Applebee's Copycat Asian Salad Dressing

 1 cup Oil

1/2 cup Vinegar

1/2 cup Sugar

1 tbsp Minced Onion

1/2 tsp Dry Mustard

1/2 tsp Salt

Mix together and refrigerate.  

Sugar Cookie Buttercream Frosting

3/4 cup Milk

1 stick butter

1 tsp Vanilla

5 cups of confectioner's sugar

Place butter in a bowl and let it warm to room temperature.  Melt in the microwave if needed.  Mix butter and 1/2 cup of the milk together and blend until creamy.  Add vanilla and mix together.  Add 4 cups of confectioner's sugar and mix.  Add 1/4 cup of milk and blend.  Frosting should be thicker than a glaze.  If took thick, add more milk.  If too much liquid, add more confectioner's sugar. Add food coloring if desired..  

Pumpkin Bread

 

Mini Cherry Pies

1 box of Pillsbury roll out pie crusts (2 crusts)
1 can of cherry pie filling
cinnamon
sugar

Cut out pie crusts using a four inch cookie cutter and place in greased muffin pan. Sprinkle crust with cinnamon and sugar.  Place 2 tbsp of pie filling in each cup.  Sprinkle pie filling with cinnamon and sugar.  Bake at 425 degrees for 14-18 minutes.

If you have extra pie crust leftovers, you can make crustos.

Crustos:

Roll Out extra pie dough and spread melted butter and cinnamon sugar on top.  Bake at the same temperature and time.

Italian Rice

1 1/2 cup minute rice, cooked
1 bunch of cilantro
1 jar of Prego meat sauce
1 lb of ground beef
20 meatballs, cooked
1/2 white onion, diced or sliced
2 cups shredded cheese

Cook rice as directed on box.  In cake pan, butter and spread prego across bottom of the pan. In a skillet, cook onions and hamburger until no longer pink.   Add cooked ground beef and meatballs to prego sauce and stir.  Add cooked rice to pan and stir into meat and sauce. Sprinkle Cilantro on top or stir into rice mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.  Then top with cheese and bake an additional 5 minutes until cheese is melted. Serves 5 people.

Hummingbird Cake

1 spice cake mix
1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 jar of Cream Cheese frosting
8 oz of Crushed Pineapple, drained
2 bananas, chopped
1 cup Chopped Pecans

Mix cake mix with vegetable oil and eggs.  Mix in crushed pineapple, bananas, and pecans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes, until toothpick comes out clean.

Let cake cool and then frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Strawberry Cream Pie

1 box Strawberries, washed
1 carton Cool Whip
1 graham cracker pie Crust
2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
1 box Royal Delights Strawberry Creme Pie Filling

Mix together Heavy Cream with Pie Filling and spoon into pie crust.  Refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.  Slice strawberry and mix with powdered sugar.  Serve pie with strawberries and cool whip.  Serves 6.

Chicken Noodle Soup

Chicken Noodle Soup:

6 Chicken tenders or 3 breasts, cubed
1 stalk Celery, sliced
1 small bag of Baby Carrots, sliced
1 medium Onion, diced
1 bag of Egg Noodles
Salt and Pepper to taste
8 cups chicken broth.

Mix ingredients and cook on the stove in a large pot, until chicken is done and vegetables are soft and heated through. 

Chicken Stir Fry

Chicken Stir Fry:

6 chicken tenders or 3 chicken breasts, cut into cubes
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 bag frozen vegetables
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 1/2 cup minute rice, cooked

Heat wok to 350 degrees with vegetable oil.  Add cubed chicken and cook until sides are no longer pink.  Lower temperature to 300 degrees.  Add frozen vegetables and cook until soft and heated through.  Add rice and mix all together.  Add soy sauce to taste.  Serves 4.

Italian Meatball Soup

I bought a small shell noodle box and the recipe was on the back of the box:

"4 cups beef  or chicken broth
1 jar marinara sauce
2 cups frozen vegetables
1 cup Small Shells
12 frozen fully cooked meatballs
Combine broth and sauce in large pot.  Bring to boil.  Stir in remaining ingredients.  Boil 7 to 8 minutes until pasta is tender and meatballs are heated through."

Next time I make it, I would double the broth.   I added carrots, squash, and broccoli.  I would add more vegetables.  But overall, pretty good.  I also sprinkled Parmesan cheese on top.

Peanut Butter Popcorn

This is Natalie's recipe:

2/3 cup sugar
1 cup Karo syrup
1 cup crunchy or plain peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup popcorn kernels

Pop popcorn and put in large bowl.  Remove unpopped kernels.  Bring sugar and syrup to a boil. Don't overcook it as it will crystallize. Remove from heat and add peanut butter and vanilla. Pour over popped popcorn and mix.

Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

Found this recipe on Baked by Rachel. They are pretty good.

Gingerbread House

 I bought a gingerbread house kit from Walmart.

I put royal icing down in the tray and frosting around the edges and stack my house together, then hold the roof eaves on for a minute on each side, and let dry for 15 minutes before I could decorate.

While I was waiting for the frosting to dry on the house, I decorated the cookies.  

I put Peppermint candies on the top with lots of  icing, icing around the windows, pearl candies to the snowflake, and cut the jelly trees in half to add flower boxes to the windows.

I added snowflake candies to both sides of the roof. 

I cut dot candies in half and added it to the roof eaves.  I put pearl candies on the edges of the roof.  I put icing on trees and attached them to the house.

I put icing under the cookies and attached them to the tray and put snowflakes all around them and the house.

Finished product:

Black and White Cookies

Recipe from The Pioneer Woman.

Pumpkin Walnut Cobbler

Recipe from Creations By Kara

Banana Bread

I made Shayna's Banana Bread, but I substituted peanut butter for almond butter and milk chocolate chips for dark.

Raspberry Brownies

1/2 cup cocoa
2 tsp vanilla
2 sticks margarine or butter
2 cups flour
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup flour
dash of salt
30 Raspberries

Beat margarine, sugar, eggs, and vanilla together. Then add cocoa and mix well. Stir by hand, the flour, salt, and raspberries. Bake in 9 by 13 greased pan at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes.

Pasta Primavera

This was Giada De Laurentiis's Recipe.  I opted for Penne rather than Bowtie Pasta.  I used regular tomatoes instead of cherry tomatoes.  I used green pepper instead of a red or yellow one.  I added minced onion, because I didn't have an onion.  

Peanut Butter Banana Bread

From Panera Bread's website, it sure is good.

Cinnamon Banana Bread

3 Bananas

1 cup Sugar

2 cups Flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 cup Chopped walnuts

2 Eggs

1/2 tsp Salt

1/2 cup Shortening

1 tbsp Warm Water

2/3 cup sugar

1 tbsp Cinnamon

Mash bananas and add sugar. Let stand about 15 minutes. Add shortening to banana mixture. Beat and add eggs. Add all dry ingredients, except baking soda and 2/3 cup sugar, 1 tbsp cinnamon. Add chopped walnuts. Dissolve baking soda in warm water, and add. Stir only until mixed. In a separate bowl, mix together sugar and cinnamon.  Pour half of batter into greased loaf.  Sprinkle half of cinnamon sugar mixture on top.  Add rest of batter.  Sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon sugar mixture on top.  Bake in greased loaf at 350 degrees for about 50 to 80 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.