full meal

On Tuesday night my Mom let me make the whole dinner. She was in the kitchen watching and answering my questions. I made hamburger buns, sloppy joes, broccoli and lemon tea. Here are the recipes...

HOMEMADE HAMBURGER BUNS

4-5 cups of flour (i use white and whole wheat)

2T yeast

1 cup milk

3/4 cup water

1 t salt

1/2 cup oil

3 T honey

Mix 2 cups of flour with 2tbsp yeast.

Heat milk, water, salt, oil and honey until very warm but not burning.

Mix warm milk mixture with flour/yeast mixture.

Add remaining flour until you get a nice dough consistency.

Set in bowl and let rise for 10 minutes.

Lay out on well floured surface and roll until about 1/2 inch thick.

Use a quart sized mason jar ring to cut out buns.

Place buns on well greased pan.

Let rise for 30 minutes in a warm area.

Bake in preheat 400 degree oven for 12-15 minutes!

SLOPPY JOES with deer meat

1lb of deer meat or any ground meat of your choice

1/4 onion chopped

1/4 cup green pepper chopped

2/3 cup of ketchup

1 t mustard

3 T brown sugar

1/2 t garlic powder

salt/pepper to taste

Brown meat with onions and pepper until cooked.

Add remaining ingredients and simmer for 20-30 minutes.

Place meat mixture on your choice of bread or bun.

Lemon Tea

1 bunch of lemon balm

4 family sized tea bags

Put 2 cups of water and tea bags in microwave safe bowl.

Microwave for 5 minutes.

Carefully remove from microwave and put lemon balm in.

Let sit for 10 minutes.

Pour tea into gallon sized pitcher.

Fill with water until tea measures 1 gallon.

(If you like sweet tea add 1.5 cups of sugar to hot tea and dissolve before adding remaining water or you can add artifical sweetener any time.)

For the broccoli I put about 1 cup of water in a pot with 4 cups of cut up broccoli and cooked it until it was tender. I added some salt, pepper and butter when it was done.