Chopped Apple Cake with Rich Butter Sauce

Peel and dice 4C apples ( I like golden delicious)

2C sugar

Grease or spray a 9 x 12 and put apples in pan

Add sugar, stir and let that sit while preparing the flour mixture



Stir together and sift over apples and sugar

2 C flour

1 tsp Nutmeg

2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp Cinnamon



Stir together:

1C canola oil

2 eggs

2 tsp Vanilla



Pour over apples, flour mixture and stir all together

Add and stir in:

1C chopped nuts ( I used Pecans)



Bake at 350 for 40 minutes



Serve Warm with whipped Cream, Vanilla Ice cream or

Rich Butter Sauce and whipped cream. (Nicole Freeman's Butter sauce)



Rich Butter Sauce

1C brown sugar

1/2 C melted butter

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 Tbsp Karo syrup

1/2 C Buttermilk

1 tsp. Vanilla

Bring all to boil and let boil for quite a while stirring. Pour on Individual pieces of cake

Chocolate Chocolate Cake

1 pkg. (8oz) cream cheese softened
1 cup sour cream
½ cup water
2 eggs
1 pkg. chocolate cake mix ( I used milk chocolate)
1 pkg. (small) instant chocolate pudding
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

MIX cream cheese, sour cream, water, and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add cake mix and pudding; beat until well blended. Fold in chips. (batter will be somewhat stiff.)

POUR into greased Bundt pan.

BAKE at 325 for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

Spinach Pasta Salad

fresh spinach
bowtie pasta
honey roasted peanuts
craisins
mandarin oranges
sliced water chestnuts
cooked chicken (optional)


Dressing:
1/3 c. sugar
1 Tbs. Worcestershire sauce
1 c. olive oil
1/4 c. red wine vinegar

Combine dressing ingredients in a blender to emulsify and then apply dressing lightly to salad before serving. Serve chilled.

Oreo Coconut Ice Cream Dessert

Chocolate Sauce:
1 cup evaporated milk
6 oz. chocolate chips
10 oz. marshmallows

Chocolate Sauce: Melt at medium heat. Cool completely before putting on top of ice cream (1/2 to 1 hr. at least!)

½ cup butter
1 ½ cups Angel Flake coconut
1 large pkg. Oreo cookies (40 cookies)
½ gal. vanilla ice cream

Melt butter in frying pan. Add coconut. Stir and toast evenly. When it’s barely brown, remove from heat. It continues to cook and can burn easily.

Crush Oreo cookies in blender, 6 at a time. Add to coconut mixture and blend. Pat 2/3 of it into 9x13 pan. Using ½ gallon vanilla ice cream, cut into 1 inch slicies and cover with Oreos.

Pour Chocolate sauce over ice cream and top with remaining Oreo-coconut mixtures. Chill overnight for best results!

Crockpot Stew Steak

Cut off fat and sear steak in frying pan first

Cube Stew Steak from Costco, dump in crock pot
2 envelopes lipton onion soup
2 cans French onion soup (campbells)
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
2 cans sliced mushrooms

At end of cooking, add about 8 oz. sour cream
Serve over egg noodles

Cook on low ALL day

Italian Crock Pot Chicken

4 to 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 (10 ¾ oz.) can cream of chicken soup
1 (8oz.) pkg. cream cheese
1 packet Good Seasons Italian dressing mix

Combine soup, cream cheese, and dressing mix. Pour over chicken in crock pot. ( I dump it all in as is and half way through day stir it). Cook all day on low – heat. Serve over noodles or rice. ( I prefer rice because it is kind of a rich dish and the bland rice is a good complement).

Three Bean Soup

1 lg. can stewed/diced Tomatoes
1 can pork & Beans
1 can Pinto Beans
1 can Great Northern Beans
1 can tomato sauce
1 can green chilies
1 cup frozen corn
1 pkg. taco seasoning
1 cup water (if desired)

Mix all ingredients in pot or crock pot and bring to a boil then let simmer until ready to serve.

Chicken Tortilla Soup

3-4 chicken breasts (I usually just put them in the crock pot frozen)
2 cans black beans
1 can of corn
1 can chicken broth (water and chicken boullion cubes also works)
1 packet taco seasoning mix
1 cup salsa (any kind, sometimes I'll just add the whole jar)

Top with grated cheese, sour cream, and chips before eating.

You can throw it in the crock pot in the morning, cook it on low, and it's perfect by dinner time. The chicken usually shreds on it's own, but you may want to shred it yourself before serving it.

Yummy Breadsticks

3 c. warm water

1 TBS. yeast (fast acting)

2 TBS. sugar

1 TBS. salt

3 TBS. olive oil

7 ½ c. flour

1 c. butter

½ tsp. fresh garlic

1 c. ground parmesan cheese (Kraft)

Salad Supreme

Add Yeast, water, sugar in mixing bowl and wait 2 min. Pour in salt, oil, flour and knead 5-10 minutes in mixer/Bosch. Then knead dough with 1 Tbs. olive oil in a large bowl and cover with plastic wrap and let rise 1 hour.

Then divide into 2 balls. (1 ball for each cookie sheet). Roll out like a pizza dough on a jelly roll pan and pour ½ c. melted butter and ¼ tsp. garlic. Then flip like pizza dough on other side and sprinkle with parmesan and Salad Supreme. Repeat process with 2^nd jelly roll pan.

Then cut with pizza cutter into long strips vertically and 1 horizontal cut in middle to make for good eating size. Cover with kitchen towel and raise 1 – ½ hrs.

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Then when right out of oven, pour ¼ cup melted butter on top and serve.