Peanut Butter Bars (Carrie Orrell)

  • 1 1/2 C Butter
  • 1 C Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 C Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1/4 C Peanut Butter
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
  • 2 C Flour
  • 1/2 tsp. Salt
  • 3/4 tsp. Baking Soda
  • 2 C Oatmeal
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Mix Cookie ingredients together.
  3. Spread cookie dough onto cookie sheet.
  4. Bake for 14 minutes or until light golden brown.
  5. When cooled, spread a thin layer of peanut butter on top of cookie bar.
  6. Top with a layer of chocolate frosting.

Peanut Butter Fingers (Bars) (Angie Barnes)

Peanut Butter Fingers

  • 3/4 C Butter
  • 3/4 C Sugar
  • 3/4 C Brown Sugar
  • 3/4 C Peanut Butter
  • 2 Eggs
  • 1 tsp. Vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp. Baking Powder
  • 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
  • 1/2 tsp. Salt
  • 2 C Flour

Cream butter, sugars, peanut butter. Add rest of ingredients. Spread onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes. When we made them the first time it took longer than 15 minutes.

Frosting

  • 1 C + 3 TBS Butter
  • 4 C Powdered Sugar
  • 9 TBS Cocoa
  • 1 1/2 tsp. Vanilla
  • 3 TBS Milk

Mix well and spread on cooled peanut butter fingers.

Chicken Tortilla Soup – Andrea Roskelley (Crock Pot or Instant Pot

  • 1 1/4 lb raw boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 3–4 Breasts)
  • 10 oz. diced tomatoes with green chilies
  • 14.5 oz. diced tomatoes (no salt added)
  • 1 cup frozen corn thawed (Andrea uses canned so that’s fine too)
  • 1 cup black beans (no salt added), drained & rinsed
  • 1 medium onion, diced
  • 1 jalapeno, diced (Andrea didn’t use because she didn’t have so whatever you have works)
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 4 cups of organic, low sodium chicken broth or stock
  • 1 tsp. ground cumin
  • 1 tsp. chili powder
  • 1 tsp. Himalayan salt
  • 1/4 tsp. black pepper

Tortilla Strips:

  • organic corn tortillas
  • olive oil cooking spray
  • Himalayan salt

Optional toppings – avocado, cheese, lime, Greek yogurt, cilantro

Instructions for crock pot

  1. Toss all the ingredients for the soup into your crock pot. Stir, turn on low, and go about your day. Check back in 6-8 hours.
  2. Before serving, shred the chicken.

To make homemade tortilla strips:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 and cut the corn tortillas into strips. Spray with olive oil spray and sprinkle with Himalayan salt. Bake for about 10-15 minutes.
  2. Enjoy with toppings!

Instructions for Instant Pot

  1. Toss all the ingredients for the soup into your Instant Pot and give it a stir.
  2. Turn onto to manual setting for 15 minutes. It will take about 10-15 minutes to come to pressure. When the timer is up, carefully switch to quick release (I put a kitchen towel over the top to be safe). Once the the steam stops, carefully open the lid and shred the chicken with two forks.
  3. To make homemade tortilla strips:
  4. Preheat your oven to 350 and cut the corn tortillas into strips. Spray with olive oil spray and sprinkle with Himalayan salt. Bake for about 10-15 minutes.
  5. Enjoy with toppings!

Sourdough Cheese Rolls

  • 1 TBS active dry yeast
  • 3/4 cups warm water
  • 1 egg
  • 1 – 1/2 cups sourdough starter
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 2 tsp. salt
  • 4 to 5 cups flour
  • 3/4 cps shredded sharp Cheddar cheese (3 oz)

Sprinkle yeast over water. Set aside to soften 5 minutes.

In a large bowl, beat egg. Stir in sourdough starter, sugar, butter or margarine, salt, softened yeast mixture, and about 2 cups flour.

Beat 3 to 4 minutes with electric mixer on medium speed. Stir in cheese and enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. Turn out onto lightly floured surface. Clean and grease bowl; set aside.

Knead 8 to 10 minutes or until smooth and elastic. Place in the greased bowl, turning to grease all sides. Cover with a cloth and set in a warm place free from drafts. Let rise 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until doubled in size.

Grease large baking sheet; set aside. Punch down dough. Cover and let stand 10 minutes. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Arrange on prepared baking sheet. Cover with a cloth and set in a warm place free from drafts. Let rise 1 to 2 hours or until doubled in size.

Preheat oven to 375 F. Bake about 20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from baking sheet. Makes 24 to 30 rolls.

Sourdough Bagels

  • 1 TBS active dry yeast
  • 1/4 cup warm water
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup sourdough starter
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 TBS sugar
  • 3 TBS vegetable oil
  • 3 to 4 cups flour
  • 4 quarts water
  • 2 TBS sugar

Sprinkle yeast over 1/4 cup water. Set aside to soften 5 minutes.

In a large bowl, beat eggs. Stir in sourdough starter, salt, 2 TBS sugar, oil, and softened yeast mixture. Stir in enough flour to make a stiff dough. Turn out onto lightly floured surface. Clean and lightly grease bowl.; set aside.

Knead dough 8 to 10 minutes or until smooth and elastic. Add more flour if necessary. Place in the greased bowl, turning to grease all sides. Cover with a cloth and set in a warm place free from drafts.

Let rise 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until doubled in size. Grease and flour a large baking sheet; set aside.

Punch down dough and turn out onto lightly floured surface. Knead again, about 3 minutes. Divide into 12 equal pieces. Flour your hands. Shape each dough piece into a ball. Use your thumb to press a hole in center of each ball. Gently enlarge the hole by turning ball in your hands as your form dough into a doughnut shape.

Arrange shaped dough on prepared baking sheet. cover with a cloth and set in a warm place free from drafts. Let rise 15 to 20 minutes.

Preheat broiler. In a 5 quart pot, bring 4 quarts of water and 2 TBS sugar to a gentle boil. While water comes to a boil, broil bagels in preheated broiler 2 minutes on each side, turning with a fork. Carefully lower hot broiled bagels gently into boiling sugar-water. Boil only 4 to 5 bagels at a time. Boil 2 minutes on each side. Drain on paper towels 5 minutes.

Reduce oven heat to 375 F. Arrange drained bagels on prepared baking sheet. Bake 25 to 35 minutes or until golden brown with a crisp crust. Remove from baking sheet. Serve hot or cold.

Sourdough Dinner Rolls

  • 1 TBS active dry yeast
  • 1/2 cup warm water (105 F)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup sourdough starter
  • 2 TBS sugar
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 3 TBS butter or margarine, melted
  • 3-4 cups flour

Sprinkle yeast over water. Set aside to soften 5 minutes.

In a large bowl, beat egg. Stir in sourdough starter, sugar, salt, butter or margarine, and softened yeast mixture.

Add 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. Turn out onto lightly floured surface. Clean and grease bowl; set aside.

Knead dough 5 to 8 minutes until smooth and elastic. Add more flour if necessary. Place in the greased bowl, turning to grease all sides. Cover with a cloth and set in warm place free from drafts.

Let rise about 2 hours or until doubled in size. Grease a large baking sheet or 2 9-inch round baking pans; set aside.

Punch down dough. Divide into 24 pieces. Shape each into a roll. Arrange on prepared baking sheet. Cover with cloth and set it a warm place free from drafts.

Let rise 45 to 60 minutes or until doubled in size.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Bake 20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from baking sheet. Serve warm

Twice Baked Potato Casserole

  • 1 pound thin bacon
  • 16 russet potatoes
  • 6 tablespoons canola oil
  • 4 sticks (1 pound) salted butter, plus more for buttering baking dish
  • 2 cups sour cream
  • 2 cups grated Cheddar or Jack (or a mix of both), plus more for topping
  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 4 teaspoons seasoned salt
  • 6 green onions, sliced
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Cook the bacon in a saute pan until crispy; let cool and then crumble.
Scrub the potatoes, then place them on baking sheets. Rub the potatoes with the canola oil and bake until tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove the potatoes and lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
Slice the butter into pats and transfer to a large mixing bowl. Add the bacon and sour cream. With a sharp knife, cut each potato in half lengthwise and scrape out the insides into the mixing bowl. Tear up 3 of the skins and throw them in.
Smash the potatoes with a potato masher. Add the cheese, milk, seasoned salt, green onions and some salt and pepper and mix together well.
Butter a baking dish, and then spoon the mixture into the dish, top with more grated cheese and bake until warmed through, 25 to 30 minutes

Crispy-Cheesey Summer Squash Casserole

  • 2 small summer squash, sliced
  • ½ cup onion, diced
  • ½ teaspoon  garlic salt
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 1/4 cup mayonaise
  • pepper to taste
  • 1/4 cup cheddar cheese, shredded (can add more or other kinds)
  • ½ cup corn flakes (grandma Morgenegg used Ritz crackers instead, crumbled, but not too small)
  • 1 tablespoon butter, melted

Combine squash, onion and 1/4 teaspoon salt in small pan.  Cover with water, bring to a boil, lover heat, simmer till squash is crisp tender. Drain.
Whisk egg, mayo, sugar, salt, pepper.
Stir into squash mixture with cheese. Put in greased baking dish.
Combine Ritz with butter. Sprinkle over squash.
Bake 350 degrees until golden and bubbly, about 25-30 minutes

Chocolate Chip Cookies – Heather Lee

She said you cannot half the recipe

  • 4 cubes butter
  • 2 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 6 cups flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 6 cups chocolate chips

Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Stir in chocolate chips

Don’t over cook

We did half the recipe and it didn’t work like when Heather makes them so she must be right. I know she has made balls then froze the dough so if you don’t want to make all of them at once you can do that.

Easy Macaroni & Cheese (no flour/no roux)

  • 8 oz dried macaroni about 2 cups (227g)
  • 1 cup milk (235ml)
  • 2 Tablespoons butter (30g)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ – ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika optional
  • ¼ teaspoon ground mustard optional
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (113g) Shred your own cheddar off the block, don’t buy pre-shredded which is often tossed with a powder that will keep the cheese from melting properly and can leave you with mac & cheese that is both clumpy and runny.
  • 4 slices American Cheese (if you don’t have American cheese, you can substitute another cup (113g) of cheddar cheese, but the macaroni will be less creamy)

  1. Bring 3 cups of well-salted water to a boil in a medium-saucepan over high heat.
  2. Once water comes to boil, add pasta, return to a boil, and cook 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  3. Strain pasta, leaving the pasta in the strainer and returning the saucepan to burner over medium-low heat.
  4. Combine milk, butter, salt, pepper and paprika and mustard in the saucepan.
  5. Stir frequently until butter is melted and increase heat to medium.
  6. Once mixture comes to a simmer, return pasta to saucepan and stir well.
  7. Reduce heat to low.
  8. Add cheeses, allow to sit about 30 seconds until slightly melty and then stir until all noodles are coated. Don’t turn up the heat too high or the cheese will not melt properly.
  9. Serve immediately.  Sprinkle with additional smoked paprika, if desired.  Stir in any desired add-ins (such as bacon) immediately before serving.

Notes

This pasta tastes best when served the same day it’s made