Jul 15, 2011

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.

Jul 14, 2011

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.
  

Jul 13, 2011

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