What are you putting together for your New Year’s Eve party? Want something easy that really is good? Here is a hot cheese dip that is sure to please most everyone! Since October I have made this on four different occasions. When carrying it to a party just bake it there. It will be better right out of the oven. Let’s get cooking!
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Hot Chipped Beef Dip – Just in time for New Year’s Eve
Filed under Appetizer, Cheese, cream cheese, Eggs, Recipes
Hummingbird Cake
This is not your normal cake where you cream butter and sugar and then add flour alternately with liquid. It is made by the muffin method of mixing. In other words it is just plain easy!!!
Filed under Cake, cream cheese, cream cheese frosting, easy, frosting, Hummingbird cake
Baby Pecan Pies or Pecan Tassies
Pecan pie is GI Joe’s favorite dessert. No that is incorrect! Any dessert is GI Joe’s favorite dessert. Before I could get these little babies cooled good, he had popped two of them in his mouth as we were about to eat dinner. Dessert before dinner can be a good thing!
These are cute little pies that would be good to serve at a party. If you are looking for a great recipe for the larger type pecan pie , you should check out Bakerella . She just posted a great recipe. Check it out if that is what you are looking for at www.bakerella.com . It is the December 14 post. Enough about that. Let’s get started on making these Pecan Tassies.
Filed under Cooking, cream cheese, Dessert, Pecan Pie, Recipes
Candied Fruit Magic Bars
We all have favorites that we love to eat and make during the holidays. This is one of my all time favorites. It is great tasting and very easy to put together. Just what we all need this time of the year. There is one problem. It is very hard just to eat one square!! I made these last night and found myself having a cup of coffee with two of these sweet morsels.
Looking at the recipe last night I could not believe how long I had been making them. I got the recipe one Thanksgiving at my Dad’s. My step mother always made them for Christmas. On the back of the recipe I had written sizes of my nephews 2T and size 8 so that I could pick them up a couple of things for Christmas. They are both young men now. One in his last year of residency and the other is running a farm! Time flies!!!
Ziti with Sausage and Broccoli
Filed under Broccoli, Cooking, easy, healthy, Italian sausage, pasta, quick, Recipes, Southern Living, Tomato, vegetables, Ziti
Chocolate Pound Cake
Chicken Pie
This is one of my favorite comfort foods. Chicken Pie!!! This is quick to make and easy. While it is baking you can do whatever for 45 minutes. You know fold laundry, help with homework, call your mother.
To make this even easier I just pulled leftover turkey out of the freezer. I have used a roasted chicken purchased at the grocery or just cooked 2 large chicken breast. Any method is a snap.
I paired it here with a salad , but any steamed or roasted vegetables will do. I just don’t think that there is a serving of vegetables in the pie. Okay here is the recipe for the easiest Chicken Pie ever!
Lasagna – For a Lazy Day
I love this recipe for the ease of it. You can make it the night before . Come home from work put it in the oven, make a salad and bread . Set your table and you are ready to entertain guests with no hassle. This is the way to go.
I found the recipe in a Pillsbury cookbook years ago and have since noticed that it now appears on the box of Mueller’s Lasagna. The one on the box uses more sauce and more eggs. I have made both and they are delicious!!
You are not going to believe that it is made with your favorite brand of premade sauce. That is the beauty of this recipe. Using Italian sausage gives it the flavor it needs. I use Johnsonville Hot Italian Sausage. I love the flavor. I cannot find it without the casing. I use kitchen shears to remove them before browning.
Vote today for the best LASAGNA!!
Yesterday we made Lazy Day Lasagna. Today we cooked and ate it! It was fantastic. We used a new sauce this time and it was the best I have tasted.
Check out the post tomorrow for the recipe and find out who won.
Vote for the Lasagna that has the best presentation. All of them tasted great!
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Good luck,
The Teacher Cooks
Broccoli Casserole
Okay, broccoli is not a favorite of some people. I like it! I like it steamed, roasted, raw! All the previous ways to cook broccoli are very healthy. The Athlete will not eat broccoli any of those ways. I think it is because he ate too much of it as a toddler. He loved it! But now, NO!! So this is his favorite way to eat Broccoli. It is a seasonal dish for our family. We might have this four times a year. But don’t get me wrong it is good.