Barbecued Chicken Tenders

1 cup oil
1 cup soy sauce
1 Lt sprite
a little garlic powder
Chicken tenders

Add all ingredients in a large bowl and marinate over night. Cook on barbecue yum yum.

They are good warm or cold.

Taco Pita's

Hamburger
Onion
Tomato's
Taco seasoning
Ranch dressing
Lettuce
Pita's
Cheese

Cook hamburger with onion and drain well, add taco seasoning and let cool. Just before your ready to serve it, add lettuce, tomato's, cheese and very last ranch dressing. Scoop into pita and yum.

*I only use about 3/4 of the taco seasoning.

This is easy to take camping. I cook the meat with taco seasoning ahead of time and just add the remainder of the ingredients just before serving.

For those of you with food allergies if you use the McCormick taco seasoning, light house ranch and your own bread, you should be good to go.

Mango Bread

This is like a banana or zucchini bread.
I made it for the kids b-day party dinner and it was a big hit!

2c flour
2t baking soda
1t salt
1c sugar
1t cinnamon
3/4 c veggie oil
3 eggs
2 chopped ripe mangoes
1t vanilla

Mix everything together & put in a greased bread pan. 325 degrees for 1 hour

Cowboy Caviar

Mix together:
3 T.  olive oil
3 T.  red wine vinegar
1 ½ tsp. tobacco sauce (if desired)
3-4 cloves fresh garlic – minced
1/8 tsp. pepper
½ tsp. salt (to taste – might need more depending on the amount of limes)
Juice of 1 or 2 limes (can be 3)
1 or 2 T finely chopped cilantro (if desired)
Add:
1 can drained whole kernel corn
1 can drained black-eyed peas
1 bunch sliced green onions (if desired)
1 – 2 diced avocadoes
6 – 8 Roma tomatoes – diced


Serve with tortilla chips  

Butterfingers

1 c. butter                                              1 t. baking soda

1 c. sugar                                               2 t. vanilla

1 c. brown sugar                                    2 c. flour

2 eggs                                                    2 c. oatmeal

1 c. peanut butter

Cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs, peanut butter and vanilla.  Add dry ingredients.  Spread in lightly greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 for 15-18 minutes.  Cool.  Spread a layer of peanut butter and then a layer of chocolate frosting.

Frosting: 

¼ c. cocoa

½ c. butter

2 2/3 c. powdered sugar

¼ c. milk

Over ripe Bananas

Don't have time to make banana bread with your over ripe bananas? Mash it up in your pancake batter! Mmmmmm. . . good!

For Cauliflower Haters

Nobody at my house will eat cauliflower - - At least not knowingly. Whenever I get cauliflower I steam it, puree it in the blender, and freeze it in 1/2 cup portions in snack size baggies. Here's a list of things you can put the cauliflower puree in:

Mashed Potatoes
Alfredo Sauce
Any Tomato Sauce (spaghetti, lasagna, pizza, etc...)
Scrambled Eggs (Add a little parmasean cheese too--I promise it's yummy)
Any Cream Soup
Stroganoff
Broccoli Chicken & Rice casseroll

Really you can add it to just about anything that is creamy. I promise no one will even notice!

Beef and Broccoli

1 lb. top round beef steak

1/4 cup soy sauce

2 T. sugar

1/4 cup white grape juice or apple juice (I use apple)

2 T. cornstarch

1 cup water

2 cups fresh broccoli florets (remove stems), cut bite-sized

4 T. vegetable oil

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 tsp. sesame oil (I omit this one!)

Cut round steak into thin 2-inch long strips; set aside. Combine soy sauce, sugar, juice, cornstarch, and water in a small bowl; set aside. In a large skillet, stir-fry broccoli in 2 T. oil for about 5 minutes over medium heat. Do not overcook. Place broccoli in another dish. Pour remaining oil in the same skillet and heat on medium-high heat. Add steak and cook until well-browned on all sides; about 10 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, not more than 1 minute. Pour soy sauce mixture over meat and cook until slightly thickened. Stir in sesame oil. Remove from heat. Stir in cooked broccoli. Serve over hot steamed rice. Makes 8 servings.

Scotcheroos

1 cup sugar

1 cup light corn syrup

1 cup peanut butter

6 cups rice krispies

1 small pkg. chocolate chips

1 small pkg. butterscotch chips

Butter a 9x13 pyrex pan. Combine sugar and corn syrup in large saucepan. Stir and cook on med. heat until bubbly. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter. Add rice krispies. Blend well. Press into the pyrex pan. Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips together. Stir well. Spread mixture over the top of the rice krispies. Cool until chocolate is hardened.

Disclaimer

We don't proclaim to be chefs. We are far from it. We are just a bunch of busy moms who work really hard to feed our families. The recipes found on this site are most likely NOT our own creations. They are ones that we have gathered up through the years. Hopefully this will make your own search to figure out how to answer that eternal question, "What's for dinner?" a little easier.

Yummy Enchiladas

1 lb. ground beef
onion (diced)
2 cans tomato soup
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 can enchilada sauce
1 can chopped olives(drained
3-4 cups shredded cheese
24-30 corn tortillas(lightly browned in oil)

Brown ground beef with onion. Add soups, enchilada sauce and olives. Cook until warmed through. Layer sauce/meat mixture, tortillas, then cheese - about 4 times in a 13x9 inch dish, ending with sauce then cheese. Bake, uncovered at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until bubbly.

Welcome

Here is a collection of the recipies that we share with each other as we chat over lunch at school. Hopefully it will make dinner tonight (or tomorrow) a little easier.