Breadsticks

So I make these things often and with many recipes. So I thought they deserved their own post.

1-1/4 cup flour

2 t sugar

1-1/2 t baking powder

1/2 t salt

2/3 cup milk

4 T butter of margarine, melted

Parmesan Cheese

Garlic Salt

In a small bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Gradually add milk and stir to form soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface and knead gently 3-4 times. Roll into a rectangle; leave breadsticks slightly thick, cut into 12 breadsticks. Put little slits in the top so the Parmesan seeps in a little. Place butter in square pan. Put breadsticks in the butter and turn to coat. Sprinkle with cheese and light garlic salt. Bake at 450 degrees for 12-18 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

Spaghetti & Meatballs

Okay. So this isn't exactly a recipe. I was real proud of me actually making a full meal tonight though. So I was proud. Tonight I made Spaghetti & Meatballs and my breadsticks. I used Linguine noodles and Prego Veggie Smart sauce for that. And my meat balls I did 1/2 a pound of meat, an egg, saltines, chopped garlic and Italian seasoning. It needed salt. I've never really attempted meatballs before. So this was interesting. All together it was great though!

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup butter, softened

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2-3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 3 cups quick cooking oats
• Normal bag of Chocolate Chips

Mix together butter, sugar and brown sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Add flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Mix in oats and chocolate chips. Cook at 375 for 8-

10 minutes.

Muddy Buddies

So clearly I didn't make this recipe up myself, but I love to make and eat these, so it deserves to be posted. Even if you already know the recipe because it's on the box.

Chex Muddy Buddies

9 cups Chex (I prefer corn)

1 cup semi sweet chocolate (Nestle)

1/2 cup peanut butter (Jif)

1/4 cup butter/ margarine

1 t vanilla

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Measure cereal into large bowl, set aside.

Microwave Choc chips, peanut butter and butter uncovered for 1 minute. Stir. Put in for 30 more seconds or until smooth. Stir in vanilla. Pour mixture over cereal and mix until well coated. Put 1/2 of it in a gallon size bag with powdered sugar and shake it. (Like a polaroid picture...) Do again for other half. (You can do 2 gallon size bags. But I enjoy splitting them up.) Put on wax paper or lightly sprayed pan to cool. Store in airtight container in fridge.

Emmy's Crock Pot Chicken

This is the meal I make every Sunday. So incredibly easy and I love it!

3 pieces of boneless skinless chicken breast

3 or 4 medium potatoes cut up and peeled

10-20 carrots

1 can cream of chicken soup, 3 cans of water

1 packet Lipton onion soup mix

Put all in crock pot and mix up a bit. Set for 6 hours.

What Jon and I always do for this meal is I make the Rhodehouse rolls. They just set up while the food is in the crock pot, put rolls in half an hour before the crock pot ends. That's about it! Hope you use it! I love it!

Navajo Fry Bread

This is what I had for dinner tonight. Jon didn't. He wasn't hungry. Delicious though!

4 1/4 c. flour

1 T baking powder

1tsp salt

2 T powdered milk

1 1/2 c warm water

Vegetable oil for frying

Mix dry ingredients in large mixing bowl. Stir in warm water. Mix and knead with hands for about 5 minutes, until soft dough forms. Let stand about 1/2 hour. Pinch off nice size piece; roll then pat and spread until scone-like. Put in frying pan and fry. (It goes pretty fast, so keep an eye on it.) I put honey butter, cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar on it. If you warm them up a bit in the morning and put jam/jelly on it, also great! Makes...20ish? I think

French Toast

So I know that some of my recipes may be very basic and obvious, but this isn't to impress people. This is something I want to do for me. Show myself that I have talent in this area and record the things I think about the meals I make. Tonight's dinner:

French Toast

2 large eggs

1/4 cup milk

a little vanilla

cinnamon

Mix together and then dip bread in it. Cook on griddle or pan on oven.

We use the Hearty & Delicious Sara Lee bread. SO good :) This makes about 6 pieces of toast. Try it out and let me know how it goes! Man, this would have been great with some bacon.

(I would have gotten a picture of the whole thing, but it was so delicious so I just had to start eating. Sorry :)

Chicken Crescents

Finally made them! So I added pictures :)

Chicken Crescents

6-8 ounces cream cheese (I like 8)

¼ c butter

2 cups chicken

a little pepper

can or 2 of crescents

Italian Bread Crumbs

Boil and cut up chicken. Mix chicken, cream cheese and butter. Roll in melted butter and Italian bread crumbs. Cook at 350 until brown and pretty. I honestly don't know minute wise. 15 sounds right ish. ;)

They are great if you pour cream of chicken soup on them or they are great by themselves.

Hamburger & Rice

So tonight is one of those meals that is totally unfair for me to post. We get our beef from my dad's farm. Not processed, organic, delicious beef. So if you try this meal and it isn't up to snuff, that's why. This is what I make when Jon and I want hamburger, but really don't want to spend too long cooking.

1/2 pound hamburger

1/2 cup rice

Seasoned Salt

Chow Mein noodles

Brown beef, cook rice, combine all and enjoy. Perfect for 2 people.

Short eh? I love it. When I cook with this meat I actually don't drain it. The juices make the flavor so great!!

RItz Chicken

Well tonight we are having Jon's physics buddy and his wife over for dinner. I decided to make one of Jon and my favorites.

Ritz Chicken

3-4 chicken breasts

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 cup sour cream
1/2-1 cup cheese (we used sharp cheddar)

2 tubes Roasted Vegetable Ritz crackers, crushed

1 cube butter

Place chicken in a pot of water with some salt and pepper. Bring to boil and then turn down low for about an hour. Take chicken out and cool it enough to handle it. Shred chicken into thin shreds, or else you can cut up into bite size pieces. Put chicken in a 9x13 dish, sprayed with Pam spray. Mix soup, sour cream and cheese then mix in with chicken. Melt butter and add crushed crackers. Sprinkle on top of stuff in pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Recipe from Andrea Merrill

I am very excited for tonight. This is a great recipe. We usually serve it over some rice. That is the best way to do it. And if you want a good side do some corn or maybe rolls. It's pretty filling though. So not a whole lot is needed. Oh...I should have gotten salad. That sounds delicious. Oh well :) Hope ya'll like this one!

Pizza Soup

So a friend of mine, Ris Ratliff, told me that I should start a blog of recipes. Upon pondering such an endeavor, I thought it sounded pretty awesome. I love to cook and also love to share with people how much I love to cook. So here is my delicious blog!

There is no real start to my favorite recipe, I have so many. So tonight I will start with what Jon and I had for dinner.

Quick Pizza Soup

1 pound ground beef

2 cans condensed tomato soup, undiluted

6-1/2 cups water

1 jar spaghetti sauce (Prego 3 cheese is great)

1 T Italian seasoning (Italian bread crumbs also work)

Cheddar Cheese

Brown beef, drain. Add soup, water, spaghetti sauce and Italia

n seasoning; bring to boil. Reduce heat, simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes. (Stirring every 5 makes me feel better) Add desired amount of cheese. Small handful works well.