Monday, July 27, 2009

No Bake Cookies

No Bake Cookies – Heidi Pettingill

½ c. butter- melted
2 c. sugar
¼ c. cocoa
½ c. milk
2 ½ - 3 c. quick oats
¼ t. salt
1 t. vanilla
¾ c. peanut butter
-Combine first 4 ingredients in pot, boil for 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Add last 4 ingredients. Stir well. Place cookie size amount on wax paper on cookie sheet. Refrigerate.

Tante Aki’s Kartoffel salat

Tante Aki’s Kartoffel salat

Potatoes (about 12 cooked, cooled, peeled, cut)
Onion, chopped
Eggs (8) hard boiled, cut into small pieces
Green onions (optional)

Combine and add to above:
Balsamic Vinegar (abt. ½ T.)
Oil (abt. ¼ c.)
Sugar (abt. ½ c.)
Miracle whip (to taste) start with like 3 big spoonfulls
Pepper
Salt
Dill

Dinner in a Pumpkin

Dinner in a Pumpkin -Heidi Pettingill
1 small (about 10 inch) pumpkin, clean out seeds
2 lb. ground chuck
6 oz. ground ham (we use one can of spam)
1 can tomato sauce
1 T. oil
2 t. ground oregano
2 cloves garlic minced
2 ½ t. salt
2 ½ T. onion
1 chopped green pepper
1 t. vinegar
1/3 c. chopped stuffed green olives
3 eggs, beaten
1 t. pepper
Combine all but the pumpkin and fry till tender. Add to pumpkin and bake at 350ยบ for 1-1/2 hours with lid on pumpkin. Serve dinner from pumpkin. Pumpkin meat is similar to squash.
We make this every Halloween, it’s just kind of a fun recipe, and it can be altered to fit your likes too. My sister adds minute rice to the mixture which is good also.

Chicken Noodle Soup

Chicken Noodle Soup -Kristine Walton
In large pot of water about 2/3 full, boil 2-3 half breasts of chicken, remove chicken, cool, cut into pieces. Add 2-3 bullion cubes to pot and 2 cans cream of chicken soup. Add salt and pepper to taste, and some garlic powder. Dice up 2 celery, and 2-3 carrots, add to pot. Bring to boil, add chicken and desired amount of country noodles. Cook until noodles are done according to bag directions. Enjoy.

How to preserve a husband! (One of my more difficult recipes, but EXTREMELY important none the less!

How to preserve a husband
Love
Devotion
Laughter
Smiles
Forgiveness
Pick one that is tender, but not too young. Add two cups of love, one cup of devotion. Mix with laughter and sweeten with smiles. “Do not beat”, then add a variety of spices till well seasoned. Do not pickle or put in hot water, this makes them sour. Add a pinch of forgiveness as needed. Serve daily with plenty of peaches and cream. Makes one happy marriage that keeps forever.
Note: This recipe takes lots of practice and patience. Do not expect perfection

Play dough (Don't eat this one) (I gues you can if you want to)

Play dough -Heidi Pettingill
2 c. water
2 c. flour
1 c. salt
½ c. cornstarch
2 T. vegetable oil or margarine
1 T. powdered Alum
Few drops of food coloring
Mix all ingredients. Cook over medium heat until thick. Remove from pan and knead until smooth. Yield: abt. 3 cups of dough
*This play dough keeps for weeks in the refrigerator and can be used many times over.
(I don't keep it in the fridge and it still keeps well)

Stuffed Squash

*This is more or less a Squash casserole, but Danny doesn't like anything with the word casserole in it so it's Stuffed Squash, Squash Delight, Squash a la yummyness, whatever you want to call it!

Stuffed Squash -Heidi Pettingill
1 Butternut or banana squash- cooked, peeled and mashed.
Spread in buttered casserole pan. Sprinkle 1 C. brown sugar over squash. Dot with ¼ c. butter. (*I leave the butter out) Cook 1 box wild rice as directed on package (we prefer beef rice-a-roni). Add 1 can cream of mushroom soup, 1 lb. Browned sausage, 1 onion chopped, 1/8 t. garlic powder to rice. Stir well and pour over squash. Bake 350 20-25 min.