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Menu Plan Monday - Turkey Week!

This weekend I decided to cook a 23 pound turkey that I've had in the freezer for a while. I knew that I had evening activities every night this week and would have to rely on precooked items, so I figured turkey would fit the bill. We had a traditional turkey dinner today, ...

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Spider Web Pizza Spread (a.k.a. Hot Pepperoni Pizza Dip)

This is a fun one for Halloween parties. Ingredients: 1 pkg. (8 oz.) reduced fat or fat free cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup Part-Skim Mozzarella Cheese 1/4 cup chopped turkey pepperoni 1/4 cup Alfredo sauce, divided 3/4 cup spaghetti sauce 1 pitted black olive, cut ...

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Pepperoni Pizza Sticks

Note: If you make this with packaged pizza crust mix, you will need to use two packages (I've used just the cheap Wal Mart brand before). Ingredients: 1 batch of pizza dough (you can use this recipe or just use a packaged mix) 8 mozzarella string cheese sticks (2% ...

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Menu Plan Monday

The fall activities continue, so this week I'm relying on lots of casseroles to get us through the week. I have computer training, the boy has the usual band and cross country stuff, and we have family pictures this week. We have the last of the band competitions this ...

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Menu Plan Monday

Saturday morning my dogs started barking in the yard. I just assumed they were barking at the coyotes like usual, but when I looked out the back, here's what I saw!How cool is that? A balloon in our backyard! It was looking for a place to land, and ended up landing in our neighbor's ...

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Cindy's Beef Stew

When my husband I got married, we both had different ideas about what made beef stew. My mother made a tomato sauce-based stew, and his mother made a gravy-based stew. Neither person had a recipe, so I had to come up with my own that we would both like. We are pretty simple eaters, ...

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Menu Plan Monday

Fall is definitely arriving in the Ozarks! The leaves are starting to change color and cooler temperatures are upon us (it didn't even make it to 60 degrees today!). We have officially entered fall contest season for school activities as well. Corey had his first math contest and ...

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Chocolate Cream Cheese Tunnel Cake

Ingredients: 2 pkg. (8 oz. each) cream cheese, softened 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 egg 2 tsp. vanilla, divided 1 pkg. (2-layer size) chocolate cake mix 1 cup powdered sugar 2 oz. (1/4 of 8-oz. pkg.) cream cheese, softened 2 Tbsp. milk Directions: Preheat ...

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Homemade Beefaroni

I had a lot of leftover pasta, so I used it to make this recipe instead of using noodles that look like beefaroni noodles. This really does taste very similar to the canned beefaroni. :)Ingredients:1 lb. ground beef2 14.5 oz cans tomato sauce1/2 c. grated Parmesan cheese1/4 c. water1 ...