Grandma's Sloppy Joe

1 lb hamburger cooked 2 small can of gumbo soup ketchup and mustard to taste season with salt and pepper don't forget to toast your buns. Tasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Potato Cream Cheese Soup

I used my food processor to chop the onions and celery super tiny so that it was more like the soup at Wildflower and I wish I had tripled it instead of only doubling the recipe because I want more!

1/2 cup chopped onions
1/4 cup very finely diced celery
2 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. flour
3 cups shredded potatoes
3 cups low salt chicken broth
1/2 cup sour cream
4 oz. cream cheese
2 Tbsp. cooked and crumbled bacon or very finely diced ham
1/2 tsp dill weed
Salt
Pepper

In small saucepan sauté onions and celery in butter until tender. Add flour; stir and cook over medium heat 1 minute. Set aside.

In 3 quart pan combine broth and potatoes. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Cook until potatoes are tender, but not mushy. Stir occasionally so potatoes don't stick.

While potatoes are cooking, melt cream cheese with sour cream in microwave. Add cream cheese mixture to potatoes and broth mixture along with onion and celery. Add dill and bacon. Simmer and stir until creamy. Add salt and Pepper to taste. Thin with milk if necessary.

Serves 5 to 6. Enjoy!

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

1/2 C butter
1/2 C oil
1 3/4 C sugar
2 eggs
2 C grated zucchini
1/2 C buttermilk (can be substituted with 1/2 C regular milk and 1/2 TBSP vinegar. Let sit for 5 minutes before adding)
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 C flour
4 TBSP cocoa
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder

Combine and mix ingredients. Pour into greased 9x13 pain. Sprinkle 3/4 C brown sugar and 1 package milk chocolate chips on top. Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes.

Notes: I used semi-sweet chocolate chips and only 1/2 package. I have had it both ways and prefer it with the semi-sweet.

Delicious! Even the kids love it.

Pot Stickers

1/2 pound ground pork
1 green onion, finely chopped
2 water chestnuts, drained and finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 (14 ounce) package wonton wrappers
5 tablespoons vegetable oil
3/4 cup water


DIRECTIONS
In a medium bowl, mix together the pork, green onion, water chestnuts, salt and sesame oil. Place a tablespoon of the pork mixture into each of the wonton wrappers. Fold the wrappers, and seal the edges with a moistened fork.
In a large, deep skillet, heat 3 tablespoons vegetable oil over medium high heat. Place the pot stickers into the oil seam sides up. Stirring constantly, heat 30 seconds to a minute. Pour water into the skillet. Gently boil 7 to 8 minutes, until oil and water begins to sizzle, then add remaining oil. When the bottoms begin to brown, remove pot stickers from heat.

Ashley made them for me on New Year's Eve. Delish!

A few more on Mom's recipes

I forgot a few more. I made the crepes this morning. YUMMY!

Grandma Passey's Favorites

Beth and I put Mom's Favorite recipe's together in a scrapbook for all the kids. I thought everyone else might like to have these as well. I can email them too. Just leave me a note and I will check back. Maybe for the next reunion we can do this as a craft for anyone that would like them.

Easiest Fudge Ever!

So I know we always do the Velveeta fudge this time of year, but I like this one too

1 can sweetened condensed milk
12 oz chocolate chips

Nuke it for three minutes in the microwave. Then stir is fast and hard until smooth and creamy (move fast because it sets fast) and then pour it into a foil or parchment paper lined 9x9 pan and smooth it out and let it set.

Voila! You have fudge!

I made a batch for my mom with nuts too. Immediately after pulling it out of the microwave I dumped a pile of chopped nuts in and it was great too.

Chili Con Carne

This is the YUMMIEST chili I have ever tasted, I LOVE it!

Brown the following on olive oil:

2 lbs chuck steak cubed
4 garlic cloves
2 medium yellow onions (this seemed like a lot so I didn't quite use that much)

Then add:

4 cups beef broth
1 can beer (we made it without and it rocked, so your call)
4 tablespoons of red chili powder
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper

The recipe did not call for it, but I added a can of crushed tomatoes to it.

Bring to a boil and then simmer for a minimum of 2 hours.

Add kidney beans to taste.

Calzone Yummmmm!

For the cheating version, just use 4 Rhodes dough rolls per calzone. Just thaw then roll out (no need to let rise)For the bread maker french bread dough:
1 1/4 C water
1 Tbs sugar
1 tsp salt
3 1/2 C flour
1 Tbs yeast
Add ingredients to bread maker in this order then choose the "dough" setting. When it is finished, roll out into circles (number of calzones depends on how big you want them). Add desired toppings to half of the circle (leaving about an inch around the edge). Suggested toppings: pizza sauce, mozzarella, olives, pepperoni, mushrooms, etc. Fold the other half over, then roll the edges up and press to seal tightly. Mix together 2 Tbs water and 1/2 tsp salt and brush over dough (not necessary if using the Rhodes dough), then bake at 350 for about 25 minutes or until golden brown. Brush on butter and sprinkle with parmesan cheese while still hot, then serve.

Yummy Chocolate Caramel cake

A yummy cake from this girl.

Orange Julius (Mom's version)

1/2 6oz.can of Frozen OJ

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

5-6 cubes of ice

Blend all ingredients into the Blender until smooth.

Easy Carmel Popcorn

1/2 c butter
1/2 c brown sugar
1 c mini marshmallows

Melt all in a saucepan until smooth and pour over a bag of your favorite popcorn. I like to pour it on the buttery kinds because then you get the awesome sweet/salty mix, yumm-o!

Baked Potato Soup

This recipe was pretty close to the way I do it (you all know I don't use recipes) so here ya go!

2/3 cp butter or margarine
2/3 cp all purpose flour
7 cps milk
4 large baking potatoes, baked, cooled, peeled and cubed (about 4 cps)
4 green onions, sliced
12 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
1 1/4 cp shredded cheddar cheese
1 cp (8 oz) sour cream
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

In a large soup kettle, melt the butter. Stir in flour; heat and stir until smooth. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly until thickened. Add potatoes and onions. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat; simmer for 10 minutes. Add remaining ingredients; stir until cheese is melted. Serve immediately. Makes 2-1/2 quarts.

Raspberry Cream Cheese Bars

We tried a new recipe on Sunday and we loved it. You can find the recipe here. I did have to make one adjustment to it though. I baked it for more like 45 minutes. After 30 it was still too gooey in the middle and it wasn't setting up. Maybe it was just my oven so I would say check it after 30 and see. Any way it was a big hit at our house. If you try it and love it too I'd like to know.