One Minute Penuche Icing

1 1/2 C brown sugar                     3/8 C milk
3/8 C margerine                           1 tsp vanilla
Combine in saucepan. Bring to boil and boil 1 minute.
Remove pan from heat and cool. Beat and spread.     Hazel Dean
 
We always had this on the applesauce cake.

Apple Sauce Cake

2 C Granulated Sugar                       

2 eggs (not beaton)
1 C Margarine or shortening                

2 C Seedless Raisins
4 C Flour (sifted)                         3 tsp soda (disolve in applesauce)
2 tsp cloves                                 1 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon                           1 tsp nutmeg
3 C applesauce                           1 C nuts (pecans or english walnuts)
Beat sugar and butter together, add eggs and beat until creamy.  Sift flour, measure and sift with the cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.  Set aside.
Disolve soda in applesauce, add to the creamed mixture all at once along with all the flour,
only mix until all the flour is worked in, then add raisins and nuts.
Bake slow in 325-350 oven for 1 1/2 hours until done.
P.S- Put about 2 Tbsp flour on raisins and nuts and coat them, 
this will keep them from settling to the bottom.    Gladys Dean (step mother)  His mother had a recipe too though I have always made this one.

Emerald Salad

1 box Lime Geletin                1 C Pinapple juice                
12 Marshmellows                1/2 Pt. Heavy Whipped Cream   1 Pt Cottage Cheese            
1 C drained Crushed Pineapple 1/2 C Chopped Pecans or English Walnuts                           
Serve on Lettuce (or alone)                                                   
Whip Cream. Add marshmellows and pineapple juice to geletin and put on range. Heat until marshmellows are melted. 
Chill, remove from refrigerator and break up gelitin. Add pineapple, nuts, cottage cheese, folding, fold in whipped cream. 
Chill thoroughly.   

My family as a kid always had this.  Dougs family other than his dad is not fond of this.  

Pesto Chicken and Pasta

Okay I got this from a friend and I am in love with it!   Thanks Kim!!  It is just so stinkin easy.  

I grill chicken breasts often.  I slice them up or dice them and use them in different dishes.  So here is one more  :)

1 pkg of bowtie pasta

1/2 a container of Buitoni pesto w/ basil or to your liking

diced chicken

I also sprinkled on some parmesan cheese and served it with salad and garlic bread.  Nice summer meal. :D

Biscuits

My first attempt at biscuits after I was married was hockey pucks.  :)  I was on the phone in no time asking my mom what I had done wrong.  So, here is my mothers recipe for biscuits.

2c. flour

1/4c. shortening

1 tsp. salt

1 tblsp. baking powder

3/4c.-1c.  milk or water

Mix flour, salt, baking powder, and shortening; and mix ingredients till crumbly with pastry blender.  Then add milk.  Will be sticky.  Knead a few times adding flour if needed.  Pat out to the thickness of your cutter.  Fit tightly (without squishing) into pan.

Bake at 450 for 12 to 15 minutes.

I have made up a triple batch and made these into cinnamon rolls for breakfast.  Much quicker and my hubby prefers them to regular bread dough cinnamon rolls.  Yes I know he's weird.  :)  But they are pretty good.

Chocolate Turtle Waffle Cookies

 A friend fixed these and I had to share this recipe.  Thanks Laura!  They turned out great.  I have a Belgian waffle maker and they turned out like brownies.   Would be great for dessert with vanilla ice cream on top.  :)

  

1 ½ cups sugar

1 cup butter, softened

4 eggs

2 tsp Vanilla

2 cups flour

½ cup cocoa powder

¼ tsp salt

  

Turn waffle maker on and allow to “preheat”. Cream sugar and butter together. Beat eggs into creamed mixture, adding vanilla. Sift flour cocoa and salt together and mix into the creamed mixture. Spoon mixture into greased and hot waffle iron and cook 1-2 minutes.

 

Cookies from a Cake Mix

1 cake mix

1/2 c. oil

2 eggs

Optional 1 to 1 1/2 c. chips, nuts & candies

Place cake nix, oil and eggs in a Lg mixing bowl.  Mix until blended.  Add any optional ingredients and mix in.  Drop by rounded teaspoons 2" apart on cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes.  Cool on wire rack.  

We just tried a butter pecan cake mix with chopped pecans.  Really good.  :)

Chocolate cake mix w/ peanut butter chips is good too.

I always buy a few cake mixes when they go on sale for quick last minute cookies.  Great for school parties.