Tasty Tuesday (Baked Ziti with Queso Sauce)

Baked Ziti with Chicken in Queso Sauce

2 cups shredded coked chicken

2 cans cream of chicken soup

1 can Roel tomatoes

1 pd Velveeta, cubed

2 cups shredded cheese

1 box ziti noodles, cooked



Cook chicken and shred. Cook pasta and drain. Melt velveta in the microwave. Mix soup, rotel and melted cheese. Stir in remaining ingredients and pour into a 9 x13 dish. bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Top with a sprinkling cheese and serve.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there in blog land.  I hope you all enjoy a wonderful day filled  with family ,friends, and of course great food.

Starting tomorrow we will be trying to do Christmas related post till Christmas.  

Stephanie and Mindy

Candy Making

If you all are anything like me you will be getting ready for Christmas starting Friday morning.  We always put are tree up the Friday after thanksgiving.  That gets me in the mood to make candy.  So I am going to share a few of my favorite candy recipes with you.

Fudge

18 oz chocolate chips

1 can Eagle Brand milk

pinch of salt

3/4 cup nuts

2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

In heavy saucepan, over low heat, melt chips and Eagle Brand milk.

Remove from heat, and add remaining ingredients. Pour in 9 inch square pan.  ( I line the pan with foil so that the fudge is easier to get out. )  Chill a few hours, then cut into squares. 

 

Buckeyes

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c. peanut butter      1 pound confectioners' sugar

1 tsp. vanilla          1 stick butter or margarine

6 ounces chocolate chips          1 ounce paraffin wax

Directions:

Combine peanut butter, sugar and vanilla. Melt margarine and add to peanut butter mixture. Melt in double boiler, chocolate chips and paraffin.
Roll candy mixture into balls and chill. Dip in chocolate mix and lay on wax paper.

 

Bourbon Balls

Ingredients
1 c. coarsely chopped pecans
6 tbsp. bourbon
1 lb. powdered sugar
2 sticks butter less 1 inch of 1 stick
8 oz. chocolate (for melting)

Combine the nuts and bourbon. Set aside and let stand for two hours. Cream the sugar and butter until the consistency of meal.  Add the nuts. Roll into little balls then refrigerate approximately 1 hour.

Melt chocolate over a double boiler.  Dip the balls in the chocolate and place on waxed paper.  Store in covered container

 

Microwave Toffee

1/2	C	Pecans - finely chopped
1/2	C	Butter (1 stick)
1	C	Sugar
1	Tsp.	Salt
1/4	C	Water
1/2	C	Semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/4	C	Pecans, finely chopped

Sprinkle 1/2-cup pecans in a 9" circle on a greased cookie sheet and set aside. Coat the top 2" of a 2-quart Pyrex measuring cup with butter. Add butter, sugar, salt and water - but DO NOT STIR! Microwave on high 10 -11 minutes or until the mixture just begins to turn light brown. Pour over pecans. Sprinkle with chips and let set for one minute. Spread melted chips over toffee with knife and sprinkle with 1/4-cup pecans. Chill until firm. Break up into bite-sized pieces. Store in airtight container. Yield: 1 pound.

I am planning to try lots of new candy recipes this year as I try them I will post them if they are any good.

Hope you get a chance to try these.  

Stephanie

Tasty Tuesday

We will be having this for Thanksgiving

Cheesy Creamed Corn

3 Packages (16oz each ) frozen corn

2 packages 1  3oz   1  8 oz creamed cheese cubed (I use fat free)

¼ cup butter cubed

3 Table spoons water

3 tablespoons  skim milk

2 table spoons sugar (may use splenda in place of sugar just cut amount in half)

6 slices process American cheese cut into small pieces (I uses fat free)

Combine all the ingredients in a slow cooker for 4 hours until cheese is melted.  Stir before serving

Wizard Of Oz Party

The Birthday Girl

Her Birthday Banner

The decorations

 

The Food Table

Letting balloons go to fly "Somewhere over the Rainbow!"

Thrifty Thursday

Here is the rainbow cake I made for Emily's party. You can make buttercream icing cheap.


1 1/2 cups Crisco
1/2 cup water
2 pounds powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Mix all together.

munkin houses

here are our Munchkin houses we made
they are made out of cardboard painted with boxes taped on to the back to make them stand up.

Tasty Tuesday ( Parmesan Pork Chops)

Parmesan Pork Chops
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp flour
2 tsp Italian seasoning
2 tsp dried parsley flakes
1/4 tsp pepper
4 boneless pork chops
2 tbsp olive oil

In a shallow microwave safe bowl, melt butter. In a large ziploc bag combine Parmesan cheese, flour, Italian seasoning, parsley and pepper. Dip each pork chop in butter, place in bag, one at a time, and shake to coat. In a large skillet, cook pork in oil over med. heat for 7-8 minutes on each side or until juices run clear.

hey stephanie here

We are back after last week getting ready for the wizard of oz birthday party.  So this week we will be posting lots of ideas from the party.

 

Here is our scarecrow We bought the scarecrow on clearance last year.  It was actually in my yard until last week.  We made the fence and corn stocks.  Today I am going to show you how to make the corn stocks using this 

 

Paper lunch bags and paper towel tubes.  First you cut the paper bags like so

then you open the bag up and squish it up in your hands 

 

It will look something like this then you start hot gluing the bags on to the paper towel tubes 

 

I also cut some bags into long triangles and added them on the bag to fill in any bare spots and cover up where the bags where added on.

 

keep adding till you have covered the paper towel tube. 

we then took a long narrow strip of cardboard and place 3 tubes on each one

and you get something that looks like this.  Then Mindy cut the shape of the fence out of cardboard and her family painted it.
We hung a white sheet behind the scarecrow and place construction paper crows, clouds, and a sun on the sheet
stay tuned for more ideas this week