Racing Recipes: Best Benedictine

This Benedictine dip is a great track treat!
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Benedictine is the best spread for your summertime race snack.  Horseradish gathers the ingredients.
Benedictine is the best spread for your summertime race snack. Chef Horseradish gathers the ingredients.

Serve up this spread at your summertime stakes watch party or picnic. Benedictine is best for a cool snack on a warm summer day at the races. Enjoy it at home or at your favorite spot at the track. Chef Horseradish has been busy in the kitchen making your favorite racing recipes. He is ready to share his Benedictine recipe with his loyal Thoroughbred U followers. This no cook dip will be a hit and save you plenty of time for handicapping. Make some super easy and satisfying Benedictine.

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Count on Keeneland for Stars and Stakes

Keeneland At Home keeps the spectators away from Keeneland's Fall Meet.
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Fall Stars Weekend kicks off Keeneland's Fall Meet!
Fall Stars Weekend kicks off Keeneland’s Fall Meet!

Keeneland kicked off its Fall Meet with Fall Stars Weekend. Live racing at Keeneland from October 2nd through 24th foreshadows the Breeders’ Cup set for November 6th and 7th at this very same racecource. This meet features 18 stakes races, 10 of which are “Win and You’re In” races for an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup! Check out what this Fall at Keeneland has to offer.

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Baking for the Belmont

Baking for the Belmont? Make this easy cheesecake with home cooking by Horseradish!

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Baking for the Belmont? Make this easy cheesecake with home cooking by Horseradish! This recipe is to cheesecake as Secretariat is to the Belmont Stakes, real fast!
Baking for the Belmont? Make this easy cheesecake with home cooking by Horseradish!  This recipe is to cheesecake as Secretariat is to the Belmont Stakes, real fast!

Are you planning on doing a little baking for the Belmont?  Check out Chef Horseradish’s home cooking to find the race recipe that is right for you.  This weekend’s big races are at Belmont Park in Elmont, NY.  When Horseradish thinks of New York, he thinks of Thoroughbred racing and cheesecake.  He also thinks he needs his time for handicapping and his money for wagering.  Horseradish has his spin on the classic desert that will leave you with time and money.

 

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Basics of the Belmont

Free Drop Billy and Blended Citizen raced in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland!

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Free Drop Billy and Blended Citizen raced in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland!
Free Drop Billy and Blended Citizen raced in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland!

It seems like everyone has their own opinion on this year’s Belmont Stakes and I could not be happier to read and learn about all of the varied perspectives on this race.  There is a wealth of information available if you have the time or the interest.  For those craving a refresher or the simple facts ahead of this weekend’s race, here are the basics of the Belmont Stakes.

 

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Should She Sweep the Susan? : Black-Eyed Susan Stakes

Opening Day at Pilmlico in Maryland preceding the 2018 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.

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Opening Day at Pilmlico in Maryland preceding the 2018 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.
Opening Day at Pilmlico in Maryland preceding the 2018 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.

It is almost time for the middle jewel of the Filly Triple Crown!  Now repeat this triple times, “Should She Sweep the Susan, Should She Sweep the Susan, Should She Sweep the Susan?”  That is a hard question to ask and a harder one to answer.  Who will sweep the Susan?  I have a few ideas about the fillies entered in the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes.

 

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Outline for the Oaks

Monomoy Girl wins the Central Bank Ashland Stakes at Keeneland for Brad Cox and Florent Geroux!

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Kenny McPeek and Corey Lanerie had a nice finish with Eskimo Kisses in her second place finish in the Ashland Stakes!
Kenny McPeek and Corey Lanerie had a nice finish with Eskimo Kisses in second place in the Ashland Stakes!

Are you ready for my favorite fourteen filly face-off on Friday, the 4th?  I have a quick breakdown on the facts, fun, food, fashion, feelings and fortune that awaits in the 144th Kentucky Oaks.  Please, follow along with my easy outline for the Oaks.

 

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Churchill’s Big Race Pie

The winner of the 144th Kentucky Derby is...Horeradish! Serving up slices of this pie at your next party is bound to make you a winner too!

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Turn your Kentucky Derby party into a grand slam with a piece of this pie!
Turn your Kentucky Derby party into a grand slam with a piece of this pie!

Chef Horseradish knows how to make you the hostess with the mostest for your Kentucky Derby bash!  He’s whipped up a tasty desert that is quite similar to the pie associated with the Kentucky Derby.  Horseradish has a recipe with 8 simple ingredients that can be put together and baked in under an hour.  No matter where you watch the KY Derby, everyone wins with this pie.  Let’s see how he does it.

Before he gathers his friends he gathers his ingredients. Regular bakers are bound to have these items on hand. Otherwise a quick trip to even the grocery will just require the purchase of the 8 common and inexpensive ingredients. Butter, sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla extract, walnuts, semi sweet chocolate chips and a pie crust are all that you will need.
Before he gathers his friends he gathers his ingredients.  Regular bakers are bound to have these items on hand. If not,  it will take a quick trip to the grocery to purchase the 8 common and inexpensive ingredients. Butter, sugar, flour, eggs, vanilla extract, walnuts, semi sweet chocolate chips and a pie crust are all that you will need.

Horseradish likes to butter up his friends so they give him the best tips. I guess we can Justify that behavior.
Horseradish likes to butter up his friends so they give him the best tips. I guess we can Justify that behavior.

Don't let it Flameaway. Heat it just enough to melt 1/2 cup, equivalent to a stick, of butter.
Don’t let it Flameaway. Heat it just enough to melt 1/2 cup, equivalent to a stick, of butter.

It only takes a cup of sugar for this pie. You'll need the rest of the entire bag if your planning on serving Mint Juleps, the official drink of the KY Derby. The pie is great, the drink is, well, not so good. Trust me, you'll be wanting more sugar in those drinks!
It only takes a cup of sugar for this pie. You’ll need the rest of the entire bag if your planning on serving Mint Juleps, the official drink of the KY Derby. The pie is great, the drink is, well, not so good. Trust me, you’ll be wanting more sugar in those drinks!

The official flower of the Kentucky Derby is red roses. It takes over 400 fresh roses to sew the Garland of Roses that goes to the winning horse annually. The official flour in the pie is all-purpose.
The official flower of the Kentucky Derby is red roses. It takes over 400 fresh roses to sew the Garland of Roses that goes to the winning horse annually.
The official flour in the pie is all-purpose.

Free Drop Billy the eggs into a bowl and give them a good beating with the whisk.
Free Drop Billy the eggs into a bowl and give them a good beating with the whisk.

There isn't anything vanilla about this filed of KY Derby contenders. What a great group of 3 year-old Thoroughbreds. However, the pie needs a teaspoon to work it's Good Magic!
There isn’t anything vanilla about this field of KY Derby contenders. What a great group of 3 year-old Thoroughbreds!  However, the pie needs a teaspoon of vanilla extract to work it’s Good Magic!  The magic is in how the awful tasting extract makes such good tasting baked goods.

To get 3/4 cup of chopped walnuts just put a few in the chopper at a time and don't get Combatant about it. Just lightly chop or you will get dust instead of pieces.
To get 3/4 cup of chopped walnuts just put a few in the chopper at a time and don’t get Combatant about it. Just lightly chop or you will get dust instead of pieces.

My Boy Jack Horseradish loves chocolate. No wonder this pie is so rich and delicious.
My Boy Jack Horseradish loves chocolate. No wonder this pie is so rich and delicious.

Bake the pie and…

The winner of the 144th Kentucky Derby is...Horeradish! Serving up slices of this pie at your next party is bound to make you a winner too!
The winner of the 144th Kentucky Derby is…Horeradish! Serving up slices of this pie at your next party is bound to make you a winner too!

 

Churchill’s Big Race Pie

ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup melted butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 2 slightly beaten eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
  • 3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 9 inch frozen pie crust

Mix in order given.  Pour into unbaked pie shell.  Cover edges of crust with foil.  Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.  Remove foil and bake 10 more minutes.  Cool before serving. 

 

I wish everyone of you a great Kentucky Derby day and I hope you might enjoy some of this pie.  Please, check back soon for more posts on The Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby.Share This:
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Holidays with Horseradish: Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Horseradish loves a good reuben on St. Patrick's Day

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Horseradish loves a good reuben on St. Patrick's Day
Horseradish loves a good reuben on St. Patrick’s Day!

Top o’ the morning to ya!  Happy St. Patrick’s Day.  For this holiday, Horseradish, Thoroughbred U’s regular chef, we will be keeping it easy and making reubens.  I love a good reuben and I eat them regularly at Keeneland racecourse and at a variety of Irish themed bars.  Many restaurants add it to their menu for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.  The sandwich isn’t in fact Irish, it’s all American but it’s all good and a fun and easy way to celebrate the day.  Turn on the television and watch 2 Kentucky Derby prep races and some March Madness Basketball with a reuben, chips and a green frosty beverage.  Horseradish will show you how it is done.

 

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