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Talking Turkey

Posted in Main Dish, Quick and Easy, Recipes on February 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Hubby and I are not huge turkey fans.

To be quite honest, we’d prefer just about any other meat to turkey.

But then…

We discovered these really tasty Turkey Breasts from Butterball.

They come precooked, smoked and flavored and are piping hot and ready to eat in just 30 minutes. The meat is moist and tender and wonderful. It is so fast and easy to make – just like the package says… everyday. As in you can make it for an everyday dinner not as in I’m eating this every day. Eww! I like it, but it isn’t chocolate, after all!

 

To prepare, I put the breast in a foil lined pan and bake according to package directions.

When it is piping hot, just slice and serve. How easy is that?

 

And delicious! Especially if you drain off the juice and make something wicked like potatoes and gravy to go along with the turkey!

Happy Entertaining!

She who now likes turkey

 

 

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Chocolate Fudge and Mint Cookies

Posted in Christmas, Desserts, Entertaining at Home, Quick and Easy, Recipes, tagged , , , , on December 10, 2010| 1 Comment »

I was standing in my kitchen the other day contemplating what kind of cookie I was willing to invest the time and effort in making six dozen. Got to tell you up front, it was not going to be decorated sugar cookies!

Invited to a cookie exchange party (that I can hardly wait to attend!),  I needed to come up with six dozen cookies that weren’t going to be a time-consuming venture.

Finally, I remembered my super easy recipe for cake mix cookies. I love this recipe because you can use any flavor cake mix and any add-ins that tickle your fancy.

Since I have a thing for chocolate, I decided to use a chocolate fudge mix. A natural flavor to blend (at least for me) is peppermint. These are so fast and easy, you’ll have time to sip a cup of hot chocolate and sing a few “Fa La La La La’s” before you move on to your next frenzied activity.

Ingredients

Melt butter, then blend in eggs.

After you add the cake mix, the dough will be thick.

Drop onto a baking sheet.

Top with Kisses (the candy kind!)

Dust with sugar once cookies are cool, if you can wait that long to try one!

Chocolate Fudge and Mint Cookies

1 Chocolate Fudge cake mix (18.25 ounce)

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

1 bag Hershey’s peppermint kisses

powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream together eggs and butter. Add vanilla then mix in cake mix. Drop dough by rounded teaspoon onto a baking sheet. Place an unwrapped kiss in the center of each cookie.

Bake about 6-8 minutes until cookies are just set but not cooked through. Remove from oven and leave on pan until cool. Dust with powdered sugar and enjoy!

As I mentioned, you can use any cake mix and add-in combination. You could do spice cake with nuts, yellow cake with candied cherries, vanilla with a dollop of jam, chocolate with sweetened cream cheese and mini chips. You get the idea.

This recipe will make 72 mini cookies or about 30 regular-sized cookies.

Happy Holiday Entertaining!

The Chocoholic

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Egg Noodles

Posted in Easy Recipes, Quick and Easy, Recipes, Sides, tagged , , on December 5, 2010| 1 Comment »

Egg Noodles

 

 

The other day I needed some egg noodles to finish off dinner and found that I had run out of them. Someone who shall remain nameless and blameless evidently forget to pick them up the last time they went to the store.

Which means I had to resort to drastic measures and make my own egg noodles. I really don’t know why I don’t make them more often. They are simple and so, so good!

You can eat them with butter, drench in sauce, cover with stroganoff or mix with chicken.

 

The ingredients - less than five. Woohoo!

 

 

Mix ingredients, form into a doughy ball and then roll on a floured surface.

Make sure you roll your dough nice and thin.

 

 

Cut noodles into strips and let dry.

 

 

Drop noodles into a pot of boiling water and cook until tender.

 

 

Yum!

 

 

 

 

Egg Noodles

1 cup flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1 egg

1 eggshell of water

Crack egg into bowl with baking powder and  flour. Fill eggshell with water and dump into bowl. Stir until you have a ball of dough. Roll out on a floured surface until very thin. Cut into strips and let dry for 2 to 3 hours. I like to turn them about an hour and a half into the game so both sides get dry.

When you are ready to cook, place noodles into a medium-saucepan of boiling water (you can salt water if you like) and cook until tender, or about 12 minutes.

This recipe will make about the same amount of noodles in a standard package. Just make sure you roll these nice and thin.

Told you it was easy!

Enjoy!

 

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Summer Fruit Skewers

Posted in Easy Recipes, Quick and Easy, Recipes, tagged , , on August 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Today’s recipe is going to be super fast and easy, because that is just the kind of day it is!

I made these fruit skewers a few weeks ago for a party and not only were they a hit, they came together quickly and looked beautiful on the serving table. A winner all the way around!

You’ll need a watermelon, cantaloupe, skewer sticks, a melon baller and some grapes for garnish.

Slice open the melons, scoop out the cantaloupe seeds and whip out your handy-dandy melon baller.  I love mine. You can use it for making mini cookie scoops, for digging out pumpkin guts, for scooping slushy fruit drinks into glasses. Today, though, use it to make perfect little balls of sweet, juicy melon. As you make the balls, scoop them into a bowl. If your melons are less-than-perfection ripe, do this the night before you need them, sprinkle with sugar, stir and let rest overnight in the fridge.  That sprinkling of sugar will give them a great flavor of they need a bit of help.

Once you’ve got the melon balls all scooped, start threading them on skewers, alternating a watermelon ball with a cantaloupe ball. Layer the skewers on a tray and fill in the center with red and green grapes.  The skewers make the fruit easy to handle, especially if you are serving all finger-foods.

This is a great way of presenting summer fruit and it makes it look like you went to a lot of fuss, when really you didn’t!

Happy Entertaining!

Shanna

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