Super Easy Alfredo Sauce

1 stick butter

1 8 oz package cream cheese

1/2 cup milk

melt all ingredients together

I usually have t0 help quite a bit with the cream cheese (with a wisk) you don’t want to bring this to a boil or anything, just get the cream cheese melted enough to incorporate with the butter and milk, once that is done, remove it from the heat and add 3/4 cup of parmesan cheese. I usually just use the grated parmesan cheese that we shake on spaghetti, because I don’t think ahead enough to have fresh. Although I’m sure it would be so much better with fresh!!!

This is delicious on pasta with chicken but also wonderful to dip breadsticks in! or maybe even as a white sauce for pizza!!

Finnish Pancake

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Jane requested this recipe be added to the page! I am so glad she did! I remember having this for Sunday dinner! She says to tell everyone that mom would always cook it in cast iron as well. Glenna says that mom would mix it in the blender first! we would slice it like a pie and put maple syrup on it!

Ingredients

  • 6 Large Eggs
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • 5 tablespoons butter

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425
  2. Put the eggs, milk, salt, flour, and vanilla extract into a blender and blend until smooth.
  3. Put the butter in a 9 x 13 baking dish. You can use a cast iron dish or stoneware if you prefer.
  4. Melt the butter in the oven.
  5. Pour batter into the heated dish.
  6. bake for around 25 minutes

    It should be puffy in the center and golden around the edges.

Best Brownies

I found this recipe in a cookbook that Roy bought me while we were dating. it is requested so frequently by my daughters, that i decided to post it here! it is seriously delicious!!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter, (melted)
    1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/3 cup cocoa
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Instructions

  • Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • grease 9-inch square baking pan.
    In medium bowl, stir together butter, sugar and vanilla.
  • Add eggs;
  • with spoon, beat well.
  • Stir together four, cocoa, baking powder and salt;
  • gradually add to egg mixture,
  • beating until well blended.
  • Stir in nuts if desired.
  • Spread batter evenly into prepared pan.
  • Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until brownie begins to pull away from sides of pan.
  • Cool completely in pan on wire rack.

Banana Bread

1 cup sugar

2/3 cup butter

2 eggs

3-4 ripe bananas

1/3 cup water

1 2/3 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp baking powder

Mix all ingredients and pour into a well greased bread pan. bake at 350 degree oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until a testing stick comes out clean.

Stephanie got this recipe from the lady she used to nanny for. (right?). and she and i decided it was the best banana recipe we had come across. we think it is because of the water, but that is just our extensive cooking knowledge speaking. lol

2 ingredient Pumpkin spice cookies

1 15oz can of pumpkin (not pie filling)

1 spice cake mix

Optional: chocolate chips

this is not an old family recipe or even one mom knew about however it is such a delicious, fast, easy, and, from what I understand, even healthy recipe that I wanted to share it with everybody.

All you need is one 15oz can of pumpkin and one spice cake mix. You mix the two together and drop them in cookie shapes on a cookie sheet. We do usually add chocolate chips which would make for a third ingredient so that’s up to you. I’ve also seen this just baked in a cake pan As a sweet bread or in muffin tins as muffins.

A word to the wise this batter does not flatten or rise so if you’re doing it for muffins you’ll want to fill the muffin tin most of the way and also maybe make a swirl in the top with your spoon or something because the way it looks when you put it in is pretty much the way it looks when it comes out so if you have a lot of spiky points on it because you just dropped the dough on it that’s still what it’s gonna look like…

Bake at 375 for 10 to 12 minutes

au gratin potatoes

8-10 medium potatoes

1 lb of cheese

1 stick butter

1/2 cup flour

2 1/2 cups of milk

garlic powder

salt

pepper

directions:

Wash potatoes and put in a large pot. fill with water to just covering all potatoes. turn on hi. boil until potatoes are soft enough to pierce with a fork easily.

pour off hot water and fill with cold water to cool potatoes down. I sometimes do this twice to hurry the process along.

using a regular table knife gently peel off the peels of the potatoes and then dice the potatoes into bite-sized pieces. place in a large bowl or casserole dish.

Dice the cheese into small cubes. add to potatoes

to make the white sauce start by melting the butter in a saucepan. as soon as it is melted add the one-half cup of flour and stir quickly. once the flour is completely mixed with the butter add the milk and whisk it well. stir constantly over medium heat adding garlic, salt, and pepper to taste. when the sauce is thickened, pour it over the potatoes and stir. sometimes I put the bowl in the oven again to melt the cheese, but sometimes the hot sauce does the job nicely.

I usually dice the cheese while the potatoes are boiling. also, when making the white sauce I try to have all of my supplies right there such as the whisk, wooden spoon, milk, flour, salt pepper, and garlic so that I don’t risk having to leave the sauce to fetch an ingredient.

Peanut Clusters

10 oz bag of butterscotch baking chips

8 oz can of roasted peanuts

This recipe is so very easy and simple but I thought I would put it up on the blog in case people didn’t know or couldn’t remember how mom would make these. She would always make them around Christmas time if I recall. It’s as simple as melting The butterscotch chips and then dumping the peanuts in and stirring it up. Then spooning clusters onto wax paper or foil. They will cool down and be ready to eat shortly.

Chocolate chip cookies

Pre heat oven to 375

2 cups of butter or margarine

1 1/2 cups of white sugar

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

Mix well

Add:

5 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp baking soda

1tsp salt

1 bag chocolate chips

Spoon onto a cookie sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes

When mom would make chocolate chip cookies she would double the recipe. this recipe is for a double batch. On the bag of chocolate chips where she got the recipe it would say to use the whole bag of chocolate chips but mom would double the recipe and still only use half the bag of chocolate chips so she could get more batches of cookies out of one bag of chocolate chips. I use one whole bag of chocolate chips for this recipe or if I’m buying bulk chocolate chips from Cosco it is 2 cups of chocolate chips.

lemon bars

here is the recipe in case the photo is too hard to read:

crust:

2 cups flour

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 cup soft butter

combine and roll out onto 9 x 13 sheet.  Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes.

filling:

4 eggs

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup flour

6 tbsp lemon juice

pour onto already baked crust bake for 20-25 minutes.

How lucky are we?  this is straight from moms recipe collection!  the only thing I need to add to this is a little clarification to moms instructions on how to know when it is done.  when the edges start to get brown and the top looks like a ton of little bubbles have popped all over it!

I believe the traditional way to serve these is to cut into squares and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

good luck!