Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bars

Cream Cheese Pumpkin Bars

Ingredients:
Bars-
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 cups pumpkin
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp pumpkin spice
4 eggs
3/4 cup melted butter

Frosting-
8oz package softened cream cheese
6 Tbsp softened butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 Tbsp milk
3 cups powdered sugar

 Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease 9x13 pan
- Combine bars ingredients.
- Pour ingredients in ban
- Bake for 45 minutes
- Combine Frosting ingredients. Beat on low until smooth.
- Let bars cool
- Frost bars.
- Serve

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Veggie Cheesy Bake

Veggie Cheesey Bake

Ingredients:

1 lb ziti or penne pasta (you could also use rotini; basically whatever you have on hand)
8 oz. ricotta
1 egg
3 C tomato sauce
2 C mozzarella cheese
1 small can mushrooms
1 can peas

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350
-Boil pasta until al dente; drain
-Mix half of the ricotta and egg substitute in a small bowl. Add remaining ricotta to warm pasta and mix. Then add egg/ricotta mixture to pasta and combine well.
-Add about 1/2-1 C sauce on bottom of 9x13 baking dish and spread to cover bottom. Mix 2 C sauce with pasta mixture and pour pasta in baking dish; pour rest of sauce on top of pasta.
- Add in mustrooms and peas.
-Top with mozzarella cheese.
-Bake until cheese is melted, slightly brown and bubbly. About 20 minutes.

If you want to make and bake later. Add all ingredients to pan put foil on top and freeze until ready to make.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cook for 50 minutes, remove foil, cook for another 10 minutes.  Then serve

pork strognoff

Ingredients:

1 cup pork cook and shredded (could also use chopped beef steak)

1 1/2 cups beef stock

2 tbsp ketchup

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp salt

8 oz sliced mushrooms

1 medium onion chopped

3 tbsp flour

1 cup sour cream

Directions:

- Combine all ingredients expect sour cream.

- Cook for 10 - 15 minutes until bubbly.

- Add sour cream, reduce heat to thicken.

- Serve.

Meal Planning Monday

Monday- Taco Pie

Tuesday- Bisquick Chicken

Wednesday- Baked Ziti

Thursday- Leftover

pumpkin pancakes

Pumpkin Pancakes

I love easy breakfast food. Instant pancakes are the best in my eyes. I do get tired of the same ol pancakes all the time though. At times I add in fruit, chocolate, whatever my heard desires. Recently with the change the seasons and my love of pumpkin I wanted pumpkin pancakes.

Ingredients:
2 cups pancake mix
1 tsp pumpkin spice
1 egg
1 cup water
1/2 c pumpkin

Directions:
- Mix all ingredients together
- Cook on griddle or in a pan like you would any other pancake.

As a side note if u add to much pumpkin it will not cook like a pancake

Crock Pot Chicken

Ingredients:
5lb small chicken
20 small carrots
1 large onion

Directions:
- Clean chicken and place in slow cooker.
- Cut onions in fourths.
- Place onion and carrots in slow cooker.
- Cook on low for 6 to 8 hrs.
- Serve