Chocolate Oatmeal Candy

Chocolate Oatmeal Candy
A delicious and easy dessert, great for anytime!
by: Sheila Boyd

1 stick of butter, melted
4 tbsp. cocoa
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. milk
3 c. oats (instant)
1/2 c. peanut butter

Combine sugar and cocoa; add milk and melted butter. Bring to a boil slowly. Add peanut butter and oats. Drop by teaspoons onto wax paper. Let cool.

*Makes 20 small candies or 15 large.

Chocolate Octopuses

Chocolate Octopuses

For ten octopuses, you will need:
2/3 c. soft butter
2/3 c. sugar
1 medium egg
3 tsp. cocoa powder
1 1/3 c. flour
1 small bag of M&M candies (for eyes)
greased cookie sheet

Preheat oven to 375 F.

1. Mix the sugar and butter in a bowl.
2. Sift the flour and the cocoa into the bowl. Add the egg and mix them well to make dough.
3. Use your hands to press the dough into a large ball. Wrap it in plastic food wrap.
4. Put the wrapped dough in the freezer for 30 minutes or into the refrigerator for an hour.
5. Cut the dough in half and then each half into 5 pieces.
6. Gently flatten each piece and use a blunt knife to make four cuts for legs.
7. Gently pull the legs apart. Pinch their ends into points and bend them out.
8. Bake the octopuses for 10-12 minutes.
9. Let the children help put M&Ms for the eyes.

*You can also make other sea animals. See if you can guess what the other sea animals are in the pictures I took.

*Recipe found from an incredible children's book:
What shall I cook? by: Ray Gibson (Usborne Publishing)

Breakfast Pie

Breakfast Pie
by: Jamie Palmer Wise

1 large pie crust (refrigerator section of grocery store near the cookie dough)
8 oz. sausage (cooked & drained) - I use turkey sausage
1 c. eggs (about 4 eggs)
3/4 c. skim milk
6 oz. cheese
1 c. chopped (optional):
-mushrooms
-onions
-bell pepper
1 tsp. salt & pepper

1. Bake pie crust (350 F for 10 min.) and let it cool.
2. Cook sausage and drain it.
3. Put 1/2 of the cheese in the crust and spread sausage over it.
4. Then add veggies and the rest of the cheese.
5. Lastly add the mixture of salt, pepper, milk, and eggs.
6. Bake 45 min. at 375 F.

This makes for a pretty & delicious dish.

Coconut Curry Chicken-n-Squash Casserole

Coconut Curry Chicken-n-Squash Casserole

Ingredients:
1 c. rice
1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts (cup up into small pieces)
3 medium sized yellow summer squash (cut up into small pieces)
2 1/2 c. Thai Coconut Curry chicken broth
(The brand is called College Inn Culinary Broth)
1/2 c. carrots (chopped up)

Combine all these ingredients in a baking dish and cook for 45 minutes on 350 F.

Ezekiel Muffins

"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself..." Ezekiel 4:9a












Ezekiel Muffins

Here's a wonderful recipe from Bread Beckers. My mother-in-law, Sheila, taught me how to use her whisper mill and we made the muffins together. This recipe makes delicious muffins for breakfast or anytime! We added blueberries that I had picked.

*Recipe makes 12 large muffins.

Combine the following whole grains in the whisper mill to be ground:

* 2-1/2 cups hard red wheat
* 1-1/2 cups spelt or rye (Biblically spelt was used, Ezekiel 4:9)
* 1/2 cup barley (hulled barley)
* 1/4 cup millet
* 1/4 cup lentils (green preferred)
* 2 Tbs. great northern beans
* 2 Tbs. red kidney beans
* 2 Tbs. pinto beans

Mix all of those grains very well. Take 2 1/4 cups of this flour to make your muffins.

Preheat the oven to 400 for muffins.

Muffin ingredients:

2 & 1/4 cups of freshly milled flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
1/2 cup oil ( I use olive oil, can use other)
1/2 cup honey (I measure oil first, then I measure honey in the same measuring cup. It makes the honey come out easier.)

Measure dry ingredients into mixing bowl. Add liquids and mix just until well blended. Drop by spoonfuls into greased muffin tins. Bake at 400 for 15 min.
To make them blueberry: Add 1 & 1/2 cups of berries and 1 tsp. cinnamon

Enjoy!

Frito Salad

I watched Lori, my wonderful sister-in-law, make this for us last night!

Frito Salad

by: Lori Boyd Pigott

1/2 head Lettuce
1 tomato, chopped into pieces
1/2 bag of Fritos

Mix together just before serving. Pour Catalina dressing over salad and mix well.

(I read online that it is also good with ranch style beans and grated cheddar cheese.)

MaMa's Banana Bread

MaMa's Banana Bread

3 ripe bananas (mashed)
1/2 cup shortening or margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup nuts (optional)

Cream shortening into bananas with sugar. Beat in egg, add vanilla and dry ingredients. Mix well. Pour into a greased, parchment paper lined, pan. Put into a cold oven, set at 350, and bake for 1 hr.

*Add some applesauce to the batter to make it extra moist.