Rolo Cookies

Check out these cookies!!!  Yum!

Pineapple Sauce for your Easter Ham (Mom Style)

1 cup water
1 1/2 cups pineapple juice
3 Tbsp corn starch
2 Tbsp brown sugar
1 Tbsp vinegar
2 tsp mustard
1 can crushed pineapple

Drain Pineapple, mix juice with water.
Mix in cornstarch and dissolve completely.
Put on stove and add brown sugar, vinegar and mustard while stirring constantly.
Bring it to a boil.
Take off stove and add pineapple.

Happy Easter Everyone!!

Note to Self: Make Fruit Leather

I saw this recipe on ldsfamilyfun.com and am determined to try it... unless Mom has a better one?

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Bake Times: 4-5 hours

Ingredients:
2 (29 oz.) can peaches
1 banana


Unfolding this fun and yummy fruit treat will help your children visualize how they can help the gospel grow when they share the gospel with others.

Directions:
Drain peaches.
Puree peaches and banana in blender.
Pour into 2 jelly roll pans that have been lined with plastic wrap. To prevent plastic wrap from falling into fruit mixture, wet sides of pan before lining.
Bake at 170 degrees F. for 4-5 hours or until surface feels leathery.
Let cool completely.
Cut into 3 x 9 inch strips.
Remove plastic wrap.
Brush lightly with powdered sugar.

Chicken Pot Pie Pasty

Here's another internet find that I want to keep on hand from Allrecipes.com.  I used the filling in English Pasties.  They weren't runny and I only had to cook it for 20 minutes instead of 50 minutes!  So yummy!

Chicken Pot Pie IX

By: Robbie Rice 

"A delicious chicken pie made from scratch with carrots, peas and celery."

Prep Time:
20 Min

Cook Time:
50 Min

Ready In:
1 Hr 10 Min

 
Original Recipe Yield 1 - 9 inch pie

 

Ingredients

• 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cubed
• 1 cup sliced carrots
• 1 cup frozen green peas
• 1/2 cup sliced celery
• 1/3 cup butter
• 1/3 cup chopped onion
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon celery seed
• 1 3/4 cups chicken broth
• 2/3 cup milk
•  
• 2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C.)
2. In a saucepan, combine chicken, carrots, peas, and celery. Add water to cover and boil for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, drain and set aside.
3. In the saucepan over medium heat, cook onions in butter until soft and translucent. Stir in flour, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Slowly stir in chicken broth and milk. Simmer over medium-low heat until thick. Remove from heat and set aside.
4. Place the chicken mixture in bottom pie crust. Pour hot liquid mixture over. Cover with top crust, seal edges, and cut away excess dough. Make several small slits in the top to allow steam to escape.
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.

Cilantro Pesto Pasta Recipe

Sisters, Do you use CILANTRO in your homemade food????  You should.  It is SO yummy!
I had some leftover from my black bean salad recipe that I made last week and I wanted to use it.  I was also in a time crunch and had to resort to a spaghetti dinner, but I thought maybe I could do something with the cilantro for a different sauce.  Thanks to Rachael Ray for this one.

Ingredients

• 1 clove garlic, cracked away from the skin--I used the jar of garlic from Costco 1/2 tsp
• 2 inches fresh ginger root, chopped--I just used powdered ginger
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes--these make it spicy, so cut them down or out if that's not your thing
• 3 ounces, about 1/2 cup, macadamia nuts--I used raw peanuts (cuz that's the only nut I had)
• 1 lime, juiced (I just used lime juice)
• 1 cup cilantro leaves
• 1/2 cup evoo -- extra-virgin olive oil, eyeball it
• 1 teaspoon coarse salt, eyeball it in palm of your hand
• 1 pound spaghetti, cooked to al dente, 1/2 cup pasta water reserved

Directions

Place first 8 ingredients in food processor or blender and blend until smooth, then add the pasta water. Toss with hot pasta, adjust seasonings, then serve immediately.

SOOOO easy and delicious!!!

How Gran Makes Stew

For a small crowd...
Brown stewing meat with onion in a little bit of olive oil
Salt and pepper it
Add a little water to just cover the meat
Add carrots, potatoes, celery
Water should not cover vegetables completely, but should been seen through them
 Simmer on very low for 2-3 hours
Watch it so it does not burn and stir it so the vegetables get the brown on them
Thicken with flour or corn starch

(For "Tomato Brady" add tomatos with vegetables)


For a large crowd...
In a roasting pan put a lb of stewing meat, 1/2 inch pieces of onion, big chunks of potatos, carrots, and 1 inch slices of celery and tomatoes.  Add a few beef bouillon cubes and a about 6 Tbsp of tapioca (not instant), maybe some barley, salt and pepper.  Basil and thyme are nice to add too.  Add water until you just see the water through the vegetables.
Maybe add peas at the end.
Put it into oven at 275 for 6 hours.

And 2 Bonus Meals... that are easy, quick and cheap
courtesy of Gran

Meal #1
In a casserole dish place...
1 lb ground beef (defrosted but not browned)
Then sliced onion over the top

Then sliced potato and if you want sliced carrot too
Cover with cream of mushroom soup and bake

Meal #2
In a casserole dish place...
1 lb ground beef (defrosted but not browned)

mixed with sliced onion
Then pour applesauce over it
And bake

An Apple

main ingredients

1 apple



1#A.J.
juicer
apple
bowl

Juice the apple into a bowl.

2#Apple slices
apple slicer
plate

Put the slicer on the plate(put apple under first).Press down on the slicer.



3#Buddy Apple

red apple(has to be RED)
black permanent marker

Set the apple down draw a face on it.



4#Turkey Toothpick

apple
4 toothpicks
16 raisins and   marsh mellows

Take the toothpicks then stick them in the apple,then put a raisin a toothpick on then marsh mellow then raisin then marsh mellow .Repeat this on every toothpick.


By Jarom Michale Moody.