Better Than Almost Anything Cake

This one came from http://www.bettycrocker.com/.

Better Than Almost Anything Cake

Ingredients:

1 box German chocolate cake mix
(Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box)
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1 jar (16 to 17 oz) caramel, butterscotch or fudge topping
1 container (8 oz) frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 bag (8 oz) toffee chips or bits

Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cake as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan.

Poke top of warm cake every 1/2 inch with handle of wooden spoon. Drizzle milk evenly over top of cake; let stand until milk has been absorbed into cake. Drizzle with caramel topping (or butterscotch or fudge). Run knife around sides of pan to loosen cake. Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until chilled.

Spread whipped topping over top of cake. Sprinkle with toffee chips. Store covered in refrigerator.

Our Review: Oh WOW this is good! I used caramel topping and cut up two heath bars for the top.

Creamy Crockpot Chicken

Not sure where I found this one.

Creamy Crockpot Chicken

Ingredients:

6 skinless boneless chicken breasts

1 t. garlic powder

salt/pepper

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 can cream of celery soup (could us mushroom)

1 can cream of cheddar or cheddar cheese soup

1 (8 oz.) container of sour cream

Place chicken in the crockpot and cover with garlic powder and salt & pepper. In bowl, combine all three soups and pour over chicken. Allow to cook on low for 6-8 hours or high 3-4 hours until chicken is cooked through. Pull chicken out and shred and then return to the crockpot. Stir in sour cream at end of cooking time.

Serve over noodles, rice or make into enchiladas.

Our Review: I served this over linguine noodles for the first time and we loved it! We froze the other half and will be making enchiladas with it!

Pork Chop Casserole

I made this one up.

Pork Chop Casserole

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups uncooked rotini pasta
5 boneless pork chops
1 t. seasoned salt
1 t. minced garlic
1 t. minced onion
2 cans condensed cream of mushroom soup
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2 boxes stovetop stuffing, chicken or pork flavor

Place pork chops into crockpot and top with seasoned salt, garlic and onion. Cook on low 6-8 hours or hight 3-4 hours until pork is done. Remove and cut or pull into bite size pieces.

Preheat oven to 350.

Boil pasta as directed on box and drain. Make stuffing as directed on boxes.

Combine pasta, pork, soups and cheese and place in 9x13 pan. Cover with prepared stuffing.

Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.

Our Review: This one is good, especially for stuffing lovers like Brooke and I!

French Toast Sticks

I found this one at http://www.recipezaar.com/.

French Toast Sticks

Ingredients:

8 slices Texas Toast bread
1/4 cup melted butter
4 eggs
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 t. cinnamon
2/3 cup milk
3/4 t. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350. Cut each slice of bread into three "sticks". In a bowl, mix together melted butter, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, vanilla and milk, beat well.

Dip sticks into egg mixture and place on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray. If there is any dip left, you can drizzle it ove the sticks.

Bake for 25 minutes on middle oven rack of oven. Turn halfway through baking time. Allow to cool.

To Freeze for later: flash freeze on cookie sheet, remove and place in a ziplock bag.
To Reheat: place 3 sticks on a microwave-safe plate and heat on high for 1 minute until warm. Serve with syrup.

Our Review: These were very yummy. I doubled this recipe. They did tend to stick to the pan even with spraying the pan. I think next time I'm going to try holding out the sugar and cinnamon (mixing them together) and after dipping in the egg mixture dip in the sugar/cinnamon mixture to cover. Thinking maybe that would help with the sticking problem and be super yummy!

White Gravy

I can't remember what website I found this one when I needed some white gravy for potatoes and didn't have a package.

White Gravy

Ingredients:

4 T. margarine/butter
4 T. flour
salt
pepper
2 1/2 cups milk

Melt butter in saucepan. Over low heat blend in flour and salt & pepper, cook until smooth and bubbly. Stir in milk. Heat to boil on medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil 1 minute.

Our Review: This was easy and turned out well. I need to remember to add more salt/pepper next time, I tend to not put enough in!

Crockpot Fiesta Chicken Soup

Made this one up.

Crockpot Fiest Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

2 cans pinto beans, drained and rinsed
1 - 1 1/2 lb. chicken breast
salt/pepper
1 can corn
1 pkg. taco seasoning
2 cans diced tomato

Put all ingredients into crockpot and cook on low for 6-8 hours. Pull out chicken and shred and then return to crockpot. Serve with crushed chips, cheese and sour cream.

Our Review: This was good, nice flavor and filling! We froze half of this for a later date in a ziplock bag and it turned out well!

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Not sure where this one came from.

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ingredients:

2 cups mashed banana
1/2 cup grated carrots
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil (I used 1/2 cup oil & 1/2 cup applesauce)
1 t. vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 t. baking soda
8 oz. chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350. Put liners in muffin pan. Mix banana, carrots, eggs, oil and vanilla. Add sugar then flour, baking soda and chocolate chips.

Pour in muffin cups and bake for 20 minutes.

Makes about 2 dozen

Our Review: These were absolutely delicious. I froze them for quick breakfasts and they were gone quick!

Banana Bread

Not sure where this one came from.

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

2 cups flour
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1/2 cup margarine
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

Heat oven to 350. Lightly grease 9x5 loaf pan.

Combine flour, baking soda and salt. In seperate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and banana until blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture, stir to moisten. Pour into pan and bake for 60-65 minutes or until knife in center comes out clean. Let cool 10 minutes and remove from pan.

Our Review: YUM! This could be cooled, wrapped in foil and froze for later easily.