Favorite Recipes

Favorite Lasagna

1 box lasagna noodles
2 large cans Hunts Traditional Pasta Sauce
1 lb hamburger meat
1 lb shredded mozzarella cheese
Basil
Oregano
Pepper

Cook the noodles. Fry the hamburger, sprinkled with basil, oregano, and pepper, breaking it into as small pieces as possible. Mix the hamburger with the sauce.

Layer a 9x13 pan in this order:
Thin layer of sauce
Noodles
Sauce
Cheese
Noodles
Sauce
Cheese
etc... ending with cheese on the top.

Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes or until cheese is melty and lasagna is hot and bubbly.

To freeze:
Put it in the freezer before cooking it. When you want to eat it, take it out that day or the day before and refrigerate. Bake it, covered with aluminum foil, for about 1 hour, depending on how frozen it is when you put it in (the goal is to have it thawed, hot, and melty all the way through). 

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No-Bake Cookies

1 cube butter
1/2 cup milk
3 Tbsp. cocoa
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 Tsp. vanilla
3 cups oats

Place butter, milk, cocoa and sugar in a medium size pot and bring to a boil. (Be careful not to bring it to a boil too fast or too slow). Boil for 1 minute and 10 seconds. Remove from heat. Add peanut butter, vanilla, and oats. Stir together. Place flattened scoops on aluminum foil or wax paper. Let sit for about 10 minutes. Enjoy. :)

*If cookies are too hard you either brought it to a boil too fast or you let it boil too long. If they're too soft and never get hard enough to eat then you either brought it to a boil too slow or you didn't let it boil enough. When bringing to a boil put it on a med/hi heat for best results.

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German Pancakes

1/2 cube butter (1/4 cup butter)
6 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1 dash of salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Put butter in glass 9x13" pan and put in oven for butter to melt. While butter is melting put eggs, milk, flour, and salt in a blender and blend it for a couple minutes so it's whipped up. Take out butter after it's melted and pour batter into pan with butter. Place back in oven for 20 minutes. Remove, cut pieces, put on syrup, enjoy a taste of heaven.

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Pineapple Smoothie

1 tray ice
1 can (20 oz) pineapple with juice
1/4 c sugar
1/4 can orange juice concentrate (optional)
2 scoops vanilla ice cream (optional)

Blend and enjoy!

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Easy Chili

1 can (15 oz) petite diced tomatoes
1 can (15 oz) chili beans (Western Family Natural Directions are the best)
1/3 packet Lawry's chili seasoning
3/4 lb hamburger (opt.)

Cook hamburger until there is no pink. Mix ingredients in a large saucepan and heat to boiling. Don't boil for too long, it'll stick and burn on the bottom.

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Poppyseed Chicken (from Heidi)

4 chicken breasts
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of celery soup
1 c sour cream

Topping:
1 roll crushed Ritz crackers
2 T poppyseeds
6 T melted margarine/butter

Chop or shred chicken into small pieces. Boil or microwave until cooked. Add chicken, soups, and sour cream to a 9x13 casserole dish. Spread topping on top. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes. Serve over rice.