Saturday, November 17, 2007
Pumpkin Cream Trifle
1 package instant vanilla pudding 3.4 oz
1 cup pumpkin (can increase to 1 1/2 c)
1/2 cup water
1/2 C vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
cook in greased 13 x 9 pan 350 for 35-50 min
2 c cold milk
3.4 oz cheesecake pudding
whisk for 2 min. let stand for 2 min.
fold in
2 cups whipped topping
1 c chopped, toasted pecans
3/4 c toffee bits
cut cake into 1 inch cubes
put 1/3 cake in serving bowl layer with 1/3 pudding, sprinkle with 1/3 toffee, pecans repeat 2 more times
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
"Triple Chocolate Mess"
chocolate cake mix
1 small box chocolate instant pudding
4 eggs
1 c. water
3/4 c. oil
1 pint sour cream
1 bag chocolate chips
Mix together and pour into greased crock pot. Cook on low for no more than 4 hours.
serve icecream over. Our favorite is pepperment icecream.
Mud Cake
2 cubes butter
2 c. sugar
1/3 c. cocoa
Mix well, add 4 eggs (1 at a time) beat after each one
1 1-2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 c. coconut
Pour into cake pan and bake @ 350 for 30-40 min.
Take from oven and spread with marshmellow cream.
Frosting
1/2 c. melted butter
1/4 c. cocoa
1 c. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. cream or milk
Because of the marshmellow cream, I usually cut the frosting in half.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
White Chilli
1 large onion
3 cans chicken broth
3 can great northern beans
bring to boil and simmer 10 min.
3 cups chicken, cubed
30 min simmer
6-8 cloves garlic
2 tsp oregano
1 tsp cayenne
2 small cans diced chillis
4 tsp cumin
30 min simmer
3 c monterey jack
1 c sour cream
When I made this I think I only put in 1 to 1 1/2 cups cheese, and
this is one of those recipes when you need to follow the directions.
apple dessert
seperate into triangles and sprinke with cinn. and sugar.
peel an apple and cut into wedges (large apple 8 wedges, small apple 4 wedges)
roll up in crescent roll and tuck edges
put in pie pan and bake for 18 min 350?
mix 1/2c. cream 1/2 c sugar and 1 egg and 1 T almond extract pour
over apple dessert and sprinkle with sliced almonds bake for extra
15-20 min.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Creamy Vegetable-Cheese Soup
3 1/2 cups fat-free milk
1/2 tsp chili powder
2 cups cooked brown rice
1 bag (1 pound) frozen cauliflower, carrots and asparagus, thawed and drained
1. Heat cheese and milk in 3 qt. pot over low heat, stirring frequently, until cheese is melted. Stir in chili powder.
2. Stir in rice and vegetables; cook until hot.
Cheesy Broccoli-Potato Soup
2 cups chicken broth
1/3 cup chopped onion
1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped broccoli
1 1/3 cups potato buds (dry)
2 cups cut-up cooked chicken
2 cups shredded Swiss cheese (8oz)
2 cups milk
1/2 tsp salt
1. Heat broth, onion and frozen broccoli to boiling in 3qt. saucepan. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 5 min, stirring occasionally.
2. Stir in potatoes until wet blended; stir in remaining ingredients.
3. Heat over low heat about 5 minutes; stirring occasionally, until hot and cheese is melted.
High altitude: increase last heat time to 10-15 minutes.
**I used cheddar cheese and it was great. I also added 1/2 tsp. pepper, which was really good. Big hit with the kids!
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Mandarin Chicken
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 2 tsp vegetable oil
- 1 (11 oz) can mandarin oranges
- 2 Tbsp firmly packed brown sugar
- 3 Tbsp ketchup
- 1 Tbsp vinegar
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp ground cloves
Coat a large skillet with vegetable oil and place over medium heat until hot. Add chicken to skillet - cook 2-3 minutes on each side until lightly browned. Drain oranges, reserving juice and setting oranges aside. Combine juice and remaining ingredients. Stir well and pour over chicken in skillet. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Add reserved oranges and simmer an additional 5 minutes or until chicken is tender. Serve over rice or pasta.
Cream Cheese Chicken
- 8 chicken breasts
- 1 can cream of chicken soup
- 1 package Italian dressing (like Good Seasons)
- 1/2 cup milk
- 8 oz cream cheese
Place the chicken in the bottom of a crock pot. Mix soup, dressing powder and milk and pour over chicken. Place the block of cream cheese on top and cook for 4 hours on high. When thoroughly cooked take out chicken and whisk the sauce. Serve over rice.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Angel Hair Pasta
- mushrooms Sauted in butter (I just save some from my parmesean chicken dish
- Angel Hair
- chicken broth
- bacon crumbled (Microwave kind is good)
- frozen peas
Cook Angel Hair pasta, add frozen peas just before done. Drain and add bacon and mushrooms. Salt and pepper all. Add chicken broth as much as you want. You can just use a little olive oil if you want that flavor instead of broth. Artichoke hearts are good to add with the mushrooms.
Parmesan Chicken
- 6-8 chicken breasts thinly sliced
- fresh lemon
- 1 1/2 1lb mushroom slices
- fresh grated parmesan cheese
- 3c. whipping cream
Flour each piece of chicken. Saute and salt/pepper in butter, squeeze a few drops of lemon over each piece. Do not cook all the way through, just lightly brown. Place in glass casserole dish. Saute mushrooms in butter and pour over chicken. Pour whipping cream over chicken and mushrooms. Cover with parmesan cheese. Bake @ 350 for 45 minutes.
I serve this with my Angel Hair pasta dish.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Taco Rice Casserole
- cooked rice
- refried beans
- cooked chicken, cubed
- 1 can tomato sauce
- 1 packet taco seasoning
- 1 cup cheese
Put cooked rice (I usually do about 4-6 cups of cooked rice) in a 9x13 pan. Spread refried beans and place chicken on top. Mix tomato sauce and taco seasoning and spread over chicken. Top with cheese. Cook at 350 degrees until the cheese is melted and bubbly.
You can also put out extra toppings. We do lettuce, sour cream, avacado, tomato, salsa, tortilla chips and green onions.
Rachel Ray's Chicken Cordon Blue Burgers
- 1 lb. ground chicken
- 2 tsp. sweet paprika
- 2 tsp. chicken seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
3. top with sauce
Sauce: djion mustard and mayo (mixed according to tast)
Margo you can use ground pork just ask the butcher.
Sweet n Sour Chicken
- boneless chicken tenders or breasts
- 1/4 c flour & 1/4 c. corn starch (mixed together)
- eggs beaten in a pie plate
Sauce: (I would double this if you want more sauce for your rice, pour entire sauce over chicken even if you double it.)
- 1/4 c. water
- 1/4 c. white vinegar
- 3/4 c. sugar
- 1 T. soy sauce
- 4 T. ketchup
1.Bread chicken first flour/corn starch 2. bread in eggs 3. Saute in olive oil until lightly brown. Don't cook all through 4. Place chicken in glass 9x13 pan or large glass casserole dish. 5. pour sauce over chicken. 6. bake @350 for 30 minutes
Jeron and Mercedes call this.."Candy Chicken"
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Black Bean and Jicama Salad
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 C diced jicama
2 red peppers, finely chopped
1 can corn
1 jalapeno peppers, chopped (for less heat, remove the seeds)
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
1 tablespoon cumin
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 avocado
Raspberry Cheese Delight
⅓ c butter melted ½ c chopped pecans
1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese ¼ c powdered sugar
½ c powdered sugar 1 c whipping cream
1 Tbl milk Raspberries
Combine crumbs and butter press into bottom of 9" baking dish. Combine cream cheese (softened) sugar, mile and extract. Spread over crust and sprinkle with nuts
Whip the cream gradually adding sugar til stiff peaks form. Spread over nuts. Sprinkle raspberries over top. Chill several hours or overnight
makes 8-10 servings
Ratatouille
Ratatouille Recipe
1 lb of yellow onions, chopped
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 lb zucchini, chopped
1 lb yellow squash, chopped
Bell peppers chopped into 1/2 inch square pieces:
--1 lb green bell peppers
--1/2 lb red bell peppers
--1/2 lb yellow bell peppers
1 lb eggplant, ½" inch cubes
1 lb fresh ripe tomatoes
1/4 cup olive oil
salt to taste
2 sprigs thyme
1 bay leaf
1 sprig rosemary
3/4 cup vegetable stock (or thin tomato juice)
fresh ground pepper taste
1 Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2 Using a large oven-proof pan over medium high heat, saute onions in olive oil until they begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and reduce heat to low.
3 While the onions and garlic are cooking over low heat, put 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a another frying pan over high heat. As soon as oil starts to smoke, quickly add enough zucchini cubes all at once to cover the bottom of the pan. Keep on cooking over high heat, stirring, until zucchini is lightly browned on all sides. Remove zucchini cubes, and add them to pan with the onions.
4 Repeat process until all of the zucchini cubes have been cooked. Do the same with the yellow squash. Make sure to add a little olive oil between each new batch. Continue with the bell peppers, then the eggplant cubes, adding the browned vegetables to the onion pan as soon as they are cooked.
5 When all the vegetables (except the tomatoes) are browned and in the pan with the onions, increase the heat to high and stir, making sure they don't stick to the bottom of the pan. Add salt to taste, thyme, bay leaf, and rosemary, the vegetable stock, and stir well. Place in oven for one hour.
6 Boil water in a saucepan on stove. Remove stems from tomatoes, and crisscross the bottoms with a knife. Plunge into boiling water for a minute or two, until skin starts to fall away. Rinse in cold water and remove skin. Cut tomatoes in half lengthwise, remove seeds, chop coarsely, set aside.
7 After the vegetables have been in the oven for an hour, remove from oven, drain vegetables in a colander set over a bowl. Clean browned bits (if any) off bottom of pan with a paper towel. Return any liquid to the pan and reduce to a thick glaze over medium high heat. Keep on adding juices to the pan as they run out of the vegetables into the bowl.
8 When all the juices have been reduced, return vegetables to the heavy pan. At this point the ratatouille should be moist and shiny, with very little liquid. Turn heat off. Add the chopped tomatoes and cover. If serving as a warm side dish, let the ratatouille stand for 10 minutes, just enough to "cook" the tomatoes. The ratatouille can be served at room temperature or refrigerated and reheated the next day.
9 When ready to serve, remove the bay leaf, and season to taste with salt and pepper.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Fried Zucchini and Dip
1-2 dashes of hot sauce:
Dunk zucchini into egg mixture
italian bread crumbs
fresh parmesean cheese
salt and pepper:
Dunk zucchini into bread crumb mixture
Slice zucchini either into long strips or rounds. This is great as large rounds from the extra large zucchini's grown in your garden!
Oil the bottom of frying pan with extra oil and lightly fry.
Dipping Sauce
1 jar favorite spagetti sauce
1 tsp. Italian seasoning
1 package cream cheese
1/2 c. shredded cheese (I like to use a mixture of mozerella, parmesean, chedder)
Combine cream cheese and Italian seasoning. Spread into glass pie dish (or 8x8 glass dish).
Pour spagetti sauce over the top. Top with cheese. Place in microwave until warm.
Also very good sauce with bread sticks!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Fresh Peach Salsa
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Favorite Peach Cobbler
8 large peaches
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup shortening
1 egg
1 tsp. baking powder
Grease 8" square baking pan. Peel and slice peaches into pan. Combine flour, sugar, salt, shortening, egg and baking powder into dough and crumble dough on top of peaches. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
Peach Cobbler
- 1/2 c. butter
- 1 c. sugar
- 2 c. flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1c. milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 tsp.nutmeg
- 5 cups diced fresh peaches (may use canned)
- 3/4 c. sugar
- 1/2 teas.cinnamon
- 2 c. sprite (or could use peach juice from canned peaches)
Cream butter and 1 c. sugar until smooth. Add flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg until mixed add milk and vanilla. Pour batter into well greased 9x13 pan. Spread diced peaches evenly over batter. Sprinkle the 3/4 c. sugar and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon (mixed) oever peaches. Pour sprite over all. Bake @ 375 for 45 minutes.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Ruth's Funeral Potatoes
Cool completely. Peal. Grate into a 9X13 pan.
In bowl mix: 1/4 C. butter
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 pint sour cream (2 C.)
1 T. minced onion
1 1/2 C. shredded cheddar cheese
add any seasonings you like to season it up a bit (ie. salt,
pepper, lowry's, etc.)
Pour over potatoes. Top with 2 C. slightly crushed corn flakes mixed with 2 T. melted butter. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 min. Let them sit for at least 15 minutes before serving. Enjoy!
Monday, August 20, 2007
Nanny's Stuffed Zucchini
1 egg
3/4 lb. hamburger
tennis ball sized sausage
1/4 cup milk
3/4 cup cooked rice
1 1/4 tsp salt
1 1/4 tsp pepper
1/3 cup chopped green pepper
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/8 tsp. chili powder
quick oatmeal (optional)
cheese
zucchinis
Parboil the zucchinis in salted water for 4-5 minutes. (We didn't boil the zucchini first) Scoop out zucchinis to make boats. (We cut them lengthwise first and then cut these in half. We scooped out the middle to make little canoes--you have to leave zucchini on the end, so the meat doesn't fall out while baking) Mix all other ingredients and stuff zucchinis. (Put the meat in the hollowed out section of the zucchini--it looks like how bread domes up after its been cooked in a bread pan) Place in dripper with a little water, (this means set them on a cookie sheet) and cover with foil. Bake 40 min. @ 375 degrees; uncover and cook 15-20 minutes more.
Top with:
2 cans tomato sauce
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup chili sauce
1 stick cinnamon
Tabasco sauce to taste
(Boil the above for a few minutes until sugar dissolves and sauce thickens.)
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Vanessa's Pumpkin Cookies
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp. nutmeg
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
3 c sugar
1 tsp. salt
5 cups flour
1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips (optional)
In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients, except flour and chips, and mix well. Add flour 1 cup at a time and mix well again. Mix in chocolate chips (Vanessa likes to use the blender to chop the chips into small pieces. This way the chocolate is evenly distributed and doesn't make a mess all over little brother's hands.) Vanessa won 4th place at the 4-H cook-off with this recipe against 22 other 4-H participants! Enjoy!
Jennifer's Zucchini Bread
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
2 tsp. vanilla
2 c grated zucchini
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
3 cups flour
1 cup walnuts (optional)
Beat eggs until light and foamy (I do this for 3 - 5 min). Add sugar, oil, vanilla, and zucchini. Mix and sift dry ingredients (I always sift) and add to zucchini mixture. Add nuts if wanted. Bake 350 - 375 degrees in greased pans for 1 hour (I bake at 365 degrees for about 50 min. at my house). Makes 2 loaves. This is by far my family's favorite recipe! It's great for the fall when you have all the zucchini. I freeze my zucchini in freezer bags in 2 cups amounts so we can have this bread all year.