello powder, and 2 parts cold after powder is dissolved. It is then placed into the refrigerator to gel.

When making jello shots, simply substitute one of the parts of cold water with 1 part alcohol. You are only limited by your imagination!

Here are a few of the recipes we have made in the past:

      Cherry jello with Hot Damn
      Orange jello with Vodka (screwdriver)
      Lime jello with Tequila (margarita)
      Clear jello (Knox Gellatin) with Ouzo
    
You can also use liquids other than water for the other part that's supposed to be cold. Anything!

We have made these in that manner:

      Blueberry jello with Squirt and DeKuyper Bluesberry Schnapps
      Cherry jello with Coke and Rum
    
How to Serve Jello Shots:

You can serve these two different ways: either as finger jello or in individual shot cups. If you choose finger jello style, simply add some extra Knox Gelatin (usually 2 packets) to the mix. Then pour onto a cookie sheet to let gel. When set, cut into squares that can be picked up and eaten.

However, I prefer to go to a restaurant supply store (like Gordon's) and get the individual 1 1/2 oz cups (that you put your ketchup in at McDonald's or Burger King) and pour my jello mixture into these to gel. This has a couple of advantages. They travel really easy this way (so you can take them to parties) and it is a little more sanitary than everybody handling all the finger jello shots.

One last SPECIAL one: The Cherry Bomb!

Cherry jello with Cherry Pucker Schnapps served in individual shot cups that have a marischino cherry that has been marinated in 151 rum in each cup. Ouch!

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