German Pancakes

In a 9x13 inch pan place 4 tablespoons of butter and put pan in oven. Start ovenpreheating  to 350 degrees. 

Mix well:

6 to 8 eggs(we prefer more but it works fine with less)

1 cup milk

1 cup flour

1/4 tsp salt

When oven is preheated pull out pan, tilt pan around so melted butter coats the entire bottom, then pour in egg mixture. Return pan to oven and bake 30 to 40 minutes. 

Serve wit syrup, fruit and whipped cream, powdered sugar, or even jam. Today we had jam made by my grandmother on top. 

My children, ages 8, 5, and 3, can eat an entire panful themselves, so I recommend making two pans. 

Biscuits and Gravy

with sausage and canned pears

Sausage
Can(s) of pears
Biscuit recipe found at Ramblings of a Christian Mom! - note: it does require cream of tartar, I hear tell you can use vinegar instead of cream of tartar, have not tried it though.
I don't use a recipe for my gravy, but here's one that is similar to what I do.  I add ground sage to mine for extra yumminess. Homemade Country Gravy Recipe

Chili Cheese baked potatoes

Chili Cheese Baked Potatoes

Potatoes - the bag we had had a few large ones, our youngest two shared one potato, and the rest of us each had our own
Can of chili (our family of five used 2 cans)
cheese (we used about 1/3 a 1 lb block of cheese)
To mine I added a diced slice of onion and two slices of fresh tomato diced, with a dollop of sour cream on top, the kids had tomato and sour cream on theirs as well.

Creamy Chicken Enchiladas*

Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

2 lbs chicken breast, cooked and shredded

½ onion chopped

1 can of corn

Family size can of Cream of Chicken Soup

2 1/2 c. milk

2 c. sour cream

16 oz. jar salsa verde (or 1 1/2 cans of green enchilada sauce)*

2 tsp. cumin

8 oz. cottage cheese

8 soft taco shells

2 c. shredded cheese

Directions

Combine chicken, onion, and drained can of corn.

Whisk together soup, milk, sour cream,enchilada sauce, and cumin in a large saucepan. Heat on low for 10-15 minutes until mixture is smooth and warm, stirring occasionally.

Meanwhile, spread a large spoonful of cream cheese onto a tortilla.

Top with chicken mixture and roll up.

Place enchiladas in a 9x13 baking dish.

Cover with sauce, top with cheese and bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.

* means this is an item that the storehouse does not provide

Navy Bean Soup

Beef Creole with Rice

Beef Creole with Rice

Cook until brown...
1 lb. ground beef
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/4 tsp garlic salt

Add...
1 medium green pepper, thin strips
2 cups diagonally sliced celery
Juice from 1 (16 oz) can tomatoes
1 tsp chili powder
2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper

Heat to boiling, reduce to low heat, simmer, covered, 15 to 20 minutes stir occasionally

Blend, in cup
1 tb flour
1/4 cup water

Gradually stir into meat mixture and cook, stirring constantly, until thickened.

Add...
1 can tomatoes

Heat thoroughly.
Serve over...
3 cups hot cooked rice

Sloppy Joes

Sloppy Joes
1 lb. ground beef
1 onion, chopped
salt & pepper to taste
2 TB flour
1 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup catsup
1 tsp dry mustard
1/2 tsp sage
1/2 tsp chili powder

Brown beef and onion in a skillet - season with salt and pepper. When cooked through sprinkle with flour and stir.  Blend in remaining ingredients.  Simmer for one hour.  Serve on hamburger buns or bread.

If you have a bell pepper, it's great to add in as well.

Roast Beef (for sandwich meat)

Roast Beef (for sandwich meat)

Ingredients

• 1 beef roast
• 2 medium onions
• 2 carrots
• 2 sticks celery
• 1 bulb garlic
• olive oil
• sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper

Before doing anything, preheat your oven to 475°F...

Wash the vegetables, peel the onions and carrots and roughly chop them.

Then put the veg, garlic and herbs into the middle of a large roasting tray and drizzle with olive oil.

Prepare a small bowl with olive oil, salt, pepper and some thyme. Mix it all together!

After rub it all over the meat. Place the beef on top of the vegetables.

Place the roasting tray in the oven and turn the heat down to 400°F.

Cook the meat for 1 hour for medium beef, 5 to 15 minutes less for medium-rare and leave it 10 to 15 minutes more for well done beef.

Sausage, egg, and cheese biscuits

1 lb sausage, form into 6 patties
6 eggs - for a perfect circle use the ring from a canning jar (grease it with shortening first) in the pan, crack the egg into the lid, once it looks mostly white, remove the ring to flip (or cover with the skillet lid until fully cooked through.
6 slices cheese, 1/8 inch thick

Biscuits

Hot Volcano Rice

Hot Volcano Rice
In a skillet, cook until brown....1 pound ground beef
Add 1 chopped onion, continue cooking until onion is translucent.

Make one can of tomato soup per the directions on the can.

Cook 3 cups rice per the directions on the bag.

Shred about 2 cups of cheese.


Layer in individual bowls or deep plates with the rice on the bottom, then the meat mixture, and the cheese on top of that.  Pour some tomato soup over - your Volcano just erupted.

Cheese Sandwich Casserole

Cheese Sandwich Casserole

Saute in a pan with 1 tablespoon butter or oil…..

1 onion, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped

1 can sliced mushrooms

Layer in greased baking dish…..

6 slices bread

6 slices cheese (⅛” thick)

cooked vegetables

6 slices bread

Pour over all, a mixture of……

2 eggs, beaten

2 ½ cups milk

1 tsp salt

⅛ tsp pepper

¼ tsp dry mustard

Chill in refrigerator so milk mixture will soften bread.
Bake at 350* for 1 hour

Chili

Tuna Chowder

Tuna Chowder

Brown until tender, about 5 minutes…

¾ cup chopped onion

¾ cup sliced celery

3 tablespoons butter or margarine

Add…

3 cups diced raw potatoes

2 ½ cups water

1 ½ tsp salt

Heat to boiling and cook over medium heat about 15 minutes.

Blend together…

1 ½ TB flour

¼ cup milk

Add…

1 ¾ cup more milk

Stir into potato mixture and cook until thick, stirring constantly.

Add…

2 cans (6 oz) tuna fish, drained and flaked (could sub with a can of pink salmon since one can costs about as much as 2 cans of tuna these days)

Heat and serve at once.

Baked pasta

One package macaroni noodles

One jar spaghetti sauce

One tub cottage cheese

1/2 cup grated cheese

Cook macaroni according to package. Drain well. 

Preheat oven to 375. 

In a large bowl stir together spaghetti sauce and cottage cheese. Add cooked pasta, stir well. 

Put mixture into a greased 9x13 pan. Top with shredded cheese. 

Baked uncovered for 30 minutes. 

Depending on what is available you can add fresh vegetables as well. Such as chopped zucchini or mushrooms. 

Apricot Quick Bread

Years ago I read a book in which they made Apricot or peach bread with canned fruit. My children do not like the texture of canned apricots, so I decided to try them in bread, and voila! I couldn't find the recipe from the book (it was one of the Hannah Swenson mysteries by Joanne Fluke), but I found a quick bread recipe for peach bread and modified it....

3 1/2 cup all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 sugar
3/4 c. shortening(sorry, have some in my food storage.  I'm sure you can substitute with oil or butter)
3 eggs
3/4 cup milk
Sift together flour, baking powder soda and salt.  Cream together shorteneing and sugar, then add eggs beating thoroughly til light and fluffy.  Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to creamed mix.  Add 2 cups of canned appricots drained and pureed, combined with 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon.

Pour into greased bread pans.  Bake 350*F for 1 hour.  Cool in pan 10 min.  Then cool on wire racks.  Makes 2 loaves.

Cinnamon Roll cake

Another recipe from my Relief Society president!  She shared it on facebook, and I don't remember where it was shared from.

Cinnamon Roll Swirl Cake
3 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup butter, melted

Topping:
1 cup butter, still cold, but cut into small pieces
1 cup brown sugar
2 TB flour
2 TB cinnamon

Glaze, stir together:
 2 cup powdered sugar
5 TB milk
1 tsp vanilla

In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients for the cake together, except for the butter.  Once mixed; slowly pour in the butter, stir into the batter.
Pour into a greased 9x13 pan.  For the topping, cut the butter into brown sugar, flour and cinnamon using two knives, a pastry cutter, or by rubbing it together with your fingers until it looks like crumbs.
Drop evenly over the batter and swirl with a knife.

Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes.

While the cake is warm, drizzle the glaze over the cake.

Shepherd's pie

I call this cottage pie, as it is made with beef, but most everyone I know refers to it as Shepherd's pie.

1 lb ground beef

1 onion chopped

1 can peas

2 carrots, diced

1 pkg gravy mix 

4 cups mashed potatoes  (used the Instant potatoes)

1 cup shredded cheese

Preheat oven to 350

Cook the beef in a skillet until browned, add onion and carrot and cook until onions translucent.  Stir in peas. (My skillet is huge, so I can mix it all in that, but if your is not, transfer everything into a bowl that will hold all) Mix gravy with one cup of water.  Stir in to meat/vegetable mixture.  

Grease a 9x13 pan.  Pour meat/vegetable mixture into pan.  Top with mashed potatoes and then sprinkle with cheese.  Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.

Meatloaf

This is my husband's favorite meatloaf, and that is saying something since he always said he didn't like meatloaf!

I admit I didn't get any post cooking pictures....but here's with ketchup on top:

1 lb. ground beef

1 lb. sausage

1 chopped apple

1/2 onion, chopped

1 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp ground pepper

Smoosh that all together with your hands, then put in a baking dish (mine is 9x13) shaping it into a loaf.  If you'd like, squeeze ketchup on top, how ever much you'd like, we like a lot.

Bake at 350 for one hour.  and then another half hour, if you cut it in half and find it not fully cooked through.  

Even my 3 yr old picky eater loves this.

Lemon Blondies

My Relief Society President actually shared this recipe on facebook this morning and it sounded perfect for us since the seasonal produce at our Bishop's Storehouse this past week was cantaloupes, tangelos, and lemons.  I used 3 lemons in this recipe to have enough zest, I will freeze the left over lemon juice.

Lemon Blondies (actually of a different name, from here: BeckyCharms & Co: Luscious Lemon Brownies)

3/4 cup white flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoons salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 large eggs,
2 tablespoons lemon zest
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease/Spray an 8-by-8-inch baking dish with butter and set aside. 

In the bowl of an electric mixture fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the flour, sugar, salt, and softened butter until combined. (obviously you can use a hand mixer if that is what you have)

In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, lemon zest, and lemon juice until combined. Pour into the flour mixture and beat at medium speed until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. 

Pour into baking dish and bake for 23-25 minutes, or until just starting to turn golden around the edges and a toothpick inserted into the center of the brownies comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before glazing.  Do not overbake, or the bars will be dry. {even with the yummy glaze}

When brownies are cooled completely, make the glaze...

1 rounded cup powdered sugar

4 tablespoons lemon juice

8 teaspoons lemon zest

sift the powdered sugar, add lemon zest and juice, and whisk together all three ingredients. Spread 1/2 the glaze over the brownies with a rubber spatula.  Let glaze set.  Spread the remaining glaze over the bars, and let it set.  This glaze does not harden like most.  Cut into bars, and serve!

Hawaiian Haystacks

This is a very unspecific in quantity type of recipe.  You make as much as you figure you will need and you use whatever toppings you want.  Here is what we did for our family of five.

Ingredients:
Two cooked chicken breasts, sliced
4 cups cooked rice
one can Cream of chicken soup heated with a can-full of milk
1 tomato, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 cup shredded cheese
1 can olives
raisins
1 can of corn

Each person layers everything in a bowl pretty much however the person wants, which ever toppings they want.

Other topping possibilities :
chopped green onion (or regular onion, sauteed)
pineapple
mandarin oranges
chopped bell pepper
chopped/slivered almonds
chow mein noodles
shredded coconut
bacon bits
dried cranberries
frozen peas
sauteed(or raw) mushrooms