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!!!