Mostaccioli

Alfredo Sauce:

1/2 cup butter

3 oz cream cheese

1 pint heavy cream

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 c grated parmesan cheese

1 lb. mostaccioli or other tubular pasta (penne is fine)

1 jar meatless spaghetti sauce

2 cups of mozzarella cheese

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over low heat. Mix in the cream cheese. Stir in the cream and garlic powder. Increase the heat and bring to a boil. Decrease to simmer, stirring often while you cook the pasta.

3. Cook pasta according to package directions.

4. Add parmesan cheese to sauce stirring until melted.

5. In a 9X13 inch pan layer noodles, spaghetti sauce and alfredo sauce. Top with mozzarella cheese.

6. Cover and bake about 40 minutes or until hot and bubbly

Banana Bread

3 ripe bananas

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter (room temperature)

2 eggs

1 t vanilla

2 cups all purpose flour

1 t baking powder

1/2 t baking soda

1/8 t salt

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees and grease loaf pan

2. In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Add sugar and butter and mix with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix on low about 1 min.

3. Mix in a bowl, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the banana mixture all at once. Stir with a wooden spoon just until combined.

4. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake 60-70 min. until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean but not dry. Let cool in pan 10 min.

Brownie Trifle

1 Lg container or Cool Whip
1 Family size pkg. of Chocolate Pudding prepared
1 box of Brownies prepared
1 bag of Health Bits or just crush up a few Skor/Heath bars

Layer in a trifle bowl 1/2 the brownies on bottom. Cut the brownies in 1 inch by 1 inch squares. Then add 1/2 the Chocolate pudding and 1/2 the Cool Whip. Add a layer or Heath bits. Then repeat, brownies, pudding, cool whip heath bits. Let it chill for a couple hours before serving.

Chicken Tacos

Ingredients:
Chicken breasts {2-4}
1 packet of taco seasoning
1-2 cans of chicken broth {depending on how much chicken}

Combine all 3 ingredients in crock pot. Then cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours.

Spoon chicken into warm flour tortillas. Top with cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, olives, {and whatever else you please!}. I always make Mexican rice when we have this because my husband likes to put that in his tacos too.

{Sorry, no picture. But, this is SO yummy...trust me!}

Cranberry Chicken

This is a favorite at our house and is SO easy and fast to make.

Ingredients:
Chicken breasts {2-4}
1 medium bottle of french salad dressing
1 can whole cranberries
1 packet of Lipton Onion Soup mix

-Place frozen chicken breasts in 9x13 glass pan.
-Pour french dressing all over chicken {sometimes I use the whole bottle, sometimes I don't, it just depends on how many chicken breasts I am cooking}.
-Sprinkle soup mix all over.
-Scoop cranberries all over.
-Cook @ 350 degrees for 1 hour.
-Serve over rice.

'Germans' aka German Pancakes

-Place 1/2 stick margarine {or butter} in glass 9x13 pan, put in oven while it is preheating so margarine melts...

-In large mixing bowl:

6 eggs

1 c. flour

1 c. milk

1/2 tsp. salt

-Mix until smooth and then pour into pan.

-Bake @ 400 degrees for 20 mins.

-Top with powdered sugar, syrup, or jam! 

{We like a to squirt a little lemon juice on ours and then top with powdered sugar. So yummy!}