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Easy Creamy Chipped Beef on Toast
Fast & Easy to Prepare!
INGREDIENTS:
2 Tablespoons Butter
2 Tablespoons Flour
1 1/2 cups milk, (more or less depending on desired thickness)
3 to 4 — 2 ounce packages of Buddig Beef lunch meat, chopped
a pinch of cayenne pepper
Texas toast or your preferred bread-toasted
DIRECTIONS:
1. In a medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter and whisk in flour to form a roux. Adding in milk, a little at a time.
2. Increase heat to medium-high, and cook, stirring, until thickened. Bring to a boil, stir in chopped beef lunch meat and cayenne, heat through and serve over toast.
~Enjoy!~
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bowls For Ice Cream
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups All-Purpose Flour
1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup Butter Flavor Shortening
1/2 cup Butter, softened
2/3 cup White Sugar
2/3 cup Packed Brown Sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
1/2 cup Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
DIRECTIONS:
1. In a large bowl mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
2. In a separate bowl cream together the shortening and butter. Then mix in the sugar and brown sugar until combine.
3. Add in the egg and vanilla.
4. Add about a fourth of the flour mixture to the wet mixture. Continue adding small amounts of the flour mixture until combine.
5. Stir in chips.
Letting it Freeze:
Now….
There are two different ways to complete the next couple of steps….I will give you both so you can choose which is easier for you.
You can form the dough in to a ball and place in a plastic bag and freeze for an hour.
You can go ahead and ROLL the dough out between two piece of wax paper. I try to roll my just a smidge thicker than I would if I were making a pie dough. Once rolled out I gently lift off the top layer of wax paper and take my biggest circle cookie cutter and press down. I replace the wax paper and again…..gently lift the cookie dough with wax paper onto a cookie sheet or sheet cake pan. Freeze for an hour.
6. If you place your dough in a plastic bag….after you freeze you will want to roll it out.
7. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
8. Take a muffin tin and turn it right side down and line the muffin bottoms with foil and spray with cooking spray. You will need to line every other one.
9. Take the cookie dough and form it around the lined muffin bottoms. This could take a while. I found it best to make sure the dough stays cold. Sometimes I would even place the dough back in the fridge while I worked on one.
10. Bake for 11 minutes or until just starting to brown in a 375 degree oven.
11. Once done let cool for 5 to 10 minutes on the muffin pan. Then remove and set aside for them to completely cool. It was not hard at all to remove the bowls. They lifted right off the pan. Left the foil on until the bowls are cooled completely.
12. Gently remove the foil and add in ice cream. You could also add in brownies, cheesecake….even make it a bowl for holding fruit and fruit dip.
My kids loved it. We made these for father’s day!
~Enjoy!~
Cheesy Chicken Nachos
My 13-year-old daughter has been requesting nachos for sometime. She was thrilled to be having nachos for dinner as was everyone else.
INGREDIENTS:
2 cloves of garlic, minced
6 green onions, sliced
3 Tablespoons Canola Oil
Shredded chicken breast
2 tablespoons or 1 packet of taco seasoning
Salt and Pepper to taste ( I did not use salt)
1 cup Salsa
1 bag of tortilla chips
2 cups shredded Cheddar/Monterey Jack cheese blend
1/2 large tomato, diced
small can of sliced black olives
sour cream
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line the cookie sheet as evenly as you can with the tortilla chips.
- In a skillet over medium heat, cook and stir the garlic and the white parts of the green onions in canola, until the onions are tender. Mix in the shredded chicken.
- NOTE: I used my crock pot for my chicken I placed 2 chicken breast in the crock pot and covered with 2 tablespoons of taco season and set on low and let cook for 5 to 6 hours on low. It shredded easily. You can use any kind of shredded chicken that you would like. I think a shredded Rotisserie chicken would be good too.
Toss the chicken with the green onions and stir in Salsa.
- Put the tortilla chips in the oven for 5 minutes just to ‘warm’.
- When done warming spoon chicken mixture as evenly as you can over the tortilla chips. Top with shredded cheese, diced tomato, and olives.
- Return to the oven to bake an additional 10 minutes, or until cheese has melted. Remove from heat and sprinkle with green onion tops before serving.
You can make this with just about anything…and top with just about anything. I also think it would be good with refried beans.
~Enjoy~!
Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins
Do you like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? Do your kids? Then you are going to love these muffins. They are a dense muffin. They taste just about as close as you can get to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups Flour
3/4 cup Sugar
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Salt
3/4 cup Peanut Butter (Crunchy or Creamy, either will work)
1 Egg
1 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Your favorite Jam, Jelly or Preserves
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a muffin pan with cupcake liners.
2. In a large bowl combine Flour, Sugar, baking powder and Salt.
3. Next you need to cut in the peanut butter using a fork (like if you were making a pie crust or a pastry). I used my pastry blender. You can also use a food processor. The mix should be crumbly.
4. In a small bowl mix together the milk, egg and vanilla.
5. Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture until just combine.
6. Drop spoonful of batter into the bottom of each muffin cup. Making sure the bottoms are completely covered.
7. Next place a teaspoon to a teaspoon and a half of jelly in the center.
8. Top with the remaining peanut butter batter. Taking care that the Jelly is completely covered.
9. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven.
~Enjoy!~
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies
INGREDIENTS:
1 pkg. Yellow Cake Mix
1/2 heaping cup creamy Peanut Butter (you can use crunchy as well)
1/2 cup Butter, softened
2 eggs
1 cup Milk Chocolate Chips
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Combine cake mix, peanut butter, softened butter, and eggs in a large bowl. Mix until well blended.
3. Stir in Chocolate chip.
4. Drop by teaspoon full (I use a cookie scoop) on baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for approx. 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
5. Remove cookies from baking sheet and place on cooling racks.
Makes 3 to 4 dozen depending on how big you make your cookies.
~Enjoy~!
