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

Slower Cooker BBQ Ribs

Slow Cooker BBQ Ribs

- Add rack of ribs  to slow cooker.
- Pour on bottle of prefered BBQ sauce, we chooce Famous Dave's Sweet and Sassy
- Cook on Low for 8hrs.
- Serve.

Taco Pie

Taco Pie

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef cook and drained
1/4 cup beef stock
2 Tbsp taco seasoning
1 Tbsp minced onion
3 large tortillas
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Sour Cream (optional)

Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Grease 9" round cake pan.
- In pan combine beef, beef stock, taco seasoning and minced onion.

- Place one tortilla in cake pan. Add a layer of beef mixture and cheese.

- Place another tortilla, followed by beef mixture and cheese.

- Place last tortilla and a layer of cheese on top.

- Bake for 20 minutes

- Remove from oven, add sour cream if desired.

- Serve.

Idea came from Pineapple Grass

Tuna Salad

This goes great by itself or on toast, crackers.

Tuna Salad

Ingedients:

1 can of tuna

1 Tbsp miracle Whip

1 tsp sweet relish

2 hard boiled eggs chopped

1 tsp mustard

Directions:

- Drain tuna.

- Add tuna, miracle whip, sweet relish, eggs, and mustard in a bowl and stir.

- Serve

Banana Cream Pie

Banana Cream Pie
Ingredients:
box of banana pudding
2 small banana's
graham cracker pie crust

Directions:
- Slice banana's and place at bottom of pie crust

- Make pudding according to directions.
- Pour pudding mixture into pie crust.
- Place in fridge for atleast 3 hours.
- Slice and Serve.

Bite Size Apple Pie

I got this recipe from Jenn over at First Comes Love.  I saw these and just had to try them.

Bite Size Apple Pie

Here is the recipe she posted:

Ingredients:

1 can of refrigerator biscuits (10 count)
1 apple (they called for Granny Smith but I used Fuji) peeled & finely chopped
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon Nutmeg
2.5 Tablespoons butter
**additional 1/4 cup raisins- if desired (I didn't desire them!)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. Spray muffin cups with cooking spray
3. Using a rolling pin, flatten each biscuit into a 3-4 inch circle
4. Combine apples with any other fruit (I only used apples but this is where you'd add cranberries, raisins, etc)
5. Add sugar, cinnamon, & nutmeg
6. Place 1 tablespoon of mixture onto each biscuit
7. Dot each with a small pat of butter
8. Bring up the sides of the biscuit to enclose the filling. Pinch & twist the top to seal.
9. Place in greased baking cups
10. Bake for 13 minutes or until golden brown

Lasagna

Lasagna

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef

1 medium onion chopped

1 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp parsley

1/4 tsp basil

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp oregano

1 box of lasagna noodles

1 small container of cottage cheese

1/2 cup grated pamasian cheese

1 package of shredded mozerella cheese

1 can of sliced mushrooms

1 jar of pasta sauce

Directions:

- Preheat over to 350 degress

- In a large skillet brown ground beef.

- In a large pasta pan cook lasagna noodles per directions on the box for al dente.

- Add onion, garlic, parsley, basil, salt, and oregano to the ground beef.

- In a large baking dish, add thin layer of pasta sauce. Add a layer of lasagna noodle, cottage cheese, mozerella cheese and mushrooms and some more sauce.

- Continue layers until all out of noodles.

- Lastly put more sauce on top. Sprinkle top with parmasian cheese.

- Bake for 45 minutes.

- Let stand for 15 minutes then serve.

Sweet N Sour Chicken

My husband loves Chinese food. He could eat it every day, especially Sweet N Sour chicken. Gia over at A Life In Progress posted the recipes to this very easy and so tasty Sweet N Sour Chicken.

Sweet N Sour Chicken

Ingredients


1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cubed

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

1/2 cup diced green bell pepper

1 cup carrot strips

1 clove garlic, minced

1 tablespoon corn starch

1/4 cup soy sauce

1 (8ounce) can pineapple chunks, with juice

1 tablespoon vinegar

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

Directions
In a large skillet over medium high heat, brown chicken in oil.

Add green bell pepper, carrot, and garlic and stir-fry for 1 to 2 minutes.

In a small bowl, combine corn starch and soy sauce and mix together, pour mixture into skillet along with the pineapple and its juice, vinegar, brown sugar, and ginger.

Stir together and bring just to a boil.

Serve over rice.

Chocolate Chip Scones

Never in my life have I had a scone before. I never really had a desire to have one until I saw that Jennifer over at The Francis Family had them back in January. I just had to make them for myself and try them out. I feel in love with them. My husband on the other hand wasn't very thrilled with them.

Chocolate Chip Scones

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/3 cup white sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 stick unsalted butter, chilled and cubed

1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup orange juice





Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. With a pastry blender or a large fork, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in the chocolate chips. Mix in the orange juice to form a dough.

Turn out the dough on a floured surface. Pat or roll into a 9 inch circle about 1/2 inch thick. With a 2 1/2 inch fluted biscuit cutter, cut out 12 scones, pushing the dough scraps together for the last few, if necessary. Transfer the scones to the baking sheet.

Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 12 minutes. Move to wire racks to cool.

Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake

Yes this is just a box cake and frosting out of a can. But I mixed it up with adding hersey kisses in the middle. It helped to level out the cakes when I stacked them.

Little Behind on Weekly Menu

I got catch up with other stuff around the house.

Sunday- Lasagna

Monday- Leftover

Tuesday- Sweet n Sour Chicken

Wednesday- Fend for your self

Thursday- Homemade Pizza

Friday- Pork Chops

Weekly Menu

Sunday- I had leftover Applebee's, the guys had pizza
Monday- Leftover
Tuesday- Chicken
Wednesday- Fend For Youself (I work til close)
Thursday- Sweet N Sour Chicken
Friday- Fend For Yourself (I work til close)

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Ingredients:

- 6 Tbsp unsalted butter

- 1 medium onion

- 1/4 cup flour

- 3 cups chicken broth

- 2 cups half and half

- 1/4 tsp nutmeg

- 1 head of broccoli

- 10 small carrots

- 8 ounces cheddar cheese

Directions:

- In a large skillet head butter.
- Chop onion in food chopper. Add onion to melted butter. Cook until tender
- Start chopping broccoli and carrots with food chopper.
- Whisk in flour, half and half, chicken broth and nutmeg. Bring to a boil. Let simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add broccoli and carrots, simmer for 5 minutes.
-  Shred cheddar cheese.
- Add cheese, whisk until melted.
- Serve.

Turkey Sammie

Turkey Sammie

Ingredients:

cooking spray

2 slices of bread

Miracle Whip

1 slice of cheese

3 slices of Turkey lunch meat

Directions:

- Over medium heat, warm skillet. Spray with cooking spray.

- Apply miracle whip to one side of each slice of bread.

- Place one slice of bread on skillet, miracle whip side up.

- Add cheese and lunch meat to bread. Add other slice of lunch meat with miracle whip side down.

- Flip whole sandwich.

You just want to litely brown/toast eat side of the sandwich.

- Serve.