Easy rolls

Ingredients:

2 C scalded milk
6Tbsp Butter
6 Tbsp Sugar
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
2 Tbsp yeast
6-7 C Flour

How to Create:

Stir together milk, butter, sugar and salt. Let cool to luke warm in mixing bowl (10-15 min). Add eggs, yeast and flour. (close to sticky stage) Knead dough.

Let rise double about 1 hour. Punch down. Roll out. Cut in strips about 2 in wide with pizza cutter. dip ends in butter. fold in half. Place on cookie sheet. Let rise 25-30 min. Bake 375 degrees for 15 min or until golden brown.

Dr. and Mrs. Honing Cookies

Mrs. Honing was one of my favorite people to work with at the orthopedic surgery center. Her hubs, Eric (Dr. Honing), looked like a real life Eric from Little Mermaid! Mrs. Honing doesn't look like she ever eats cookies but she gave me this recipe which is from Neiman Marcus. Hope you enjoy them. You may want to 1/2 this recipe unless you want 112 cookies!

Ingredients:
2 C butter
4 C flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 C sugar
**5 C blended oatmeal
24 oz Chocolate chips
2 C brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1 8oz Hershey Bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
3 C chopped nuts (your choice)

**measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder

How to create:
Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.

Bake 10 min at 375 degrees.

Biscuits

Perhaps everyone knows how to make biscuits... However, I still need a recipe.

Ingredients:

2 C sifted Harvest Halo pancake mix
4 Tbsp shortening
3/4- 1 C milk

to make:

cut shortening into pancake mix, add milk to make soft dough. Knead lightly for a minute... add as little flour as possible while kneading... Roll out dough 1/2" to 3/4" thick and cut with biscuit cutter. Place on greased baking sheet 450 degress for 10- 12 min.

Jared and Jenette's Brownies

I am a sucker for a good home made brownie... That is why I keep adding postings of more brownie recipes!

Ingredients:

2 C sugar
2 C flour
1/2 C butter
1/2 C oil
4 Tbsp cocoa
1/2 C buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
2 beaten eggs
1 tsp vanilla

How to make:

1) sift together sugar and flour and set aside.
2) boil butter, oil and cocoa rapidly.
3) mix together above.
4) dissolve soda in buttermilk and add to above.
5) add eggs and vanilla to above and MIX WELL!

Bake in greased/floured jelly roll pan at 400 for 20-25 min

All brownies taste better with frosting!

Ingredients:

2 C powdered sugar
1/4 C butter
1-2 Tbsp cocoa
1 Tbsp vanilla
1 Tbsp milk (may need to add more for thinner consistency)

How to make:

Mix all ingredients together.

Frost brownies while still hot... Can sprinkle nuts on top if desired!

Hip Builders

Ingredients:

2 C flour

2 1/2 C oatmeal

1 1/2 C brown sugar

1 1/2 C butter

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp soda

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp vanilla

*************************************************************************

1 C chopped pecans

1 C Mrs. Richardson's Caramel fudge or Smuckers Dulce de leche milk caramel topping

2 C choc. chips

How to Make:

Melt butter and mix with first ingredients (the ones before the ********). Set 1/3 or the mix aside and pat the rest in the bottom of a 9x13 "pam sprayed" dish. Bake @ 350 for 10 min.

While that is cooking: Chop pecans into small pieces. Melt (until runny) 1 C of fudge or caramel topping.

When the first 10 min is done baking remove it from the oven and immediately sprinkle 2 C chocolate chips on top of hot mixture. Sprinkle pecans on top of choc chips then pour the runny topping over that. Sprinkle the remaining 2/3 of the mixture over the top of that. Bake 10- 15 min more. Cool and cut in to small squares because they really do build up those hips!

I am moving

I am moving to a far off place for a short time.
I can not take all my lovely recipe books with me. And so I will be uploading many many recipes so that I don't have to leave my cooking behind. After all, I am not so sure I will love all the food where I am going. And so I must know how to cook!
Perhaps I will find something foreign to me that I will share with you when I get there!

refried bean burritos

Tonight for dinner we ate bean and cheese burritos. The thought of just refried beans slapped into a tortilla shell smothered in cheese didn't completely set well with me... so I spiced up the idea with veggies and hid them in the beans so the Mr. McKay wouldn't feel obligated to remind me that he doesn't love to eat such green foods... The beans turned out amazing... I had kids and a husband eating bowls full... And so I never want to forget how I made such goodness. Here you go... I hope you enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 medium white onion

1/2 yellow bell pepper

1 small zucchini

2 small jalapenos

1/4 C chopped celantro

1- 2 C arugula

Celtic sea salt

pepper

olive oil

1 can great white northern beans

1 can black beans

1 can pinto beans

3 oz cream cheese

Begin your refried bean experience by:

chop all veggies small

in a fry pan, saute onions in 3 T olive oil until they become translucent. Add remaining ingredients and saute until soft! Pepper and salt to taste. (I have fallen in love with Celtic Sea Salt... I will never go back to regular salt... This stuff actually pulls flavor out of your food!)

Drain beans thoroughly! AS IN... NO LIQUID!!! (or you will have refried bean soup!)

In a separate pan, heat up beans with 3 oz cream cheese until cheese is melted.

in a blender pour veggie mix and puree. Pour hot beans on top and blend together. Not too long or the beans will turn into soupy mix. Though the flavor will be right, it is difficult to get the consistency right for burritos. However, if that happens, no biggy... just make cheese crisps and dip them into the bean dip!

pour refried beans back into the pan to keep warm while making burritos. I use whole wheat tortillas and sometimes put in a scoop of brown rice. YUMMY!

*Some reasonable garnishes would be celantro, Rosie's homemade salsa, a dobber of sour cream and fresh avacado. Is your mouth watering yet?