Easy Baked Red Potatoes.

This is a side that my family loves. We eat them alot with red meat.
Very easy and yummy.

*8-10 small red potatoes or 6-8 med red potatoes
*5 tsp butter melted
*1 Liptons onion soup envelope
*Mrs. Dash

Heat oven to 375* Prepare cookie sheet with tin foil, and spray with Pam. Cut red potatoes into half and quarter slices. Put into arge zip lock bag. Pour melted butter into ziplock of potatoes. Pour lipton onion soup into ziplock. Close zip lock. And shake until potatoes are well covered. Pour potatoes onto pan. Sprinkle Mrs. Dash on potatoes..apply un melted butter slices to potatoes if desired.
Put in the oven...Scrape bottom of pan about every 15-20 minutes...add butter if needed. Cook for about 1 hours or until potatoes are tender.

Pumpkin Bars

My family can down a pan of these in one day.

Pumpkin Sheet Cake:
1-15 oz. Pumpkin Puree
2 cups Sugar
1 cup Oil
4 Eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp. Baking Soda
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon

-Beat together pumpkin, sugar, and oil
-Add Eggs, mix well
-In another bowl mix flour, soda, salt, and cinnamon
-Slowly add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture, beat until well blended.
-Pour into greased cookie sheet pan.
Cook at 350* for 20 min.

Cool Cake.

Cream Cheese Frosting: (I usually x this by 1 and a half) I am a frosting person.

-3 oz. Softened Cream Cheese
-5 tbls. Butter softened
-1 tsp. Vanilla
-1 & 3/4 cups Powdered Sugar (Sift for best result)
-3 tsp. Milk

Mix ingredients until creamy...spread on cooled cake. Enjoy!

Ho Ho Cake

This is a cake that is alot like Little Debbies Ho Hos.

Items Needed:
1 chocolate cake mix (Oil, Water, and Egg)
2 chocolate frostings
3/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup crisco
1 cube butter or margerine
2/3 cup evaporated milk
2 tsp. Vanilla


1 chocolate cake mix (I usually use devils food)-Prepare as directed on the box, but prepare it on a greased cookie sheet. The bake time is usually around 20-25 minutes.

Allow cake to cool.

Prepare the white Center:
3/4 cup Sugar
2/3 cup crisco
1 cube butter or margerine
2/3 cup evaporated milk
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
* Whip for 10-15 minutes

Apply whipped topping evenly to cooled cake.

In microwave melt chocolate frosting....some people use 1 frosting but I love frosting so I use 2. It doesnt take long to melt frosting..so check it after 15-20 seconds and stir it. Once melted pour onto Whipped topping and spread evenly to cover cake.

Chill cake...get it out about 20 minutes before serving it.

Amazing Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

This is my families favorite cookie recipe!

1 cup softened butter
1/2 cup butter flavored shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 tsp. Baking Powder
2 tsp. Vanilla
2 cups flour
2 cups oatmeal (quick oats)
1-2 tsp. Cinnamon (this depends on how much cinnamin you prefer)
Chocolate chips (I usually use milk chocolate but semi-sweet is fine too.)

Heat oven to 350*, combine Softened butter, shortening, sugars, and eggs until well blended. Add dry ingredients. I usually put these an an ungreased non stick cookie sheet. Bake time depends on your oven but on average I cook them for 12-14 minutes...take them out of the oven while they are still gooey. Enjoy!

French Breakfast Muffins

I made these this morning and WOW are they SOOOOO good!!! This is a recipe from the Pioneer Woman site .These are beyond delicious. Keep in mind that these are 100% unhealthy and are every bit worth it!



French Breakfast Puffs
3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup shortening
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 teaspoons cinnamon
2 sticks butter

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease 12 muffin cups. Stir together flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. Set aside. In a different bowl, cream together 1 cup sugar and shortening, then add eggs and mix. Add flour mixture and milk alternately to creamed mixture, beating well after each addition. Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until golden. In a bowl, melt 2 sticks butter. In a separate bowl combine remaining sugar and cinnamon. Dip baked muffins in butter, coating thoroughly, then coat with cinnamon-sugar mixture. Eat. Faint.

Nicole's Stogganoff

Okay, everyone is bugging me to get the coveted recipe . . . lol now all measurements aren't gonna be 100% accurate because I NEVER measure this recipe . . I just throw it in and taste it til its right! Anyways, enjoy . . .
Oh yeah, and if your on a diet . . . this is NOT the dinner for you!! lol

About 1 lb hamburger
about 1/2 cup minced onion (dried or fresh)
1/4 c margarine
pepper to taste
2 Tbsp flour
1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 sm. carton sour cream
1 can mushrooms (drained) OPTIONAL - I never add mushrooms because I hate them. I just like the soup.

Brown beef and onion in butter. Add pepper, flour, soup and mushrooms (if added). Add sour cream before serving. Also if too thick add milk until its the consistency that you want. I always add a ton of salt and pepper.

Serve over Egg noodles or baked potatoes.

There it is . . . ENJOY!

Sweet & Sour Meatballs

Also, from Janalie

1 pound hamburger

1 egg

1/2 to 1 chopped onion

1 cup dried bread crumbs

salt & pepper to taste

Sauce

1 cup water

1/2 cup cider vinegar

1/2 cup ketchup

2 tbs cornstarch

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbs soy sauce

Combine hamburger, egg, onion, bread crumbs, and salt & pepper. Mix together and form into meatballs. Bake in a muffin tin at 350 degrees for 20 minutes (turn meatballs over after 10 minutes).

Combine and mix in a large pot on the stove water, cider vinegar, ketchup, cornstarch, brown sugar & cornstarch. Put the meatballs in the sauce and let come to a boil and thicken. Serve over rice!

This recipe is quite fast and really yummy!