Saturday, November 20, 2010

Thanksgiving Menu

Well I've been talking about Thanksgiving a lot so I thought I'd make a special page where I put all of my Thanksgiving recipes as I choose the "line up". :-) Click on "Thanksgiving Menu" on the right to see all of the recipes together. So check back soon and see what we're having for Thanksgiving this year!





Friday, November 5, 2010

Ranch Pork Roast

Made this for the first time a year or so ago and it was wonderful! Because of the meat and cream cheese it's not the kind of recipe I can do all of the time but Mama bought some meat and I told her about this recipe so it's in the crock pot right now. :-) Someone one FB requested the recipe so I thought I'd just post it on here. Simple and way yummy. :-)




Ingredients: 
2 1/2 lbs pork roast/steak whatever :-)
1 lb potatoes
1 small can of cream of chicken soup
1 8 oz cream cheese
.4 oz of ranch dressing powder 


Directions:
Dice potatoes, brown meat, and mix up the soup, cheese, and dressing. Put all into the crock pot and cook on low for 9 to 10 hours or on high for 4 1/2 to 5 hours. 


FYI, I doubled the recipe and added a couple of lbs of potatoes to make it stretch...and put a blob of plain yogurt in for the second 8 oz of cream cheese. It's a very forgiving recipe. :-)

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Super Duper Zucchini Muffins

Those of you who have read my blog before know that I've recently discovered zucchini and I love it! I've loved it in soups etc for awhile but not I'm discovering it's amazing possibilities in cakes and breads etc. Yumminess! :-) So, I have a little more in my freezer from my last shredding/freezing so I thought I'd find something to use it in for Thanksgiving day. Then I remembered some amazing muffins that a friend of mine had made. They were originally applesauce or apple cinnamon or apple bran...or something like that lol but she tweaked it to be a peach muffin as she had some fresh peaches. Well I thought that it would surely be easy to tweak for zucchini...but I couldn't find it. :-/ But I came across this other one that sounds pretty good so I'm going to give it a try. :-) I'll check back and let you know how good it was. :-)


Ingredients:


2 1/4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sour milk
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups shredded zucchini
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup brown sugar


Directions:


In large bowl, combine flour and sugar. Stir in baking powder, soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture is crumbly. Pour in milk, eggs, zucchini, and vanilla. Fold in walnuts. Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups 2/3 to 3/4 full. Sprinkle tops with brown sugar. Bake at 350* for 15 to 20 minutes.