Veggie Corn Breadstuff

This super MOIST and tasty (veggie filled) corn staff of life starts out alongside 2 of those lilliputian Jiffy corn staff of life mixes (what could endure easier?) too feeds a crowd. It is as delicious warm or at room temperature, too thus it is perfect for a pot luck or vacation brunch.

 

(2) boxes Jiffy corn muffin mix

4 eggs (beaten)

1½ sticks butter (melted)

(2) cups broccoli florets (chopped)

1 loving cup of frozen corn (thawed)
1 medium onion (chopped) saute until tender
1 loving cup cottage cheese
1/4  teaspoon dry out carmine pepper flakes (or to taste)

Saute broccoli, corn too onion until tender, ready aside. In large bowl, crunch four eggs together too stir inwards melted butter, cottage cheese too pepper flakes. Add Jiffy mixes too stir until smooth. Gently stir inwards broccoli, corn too onion. Spread inwards a greased nine x thirteen baking dish too bake (375°) for 35 to xl minutes or until lightly browned.

LOTS OF VEGGIES INSIDE

NOTE: Finely diced sugariness carmine pepper is pretty inwards this cornbread too, only I was out of it.

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Creamy Shrimp Rice Bake

We REALLY bask this comfort nutrient casserole. It is packed alongside tons of shrimp, rice in addition to veggies, surrounded alongside a cheesy cream sauce. There are three (easy) steps to this recipe, but all tin last done ahead of fourth dimension in addition to popped into the oven at dinner time. This recipe makes a LOT (serves 8)and it reheats really well!!

1½ cups UNcooked long grain rice
3 cups chicken broth (see note)
1 tablespoon butter.

In a large in addition to deep sauce pan, melt the butter in addition to seat the RAW rice inward alongside the butter. Stir in addition to allow the rice kernels toast inward the butter until they merely root to plough brilliant white, thence add together 3 cups chicken broth, stir, COVER and plough rut downwards super low in addition to create the rice for xx minutes. After xx minutes, take away from rut in addition to fluff alongside a fork. Set aside.

Saute the next together:
1/2 loving cup butter (see banknote below)
3 celery stalks chopped
2 cloves of garlic minced
2 greenish onions sliced thinly
1 cerise bell pepper (optional)
2 cups frozen mixed veggies (or your favorite fresh veggies)

Saute, gently for well-nigh 10 minutes. The terminal 2-3 minutes, add together 1½ pounds of raw, peeled, de-veined in addition to washed shrimp in addition to create exclusively until they root to plough pink. Don't over cook, at this phase because they volition create the remainder of the agency inward the oven.  I often skip this measuring in addition to usage pre-cooked shrimp (see banknote below).

In a bowl, gently mix the following:
Cooked shrimp
Cooked rice
Sauteed veggies
(2)10¾ oz. cans cream of shrimp soup (Undiluted)
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper
1 cup milk
2 cups Colby-Jack Cheese shredded (see banknote below)

Place mixture in greased 10 x fifteen baking dish in addition to sprinkle alongside staff of life crumbs that accept been sauteed inward a footling butter. Bake at 350 for 40-50 minutes or until hot in addition to bubbly.

NOTE: The master recipe said to seat all of this nutrient into a 9x13 pan, but it didn't all fit, thence I've had improve luck baking it inward a 10x15 pan (or TWO smaller baking dishes).

NOTE: It powerfulness audio similar 1/2 loving cup butter is a lot, but recall that is for 8 servings (1 tablespoon per serving) and ½ loving cup of butter is necessary for the correct sauce consistency.

NOTE: Make certain y'all usage Colby-Jack cheese.  Cheddar (only) is non a skillful choice here, in addition to the Monterrey Jack cheese (in the Colby-Jack blend) is super creamy.  You could ever usage American Cheese, that would operate good too. Just brand certain your choice of cheese is creamy when melted.

NOTE: I don't accept a occupation finding cream of shrimp soup, but if y'all do, cream of celery soup would operate good too.

NOTE: For the staff of life crumb topping, Just seat a span of tablespoons of butter inward a shaver pan along with 2 cups of bread crumbs (plus a pinch of kosher tabular array salt in addition to a pinch of dark pepper in addition to a pinch of cayenne pepper) and stir them until they exceed away toasty brown, thence sprinkle on the casserole earlier y'all bake it.

NOTE: If y'all are using fresh shrimp, ignore the following note, but if y'all are using frozen shrimp, it is extremely important that y'all thaw the shrimp inward a colander overnight inward the refrigerator (do non speed thaw inward running water). It is unbelievable how  much H2O volition drain out of the frozen shrimp (both raw AND cooked), in addition to that water will brand your casserole SOUPY in addition to SOGGY. Let the shrimp thaw overnight, thence the adjacent day, rinse them in addition to pat them dry. I normally usage medium size shrimp for this recipe (40-50 shrimp per pound).

NOTE: This casserole tin also last done alongside chicken instead of shrimp, merely alter the cream of shrimp soup to cream of chicken soup, in addition to alter the shrimp to cooked chicken.

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Best Pumpkin Bars Always !!! (Plus)

I've made pumpkin desserts for many to a greater extent than years than I attention to count: pumpkin bread, pumpkin cake, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bars, etc., etc., but today's recipe for super moist pumpkin bars is BY FAR THE BEST pumpkin recipe I've EVER tried !!!

They are lite every bit air; they sense of savor similar pumpkin pie together with they are SUPER, SUPER moist; they are totally addicting!! Since this recipe makes a large 10" x 15" pan, they would live on splendid for a potluck, bake sale or weekend crowd. However if y'all are similar us, together with a 10" x 15" is only also much, cheque out the mini-version of this recipe at the bottom of this post.

4 large eggs
1 2/3 loving cup granulated sugar
1 loving cup vegetable oil
15 ounce tin of pumpkin puree(see note)
2 cups all usage flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons terra firma cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon terra firma ginger
1/4 teaspoon terra firma cloves
1 teaspoon salt

This is super slow to make, only position the eggs, sugar, oil, pumpkin together with spices inward a large bow together with mix alongside electrical mixer until it gets prissy together with lite (just takes close thirty seconds, but it is an of import step).

Next add everything else, together with mix until it is good combine, but don't over mix. I practise this measuring alongside a  manus whisk.

Spread it into a lightly greased 10"x15" jellyroll pan together with bake at 350°F for 25-30 minutes or until it springs dorsum when lightly pressed. Cool completely earlier frosting.

FROSTING
8 ounces of cream cheese (room temperature)
1 cup butter (room temperature)
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups powdered sugar

Cream the cheese together with butter together, add together the carbohydrate together with vanilla together with shell until smooth. Spread evenly on cooled bars. If frosting seems also thick, add together milk (1 tablespoon at a time) until y'all become the consistency y'all like.

Here's the Mini-recipe:

A 10"x15" pan is only means to large for us empty-nesters, thence hither is a reduced size that fits perfectly inward an 8"x4" loaf pan. I take away it from the loaf pan, frost it together with thence spell it (I become close viii 4" x 2" pumpkin bars out of this recipe).

1 egg
1/3 + 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 loving cup vegetable oil
1/2 loving cup pumpkin puree
1/2 teaspoon terra firma cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon terra firma ginger
pinch of terra firma cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup flour
1/2  teaspoon baking powder
1/4  teaspoon baking soda

Follow same directions every bit to a higher house except usage an 8"x4" loaf pan. I lined the bottom alongside parchment thence I could only lift the bars out of the pan later cooking (for slow slicing). Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes (my electrical oven takes thirty minutes). Let cool completely thence spell into bars.

FROSTING
I used half of the to a higher house frosting recipe because nosotros similar a lot of frosting. 

NOTE: Make certain y'all usage patently one-time pumpkin puree, non the variety of canned pumpkin that already has spices inward it. If y'all desire to usage the variety alongside the spices already inward it, just reduce the spices inward the recipe.

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Two Element Cake !!

This cake couldn't endure easier together with it is low-cal together with refreshingly delicious. It is keen for whatever occasion, but PERFECT when yous conduct maintain to conduct maintain a end infinitesimal dessert.

It exclusively takes 2 ingredients, mixed together alongside a spoon...Easy-Peasy!!

1  box of angel nutrient cake mix (dry mix cypher else)
1  xx ounce tin of crushed pineapple (do non drain)

That's it!!  Mix inwards a large bowl because it actually foams upward every bit yous stir. Pour it into a ix x thirteen baking pan (sprayed alongside vegetable spray) together with bake it at 350 for 25-30 minutes (my electrical oven took most 28 minutes).

Remove from oven together with cool inwards the pan for most 20  minutes, thence plough out onto a serving tray (or but piece of job out it inwards the pan!!)

I frost mine alongside sweetened whipped cream that I stirred a lilliputian kokosnoot into.

What could endure easier together with it is VERY tasty!!

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Chocolate Marshmallow Brownie Pie

I've noticed a tendency on my birthday (which is today); it seems I ever process myself to something  CHOCOLATE!! Today's birthday shipping service is ULTRA-chocolate (and delicious).

It starts alongside a rich brownie layer that y'all overstep alongside miniature marshmallows piece it is all the same pipage hot out of the oven. Then it is topped alongside a rich chocolate glaze in addition to sprinkled alongside lots of toasted sliced almonds. It was heavenly!!

 

BROWNIE LAYER
In a small-scale bowl whisk the next ingredients together:

3/4 loving cup all role flour
1 loving cup sugar
1/4 loving cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

In a unlike bowl, shell the next together:

1/2 loving cup butter melted
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla

Add the moisture ingredients to the dry out ingredients in addition to mix until smooth.

Place batter in a greased 9" circular pan (spring cast pan plant the best) in addition to bake inward a 350°F oven for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick tests build clean (my electrical oven took 25 minutes).

Remove from oven (and plough oven off). Top HOT cake alongside miniature marshmallows (I used nearly four large handfuls) in addition to seat it dorsum inward the hot oven for 2-3 minutes or until marshmallows accept puffed upwardly a little. Remove from oven.

FUDGE FROSTING

6 tablespoons melted butter
6 tablespoons BOILING water
6 tablespoons dry out cocoa powder
2 cups powdered saccharide
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Whisk until smooth. Gently pour (evenly) over the warm marshmallows in addition to and then sprinkle alongside TOASTED sliced almonds (nuts optional). If y'all don't similar nuts, colored sprinkles await festive too.

Let everything cool off a little, in addition to then seat it inward the refrigerator for about an lx minutes to "set" the chocolate frosting. Bring the cake dorsum to room temperature earlier serving.

NOTE: You tin give notice bake this inward ANY greased 9" cake pan, exactly a ii piece jump cast pan volition let y'all to take away the cake a picayune easier. If y'all utilization a 2 piece pan, brand certain y'all seat a cookie canvas nether the pan.

 

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Classic Creamy Coleslaw

The calendar says spring is here, although today (5/18/2013) it is snowing similar crazy hither inwards Alaska. I'm non letting that halt me from planning a barbecue this weekend (wish me luck!!).

THIS SALAD COULDN'T BE EASIER!!!

I honey "make ahead" salads that become good amongst ANYTHING you lot create upward one's heed to grill. This classic coleslaw recipe is non solely refreshing, but it is cheap to brand and you tin sack arrive 2-3 days ahead of fourth dimension (if demand be) which is wonderful for busy summertime weekends.

If you lot arrive ahead of time, merely gently toss earlier serving

4 cups shredded cabbage
2 large carrots grated

1/2 loving cup mayo
1/4 loving cup sour cream
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard (I purpose Honey Dijon)
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dark pepper
1/4 loving cup milk

Whisk the terminal ix ingredients together in addition to toss amongst the shredded veggies. Mix good in addition to Chill AT LEAST two hours (overnight is fifty-fifty better).  That's it, quick in addition to simple!!

NOTE: We similar a SMALL die on our cabbage, hence I cutting upward the cabbage in addition to then complete it off yesteryear pulsing it inwards the nutrient processor until I larn a pretty minor dice, but that is merely our personal preference.

You tin sack too purchase pre-cut coleslaw mix at the grocery shop which makes this salad real quick. 

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Kentucky Butter Cake

I'm non certain where I saw this cake for the start time, but I recollect finding spider web page afterwards spider web page maxim how groovy this recipe was, then I knew I had to seek it.

So, today was the twenty-four hours as well as all I convey to tell is: Holy Wack-a-Moley (as my grandchildren would say)it is delicious. Even picky-picky hubby has had several pieces of cake today. 

It has a rich as well as moist butter-rum season as well as afterwards it's baked (and yet hot) you lot poke holes into the cake as well as drizzle over a butter-rum flavored syrup.I'm talking serious season here!!

The syrup finds its means downwards into the cake as well as the final result is pure heaven. I promise you lot seek it.

1 loving cup butter (room temperature)
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon rum extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
3 cups all role flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 loving cup buttermilk

Grease as well as flour a 10" Bundt pan as well as preheat your oven to 325°F.
Beat the butter, saccharide as well as extracts on medium high speed for virtually iii minutes, scraping downwards the bowl i time or twice.

Add the eggs, i at a fourth dimension (beating afterwards each) and i time they are all included, trounce for virtually some other infinitesimal or so.

Mix the flour, baking soda, baking pulverisation as well as common salt together as well as add together it to the butter mixture, alternately alongside the buttermilk (I added it inwards thirds).

This batter is prissy as well as thick, then spoon it into the prepared Bundt pan as well as marking out the run past times of the batter.

Bake at 325° for i hr or until a toothpick tests clean. My electrical oven took just i hour.

Remove from oven as well as DO NOT REMOVE CAKE FROM THE PAN YET. Poke holes into the hot cake. I used the abrupt terminate of my meat thermometer as well as it left a prissy size hole. Don't poke the holes all the means downwards to the bottom of the pan, only virtually 3/4 of the way. I poked virtually iii holes across, every 2 inches.  Drizzle syrup into holes.

SYRUP
3/4 loving cup sugar
1/3 loving cup butter
3 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon rum extract

Heat this until saccharide dissolves as well as trivial bubbles shape roughly the border of the pan, but don't boil.

After you lot drizzle the syrup over the cake (while its yet inwards the pan) allow the cake cool inwards the pan for a distich of hours earlier you lot plough it out onto a serving plate (it won't stick to the pan).

NOTE: Next fourth dimension I brand this cake I innovation to double the syrup as well as usage one-half of it equally instructed above, but the other one-half I volition brush onto the cake afterwards it comes out of the pan.  It dries  prissy as well as shiny, then it volition brand a wonderful (thin) glaze.

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