Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Chicken Quesadillas

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts cubed
4 large flour tortilla's
butter
shredded cheese
salt
pepper
chili powder
garlic powder

cook chicken in butter and spices (just sprinkle a little of each on meat) until done, then butter one tortilla and place it butter side down on a cookie sheet. Top tortilla with the chicken then cheese, and now butter the other tortilla and place ontop of chicken and cheese with butter side facing up. Bake in a 425 degree oven until the tortilla is starting to brown and cheese is melted

Bryan'sOpen faced Enchiladas

Ingredients

1 large can enchilada sauce
8 corn tortilla's
2 pds ground beef
Shredded cheese

cook hamburger meat on stovetop until done. drain and mix in sauce. Now, dip the tortilla's in a little oil, and then place down on a plate, one at a time, covering each layer with meat and cheese, until you have a 4 layer enchilada.. top with cheese, and bake in a 400 degree oven until nice and bubbly. **Make sure you have oven safe plates for this recipe!***

Homemade Corn Bread

2 cups corn meal mix
1/2 cup flour self rising
2 eggs
buttermilk

Get you an Iron skillet for this.

Preheat oven to 425. Mix all ingredients together about , just add enough buttermilk to make it a liquid dough. Not watery, but not thick either. Put your Iron skillet on a stove eye set to med-high. Put a small amount of oil in pan, and then pour your mixture in the pan. Leave it on the eye a few minutes until you see it bubble.. like the way pancakes bubble before you flip them. Take off stove eye and place in oven. Now this is for a very small pan of corn bread, so if you are feeding a big family, use a bigger pan, and double the recipe. You are going to want to bake it until you can put a toothpick in center and it comes out clean. Thats all there is to it, yummy, hot corn bread served with butter.. MMM good

Homemade Mac and Cheese

This is my husband's grandma Nadines recipe. you will see alot of her recipes here, she is a wonderful cook!!


Ingredients

1 large box mac noodles..
1/2 block velvetta cubed
milk
butter
salt
pepper


cook noodles, and then drain. Cover almost to the top with milk, then put the velveeta cubes in and salt and pepper to your taste. Allow to set ontop of a very low heat burner until the cheese melts and the sauce gets thick.. Thats all there is to it.. Yummy

Aunt Wendy's Famous Baked Beans

Okay, so my niece begs me for these, so I am going to share my recipe secret.. lol

Ingredients

4 cans pork n beans
2 pds hamburger
1/2 cup or so of brown sugar
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup mustard
1 Chopped onion
1 pd bacon, cooked and crumbled

Okay, so you need a slow cooker for this. Crock pot or something similar.

fry your hamburger meat with your onions and drain fat off. Set aside. Cook the bacon, drain, and crumble. Now put everything together into the crock pot, mix together well, and allow to warm up. I use the taste test for perfection with the brown sugar and the ketchup and mustard, so taste it and if you think it needs a little more, just add a little at a time till its perfect.

Easy Tuna Noodle Casserole

Ingredients

2 cans tuna in water, drained
1 bag egg noodles
2 cans cream of mushroom soup

Cook noodles, then drain. stir in soup and tuna, heat until warm.. and eat.. easy dinner and super easy!

Peanut butter pie

Ingredients


1 cup peanut butter
1 8oz tub cool whip
4 oz cream cheese
1 cup confectioners sugar
1 graham cracker pie crust


Mix the cream cheese and confectioners sugar together, until smooth. Add in the peanut butter and the cool whip. Pour into the pie crust and chill for 1-2 hours before serving.

pizza casserole

Ingredients
1 bag macaroni noodles
any pizza toppings you choose
2 jars spaghetti sauce
shredded mozzarella cheese
1 pd hamburger meat


Cook noodles until completly done. Cook hamburger meat, and then add that to the spaghetti sauce. mix sauce and noodles together, and place in bottom of deep dish. Add pizza toppings, then top with cheese and put in a 350 degree oven until nice and bubbly.

Pork chop and potato casserole

Pork Chop casserole

Ingredients

4-6 small chops
3-4 big potatoes peeled and sliced
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 large onion chopped
1 cup shredded cheese


Cook pork chops in a 350 degree oven until done in large pyrex pan. place sliced pototoes, onions, cream of mushroom soup, salt and peper ontop of pork chops, and place back in oven. Bake @350 degrees until potatoes are tender.. take out and place shredded cheese on top, and broil until cheese is brown and bubbly.

Sweet potato casserole

Sweet potato casserole

1 (40 ounce) can cut sweet
potatoes, undrained
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1/3 cup butter
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup butter, melted
DIRECTIONS:
1.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 2 quart baking dish.
2.
Place the sweet potatoes and their liquid in a medium saucepan, and bring to a boil. Cook 15 minutes, or until tender. Remove from heat, drain, and mash.
3.
In a medium bowl, mix the mashed sweet potatoes, white sugar, eggs, 1/3 cup butter, milk, and vanilla extract. Spread evenly into the prepared baking dish.
4.
In a separate bowl, mix the brown sugar, chopped pecans, flour, and 1/3 cup melted butter. Sprinkle over the sweet potato mixture.
5.
Bake 35 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.

Made from scratch pie crusts

PIE CRUSTS

INGREDIENTS
2 CUPS FLOUR
¾ CUP CRISCO ( DOESN’T HAVE TO BE CRISCO BRAND SHORTENING JUST MAKE SURE IT’S THE HARD TYPE AND NOT THE PRESOFTENED TYPE)
1 TEASPOON SALT
5-7 TABLESPOONS WATER

DIRECTIONS
COMBINE FLOUR ,SALT, AND SHORTENING TOGETHER AND MIX WITH A ELECTRIC MIXER UNTIL WELL BLENDED.. YOU WILL SEE SMALL DOUGH BALLS STARTING TO FORM. NOW PUT WATER IN. IT ALWAYS TAKES ME 7 TABLESPOONS TO GET IT TO THE RIGHT CONSISTANCY.
FLOUR COUNTER TOP AND PLACE BALL OF DOUGH ATOP FLOUR.
BREAK IN HALF BECAUSE THIS WILL MAKE YOU TWO 9 INCH PIE CRUSTS.
ROLL THE DOUGH OUT TO FORM A CRUST TO FIT OVER YOUR PIE PLATE. PINCH EDGES OF DOUGH UP AROUND TOP OF PLATE AND TEAR OFF EXCESS DOUGH AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE PLATE.
IF YOUR MAKING A CREAM PIE AND NEED TO BAKE THE CRUST BY ITSELF FIRST, MAKE SURE TO PUNCH HOLES WITH FORK IN DOUGH SO IT CAN COOK THROUGH.

HOMEMADE PECAN PIE


PECAN PIE
INGREDIENTS
4 EGGS
¾ CUP SUGAR
1 CUP LIGHT CORN SYRUP
½ CUP ( 1 STICK) MARGARINE, MELTED
¼ CUP FIRMLY PACKED BROWN SUGAR
1 TEASPOON VANILLA EXTRACT
¼ TEASPOON SALT
1 CUP PECANS COARSLY CHOPPED
DIRECTIONS
COMBINE ALL INGREDIENTS EXCEPT PECANS IN A SAUCEPAN AND COOK ON STOVE ON MED HEAT UNTIL ITS ALL COMBINED REALLY WELL. AFTER ITS COMBINED WELL, POUR OVER INTO PIE CRUST ( DO NOT BAKE CRUST BEFORE DOING THIS) AND PLACE PECANS ONTOP OF PIE. BAKE IN OVER AT 350 DEGREES FOR 1 TO 1 ½ HOURS OR UNTIL PIE ISNT GIGGLY INSIDE. TAKE OUT AND PLACE IN FRIDGE TO COOL.

HOMEMADE CHICKEN AND EGG NOODLES


HOMEMADE CHICKEN AND EGG NOODLES

COOK CHICKEN AND RESERVE STOCK, ADDING MILK AND A COUPLE DROPS OF YELLOW FOOD COLORING.
LARGE POT RECIPE
BEAT TOGETHER
12 EGG YOLKS
1/4 TO 1/2 CUP MILNOT
ADD
1/4 TEASPOON BAKING POWDER
1 TABLESPOON VEGETABLE OIL
1 TEASPOON SALT
JUST A LITTLE YELLOW FOOD COLORING
ADD
FLOUR UNTIL THICK ENOUGH TO ROLL
HEAVILY FLOUR BOARD TO ROLL NOODLES
ROLL OUT THIN
COAT WITH FLOUR
ROLL UP
SLICE IN THIN STRIPS
SHAKE OUT FLOUR
DROP INTO SIMMERING STOCK/MILK MIXTURE
STIR GENTLY WITH FORK

YEAST ROLLS


HOT YEAST ROLLS
2 PACKAGES DRY YEAST
2 CUPS WARM WATER
1/2 CUP SUGAR
2 TEASPOON SALT
6 1/2 TO 7 CUPS FLOUR
1 EGG
1/4 CUP VEGATABLE OIL
DISSOLVE YEAST IN WATER
ADD SUGAR, SALT AND ABOUT HALF FLOUR
BEAT THOROUGHLY
ADD EGG AND OIL
GRADUALLY ADD REMAINING FLOUR UNTIL SMOOTH
COVER, LET RISE
PUNCH DOWN
ROLL OUT FOR ROLLS
PLACE IN PAN, BRUSH ON MELTED BUTTER
LET RISE
BAKE AT 400 FOR ABOUT 12-15 MINUTES
BRUSH ON MELTED BUTTER

Granny Nadine's Cream pie

GRANDAMAS CREAM PIES
INGREDIENTS

3 EGG YOLKS
3 CUPS MILK
2/3 CUP SUGAR (you can use splenda I use 1 cup splenda)
¼ TEASPOON SALT
1 TEASPOON VANILLA
2 TABLESPOONS BUTTER
3 TABLESPOONS CORN STARCH

DIRECTIONS
*IN A SMALL MIXING BOWL COMBINE EGG YOLKS AND MILK TOGETHER AND SET ASIDE.
*NOW MIX CORN STARCH AND SALT TOGETHER IN YOUR POT YOU ARE USING TO COOK IT ALL IN. ALSO ADD SUGAR IN AT THIS POINT.
* NOW POUR YOUR EGG AND MILK MIXTURE OVER THE DRY INGREDIENTS AND MIX IT ALL UP REALLY GOOD
* COOK ON A LOW HEAT UNTIL LIQUID BECOMES THICK LIKE PUDDING. MAKE SURE TO USE A WISK AND KEEP IT STIRED THE ENTIRE TIME ITS COOKING TO KEEP IT FROM SCORTCHING.
* REMOVE FROM HEAT, AND STIR IN YOUR VANILLA AND BUTTER. COMBINE BUTTER WELL WITH INGREDIENTS.
* POUR OVER INTO YOUR READY BAKED PIE CRUST AND CHILL FOR 2-4 HOURS OR UNTIL COMPLETELY COOL.
* WHEN YOU ARE READY TO SERVE, TAKE FROM REFRIGERATOR AND PUT 1 WHOLE 8 OUNCE CONTAINER OF COOL WHIP ONTOP OF PIE AND CUT AND SERVE

*Note* if you are wanting a coconut cream pie, add about 2 cups coconut to pudding mixture, then toast about 3/4 cup and sprinkle atop the cool whip

Granny Nadine's Cinnamon rolls

GRANNYS CINNAMON ROLLS

MEASURE INTO MIXING BOWL
1/2 CUP WARM WATER
2 PACKAGES DRY YEAST
ADD, STIRING TO DISSOLVE
1 1/2 CUPS LUKEWARM MILK
1/2 CUP SUGAR
2 TEASPOON SALT
2 EGGS
1/2 CUP VEGETABLE OIL
ADD FLOUR UNTIL PLIABLE
7-7 1/2 CUPS FLOUR
SET ASIDE TO RISE IN CLOTH COVERED BOWL
PUNCH DOWN
TURN ONTO LIGHTLY FLOURED BOARD
ROLL OUT TO ABOUT 1/4 INCH
HEAVILY BRUSH ON MELTED BUTTER
SPRINKLE WHITE SUGAR, BROWN SUGAR AND CINNAMON
ROLL UP
SLICE IN 1 INCH SLICES
PLACE IN PAN
LET RISE
BAKE AT 400 UNTIL STARTING TO BROWN
WHILE STILL WARM
FROST
FROSTING
BUTTER
POWERED SUGAR
MILNOT
MAKE THIN TO SPREAD ON CINNAMON ROLLS

Granny Nadine's famous Chocolate pie

GRANDAMAS CHOCOLATE CREAM PIES
INGREDIENTS

3 EGG YOLKS
3 CUPS MILK
1 CUP SUGAR (you can use splenda, I use 1 1/4 cup )
½ CUP COCOA POWDER
¼ TEASPOON SALT
1 TEASPOON VANILLA
2 TABLESPOONS BUTTER
3 TABLESPOONS CORN STARCH

DIRECTIONS
*IN A SMALL MIXING BOWL COMBINE EGG YOLKS AND MILK TOGETHER AND SET ASIDE.
*NOW MIX COCOA POWDER, SUGAR, CORN STARCH AND SALT TOGETHER IN YOUR POT YOU ARE USING TO COOK IT ALL IN.
* NOW POUR YOUR EGG AND MILK MIXTURE OVER THE DRY INGREDIENTS AND MIX IT ALL UP REALLY GOOD
* COOK ON A LOW HEAT UNTIL LIQUID BECOMES THICK LIKE PUDDING. MAKE SURE YOU USE A WIRE WISK TO STIR IT THE ENTIRE TIME ITS COOKING TO KEEP IT FROM SCORTCHING.
* REMOVE FROM HEAT, AND STIR IN YOUR VANILLA AND BUTTER. COMBINE BUTTER WELL WITH INGREDIENTS.
* POUR OVER INTO YOUR READY BAKED PIE CRUST AND CHILL FOR 2-4 HOURS OR UNTIL COMPLETELY COOL.
* WHEN YOU ARE READY TO SERVE, TAKE FROM REFRIGERATOR AND PUT 1 WHOLE 8 OUNCE CONTAINER OF COOL WHIP ONTOP OF PIE AND CUT AND SERVE.

ORANGE SLICE CAKE

AUNT RUTH'S ORANGE SLICE CAKE

2 sticks (8 ounces) margarine
4 eggs
16 ounces orange slice candy
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 small can (3 1/2 ounces) coconut
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
pinch salt
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
16 ounces chopped dates
.
Glaze:
1 cup orange juice
1 cup sugar
PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 250°. Melt margarine and let cool. Cream sugar and cooled margarine. Add 1 egg at a time and beat well. Add buttermilk, soda, flour and salt to the mixture and beat. Add chopped dates, coconut, nuts and candy. Bake in greased and floured tube pan for 2 1/2 hours.
Glaze: Mix 1 cup orange juice and 1 cup sugar and pour over cake while cake is hot.

Chocolate butter cream frosting


Chocolate Buttercream Frosting


1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2-3 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and beat, with an electric mixer, until frosting is creamy, 3-5 minutes. Add additional powdered sugar as needed to achieve a thick, but not stiff, frosting that is easy to spread. Add additional milk, if necessary, to thin the frosting if it gets too thick

Introduction

Hello there, My name is wendy and I am a coupon shopping, home cooking, stay at home wife. I have another blog that you can go visit as well , just click HERE , we live in this world by very limited means, and that has given me the opportunity to come up with some really good, really cheap homemade, completly from scratch recipes to feed my family. As I post here, I sure hope you enjoy what you read, and leave me a comment on anything you would like for me to post a recipe for. I can cook nearly anything, and enjoy doing it for my family.