Easy Chili

Julie Bressler

2 cans chili beans
2 (8 oz) cans tomato sauce
2 Tbsp chili powder
1/2 to 1 lb hamburger

Brown hamburger. Combine all ingredients in crock pot and simmer for 6 to 8 hours.

Amy's Chicken

This recipe is super easy, super yummy, and it's even good for you!

Ingredients

1 cup crushed corn flakes
3-4 chicken breasts
Butter spray (can use melted butter but it isn't as healthy)

Cover the chicken breasts with butter spray (or melted butter). Roll in corn flakes until covered. Bake for 30 minutes at 350.

Chicken Tetrazzini

Ingredients

8-12 ounces (dry weight) spaghetti; broken in pieces
5 Tablespoons butter or margarine
6 Tablespoons flour
3 cups chicken or turkey broth
1 cup light cream
1 teaspoon salt
pepper
1/2 cup canned mushrooms, including juice
3 cups cooked chicken or turkey, cubed
1/2 cup fresh grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup cheddar cheese

Cook spaghetti in boiling salted water until just tender (do not overcook).

Melt butter; blend in flour. Stir broth into flour mixture. Add cream. Cook until mixture thickens and bubbles. Add salt, pepper, drained spaghetti, mushrooms and cooked chicken.

Spoon into 2 to 3 quart casserole dish. Sprinkle with cheeses. Bake in preheated oven at 350 for about about 30 minutes or until bubbly and lightly browned. Stir before serving. Great reheated.

I wish I could take credit for this recipe but it was actually given to me by my home teachers (husband and wife). She demonstrated it at an Enrichment class and absolutely everyone LOVED it!!

Flour Tortillas

In my quest to make a Cafe Rio Pork salad clone, I stumbled across this tortilla recipe on allrecipes.com (got to give credit where credit is due, right?). Well it's great, and I wanted to share it with all of you. This makes about 8 tortillas, so double it up if you're feeding a crowd.

2 C all purpose white flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 T butter
3/4 C water

Whisk the flour, salt and baking powder together. Add the butter and mix with hands until it resembles corn meal. Add water. Flour the counter lightly with some flour and knead until the dough becomes an elastic ball. (1-2 minutes). Heat a nonstick skillet on medium. Cut a piece of dough and roll into a small ball (about a golf ball size and it may vary depending on how big you want your tortillas). Roll out on the counter until very thin, but not tearing. Place on skillet and cook on each side until it browns the slightest. I don't like my tortillas crunchy but if you do, by all means cook longer. I do about a minute on each side. Last I melt some cheese on one side, like I said I'm trying to do a cafe rio clone. But these tortillas can hold on their own without the cheese. They're great! But don't be alarmed that they don't bubble up while cooking, they stay pretty flat.
Enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Cookies-Haley Dame

Haley is my sister in law, and for Christmas she sent me a few recipes. I've been meaning to put them on here, but today I made her famous cookies and they were delicous! So I was reminded to put it up here to share with all of you. I love Haley's cute personality and it really shows through with this recipe. Here it is, word for word the way she sent it to me. Love ya, Haley!

Haley's advice for a good cookie, "never use cheap chips, never use crisco (woman, that is how your momma's momma did it!), never mix the eggs to much and if a child wants to help ALWAYS let them...the cookies taste better everytime!"

Preheat the oven to 375

ingredients:
2 sticks butter- left out in the orange kitchen aide for several hours. Do not microwave to soften, they know what you're up to!
3/4 C brown sugar
1/4 C white sugar
Cap full of vanilla
2 Large eggs- preferably from the chicken coop outside.
3 cups whole wheat flour
1/3 C wheat germ
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 bag of 12 oz. white chocolate chips and a 1/2 bag of 12. oz semi sweet chips. She recommends nestle premium or giradelli.

Beat butter,sugars, eggs (beat one at a time), add vanilla and beat more. Add wheat germ, flour, soda, salt and chocolate.

*I switched it up a bit, and instead of doing 3 C whole wheat flour I added 2 C and added 1 C of oats. I also did a whole bag of just semi sweet chocolate minis and slivered almonds. I'm one of those nut and chocolate freaks. I probably would have added coconut as well, but I didn't have any in the cupboard. Oh well. Nevertheless they were delicious!