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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Anybody
who knows ME,
knows that I am a lover of food. I love to shop for it, cook it myself
and watch others cook it. I love to order it in but more than ANYTHING,
I love to eat it in a restaurant. When
I was a little girl, I used to derive immense pleasure from watching my
Grandma
Sarah cook. If I was a good girl
(which
was quite a rare occurence Over
the years, my Mother Harriet and
also myself (at least I would like to THINK
so,
anyway I
have a GREAT
IDEA!!! If YOU
would
like to share YOUR favorite
recipes, (and I sincerely hope that you DO)
simply e-mail me the recipe, along with your name and e-mail address,
and
I will post it right here for everybody to
ENJOY! Please
remember to try your best to eat healthily and in moderation (easier
said
than done STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS:
1 head of cabbage (3 lbs.), 2 lbs. lean ground beef, 1 small onion,
chopped,
2 large eggs, lightly beaten, 1/2 c. ketchup, 1/2 c. bread crumbs, 1/2
c. water Preheat
oven to 350 degrees. Combine all sauce ingredients and mix in blender
or
food processor with metal blade. Pour into a large kettle and let
simmer
over medium heat while you prepare the cabbge rolls. Cut core out
of
the cabbage. Pull off as many leaves as possible till they become too
small
to hold filling. Bring 1 cup of water to a boil, place the leaves in
the
water, cover, turn the heat to simmer and let cook for 10 min. until
soft.
Combine ground beef, chopped onion, eggs, ketchup, bread crumbs and
water.
Mix well. Fill the cabbage leaves by placing about 1 Tbspn. (or a litte
bit more CHEESE CAKE 2 (8 oz.) pckgs. cream cheese, 1 3 oz. pckg. cream cheese, 3 eggs, 1 (16 oz.) container sour cream, 1 (8 oz.) container sour cream (all items at room temperature), 1 c. sugar, 2 tspns. vanilla, 1 box crushed graham crackers, 1/4 lb. butter, melted, cooking spray This
recipe makes a 9" cheese cake. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix
all
but sour cream together in a big bowl. Add sour cream and blend
for
12 minutes with an electric mixer. For the crust, mix
crushed
graham crackers with melted butter in another bowl and then put in
bottom
of 9" springform pan. VERY IMPORTANT: Coat sides of pan with
cooking
spray or cake will stick to pan and be ruined (NO!!! we can't have
THAT! NOODLE PUDDING 1
stick butter, 1 lb. bag medium sized egg noodles, 6 eggs, 1 pint sour
cream,
4 oz. container cottage cheese, 3/4 c. sugar, 1/2 tspn. vanilla,
1 tspn. lemon juice, cinnamon, 1/2 c. raisins.
Preheat
oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in a lasagna pan in oven.
Set aside. In large mixing bowl, combine remaining ingredients
except
for corn flakes, some sugar and cherries. Pour mixture into
lasagna
pan, mixing butter through. Crush cornflakes and mix some sugar
(to
taste) into them. Sprinkle them over the pudding mixture. Place
the
cherries on top of the pudding and then bake in oven for 1 hour or
until
golden brown. I used to help PREPARE this delicious pudding! oh
the
memories... PEPPER STEAK 1
1/2 lbs. stew beef, 2 bell peppers (different colors) sliced into
strips
, 2 Tbspns. Olive Oil (where's Popeye? In
a large skillet, heat oil and then add meat which has been cut into
thin
slices. Cook until meat is brown, then add pepper steak sauce and
a little water. Cover and simmer about 30 minutes. Add strips of
peppers, onions and the water chestnuts. Cover and simmer about 10 more
minutes or until meat is tender. Serve over a bed of rice (I LOVE
saying that) TUNA LOAF 3 cans solid white tuna, 1/4 c. bread crumbs, 1 small can French Fried Onions, garlic powder, onion powder, 1 large can Veg-All, 1/4 c. mayonnaise, 1 egg, beaten Preheat
oven to 350 degrees. On a dinner plate, mash the can of Veg-All
veggies
with a potato masher (not TOO mushy though!). Set aside. In a large
mixing
bowl, combine tuna (after you have taken it out of the cans and rubbed
it well with your fingers like Al Pacino did in "Scent of a Woman FACE PAINT Corn starch, water, cold cream, food coloring, muffin tins In
each cup of the muffin tin, mix 1 tspn. corn starch, 1/2 tspn. water,
1/2
tspn. cold cream and a couple of drops of food coloring (a different
color
for each cup). Stir. Kids LOVE this so make sure you have a
lot of cleaning liquid and paper towels on hand for cleanup! CREAMY PASTA AND VEGETABLES 2 Tbspns. butter, 2 c. broccoli florets, 2 medium carrots, sliced, 2 (10 3/4) cans of Campbell's Home Cookin' Cream of Chicken Soup, 1/2 tspn. garlic powder, 1/2 tspn. pepper, 4 c. cooked corkscrew style pasta In
a large saucepan over medium heat, in hot butter, cook broccoli and
carrots
until tender-crisp stirring often. Add soup, garlic powder,
pepper
and pasta. Heat through, stirring occasionally. Great side
dish! EGGPLANT DIP 1 large eggplant, 2 large green peppers, 2 hard-cooked eggs, oil, 1 large onion Preheat
oven to 350 degrees. In large baking pan, place eggplant and
peppers.
Bake until REALLY soft), about 1 - 1 1/2 hours. While they
are baking, saute a diced onion in a skillet until slightly brown. When
they are ready, remove eggplant and pepper from oven and allow to
cool. Wearing latex gloves (so your hands don't burn from the
juices)
peel the eggplant and peppers as best as you can and then place in a
large
chopping bowl or if you don't have THIS, try a food processor with the
metal blade in. Slice the hard-cooked eggs using egg slicer if possible
(it works better this way RAINBOW POPCORN BALLS 1/2 c. packed brown sugar, 1/4 c. butter, 1/2 c. dark corn syrup, 1/4 tspn. salt, 8 c. microwaved popcorn Mix
all ingredients except popcorn in 3 or 4 quart microwaveable bowl or
casserole.
Microwave uncovered on HIGH for about 2 minutes or until boiling.
Stir until smooth. Microwave uncovered about 1 minute longer or
until
boiling. Stir in popcorn until well-coated; cool slightly.
Dip hands into cold water. Shape mixture into 8 balls, each about
2 1/2" in diameter. Place on waxed paper; cool. Wrap
individually
in plastic wrap or place in plastic bags and seal. You can tint
popcorn
balls to whatever color you choose by adding a few drops of food
coloring
to the corn syrup. This is FUN for EVERYBODY!!! CHEESEBURGER PIE 1 lb. ground beef, 1 c. chopped onion, 1/2 tspn. salt, 1 c. shredded Cheddar cheese, 1 c. milk, 1/2 c. Bisquick baking mix, 2 eggs Preheat
oven to 400 degrees. Cook ground beef and onions; drain.
Stir
in salt. Spread in greased 9" pie plate; sprinkle with
cheese.
Stir remaining ingredients with a fork until blended. Pour into
plate.
Bake in oven for 25 minutes or until knife inserted into the center
comes
out clean. They ALWAYS say this when you bake cakes or pies,
don't
they? CRAB CAKES 1 lb. crabmeat (imitation is fine too) broken up, 2 Tbspns. mayonnaise, 1 finely chopped green pepper, 1 tspn. parsley flakes, 1 tspn. mustard, 1 tspn. seafood seasoning, 1/4 tpsn. salt, 1/4 tspn. pepper, 1 egg, beaten (poor egg!), 3 slices white bread with crusts crumbled, butter. In
a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients except the butter.
Mix
well and form into 6 or 8 patties. Melt butter in a large skillet
and cook patties over medium-high heat until browned on both
sides.
Oh these are sooo GOOD!!! CARROT SALAD 1 8 oz. pckg. shredded carrots, 1 small can crushed pineapple, drained, 2 small boxes raisins, 1/4 c. mayonnaise (or more or less to your taste), 1 Tbspn. sugar In
a large mixing bowl, combine carrots, pineapples, raisins, mayonnaise
and
sugar. Mix very well and chill for at least 5 hours before
serving.
It's even better the next day! DIRT CAKE 2 pckgs. instant vanilla pudding, 3 3/4 c. milk, 1 pckg. Oreo cookies crushed; 1/2 c. butter, 8 oz. cream cheese, 1 large container Cool Whip whipped topping, 12 Gummy worms, 1 trowel, 1 flower pot, 1 plastic or silk flower Mix
pudding with milk and let stand until thickened. Cream butter and
cream cheese together. Hmmm...how do you cream cream cheese???!!! QUICHE LORRAINE 8
strips of bacon, crisply cooked and crumbled, 1 c. shredded Swiss
cheese,
1/3 c. finely chopped onion, 4 eggs, beaten (poor eggs! Preheat
oven to 425 degrees. Cook bacon in microwave. Crumble and
set
aside. Prepare pie shell. Ease shell into pie plate.
Sprinkle bacon, cheese and onion in pastry-lined plate. Beat eggs
SPAGHETTI PIE 3
c. cooked and cooled spaghetti (or pisghetti as any kid would say) Cook
and cool spaghetti ahead of time. Prepare meats and add to the
sauce.
Set aside. Mix cooked spaghetti, eggs and Parmesan cheese
together.
Pack into bottom of 13"x9"x2" casserole dish. Cover pasta with
Ricotta
cheese. Spread sauce and meat mixture over cheese. Spread
shredded
Mozzarella cheese over top. Bake in 350 degree oven for 20-30
minutes.
Cool at least 10 minutes to let form. This dish is really yummy! KITTY LITTER CAKE 1
pckg. spice cake mix, 1 pckg. white cake mix, 1 pckg. vanilla sandwich
cookies, green food coloring, 12 small Tootsie Rolls (now what do you
think
THESE are for?! Prepare
cake mixes and bake according to package directions. Prepare
pudding
mix and chill until ready to assemble. Crumble vanilla sandwich
cookies
in small batches in a blender (they tend to stick so scrape often). Set
aside all but about 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a
few drops of green food coloring and mix using a fork. When cakes
are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl. Toss
with
half the remaining cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding; gently
combine.
Line a brand new kitty litter box. Put mixture into it. Put 3
unwrapped
Tootsie Rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable.
Shape ends so that they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. Oh
this is so funny I just can't stop laughing!!!! 1
1/2 lbs. ground beef, 1 c. chopped onion, 1 garlic clove minced,
1 jar of Spaghetti Sauce (I love the taste of Prego Garden Combination)
:), 1 can (8 oz. tomato sauce), 1 can (6 oz.) tomato paste,
3/4 c. water, 1 pckg. (7 oz.) pasta shells, cooked and drained, 1 pckg.
(10 oz.) frozen chopped spinach, thawed & drained, 2 eggs, beaten
(but
not too hard please! Preheat
oven to 350 degrees. In a saucepan over medium heat, cook beef, onion
and
garlic until meat is no longer pink and the veggies are tender;
drain.
Add the next 7 ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover
and
simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in macaroni, spinach, eggs, cheese and
bread
crumbs. Pour into a greased (I use cooking spray for greasing)
13"x9"x2"
baking dish. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Cover and bake in oven for
30-35 minutes or until bubbly. Let stand for 10 minutes before
serving.
This is a great way to get kids to eat their spinach! STAWBERRY FRENCH TOAST FINGERS 2
eggs, beaten (don't hurt them TOO much though In
a small bowl, beat the eggs and milk; set aside. Spread preserves
on 4 slices of bread. Trim crusts. Cut each sandwich into 3
strips. Dip both sides into egg mixture. Fry in buttered
skillet
for 2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Dust with
confectioners'
sugar and serve. Kids love THIS dish TOO!
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