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If you know Pioneer Women than you need to check out her other website Tasty Kitchen http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/. You will love it!!

Onion Strings

I got this recipe out of my Pioneer Women cookbook. So yummy!

Go here for the recipe http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/03/onion-strings-oh-yeah-baby/

Then I made this sauce that I got from the Food Network magazine. It is a copy of

Outback Steakhouse's Bloomin' Onion Dip

2 T mayo

2 T sour cream

1 1/2 tsp ketchup

1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

1 T horseradish sauce

1/4 tsp paprika

pinch of cayenne pepper, kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper

Pecan Pie

I got this recipe from the Pioneer Woman's website and it is awesome. Dan loves pecan pie and he said this was the best he ever had. It was the first one I had ever made and it was super easy.

1 unbaked pie crust

1 C white sugar

2 T brown sugar

1/4 tsp salt

1 C corn syrup

1/3 C melted butter (regular, salted)

3 eggs, beaten

1/4 tsp vanilla

1 heaping cup chopped pecans

Directions: First make (or get out a frozen one like I did) a pie crust. Next mix sugar, brown sugar, salt, corn syrup, butter, eggs and vanilla together in a bowl.

Pour chopped pecans in the bottom of the unbaked pie shell. Pour syrup mixture over the top of the pecans. Then watch as the pecans rise to the top, so cool. Then bake pie at 350 for 50-60 minutes, being careful not to burn pecans and crust. Allow to cool for several hours or overnight.

Oven Fried Chicken

I saw Paula Dean make this one day on her show. It looked so good and so easy so I thought I would try it. It was so good, everyone loved it. One thing she did on her show that is not in the instructions is she took the chicken and put it between 2 pieces of wax paper and hit it with a meat tenderizer until it was pretty thin.

Ingredients

2 cups Panko bread crumbs (will be with the bread crumbs. Walmart didn't have them I had to go to another grocery store.)
1 cup grated Parmesan
4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
2 tablespoons freshly minced thyme leaves
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons water
2 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, pounded to 1/4 -inch thickness

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Place a cooling rack over pan and spray rack with nonstick cooking spray.
In a shallow dish, combine bread crumbs, cheese, 2 tablespoons olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper, to taste. In a separate shallow dish, combine mustard, water, salt and pepper, to taste, and remaining olive oil. Coat each chicken breast with mustard mixture; dredge each in bread crumb mixture. Place on prepared rack in pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until chicken is golden brown. Serve immediately.

Oh My Mulligatawny

This is an amazing curried soup, a favorite of the Soup Natzi

2tbs olive oil

1 onion, chopped

2 carrots, chopped

1 celery stalk, chopped

1 green pepper, chopped

1 apple, cored, peeled, chopped

1 lb chicken breast

1/2 cup flour

3 tea curry powder

5 cup chicken broth

1 (14oz) can of diced tomatoes drained

salt & pepper

2 cup hot cooked rice

*heat oil add veggies and apple, chicken, and saute till cooked through.

*in a small bowl mix flour and curry powder. Add to pot. Add chicken broth and tomatoes. Simmer soup for an hour partially covered, stir occasionaly. Add salt and pepper to taste.

* to serve put 1/4 cup rice in bowl and ladle soup on top.

Grandma-Inspired cinnamon rolls

Thanks to Grandma I have been hooked on Cinnamon rolls, here is my lifetime search for the best.

2 cup whole milk

1/2 cup oil

1/2 cup sugar

*heat these ingredients just before the boiling point. Remove from heat and let cool 30 min. Then add

1 pkg yeast

4 cup flour

* let rise for an hour, or overnight. Then add

1 tea Baking powder

1 tea baking soda

1 tbs salt

* Fold this into dough and roll into a rectangle. Rub room temperature butter into dough until surface is covered add cinnamon and brown sugar generously. Roll dough and cut. Let rise 20- 30 min and cook at 400 degree for 15 min.

Icing

8oz cream cheese

1/2 cup butter soft

3 cup powder sugar

1 tea vanilla

2tbs whole milk

*if you want something really tasy make a simple syrup of your favorite berry and put on top. The picture has blackberry syrup then the icing. Trust me you will love it!

Sour Cream Muffins with Poppy Seed Streusel

We made this for breakfast this morning and oh-yummy! They are not too sweet, almost like a cornbread or a buttermilk pancake, but with the slightest hint of orange zest.

Streusel:
3 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon butter, melted
1 teaspoon poppy seeds

Muffins:
2 cups all-purpose flour (about 9 ounces)
3/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup fat-free buttermilk
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 tablespoon grated orange rind
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 (8-ounce) container reduced-fat sour cream
Cooking spray

Preheat oven to 375°.

To prepare streusel, combine first 4 ingredients in a small bowl; set aside.

To prepare muffins, lightly spoon 2 cups flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine 2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl, stirring with a whisk. Make a well in center of mixture. Combine buttermilk and remaining ingredients except cooking spray in a small bowl; add to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Spoon batter into 15 muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle streusel evenly over batter. Bake at 375° for 18 minutes or until golden brown. Remove muffins from pans immediately; place on a wire rack.

Yield: 15 servings (serving size: 1 muffin)

CALORIES 180 (32% from fat); FAT 6.3g (sat 3.2g,mono 2.3g,poly 0.4g); IRON 1mg; CHOLESTEROL 31mg; CALCIUM 77mg; CARBOHYDRATE 27.8g; SODIUM 277mg; PROTEIN 3.3g; FIBER 0.5g

Cooking Light, NOVEMBER 2005

Didn't your mom teach you to share?

Okay this is a funny story. I got a call the other day from a very old, dear friend whom I love dearly. She told me that she was looking at our family recipe blog and found the greatest thing ever. (come to find out there are many who frequent this recipe blog who are not related to me)
Long story short: Her visiting teacher makes the greatest rice krispie treats. This friend (who will rename nameless....is that okay Jodi?)has requested the recipe many times but she won't share the recipe. This girl won't even share the recipe with her 80 year old grandmother. So low and behold she stumbles onto our recipe blog and finds it. She was thrilled. She said she was going to make them that night, take them and leave them on her door step with a note that said, "na na na na na". (actually I think the note was my idea)

So she asked me to "thank Melissa" for posting this recipe and that "you will never know how grateful she was."

I laughed really hard because I know people who just don't know how to share!!!!

My Favorite Food Sites- by Melissa

I have an idea...we should put a list of some of our favorite food blogs on here so others can check them out if they haven't seen them yet. {label it favorite food sites & your name}

Here are some of mine:

http://bakerella.blogspot.com/ - I loooove this site! I just want to eat the screen:)

http://littlewindowshoppe.com/category/treats-recipes-snacks - this site is no longer adding stuff but I still like looking at the stuff, I made found Oreo Truffles on here & there are super easy & yummy to make. The other things on there are neat to look at too.

http://www.picky-palate.com/ - This is another all time FAVORITE site

http://crazycraftycousins.blogspot.com/2008/12/dump-truck-cake.html - This blog has recipes & other cute stuff.

http://favfamilyrecipes.blogspot.com/ - yum

http://www.gourmetmomonthego.com/

http://realmomkitchen.blogspot.com/

http://cooking-mmb.blogspot.com/ - this is a list of different ones, my friend helped make the Mormon Mommy Blogs

http://mykitchencafe.blogspot.com/2008/04/solid-peanut-butter-cups.html - these are the reason I went to this site

http://www.tipjunkie.com/ - LOTS of recipes & LOTS of other really neat things

BON APPETIT!

PB Rice Krispy Treats

I just posted this on my blog today but this is a simple recipe just a different twist on Rice Krispy Treats. Oh & hey it's my FIRST recipe post! Woo-hoo even though I have a lot more I just always forget to add them here.

Anyways enjoy!

PB Rice Krispies {recipe taken from my MIL}

1 cup Karo Syrup
1 cup white sugar
1 cup PB (peanut butter, duh!)
6 cups Rice Krispies cereal

chocolate chips of choice (optional)

Put Karo Syrup & sugar in saucepan & heat at med-low heat. You DO NOT want it to boil! The sugar just needs to dissolve. When sugar is dissolved take off of heat & add the PB & mix well till all melted together & pour over Rice Krispies cereal & mix all up & then press into 9x13 pan.

Optional:
Sprinkle chocolate chips on top & to help with the melting you can place under the broiler BUT BE SUPER CAREFUL!!! You DO NOT want burnt chocolate taste. You just want to help the chips melt a tiny bit so you can spread it easier.

Restaurant-Style Buffalo Chicken Wings

Restaurant-Style Buffalo Chicken Wings
(I got this recipe from All-Recipes. It had 5 stars. It calls for traditional wings with the bones which we don't like. So instead I cut up pieces of chicken and used that instead. I used the same time to cook that it said below and it cooked them too long, they were chewy. However, the sauce is freaking awesome and so easy. Taste just like you get in a wing shop. So next time I would cook the chicken different but use the sauce.)
oil for deep frying

1/4 cup butter

1/4 cup hot sauce (I use Texas Pete)

1 dash ground black pepper

1 dash garlic powder

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon paprika

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/4 teaspoon salt

10 chicken wings

Heat oil in a deep fryer to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). The oil should be just enough to cover wings entirely, an inch or so deep. Combine the butter, hot sauce, pepper and garlic powder in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir together and heat until butter is melted and mixture is well blended. Remove from heat and reserve for serving.

In a small bowl mix together the flour, paprika, cayenne pepper and salt. Place chicken wings in a large nonporous glass dish or bowl and sprinkle flour mixture over them until they are evenly coated. Cover dish or bowl and refrigerate for 60 to 90 minutes.

Fry coated wings in hot oil for 10 to 15 minutes, or until parts of wings begin to turn brown. Remove from heat, place wings in serving bowl, add hot sauce mixture and stir together. Serve.

Homemade pizza sauce

Tonight I was making french bread pizza but I forgot to buy pizza sauce at the store. So I didn't have to go back to the store just for that I looked on All-Recipes and found a recipe. I didn't follow it exactly. I took some suggestions from others who had left feedback and this is what I came up with. It was so good and super easy.

15 oz can tomato sauce
6 oz can tomato paste
1 T Italian seasoning
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 T basil

Then I put everything in a blender and that was it. It made a bunch so I just put the rest in the freezer for another day. I was very happy with how it turned out. All my kids ate it (and they don't like pizza unless it is delivered) and loved it. I will never buy pizza sauce again!

Poppy Seed Bread

This is so yummy and can also be made as muffins.

3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/8 cup oil
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk
1 1/2 T poppy seeds
1 1/2 vanilla
1 1/2 tsp almond extract

Mix all but the first 3 ingredients with electric mixer. Sift in flour, baking powder, and salt and mix. Pour into 2 large or 4 small lightly greased loaf pans. Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Poke holes in warm loaves and pour frosting over warm loaves.

Frosting:
3/4 C powder sugar
1/4 C orange juice
1 1/2 melted butter
1/2 tsp amond extract
1/2 tsp vanilla

Recipe website

Hey everyone I have seen this website http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/. It is awesome! I found this recipe for Macaroni and Cheese. I HATE mac and cheese, always have until now. This stuff is heaven in a bowl... try it out!!http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/04/macaroni-cheese/

World's best lasagna

This recipe is from Allrecipes.com and it is on there top 20 recipes. I have made it a couple of times and it is the best lasagna I have ever had.

1 pound sweet Italian sausage
3/4 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup minced onion
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
2 (6.5 ounce) cans canned tomato sauce
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil leaves
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 tablespoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
12 lasagna noodles
16 ounces ricotta cheese
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 pound mozzarella cheese, sliced
3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Directions:

1. In a Dutch oven, cook sausage, ground beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until well browned. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, and water. Season with sugar, basil, fennel seeds, Italian seasoning, 1 tablespoon salt, pepper, and 2 tablespoons parsley. Simmer, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.

2. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook lasagna noodles in boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes. Drain noodles, and rinse with cold water. In a mixing bowl, combine ricotta cheese with egg, remaining parsley, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.

3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

4. To assemble, spread 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish. Arrange 6 noodles lengthwise over meat sauce. Spread with one half of the ricotta cheese mixture. Top with a third of mozzarella cheese slices. Spoon 1 1/2 cups meat sauce over mozzarella, and sprinkle with 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese. Repeat layers, and top with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan cheese. Cover with foil: to prevent sticking, either spray foil with cooking spray, or make sure the foil does not touch the cheese.

5. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Remove foil, and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes before serving

* The sauce makes enough for 2 lasagnas. So you can either make 2 dishes of it (you would need double everything else except for the sauce) or put the sauce in your freezer and make it another time.

Fudge Ice Cream Dessert

1 box Betty Crocker SuperMoist chocolate fudge cake mix

1/3 C butter or margarine, melted

3 eggs

1 can or jar (16oz) hot fudge topping, heated

2 C chopped oreos

1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream, slightly softened

1. Heat oven to 350. Line bottom and sides of 13x9 pan with foil, leaving foil overhanging at 2 opposite sides of pan. Spray bottom only of foil lined pan with baking spray.

2. In large bowl, mix cake mix, butter and eggs with spoon until blended (batter will be very thick). Spread or pat in pan with greased fingers.

3. Bake 17-19 minutes or until surface appears dry and is no longer shiny. Cool completely in pan, about 1 hour.

4. Spread warm fudge topping over cake. Sprinkle with 1 cup of the chopped oreos. Freeze about 30 minutes or until firm.

5. Spread ice cream over cookies. Cover; freeze at least 4 hours or overnight until firm. Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup of oreos.

6. Before serving, let dessert stand 15-20 minutes.

I think this cake would be yummy if you used mint chocolate chip ice cream and mint oreos if you like mint! This cake was super easy and really good.

Peanut Butter Fingers

I got this recipe from Ali's Sister-in-law Shauna Bushman. It is a family favorite of ours.

3/4 C. butter

3/4 C. sugar

3/4 C. brown sugar

2 eggs

3/4 C. peanut butter

3/4 tsp. soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

2 1/2 to 3 cups of flour

1 1/2 C rolled oats

Cream together butter, both sugars and eggs. Add peanut butter, soda, salt and vanilla. Mix well and then add flour and oats.

Spread (with fingers) on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 14-16 minutes at 325. Be careful not to over bake as this is the secret of them being just good or really good. When cooked, spread with 3/4 C peanut butter. Make frosting and spread over peanut butter. Cut into squares.

Chocolate frosting: (This recipe came from Lisa Lamb and it is awesome)

1/4 C melted butter

1/3 C coca

1/3 C water

1 tsp vanilla

powder sugar to consistency

Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake

Sara Lee pound cake (found in frozen food)
Cool Whip
1 lg. package of vanilla pudding (instant)
Strawberries
Cut the pound cake into squares. Make pudding according to directions. Cut strawberries. Then to assemble in the bottom of your dish put a layer of cake then pour some pudding, then a layer of cool whip and then top with strawberries. REPEAT until you are out.
Put in the fridge for a couple of hours before serving.
This is one of my kids very favorite!!!

Sugar cookies

Paula Dean Sugar Cookies

1 C butter, softened

1 C sugar

2 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp almond extract

3 1/2 cups of flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

-In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in eggs and extracts.

-In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Gradually add to sugar mixture, beating until combined. Cover and refrigerate dough for 1 hour.

-Preheat over to 350. Spray baking sheets with nonstick spray.

-On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4" thick. Cut with cookie cutters. Bake for 10 minutes, or until bottom edges are very lightly browned.

Icing: I put about 2 cups of powder sugar in a bowl. I added a little milk (maybe 3-4 tsp.) Then I added 1/2 tsp vanilla and about 2 tsp. of light Karo syrup. Then as I mixed it was a little thick so I added a little more Karo syrup. I just mixed until it was the texture I wanted my icing to be. You don't want it too runny. It hardened up pretty quick.

Pumpkin Cheese Coffee Cake

I got this recipe out of the Taste of Homes years ago and it is one of my favorites.

2 cups Sugar
2 eggs
1-1/4 cups canned pumpkin
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

FILLING:
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1 egg
1 tablespoon sugar

TOPPING:
3/4 cup flaked coconut
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup brown Sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions: In a large bowl, beat sugar, eggs, pumpkin, oil and vanilla. Combine the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; add to egg mixture and mix well. Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, egg and sugar until smooth. Drop tablespoonfuls over batter; cut through batter with a knife to swirl. Combine topping ingredients; sprinkle over top. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.

Lamb Family Recipes

If there are any other "Lamb's" that want to contribute to this blog please tell them to email me (sarahbabbel@gmail.com) and I will send them an invite.

Banana Cookies

These are YUMMY cookies. They are almost like the texture of pumpkin cookies. It makes about 30 cookies so it is not a ton but enough.

1/2 C shortening
1 C brown sugar
2 eggs
1 C mashed bananas
2 C flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp soda
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp nutmeg

Mix first 4 ingredients together, then add rest and mix. Use a cookie scoop to drop on sheet. Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

Banana Cookie Frosting
1/3 cup butter, browned (In a deep bowl with wax paper over it, cook in microwave for 3 minutes. Then add 1 minute at a time until brown.
3 C powder sugar
3-4 T milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Mix and spread over cookies while frosting is still warm

Buttercream icing

Here you go Liz- enjoy!

1 cup of butter or margarine, softened
1 cup shortening
2 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup milk
powdered sugar

Combine butter and shortening. Add vanilla and milk. Stir in powdered sugar. For a softer icing use more milk. Can add coca for chocolate. Can substitute cream cheese for the butter.

Cream-Cheese Chicken

After I make this I will post a real picture of what it really looks like.

Add to the Crock-pot:

1 stick of butter

1 6 oz package of Italian Salad Dressing Mix

4-6 chicken breast

cook for 4-5 hours then one hour before serving, take chicken out of crock-pot then add:

1 8 oz cream cheese

1 can of cream of chicken soup

and a little bit of milk about 1 TBS

Stir until melted. Put chicken back into crock-pot for 30-60 minutes. Serve over rice or noodles.

Pumpkin Waffles

These are the best waffles I have ever had. Way better than the traditional waffles and healthier.

2 Cup Flour
2 Tbl Baking Powder
1 Tbl Cinnamon
1 Tbl Sugar
1/2 tea Nutmeg
1/4 tea Salt
Combine above ingredients and set aside

4 eggs - separated and reserve the egg whites
1/2 C milk
1 C Pumpkin
3/4 C soft Butter
1 Tbl Vanilla

Blend the egg yokes with milk, butter, pumpkin and vanilla together until creamy. Combine with dry ingredients and blend until creamy. Whip the egg whites until forms peaks and fold into pancake mixture and mix slightly until combined. Bake in preheated waffle iron and serve with butter cream syrup. (I actually didn't have whipping cream so I just used maple syrup and it was good but the butter cream syrup sounds yummy)

Butter Cream Syrup
1 Cup Heavy Cream
1 Cup White Sugar
1/2 C. Brown Sugar
1 Stick Butter
Combine in a small sauce pan until bubbly. Refrigerate remaining and use again next time.

Yummy Syrup...

This Syrup is so yummy, very fast and very easy to make!

Melt over stove in sauce pan:

1 cube of butter

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter milk

Take off stove and add:

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. baking soda

Now it's ready to serve, on pancakes, waffels, french toast, or on top of wheat bread right out of the oven, so yummy!!