S'Mores Dessert

Ingredients:

graham cracker crumbs..about 2 cups

1 stick of butter

1 can condensed milk

1 bag chocolate morsels

1 bag of mini marshmallows

1 cup of pecans optional

Make the crust by stirring together the graham crackers crumbs and the melted butter until it is all moist. Pack into the bottom of a greased 9X13 pan. Pour a can of condensed milk over the crust. Sprinkle the chocolate on that. Sprinkle the pecans if you want on top of that. Add a few marshmallows and pack them down with a fork. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Remove and add more marshmallows to the top and cook for a few more minutes until the marshmallows are all gooey and brown. Let cool completely and cut into squares.

I don't have a picture cause, well, they were pretty much eaten before I got a chance to!

You can add pretty much anything on top of the condensed milk...butterscotch, peanut butter, white chocolate, cut up candy bars, etc....you might just want to omit the marshmallows on those!

Sausage and Rice cassarole

Ingredients:

1 lb bulk sausage...like Jimmy Dean

1 lb. link sausage

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup chopped onions

1 cup chopped bell pepper

a few cloves of garlic..chopped

2 cans cream of chicken soup

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 cup uncooked rice

1 can of water

brown the sausage. cut the link sausage into circles and add them to the ground sausage. drain. In the same pot, add the celery, onions, bell peppers, and garlic. add the sausage back to that and saute until the vegetables are soft. In a casserole dish, add the sausage and veggies, rice, soups, and water. Cover with foil and bake for about 1 hour at 350. Remove the foil for the last 15 minutes.

Spiked Potato Salad

Ingredients:

10-12 red potatoes, peeled, and chopped into bite size pieces (more potatoes if feeding more than 5)

3/4 cup mayo

1/4 cup horseradish

1/4 cup chopped parsley

1 Granny Smith apple; peeled and cut into bite size pieces

1/2 of a large red onion; diced

2 ribs of celery cut up

Boil the potatoes until tender. About 5-8 minutes. Drain and rinse with cool water.

In a large bowl add the other ingredients. Add the potatoes and toss. Add salt and pepper.

Cream Cheese and Salsa Dip

Need a quick and easy appatizer or dip?


Put one block of cream cheese on a platter.
Pour a jar of Salsa on top.
Let is stand for about 10 minutes...to let th cream cheese get soft.
VOILA!
Quick and easy dip!!

Chicken Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

Dressing:

3 TBSP white vinegar

2 TBSP mayo

1 TBSP Honey

salt

pepper

1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1/4 cup chopped dill

Pasta:

8 ounces of pasta---bow ties, wagon wheels, garden rotini etc..

2 cups white chicken meat cut into bit size peices

1 red bell pepper diced

2 celery ribs diced

1/2 cup crumbled Feta cheese

Boil and drain the pasta. Rinse with cool water. Let it sit until room temperature.

Wisk together vinegar, mayo, honey, salt, and pepper. Wisk in the EVOO and dill.

Mix the chicken, pasta, bell pepper, and celery in a large bowl. Drizzle dressing over the top. Add the Feta cheese on top. Mix it up real good. Refrigerate. Toss again before serving.

Red Beans and Rice

I thought everyone knew how to make Red Beans and Rice, but everytime I make them, someone always asks me "How do you make this?" So I decided to post it here!

Ingredients:
1 pkg. dried red kidney beans
1 pkg. Seasoning blend (frozen)
Tonys
garlic
*sausage* optional

Chop a few cloves of garlic and place into a large bowl. Add dried beans and cover with water. Let them soak overnight. In the morning, drain the beans and rinse them off real good.

Add beans to the crockpot along with the seasoning blend and fill with water. (covering the beans by about 2-3 inches)
Cook on LOW for about 6 hours or HIGH for about 3 hours.
About an hour before you are ready to serve them, add about 1/8 cup of Tonys. (yes, that much) ----you could add a little bit every hour, but since I cook this while I am not home, I just add it all at the end.
This is the time you would add the sausage. Cut it up and cook on the stove until brown. Add to the beans.
Cook for another hour or so. You may need to add more water during the process.

Serve over rice. And with cornbread and greens!

White Corn Salad (Shoepeg Corn)

Ingredients:

1 can of Shoepeg corn (white corn)
1 tomato---chopped
1 bell pepper--chopped
1 onion--chopped
2 TBSP mayo
pepper

Place all ingredients in a large bowl. Do not drain the corn. Add the mayo 1 TBSP at a time. This salad should be a little runny, but not juicy. (if that makes sense!!)
Add pepper and place in the fridge for about an hour. Serve COLD!

Chicken and Dumplins

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, cut up and de-boned
1 bag of Seasoning Blend (in the freezer section)
2 cups of celery--cut up
2 cans Chicken brooth
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 pkg, biscuits--You know, the ones in the fridge section..unless you wanna make homemade ones, but that would take too long!

Place all the ingredients in the crock pot, except the biscuits. If you need more liquid, add more brooth or soup.

Cook on low for about 6 hours.
Cut each biscuit into 4's. Drop them in the crock pot and cook on HIGH for about 1 hour.


*You can add carrots to this also
**instead of biscuits, you can use tortillas...cut into small strips and cook for additional 30 minutes instead of an hour

Coon-ass turtle burgers

Handmade ground beef patties topped with chedder cheese. Bacon wrapped in a weave over that. Hot dogs placed for the head and arms and legs. Cover with foil loosly in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 400 degrees.

Candy Bar Cake

Last night a good friend brought dinner over. Included in this dinner was the most delicious cake I have ever eaten! It goes something like this:

bake a regular cake following the direcions on the box. When it's all cooled off, pour a bunch of caramel on top of the cake. After that, put a bunch of Cool Whip on top. Then crush up a billion Babyfinger candy bars into teny tiny bits. Then spread them all over the top! Put it in the fridge until you can't stand it anymore and you must pull it out and eat the whole thing!

Stuffed Bell Peppers

4-6 Large Bell Peppers
1 lb ground beef
1 lb ground sausage (like Jimmy Deans)
2 cans tomato sause (or spaghetti sauce)
1 pkg. frozen seasoning blend
1 cup cooked rice

Brown the meats and drain. Set aside.
Cook the rice. Add to the meat.
Saute the Seasoning Blend. Add the meat and rice mixture to this.

Cut the tops off the peppers and get all the seeds out. Boil them for about 3-5 minutes; until they are soft.
Remove the peppers and let them dry upside down on a paper towel until they are cool enough to handle.
Place the peppers in a baking dish. Fill each pepper with the rice/meat mixture. Fill to the top!
Pour the tomato sauce all over the peppers and then pour some more in the bottom of the dish.
Bake for about 30-45 minutes on 350.

You will probably have some leftover meat mixture..it's ok, because it is essentially Dirty Rice that can be eaten as a side dish the next day!

Greek Chicken

PREPARE ahead of time:

3 TBS lemon juice
2 TBS red wine vinegar
1 TBS olive oil
2 tsp chopped parsley
2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp dired oregano
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper

whisk all this together.

4 bonless chicken breast

pour the mixture over the chicken in a large ziploc bag. let marinate for about 10-12 hours.



Remove chicken and heat over med-high heat in a grill pan. (this just makes it pretty!)
Cook for about 10 minutes --turning once or twice..until its no longer pink. (I like to cook mine till its crunchy looking!)

remove and sprinkle Feta cheese and diced tomatoes over the chicken!

Tuscan Pot Roast

Ingredients

4 teaspoons EVOO
1 (3-5 lb) boneless beef chuck roast
2 teaspoons rosemary
salt
pepper
all spice
2 large onions--chopped
4 cloves garlic--chopped
3/4 cup beef broth
1 can diced tomatoes


Heat oven to 325. Heat a large skillet with 2 tsp EVOO. cook the beef for about 6 minutes on each side or until it's golden brown. Move to a large oven proof dish. add rosemary, salt, pepper, and all spice..just a dash of each.

add remaining EVOO to the pan on the stove and add onions and garlic until fragrant. add the broth and heat till the the broth cooks down to about 1/2 cup. scrap the bottom to get all the flavors! pour over the beef and add the tomatoes to the dish surrounding the beef.
Bake for about 2 hours uncovered.

Chinese Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

1 head Cabbage
4 things of green onions
1 small pkg. sliced almonds
1 pkg. raman noodles--it doesn't matter what flavor
chicken--cooked and cut up ---I just get the pkg. of sliced chicken breast
Rice Vinegar
sugar
vegetable oil



Directions:

Cut cabbage up into bite size pieces. (Don't use the colesalw mix!) Cut up green onions. In a large bowl, put cabbage, green onions, almonds, and chicken. Take the flavor pouch out of the raman noodles. Break the noodles up with your hands until they aren't one big blob anymore! Add to the bowl.

Dressing:

4 TBSP. sugar
1/2 cup oil
4 TBSP. Rice vinegar.

Drizzle all over salad. Put a lid on the salad and mix it by shaking the bowl around. Place in the fridge for about 30 minutes so the dressing can mix in. You may need to add a tad more vinegar. The sugar should dissolve completly.

Mexican Cornbread~~~~ This is a meal, not just a bread!

Ingredients:

1 cup cornmeal
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 can cream corn
1/2 cup sour cream
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/3 cup oil
1 lb. ground meat
grated cheese
jalapenos


Brown meat, drain, set aside. Combine all other ingredients except cheese and jalapenos. Mix well. Add 1 tsp of the jalapeno juice and about 5-6 cut jalapenos, and a handful of cheese. Mix. Pour half the mixture in the bottom of a 9x13 pan sprayed with Pam. Add the ground meat, then the rest of the cornbread mixture. sprinkle with a lot of cheese to cover the top. Add jalapenos on top of the cheese. Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes.

Easy Cherry Cobbler

Ingredients:

1 can Cherry Pie Filling

1 can Condensed Milk

1 pkg. yellow cake mix

butter

Pour pie filling into a casserole dish. Mix in the condensed milk. Sprinkle 3/4 bag of dry cake mix on top. Place butter pats all over the top. Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes. The butter will melt and spread all over the top, giving it a yellowish tint. For crunchier topping, bake longer.

24 hour Brisket for BBQ sandwiches

Ingredients:

7-8 lb. brisket

3 tsp. garlic powder

3 tsp. onion salt

2 tsp. celery salt

3 tsp. black pepper

3 tsp. meat tenderizer

3 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

Trim most of the fat from the brisket. It's best to leave some fat on the meat.

Mix the marinate together. This is a dry rub. Rub it all over the meat both front and back. Refrigerate in a closed container for 12 hours.

Remove and place in a crock pot on HIGH for 4 hours.

Turn to LOW for 8 more hours.

Drain the meat and shred. Return to the crock pot.

ADD:

3/4 cups ketchup

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 cup BBQ sauce of your choice. (I usually add about 1/2 cup more)

1/2 cup beer. (I have NOT made this without the beer so I don't know the results by omitting it)

Mix all together. Cook on LOW for another 2 hours.

Serve on warm buns!!

NOTE: Decide what time you want to meat done and count backwards from there to see what time you need to start. You will probably have to get up in the middle of the night!!

Artichoke Dip

Ingredients:

8 oz. shredded Monterey Jack cheese

4 oz. shredded Parmesean Cheese

8 oz. cream cheese--softened

1 can artichoke hearts--drained

1 stick butter

1 med onion-chopped

8 oz. sour cream

Soften the onions in a little butter in the microwave. Mix all ingredients together. You may have to use a mixer. Pour into a baking dish. Sprinkle a little extra parmesean on top.

Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.

Spicy Crackers

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups Canola Oil

1 pkg. ranch dressing mix

1 TBSP. Red pepper flakes

1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper

1 box saltine crackers

Place the crackers in a container with a tight fitting lid. Just line them up like you would nacho chips.

Mix all the other ingredients together. Drizzle all over crackers. Secure the lid. Flip every 15 minutes for 1 hour.

Baked Spaghetti

This is my favorite "quickie"

Ingredients:

1 lb. ground meat
1 pkg noodles---I use Ziti, spirals, or elbows.
2 cups mozzarella cheese
2 cans spaghetti sauce of your choice.


Brown the meat. Boil the noodles.
Drain the noodles. Add everything to a cassarole dish. Top with more cheese.

Bake at 350 for about 20-30 minutes---until the cheese is good and gooey!!!