Cheesy Pork Chops

This recipe came from the $5 Dinner Website. I have been using this website now for about a month and didn't feel comfortable posting their recipes on my blog, but I thought it would be fine as long as I give a link! So just click on the link above and you will have their amazing recipe! Zach loves this one and it is rare that we eat all of our leftovers (we need to get better at that). Anytime I cook these I make a double or triple batch for lunch the next day and sometimes dinner the next night. They are SO good and SO easy to make!

This is the picture from their website!

Merr's Banana Pudding

This recipe is amazing. I have always been a huge banana pudding lover, but this just knocked every other recipe out of the park! From Lancaster Family Recipes... contributed by Betty Fowlkes.

Zach: "I already knew it was great." (He grew up on it camping with family)

JT: "This is really good mommy."

Merr's Banana Pudding

2 1/2 cups cold milk

1 large package (5.1 oz) Jell-O vanilla flavor instant pudding and pie filling

1-14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk

30 Vanilla Wafers

4-5 Medium Bananas, sliced

1 - 8 oz tub Cool Whip, Thawed

Mix pudding as directed using 2 1/2 cups milk. Add condensed milk and cool whip. Arrange 1/2 of the vanilla wafers on the bottom and up the sides of a 2 qt. serving bowl or 9x13 baking dish. Top with layers of half each of the banana slices and pudding mixture. Repeat with another layer. Top with vanilla wafers. Refrigerate 3 hours or until ready to serve. Store leftover dessert in refrigerator. 

Here is a picture of our final product. JT put all of the cookies on the bottom and top. He also helped mix the pudding mixture. So this is a great recipe to let the kiddos help with! :)

Chicken Breast and Rice

Another great one from the Lancaster Family Recipe book. We all loved the flavor of this dish. It was a little dry so I will try a couple other things next time to moisten it. But it was very tasty! 

Chicken Breast and Rice 

4-6 Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts

¾ cup uncooked rice (not instant rice)

1 can cream of mushroom soup                                   

1 tsp. salt

1 can cream of chicken soup                                        

1 tsp. black pepper

1 can chicken broth OR 1 cup water

Spray “Pam” or grease a 9 ½ by 11 pan.  Combine soup and broth/water, use whisk to blend.  Add seasonings, blend.  Sprinkle raw rice evenly over mixture.  Lay chicken breasts into mixture.  Cover with foil or lid and bake at 375^o for 1.5 hours or until chicken is tender.  Serves 4-6.  Easy!

Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies

Yummy! I am a sucker for anything Chocolate. Mine did not harden as quick as they should, but that didn't stop us from digging into them! This is a great recipe!

Chocolate Oatmeal No Bake Cookies

2 Cups Sugar

1/2 Cup Milk

1/4 Cup Cocoa

1/2 Cup Butter

1 tsp. Vanilla

1/2 Cup peanut butter

1/4 tsp. salt

3 cups oatmeal

Combine first 4 ingredients in a pan and bring to a boil on medium heat. Cool one minute and add remaining ingredients. Stir well and drop by teaspoons onto waxed paper. These are no bake cookies. Optional: nuts or coconut

Shrimp Scampi

This was delicious. Very quick to throw together and the family loved it.

Shrimp Scampi

1 ½ lbs large shrimp (16-24 count)                              

¼ cup dry white wine

1/3 cup butter (or olive oil)                                          

2 Tbsp lemon juice

4 Tbsp minced garlic                                                    

2 Tbsp fresh parsley, chopped

6 green onions, thinly sliced                                        

salt and pepper to taste

Rinse shrimp and set aside.  Heat butter in large skillet over medium heat.  Cook garlic 1-2 minutes until softened but not browned.  Add shrimp, green onions, wine and lemon juice; cook until shrimp are pink and firm, about 1-2 minutes on each side.  Do not overcook.  Add chopped parsley and salt and pepper before serving.  Garnish with lemon slices and parsley springs if desired.

Garlic Shrimp

Here is a nice break from all of the Chicken Recipes. This was so good, we only had a tiny bit for leftovers (I doubled the recipe on top of it). I recommend eating it all the night you make it. The garlic in your fridge does not smell so great with everything else. Surprisingly even in a closed container! Haha.

Garlic Shrimp

2 doz. Large fresh shrimp                                            

¼ tsp pepper

¼ cup olive oil                                                            

 ¼ cup butter or margarine, melted

¼ cup chopped fresh parsley                                       

½ cup French breadcrumbs, toasted

3 cloves garlic, minced                                                 

½ cup parmesan cheese, grated

½ tsp red pepper

Peel and devein shrimp.  Arrange in 11x7 baking dish; pour oil over shrimp.  Combine parsley with next 3 ingredients, sprinkle over shrimp.  Cover and bake at 300 degrees for 15 minutes.  Turn shrimp over; drizzle with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs and cheese.  Bake, uncovered, 5-10 additional minutes.  2 servings.

Betty Jordan's Steak and Veggies

This is a nice little twist to the Pot Roast dishes I grew up eating. Very good for after church lunch!

Betty Jordan’s Steak and Veggies 

One round steak                                                          

 Four carrots cut up

Three tablespoons oil                                                   

One medium onion chopped

Four potatoes cut up                                                    

salt and pepper

Flour and brown steak on both sides.  Wrap steak in foil, add veggies and salt and pepper.  Cook at 300 degrees for two hours.

Cheeseburger Pie

I love onions, so this recipe was wonderful to me! Zach on the other hand could live without them no problem. So next time I may just cut the onions in half and add some to my personal dish at then end. It's not the healthiest home cooked meal, but sure beats going to a fast food restaurant!

Cheeseburger Pie

1 pound ground beef                                                   

½ cup Bisquick

1 large onion, chopped                                                

 1 cup milk

½ teaspoon salt                                                           

 2 eggs

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Heat oven to 400º.  Spray 9-inch pie plate.  Brown beef & onion.  Drain.  Stir in salt.  Spread in pie plate.  Sprinkle with cheese.  In bowl, stir together remaining ingredients.  Pour into pie plate.  Bake for 25 minutes or until knife inserted into center comes out clean.