Main Dish

Sweet and Sour Meatballs
(from Fix It and Forget It cookbook)

Meatballs:
2 lbs. ground beef
1 1/4 cups bread crumbs
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
2-3 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 egg
1/2 tsp. galric salt
1/4 cup finely chopped onions

Sauce:
1 can pineapple chunks, juice reserved
3 Tbsp. cornstarch
1/4 cvup cold water
1-1 1/4 cups ketchup
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
1/r tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp. galric salt
1/2 cup chopped green peppers.

1. Combine all meatball ingredients. Shape into 60-80 meatballs. Brown in skillet, roling so all sides are browned. Place meatballs in slow cooker.
2. Pour juice from pineapples into skillet. Stir into drippings.
3. Combine cornstarch and cold water. Add to skillet and stir until thickened.
4. Stir in ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. Season wit salt, pepper, and garlic salt. Add grteen peppers and pineapples. Pour over meatballs.
5. Cover. Cook on Low 6 hours.

Posted by Jody

Cheesecake Brownies

So I had a whim to make cheesekcake brownies. This is the recipe that I came up with....partly fron a website, and partly online. Oh-so-yummy!!!


1 Cup Butter, Melted
1 Cup Sugar
2 Eggs
2/3 Cup Baking Cocoa
1 Cup Self-Rising Flour

8 oz. Cream Cheese
1 Can Sweetened, Condensed Milk
1 Egg

Mix butter, sugar and eggs with spatula (do not use a mixer....you want it to be just blended in so your brownies don't have air pockets). Add Cocoa, stir again. Add Flour, stir again. Spread on the bottom of a greased 9x13 pan. Blend cream cheese, milk and egg.....it's ok to use a blender for this. Pour on top of brownie mix. Bake at 325 for about 45 minutes, or until golden brown on top. If it is a little gooey when you test with a knife, that's ok.

Yummy!!

Carrot Cake

I made this for Ben and Tiffany's one year anniversary. I think it turned out pretty good, especially considering I've never made carrot cake before. It was pretty simple, though. So here you have it:

Carrot Cake
4 eggs
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
2 cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 cups grated carrots (that's about one small bag of baby carrots, minus a few here and there that I ate. Also, I chopped them up in the food chopper instead of grating them)
1 cup chopped pecans

Icing:
1/2 cup butter, softened
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
4 cups confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch pan.
In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, white sugar and 2 teaspoons vanilla. Mix in flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in carrots. Fold in pecans. Pour into prepared pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
To Make Frosting: In a medium bowl, combine butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Stir in chopped pecans. Frost the cooled cake.

Ice Cream

Ice Cream

1/2 gal. whole milk
1 cup sugar
2-3 eggs, beaten
vanilla
1 pt. whipping cream

Combine milk an sugar. Bring to a boil and slowly add the eggs (slowly so they don't cook and leave clumps of egg in the custard). Add vanilla and whipping cream.
Follow the directions with the ice cream maker for freezing. Yummy!!!
Fresh fruit or other flavorings can be added before freezing.

Fruit Cobbler

So I made Blackberry Cobbler last night for dessert after dinner. It was sooo yummy and sooo tasty!! So here's the recipe.

1 Cup Flour
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Milk
1 Stick Butter (melted)
2 Cups Fruit (any kind)

Mix flour, sugar, milk and butter together. Pour over fruit and bake in square pan at 350 for 45 mintutes or until nice and brown.

Suggestions:
Blueberries
Peaches (canned, with juice)
Blackberries

Banana Nut Cake

This was my great grandmother's recipe, and it is just about the yummiest cake in the whole wide world. I really REALLY love this one!!!


Banana Nut Cake
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
2 cups flour
4 tbsp. buttermilk
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla
3 mashed bananas
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Mash bananas and set aside. Blend sugar and butter. Add eggs, buttermilk and soda. Blend. Add bananas and blend. Add flour and blend again. Pour into 3 round pans (8 or 9 inch) and bake at 350 for about 20 minutes or until done. Let cool

Icing:
1/2 cup butter
1 box powdered sugar
2 mashed bananas
1 cup chopped pecans

Mash bananas. Add butter, suger and pecans. Ice the cake -- the icing just goes between the layers. You don't have to smear it on the edges if you don't want to. Garnish with addtional whole pecans, if desired.

Yummy!!!

Cheesy Corn

Here is another dish we had today for Easter Dinner. It is such a yummy way to cook corn!! AND, ya gotta love that crock pot!!

Cheesy Corn
3 pkgs frozen corn
8 oz cream cheese
6 slices American cheese
1/4 cup butter
6 tsp sugar
4 tsp milk
4 tsp water

Place corn in crock pot. Cube cream cheese and American cheese; stir in. Add butter, sugar, milk and water. Stir. Cook on Low for 4-5 hours or on high for 2-3 hours.