Frozen Velvet

make a day ahead or weeks ahead

1 8oz pkg cream cheese
1 cup mayo(I use Hellmans)
1/4 cup icing sugar
2 cups mini marshmallows
1 14 oz can peaches chopped in small pieces
8 marachino cherries chopped
whipping cream or 1 envelope dream whip prepared
Mash cream cheese in a mixing bowl
Add mayo and icing sugar...beat to combine.
Stir in marshmallows,well drained peaches and cherries
Fold in whipped cream or dream whip
Pack into a mold or empty cans(You can use empty hunts tomato sauce cans,or whatever size you have on hand)
Cover with plastic wrap and put in freezer at least overnight.
Just before serving run warm water over can for just a second,remove other end from can and slide onto serving plate.
Cut into 1 in slices...top with a dollop of whipped cream or dream whip and top with a cherry.
I promise you this is smooth and creamy and not overly sweet.
I keep a couple cans of this in the freezer for unexpected company.
It sounds like a lot of work,but makes up in a couple of minutes.

Frozen Chocolate Dessert

Buy 2 large containers of cool whip and a large pack of chocolate chip cookies.

Dip the cookies in chocolate milk. Just one dip, you don't want them to fall apart from being too soggy. Line the bottom of a springform pan with the wet cookies. Cover with one of the containers of cool whip (thaw it a bit or completely, whatever way is easiest for you to spread it on).

Make another layer the same way on top.

Then you can sprinkle whatever you want on top. you can use Nestles Crunch bars but you can use chocolate chips, shaved chocolate, coconut, drizzled chocolate or caramel or a combination of all of them.

Freeze until 10 or 15 minutes before serving.

The world's best pancake recipe

Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl, whisk, set aside:

2 cups flour
2 tbsp sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp fine salt

Combine the wet ingredients in a second bowl, whisk:

2 cups buttermilk
4 tbsp melted butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 beaten eggs

Add the wet ingredients to the dry and whisk until just combined. Fry in a pan with butter. Top with maple syrup and devour.

Don't skimp on the ingredients here. Use real butter and real vanilla extract, but especially real maple syrup and real buttermilk.

MONSTER Cookies

1 doz. eggs
2 lb. brown sugar
4 c. sugar
1 lb. butter
16 c. oatmeal (must be old fashioned rolled oats)
3 lb. peanut butter
1 lb. plain M & M's
1 lb. chocolate chips
15 oz. (1 box) Raisins
8 tsp. baking soda
1 tbsp. vanilla

Cream eggs, sugar, vanilla, butter, peanut butter, soda and other ingredients.
Mix in very large dish pan. Drop by spoon on to cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.

We found that a dozen cookies baked just right in 8 minutes.

These cookies are awesome. They're a Chocolate Chip Cookie.
They're an Oatmeal Raisin cookie. They're a Peanut Butter Cookie.
...and they're an M&M cookie all rolled into one MONSTER cookie!

Be prepared for TONS and TONS of cookies! haha

Holiday Cheese Ball

Ingredients:

2 pkg cream cheese

1 lg jar Armour Dried Beef

4 stalks green onions (scallions)


Directions:
Let cream cheese warm to room temperature. Rinse the dried beef under warm water to remove some of the salt - hold the stack on one side and fan to saturate all pieces. Blot dry with paper towel and cut into small pieces. Cut onion greens in half lengthwise and use scissors to cut into small pieces. Dice onions. Mix all ingredients well. Shape into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight or until firm. Serve with your favorite crackers. Makes 1 lg or 2 sm cheese balls.

Kris Kringle Popcorn

Ingredients:

1 3-ounce bag of any kind of microwave popcorn
1 7-ounce jar of marshmallow creme
Small red and green candy sprinkles

Directions:
Preheat your oven to 325 degrees F. On a large cookie sheet, spray cooking spray to cover. Next, microwave the popcorn according to the directions on the bag. Then, empty the marshmallow creme from the jar into a bowl that you can use in the microwave. Microwave the marshmallow creme on high for 1 minute - make sure you microwave it uncovered. Then, pause the microwave, stir the creme and continue microwaving for another minute or until it is melted.


Take your popped corn and gently pour into the marshmallow creme. Be careful not to let any unpopped kernels fall in. Gently stir the popcorn until mixed and coated. Next, spread the popcorn out on a cookie sheet. Once you have a fairly even layer, sprinkle the popcorn with the red and green candies. All you need to do now is bake it for about 10 minutes, stirring just a little after 5 minutes or until the coating of the marshmallow mixture is dry.


Cool completely on cookie sheet placed on top of a wire rack. At this point it will all be one mass of coated popcorn. Once it is cooled, you can break it up into large pieces and serve. Makes 8 cups. For a variation, break up candy canes and use in place of the red and green candy sprinkles.



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Chicken Salsa

Ingredients:

4 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts

1 Package Taco Seasoning Mix

1 24 oz Jar of Salsa, any heat

Directions:
Put all ingredients in a Crock Pot, let cook on low for at least 4 hours. Shred chicken and put back in Salsa. Serve with chips.


Variation: After add about 1 pound of Velveeta with the shredded chicken.

Spiced Nuts

Ingredients:

1/4 c. butter, cubed
1/2 c. plus 3 tablespoons sugar, divided
2 tsp ground cardamom
1 c. salted cashews
1 c. salted peanuts
1 c. pecan halves

Directions:
In a large heavy skillet, melt butter. Add 1/2 cup sugar; cook and stir over high heat until sugar is dissolved. Meanwhile, place cardamom and remaining sugar in large bowl; set aside.

Reduce heat to medium; add the cashews, peanuts and pecans to butter mixture. Cook and stir until nuts are toasted, about 3 minutes. Add hot nuts to reserved cardamom mixture; toss to coat. Spread on foil to cool. Makes about 3-1/2 cups.

Pistachio Sour Cream Bread

1 white cake mix (Duncan Hines)
One 3 1/2 ounce package of pistachio pudding
1 cup of sour cream
4 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup of oil
1/4 cup of water


Sugar Mixture:
3 tablespoons of brown sugar
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
3/4 cup of chopped nut meats

Grease and flour 4 small bread tins, 4"x8". Mix together cake mix, pudding, sour cream, eggs, oil and water. Pour half of the batter into tins. Sprinkle half of the sugar mixture on top. Add remaining batter. Top with sugar mixture. Bake at 350ºF. for 30 to 35 minutes. May use a bundt pan

Pickled Pineapple

20 oz. can pineapple chunks, NOT TIDBITS
3/4 cup vinegar
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
pinch salt
6 to 8 whole cloves
1 4 inch cinnamon stick ******I use the smallest one, like 4 1 inch so they can go in each individual gift jar.

Drain syrup into saucepan, add vinegar, sugar, salt, cloves, cinnamon and simmer for 10 minutes. Add pineapple. Bring to boil. Remove from heat. Cool. Refrigerate. Best made several days ahead. Serve cold. Or put into half pint or pint jars to gift.

Butterscotch Pie #2

1/4 cup real butter
1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
4 tablespoons flour
2 cups whole milk (I use evaporated milk)
3 large egg yolk, separate eggs (reserve whites for meringue)
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
1 9 inch pie crust, prepared, baked and cooled

Stir brown sugar and butter in electric skillet, until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Cook 2 to 3 minutes longer on low to medium heat, stir often and turn off.

Beat egg yolks. In a large bowl, mix flour with one cup of the milk until smooth. Then add beaten egg yolks and salt and mix well. Blend in remaining one cup of milk with the egg yolk mixture..

Add the flour mixture to electric skillet mixture and cook on low to medium heat until thickened. Stir constantly. Turn off when thick and add vanilla. Stir and pour into baked 9 inch pie shell. Top with meringue.

Meringue Preheat oven to 350

3 large egg whites
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
6 tablespoons granulated sugar

With a mixer, (I used a hand mixer) beat egg whites with vanilla and cream of tartar until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, beating until stiff and glossy peaks form and all sugar is dissolved.

Spread meringue over slightly warm filling. Sealing to edge of crust. Then bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes, or until meringue is golden. Cool.

Katharine Hepburn's Brownies

This is from a magazine article about Katharine Hepburn. It is, apparently, her family's.

Ingredients

• 1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter
• 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Preparation

1. Melt together 1 stick butter and 2 squares unsweetened chocolate and take the saucepan off the heat.

2. Stir in 1 cup sugar, add 2 eggs and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and beat the mixture well.

3. Stir in 1/4 cup all-purpose flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt. (In the original recipe, 1 cup chopped walnuts is added here as well.)

4. Bake the brownies in a buttered and floured 8-inch-square pan at 325°F for about 40 minutes.
You can cut these brownies into squares, once they have cooled, and eat them out of the pan, but it is so much nicer to pile them on a fancy plate, from which people are going to eat them with their hands anyway. If you want to smarten up your act you can put a square of brownie on a plate with a little blob of créme fraîche and a scattering of shaved chocolate.

Fantasy Fudge

Yes, this is the original Fantasy Fudge recipe from the back of the Kraft Marshmallow Creme jar. I'll never know why they changed the recipe on us.

Makes about 117 squares
3 cups sugar
3/4 cup margarine
2/3 cup evaporated milk
1 12-oz. (340 g) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 7-oz. (198 g) jar Kraft Marshmallow creme
1 cup chopped nuts
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Traditional method:
Combine sugar, margarine and milk in heavy 2-1/2 quart saucepan; bring to full rolling bail, stirring constantly. Continue boiling 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring. Remove from heat, stir in chocolate till melted. Add marshmallow creme, nuts & vanilla beat till blended. Pour into greased 13 x 9-inch baking pan. Let cool and cut into 1-inch squares.

"Million Dollar" Brown Sugar Cookies

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg, beaten
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 cup nuts, ground

Cream sugars, butter and shortening. Add egg and vanilla. Mix well. Add sifted dry ingredients and nuts. Chill 20 mins. and shape dough into balls the size of quarters and roll in sugar. Press flat with glass dipped in sugar. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 10-20 minutes.

Frosting

2 Tblsp. browned butter
2 cups powdered sugar
Milk, enough to blend
Vanilla or butter flavoring

Super Breakfast Casserole

6 eggs
1 cup milk
6 oz Cheddar cheese (grated)
1 lb Sausage or bacon (market)
Frozen hash brown patties
Line a 8" x 8" glass baking dish with frozen hash browns. Sprinkle hash browns with fried, drained and crumbled sausage or bacon. Mix together eggs and milk, pour over meat and hash browns. Top with grated cheddar cheese. Best if prepared night before and refrigerate. Cook at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

Company Brunch Casserole

You can make this the night before:

5 sourdough English muffins, split
1 cup shredded Cheddar
1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
1 lb breakfast sausage, cooked, drained & crumbled (you can substitute
crisp fried bacon or chopped ham)
12 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups milk
1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley
1/3 cup chopped green onions with tops
1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms (optional)
Arrange the English muffins in a buttered 9x13" baking dish. Sprinkle w/the
Cheddar & Swiss cheeses & sausage. Beat the eggs, milk, parsley & green
onions in a bowl until mixed. Pour over the prepared layers. Chill covered
w/foil for 8-10 hours. Sprinkle with the mushrooms. Bake in preheated 350?
oven for 50 minutes or until set. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
Serves 8.

Harvest Apple Bread

1 cups white sugar
1 cup br. sugar
2/3 cup shortening
2 eggs
3 cups flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup cold coffee
2 cups chopped apples

Grease and flour loaf pan or muffin tins
Cream together sugars, shortening and eggs.
Sift together dry ingredients. add raisins and walnuts.
Add coffee to creamed mixture alternately with dry ingredients.
Fold in apples. Bake in 350 oven for 50 min . for loaf or in 375 oven for 20-25 min. for muffins.

Friendship Tea Mix

1 jar Tang 1lb 2oz
3/4 c. instant tea
1 1/2 c. sugar
1 pkg of wyler's lemonaid (dry)
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp cinnamon

Mix all ingredients and store in an air tight container. Heat a cup of water and add 1 1/2 Tbsp. to the water and stir. A lot like orange wassil, but better with the spices.

Onion Crunch Sticks

makes 32 pieces

2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 Tbs. melted butter or margarine
1 tsp. flour
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. parsley flakes
1/4 tsp. onion salt
8 oz. can of crescent roll dough
Two 3 oz. can’s french fried onion rings, crushed

Preheat oven to 375. In medium bowl, combine first 6 ingredients. Separate crescent dough into 4 rectangles; firmly pinch and press perforations to seal. Cut each rectangle crosswise into a strips.

Dip each strip in egg mixture, then coat with crushed onions. Place on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 8 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets and serve warm.

To reheat, place on cookie sheet and heat at 350 degrees until warm.

Mexican Munch

1 3-oz. can French-fried onions
3 c. bite-size shredded corn squares (CRISPEX)
3/4 c. Spanish peanuts
1 4-oz. can potato sticks
1/4 c. butter (or oil)
1 t. taco seasoning mix

In a 13x9x2-inch baking pan, combine onions, cereal, peanuts, and potato sticks. Melt butter over low heat; drizzle over mixture in baking pan and stir well. Sprinkle the seasoning mix evenly over mixture, mixing well. Bake in 300°F oven for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Allow to cool. Makes about 8 cups.