Chimichanga's

This recipe is so simple! My mom made this for dinner tonight and it was a hit!

Ingredients:

Pork Roast

One bottle of your favorite BBQ Sauce

Cheddar Cheese

Tortillas

Two Cups Water

Butter

Put the roast, BBQ sauce, and water in the crock pot on high all day.  When its done, shred and put in tortilla's with cheese, and some of the leftover BBQ Sauce.  Roll them up and place on a baking sheet,  brush them with butter.  Let cook in the oven on 350F until light brown.

Serve with refried beans.  Enjoy!

Red Beans

I know I have a lot of rice recipes on my blog, but when you have 13 people to feed, rice goes a long way!  This is like the best red bean recipe ever, and I made it up!  I hope you enjoy this as much as my family does.

This is a awesome crock-pot dish = D

Ingredients:
Red Beans - 1 lbs

Tomato Paste - med size cans

Onion - 1

Garlic - 4 cloves

Salt - 3 tea

Pepper - 2 tea

Paprika - 2 tea

Chili Powder - 2 tea

Sugar - 2 tab

Water - just enough to cover the beans

Soak the beans overnight in water.

Put all the ingredients in a large pot and boil until tender, around 4 hours.  You can also cook it in the crock-pot all day on low.  This dish is really good served on rice and sour cream.

Mac N' Cheese Idea

Make your favorite homemade mac n' cheese, and add peas, bacon bits, spread in a pan sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and broil for 5  minutes. =D

Grandmother's Buttermilk Cornbread

(www.allrecipes.com)

This has to be the best cornbread on earth! I hate when cornbread is all dry and crumbly, don't you?  Well not this cornbread! It's very moist and stays together nicely.  It's sweet and buttery.  Delicious! 

Makes one  full 9 by 11 inch pan.

ingredients:

1 cup and 2 tablespoons butter

1-1/2 cups white sugar

4-1/2 eggs

2-1/4 cups buttermilk

1 teaspoon baking soda

2-1/4 cups cornmeal

2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 9 by 11 inch square pan.

Melt butter in large skillet. Remove from heat and stir in sugar. Quickly add eggs and beat until well blended. Combine buttermilk with baking soda and stir into mixture in pan. Stir in cornmeal, flour, and salt until well blended and few lumps remain. Pour batter into the prepared pan.

Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Beef and Rice

This dish is so good!

ingredients:

1 Green Pepper

1 Yellow Pepper

1 Green Pepper

1 Onion

1 Clove of Garlic

1 1/2 pounds of beef

4 cups of uncooked rice

Butter

Salt/Pepper

4-5 Packets of Brown Gravy

Chop the peppers and place it in a pan with the Beef, Cook until the meat is cooked.



 Place the meat into a separate bowl and try to save the drippings from the beef for the gravy.  After you have done that start the rice and dump the beef mixture into the water with the rice.  Put salt, pepper, and a pat of butter into the rice.  Cook until the rice is tender.  When the rice is almost done start the gravy, pour the grease from the beef into a pan, then follow the directions on the back of the gravy packet. 



After the gravy is thickened place rice on individual plates and spoon gravy over them.  Serve hot. Enjoy!

Whole Wheat, Oatmeal, Flax, and Banana, Pancakes

I made this for dinner tonight and I think it's the best Pancake recipe ever!

Serves: 15

ingredients:

• 2-1/2 cups uncooked rolled oats


• 2-1/2 cups whole wheat flour


• 1-3/4 cups and 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour


• 1/2 cup and 2 tablespoons brown sugar


• 1/4 cup flax


• 1 tablespoon and 2 teaspoons baking powder


• 1-1/4 teaspoons baking soda


• 1-1/4 teaspoons salt


• 2-1/2 egg


• Blueberries optional


• 5 cups milk


• 1/4 cup and 1 tablespoon vegetable oil


• 2-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract


• 2-1/2 banana, mashed

1. Place the rolled oats into the jar of a blender and blend until the texture resembles coarse flour. Whisk together the blended oats, whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, flax, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl; set aside.


2. Whisk together the egg, milk, vegetable oil, and vanilla. Stir in the mashed banana. Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture and stir just until moistened. Let the batter stand for 5 minutes.


3. Heat a lightly oiled griddle over medium-high heat. Drop batter by large spoonfuls onto the griddle, and cook until bubbles form and the edges are dry, about 2 minutes. Flip, and cook until browned on the other side. Repeat with remaining batter.

Chicken & Rice Casserole

I guess you can say I sort of made this dish up....I got the idea though from the one and only Paula Deen on the  food network website. 

ingredients:

Makes two 9 by 11 baking dishes.

4 cups of uncooked rice-cooked

2 28oz can green beans

5 cups of shredded chicken

1 onion

2 cups mayo

salt/pepper

Cream Sauce:

1/2 cup oil

1/2 flour

8 cups of milk

1 teaspoons celery salt

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoons garlic salt

Chicken flavoring

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1/4 block of velveeta cheese

Directions:

heat the chicken and green beans in a large sauce pan with some salt and pepper.   After that is heated though place the chicken and green beans in a large mixing bowl and coat with the mayo.  

Sauce:

heat oil until bubbly then add the flour and stir until no lumps.  quickly add the milk and whisk.  Add the chicken flavoring, and the salts.  Add the cheese, if it's not thickening after 5 minutes add the cornstarch.  

Spray the pans and spread the rice evenly in the bottom, mix in the chicken and green bean mixture.  Pour the cheese sauce over them and mix lightly so not to mush the rice.   Bake at 345F until light brown and bubbly.  Enjoy!