Ingredients: 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled, boiled and mashed
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
2 tbsp flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
2 eggs,lightly beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
1 unbaked 9 inch pastry shell
1 1/2 cups thawed cool whip
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix sweet potatoes, sugar, milk, butter, flour, spices, eggs, and vanilla in large bowl until blended.
Pour into pastry shell. (Shell will be quite full; filling will not rise over sides.)
Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until top is puffed and brown. (Filling will be soft, but will set while cooling.) Cool on wire rack at least 2 hours. Serve each slice with 2 tbsps whipped topping.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Tater Tot Casserole - Week 15
Ingredients:
1 bag tater tots
1 lb breakfast sausage, browned and crumbled
12 eggs
2 T. yellow mustard
1 cup milk
2 cups shredded cheddar
Direction:
In a 9x13 pan, cover the bottom with sausage.
Cover sausage with a layer of frozen tater tots.
Mix eggs, mustard and milk and pour over tater tots and sausage.
Top with shredded cheese.
Refrigerate overnight.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until center is done,
1 bag tater tots
1 lb breakfast sausage, browned and crumbled
12 eggs
2 T. yellow mustard
1 cup milk
2 cups shredded cheddar
Direction:
In a 9x13 pan, cover the bottom with sausage.
Cover sausage with a layer of frozen tater tots.
Mix eggs, mustard and milk and pour over tater tots and sausage.
Top with shredded cheese.
Refrigerate overnight.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until center is done,
Peanut Butter Bon-Bons - Week 14
Ingredients:
2 lbs powdered sugar
12 oz creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup butter or margarine - melted
24 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 lb paraffin wax
Directions:
Mix together powered sugar, peanut butter and butter.
Form into balls.
Refrigerator 1 hour.
Roll into 1" balls.
Melt chocolate chips and wax together in double broiler.
Poke toothpicks into each ball to hold and dip balls into chocolate.
Set on waxed paper to cool.
Best if kept refrigerated.
2 lbs powdered sugar
12 oz creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup butter or margarine - melted
24 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 lb paraffin wax
Directions:
Mix together powered sugar, peanut butter and butter.
Form into balls.
Refrigerator 1 hour.
Roll into 1" balls.
Melt chocolate chips and wax together in double broiler.
Poke toothpicks into each ball to hold and dip balls into chocolate.
Set on waxed paper to cool.
Best if kept refrigerated.
Mashed Snakes - Week 13
I made these with the meat loaves.
Ingredients:
3 medium potatoes peeled, quartered
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 to 3 tablespoons milk
salt to taste
10 drops of green food coloring
6 drops yellow food coloring
4 small pimiento-stuffed olives, sliced
8 pamento slices (from olives)
Directions:
1. In 2 quart saucepan, place potatoes; add enough water just to cover potatoes. Heat to boiling, reduce heat. Cover and simmer 18 to 20 minutes or until tender; drain. Mash potatoes with potato masher or electric mixer on medium speed. Add butter and milk. Stir until light and fluffy. Add salt. Stir in food colors.
2. Place mashed potatoes in gallon-size resealable food-storage plastic bag. Cut about 1-inch hole in 1 corner of bag. Pipe "snakes" onto serving plates. Place 2 olives on one end of snake for eyes. Cut pimiento in half for snake tongue. Serve immediately,
Ingredients:
3 medium potatoes peeled, quartered
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 to 3 tablespoons milk
salt to taste
10 drops of green food coloring
6 drops yellow food coloring
4 small pimiento-stuffed olives, sliced
8 pamento slices (from olives)
Directions:
1. In 2 quart saucepan, place potatoes; add enough water just to cover potatoes. Heat to boiling, reduce heat. Cover and simmer 18 to 20 minutes or until tender; drain. Mash potatoes with potato masher or electric mixer on medium speed. Add butter and milk. Stir until light and fluffy. Add salt. Stir in food colors.
2. Place mashed potatoes in gallon-size resealable food-storage plastic bag. Cut about 1-inch hole in 1 corner of bag. Pipe "snakes" onto serving plates. Place 2 olives on one end of snake for eyes. Cut pimiento in half for snake tongue. Serve immediately,
Dirty Rat Meat Loaves - Week 13
Made ON Halloween:
Ingredients:
1 1b lean ground beef
1/2 1b bulk Italian pork sausage
1/2 cup Progresso Italian style bread crumbs
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 package cream cheese softened
1 egg, beaten
2 cups chunky tomato pasta sauce
green olive slices, heated sweet peas, shoestring potato pieces, sliced almonds and curly fries
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, mix beef, sausage, bread crumbs, onion, milk, salt, cream cheese and egg. Divide into 6 equal portions; shape into 4 inch oval loaves. Pinch one end of each oval for rat's face. Place in ungreased 13x9 inch glass baking dish. Gently pour pasta sauce over and around loaves.
2. Bake about 40 minutes or until meat thermometer inserted in center of loaf reads 160 degrees.
3.Garnish with green olives and peas for eyes, sliced ripe olives for a nose, shoestring potato pieces for whiskers, sliced almonds for teeth and curly fry for tails.
(Title sounds gross, but the meat loaves are pretty good!)
Ingredients:
1 1b lean ground beef
1/2 1b bulk Italian pork sausage
1/2 cup Progresso Italian style bread crumbs
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 package cream cheese softened
1 egg, beaten
2 cups chunky tomato pasta sauce
green olive slices, heated sweet peas, shoestring potato pieces, sliced almonds and curly fries
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, mix beef, sausage, bread crumbs, onion, milk, salt, cream cheese and egg. Divide into 6 equal portions; shape into 4 inch oval loaves. Pinch one end of each oval for rat's face. Place in ungreased 13x9 inch glass baking dish. Gently pour pasta sauce over and around loaves.
2. Bake about 40 minutes or until meat thermometer inserted in center of loaf reads 160 degrees.
3.Garnish with green olives and peas for eyes, sliced ripe olives for a nose, shoestring potato pieces for whiskers, sliced almonds for teeth and curly fry for tails.
(Title sounds gross, but the meat loaves are pretty good!)
Mummy Dogs and Bloody Worms - Week 12
Also in honor of Halloween week and making meals fun for the kids!
Mummy Dogs
Ingredients:
1 can (8oz) refrigerated cresent dinner rolls
2 1/2 slices American cheese
10 hot dogs
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Unroll cresent dough into 4 rectangles and cut each lengthwise into 10 pieces. Cut each slice of cheese into 4 pieces.
3. Wrap 4 pieces of dough and strip of cheese around each hot dog to llok like bandages, stretching the dough to cover the entire dog. Half an inch from one end of the dog, seperate "bandages" so the hotdog shows through to form a face.
4. Place mummy dogs on a baking sheet, facing forward. Mist lightly with cooking spray.
5. Bake until dough is light golden brown and hotdogs are heated through, 13 to 17 minutes. Draw on eyes with mustard.
Bloody Worms
Ingredients:
thinly sliced frozen fries
ketchup
Directions:
1. Bake french fries according to directions.
2. Cover with ketchup and mix
Mummy Dogs
Ingredients:
1 can (8oz) refrigerated cresent dinner rolls
2 1/2 slices American cheese
10 hot dogs
Directions:
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Unroll cresent dough into 4 rectangles and cut each lengthwise into 10 pieces. Cut each slice of cheese into 4 pieces.
3. Wrap 4 pieces of dough and strip of cheese around each hot dog to llok like bandages, stretching the dough to cover the entire dog. Half an inch from one end of the dog, seperate "bandages" so the hotdog shows through to form a face.
4. Place mummy dogs on a baking sheet, facing forward. Mist lightly with cooking spray.
5. Bake until dough is light golden brown and hotdogs are heated through, 13 to 17 minutes. Draw on eyes with mustard.
Bloody Worms
Ingredients:
thinly sliced frozen fries
ketchup
Directions:
1. Bake french fries according to directions.
2. Cover with ketchup and mix
Meatball Creepy Crawlers- Week 12
So, I realize I have been TERRIBLE at posting a weekly recipe, however, I have been consistant in trying a new one each week. This will hit you all at once, but I have some catching up to do. Let the posting begin!
Made this the week of Halloween for the kiddos as a fun dinner. We used it as an accessory to spaghelli ala philly!
Ingredients:
1 (12 oz) can of Pillsbury Golden Layers refrigerated flaky original biscuits
20 frozen meatballs, thawed
1/4 cup shoestring potatoes or chow mein noodles
sloced olives, pickles and carrots, as desired
Dips, if desired:
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup mustard
1/2 cup cheese dip
Direstions:
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Spray large cookie sheet with cooking spray, OR cover with cooking parchment paper.
2. Seperate dough into 10 biscuits. Seperate each biscuit into 2 layers. Wrap 1 biscuit piece around each meatball; seal. To make 1 crawler, line up 10 biscuit-wrapped meatballs on cookie sheet, making sure each is touching, to to make a curved line. Poke shoestring potatoes in both side4s of each ball for legs, at head for antennae and tongue, and end for tail. Repeat with remaining 10 wrapped meatballs to make second crawler.
3. Bake 13 to 16 minutes or until golden brown. Garnish with ollives for eyes and mouth. Top every other section with layer of sliced pickle, carrot and olive. In small bowl, mix ketchup and mustard. Serve crawlers with dips, if desired.
Made this the week of Halloween for the kiddos as a fun dinner. We used it as an accessory to spaghelli ala philly!
Ingredients:
1 (12 oz) can of Pillsbury Golden Layers refrigerated flaky original biscuits
20 frozen meatballs, thawed
1/4 cup shoestring potatoes or chow mein noodles
sloced olives, pickles and carrots, as desired
Dips, if desired:
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup mustard
1/2 cup cheese dip
Direstions:
1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Spray large cookie sheet with cooking spray, OR cover with cooking parchment paper.
2. Seperate dough into 10 biscuits. Seperate each biscuit into 2 layers. Wrap 1 biscuit piece around each meatball; seal. To make 1 crawler, line up 10 biscuit-wrapped meatballs on cookie sheet, making sure each is touching, to to make a curved line. Poke shoestring potatoes in both side4s of each ball for legs, at head for antennae and tongue, and end for tail. Repeat with remaining 10 wrapped meatballs to make second crawler.
3. Bake 13 to 16 minutes or until golden brown. Garnish with ollives for eyes and mouth. Top every other section with layer of sliced pickle, carrot and olive. In small bowl, mix ketchup and mustard. Serve crawlers with dips, if desired.
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