Weeknight Lasagna Toss

I found a fantastic new recipe in my food & family magazine that came in the mail today. It's a lasagna recipe that you make in the skillet and it only takes 40 minutes! You can find the recipe for Weeknight Lasagna Toss here or you can look it up, along with tons of other recipes, at www.kraftfoods.com (I can't post it because it doesn't belong to me).

This recipe is amazing. It's pretty versatile. I substituted frozen chopped spinach for half of the green peppers they called for. The thing I loved best was that my kids actually ate it. Alex asked for seconds and thirds!

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Anyway, I thought I would share since I loved this recipe so much. Hope you like it too!

Buttermilk Pancakes (you don't have to use "actual" buttermilk for these!)

I got this amazing recipe from my friend in our last ward. These are seriously the best pancakes I've ever had! Restaurant quality from home. ;) They make lots, though, so be prepared!

Ingredients:
2 eggs
2 cup flour
2 cup buttermilk (or 2 cups milk soured with 4 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar)
¼ cup oil
2 tbsp sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda

Mix together wet ingredients. Sift dry ingredients together and add gradually to wet mixture to form batter. Let stand a couple of minutes. Cook on hot griddle and serve with Buttermilk Syrup (below).

Buttermilk Syrup
Ingredients:
½ cup butter
1 tbsp karo
½ cup buttermilk (or ½ cup milk soured with 1 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar)
½ tsp soda
3/4 cup sugar
½ tsp vanilla

Boil all ingredients EXCEPT vanilla for 1 minute. Then add vanilla. Can store leftover syrup in refrigerator.

Moon Cake

So I got this recipe from a friend, and it's just so good!!

In a small saucepan, bring to a boil:

1 c. water

1 cube butter

Remove from heat and add:

1 cup flour

Stir until it forms a ball. Then let it cool for 10 minutes. Put dough ball in mixer and add:

4 eggs (mixing in one at a time)

Spread batter on large greased cookie sheet (I use a jelly roll pan) and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. I took mine out after about 28 minutes because I thought it was getting too brown - so watch for that in your oven.

Let the pastry shell cool in the pan.

Make 2 small packages of vanilla pudding according to package directions -including the 5 minute set up time. Then add one 8 oz. package of cream cheese, softened to room temperature. Mix with hand mixer until pretty smooth - I wasn't able to get mine totally smooth - I don't think I let it warm up enough. Spread the mixture over the pastry shell.

Spread 1 small container of cool whip over the top of the pudding mix and then drizzle chocolate syrup over the top. Top with slivered almonds if desired.