Turkey & Wild Rice Soup

For Christmas my grandma gave me a book of soup recipes and with our excess of turkey meat I turned the pages of my new book in search of a turkey soup recipe, a few pages into the book I found just what I was looking for.


1 Tbsp butter
1 cup celery, chopped
1 cup carrots, sliced
1 lb cooked turkey, diced
1 3oz pkg or jar of bacon pieces
3 cups water
2 14 oz can of either chicken stock or turkey stock
1 6.2 oz box fast cooking long grain wild rice with seasoning packet, I used Uncle Bens



1. melt butter in your stock pan on a low heat while slicing up the celery, carrots and dicing the turkey.

2. turn heat to high and add ing vegetables to pot. Cook, stirring occasionally, about 5 mins, until celery is translucent.

3. add turkey, bacon, water, and broth to the pot. Cover with lid and turn heat to high until mixture comes to a boil, about 3 minutes

4. Stir in rice mix and seasoning packet. turn heat to medium, cover with lid, cook 5 minutes. Turm off heat and allow soup to stand for 5 minutes. then serve.

This recipe came from the book; Soups On by Valerie Phillips

Patti's 1880's Settlement Sawdust Pie

I found this recipe while looking around at different recipe blogs on the internet. This just sounded so good I had to try it. I am not even a fan of bananas but the combination of it all together made my mouth water, And it was amazing! A must make!
If you want to see more recipes from this blogger I have enclosed her blog address at the end of this post :)


7 egg whites, whipped
then add
1 1/2 cups pecans
1 1/2 cups sweetened coconut
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 1/2 cups sugar

Mix all together well

pour into a 9'inch deep pie shell and bake at 350 for 30 mins.

when cool top with bananas & fresh whipped cream!

The Cozy Little Kitchen

Huevos Ranchos

This is a recipe that I learned from my Grandma, Its a family Favorite! We used to have it every year for christmas morning breakfast, over the years it changed to biscuits & gravy. But my hubby & I love the Huevos Ranchos and have brought it into our house as a tradition. It is really easy to throw together :)


1 can refried black beans
1 can green enchilada sauce
corn tortillas
bacon  (cooked & chopped)
eggs
shredded cheese


1.begin by warming the beans in a pan and the sauce in a seprate pan.

2.then cook up your bacon while those are warming up.

3.next fry up your corn tortillas. U will need 2 per plate

4. On the center of your plate add a large scoop of the beans then place a cooked tortilla on top of it.

5. cook up your eggs.- we like to do fried eggs- (I like mine over hard & hubby likes his over easy.) after cooking place egg on top of tortilla.

6. place another cooked tortilla on top of the eggs

7. cover the whole thing with enchilada sauce

8. cover with cheese

9. sprinkle on chopped bacon.

10. stick in microwave for 1 min to melt

then enjoy!

Slow Cooker Chocolate Candies!

These are simply about the easiest things on the planet! I started watching the food network last weekend and watched a show by Trisha Yearwood. She was making holiday treats and this recipe was one that she made. I thought How easy & simple! So i bought the  goods & threw it all in the crockpot! Easy as candy! lol


2 pounds salted dry roasted peanuts ( i think it would turn out great with any nut)
4 ounces Germans sweet chocolate (about 4 squares)
one 12 ounce package of semisweet chocolate chips ( about 2 cups)
2 1/2 pounds white almond bark


Turn on your slow cooker to Low
Pour the nuts in the bottom of the cooker. Then begin to layer starting with the sweet chocolate, the chips and then the bark on top. do not stir!
put the lid on it & let it do its thing for 3 hours!

after the 3 hours, stir the mixture with a wooden spoon until smooth. drop the candy into cupcake pan liners, using about 2 tablespoons per liner. allow the candy to cool completely before removing from the cupcake liners.

recipe from:
Trisha Yearwood

Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

This is by far my favorite! I love red velvet cake & Love cream cheese! my 2 loves together!

for the cookies:
1 box of red velvet cake mix
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 vegetable oil

for the frosting:
1 (8oz) package of cream cheese, soften
1/4 cup butter, soften
2 tsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
3-4 cups powder sugar


Preheat 365. at 7 minutes
Mix together all of the cake ingredients in a large bowl.
Roll the dough into balls the size of walnuts.
Place them 2 inches apart on your ungreased cookie sheet ( 1 needed 2)
Bake until the tops crack. Watch them closely, you can burn them quickly.
after cooking let cool for about 5 mins in the pan and then move to cooling racks.

In a large bowl combine the cream cheese, milk, vanilla & butter. Then add powder sugar. Make it as thick or thin as you like. I like mine thick.
Spread on the frosting to the inside of the cookie then attach the other side. after you have assembled all the cookie place in the fridge for about 30 mins to let them set up.
Makes about 15-20 cookies

Enjoy!

Recipe from:
Six Sisters Stuff

Healthy Peanut Butter Cookies

These are so dang good! and no flour! I love them!

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg


Mix peanut butter & sugar together. Then add in egg & baking soda. Mix well.
scoop out balls with a spoon and place on a cookie sheet, this makes 2 cookie sheets full.

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes!

Recipe from:
The Daily Green

Dollar Store Crafts..

I Love Love going to the Dollar Store to get craft supplies for the little guy in my life.
My latest find at the Dollar store included sparkle glue pens, foam popsicle sticks, kid scissors, multi color pom poms.

So we set out to make some special crafts today.
I think that everything turned out great!

Also in the near future I will be taking some foam balls that I found at the Dollar store & making a Mobile to hang above the crib :)