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Quick And Easy Donuts

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Quick And Easy Donuts
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cans refrigerated biscuit mix(any)
  • ½ c powdered sugar in a small bowl(for powdered donuts)
  • ½ c sugar in a small bowl(for sugar donuts)
  • 1 canister of chocolate frosting, vanilla, or your favorite
  • sprinkles(assorted)
  • oil
Instructions
  1. In a large frying pan, pour enough oil to shallow fry a few donuts at a time.
  2. Open biscuits and pull 1 off at a time.
  3. Shape it in your hand creating a circle in the middle, and place in hot oil.
  4. As it browns on 1 side, flip it with some tongs and brown the other side.
  5. Place on a wire rack to cool slightly.
  6. Your family or guests can start decorating to their desire.

 

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Pumpkin cookies

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Pumpkin cookies
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Recipe Type: Cookie
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Ingredients
  • 1¼ c shortening
  • 3¼ c white granulated sugar
  • 1 lg can pumpkin
  • 3 eggs
  • 6 c flour
  • 3 t baking soda
  • 1½ t each nutmeg and allspice
  • 3 t cinnamon
  • 2 t salt
  • 1 small package chocolate chips
  • ½ pkg chopped walnuts or pecans
Instructions
  1. In a large mixing bowl, add ingredients in the order listed.
  2. Continue mixing as you add each ingredient.
  3. Drop by spoonful onto a cookie sheet.
  4. Bake at 375 for 12-14 minutes or until done.

 

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Pumpkin Roll

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Pumpkin Roll
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 c white sugar
  • ⅔ c pumpkin
  • 1 tsp lemon juice(optional)
  • ¾ c flour
  • 1 t baking powder
  • ½ t salt
  • 2 t ground cinnamon
  • 2 t pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 c chopped walnuts
  • 8 oz pkg cream cheese
  • 2 T butter
  • 1½ cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 t vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. Lightly grease a 10×15 inch jelly roll pan.
  3. In a large bowl, beat eggs until fluffy. Beat in sugar until fluffiness resumes. Stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice. Fold dry ingredients into pumpkin mixture. Spread in prepared pan; sprinkle with nuts.
  4. Bake in preheated oven 15 minutes. Sprinkle a kitchen towel with confectioner’s sugar. Turn cake out onto towel while still hot. Carefully roll cake in towel, long ends together, and let cool completely.
  5. Filling: In medium bowl, cream together cream cheese, butter and confectioners’ sugar. Stir in vanilla.
  6. Carefully unroll cooled cake and remove kitchen towel. Spread cake with filling and re-roll. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

 

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
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Recipe Type: Dessert
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Serves: 6-8
 
Ingredients
  • 1 c flour
  • ⅓ c brown sugar
  • 5 T butter softened
  • ½ c chopped pecans or walnuts
  • 1 pkg cream cheese softened
  • ¾ c sugar
  • ½ c of pumpkin
  • 2 eggs lightly beaten
  • 1½ t cinnamon
  • 1 t allspice
  • 1 t vanilla
Instructions
  1. In a mixing bowl, combine flour and brown sugar.
  2. Cut in butter to make a crumb mixture.
  3. Stir in nuts and set aside ¾ c of the mixture for the topping.
  4. Press remaining mixture into the bottom of 8×8 pan.
  5. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Cool.
  6. Combine the pumpkin, cream cheese, sugar, eggs cinnamon, allspice, and vanilla in a mixing bowl and mix well.
  7. Pour mixture over the top.
  8. Sprinkle the reserved topping over that.
  9. Bake an additional 30-35 minutes

 

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Pumpkin Cheesecake

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Pumpkin Cheesecake
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Recipe Type: Dessert
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Serves: 6-8
 
Ingredients
  • Crust
  • 2 c ground gingersnaps
  • 4-5 T melted butter
  • Filling
  • 1 16oz can pumpkin
  • 4 8 oz pkg softened cream cheese
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 t cinnamon
  • 2 t nutmeg
  • ½ t ginger and ginger cloves
  • 1 c sugar
  • Topping(optional)
  • 1 c sour cream
  • 3 T sugar
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 1 T apple cider
Instructions
  1. Mix ground gingersnaps and butter and press into a 8” pie pan and form pie crust.
  2. Preheat the oven to 350.
  3. Mix all the pie filling ingredients together and pour into the pie shell. Bake for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let cool for 15 minutes. Chill for 4 hours.
  4. Mix all the topping ingredients together and spread on top. Chill 1 more hour.

 

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Pull Apart Breadsticks

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Pull Apart Breadsticks
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Recipe Type: Bread
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Ingredients
  • 36 frozen dinner rolls, thawed but still cold
  • ½ c butter melted(you could add garlic powder)
  • salad supreme
  • kosher salt
  • Parmesan cheese
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350.
  2. In a 9×13 buttered casserole pan, roll out each piece of dough and stretch it across the short side of the pan.
  3. After all the rolls are in the pan, brush the melted butter over the top completely.
  4. Sprinkle the salad supreme, kosher salt and Parmesan cheese over the top.
  5. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until done.
  6. These are amazing!

 

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Potato Broccoli Soup

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Potato Broccoli Soup
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Recipe Type: Soup
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Ingredients
  • 1 c uncooked chicken(cut into small pieces)
  • 1 can chicken broth
  • 1 lb broccoli broke into small trees
  • 2 potatoes peeled and cubed
  • CHEESE MIX:
  • 1 cube butter
  • 1 tsp. chicken bullion
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 lb Velveeta cheese
  • 1 t red pepper flakes(optional)
Instructions
  1. Simmer chicken in broth for 15 min.
  2. Add broccoli and potatoes and simmer 7 more minutes.
  3. In separate pan over low heat (or microwave in a large glass bowl) melt butter, bullion, milk, and cheese together.
  4. Mix sauce with chicken and veggies, do not drain broth. (You can leave out the potatoes and chicken if you prefer just broccoli).

 

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Poppy Seed Cake

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Poppy Seed Cake
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 1 yellow cake mix without pudding
  • 1 lg pkg van instant pudding
  • (reg or sugar free)
  • 1 c hot water
  • ¾ t almond extract
  • ½ c oil
  • 4 eggs
  • ½ t baking powder
  • 4 T poppy seeds
Instructions
  1. Mix well and place in a greased 13 × 9 pan.
  2. Follow the baking instructions on the cake mix.
  3. I like to make a bundt cake using this recipe.

 

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Polynesian Pork Chops

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Polynesian Pork Chops
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Recipe Type: Main
 
Ingredients
  • 4 pork chops
  • 1 T oil
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 green and red pepper cut into strips
  • ¼ onion, sliced
  • 1 8 oz can pineapple chunks
  • ⅓ c Heinz 57 Sauce
  • cornstarch
Instructions
  1. In a medium size skillet, salt and pepper pork chops and brown pork chops in the oil.
  2. Add green onion and onion and saute for a few minutes.
  3. Add pineapple juice and all, and the Heinz 57 Sauce.
  4. Cover and simmer until done.
  5. Remove chops from fry pan and thicken the sauce with cornstarch/water mixture.
  6. Serve over chops and rice.

 

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Poached Salmon

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Poached Salmon
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Recipe Type: Main
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Ingredients
  • 4 salmon fillets
  • 1 lemon quartered
  • 1 red onion cut in 1 inch chunks
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 c white wine
  • 2 c water
  • fresh dill
Instructions
  1. In a fry pan or roasting pan, on the stove top, add water, wine, bay leaves, onion and lemon.
  2. Bring to a boil, reduce to low boil.
  3. Add salmon and poach 8 to 12 minutes, depending on thickness.
  4. Serve with fresh dill or dill sauce.

 

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Pistachio Cheesecake

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Pistachio Cheesecake
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Recipe Type: Dessert
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Serves: 6-8
 
Ingredients
  • 18 Oreo cookies crushed
  • ¼ cup cold butter
  • 6 8 oz pkg cream cheese softened
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 sm pkg instant pistachio pudding mix
  • 5 eggs
Instructions
  1. In a small bowl cut Oreos into butter until crumbly.
  2. Press onto the the bottom and 1-1/4 up the sides of the greased 10 inch springform pan.
  3. Bake at 400 for 10 minutes.
  4. In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, milk and pudding mixes until smooth.
  5. Add eggs and beat on low speed just until combined.
  6. Pour over crust.
  7. Place pan on a baking sheet.
  8. Reduce heat to 350. Bake 55-60 minutes or until center is almost set.
  9. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
  10. Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen.
  11. Cool 1 hour longer.
  12. Refrigerate overnight.
  13. Garnish with whipped cream and pistachios.

 

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Pink Flamingo Smoothie

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Pink Flamingo Smoothie
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Recipe Type: Beverage
Serves: 1
 
Ingredients
  • 1 frozen banana
  • ½ c fresh strawberries
  • ¾ c pineapple juice
  • 1 strawberry to garnish
Instructions
  1. Combine the fruit and juice in a blender.
  2. Blend until smooth.
  3. Garnish.

 

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Pina Colada Wedge

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Pina Colada Wedge
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 8 oz cream cheese softened
  • ⅓ c sugar
  • 2 T rum extract
  • 3½ cups cool whip thawed
  • 8¼ oz crushed pineapple juice
  • 2 cups flaked coconut angel
Instructions
  1. Beat cream cheese with sugar and rum until smooth.
  2. Fold in 2 cups of the whipped topping, pineapple with syrup and ⅔ of the coconut, spread in 8 inch layer pan lined with plastic wrap.
  3. Invert pan onto serving plate, remove pan and plastic wrap.
  4. Spread with remaining whipped topping and sprinkle with remaining coconut.
  5. Freeze until firm, about 2 hours.
  6. Cut into wedges Garnish with pineapples and cherries if desired.

 

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Philly Cheesesteak Cresent Rolls

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Philly Cheesesteak Cresent Rolls
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Recipe Type: Main
 
Ingredients
  • 2 T butter
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • 1 green bell pepper, sliced
  • ¾ lb sliced roast beef (from the deli)
  • ⅓ c beef broth
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 2 (8 oz) tubes refrigerated crescent rolls
  • 4 slices Swiss cheese
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375-degrees.
  2. In a large skillet, saute onion and pepper in butter over medium heat until they become soft and onions become transparent.
  3. Coarsely chop roast beef and add to onion/pepper mix.
  4. Stir for about 2-3 minutes or until roast beef becomes hot. Add beef broth and cream cheese, stirring until cream cheese is melted and coats the roast beef. Remove from heat.
  5. Separate crescents dough into triangles and press flat.
  6. Slice Swiss cheese into 4 strips and lay each strip over each crescent triangle.
  7. Scoop about 2 T of roast beef mix over each triangle and roll up, pinching the sides of the crescent so cheese doesn’t ooze out.
  8. Place crescent rolls on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375-degrees for 10-13 minutes or until golden brown.

 

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