um, excuse me.

You are the one who posted the hot dog recipe, not me.

Of course I know they are not food, but it didn't seem like you did. I was just trying to be polite without having to come right out and say it directly.

Mim, I just don't like chips. Well, LAYS Original are pretty good, and they have no preservatives.

Remember as a kid drinking Koolaid and eating Lays chips? Oh and we used to put them on our bologna & ketchup sandwiches at lunch in elementary school.

And Liverworst & Mayo sandwiches. I bet kids nowadays don't get those in their lunches.

Original Runza Recipe

2 pounds ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
Salt
Pepper
1 Medium Cabbage, chopped
2 batches of bread dough (thawed frozen bread dough works)

Saute onion in a bit of oil until just translucent. Add hamburger and saute until no longer pink. Season with salt and pepper. Drain away the grease, and return to the pan. Cover the mixture with the shredded cabbage and cook until the cabbage is done.

Using an egg-dough recipe, roll small balls of dough thin to make a 5×5 square. Put about 1/2 cup of cabbage mixture in center of square and seal closed. Place seal side down on a parchment lined baking sheet (or a lightly greased sheet). Bake 20-25 minutes at 350 or until lightly golden brown.

Omg, those sound good! I'm just starving right now.

They are almost like Pasties (carrots, rutabagies instead of cabbage), or those little meat pies they make down in New Orleans, only a lot less complicated.

I bet they freeze well, too, for lunches. I'm going to make some this weekend I think.

They do freeze well!

I've also used sauerkraut in place of fresh cabbage, yum!

If you do make them, let me know what you think!

Scalloped Potatoes

2 lbs. frozen hash browns (or shred own potatoes)
1/2 c. margarine
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/2 c. chopped onion
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 c. sour cream
1 c. milk
1 c. grated American cheese

Mix all ingredients and place in 9"x13" pan. Can top with crushed corn flakes and 1/4 c. melted butter.

Bake at 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

Okay, Raga, I'll let you know. I am thinking I'll use a pie dough instead of bread dough, though. Will that work? Also I can't decide between cabbage and sour krout now. Which is better?

Here is a quick and easy one - also semi-healthy -

Easy Crock Pot Salsa Chicken

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
32 ounces (2 16oz jars) salsa
1 (14.5 oz) corn - drained
1 (14.5 oz) can black beans, drained

Place in crock pot, cook on low 6-8 hours
30 to 60 minutes prior to serving, remove checken, shred and return to crock pot

Serve in flour tortillas, with lettuce, tomatoes, guacamole, cheese, onions, and sour cream

Sorry, just saw your post Weaver!

I've always used bread dough. The local original Runza's are made with cabbage. My altered version using kraut for homemade Runza's is what I like. Depends on your taste buds.

Did you make some over the weekend?

Believer, your recipe sounds great! I'm going to print it off right now!

Swimming Rama
(Thai Peanut Sauce with Chicken, Spinach & Rice)
with substitutions


1 1/2 cups thai jasmine rice or long grain white rice
scant 3 cups water

Boil water, put in rice cover and cook on low for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, Make peanut sauce.

combine 1 cup peanut butter with 1 1/2 cups water
add 2 cloves minced garlic.
Mix and bring to a boil
Take off of heat
Mix in:
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
2 tablespoons fish sauce(nam pla)OR 2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice OR lemon juice
Thai red chili flakes OR chile flakes to taste.
Adjust sugar, fish sauce and lime juice to taste. some people like it a bit sweet.
Set aside. You can add water if sauce is too thick. I do.

Cut 1 whole chicken breast in small cubes, saute in 2 tablespoons canola oil with 2 cloves chopped garlic and a bit of salt.

Steam 1 pound of spinach until just wilted.

Assemble:

On a bed of rice layer the spinach, chicken and the peanut sauce on top. Enjoy.

This is a great sauce to spice up veggies!! You can use broccoli or green beans instead.

This peanut sauce is very easy and delicious. Some recipes call for coconut milk instead of water, but I like it this way, it is less calories and doesn't separate if you reheat it.

If you are a vegetarian you can substitute deep fried tofu cubes for the chicken.

Did I just kill the recipe thread too?

Love in Christ,
Miss M

Here is what I'm cooking today. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Crock Pot Roast Beef

2 LBs roast - any cut
1 can french onion soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
3/4 cup dry white wine
6 oz fresh sliced mushrooms
when ready, add flour to make gravy

And here is a good one for banana bread.

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 large beaten eggs
2 1/3 cups mashed very overripe bananas

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Lightly grease 9X5 loaf pan
3. In large bowl, combine flour, soda and salt
4. In separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar
5. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended
6. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to mosten
7. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan
8. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutees until a tooth-
pick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean
9. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a
wire rack.

This was a nice idea.

Since it's getting colder out and football season is upon us:

"Camper's Cocoa"

Equal parts of cocoa, dry milk, and cremora. Mix well and keep in a tight container. Fill each mug 1/3 full, pour hot water over it, and stir. Some people like more chocolate.

My mother kept this dry mix in a pitcher, actually, and would just keep the lid twisted to seal it up. We drank it throughout childhood.

Spinach dip

1 cup sour cream (not diet)
1 cup mayonnaise (not diet)
1 ten-ounce block of chopped spinach, thawed with liquid squeezed out.
1 package of dry vegetable soup mix (I like Knorr's)
1 small can water chestnuts, chopped (optional)

Mix together and set overnight.

Great for inside a hallowed out loaf or used as a sandwich spread for showers/parties. (Just use a very sharp serrated knife to cut if making finger sandwiches.)

Macaroni salad

For each pound of macaroni, you need to coarsely chop:

1/2 cup dill pickle
1/2 cup red onion
1/2 cup black olive
1/2 to 3/4 cup mayonnaise to start(eyeball it)
salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
level teaspoon of sugar
Tablespoon of milk.
This should have the consistency of thick chunky soup.

Mix the above ingredients together in the bottom of a large mixing bowl. Then set aside.

Cook macaroni until only about 3/4 done. Then, remove from heat and rinse under cold water in colander. When completely cool, dump into mixing bowl with other ingredients and mix thoroughly.

Cover and put in fridge. Macaroni will finish getting done with the mixture. Remove, and dump another 1/2 cup of mayonnaise on top and mix.

Now, as you make this over and over, you'll get better at it and know how much to cut up and how much more mayo to throw in before serving. This is a really delicious recipe. Everyone in my family enjoys it and requests that I make it for family gatherings. The red onion, dill pickle, black olive and sugar are the key ingredients, though you can throw in peppers, sweet pickle, etc. and that will taste good too.

I don't recommend making more than 1 pound at a time. If you need to make 2 pounds, do it separately and then mix it together just before you serve it. I tried this, and my macaroni got too done. There was just too much of it to cool off effectively. It kept cooking. I also learned that 1 pound actually goes a long way at a party anyway because the kids usually won't do the chopped ingredients. Grownups usually love it though. lol

Enjoy. Now I want to go and make some. Oi yoi yoi.

I GOTTA try these chips, you've posted over and over on them.....and I am a BIG chip fan. Thanks for the tip, I'll let you know.

You know, I'll bet you could substitute Hershey kisses for those Rolo chocolate candies with the carmel inside and it would be somewhat cheaper.

I make the peanut butter cookies but I sometimes add 1 tsp vanilla. I've never used the kisses but I do use chocolate chips in them sometimes. Been doing it for years.




LEMON COOLERS

1 lemon supreme cake mix
1 regular sized container of frozen whipped topping (thawed)
1 egg

Mix ingredients by hand.

Drop, by teaspoonfuls, into powdered sugar and form balls. Place on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 about 8-10 minutes. Remove before they brown. (It may take you a tray or two to get the time right....keep forgetting how long to let them cook. You want them soft and chewy.)

Kimmy's Tortilla Soup from another thread!

Tortilla Soup
3 cans tinned white meat chicken, drained
2 cans tomatoes UNdrained
1 can ranch style beans, drained and rinsed
1 onion, diced
2 large bell peppers, scorched under the broiler, seeded and diced
1 small tin green chili peppers
1 cup corn
6 tsp. bullion (I used tomato)
1 tsp. cumin
1/2 tsp. garlic
5-6 tsp. chili powder
8 c. water


Throw everything except the corn in the biggest soup pot you have and simmer for an hour. Add corn.

Dice 6-8 corn tortillas and throw in pot. Simmer till the tortillas fall apart.

Serve soup with garnish of tortilla chips (I diced about 5 more and sprayed them with Pam then baked until they were dried out)

These are amazing! I had to control myself to stop eating them:

Ron's Pretzels

2 - 15 oz. bags Pretzels
1 T. dillweed
1 T. garlic powder
1 pkg. Ranch Dressing Mix
1 - 12 oz. bottle Orvile R's Butter Popcorn Oil
( a bottle is 16 ozs but you only use 12 oz.)

Mix all dry ingredients with oil. Drizzle over Pretzels.
Stir once an hour for 4 hours.
These freeze well.