Sweet Potato Soup

This morning, I was thinking about my leftovers from Christmas dinner and wondering what I could prepare from them.  I have a lot of fresh sweet (uncooked) sweet potatoes which I wanted to use up.

Ingredients:
two medium sweet potatoes (washed and cut into small chunks)
one medium sized onion cut into small chunks
four cloves of garlic sliced
tbsp or two of butter

put the above ingredients into bottom of crockpot and put on HIGH and
cook for an hour or 90 minutes.  Then pour in

one box of vegetable broth

cook for a few hours (on low)while you go out and have fun!  (my cousin Becky picked me up and
we went to the Festival of Trees at the Power Vista in Lewiston, and then out to lunch.

Upon your return, use your immersion blender to blend the above mixture up.  Then add
1 and a half to 2 cups of ham, cut into small chunks, a can of drained cannelini beans,
a few tbsp of ketchup, one envelope of Sazon Goya, and salt and pepper to taste.  I was concerned that this soup appeared "thin" not thick and chunky like I wanted it to be, so I added a small amount of orzo.

Cook for an additional couple of hours on low while you take a nap.

Its delicious!!!!!  The important thing to remember is how to make the sweet potato base by cooking the sweet potatoes, onion and garlic in the vegetable broth for a few hours and then blending it together.  After that you can add whatever you want!

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• Prep Time 10 min
 
• Total Time 1 hr 5 min
• Servings 8

Ingredients

1

cup flaked or shredded coconut

3/4

cup sugar

1/2

cup Original Bisquick™ mix

1/4

cup butter or margarine, softened

2

cups milk

1 1/2

teaspoons vanilla

4

eggs

Directions

• 1Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 9-inch pie plate with shortening or cooking spray.
• 2In medium bowl, stir all ingredients until blended. Pour into pie plate.
• 3Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until golden brown and knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.

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Macaroni and Cheeseburger Soup

I made a double batch of mac and cheese for Thanksgiving Dinner, but not much of it was eaten.

I took the rest of it, put in my crockpot,  heated it a bit, then sprinkled about a tbsp of flour on top and then poured in some milk.  I kept adding milk because it seemed to be getting thicker and thicker and I really wanted soup.  I browned a pound of ground beef and added it, and also added one packet of
Sazon Goya Con Azafran.  I had four leftover strips of cooked bacon, so I chopped them up and added them, also.

THIS IS AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS !!!!!

Spinach Casserole

I prepared this for Thanksgiving day dinner.  Peggy really liked it, so I decided to document it before I forget the ingredients and process:

two packages of frozen chopped spinach
one egg
breadcrumbs
1/2 cup cream
1/2 cup grated pecorino/romano cheese (I may have used more)

thaw and drain the spinach in a colander, but do not squeeze the moisture out
put in large bowl.  Break up the egg in a small dish, using a fork.  Add the egg,
cream and cheese to the spinach.  Then stir in some breadcrumbs (I think 1/8 -1/4
cup.  Put the mixture into a greased 8 inch casserole and bake for a half an hour
at 375 degrees.   While still hot, dot with butter.      Serve hot.

Sweet Potato Pancakes

Ingredients

2

cups Original Bisquick™ mix

1

cup buttermilk

1

cup mashed cooked dark-orange sweet potatoes

2

large eggs

1/4

teaspoon ground cinnamon

1

tablespoon brown sugar

Maple syrup, if desired

Directions

• 1In medium bowl, stir Bisquick mix, buttermilk, sweet potatoes, eggs, cinnamon and sugar with wire whisk or fork until blended.
• 2Brush griddle or nonstick skillet with vegetable oil; heat griddle to 350°F, or heat skillet over medium-low heat.
• 3For each pancake, pour slightly less than 1/4 cup batter onto hot griddle. Cook until edges are dry. Turn; cook other sides until golden brown. Serve with syrup.

Cauliflower Casserole

• 1 large head cauliflower, broken into small florets
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 2/3 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs

• 1 pinch salt
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F 
2. Bring 2 inches of water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Add cauliflower, cover, and cook for about 10 minutes. Drain, and place in a 2 quart casserole dish.
3. In a small bowl mix together butter, Parmesan cheese, bread crumbs, salt, and red pepper flakes. Sprinkle mixture over cauliflower, and top with Cheddar cheese.
4. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until cheese is melted and bubbly
5. 
   
6. This was very tasty, but I prefer my casseroles to have more moisture.  SOOOO, the next night I put the leftovers from this into a small casserole dish, poured some spaghetti sauce over it and sprinkled on some parmesan cheese............IT WAS VERY GOOD!!.

Kisses Candy Cane Blossoms

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• 40 HERSHEY'S KISSES Brand Candy Cane Mint Candies
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons milk
• Red or green sugar crystals, granulated sugar or powdered sugar (garnish)

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Remove wrappers from candies.

2. Beat butter, granulated sugar, egg and vanilla in large bowl until well blended. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; add alternately with milk to butter mixture, beating until well blended.

3. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in red sugar, granulated sugar, powdered sugar or a combination of any of the sugars. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.

4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and cookie is set. Remove from oven; cool 2 to 3 minutes. Press a candy piece into center of each cookie. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. Makes about 40 cookies.

SHAKSURA with feta cheese

Shakshuka may be at the apex of eggs-for-dinner recipes, though in Israel it is breakfast food, a bright, spicy start to the day with a pile of pita or challah served on the side

• 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 large onion, halved and thinly sliced
• 1 large red bell pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
• ⅛ teaspoon cayenne, or to taste
• 1 (28-ounce) can whole plum tomatoes with juices, coarsely chopped (I did not use the entire cam)
• ¾ teaspoon salt, more as needed
• ¼ teaspoon black pepper, more as needed
• 5 ounces feta cheese, crumbled (about 1 1/4 cups)
• 6 large eggs
•  Chopped cilantro, for servingHeat oven to 375 degrees.

1. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add onion and bell pepper. Cook gently until very soft, about 20 minutes. Add garlic and cook until tender, 1 to 2 minutes; stir in cumin, paprika and cayenne, and cook 1 minute. Pour in tomatoes and season with 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; simmer until tomatoes have thickened, about 10 minutes. Stir in crumbled feta.
2. Gently crack eggs into skillet over tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer skillet to oven and bake until eggs are just set, 7 to 10 minutes. Sprinkle with cilantro and serve with hot sauce. (I skipped the hot sauce)

  

Crockpot Potato Soup (REALLY GOOD)

Ingredients: 

1 bag of shredded hash browns (from the refrigerated section)

1 32 oz box of chicken broth

1 can of cream of chicken soup (10 oz)

1 pkg. cream cheese (8 oz, not fat free)

1/2 lb bacon cooked and crumbled

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 

salt and pepper to taste 

I added one bag of frozen carrots
minced onions
heaping tbsp of sweet pepper relish

Directions:

Put the potatoes in the crockpot.  Add in the chicken broth, cream of chicken soup and the carrotsand bacon. bacon bits.  Add a pinch of salt and pepper and some dried dill

Cook on low for 7-8 hours or until potatoes are tender.  

An hour before serving, cut the cream cheese into small cubes.  Place the cubes in the crock pot.  Mix a few times throughout the hour before serving.  15 minutes before the hour is up, add 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese

 Once the cream cheese is completely mixed in, it's ready to serve.  

Top with cheddar cheese 

Baked Fried Chicken tenders

Place thawed chicken breast tenderloin strips in a bowl of milk.

 Let soak for 20-30 min.

Mix in a Gallon Size Ziploc or Large Bowl: 

1/2 tsp. Salt

1 T Season All

3/4 tsp Pepper

1 c. Flour

2 tsp. Paprika

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut 1/2 stick of butter into a few pieces

 and place in a 9x13 pan. Melt butter in pre-heated oven.

Spread melted butter around the bottom of the pan. Lightly spray the 

pan, if needed, to make sure that there are no dry spots.

Shake excess milk off of chicken and completely coat each piece with

 the seasoning mix. You can either shake the chicken in the bag, until

 coated, or dip each piece in the bowl until coated.

Place each piece of chicken in the pan.

Cook for 20 min. Turn each piece of chicken and continue cooking for

 20 more minutes, or until cooked through.

VERY MUCH like KFC.  My tenders were small and did not take the full forty minutes.  I think they

only took abut 25 minutes.  

Breakfast Casserole (using hash browns)

2 packages (12 oz each) bulk pork sausage
1 medium bell pepper, chopped (1 cup)I used a red pepper)
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
3 cups frozen hash brown potatoes (mine were refrigerated not frozen)
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (8 oz)
1 cup Original Bisquick® mix
2 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 eggs

Heat oven to 400°F. Grease rectangular baking dish, 13x9x2 inches.
 Cook sausage, bell pepper and onion in 10-inch skillet over medium heat,
stirring occasionally, until sausage is no longer pink; drain. Stir
 together sausage mixture, potatoes and 1 1/2 cups of the cheese in
 baking dish.
Stir Bisquick mix, milk, pepper and eggs until blended. Pour into baking dish.
Bake uncovered 40 to 45 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out'
 clean. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake 1 to 2 minutes longer or just
 until cheese is melted. Cool 5 minutes.

I forgot to sprinkle the remaining cheese on top, but it was very tasty and I
think I forgot to add pepper.   My
granddaughter said it is better than one the mother of a friend of hers in Michigan
makes.    I used two smaller square baking pans instead of a 13 by 9 one.

Peanut Butter Cookies (using cake mix)

1

box Aldi's Yellow Cake Mix

1/4

cup packed brown sugar

2

tablespoons water

1

cup creamy peanut butter

1/4

cup shortening

2

eggs

Granulated sugar

Directions

• 1Heat oven to 375°F (350°F for dark or nonstick pans). In large bowl, beat cake mix, brown sugar, water, peanut butter, shortening and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.
• Chill in the refrigerator (I added this step)
• 2Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar and, on ungreased cookie sheet, place 2 inches apart. Flatten in crisscross pattern with fork dipped in sugar.
• 3Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Store covered.

Crockpot Brisket and Cabbage

Slice up one large onion and put on bottom of crockpot.  Crush several cloves of garlic and set among the onions.   Stir together one cup of water, three cups of cider, 2 tbsp vinegar and 2 tbsp of sugar. Place 4 lb corned beef brisket in crockpot,  Spread mustard over the top and spread contents of seasoning packet (which comes with the brisket)and then pour the liquid over it all (try to pour on the sides so as to not disturb the mustard.

Cook on low all morning and add carrots around lunch time.  A couple of hours later, add cut up cabbage (I think it needs at least an hour, 90 minutes might be better.  Serve with mustard on the side.

http://www.familyfreshmeals.com/2013/02/crockpot-corned-beef-and-cabbage.html  ( I started with this recipe and modified it)

Roasted Cabbage,Onions and Garlic

I revamped a recipe I posted a couple of weeks ago.
Tonight: this is what I did.   Chopped up some cabbage
and one onion and also cut four large cloves of garlic
into smaller pieces.   I put on a greased pan and then
added a bit of olive oil and some apple cider and tossed
it all together

Roasted at 400 for 25 minutes, (stirring occasionally)
and then sliced up a fresh tomato and put on top and
roasted for about 20 minutes more.  oh, almost forgot
the parmesan cheese on top right after the tomatos
were added.

THIS IS DELICIOUS

Pumpkin Bundt Cake

THE BASIC TWO INGREDIENTS ARE: 

• 1 (18.25 ounce) package spice cake mix

• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpki

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Generously grease and flour a bundt cake pan. I read the reviews which complained about the cake batter being very thick and hard to spread in cake pan.  I beat up two eggs, a quarter cup of applesauce, added 1/4 cup of milk and 1/4 cup of orange juice, stirred together and then put the cake mix in and used my electric mixer to combine everything and then put into the bundt for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven,(IT TOOK LONGER) or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool and serve, or store in the refrigerator.  I made a glaze of one small container of vanilla pudding and a bit of pineapple juice.  (could use any juice)

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