Yummy Breadsticks!! (Super Easy)

1 1/2 c. Hot Water
1 T. Active Dry Yeast
1/4 c. Honey
1 t. Salt
3 1/2 c. Flour

Mix all ingredients except flour in bowl. Add flour to correct consistency.

Melt 1 cube butter in 9x13 glass pyrex pan.

Take desired amount of dough in hand (each breadstick is about an inch thick and 9 inches long), can add a little flour to decrease stickyness. Roll out dough in hand (like you are making a worm). Put into pan and roll in melted butter and place in pan. Repeat until pan is full.

Bake 400 degrees for 20 minutes.

Tips: *My dough fills a 9x13 pan and a 9x9 pan.
*I will add seasoning to the melted butter such as garlic salt or cinnamon and sugar, to add flavoring to breadsticks.
*You can let it rise for a few minutes once in the pan

Chicken Enchaladas

To Come

Hawaiian Haystacks

To Come.

Grandma DeAnna's Enchaladas

Jacob's Grandmother, DeAnna, taught me how to make this a few years ago. She said that she learned how to make them from a hispanic woman that lived next door to them in the San Fernando Valley....YEARS ago!! It is so simple and so tasty!!

Ingredients:

1 package corn tortillas
1 can olives (you might need 2)
1 can tomato sauce (15 oz.)
1 jar green taco sauce
chili powder (to taste)
cheddar cheese
1 1/2 lbs cooked ground beef

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Cook the ground beef in skillet until cooked thoroughly. Next, heat corn tortillas in another skillet and a little vegetable oil (so they don't break while you try to fill them.) While those heat up, make your sauce mixture in a bowl and slice olives. Add tomato sauce, half of the jar of green taco sauce, and chili powder to taste. Be very careful with the chili powder. I usually put some in, stir and taste and do that about three times until it is right. I would guess a few teaspoons, I will have to measure the next time I make it.

Now take your warm tortillas and dip them completely in the sauce. Place on shallow baking dish (I use a cookie sheet). Fill tortilla with meat, cheese and olives. Roll the filled tortilla and line pan. Repeat until pan is full of rolled tortillas. Bake in oven 40 minutes or until done.

Homemade Macaroni and Cheese with Peas

Ingredients:

4 cups elbow macaroni
1 lb block medium cheddar cheese
2 cups milk
flour
salt & pepper


Directions:
Bring pot of water to a boil, cook macaroni. While macaroni is cooking, shred cheese and have on plate close to stove. Empty macaroni from pot into collander in sink and rinse. In empty pot (I use the same one) add milk, once it gets warm start adding flour until the milk gets a little thick. Once milk and flour start to thicken, add cheese one handful at a time and stir it into the milk so that it melts, then add another handful, etc. Now your milk mixture should look more like a cheese sauce. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir in macaroni (make sure all of the water is drained off.) Don't forget to heat your peas. Enjoy!!

Madelynn LOVES this dinner. She will eat everything we put in front of her, no matter how much.

Crispy Baked Chicken

Ingredients:

3 Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
3 cups corn flakes
salt
pepper
paprika

Trial!!

I am going to try putting our favorite recipes as a link on our blog. We'll see how this goes. If anyone has any tips on how to do this, I would appreciate them!!