Tuesday, March 31, 2009

PJ’s Favorite Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

From: Lincoln cooking project

1 cup Peanut Butter

1 cup Sugar

1 Egg

Preheat oven to 350. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Shape into 1 ½ inch balls. Place on cookie sheet. Butter bottom of glass and press to flatten cookies. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

S'More's

You will need:

graham crackers, broken into 4ths
chocolate chips
mini marshmallows
broiler friendly dish (9x13 or cookie sheet)

Recipe:

1. Pre-heat broiler.

2.In the pan, arrange crackers so they don't over lap. Sprinkle a good amount of chocolate chips on top. Then add mini marshmallows on that, but not too much.

3.Place pan in broiler for a few minutes, until the marshmallows are browned.

*messier than normal s'mores, but good for impatient little ones

Monday, March 16, 2009

Caesar Chicken Salad Sandwich




From: Campbell's Cookbook

You will need:

1 can chicken chunks in water, drained
2 Tbs Caesar salad dressing
1/2 Tbs mayo
4 slices of bread
lettuce leaves
small bowl

Recipe:

1. Mix chicken, dressing and mayo in small bowl.

2. Divide mixture between 2 slices of bread. Top each with lettuce and remaining 2 slices.

3. Eat one sandwich and give one to a friend. :)

Biscuit Donuts***more adult help needed


From: Nana Lounsbery

You will need:

1 container biscuits, 10 ct.
3 tin pie pans
sugar
powdered sugar
cinnamon
oil (veggie or peanut)
large skillet
metal tongs
wire rack

Recipe:

1. Fill the skillet with about a 1/4 inch of oil, heat. Poke a hole in each biscuit and shape into a small donut.

2. When oil is hot, place each donut into the oil using tongs. Let sit for 1 minute or until lightly brown depending on how hot the oil is. Flip and do the same on other side. Let rest on wire rack.

3. In the 3 tins: add powdered sugar in one, sugar in another, and a mixture of sugar and cinnamon in the last.

4. When donuts are cool enough to handle, roll them into the topping of your choice.

Astronaut Pudding

From: Lincoln Cooking Project

You Will Need:

1Tbs Pudding Mix
1/4 cup Milk
Ziploc Bags

Recipe:

1. Put 1 Tbs of instant pudding in zip lock bag. Add ¼ cup of milk.

2. Close bag and squish up the pudding mix in bag. Let sit in fridge for 5 min or so.

3. Cut hole in bottom corner of bag and suck out the pudding. Eat like the astronauts with no utensils!

Camping Ice Cream


From: Tori Snow

You will need:

1/3 cup Sugar
1 cup Heavy Cream
1 cup White or Chocolate Whole Milk

Ice
Rock Salt
2 Quart size baggies
Gallon size baggie
Newspaper
Tape

Recipe:

1. Combine the first three ingredients. Divide into two 1-quart size baggies. Put both in gallon zip lock bag.

2.Put ice and rock salt in the gallon bag. Wrap in newspaper (tape it together) and throw around, keeping it constantly moving and mixing, for 15 minutes.

Sandwich Snacks

Sandwich Rolls

You will need:

1 piece of bread
1 piece of lunch meat
1 stick of string cheese
4 toothpicks
a knife
rolling pin (optional)

Recipe:

1. Cut or pull off the crust of your piece of bread. Then either using the rolling pin or your hands, flatten the bread. Be careful not to tear the bread.

2. Place the lunch meat on top of the bread. Place the cheese on the lunch meat near the edge.

3. Starting on the end with the cheese, roll the bread up. Use the toothpicks to hold the bread in place. Use the knife to cut in between the toothpicks to make mini sandwich rolls.