Shrimp Remoulade

1/3 cup horseradish mustard
3/4 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
1/3 cup tarragon vinegar
2 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
3 tablespoons cat sup
2 tablespoons paprika
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup olive
1/2 chopped green onions
1lb peeled, cooked shrimp

Gran's Chocolate Pie

1 cup sugar
2 T. cocoa
6 T. flour
2 cups of milk(I use the large pet or evaporated milk which is 1 & 3/4 cup and add regular milk to make it 2 cups)
3 eggs, separated(use the 3 egg whites for meringue)

Put all of the above ingredients into a boiler.  Add the milk gradually to the dry mixture to make a paste and then it will be liquid (this is to keep the lumps down but you will have lumps don't worry.)

Cook until mixture thickens.  Add 1 T. butter and 1 t. vanilla.   Set aside while you make the meringue.



Meringue

3 egg whites
1/4 teaspoon cream of tarter

Beat this mixture until soft peaks form then add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and gradually add 6 tablespoons of sugar.
Beat this until firm peaks form.



Then take the mixer (do not clean beaters) and beat the chocolate mixture to smooth out the lumps and mix the vanilla and butter.  When it bakes the lumps won't be there.

Pour into a BAKED pie shell and top with meringue. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until meringue is golden brown. 

Homemade Pizza Dough

Mix
1.5 cups of warm water (100-110 degrees)
2 tsp dry active yeast
1/4 tsp sugar

Wait ten minutes for yeast to set.

While that is going, mix together in big bowl:

4 cups flour
pinch of salt
1/4 cup of olive oil

After the ten minutes is up pour the yeast/water mix in the big bowl.  Let dough hook beat it up for about 15-20 minutes.  You can tell its ready when it begins to cling to the hook and stays in one big glob.

Remove from mixer, cover and let stand for an hour (couple hours is fine).

Dough mass should more than double in size while it sits.  Now "punch" the dough a few times in the center to remove all the air.  Move the dough to somewhere that you can work on the dough.  Sprinkle flour and knead a few times.  This should make enough for about 4 pizzas.

Fix for Heat Not Working When Engine is Idle - Infiniti M35 2007

My wife's Infiniti started blowing cold air when the car was stopped at a red light or whatever.  When the car was moving, the heat would blow just fine.  Apparently, I common cause for this symptom is air being trapped in the cooling system (which is also used by the heater).  When the engines RPMs are revving, that forces the coolant through the heating coil and allows the heat to work.  When the RPMs are down the engine is idle, the air sits in there and doesn't allow the coolant to work its way through the system.

The first thing I checked was the coolant level, which was really low, like 2 inches below the low mark.  I added some coolant, but that didn't immediately fix the problem.  Apparently, there is a "bleeder screw" or an "air relief valve" on the heater hose.  This allows all of the air to evacuate the system when enough coolant is present.  You want to just crack this screw open a few turns until you see coolant dripping out.  You do NOT want to take this screw all the way off.

After a few minutes of waiting for coolant to drip out I got impatient and unscrewed it a few more turns.  It eventually just came off and coolant came running out, it was not that easy getting it back on.  However, once I did, it worked and the heater was blowing warm parked in the driveway!

Butter Bars

Bottom:
1 yellow cake mix
1 egg
1 stick of butter
Mix together, put into greased pan (9x13)

Top:
1 package of cream cheese (8oz)
2 eggs
1 box powdered sugar
Mix together.  Pour over dough

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes