Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Chicken Pot Pie

1 lb breaded chicken strips (already cooked)
2 C carrots (chopped into circles)
1 med onion
½ C peas
2 C celery (chopped)
¾ C milk
2 C cream of chicken soup (or one 10 oz can)
2 Pillsbury Pie Shells

Sauté onions in butter. Add carrots and celery.
Cook for a couple minutes and then add peas.
Add cream of chicken soup and milk (add more milk if you
want it more soupy). Add chicken. Pour into pie shell and cover it with
other pie shell. Bake at 425 degrees for 35 minutes or until golden brown.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Creamed Eggs on Toast..... "YEAH TOAST!!"

1/4 C butter
3 1/2 TBS flour
2 C milk
6 hard boil eggs, sliced
6-8 slices of bread, toasted

Melt butter in a skillet, stir in flour. Cook over medium heat for several minutes, stirring constantly. Add milk gradually. Cook until thickened, fold in egg slices. Serve over toast. Sprinkle paprika on top for a delicious, nummy breakfast!!
Enjoy! :)

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Paprika Chicken

Total cook time: 30-40 minutes

1/2 cup flour
2 tsp. paprika
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. ground black pepper
4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts halves
1/4 cup butter
1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
1/4 cup diced onions
3/4 cup sour cream
1 tsp. ground red pepper (optional)

Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Mix the flour, paprika, garlic powder, and pepper(s) on a plate or large bowl. Thoroughly coat chicken with the dry mixture. Cook chicken uncovered for 10-15 minutes or until browned on both sides. Set chicken aside.

Stir in onions and soup, bring to a boil (will only take a minute or two.) Return the chicken to the skillet. Reduce to low heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until the chicken is no longer pink in the middle. Plate chicken and stir sour cream into soup/onion/butter sauce.

It should look like this:


This is spicy, but not too much so that the little ones can't eat it. It goes great with corn on the cob or green beans.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Texas Sheet Cake

Cake

Ingredients:

2 C sugar
½ t salt
1 C water
½ C sour cream
1 t soda
2 C flour
2 cubes butter
2 eggs

In large bowl put sugar, flour & salt. In heavy pan bring butter, water and cocoa to a boil. As is boils immediately add dry ingredients. Add sour cream. Add eggs and soda. Mix until well blended, batter will be thin. Bake in greased cookie sheet with high sides at 370 degrees, 20-25 min. May use 2 9 x 13 pans.

Frosting

Ingredients:

6 T canned milk
1 t vanilla
2 C powdered sugar
1 C butter
4 T Cocoa
1 C chopped nuts (if desired)

Melt butter and cocoa in heavy pan, add milk. When bubbly, stir in sugar and vanilla until smooth. Add nuts. Spread over hot cake. Serves 24-48.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Peanut Butter Popcorn

Ingredients:

16 cups popcorn (2 regular bags of microwave)
1/2 c Peanut Butter
1/2 c Sugar
1/2 c Light Kayro Syrup

Pop the popcorn and set aside.
In a microwave safe dish mix PB, sugar and Kayro syrup. Put in microwave for 2-3 minutes. Pour over popcorn and stir until completly covered. Put on wax paper to cool.

Baked Potato Soup

Baked Potato Soup (makes 10 servings)

Ingredients:
4 large potatoes
2/3 c Butter/margarine
2/3 c Flour
¾ t salt
¼ t white/black pepper
6 c milk (any)
1 c sour cream
10 bacon strips crumbled
1 c shredded cheese

Bake potatoes; cool peel and then cube them. Set aside.
In large sauce pan melt butter; stir in flour, salt and pepper until smooth
Gradually add milk; bring to a boil and stir constantly for 2 minutes
Remove from heat; whisk in sour cream
Add Potatoes

Meatloaf and Ketchup Sauce

Meatloaf and Ketchup sauce

Ingredients for meatloaf:
1 pound ground beef
1 pound ground sausage
10-15 club or Ritz crackers
½ c milk
1 T minced onion (you can use fresh)
1 t salt
1 t pepper
½ packet of meatloaf seasoning

Ingredients for sauce:
1 c Ketchup
½ c BBQ sauce
2 T brown sugar

Crumble crackers and put in bowl; add milk; set aside until soft
Combine meat and all ingredients into medium bowl including crackers. Shape into a loaf and put in a glass dish. Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes. (When you pull it out to check the middle a lot of grease will come out. I usually just let as much out as I can and pour it out of the pan. The middle will be slightly pink because of the sausage). Mix sauce ingredients and add to the top of meatloaf. Put back in the oven for an additional 10 minutes.

Creamy Veggie Soup

Ingredients:
1 medium onion- chopped
¾ c Butter/margarine
½ c Flour
4 cans Chicken Broth
2 c milk
2 c half & half cream (I use fat free half & half but you don’t have to)
1 t dried basil
½ t salt
½ t pepper
¼ t garlic powder
5 cups chopped veggies (steamed)


Sauté onion in Butter until tender. Add flour; cook and stir until bubbly. Gradually add chicken broth; cook and stir until thickened (about 5 min). Stir in milk, cream, basil, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Cook gently until heated through. Add veggies.