Getting started!

Okay ladies,  I finally got it all set up so start sending your recipes over!  Thanks to everyone who has joined us; we have been having so much fun with this.  For those of you who have not been to our potluck yet please come we look forward to meeting and eating with you!  Just email your recipe to angiesmodbe@hotmail.com and I will post it to our blog for all to try.  The best part is that we are making some amazing dishes while getting to know some great women and to top that the kids are getting out and having fun!  Here are the recipes I have received so far!   Thanks again and have fun cooking!

Monica's Banana Bread
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 cube margarine or butter, softened
2 eggs
4 very ripe bananas
1 pinch of salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 tbl. milk

Mix together. Batter will be lumpy. Pour into one large, greased loaf pan, or two smaller loaf pans (as shown). Sprinkle with a little bit of sugar. Bake at 350 for 1 hour. Remove from pans while bread is still a little bit warm. Enjoy! 

Hamburger Soup (Natalie Brown's)

Brown 1 lb Ground Beef with 1/4 Cup dehydrated minced onion

Combine with:

3 Cups Tomato Juice

        1 Cup water

        2 Cups Raw, Shredded Carrots

        2 Cups Celery Soup

        ¼ tsp. pepper

        ½ tsp. garlic salt

        1 tsp. salt

        ¼ tsp. margarine or butter

        1 tsp. sugar

        1 bay leaf

 

Simmer until done (about 1 hour) or heat in crock-pot for a few hours

Carol Howe's Pumpkin Muffins and Ham and Potato Soup

Pumpkin Muffins

2 c sugar                                           1 tsp baking soda

1/4 c margarine                               1 tsp nutmeg

3/4 c water                                       1 tsp ground cloves

1 can pumpkin (16 oz)                     1 tsp cinnamon

3 1/4 c flour                                      1 tsp allspice

1 tsp baking powder 

Mix dry ingredients. Mix wet ingredients. Combine both and spoon into greased muffin cups about 2/3 full.  Bake 20 min. @350. Yield about 14-24 muffins

Ham and Potato Soup

3 1/2 peeled and diced potatoes

1/3 c diced celery

1/3 cup onion, chopped

3/4 c cooked ham, diced

3 1/4 c water

2 Tbls chicken bouillon

1/2 tsp salt 

1 tsp pepper

5 Tbls butter 

5 Tbls flour

2 c milk

Combine potatoes, celery, onion, ham and water in a stockpot.  Boil over medium heat until potatoes are tender.  Stir in bouillon, salt, and pepper.  Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat, whisk in flour, stir for 1 minute.  Slowly stir in milk.  Stir constantly until thick.  Stir milk mixture into stockpot and cook soup until heated.   Serve immediately.

Dawn Gooch's Orange Rolls

2 pkgs. Yeast

1/2 c melted butter

1 1/4 cup warm water

1 tsp salt

3 eggs

1/2 c sugar

4 1/2 c flour

Filling:

orange rind zest from 1 orange

1/2 cup sugar 

1 cube butter

Soften yeast in warm water. Add butter, salt, sugar. Mix.  Then add eggs and mix.  Add flour slowly.  This will be a soft dough. Cover and let rise 1 1/2 hours.  Punch down and cover and refrigerate overnight.  3 1/2 to 4 hours before take dough out of fridge.  Flour counter and dump dough onto it.  Flatten into rectangle and cut into 3 equal pieces.  Using 1 piece at a time roll into a 5 or 6x 12 piece.  Brush filling mixture on and roll up.  Cut in 12, 1' pieces.  Place in greased muffin tins.  Repeat with other 2 pieces.   You should have 36 rolls let rise out of heat or cold.  Bake at 400 6-8 min.  Serve