Cinnamon Pie Crust Sticks (Cimmi Cakes)

Cinnamon Pie Crust Sticks (Cimmi Cakes)

For the pie crust:

1 cup unsalted butter (2 sticks), from the refrigerator, grated and placed in the freezer

1/2 cup full-fat sour cream, measured and kept in the fridge until ready to use

2 cups flour (260 g)

1 teaspoon salt

After grating the butter and measuring the sour cream, whisk together flour and salt.

Using hands, work the butter into the flour mixture. 

Add sour cream and work in with a fork. Once it starts to clump, knead with hands until the dough comes together. 

Divide in two, form disks, and wrap in plastic wrap. 

Chill in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

To make Cinnamon Pie Crust Sticks with one disk of dough:

Cinnamon Sugar (1:4 ratio):

1 Tablespoon cinnamon

4 Tablespoons (1/4 cup) sugar

Melt 1/2 stick of salted butter.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

On a floured surface, roll out pie crust to 1/8th of an inch.  

Cut into strips or shapes.

On cookie sheets lined with parchment paper, place the strips and shapes about an inch apart.

Paint with melted butter.

Generously sprinkle with Cinnamon Sugar.

Bake for about 8-10 minutes until puffed and golden around the edges.

Remove from the oven an let cool slightly on the pan, then move to cooling racks.

Freezer Meals

Ham and Cheese Quiche

8 eggs

1 cup milk

1 cup cheese

1 cup ham

Mix together and pour into freezer bag. Take out as much air as possible when sealing.

To cook:

Thaw completely.

Shake bag gently and pour into pie crust.

Bake at 350 for 40-60 minutes, until lightly browned and center is set.

Cool 5 minutes before serving.

That Dude Can Cook Turkey Notes

That Dude Can Cook Turkey on YouTube

After butchering the turkey into pieces, salt well and rest for an hour in the fridge.

Divide the turkey onto two trays so that there is room between pieces.

Pat dry and spray with avocado oil.

Cook turkey at 400 degrees until breast is 145 degrees (about 30-35 minutes--take out wings at this time as well) and thigh is 181 degrees (about 1 hour 7 minutes).

Rest on a rack for 20 minutes.

Turkey Stock: 

1 turkey carcass oiled, salted and roasted (400 degrees, after 45 minutes, flip pieces, add two halved onions with oil, and cook another 30 minutes) 

enough water to cover the bones by a few inches 

 3 carrots peeled and sliced in half 

2 yellow onions halved and roasted 

8 sprigs fresh thyme 

20 whole peppercorns 

salt to taste 

Rosemary salt recipe: 

1 cup kosher salt 

14 sprigs of rosemary stripped 

8 sprigs sage stripped 

3-5 cloves of garlic (3 if they are big and 5 if small) 

1 lemon zested 

Rosemary salt weighted recipe 

250 grams of kosher salt 

8 grams of fresh sage leaves 

16 grams fresh rosemary leaves 

20 grams of fresh garlic 

3 grams of fresh lemon zest 

Turkey Gravy: 

4 oz unsalted butter 

1/2 cup + 1 tbsp all-purpose flour (cook until the roux is about the same color as the stock) 

5 1/2 cups Turkey stock (add a little at a time, whisking well each time) 

2 tsp black pepper 

1 1/2 tsp Rosemary salt 

2 tsp marmite 

1 Turkey neck meat removed and chopped

Large Batch Ground Beef (in the oven)

To cook a large batch of ground beef (6 lbs from Costco):

Heat oven to 300 degrees.

In a large cast iron Dutch oven, place the ground beef, salting as you go, 1 teaspoon salt per pound of beef. Cover and put in the oven.

After 30 minutes, remove from oven and stir and break up the beef. Cover and put back in the oven.

Repeat until the meat has cooked for 1 1/2 hours. It should be done (160 degrees).

Put drained beef into quart freezer bags. One pound of cooked beef will be about 13 ounces.

Jalapeno Poppers

This should make enough for about 5 jalapenos.

4 oz cream cheese, room temp

1/8 teaspoon salt

pinch pepper

1/2 cup small grated cheddar cheese

3 oz bacon, cooked and chopped

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Halve the jalapenos lengthwise and spoon out and discard the seeds and membranes.

Combine the above ingredients in a bowl. 

Fill the jalapeno halves to sit level with the sides.

Place the stuffed jalapenos on a a baking sheet (or in a pie plate) and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the cheese melts golden in color.

Serve jalapeno poppers warm or at room temperature.

Mississippi Pot Roast

Brown a 3 lb chuck roast

Put it in a crockpot with:

Packet of Ranch Seasoning

Packet of Au Jus Gravy Seasoning

1/2 stick of butter, cut up

5-6 pepperoncini

Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.

But really, just buy good quality chuck roast (Costco) and salt it well, put it in the crockpot and cook eight hours. I like cutting the roast into smaller pieces. (8/15/2025)

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Rotisserie Chicken

Chicken Salad (Chick-fil-A)

Chicken Tots (minus the tots)

Pork

Egg Roll in a Bowl (leave out wontons)

Three Cheese Ham Involtini

Egg

Carmelized Cream Eggs

Shakshuka

Turkey

Shawarma-Spiced Roast Turkey Breast

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Big 'ol fatty cheap chuck roast put in a crockpot in the morning, done that evening.

Great Value 100% Beef Burgers 80/20: 4 frozen, in an air fryer, 8 minutes, 400 degrees

Any steak, sear each side, eat

Eggs, scramble, fry

Chicken Wings, thawed, on a lined cookie sheet, 30 minutes, 365 degree oven

Large Bone-in Skin-on chicken thighs about 21 minutes in air fryer, flipped half-way

Chunks of steak or flanken ribs, air fryer, 7 minutes, 400 degrees

Most any meat, 7 minutes, 400 degrees

New York Strip, air fryer, 6 minutes

Carnivore ice cream: 3 cups heavy cream, 3 eggs yolks, pinch of salt

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2 lb ground beef/.25-.5 chopped bacon (uncooked)/2 eggs/1 cup parm/1/2 c crushed pork rinds/1/2 finely minced onion/3 cloves crushed garlic/salt and pepper to taste