Spunky Junky Link Up Party

Go and check out this Link Up Party, it is so much fun and has some amazing ideas. Love it! Oh and Im #16.

http://spunkyjunky.blogspot.com/2011/03/feature-friday-linky-up-party.html

Whiskey Glazed Sweet Potatoes

Oh My Heck! These are Soooooooo good! Really, you have got to try these. I could eat them for breakfast, lunch, & dinner.
The alcohol cooks out before you even put the sweet potatoes in the pan so don't be worried about feeding them to grandma or kids, it just adds such an amazing flavor.

You will need:
■1 stick of butter, divided
■2 -3 lbs Sweet Potato, cubed
■1/2 cup your favorite Whiskey
■1 cup Brown Sugar
■1 teaspoon salt
■black pepper to taste

Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over high heat. Add sweet potatoes to brown just a little, do not stir around. Remove from skillet.

Pour in whiskey and allow to evaporate 30 seconds (WARNING: if you are using a gas stove remove from burner to pour and never pour directly from bottle. Alcohol is very flammable!).

Reduce heat to medium, and add remaining butter. When butter melts, sprinkle brown sugar over the top. Stir together, then add potatoes to skillet. Cover, and continue cooking for 5 minutes.

Remove lid and add salt and pepper. Continue cooking until potatoes are done and glaze is thick, about 5 more minutes.

Pour into serving dish and enjoy.

I've found a few similar recipes that use carrots instead of sweet potatoes, so I tried it.  It is very good too!!!

Tin Foil Dinners

Okay here is a super easy dinner for you. It's pretty common around here but I know I forget about my favorite meals all the time.
Servings 4
You will need:
■1 lbs Ground Beef, into 4 patties
■1 bag Baby Carrots
■4 Potatoes, cubed into fairly small bite sized pieces
■1 Onion, sliced
■1 Bell Pepper, cleaned out and sliced
■1 package Lil Smokies
■Pepper
■Salt
■Garlic Powder
■Butter
■Tin Foil

*Keep in mind any of this is optional. That is except for the tin foil, it wouldn't be a tin foil dinner if you didn't use the tin foil. You can always add any favorite veggies in with it. The Bell Pepper and Onion give it such a great flavor though.

1.Preheat oven to 400.

2.Rip off 4 good sized pieces of Tin Foil. Don't be afaid to have a little extra, it will be much better than not having enough.

3.Place each hamburger pattie on seperate foils and season. Make a mountain of veggies and Lil Smokies on top of the burger.

4.Season.

5.Place about 1/2 Tablespoon of butter on each mountain.

6.Now your going to fold the foil in half length wise and fold the edges over several times to seal it.

7.Fold the ends very tightly.

8.Place on cookie sheet and place in oven.  Or place directly onto hot BBQ Grill or hot coals of a fire, you choose.

9.Bake for about 40 minutes or so. Cook time depends on the size of you potatoes and carrots so if you need it done quicker cut them smaller.

10.Carefully unfold one end of foil and check potatoes with a fork. Make sure to cook until tender.


See... Very Simple.

Chocolate Chip Panic Attack Cookie

I wanted to make a different kind of Chocolate Chip Cookie and came up with this.
Preheat oven to 325°

Make your favorite traditional Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. I actually like the recipe on the back of a Nestle chocolate chip bag. I make one change to it. I use 1 cup of brown sugar and 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.

Lightly spray cookie sheet with cooking spray.  With a small spoon, scoop out a tablespoon of dough onto a cookie sheet.  Only scoop two rows of 4 (8) balls onto your sheet.  These are twice the size of ordinary cookies.

Now, pretend this picture is rotated the right way!!!  And unwrap some fun sized or miniature candy bars.  I really like the Krackle in these cookies!

 Place one candy bar on top of each dough ball and press so it is safe and secure with no chances of falling off the dough bed.

 Now scoop another tablespoon of dough into a ball and press down on top of the candy bar.

 There is my special helpers hands again with his very own spatula his Granny gave him for his "Un-Birthday".  An "un-birthday" is always a great excuse to get a child something they will love right?

 Repeat the last step until every candy bar is covered.  Press the sides down a little like you are sealing the candy into the dough.  But you don't actually have to seal them.

Now place in your oven and bake for 10 minutes... NO LONGER!  Unless you feel the need for yucky crunchy cookies.  Mine are on the verge of being yucky crunchy cookies.

Mountain Man Breakfast

This is an all time favorite of mine. Come to think of it, it is a favorite of just about anyone I know that has ever had it. Ummm.... This is so good! I grew up eating it every time we'd go camping. It's always so good on a nice cool morning cooked in a well seasoned Dutch Oven over hot coals. BUT, I've decided it's just as amazing when my husband wakes up and makes it for us on any Sunday morning of any month of the year. You can even make it into a breakfast burrito with just one extra ingredient, tortillas.

Now, before you go on and read the ingredients let me tell you this is a HEARTY meal! And NOT in any way heart healthy. Also, these amounts will feed 8-10 people. But you can easily alter the amounts of the ingredients about however you want and it will still turn out good. You can use one of both meats, less or more hashbrowns, less eggs... You get it right.

Ingredients:
1 lbs bacon, cut into one inch pieces
1 lbs breakfast sausage
1 lbs hashbrowns
12 eggs
1 lbs cheese
Optional: onion, peppers, tortillas

In a large Dutch Oven or pan over medium high heat begin by cooking the bacon pieces. When the bacon is about half way cooked add the sausage. Stir frequently so it does not stick or burn. When the sausage is browning add the hashbrowns to the meat. The bacon and sausage grease in the pan will keep the hashbrowns from burning and also give them great flavor. Stir together well and cover, still stirring often. As the hashbrowns begin to brown crack the eggs into the mixture and stir. When the eggs are cooked through mix half of the cheese in and top with the other half. Then, ENJOY! I like mine just plain but my husband and kiddos like theirs with sour cream and salsa.

Light Crisp Waffles

Makes about eight four inch waffles.

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
4 eggs, separated
1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter, melted

In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. In a small bowl, whisk egg yolks, milk and butter. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.

In a small bowl, beat egg whites on medium speed until soft peaks form. Fold into batter.

Cook as you would any waffles on a waffle iron. Top with whatever you like. Fresh friut, syrup, powdered sugar, or my favorite peanut butter then hot syrup to melt it... So Good!

Five Can Casserole

Mmmmmm.... This is a recipe that may seem to be a bit weird and unusual but it is SO delicious.  You will love it!  It's very simple and also quite fast.  It's called five can casserole I am assuming because it is supposed to use five cans of ingredients to build... but it's not exactly five cans.

You will need:

1 or 2 cans of chicken, drained (found by tuna in your supermarket) or 2 chicken breasts boiled and cut into chunks
2 cans Cream of Chicken or substitue 1 can Chicken & Rice soup
1 bag Hard Chinese Noddles
1 can Mushrooms, sliced or chopped (OPTIONAL)
1/2 cup milk
Pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In dutch oven or casserole dish combine soup and chicken.

Add Chinese Noddles

Pepper

Now add about 1/2 cup of milk, the milk is only to moisten the dish so if you feel like you need more then just add more milk.

Bake covered for about 30 minutes or until heated thoroughly. 

Salt & Pepper to taste and enjoy one of my favorite simple dishes.