Fast and Easy Recipes

Individual Banana Puddins'
Super Easy: Make a box of vanilla pudding according to package instructions.  Add to the bottom of a shallow bowl or cup 3-4 vanilla wafers, 3-4 banana slices and then pour pudding over the top.  Assemble the wafers and fruit before you mix your pudding. It's a prettier dessert if you can pour the pudding and it gets in all the nooks and crannies.  Enjoy this one on a stressful day. Afternoon STRESSED backward spells DESSERTS!!!

Veggie Mac-N-Cheese

1 3/4 C Macaroni Noodles, boil 'em in H2o and set aside
Mix together the following:
2 cups chopped up california veggie mix
2/3 cup dry milk powder
1 cup h2o
1 tbl mustard
1 1/2 cups mixed up cheese (I use a colby jack blend)
1/2 tsp lemon pepper

Then mix in the noodles, pour into 8x8 pan.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes
*I always double this and freeze for later use. This week I made 3 shallow 9x13 pans with a doubled recipe.  Cook and let cool, wrap in saran and foil, lable and freeze.  When ready to reheat, allow to completely thaw, remove all wrapping and cook at 350 for about 20 minutes or until heated through.  :-)*








Grilled Turkey Bacon Club Sammiches. 
Mmmmmm...these are good. Texas toast, sliced turkey, turkey bacon, mayo, mustard.  YUMMY!!
I started eating it before I remembered to take the picture. That's how wonderful these babies are!

Homemade Donuts.....MMMMMmmmmm...

Easy Peasy.  Cheap biscuit Dough..CHEAP Stuff. No layers, no golden anything, just plain ole biscuit dough.  I get mine at Aldi for like $.49.  CHEAP.  Tear a little hole through the center.  Have your cinnamon/sugar mixture ready for sprinkling over cooked, greasy donuts.

I used a wok about put about 1/2 inch of canola oil in it.  Place the donuts 5 or so at a time in the grease and flip around until they are the desired browness (like 2 minutes, maybe?)

Dig them out, sprinkle and watch these puppies disappear.  Then go scrub your teeth because this is one sweet mess! They are go-od!!!

Pop-Corn Chicken

1 Pound Chicken breast/tenderloin pieces cut into bit sized chunks
1 C Flour
SOME Lemon Pepper
SOME Salt
SOME Garlic Powder (if you use garlic salt, eliminate the table salt)

• Mix togther and cook over a hot wok filled with about 1/4 - 1/2 inch of vegie oil.
• When the chicken pieces are cooked, remove from oil and rinse pan.
• Add another 1/4 to 1/2 inch of clean oil and refry the pieces. Weird but trust me, it's yum-licious.
• I served with buttered noodles and green beans.

KID VOTED: Good, serve again and didn't ask that I change a thing. Weird for them but hey! It's a success and I'll take it.

Next time, I might make the flour mixture, add chicken and then take the coated pieces out, bag them and freeze them. I am not sure how it will thaw but it's worth a shot. How do the Tyson peeps do it if this does not work???? If you have feedback please submit. I am all ears!

EASY Homemade-ish Chicken Noodle Soup

• 2 cans chicken, drained(you can do a whole chicken, but it’s more trouble)
• 10 c water
• 10 chicken bouillon cubes
• Chopped celery*
• Chopped carrots*
• Elbow Macaroni

The beauty if this recipe is it’s all up to you!! The amount of carrots, celery and macaroni are driven by your taste preference.

*I chopped up the celery into smaller, pencil eraser sized pieces. I used baby carrots and just cut little nubs off and dumped into the soup.

Add the macaroni after all the other combined ingredients have boiled and cook until the macaroni is the tenderness you like.

Easy-peasy.

Baked Chicken Yumminess

• 1 pound chicken breasts
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 1 cup milk

Mix soups and milk and pour over chicken breasts. Add whatever spices you like depending on your family’s taste preferences

Note: for every pound of chicken, use 2 cans of soup

Note: Cover with foil and cook until the chicken is at the right temp per your thermometer. I usually give it 1 hour.

I serve over mashed potatoes with green beans. This is one of those meals I know is good b/c everyone at the table is silent b/c they are shoveling in the food.

Cake Mix Cookies

• 1 box of yellow cake mix
• ¼ c vegie oil
• 2t water
• 2 eggs
• ½ bag/full bag chocolate chips (you pick!!)

Mix everything together and drop by spoonful’s on an ungreased cookies sheet

375 for 10-12 minutes