BBQ Chicken

This is a recipe I figured out recently--it was a fluke. It's super easy and real tasty!

Cook chicken breasts in crockpot, covered with your favorite BBQ sauce til tender.
Just before serving, set the chicken on your outdoor BBQ grill. BBQ both sides for a about 5 min. Put more BBQ sauce on while they're cooking.

Pasta Salad

Rainbow twirly pasta
Cheese
Ham
Carrots
Celery
Cucumber
Olives
Tomatoes
Italian Dressing

Cook entire package of pasta according to directions. Rinse with cold water. Add chopped up stuff (what you like) and top with dressing according to taste. This is fast, easy, and good. We will often eat it as a meal in the summer.

My Favorite Salad Lately

Lettuce or spinach leaves
Strawberries
Craisins
Apples
Cheese
Carrots
Tomatoes
Pecans
Raspberry Walnut Vinaigrette Dressing (I bought Newman's and it's pretty tasty.)

Pretty much everything (except lettuce and dressing) is optional and you can add anything else you like!

Chicken Won Ton Salad

This is one of my favorite stand alone or serve a main course salad.
It's basically done in 3 parts.

1 pkg. won ton noodles, cut in 1 in. lengths & fried. These will be chips to add to the top of your salad. Caution: they cook very fast. You don't want them brown.

Salad
4 chicken breasts cooked, moist & delicious if done in the crock pot with little poultry seasoning.
slivered almonds sauteed in bouillon cube or chicken flavoring
lettuce
red onion
1 can mandarin oranges

Dressing:
1 1/2 t. salt
1/2 c. sugar
2 t. accent
2 t. pepper
1 c. light oil
3/4 c. rice vinegar

Cherry Swirls

or cherry squirrels as my kids would say.

1 1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. margarine or butter
1/2 c. shortening
4 eggs
3 c. flour
1 1/2 t. baking powder
1 1/2 t. salt
1 t. vanilla
1 t. almond flavoring

Mix all above ingredients. In 9x13 pan, spread 1/2 of the cookie mixture.

Spread:
1 can cherry pie filling on top

Glop the remaining cookie mixture on top of the cherry pie filling in small spoonfuls. Then swirl around--you'll have to work at this as the cookie mixture doesn't swirl easily.

Bake @ 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes.
When cooled, frost with a light glaze frosting of powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, and butter.

Mother's Never Fail Bread

I hear B's been the Betty lately with the bread making. This is the recipe she used. I've tasted it and it's yummy. But I have yet to make some of my own.

This is the whole recipe, 6 loaves

5 1/4 c. hot tap water
2/3 c. oil
2/3 c. honey
2 T. salt
3 T. dry yeast
1/4 c. gluten flour
9 c. whole wheat flour
3 c. white flour

Combine all ingredients except white flour. Let raise to top of bowl. Mix again and add 3 c. white flour or until dough cleans sides of bowl. Knead 6 minutes. Put in pans. Let rise for approximately 20 minutes in warm place. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Don't over bake.

Honey Butter

Today felt like a chili and scones kind of day. And what goes better with scones than honey butter--from scratch.

1/4 c. butter, softened
1/2 c. honey

Beat together until fluffy, well as fluffy as honey butter's going to get.