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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Orange Julius

Orange Julius
Put 1&1/2 cups water, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1/2 can frozen orange juice concentrate, and 2+ cups of ice in a blender. Blend until ice is well crushed and serve.

Yummy Cottage Cheese Dessert

Yummy Cottage Cheese Dessert
1-16oz cottage cheese
1 can fruit cocktail
1 pkg jello, any flavor, we like raspberry
8oz cool whip
Directions:
Mix and serve. Refrigerate any leftovers!

Granny's Hash Brown Casserole

Granny's Hash Brown Casserole
30oz pkg frozen hash browns
2 cups sour cream
2 cups shredded cheese
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 stick of butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Directions:
Melt butter and add cheese till melted then remove from heat. in a separate bowl mix sour cream, onion, salt and pepper. Add butter and cheese (mixed). Mix with frozen hash browns and spread in 9X13 casserole dish. Lighty dot top with butter. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

Barbecue Chicken with Corn on the Cob

Barbecue Chicken with Corn on the Cob
3-4 chicken breats*
1 jar barbecue sauce, we prefer jack daniels bbq sauce
5-6 ears of corn**
Directions:
Just layer the chicken in the bottom of the crock pot, cover with sauce. Next wrap the corn in foil and set on top of the chicken and sauce. Cover and cook on low 6-7 hours.

*use as much as you need to feed your family or all that fits in your crock pot
**we have only used the frozen ears of corn, not to sure how it would work with fresh ears of corn

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Chocolate Peanut Butter Parfaits

Chocolate Peanut Butter Parfaits
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons peanut butter
1 cup thawed COOL WHIP whipped topping
2 cups cold milk
1 package (4serving size) JELL-O chocolate flavor instant pudding and pie filling
1/4 cup chopped peanuts
Directions:
STIR 3 tablespoons milk into peanut butter in medium bowl until smooth. Gently stir in whipped topping.
POUR 2 cups milk into medium bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes. Alternately spoon whipped topping mixture and pudding into 6 parfait glasses.
REFRIGERATE until ready to serve. Sprinkle with peanuts.

Makes 6

Dirt Cups

Dirt Cups
1 package (16oz) chocolate sandwich cookies
2 cups cold milk
1 package (4 serving size) JELL-O chocolate flavor instant pudding and pie filing
8oz COOL WHIP whipped topping, thawed
8-10 (7oz) paper or plastic cups
Suggested garnish: gummy worms, or other gummy candies, candy flowers, chopped peanuts, granola
Directions:
CRUSH cookies in a zipper-style plastic bag with rolling pin or in food processor.
POUR milk into large bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes. Stir in whipped topping and 1/2 of the crushed cookies.
PLACE about 1 tablespoon of the crushed cookies in each cup. fill cups about 3/4 full with pudding mixture. Top with remaining crushed cookies.
REFRIGERATE until ready to serve. Garnish as desired.

Makes 8-10 servings

For Sand Cups: Use 1 package (12oz) vanilla wafer cookies and JELL-O vanilla flavor instant pudding and pie filling.

Easy Eclair Dessert

Easy Eclair Dessert
27 whole graham crackers, halved
3 cups cold milk
2 packages (4serving size) JELLL-O  vanilla flavor instant pudding and pie filling
1 tub (12oz) COOL WHIP whipped topping, thawed
1-16oz chocolate frosting
Directions:
ARRANGE 1/3 of the crackers on bottom of 13X9 inch baking pan, breaking crackers to fit, if necessary.
POUR milk into large bowl. Add pudding mixes. beat with wire whisk 2 minutes. Gently stir in whipped topping. Spread 1/2 of the pudding mixture over crackers. Place 1/2 the remaining crackers over pudding; top with remaining pudding mixture and crackers.
REMOVE top and foil from frosting container. Microwave frosting container on HIGH 1 minute or until pourable. Spread evenly over crackers.
REFRIGERATE 4 hours or overnight. Cut into squares to serve.

Makes 18 servings

Miniature Cheesecakes

Miniature Cheesecakes
1 package (11.1 oz) JELL-O No Bake Real Cheesecake
2 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
1&1/2 cups cold milk
2 squares BAKERS semi sweet baking chocolate, melted (optional)
Directions:
MIX crumbs from mix, sugar and butter thoroughly with fork in medium bowl until crumbs are well moistened. Press onto bottoms of 12 paper-lined or foil-lined muffin cups.
BEAT milk and filling mix with electric mixer speed 3 minutes. (Filling will be thick.) Spoon over crumb mixture in muffin cups. Drizzle with melted chocolate, of desired.
REFRIGERATE at least 1 hour or until ready to serve. Garnish as desired.

Makes 12

Grandma Adair's Walnut Bread

Grandma Adair's Walnut Bread
1 egg
1 cup sugar
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup broken walnuts
Directions:
Beat eggs and sugar well. Add milk to blend. Sift flour, baking powder and sat. Stir in walnuts. Bake in was paper lined 5X9 pan for 1 hour.

Cherry Pike

Cherry Pike
1/3 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
1&1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon flour
1 lb. can sherry pie filling
1/4 lb margarine or butter
whipped cream or vanilla ice cream
Directions:
Mix together milk, sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. Heat the cherry pie filling. Melt the margarine in baking dish. pour mixture over melted butter or margarine. Top with heated cherries. DO NOT STIR!! Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until crust is brown.

Enchilada Bake

Enchilada Bake
2 boxes frozen taquitos
1 large can re fried beans
1 large can enchilada sauce
1 can diced green chilies
Directions:
In baking dish layer sauce, taquitos, beans, green chilies. Top with grated cheese. Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes.

Green Chile Cheese Rice

Green Chile Cheese Rice
2 cups cooked instant rice
1 can condensed cream soup (celery, chicken, etc.)
1-4oz can diced green chiles
8oz sour cream
1/2lb. cheese (spread)
Directions:
Mix together. Bake or microwave to warm and melt cheese.

Dip for Fruit

Dip For Fruit
8oz cream cheese
7oz marshmallow cream
1 teaspoon orange juice

Chile-Rellanos Casserole

Chile-Rellenos Casserole
1 pound ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2-4oz cans diced green chile's-cut in half/split
1&1/2 cup shredded cheese
1&1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
dash pepper
4 beaten eggs
several dashes bottled hot pepper sauce
Directions:
In skillet brown beef and onion. Drain off. Sprinkle meat with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Place half the chilies in baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese, top with meat mixture. Arrange remaining chilies over meat. Combine remaining ingredients. beat till smooth, pour over meat-chili mixture. Bake in moderate oven (350) 45-50 minutes or until knife inserted just off center comes out clean. Let cool 5 minutes and cut in squares to serve.

Play Dough

Play Dough
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 teaspoon cream of tarter
1 tablespoon oil
1 cup water
food coloring (optional)
Directions:
Mix together in saucepan. Cook 3 minutes or until all liquid is absorbed. Stir constantly. It will form a ball and will not be sticky. Turn out onto counter. let cool a little and mix desired coloring into it and start kneading and kneading and kneading. Store in airtight container. Food coloring does stain hands, so if you have gloves you may consider using them or just leave the play dough white!