chili

I really like home made chili!!

Ingredients

• 2 pounds lean ground beef
• 1 can tomato paste
• 2 cans cut tomatoes
• 2 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 1/2 cups chopped onion
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1/4 cup chili powder

Directions

1. Place ground beef in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until evenly brown. Drain, and crumble.
2. In a large pot over high heat combine the ground beef, tomato paste, tomato es, kidney beans, onions, bell pepper, cayenne pepper, oregano, ground black pepper, salt, cumin and chili powder. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low. Simmer for 1 hour. (Note: If using a slow cooker, set on low, add ingredients, and cook for 8 to 10 hours.)

Brownies

Yummy Chocolate muffin brownies, like Costco ones! I dont like cakey brownies but this one was good. I will try it with 3 eggs next time to see how it goes.

Ingredients

• 10 tbls of cocoa powder
  
• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 4 eggs ( for muffins) 3 for fudgy
  
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chocolate chips
  

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
   
2. Stir all ingredients in together.
3. Pour in muffin tins. Bake 20 mins (do not overbake).

pot roast

I made this tonight. It was pretty good. I usually do my roast in the oven but felt like trying something new. I didn't have a soup mix so I used the Onion mix recipe. Yummy!

ingredients

• 3 potatoes, peeled and quartered

• 1 onion, chopped

• 6 carrots, peeled and sliced into 1 inch pieces

• 2 pounds boneless round steak

• 1 (1 ounce) package dry onion soup mix

• 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup

• 3/4 cup water

Directions

1. Place the potatoes, onion, and carrots in slow cooker. Cut steak into six pieces, then place the meat on top of vegetables. In a mixing bowl, combine the soup mix, soup, and water; pour over beef.

2. Cover, and cook on Low for 7 to 10 hours.

Onion Mix

• 4 teaspoons beef bouillon granules

• 8 teaspoons dried onion flakes

• 1 teaspoon onion powder

• 1/4 teaspoon seasoned pepper

Corn bread

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup cornmeal
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3/4 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease or line 12 muffin cups.
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter, sugar, honey, eggs and salt. Mix in flour, cornmeal and baking powder; blend thoroughly. Stir in milk and corn. Pour or spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

Cafe Rio Dinner

Summer made this wonderful dinner for us when we came up to visit. I loved it! I made it for dinner tonight!
Sweet Pork
1-2 lb. pork tenderloin
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups fresh salsa
Mix sugar and salsa, pour over pork. Cook in crock pot for 8 hrs. on low. When done shred with two forks and return to juice in crock pot and allow liquid to absorb. Serve with tortillas, black beans, tomatoes and cheese.

Cilantro Salad Dressing
1 pkg. Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing (dry mix)
1 cup buttermilk
1/2- 1/3 bunch of cilantro, chopped
1/2 – 1 small jalapeno (remove seed)
1 cup mayo
1 tsp. lime juice
1-2 tomatillos (remove outer papery skin)
1 garlic clove
Blend all ingredients in blender!

Light and Fluffy no-bake Cheesecake

This recipe is from Shawnna. It sounds really yummy!

1-8oz pkg cream cheese softened
1-tub (reg size) cool whip
1/4 c. white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 graham cracker pie crust

Mix cream cheese and sugar together until smooth (so there aren't any sugar crystals). Fold in cool whip and vanilla. Make sure that the bottom of the bowl gets thoroughly mixed. Pour/scrape mixture into pie crust. Let set in fridge for at least 2-3 hours to completely set. Top with favorite pie topping and enjoy. Also if you like a less sweet cheese cake, I only add half cool whip, and add equivalent of the other half of cool-whip of sour cream, usually a cup and a half or so. By doing that it makes the cheese cake a little less fluffy as well.

Pumpkin somethin'

I love making this cake around the holidays. I got this recipe from David's (bro-in-law) mother. Its not thick like pumpkin pie, way easier to make, I like it better! I did half walnut other half without. This is a delicious cake!
Ingredients

* 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
* 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
* 3 eggs
* 1 cup white sugar
* 4 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
* 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
* 1/2 cup butter, melted
* 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar and spice. Mix well, and pour into a 9x13 inch pan.
3. Sprinkle dry cake mix over the top, then drizzle with melted butter. Top with walnuts.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean.