Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Enchilada Casserole

Enchilada Casserole

2# Ground Beef browned with 1 cup onions.

Add:
1-1/2 teaspoon Salt, Pepper, Cumin.
4 teaspoons Chili Powder
1 cup water
Simmer 10 minutes or until water gone.

2 cups Taco Sauce (2 jars) mild.
12 Corn Tortillas
1# shredded Monterey Jack Cheese
1 cup Sour Cream

9 X 12 pan layer 1/2 cup Taco Sauce, 6 Tortillas, 1/2 cup Sauce, all of Beef mixture, Sour Cream, 1/2 of the Cheese, rest of the Tortillas, rest of the Sauce, then top with Cheese.

Bake 375 degrees for 40 minutes covered. Uncover and bake another 5 minutes. Let set a little while before eating.

Ted & Sandy W.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

FB dessert suggestions! :)

Angie Baylis has to make a nasty dessert for our Euchre club this weekend. What sounds good?


Annette Ford Harper Red Velvet Cake...

Annette Ford Harper PS - I can e-mail my top secret recipe...
1 person
Lauren Beras that does sound good.

Patrick Crowley Deep fried Snickers

Andrea Krull Sorrentino Fall recipes: pumpkin cheesecake or apple crisp....?

Rick Davies Baileys cheesecake

Suzan Brooks Fellabaum My hubbys new fav is brownies, poke holes in it while it's cooling. After cooled pour on caramel sauce and 1/2 can sweetened condensed milk to fill in holes. Top with whip cream and sprinkle with crushed heath bars. Super easy and wickedly good.

Liz Johnson texas sheet cake. yummm ;)
1 person
Chris Karnowski There is a fine line between tasty and nasty.
How about pinapple upside down cake? Or a fruit pizza.

Donna Cook Nasty???

Nancy Liedel nasty?? How about Cool Whip on a naked pool boy?

Chris Karnowski Above, it says: Angie Baylis
has to make a nasty dessert for our Euchre club this weekend.
Just making light of a typo folks. Perhaps nobody saw it.

Patricia Davies your world famous pumpkin pie !! TEE! HEE!

Nancy Spinazze Bowen How about crab apple pie, or toe jam pudding, or ear wax gelatto, or red kool-aid....I got a few more.

Molly Summer Bread Pudding

Lincoln Baylis I'm hoping you misspelled "TASTY" and really didn't mean Nasty

Arie Groeneveld Chocolate covered ants - now that would be nasty!

Andy Karnowski dirt & worms...other wise known as crushed Oreos and gummy worms....served over Chocolate pudding....

Angie Baylis Dear Chris & Lincoln, I did mean "nasty". Sorry! As in ... amazingly scrumptious, delicious, calorie-worthy, irresistible, the guests will want to eat all of it (for a change)! :) Thanks for all of your input! This is exactly what friends are for! You guys are hilarious!

Kathie Valeri Carroll I knew what you meant! Can't wait to hear what nasty dessert you end up making. Had so much fun today making asiago cheese cups! What are we going to do for December? I think we should start a cooking class every month! Have fun a Euchre -- I will miss you -- be eating Polish food....hmmmm....

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Healthy Chicken Sausage with Veggies

Asaigo and Guoda Chicken Sausage cut up from Costco. No msg. Not bad for you!
One red, yellow and orange pepper sliced.
Onion
Very thin sliced white potatoes (micro first, with skin on)
Montreal Steak seasoning.
2 sausages for each person since they are 120 calories each.

Don't need a salad.
Light dessert.

(Linda's idea)

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Kathie's Italian Sauce

1 pound hamburger
1 pound Italian sausage (if using "hot" sausage start with 1/2 a pound)
garlic
oil
1 tablespoon sugar
large can of tomato puree
16 oz can diced tomatoes with Italian seasonings
2 small cans Italian paste with Italian seasonings.


Brown garlic in oil. Put in meat, break it up and brown. Drain oil. Add both cans of Italian paste and simmer for a couple of minutes. Add tomato puree and stir. You might need 1/2 can of water (use the puree can so it's more like tomato flavored water by rinsing can). Add diced tomatoes. Stir together. Then add sugar and simmer sauce low for 1/2 hour to hour.

Depending on how it tastes sometimes I add basil or oregano. If it is too thick, then add water. If it is too thin, let it simmer more.

The rest is really up to how you want it to taste. I don't add salt, but you may feel it needs it. Sometimes I put pepper in. Just play around with your spices.

Sometimes at this point, I feel it is "Perfetto" that I don't add anything.

I always use name brand products -- Del Monte, or Hunts, there's another brand that I buy by sight -- can't think of the name -- but it's Italian. I just feel that some of the generic sauces don't have the flavor I'm looking for.

So at least this is a beginning point for you and what you like.

Buona fortuna e cucina felice!

by Kathie C.
(made it for us the day of Mom's funeral)

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Pumpkin Bars

4 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
2 cups pumpkin (1 can)
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup nuts (if desired)

Cream the oil, sugar, and eggs. Add pumpkin, cinnamon, salt, soda, and flour.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes. (Make in a long bar pan.—I use
a heavy cookie sheet.) Cool. Frost with recipe below.

Frosting
2 cups powdered sugar
3 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
¾ stick Margarine (6 Tablespoons)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cream or milk

from Annette... :)

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Jan's Breakfast Enchiladas

I combine a few recipes so I will give it a try here! Glad you liked it, it is pretty spicy.

2 cups of Western Hash brown, (the ones by the eggs, not frozen)
8 large eggs
8 oz of chopped ham (package all chopped easiest)
1/2 cup salsa (maybe a little more)
package of shredded pepper jack cheese

12 tortillas

Monteray Jack Cheese or Mexican cheese

Enchillada sauce

Brown hash browns in vegetable or olive oil as directed on package
Add ham, brown a little. Add eggs to potatoes, scramble until lightly done, add salsa and mix

In a 9x12 oiled pan sprinkle 2 tablespoons or so of cheese into a tortilla, add egg and potato mixture, turn up sides of tortilla and roll. Repeat until pan is full, 12 does it for me but only 10 tortillas come in a package, so sometimes I use 10.

They can be frozen at this point if you want to make them ahead for a crowd. They also can be frozen individually.

Before baking, pour a can (jar) of enchilada sauce over the rolled shells, place 1.5 cups of Monteray Jack cheese over top, I sent quesedilla with you.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes

Jan P. brought this over after Mom passed away!

Monday, September 6, 2010

Fudge

MILLION DOLLAR FUDGE

1/2 c. butter
4 1/2 c. sugar
1 (12 fl. oz.) can evaporated milk
3 (12 oz.) pkgs. Baker's real semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 (7 oz.) jar Kraft marshmallow creme
3 c. chopped nuts
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
Bring butter, sugar and milk to a full rolling boil in heavy 4 quart saucepan, stirring constantly.
Boil 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly to prevent scorching.
Remove from heat. Gradually stir in chocolate chips until melted. Add remaining ingredients; beat until well blended. Pour into greased 13x9 inch pan. Cool, cut into squares.
Makes 6 pounds of fudge.
Prep. time: 5 minutes. Cooking time: 20 minutes.

from Annette

Friday, September 3, 2010

Grilled Salmon

Marinate Salmon in Italian Dressing for about 15 minutes.
Pam Spray.
Skin side on grill or foil 3-4 minutes on each side.
Lemon Juice after.

Shrimp Pasta

1 pound raw shrimp
Coat w/ Italian style bread crumbs.
Butter & Olive oil- Saute with fresh garlic.
Add Basil, Oregano, Salt & Pepper.
Add shrimp and Saute until pink.
Put in 1 can of Italian style stewed tomatoes.
Simmer.

Serve over linguine.

Yum!

Lemon Chicken

Boneless chicken breasts (works well if you pound them first between wax paper)
In a marinade tub put salt, pepper, basil, garlic powder on the chicken.
Squeeze juice from 2 lemons on them. Shake a lot.
Marinate for about 10 minutes.

Dip the chicken breasts in flour.
Fry in 1/2 olive oil & 1/2 vegetable oil until done.
Take out the chicken and put on a plate.
Add white wine to the marinade tub. Shake around to get all of the spices and lemon.
Put it in the pan. Add garlic, basil, salt & pepper.
Boil down.
Thicken with cornstarch if necessary.

Serve over fettucini noodles.

From Rick N.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Chocolate Banana Bread

1-1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
2 bananas, mashed
1/4 cup butter, melted & cooled
1 egg
2 Tbsp milk
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

In small bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt, set aside. In large bowl combine sugar, banana, butter, egg and milk, beat well. Add flour mixture. Stir in choc chips and nuts. Spread in greased loaf pan. Bake 350 for 65 min. Cool and remove from pan.

Hope you like it!!

from Pepita

Friday, June 25, 2010

Egg Bake

1 Large Pepperidge Farms White Bread (cut off crust)
24 Ham or Canadian Bacon
2 bags Shredded Cheese (a lot)
2 dozen Eggs
4 c. Milk
Salt-pepper- dry mustard
1/2 c. Butter (melted)

Sauce over top: 1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup & 1 c. Sour Cream

Spray 9x13 w/ Pam.
(2 layers of bread)
Layer bread, meat, cheese, bread, cheese.

In large bowl, combine eggs, milk, salt & pepper, dry mustard.
Pour over the bread layers. Cover & refrigerate.

Heat 375. Just before baking, top with the melted butter.
Bake for 40 minutes.
Heat the sauce, don't boil it. Serve it on the side.

from Liza B.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Sloppy Joes

3# ground beef
1 lg. onion
1 12 oz. chili sauce
1 14 oz. ketchup
4 T. flour
2 T. sugar
2 T. dry mustard (or reg)
2 T. white vinegar

Brown meat and onion. Add chili sauce and ketchup.
Mix flour, sugar, mustard, vinegar. Stir well. Add to rest and cook until done. Too much grease, add 1/2 c. cornflakes.

Enchilada Casserole (Sandy's)

Sandy's Enchilada Casserole

2# ground beef
1 cup onions
(Brown then add 1-1/2 teaspoons salt, pepper, cumin. and 4 teaspoons chili powder.)
1 cup water. Simmer 10 minutes or until water gone.

2 cups taco sauce
12 corn tortillas (Ted uses an extra layer.)
1# shredded monteray jack cheese
1 cup sour cream

Layer 1/2 c. sauce, 6 tortillas, 1/2 c. sauce, all of beef mixture, sour cream, 1/2 of the cheese, rest of the tortillas, rest of the sauce, then top with cheese.

Bake 375 degrees for 40 minutes covered. Uncover bake another 5 minutes. Let set a little while before eating.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Gorgonzola Pasta

Gorgonzola Pasta

3/4 cup gorgonzola cheese, crumbled - about 8 oz.
3 TB butter
1/2 lb. fresh mushrooms, chopped
1 cup vegetable or beef stock
1/4 cup white wine
4 TB heavy cream
1 cup chopped onion or shallottes
3 TB flour
dash nutmet
black pepper to taste
kosher salt


Melt butter and a couple TB of olive oil, saute shallottes for 2 minutes then add mushrooms, sprinkle with kosher salt. Sprinkle in flour, stirring. Cook two minutes. Stir in all remaining ingredients, stirring CONSTANTLY until sauce thickens Serve over favorite pasta. I like cavatappi or gemelli. Serves 3-4 people.

Hope you girls enjoy this.

I had fun walking.

Take care,
Meg

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Beer Bread

Beer Bread

5 cups Self-Rising Flour
5 tablespoons Sugar
1 1/2 cups Sour Cream
1 12oz. can of Regular Beer (No LIght)

Mix, then bake in 2 greased & floured bread loaf pans for approximately for 1 hour. (Should be light golden brown when done.) Brush with a stick of melted butter on top.

Vegetable Pasta Primavera (+ shrimp or chicken optional)

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