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Recipes!

Season Encrusted Potatoes

Ingredients and Hardware:

-potatoes
-butter
-oil
-Salt
-Pepper
-Garlic Powder
-Paprika
-Johnny's Seasoning Salt
-Frying Pan
-Stove top
-Spatula *heat resistent turner if you're being technical*
-A Sharp Knife


Directions:

Clean the potatoes and microwave them until they are about halfway cooked. Then chop them roughly, leaving the skins on. Meanwhile, have the pan heating. Get it piping hot. Then put in a glob of butter and slide the potatoes in. Put in Salt, Pepper, and Johnny's to taste. Let it cook through a bit, and then add in a small ammount of oil. Just enough to coat the potatoes. Add in the Garlic Powder and Paprika. STIR THE PAN CONSTANTLY THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH. Cook till the taters are done the whole way through, and then plate and serve.

Serving Suggestion: Tons of ketchup ^-^

Chocolate Overdose Pie

Ingredients:

1 chocolate pie crust (chocolate grahm or oreo pre baked work best.
3 regular sized hershey chocolate bars
3 boxes jello chocolate pudding
1 16oz container of cool whip
Chocolate mini chips
chocolate shell icecream topping
chocolate sprinkles/shots/jimmies.
chocolate milk (optional)

Mechanics:
basting brush.
large bowl
Whisk
rubber spatula

Directions:

break up all 3 hershey bars and melt them in a doubble boiler (microwave is an option, just not a good one. if you need to microwave, no more than a minute on 50% power)

open pie crust.

pour melted chocolate in to the crust and "paint" the inside of the crust
with the bastng brush using the chocolate to coat evenly. (crust may start to crumble in places along the side, do not worry about it.)(for a sfter crust, add a third of a cup of chocolate milk to the hershey bar before pouring. this will effect he texture of the crust and is entirely up to you how you want your crust.)

place crust in freezer.

in a large bowl, mix two boxes of the jello pudding mix according to the 5 min pudding directions, ommiting a 1/2 cup of milk, you'll see why.

incorporate in to the pudding the mini chips, about 1 cup or to taste, wich ever you prefer.

remove the pie crust from the freezer (melted chocolate should be solid if milk was not used, jelled if milk was) and pour pudding in to pie crust using a rubber spatula.

pour on shell topping and spread on top of pudding, freese for 5 minutes only.

take the cool whil and mix the last box of jello pudding in to it till fully incorporated and cool whip looks chocolatey all the way through.

remove pie crust from freezer and add cool whip.

throw on chocolate sprinkes/shots/jimmies.

serve. keep refriderated. enjoy.

serves one or 8 people. callorie count 5525 total.

"chocolate over dose pie is copyright JRS (Thats me))

Easier than imaging Gir-ganisms Rice Kristpy Treats

Ingredients=
1 10 oz. bag of marshmallows(small puff preferred,but any size will work)
3 tbsp. Margerine(butter if you want a buttery flavor)
6 cups of Rice Krispies(go for the generic brand, much MUCH cheaper!)


^^ the hardest part of this recipie is probably measuring out the rice krispies.

First, melt the margerine over low heat in a large pot. THis is a good opportunity to measure out the rice krispies. in fact, do this NOW. you wont have an opportunity later.
Second, after the margerine is melted, add the whole bag of marshmallows, stirring with a spoon to help keep it from sticking.
When all the lumps are melted out of the marshmallows, add the krispies into the pot, stirring while you add. After a few moments, it should get hard to stir, but thats good because it means your doing it right.
after every thing is mixed, coat a seperate spoon(whatever size you want) with butter, and use it to scoop the mixture into buttered muffin cups.

i usually pour melted chocolate on top of those,stick popsickle sticks into them, then put those into the fridge, but use your imagination for toppings!( i've even once put icing on top and served them like cupcakes)

Chicken a la Creme

INGREDIENTS:
1/4 cup butter
1 1/2 pounds chicken breast tenderloins or strips
salt and pepper to taste
1 pint heavy cream

DIRECTIONS:
- Melt half of the butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Season chicken tenders with salt and pepper, and saute them in butter until golden on all sides, about 10 minutes. Add the remaining butter, reduce heat to medium, and cook for 5 more minutes.

- Pour the heavy cream into the skillet, and simmer gently for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sauce has thickened and chicken is cooked through. Best when served with fresh French bread for dipping.

A+ Carrot Cake

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
4 eggs
2 cups white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
2 cups grated carrots
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1/2 cup sweetened flaked coconut
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup raisins

DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a 10x15x2 inch baking dish or 10 inch Bundt pan with cooking spray.

- In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Set aside. In a separate larger bowl, mix together the eggs, sugar and vanilla by hand. Stir in the oil; the mixture should resemble pudding. Gradually stir in the dry ingredients, then fold in the carrots, pineapple coconut, walnuts and raisins. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and spread evenly.

- Bake for 55 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a small knife inserted into the cake comes out clean.

Peach Muffins

INGREDIENTS:
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups vegetable oil
3 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups white sugar
2 cups peeled, pitted, and chopped peaches

DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease 16 muffin cups.
- In a large bowl, mix the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt. In a separate bowl, mix the oil, eggs, and sugar. Stir the oil mixture into the flour mixture just until moist. Fold in the peaches. Spoon into the prepared muffin cups.
- Bake 25 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before turning out onto wire racks to cool completely.

True Blue Desert Soup

Ingredients:
2 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)
3/4 cup lemon juice
1 1/4 cups cranberry juice
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups whipped cream

Directions:

1. Put blueberries in a blender and puree until smooth.

2. In a medium saucepan, combine the blueberries, lemon juice, cranberry juice, and sugar. Stir until well mixed.

3. Simmer on low heat, covered, for 10 minutes.

4. Turn off heat and let cool for about 20 minutes.

5. Gently stir in the whipped cream. Put pan in the refrigerator, chill for 3 hours and serve.

Serving suggestion: Enjoy with fresh blueberries on the side.

Oreo Dessert

Ingredients:

2 packs of oreos
2 boxes of chocolate jello pudding
1 tub Cool Whip
spatula
large bowl
large cake pan (about 8 x 14 should do... and glass is best)
smaller bowl
milk

To create:

Make the pudding according to the directions on the box. Fill the smaller bowl with milk and soak the oreos until soggy. Layer the bottom of the pan with milky oreos until bottom is covered. Next, cover the oreos with a layer of pudding. Create another layer of soggy oreos on top of the pudding. Add a second layer of pudding, top that with whipped cream, and crumble dry oreos over the whipped cream. Refrigerate and ENJOY!

AMEH'S MAGICAL AWESOME HAMBURGERS! *an original Ameh recipe*

(main course)
(recipe makes about 4 burgers)

Ingredients:
1lb of ground beef. or so.
2 cloves of fresh garlic (crushed)
half an onion finely chopped
a huge handful of shredded cheese (any type you'd like)
other seasonings (salt, pepper, others.. add to taste)

put all the beef in a big bowl and mix in the crushed garlic, the finely chopped onions and the cheese. mix that until the cheese is evenly spread out through the meatyness

then put it on a frying pan/grill/in the oven or however you cook your burgers and cook it to perfection (i suggest frying pan/grill and add another slice or two of cheese ontop after the burger is almost cooked and leave it on the grill until the cheese melts a bit). then slap it in between 2 hamburger buns, put on your favorite toppings; lettuce, tomatoes, onion, barbeque sause, whatever the hell you put on burgers normally.

Dressed Eggs

*modified from an american girls cook book o.O;*
(breakfast)

Ingrediants
4 to 6 eggs (depending on how hungry you are or how many people you're serving)
a stick of butter (melted)
ground nutmeg
a frying pan with a lid that can fit over it
a stove =)
a broiler (or an oven set to broil)

heat up the frying pan using a low setting on your stove, grease the pan with butter all over then WITHOUT CRACKING THE YOLKS put the eggs in the pan and let the whites harden (when they turn from that clear yellowy color to white is when theyre ready)

pour the melted butter over the eggs and place the whole thing in the broiler (which should be set on high) for about 3 minutes, or until the yolks of the eggs turn bright yellow instead of the orangy yellow (about the color of a hard boiled egg's yolk)

take the pan out of the oven (and turn the oven off to prevent fires =) and sprinkle a fair amount of nutmeg on the eggs and let it sit until the butter stops bubbling.

put the eggs on a plate and drizzle the butter from in the pan ontop of the eggs (drizzle to taste, normally i put all of the extra butter on my plate and dont let my little skinny weight watching sister have any of it because im selfish and its yummy =)

serve hot with whatever else you're having for breakfast

Best Salsa-esque thing ever

*something i came up with myself*
(Snacky)
Ingrediants:
A block of cream cheese
Salsa (depending on how much you like)
Tortilla Chips

put the cream cheese on a plate, (preferably at room temprature) and put as much salsa on top of the cream cheese as you can stand.

scoop up the cream cheese/salsa in a tortilla chip, bring the chip up to your mouth, open it, shove the chip in, chew and swallow

repeat that until the chips or the creamcheese/salsa is finished.

Chili chip dip

*something a friend taught me that i modified a little bit*
(snacky)
Ingrediants
One can of chili, any type you prefer
One block of cream cheese
A large microwave safe bowl
A microwave
A GIANT bag of chips

open the can of chili and dump the insides into the large microwave safe bowl then dump in the cream cheese into the same bowl and place all of that in the microwave (i suggest covering the bowl with something so you dont have a mess to clean up later) and run the microwave on high for about 30 seconds, stir and repeat the 30 second thing + stiring until the cream cheese is well mixed into the chili and the entire thing is warm.

then dip the chips into the mixture and eat it like that =)

Perfect Burger

As a standard hamburger, except:
*Use a toasted potato bread bun
*add mayonaise and BBQ sauce applied to the burger, not the bun
*on top of the sauce, put two or three fresh tomato slices
*enjoy

REALLY REALLY GOOD PIZZA DIP STUFF!

ingredients:

8oz Cream Cheese
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 cup chedder cheese *or any type you like*
1 cup pizza sauce

mix to creamy consistancy....
warm up on stove or microwave if you like, but tastes good room temp.

Oreo Dessert

Ingrediants:

2 packs of oreos
2 boxes of chocolate jello pudding
1 tub Cool Whip
spatula
large bowl
large cake pan (about 8 x 14 should do... and glass is best)
smaller bowl
milk

To create:

Make the pudding according to the directions on the box. Fill the smaller bowl with milk and soak the oreos until soggy. Layer the bottom of the pan with milky oreos until bottom is covered. Next, cover the oreos with a layer of pudding. Create another layer of soggy oreos on top of the pudding. Add a second layer of pudding, top that with whipped cream, and crumble dry oreos over the whipped cream. Refrigerate and ENJOY!

Cheese Orgy

Take a box of cheeze-its, cheese nips, or other cheese-flavored crackers. Apply a thin slice of cheese to each, secured to the cracker by cheeze-whiz or your favorite topping. Eat and contact emergency room to inform them of your imminent cardiac arrest.

Very Cherry and Cream

Ingredients:
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon honey
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup cherries (washed, pitted, and stems removed)

1. In a small bowl, mix cream, honey, and vanilla.
2. Put cherries in a small dessert dish.
3. Pour cream mixture over cherries and enjoy.

Popcorn Balls

Ingredients:

1 1/2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
6 tablespoons water
6 cups poped corn

Note: Having a Candy thermometer helps

1. In a medium saucepan on high heat, combine butter, sugar, and water. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Bring to a boil.

2. Cover and cook on low heat for 3 minutes, then uncover and cook without stirring until the candy thermometer reads 238 degrees.

3. Pour sauce over the popped corn and stir gently with a wooden spoon until the popcorn is well coated.

4. when mixture is cool enough to touch, butter your fingers and form the popcorn into balls (or anyother shape you like).

Suggestion: You can add food coloring to the mixture to make colorful popcorn balls

Peanut Butter Salsa Bagel

You take a plain bagle and cut it in half and toast it. Spread on Peanut Butter (smooth seems best) and salsa.. It's great with a tall glass of milk.

Fries Supreme

Things you need:

1 pound ground beef
1 pack of fries whatever kind you like(cavendash)
one pack of old elpaso taco seasoning mix
sour cream
chopped tomato
shredded cheddar cheese

Directions:

Prepare fries as directed on the package
brown your hamberger meat
once hamberger is cooked drain then stir in 1 cup of water and seasoning mix
cook over medium heat for 10 min. until thickened,stirring occasionally.
Once fries are done place on plates and put some seasoned hamberger on top of them. Then place enough shredded cheese to cover meat and fries. Nuke for 1 min on high in the mw. Add a few scoopes of sour cream on top and then sprinckle on some chopped tomatos. Makes one tasty mexican treat!!

Hummingbird Cake and Glaze

Hummingbird Cake

3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp soda
1 cup vegetable oil
3 ripe bananas ~ diced
1 ~ 8 oz. can crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup pecans, chopped
1tsp vanilla
3 eggs, beat in a small bowl before adding

In a medium bowl, mix first four ingredients together. Add oil, bananas, pineapple, pecans, vanilla and eggs. Mix by hand for 2 or 3 minutes. The batter will not be smooth.

Pour batter into a well greased bundt pan, or sprayed with non stick cooking spray.

Bake at 350? for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Check doneness by inserting a tooth pick in the top of cake, if the tooth pick comes out clean, the cake is done. Cool, remove from pan. Enjoy.


Cream Cheese Glaze

8 ounces cream cheese
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon each, lemon and orange zest - finely minced
1 1/4 ~ 1 1/2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar

Glaze: soften cream cheese and cream with butter. Stir in lemon juice, vanilla and citrus zest. Fold in confectioner's sugar to make a soft, drippy glaze. Drizzle over cooled cake. Allow to set. Recover excess and glaze again.

Easy Peasy Prelines

Ingrediants-
2 cups of Pecans
2 cups of light brown sugar
1/2 cup of whipping creme
2 tbls of unsalted butter
1/2 tablespoon of vanilla extract

Toast the pecans in a 400degree oven for 5 minutes.
while they are toasting, melt the butter and sugar into the whipping cream in a largish sauce pan over medium heat.
When the mixture has doubled in size, turned a shade or two darker, and reached 270degrees( or the soft ball stage->a spoon of the mixture dropped into a cup of ice cold water turns to a soft ball, like taffy or chewed gum), Add the vanilla.(the mixture should hiss and bubble)

Add the pecans and mix thoroughly. use an ice cream scoop or a spoon to move servings onto parchment paper or a silicon sheet.
allow to cool.^^good even when warm.
Yeilds 12-24 servings.

Chicken 'Tuna' Cassarole

1 whole chicken boiled in water with boullion and onions till falling apart at the seams

1 family size can of cream of cream of chicken soup + fill the can full of milk for later*

1 bag of egg noodle

1 bag of plain potato chips




after the bird is cooked debone it and put it in a bowl
cook the noodles in the chicken stock where you boiled the bird *wastenot want not!*
put the cooked noodles in a casserole pan and stir in a little butter to prevent clumpage

mix the cream of chicken soup with the chicken in the bowl and add the milk stirring and making it all creamy

pour the brird/ soup mix over the noodles and cover them in crushed potato chips

bake in a 350 degree oven till the chips are all golden brown

Artichoke Dip

Ingredients:
1 can artichoke hearts (drained & chopped)
1 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 cup mayonaise
1 cup shredded mozzerella cheese
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
parsley for color

Destructions:
Bake at 350? for 30 minutes or until top is browned.

Orange Pinapple Chicken

Ingredients:

Skinless Boneless Chicken Breasts
Orange Pinapple Juice (no orange pinapple banana or anything like that just straight up orange pinapple juice
Ginger
Nutmeg

Dirrections:
In a cakepan or bowl, put a shallow layer of orange pinapple juice, then place the raw chicken on top, sprinkle with the ginger, pour enough juice in to cover, if there's more than one layer, just repeat until the pan or bowl is full. Cover and let merinate in the fridge for at least an hour (it's really good if you do that in the morning, and let it sit until dinner, though)

Remove from the marinade, and sprinkle on the nutmeg before cooking. Cook in any way that you personally cook chicken bake, fry, grill, it's up to you. You can eat it plain or add it to stir fry.

Reserved (just in case x3)

WOO! FIRST RECIPE!!! YAY!


Season Encrusted Potatoes

Ingredients and Hardware:

-potatoes
-butter
-oil
-Salt
-Pepper
-Garlic Powder
-Paprika
-Johnny's Seasoning Salt
-Frying Pan
-Stove top
-Spatula *heat resistent turner if you're being technical*
-A Sharp Knife


Directions:

Clean the potatoes and microwave them until they are about halfway cooked. Then chop them roughly, leaving the skins on. Meanwhile, have the pan heating. Get it piping hot. Then put in a glob of butter and slide the potatoes in. Put in Salt, Pepper, and Johnny's to taste. Let it cook through a bit, and then add in a small ammount of oil. Just enough to coat the potatoes. Add in the Garlic Powder and Paprika. STIR THE PAN CONSTANTLY THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH. Cook till the taters are done the whole way through, and then plate and serve.

Serving Suggestion: Tons of ketchup ^-^

YAY, A cooking thread! I must add my Chocolate overdose pie (C)
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CHOCOLATE OVERDOSE PIE!!!!

Ingredients:

1 chocolate pie crust (chocolate grahm or oreo pre baked work best.
3 regular sized hershey chocolate bars
3 boxes jello chocolate pudding
1 16oz container of cool whip
Chocolate mini chips
chocolate shell icecream topping
chocolate sprinkles/shots/jimmies.
chocolate milk (optional)

Mechanics:
basting brush.
large bowl
Whisk
rubber spatula

Directions:

break up all 3 hershey bars and melt them in a doubble boiler (microwave is an option, just not a good one. if you need to microwave, no more than a minute on 50% power)

open pie crust.

pour melted chocolate in to the crust and "paint" the inside of the crust
with the bastng brush using the chocolate to coat evenly. (crust may start to crumble in places along the side, do not worry about it.)(for a sfter crust, add a third of a cup of chocolate milk to the hershey bar before pouring. this will effect he texture of the crust and is entirely up to you how you want your crust.)

place crust in freezer.

in a large bowl, mix two boxes of the jello pudding mix according to the 5 min pudding directions, ommiting a 1/2 cup of milk, you'll see why.

incorporate in to the pudding the mini chips, about 1 cup or to taste, wich ever you prefer.

remove the pie crust from the freezer (melted chocolate should be solid if milk was not used, jelled if milk was) and pour pudding in to pie crust using a rubber spatula.

pour on shell topping and spread on top of pudding, freese for 5 minutes only.

take the cool whil and mix the last box of jello pudding in to it till fully incorporated and cool whip looks chocolatey all the way through.

remove pie crust from freezer and add cool whip.

throw on chocolate sprinkes/shots/jimmies.

serve. keep refriderated. enjoy.

serves one or 8 people. callorie count 5525 total.

"chocolate over dose pie is copyright JRS (Thats me))

True Blue Dessert Soup

Ingredients:
2 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)
3/4 cup lemon juice
1 1/4 cups cranberry juice
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups whipped cream

Directions:

1. Put blueberries in a blender and puree until smooth.

2. In a medium saucepan, combine the blueberries, lemon juice, cranberry juice, and sugar. Stir until well mixed.

3. Simmer on low heat, covered, for 10 minutes.

4. Turn off heat and let cool for about 20 minutes.

5. Gently stir in the whipped cream. Put pan in the refrigerator, chill for 3 hours and serve.

Serving suggestion: Enjoy with fresh blueberries on the side. wink

The Perfect Burger

As a standard hamburger, except:
*Use a toasted potato bread bun
*add mayonaise and BBQ sauce applied to the burger, not the bun
*on top of the sauce, put two or three fresh tomato slices
*enjoy