Dinner in a Pumpkin

I love to make this in the Fall. It's easy, inexpensive, filling, and very, very good!

1 med pumpkin (or 2 small)

1 small onion, chopped

1 tsp. minced garlic

2 Tbsp oil

1-2 lbs hamburger (depending on how much meat you like)

2 Tbsp. soy sauce

2 Tbsp. brown sugar

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 1/2 c. cooked rice ( To make: 3/4 uncooked rice-not instant-, with 1 1/2 c. water)

Optional:

1 small can mushrooms

8 oz. water chestnuts

Preheat oven to 350. Sauté onion & garlic in oil. Add hamburger and brown, draining the fat. Meanwhile, cook the rice and goop out the pumpkin, saving the top to use as a lid while baking. Try to get out all the strings! (I like to save the seeds to bake later.) Combine hamburger mixture, cooked rice, and all other ingredients. Add to the pumpkin, replace the top. Bake on foil-lined baking sheet for 1 hour or until pumpkin is tender. Serve right out of the pumpkin. Can serve with rolls/cornbread and green salad.

To make it fun, you can paint or use sharpies to draw a face on the pumpkin before baking!

~ Aubree Clark

PF Chang Lettuce Wrap Recipe

This recipe is soooo yummy and easy to make. It does require some prep time but it is so worth it!

16 Boston, bib lettuce
1 lb. ground chicken breast
1 lg onion, chopped
2 T. garlic, minced
1 T. reduced-sodium soy sauce
1/4 c. hoisin sauce
2 tsp. fresh ginger, minced
1 T. rice wine vinegar or red wine vinegar
2 T. Asian chili pepper sauce
1 (8 oz) can sliced water chestnuts, drained, finely chopped
1 bunch of green onions, thinly sliced
2 tsp. Asian sesame oil

Rinse lettuce leaves, keeping them whole. Set aside to drain. Cook chicken in a large skillet or wok over medium heat stirring often to break up the meat. Add onion, garlic, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, ginger, vinegar, and chili sauce. Cook until meat is crumbled and brown. dd water chestnuts and green onions. Cook until onions begin to wilt, about 2 minutes. Stir in sesame oil. Arrange lettuce leaves on the outer edge of platter. Spoon meat mixture in center. Allow diners to spoon meat mixture into lettuce leaves and eat like a taco. Asian chili pepper sauce can be found in the Asian section of most supermarkets. You can use 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper or 1/2 tsp. dried red chili flakes instead.

Recipe by Terry Pogue in the Lewistion City Cookbook.

Enjoy~Alison Lindhardt

Peanut Butter Pie

Okay, this has got to be one of the simplest desserts and for those peanut butter lovers!

PEANUT BUTTER PIE RECIPE

1/2 c. creamy peanut butter
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
8 oz. Cool Whip
Graham cracker crust

Mix peanut butter, cream cheese, and powdered sugar. Beat well until smooth. Add Cool Whip and continue to mix until smooth. Pour in crust and chill. If desired, top with Cool Whip or drizzle with chocolate!

Yummy Thai Lettuce Chicken Wraps

My brother made this recipe for us a few months ago and we've had it multiple times since. It is SO easy and SO, SO delicious. Enjoy!


2 Large chicken breasts (cut into small pieces)
1 Tbsp. cooking oil
1/2 red onion, sliced
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/4 cup soy sauce
4 tsp. fish sauce
4 tsp. sugar
2 cups chopped veggies (broccoli, carrots, peppers, cauliflower, etc)

1 head of lettuce (iceburg is great)

PEANUT SAUCE
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup peanut butter (chunky is good)
3 Tbsp. soy sauce
3 Tbsp. water
2 Tbsp. oil
1 tsp. minced garlic

Heat the oil over medium heat. Cook the onion and chicken.While the chicken is cooking, mix together (in a pot) the salt, pepper, soy sauce, fish sauce and sugar. Once the sugar is dissolved and the chicken is cooked, pour the sauce over the chicken. Add the veggies and cook for a few more minutes while you make the peanut sauce (heat all the ingredients in a pan). Once the sugar is dissolved you are finished!

Serve by placing a little of the chicken mixture onto a lettuce leaf and then add some peanut sauce. YUM!

Shelly Hurst

Chocolate Mint Brownies

BYU has a famous mint brownie that I have been trying to recreate for years. Even when BYU released the recipe, I still couldn't match it. Finally, I have found a recipe that's even better than BYU's. Yay! Several steps but definitely worth the work!

Best Ever Mint Chocolate Brownies

(From Family Fun Magazine)

Ingredients

• BROWNIES
• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• MINT FROSTING
• 1/4 cup softened butter
• 2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 1/2 to 3 tablespoons milk
• 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
• Green food coloring
• CHOCOLATE TOPPING
• 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 350º and grease a 9-inch square baking pan. For the brownies, place the butter and chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute, stir, and microwave for 1 minute more. Stir until smooth. In a separate bowl, whisk together the sugar and eggs. Stir in the chocolate and the vanilla extract. Finally, stir in the flour and salt until thoroughly combined. Pour into the prepared pan, then bake for 25 minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool for at least 1 hour.

2. To make the mint frosting, cream the butter and confectioners' sugar. Add the milk 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until it is smooth and spreadable. Beat in the peppermint extract and tint to the desired shade with green food coloring. Frost the cooled brownies, cover, and chill for 1 hour.

3. To make the chocolate topping, pour the chips into a microwave-safe bowl, add the butter, and microwave on high for 1 1/2 minutes or until the chocolate melts. Stir until smooth. Pour the chocolate over the brownies and smooth it with a knife. Refrigerate for 45 minutes or until the coating hardens.

4. Bring the brownies to room temperature, then cut into 16 to 32 pieces. Layer them on a piece of cellophane (place waxed paper between the layers to prevent sticking), wrap up the brownie package, and tie with a red ribbon. Makes 16 to 32 brownies.

   
   

   Amy Ellis

   
   

   
   

Crockpot Brown Sugar Chicken

This is one of our family's favorites--gotta love crockpots!

Crockpot Brown Sugar Chicken

Ingredients:

6-8 boneless chicken breast halves

1 cup packed brown sugar

2/3 cup vinegar

1/4 cup lemon-lime soda

2 tablespoons minced garlic cloves

2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon pepper

Directions

Throw everything in the crockpot on low 4-6 hours. You can thicken the sauce with a bit of cornstarch if you’d like. Serve over steamed rice with steamed veggies.

Amy Ellis

Italian Parmesan Chicken and Potato Bake

I'm into easy and inexpensive meals. This one is a favorite! Serve with your favorite steamed veggies or a salad. :-)

2-4 chicken breasts (if using more chicken, then just add a little more dressing and seasonings)

1-1/2 lb. potatoes (about 3), cut into thin wedges

1/4 cup Italian dressing

1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

1 tsp. Italian seasoning

paprika

black pepper

PRE-HEAT oven to 400°F. Boil potato wedges until easily stabbed with a fork. In a skillet, brown chicken and sprinkle with paprika and black pepper to taste.

PLACE chicken and potatoes in 13x9-inch baking dish. Top with dressing; sprinkle with cheese and Italian seasoning. Cover with foil.

BAKE 30 min or until chicken is done (165ºF), removing foil after 15 min.

--Aubree Clark

Apple Berry Dip & Cinnamon Tortilla Chips

This is a really yummy snack!

Dip:

2 medium granny smith apples
1 cup sliced strawberries
2 kiwis
1 small orange
2 TBS brown sugar
2 TBS apple jelly

Mix apples, strawberries, and kiwi in a bowl (make sure they are all cut in small pieces). Zest the orange and add it to the bowl, then juice it (if you don't have a juicer, just cut the orange into small wedges and squeeze it in). Add the brown sugar and apple jelly. Mix it up and serve with delicious cinnamon tortilla chips!

Cinnamon Tortilla Chips

Preheat oven to 400. Lightly coat the tortilla with one of the following - depending on how healthy you're feeling: Butter, pam, or water. Sprinkle - LIBERALLY - some cinnamon sugar mixture (really easy, just 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon - I always add more cinnamon though). Now cut your tortilla into wedges like a pizza, it's easy to use a pizza cutter for this. Place your wedges in a single layer on a cookie sheet (if you use butter or pam on your tortillas you don't have to grease the pan, if you use water it's probably a good idea). I can usually fit 3 tortillas worth of wedges on a cookie sheet, they have to be very strategically arranged though! Bake 8-10 min. or until golden brown. Eat a few plain while they are still hot to make sure they are worth sharing - I always have to do that, then serve with yummy apple berry dip!

Jenny McFarland

Beef 'n' Biscuit Bake

This is a great quick recipe we found and tried it out for a couple friends, we had none left over. It is a really good meal all in one. I found it in the Taste of Home's Casserole Cookbook.

1 pound ground beef
1 can kidney beans rinsed and drained
1 can whole kernel corn drained
1 can condensed tomato soup, undiluted
1/4 cup milk
2 TBS dried minced onion
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup cubed process cheese (Velveeta cheese)
1 tube refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
2-3 TBS butter or margarine melted
1/3 cup yellow cornmeal

~In a large saucepan, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Add the beans, corn. soup, milk, onion, chili powder, and salt; bring to a boil. Remove from heat; stir in cheese until melted.

~Transfer to a greased 2 1/2 qt baking dish. Bake, uncovered at 375 for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, brush all sides of the biscuits with butter; roll in cornmeal. Place over hot meat mixture. Bake 10-12 minutes longer or until biscuits are lightly browned. Yield: 6-8 servings.


Heather Sorenson

Fiesta Casserole

3 cups shell macaroni
1 lb. hamburger
1 onion (chopped)
2 cloves garlic (can also use garlic pwd. but I don't know what the measure is)

2 Tbsp. chile powder
1 Tbsp. worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. salt

1 can mushroom soup
1 can tomato soup
3 cups sharp cheese (shredded)
1 cup water
1 can corn (drain off the water)

Cook and drain macaroni, set aside. In large skillet over medium heat cook hamburger, chopped onion, and garlic. Spoon off fat. (I usually cook the macaroni while I'm cooking the meat.)

Stir chile powder, worcestershire sauce, and salt into meat mixture. Cook 3 minutes.

Add mushroom soup, tomato soup, cheese, and water. Cook until bubbly.

Mix in noodles and corn. Pour into 2 casserole dishes (or whatever you can fit it in; this makes a lot of food). Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.


Hints, etc.

• This is fun to play around with on spices. My husband and I usually replace the salt with seasoning salt and add taco seasoning. If we want it more spicy we also add cayenne pepper or a minced serrano pepper.
• Doesn't have to be shell noodles. We use whatever we have on hand, i.e. elbow noodles instead of shell.
• We usually skip baking. Rather than waiting to add the noodles and corn; add them with the mushroom and tomato soup, water, and cheese. It's a little soupy and not as casseroley, but it is faster and as long as the cheese is melted, it still tastes good.
• I said this before, but this makes a ton of food. We usually cook the meat and spices in a skillet and then mix everything in our 5 qt pot.
• Finally, this does make a lot of food, but the leftovers are better than the firsts.

Enjoy! Sarah Wilcox

Good and Easy Crock Pot Apricot Chicken

So I have no idea how to post this recipe. but I sure hope this works :) I really need to get a blog started of my own :) Anyhow this is a recipe that I love to make because it ALWAYS turns out good and it is so very easy!! Here is what you need:

6 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
2 18oz jars Arpicot-Pinapple Preserves
2 Pkgs Dry Onion Soup Mix
1 Crockpot :)

I mix the Preserves and Soup Mix then pour a small amount of it on the bottom of the crock-pot, place chicken in crock-pot and cover with remaining sauce. Cook on Low 4-5 hours. Serve over rice.
One odd fact, sometimes when I am in a hurry and I have frozen my chicken then I just throw it in the pot without defrosting it and when I do that the chicken is ALWAYS more tender. I know it sounds weird but its true :)

Katie Henrie

Yummy Hummus

Here is a quick, easy hummus recipe that makes veggies a little more appetizing!

1 can garbanzo beans, drained

2 Tbsp olive oil

1/3 c lemon juice

1/3 c tahini (sesame seed paste found in the health food section at Smith's. If you don't have it, you can replace the olive oil with sesame oil)

garlic to taste (2 minced cloves or around 2 tsps. of garlic powder is what I use)

1/2 tsp cumin (optional)

Put everything in your blender or food processor. Blend until smooth--you can add a little water or reserved bean liquid if it is too thick. Also, it's a very flexible recipe---add more garlic, basil, cumin or even roasted red peppers or sun-dried tomatoes. It's fun to experiment.

Amy Ellis

Grasshopper Pie

SOOO Yummy!!!

Ingredients:

1 large package of chocolate jello pudding
2 1/4 cups milk
1 oreo pie crust
1 package Keebler Grasshopper chocolate cookies
1 8 oz tub of cool whip

Mix the pudding and the milk together in a bowl till completely mixed then add about 1/3 of the cool whip and mix. Then crumble about 9-10 cookies in the pudding mix.
Put it in the pie crust and place in the fridge for about an hour then spread the rest of the cool whip and crumble about 10 more cookies on top with one whole one in the middle.
and serve!
Hope you love it like we do!
Heather Bradford

Cookies

Today we had a great mid-day activity. It was the bow exchange, I think we all learned so much from each other. There is so much talent in the ward, it is great to have people share them with us. For the activity I made some no-bake cookies and chocolate chip cookies and thought I might as well share them with everyone else on here.

No-Bake Cookies

1 cube of butter
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup cocoa

1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla
3 1/2 cups oats

~Combine first 5 ingredients in a sauce pan, bring to a boil for 1 min stirring constantly. Stir in peanut butter and vanilla, take off heat. Pour this mixture over the oats and mix until coated. drop small spoon fulls on waxed paper to cool. Then enjoy!


Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs beaten
2 TBS hot water
2 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
chocolate chips

~Preheat oven to 375. Cream shortening, butter and sugars; add eggs, water, vanilla and beat well. Add flour, soda and salt to mixture. Add chocolate chips. Bake for 10 min until light brown.
These cookies are moist, and chewy. I have tried many different chocolate chip cookie recipes and this one I think I like the most. If anyone has a really good one they like please post it, I would love to try something new.

Heather Sorenson

Morning Sickness Pie

Morning Sickness Pie (actually Sour Cream Lemon Pie but works really well for nausea. So yummy if you like lemon flavor!)

Ingredients:

1 cup white sugar

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups milk

1 cup sour cream

3 egg yolks

1/4 cup butter

1 1/2 teaspoons lemon zest

2/3 cup lemon juice (can add more if you need it sour!)

1 (9 inch) pie crust, baked

Directions:

In a saucepan, combine sugar, flour, and salt. Gradually stir in milk. Cook and stir on medium heat until thickened and bubbly. Reduce heat, and cook and stir 2 more minutes. Remove from heat.

Beat yolks slightly. Gradually stir 1 cup of mix into yolks. Return yolk mixture to saucepan, and bring to gentle boil. Cook and stir 2 more minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in butter, peel, and juice. Fold in sour cream.

Pour filling into baked pie shell, and cool. Top with whipped cream if desired.

Amy Ellis

Strawberry Pretzel Salad

This is my favorite salad of all time, I could probably eat it on a daily basis. You can substitute other fruit if you don't like strawberries.

3/4 cup margarine melted
3 TBS brown sugar
2 1/4 cup crushed pretzels
1 Large strawberry gelatin (or what other flavor of fruit you use)
2 cup boiling water
20 oz. bag of frozen strawberries (3 cups)
1 8 oz. package cream cheese
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 12 oz whipped topping

~Mix margarine, TBS brown sugar and pretzels. Press into a 9x13 dish. Bake for 8 min. at 350. Then cool

~Blend together cream cheese and brown sugar. Fold in the whipped topping.

~In another bowl dissolve the gelatin in the 2 cups of water. Stir in strawberries. Chill until begins to set.

~Spread cream cheese mixture onto cooled crust. Pour strawberry mixture over top of cream cheese mixture.

~Chill until set.


Heather Sorenson

Meat loaf

1/2 cup milk

2 eggs beaten

1 cup of crumbs or 18 crackers(I have used both saltines and club)
1 lb burger
1/4 cup onion
salt and pepper
season salt
ketchup

~Mix milk, eggs, and crackers. Add in raw burger and onion. Salt, pepper and season salt to your own liking. We like to put in a little ketchup just a few squirts. Put into bread pans, either one big (regular size loaf pan) or two little. Put a little ketchup over the top and cook on 350 for 1- 1 1/2 hours.

This is one of our quick meals, it doesn't take long to mix it up, and then you have time to get other things done while it cooks. We love it with some fried potatoes.

Heather Sorenson

Cafe Rio Pork and Ranch Dressing

This weekend Dallin and I decided to be ambitious and try a new recipe that we got from someone he works with. I was pleasantly surprised. I like the pork at cafe rio. I know there are about a million knock off recipes out there and none of them taste Iexactly the same, but this one turned out pretty good. We also made the cafe rio rice that Tiffany Morris posted on her recipe blog, and some black beans to make burritos. I must say they turned out pretty good. The pork makes great leftovers for burritos or quesadillas or salads. Let me know what you think. Sorry about the lack of a picture on this one.

Café Rio Sweet Pork (Crock-Pot)
2 ½ pounds pork loin
minced garlic clove
garlic salt
salt
pepper
2 cups Coke
1 heaping tsp each of Dry Ground Mustard and Cumin
1 can red enchilada sauce
1 cup brown sugar

Put pork in crock pot and fill with water half way- cook on low over night (about 12 hours).

Drain liquid and add coke, garlic, dry ground mustard, cumin, salt, and pepper in the crock pot.
Put lid back on and cook on low for 4 hours. Shred pork and drain liquid. Then add enchilada sauce and brown sugar and let cook until warm.

Café Rio Dressing

1 buttermilk ranch dressing packet (I made it the way the asterisk says, so I used sour cream and milk)
2 tomatillos (tomato like vegetable with a husk around them)—cut your tomatillos in half and bake for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees to make them a little softer
½ bunch cilantro
1 tsp onion powder
1 clove garlic
Juice of 1 lime
1 jalapeno

Blend all the ingredients well. Refrigerate.

Amber Koecher

Delicious snack!

Pineapple Salsa

Ingredients: 

2 cups chopped fresh pineapple

1 cup chopped red and/or green bell pepper

1/2 sweet onion slivers

1/4 cup lemon juice

3 T. chopped cilantro

1 to 2 fresh jalapeno peppers, seeded and finely chopped

Blend pineapple, bell pepper, onion, lemon juice, cilantro and jalapeno pepper in medium bowl. Regrigerate, covered for 4 to 24 hours, stirring occasionally. Serve with grilled chicken or seafood or as an appetizer with chips.  

I got this from an expo...This is high in Vit. C and Vit A :) Soooo.... enjoy! 

If you have any questions feel free to give me a call. :) Helga

Get in some fruits and dairy :)

Cran-Licious Smoothie

Ingredients:

1 cup 100% cranberry juice

2 cups frozen strawberries, without sugar

6oz. low-fat vanilla yogurt

Directions:

Place all ingredients in a blender.

Blend until smooth. 

This is sooooo yummy and super easy! ENJOY! 

Helga

Fast, Easy & Healthy Homemade Spaghetti

Spaghetti

1 lb. lean ground beef or ground turkey

2 garlic cloves, minced or 1 tsp. garlic powder

1 medium onion, chopped

1 large 28oz can tomatoes

1 6oz can tomato paste fill can once with water and put in. :)

1 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. pepper

1 1/2 oregano

1 tsp. basil

1 bay leaf

about 12 oz whole wheat angel hair noodles. (or whatever you like)

In a large pan brown and season meat to your liking and drain fat.(I like to cook the onions with my meat to give them more flavor and help them to soften.) Add remaining ingredients except noodles and simmer 30 minutes (or as long as you have, if you only have 5 minutes, like we usually do, that works too.). :) Cook noodles according to package directions. Put together and enjoy!! :) 

This is a very yummy, inexpensive, healthy and easy recipe. It's Makylas favorite meal! 

Feel free to call me if you have any questions.

Helga

Chicken Puffs

This is a recipe my grandma and mom make that has become one of our favorites. It's not very hard and tastes great. Sorry that the picture isn't very good. The chicken puffs taste a lot better than the picture looks. :-)

2 cans of canned chicken

1 pkg (8 oz) cream cheese

2 pkgs of cresent rolls

1/4 c. butter (melted)

Seasoned bread crumbs
2 packages of chicken gravy mix

Combine chicken and cream cheese in a bowl. Season the mixture (I like to use Montreal Chicken, salt, pepper, and garlic salt). Unroll the cresent rolls and place a scoop of the chicken mixture on each roll. Roll up the cresent rolls. Roll each puff in melted butter then seasoned bread crumbs. Place on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 for approximately 25 minutes. Serve with chicken gravy.

Amber Koecher

Beef Enchiladas

1 16 oz can refried beans
1 10 oz can enchilada sauce(which ever hotness you prefer)
1/2 1b hamburger
soft flour tortillas (about 6-8 depending on how full you fill them)
shredded cheese (to you likeness, we like lots)
small container of sour cream
If you want them to be a little fuller, we like to add corn and rice in the tortillas.

~Brown hamburger and drain off grease, add beans. Fill as many soft four tortillas as you prefer. Roll them up and place in a baking dish.
~In a bowl combine sour cream and enchilada sauce. Pour over the top and sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 350 until cheese is melted, aprox. 15-20 mins.

Heather Sorenson

Sugar Cookies and Cream Cheese Frosting

Here's a fun sugar cookie recipe. I love soft sugar cookies and this recipe isn't too hard. I don't claim that they are good for you, but they sure taste good :-) Amber Koecher

Ingredients

1 c. butter

1 1/2 c. sugar

1 egg

1 c. sour cream

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

4 1/2 c. flour

1 tsp vanilla

Directions

Cream butter, add sugar and egg. Add sour cream, dry ingredients and vanilla. Mix together well. Roll until about 1/2" thick. Cut out and back on an ungreased cookie sheet at 350 for 10-12 minutes until barely brown on the bottom.

Cream Cheese Frosting

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

1/2 c. butter

1 lb powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Beat ingredients together well. Use to frost cooled cookies.

Menu Plan Monday

I am really bad at menu planning lately, so I have challenged myself--and you, too!--to post a menu plan. Here's mine for this week:

Monday: Crock Pot Pickle Roast (sounds gross but my husband loooves it--you just dump a bunch of pickle juice over a roast and cook it on low all day. I don't eat meat, so I can't vouch for it!)

Tuesday: Spinach Alfredo Fettucine

Wednesday: Crockpot Chicken Curry (1 can coconut milk, 2 Tbsp. curry powder, 2 chicken breasts--not exact recipe, I usually wing it on this one) with rice and steamed carrots

Thursday: Turkey Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes

Friday: "Out" Day--I won a free pizza from our apt. manager for getting a trivia question right!

Saturday: Meatball Subs and Fruit Salad (Just frozen meatballs simmered in spaghetti sauce served on whole wheat buns. Fruit salad is oranges, canned mandarin oranges, canned pineapple chunks, and some banana slices)

Sunday: Sweet Lentil Stew (boil 2 cups lentils, 6-8 cups veggie broth, 1/2 cup each diced carrots, onions, red pepper, add 1 diced sweet potato and 1 can of diced tomatoes. Simmer for about 40 minutes)

Okay--your turn :)!

Amy Ellis

Food blog

Hey Everyone!!

Instead of adding recipes to two blogs all the time I figured this would be easier. I have a recipe blog that I have been working on, so feel free to check it out whenever you would like.


my blog address is masteringthemenu.blogspot.com


Tiffany Morris

Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

1 1/4 cups granulated sugar, divided
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa, divided
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 1/4 cups hot water
Whipped topping

Heat oven to 350

Stir together 3/4 cup granulated sugar, flour, 1/4 cup cocoa, baking powder and salt. Stir in milk, butter and vanilla; beat until smooth. Pour batter into ungreased 9-inch square baking pan. Stir together remaining 1/2 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar and remaining 1/4 cup cocoa; sprinkle mixture evenly over batter. Pour hot water over top. Do not stir.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until center is almost set. Let stand 15 minutes; spoon into dessert dishes, spooning sauce from bottom of pan over top. Garnish with whipped topping. Makes about 8 servings.
Heather Sorenson

Corn Chowder

Brown 1 to 1 1/2 lbs. burger
Cut potatoes into cubes and cook in separate pan. (Use what you want for desired chunkiness.)

Drain grease off burger, add 2 cans of creamed corn, 2 TBSP. Butter, and add in potatoes. Add milk to desired thickness.

Heather Sorenson

Auction Chili

1 qt. tomato juice
1 pint stewed tomatoes chopped
3/4 cup ketchup
1 envelop chili seasoning(you can choose your how hot you would like it)
2 tsp. chili powder
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 lb. hamburger
1 onion chopped, brown with hamburger
2 cups small red beans- boil in water until soft


Boil beans in water until soft, while boiling add water as needed. Brown hamburger with onions, drain grease. Drain beans, add hamburger and the rest of the ingredients to the beans and simmer. Approximately 15-30 min. Makes approximately 3 quarts of chili.

Heather Sorenson