Tuna Temptation

Recipe Tuna Temptation

Ingredients:

• 500 g packet spiral, penne or shell pasta
• 415 g can tomato puree
• 810 g or 2, 425 g cans chopped or crushed tomatoes with herbs
• 425 g can tuna in brine, well drained
• 3 tablespoons chopped parsley
• 3 tablespoons shredded Parmesan cheese (or cheese of your choice)

How to cook:
Pre heat oven to 180 C.
Cook choice of pasta in a large pot of boiling water as directed on the pack or until al dente. Drain and tip into a large ovenproof casserole dish.
Pour tomato products into a saucepan, bring slowly to the boil then stir through the tuna and parsley.
Pour over pasta and gently mix together using two spoons. Sprinkle cheese over the top.
Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes or until heated through.
Serve with salad and crusty bread rolls. Accompany with extra cheese if desired.

Tips:
Tuna can be replaced by your choice of canned fish. This meal can be prepared in advance and reheated in the oven when the kids come home from sport or training. Otherwise, If time is short, it can be quickly prepared and served without baking.

White Chunk Macadamia

White Chunk Macadamia Recipe,

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), softened
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup coconut flakes, finely minced
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces solid white chocolate, cut into chunks
• 1 cup macadamia nuts, chopped

How to cook:

1. Cream together the butter and sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on high speed.

2. Add the coconut, egg, milk, and vanilla and mix well.

3. In another bowl combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

4. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix until dough forms. Mix in the white chocolate and macadamia nuts.

5. Preheat oven to 300 degrees while you let the dough rest for 30 to 60 minutes in the refrigerator.

6. Measure out about 2 1/2 tablespoons of the dough and form a ball. Drop each ball of dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart and bake for 12 to 14 minutes. Do not overbake! Cookies should come out of the oven appearing slightly browned, yet undercooked. When cooled the cookies will be soft and chewy like the original.

Makes 16 to 18 cookies.

Delicious Ice Cream Cake

Ice Cream Cake Recipe, delicious, easy and fun recipe

 

Ingredients:

Cake

• 1 box white cake mix
• 1 1/4 cups water
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 3 egg whites

Ice cream

• 1/2-gallon box pralines and cream ice cream 
• 4 cups (2 pints) vanilla ice cream 
• 1 12-ounce container white frosting 

Optional

colored frosting  

A sharp bread knife makes box slicing easy  

Ice cream on top of the cake, and all the trimming  

How to make:

1. Make your cake following the directions on the box. If you are making the white cake you will likely blend 

the cake mix with water, oil, and 3 eggs. Pour the batter into a greased 9 x 13-inch baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes. This will make a thin cake for our bottom layer.  When cake is done, let it cool to room temperature.

2. When the cake has cooled, carefully remove it from the pan and place it on a wax paper-covered cookie sheet, or a platter or tray that will fit into your freezer. 

3.  Use a sharp serrated knife (a bread knife works great) to slice the ice cream lengthwise through the middle, box and all, so that you have two 2-inch thick sheets of ice cream.  Peel the cardboard off the ice cream and lay the halves next to each other on the cake.  Slice the edges of the cake all the way around so that the cake is the same size as the ice cream on top.  Work quickly so that the ice cream doesn't melt.  When the cake has been trimmed, place it into the freezer for an hour or two.

4.  When you are ready to frost the cake, take the two pints (4 cups) of vanilla ice cream out of the freezer for 20 to 30 minutes to soften.  Sitr the ice cream so that it is smooth, like frosting.  Use a frosting knife or spatula to coat your cake with about 2 cups of ice cream.  Cover the entire surface thoroughly so that you cannot see any of the cake or ice cream underneath.  Pop the cake into the freezer for an hour or so to set up.  

5.  When the cake has set, fill a pastry bag (with a fancy tip) with white frosting to decorate all around the top edge of the cake.  Also decorate around the bottom of the cake.  Use colored frosting and different tips to add inspired artistic flair and writing on the cake, as needed.  Cover the cake with plastic wrap and keep it in your freezer until party time.

6.  When you are ready to serve the cake, leave it out for 10 minutes before slicing.  Cut the cake with a sharp knife that has been held under hot water. 

Makes 1 large cake (16 - 20 servings).

Tidbits

You may wish to use another flavor cake mix such as chocolate or devil's food for this dessert - even low-fat cake mix works. It's up to you. Just follow the directions on the box for making the cake in a 9 x 13-inch baking pan. You can also use any flavor of ice cream. don't think you're locked into this formula - you can use any flavor of cake and ice cream you fancy for your homemade masterpiece.  Just be sure the ice cream you choose comes in a box.

Chicken Gravy

Chicken Gravy Recipe, a favorite chicken recipe to share with the family and friends.


Ingredients:

• 28 oz Chicken broth
• 1/2 ts Onion powder
• 1 tb Chicken bouillon powder
• 2/3 c  Bisquick

How to cook:

In a blender, combine broth, onion powder, bouillon powder and Bisquick. Mix at high speed, about 1 / 2 minutes or until soft. Pour into pan and stir constantly over medium-high heat, about 4 or 5 minutes until it begins to boil, is smooth and slightly thickened. Serve at once.You can freeze up to 4 months. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe, tasty chicken recipe to cook at home

Crispy Chicken Sandwich

Crispy Chicken Sandwich Recipe. 


Ranch Dressing

• 1/3 cup mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoons sour cream
• 1 tablespoon buttermilk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon parsley
• 1/8 teaspoon onion powder
• dash dill weed
• dash garlic powder
• dash ground black pepper
• 2 teaspoons hot water
• 1/2 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
• 6 to 8 cups vegetable shortening
• 1 egg
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
• 4 chicken breast fillets
• 4 sesame seed hamburger buns
• 4 lettuce leaves
• 4 tomato slices
• Kraft Swiss cheese Singles
• 8 slices bacon, cooked

How to make:
1. Preheat 6 to 8 cups of shortening in a deep fryer to 350 degrees.  If you don't have a deep fryer, you can also pan fry using a large frying pan and just a couple cups of shortening.
2. To prepare the ranch dressing, combine all of the ingredients except the water and gelatin in small bowl. Mix the water with the gelatin in a small cup until all of the gelatin is dissolved. Add this gelatin solution to the other ingredients and stir. Cover and chill the dressing until it's needed.
3. Beat the egg and then combine with 1 cup water in a small, shallow bowl. Stir.
4. Combine the flour, salt, paprika, onion powder and garlic powder in another shallow bowl.
5. Pound each of the breast fillets with a mallet until about 1/4-inch thick. Trim each breast fillet until it is round.
6. Working with one fillet at a time, first coat each fillet with the flour, then dredge it in the egg and water mixture. Coat the chicken once again in the flour and set it aside until all of the fillets have been coated.
7. Fry the chicken fillets for 8 to 12 minutes or until light brown and crispy.
8. As chicken is frying, prepare each sandwich by grilling the face of the hamburger buns on a hot skillet over medium heat. Spread about 1 1/2 teaspoons of the ranch dressing on the face
 of the top and bottom buns.
9. On the bottom bun, stack a leaf of lettuce and a tomato slice.
10. When the chicken is done frying, remove the fillets from the fryer and drain them on paper towels or a rack for a couple minutes.
11. Stack one fillet on the bottom of the sandwich (on top of the tomato), then stack a slice of the Swiss cheese onto the chicken. 
12. Arrange the bacon, crosswise, on top of the Swiss cheese, then top off the sandwich with the top bun. Repeat the stacking process for each of the remaining sandwiches.
Makes 4 sandwiches.

Cheese Soup

Cheese Soup Recipe, a favorite easy recipe to share with the family and friends.


Ingredients:

• 4 tb Butter or margarine
• 10 oz Cream of chicken soup
• 10 oz Cream of celery soup
• 1/2    Soup can Kraft's mayonnaise
• 8 oz Jar cheese Whiz
• 14 oz Can chicken broth
• Salt and pepper

How to cook:
Put butter, soups, mayo and Cheez Whiz in 1-1/2 quart saucepan, stirring constantly over medium heat, until smooth. Stir in broth and season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir occasionally until piping hot -BUT DO NOT LET IT BOIL! . Do not freeze because of the mayo. Use within a week.

Southwestern Vegetable Soup

Southwestern Vegetable Soup Recipe, low in fat, Just toss all the ingredients in a pot and simmer. Garnish with some shredded cheese and crumbled tortillas, and prepare to take the chill off. 


Ingredients:

• 6 cups chicken broth
• 1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes, with juice
• 1 cup water 
• 1 cup canned dark red kidney beans, with liquid  
• 1 cup frozen yellow cut corn 
• 1 cup frozen cut green beans
• 1 4-ounce can diced green chilies
• 1/2 cup diced Spanish onion
• 1/2 cup tomato sauce
• 6 corn tortillas, minced
• 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
• dash garlic powder 

Garnish

• 1 cup grated cheddar/jack cheese blend
• 1 cup crumbled corn tortilla chips 

How to cook:

1. Combine all the soup ingredients in a large saucepan or soup pot over high heat. Be sure to mince the corn tortillas into small pieces with a sharp knife before adding them to the soup.
2. Bring soup to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until the soup has thickened and tortilla pieces have mostly dissolved.
3. To serve soup ladle 1 1/2 cups into a bowl. Sprinkle a heaping tablespoon of the grated cheddar/jack cheese blend over the top of the soup, and then a heaping tablespoon of crumbled corn tortilla chips over the cheese.

Makes 6 servings.

CHOCOLATE COCONUT CRUNCH COOKIES

CHOCOLATE COCONUT CRUNCH COOKIES RECIPE, These coconutty chocolate crunch cookies are sure to become a favorite with the family and friends.


Ingredients: 

• 2 c  Flour
• 1 ts Baking soda
• 1/4 ts Salt
• 1 c  Butter; unsalted, softened
• 3/4 c  Brown sugar
• 2    Eggs; lightly beaten
• 2 ts Vanilla
• 1 ts Almond extract
• 2 c  Coconut; shredded
• 12 oz Chocolate chips
• 1 1/2 c  Almonds; lightly salted dry roasted, finely chopped

How to make:

Preheat the oven to 300.  In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.  In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and salt.  In a medium bowl with an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugars.  Beat in the eggs, vanilla and almond extract. Mix on low speed until blended.  Add the flour mixture and mix just until blended; do not overmix.  add the coconut, chocolate chips, and almonds and stir just until blended.  Drop the dough by rounded tbsp 2" apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 18 to 20 minutes.

  

Saucer Sized Chocolate Chip

Saucer Sized Chocolate Chip Recipe, 


Ingredients: 

• 4 oz Nestle's Milk Chocolate bars
• 4 oz Baker's german sweet choc
• 4 oz Dove milk chocolate

How to make:

Melt 3 chocolates, stirring until smooth. Pur into greased 9" metal pie pan and refrigerate until hard. Hammer into pea-sized bits. Store refrigerated until ready to use. Use 1/3 c dookie dough, flattening to a 3-1/2 to 4" round. Bake at 375  for 16 to 18 minutes or until golden brown but not overbaked or cookies will be hard as rocks when cooled. The cookies will look almost  "RAW"  at the end of 16 minutes if you make them big enough and will continue to bake in their own heat as they cool on the sheets a few minutes.

Chicken Baked Beans

Chicken Baked Beans Recipe, tasty chicken recipe to cook at home

Ingredients:

• 14 c  Dry chopped onions; reconstitute in 1/4 c hot water 5 minutes
• 24 oz Jar great northern beans; drain, rinse and drain
• 28 oz Can Campbell's Pork & Beans
• 1 c  Hunt's Ketchup
• 1/2 c  Open Pit hickory flavored BBQ sauce
• 3 sl Boiled chicken; chopped fine

How to cook:

While onions are softening, empty jar of northern beans into a 4-quart baking dish or pan. Add pork and beans to northern beans. Stir in onion, ketchup, BBQ sauce and ham. Bake, uncovered at 350~ about 30-35 minutes or until piping hot. Stir 2-3 times during baking. Refrigerate covered, to use in 1 week. Freeze to use in 4 months. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe. 

Cucumber Salad

Cucumber Salad Recipe,


Ingredients:
2 md Cucumbers w/skin;half, seed, 1/2" slices
1/4    Red Spanish onion; 1/2" dice
1 lg Ripe tomato; dice
8 oz Paul Newman's Olive Oil and Vinegar Dressing
1 ts Dry dill weed
1/2 ts Dry parsley; mince
1/4 c  Olive oil


How to make: 
Combine cucumbers with the rest of the ingredients in non-metal refrigerator container, tightly covered. Marinate for 24 hours in fridge before serving. Do not freeze. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe. 

Cranberry Sauce

Cranberry Sauce Recipe,

Ingredients:

• 1 lb Can jellied cranberry sauce
• 10 oz Jar Smucker's Simply Fruit Orange Marmalade
• 1/4 ts Ground ginger
• 2 c Fresh cranberries; each sliced 2 or 3 pcs horizont.
• 1/3 c Walnuts; chop fine

How to cook:
in 2-quart saucepan, over medium-to-low heat, use rubber bowl scraper to stir together jellied sauce, marmalade and ginger until melted, about 6-8 minutes. Add the sliced cranberries, keeping sauce on low. Stir often. Continue cooking and stirring often until cranberries are no longer white and taste tender to the bite (not soft, but not too crisp). Stir in walnuts. When cooled to lukewarm, refrigerate, covered and use with a week to 10 days. Should freeze well to be used within 4 months.

Chicken Marinade Sauce

Chicken Marinade/basting Sauce Recipe, tasty chicken recipe to cook at home


Ingredients:

• 1/4 c  Canola oil
• 1 tb Honey
• 1 tb Lime juice
• 1/4 ts Paprika

How to cook:

Mix all ingredients well and apply to skin-side-up chicken in a single layer in greased baking dish or pan. Bake at 400~ 35-40 minutes. Baste every 8-10 minutes during the baking time. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe. 

Chicken Macaroni & Cheese

Chicken Macaroni & Cheese, tasty chicken recipe to cook at home


Ingredients: 
3 c  Dry spiral shaped pasta Cook al dente, drain
2/3 c  Milk (2% or regular)
1 lb Velveeta cheese, light or cubed small
1/4 ts Dry mustard powder
1/2 ts Ground turmeric
Salt and pepper to taste

How to cook:

Place into top of double boiler over gently simmering water milk, cheese, mustard powder and  turmeric, salt and pepper in that order. Stir with whisk occasionally until melted and smooth. Stir pasta into hot cheese mixture and keep hot until serving time over hot water, up to an hour. (If it begins to thicken up too much, dilute with a little milk). Never put into oven or over direct heat as it will scorch and change the texture to a sticky mess. 6-8 side servings or 4 main-dish servings. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe.

Chicken Creamed Spinach

Chicken Creamed Spinach Recipe, tasty simple chicken recipe to cook at home


Ingredients:

•  1 tb Flour
• 4 tb Butter, margarine or canola-oil
• 1/2 ts Garlic salt
• Salt and pepper
• 20 oz Frozen chopped spinach; cook and drain
• 1 sm Onion; diced

How to cook:
In a saucepan, on medium heat, stir together with wire whisk soup, flour, butter, garlic salt, salt and pepper until smooth and piping hot. Combine with spinach and onion. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe
(NOTE: I'd substitute fresh minced garlic for the garlic salt). 

Rotisserie Style Chicken

Rotisserie Style Chicken recipe, simple chicken recipe to cook at home


Ingredients:

• 1/4 c Oil
• 1 tb Honey
• 1 tb Lime juice
• 1/4 ts Paprika
• Season salt
• 4 Chicken breast halves with skin

How to cook:
Mix all ingredients well in saucepan and warm just to melt honey. Arrange 4 chicken breast halves, skin-side-up in a square baking dish or pan, sprayed with Pam. Bake uncovered at 400~ about 35 to 40 minutes, basting chicken without turning them, 3 or 4 times during baking or until nicely browned. Immediately upon removing from oven, seal baking dish tightly in foil and let stand 15 to 20 minutes before serving.  easy recipe and ready to served for 4. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe

Delicious Regular Hamburger

Easy and delicious Hamburger recipe


Ingedients:

• 1 -Pound ground chuck (80% lean)
• 10 -Small hamburger buns
• 10 -Hamburger dill slices
• 10 -teaspoons dried, chopped onion
• Mustard, Ketchup

The Hamburger Seasoning:

• 4 Tablespoons salt
• 2 Tablespoons Accent (msg)
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder

How to make:
Mix all ingredients well in a spice shaker with big enough holes to allow pepper to flow. Makes about 3 ounces. Use on all hamburgers ingredients recipe.(unless you're allergic to msg, then just use salt and pepper.) easy recipe and ready to served. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe

Special Beans and Rice

Beans and Rice delicious recipes, tasty Beans and Rice recipe to cook at home

Ingredients:
30 ounce can of Red beans
1 teaspoon white pepper
4 tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon paprika
dash of cayenne
dash of garlic powder
1 1/2 cups converted rice cooked

How to cook:

Pour beans with there liquid into a saucepan and cook over medium heat. Add the seasonings and butter. When the mixture begins to boil use a fork to mash 1/2 the beans. Cook for 10 to 20 minutes to until it looks like bean paste with big beans in it. Mix in rice. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe.

TASTY POT PIE

TASTY POT PIE Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 potatoes peeled and cooked
• 2/3 cup frozen peas
• 2 cans cream of chicken soup
• 2 carrots peeled and cooked
• 2 tablespoons frozen onion
• 2 cups of cooked chicken
• dash of salt and pepper and Msg

How to cook:

In a bowl combine all cooked vegetables and chicken add the cream of chicken soup and seasoning. The mixture should be thick but not to thick if the mixture is to thick add some milk to the mixture. Scoop the mixture into individual pie pans. Use the biscuit recipe in this book to make the crust. Roll out the dough thin and place on top then brush with butter. Bake in a 375 F oven for 15 to 25 minutes or until it is heated threw and the crust is golden brown. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe

Coleslaw

Coleslaw Recipe, tasty topping recipe to cook at home

Ingredients:

8 1/8 cups cabbage
1/3 cup carrot
1 teaspoon onion chopped fine
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/8 cup milk
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 cup mayonnaise

How to cook:

First core the cabbage and shred the cabbage fine using the fine disk for the shredder attachment to the mixer. Then shred the cabbage. In a bowl combine with a whisk combine the buttermilk, mayonnaise, milk and lemon juice mix till well combined. Then add the seasoning. The last step is to add the sugar add the sugar to the sauce until well mixed in. Add the sauce to the cabbage and carrot mixture and mix well and allow the mixture to marinate for 13 hrs. Cooking becomes fun with an easy recipe