Peanut Brittle the longer way

2 cups sugar
1 cup Karo Syrup
1/2 cup water
1 lb raw peanuts
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt


use a heavy sauce pan. Cook sugar, syrup and water on medium heat until it makes a thread (about 10 minutes after boiling) After thread, put in peanuts consistantly (about 10 min) until golden color and you can smell the peanuts roasting. Remove from heat and add salt and soda.
Mix well and put on greased cookie sheet.

Round Steak Variations (Crock Pot)

Put enough round steak to feed your family in your slow cooker.

Cover with Cream of Mushroom Soup and season with Worchestershire Sauce and Pepper

Cook 4 hours on HIGH for Thawed meat
Cook 6-8 hours on LOW for frozen

Serve over Mashed Potates or Rice

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1 Chopped round Steak cut up
1 onion chopped
1 green onion chopped
3 T. soy sauce
1 pkg French style green beans

Brown steak and put all ingredients on top of steak and cook on LOW all day. Serve over cooked rice.

Lazy Stew (Crockpot)

1 lb. Stew meat
1 qt chopped carrots
2 chopped onions
4 large potatoes sliced
2 sticks of celery diced
1 tsp salt and other seasonings
1 Can Tomato Soup thinned with one can water

put in crockpot, cover with lid, and bake at 275 (LOW) for 5 hours.
Add whichever veggies you'd like but be sure to slice them.

Microwave Blueberry-Apple Cobbler

1 21 oz can Blueberry Pie filling
1 21 oz. can Apple Pie filling
9 coconut bar cookies (1 Cup)
1 T. Lemon juice
1/4 C Butter, melted
1/2 Tsp Vanilla
1/4 C chopped nuts

Mix pie fillings, lemon juice, and Vanilla together in a square baking dish. Cook in the microwave oven for 6 min. turning often. Mix cookies and nuts together and add melted butter. Spread over the filling mixture. Cook for about 1 min. Serve with ice cream or light cream.

Serves 6

Microwave Peanut Brittle

1 Cup Sugar
1/2 Cup corn syrup
1 Cup raw peanuts
1/8 tsp. Salt

cook 7-8 min stir after 4 min.

1 T. Butter

Add-cook 2 min or until mixture looks caramelized in color

1 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. Vanilla

Add-spread out on buttered cookie sheet.

Gooooood Cookies...

I took Lori's recipe and used a white cake mix and added 1/4 cup cinnamon sugar. SO GOOD!

Yam Casserole

Yam Casserole

Stir together:

3 cups	Cooked Yams - Mashed	½ cup	Sugar
1/4 cup	Milk	2 large	Beaten Egg

Spoon lightly into greased casserole dish. Bake at 375 for 25 min or until center is done.

Stir together topping while it is baking:

1 cup	Flake Coconut	1 cup	Brown Sugar
1/3 cup	Flour	1 cup	Chopped Pecans
1/3 cup	Butter

Spread on casserole and bake at 350 for another 10 min.

Americanized Won-tons

I need to find my camera charger. This one is with out pics. But they look gorgeous on a plate, so i'll have to post pics when I make these again.

here goes...

~Combine cooked hamburger, cooked white rice, and cream of mushroom soup
(amounts vary depending on how many you need to feed)

~Egg roll wrappers (I find mine in the produce section next to the salad at Macey's)
With a brush or your finger, line the sides of each egg roll wrapper with Egg Whites

~Spoon rice mixture onto wrapper and fold into a triangle. Make sure that you can close the sides. (the egg whites seal the sides)

~drop in hot oil and fry until bottom is golden brown then flip it and brown the top side.

Let it sit on a paper towel for a minute to absorb some of the oil and serve.

We ate this last night with a Green Salad and Strawberries.
Also makes a great appetizer

A new family favorite.... heee heee hee

We call these "Horse shoes" It looks an awful lot like celery but it can't be since its not stringy. LOL

Leftover Ham- Casserole

So we needed to use up our ham from Sunday.
this is basically Funeral Potatoes with Ham


I shredded up about 2 cups of ham
Added 1 bag of shredded hashbrowns
1 family size can of Cream of Chicken
1 Tbs dried onion
1/2 - 1 cup of sour cream
2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese

Topping: Crumbled up Rice Chex in melted butter

350 till bubbly and starting to turn golden brown

Stuff Over-A-Baked Potato

This is really easy to make. Cook time is about 30 mins.

Ingredients:
1 lb of ground beef
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can of french style green beans (I get the ones with almonds in them)
Shredded sharp cheddar cheese
Spices to taste (sometimes I just use Mrs. Dash classic italian seasoning):
Oregano
Basil
Pasley
Italian Bread Crumbs
S & P to taste
Potatoes

In a skillet cook the ground beef, chopping it up as it cooks. Once the meat is cooked put the cream of mushroom soup, green beans, and spices in to the skillet. Mix together. Once everything is cooked, spread over the top of a baked potato and sprinkle with cheese.

Substitutions:
Instead of a baked potato I've used left over mashed potatoes. Also, I've made noodles (any kind you like) and mixed everything together. Kind of a homeade hamburger helper.
During cold season I've also chopped up an onion and cooked it with the ground beef.

This can be combined in a crock pot it needed to serve later.

Chicken Waldorf Salad

I got this recipe form the Hungry Girl website/recipe site http://www.hungry-girl.com/. Tried it today and it was fantastic! I substituted a few things based on what I had at home and have added them to the sides of the swapped ingred's. I also bumped up the total calories to 155 for the honey swap.

Ingredients:
1 cup (about 4.5 oz.) cooked & roughly chopped skinless lean chicken breast (canned chicken chunks)
1/2 cup chopped cucumber
1/3 cup red seedless grapes, halved
1/3 cup chopped apple
1/4 cup plain fat-free yogurt
2 tbsp. fat-free mayonnaise
1 no-calorie sweetener packet (like Splenda) (I substitute honey)
1/4 tsp. lemon pepper seasoning (added a squeeze of lemon juice and regular ground black pepper)
dash salt

Directions: Mix together the yogurt, mayonnaise, sweetener, lemon pepper seasoning, and salt. Coat the chicken in this mixture, and then stir in the chopped cucumber, grape halves, and chopped apple. Then try not to pass out as you chow down on this insanely good chicken salad! MAKES 2 SERVINGS

Serving Size: half of recipe (about 1 cup)
Calories: 145
Fat: 1.5g
Sodium: 332mg
Carbs: 14g
Fiber: 1g
Sugars: 10g
Protein: 21g