Miss Tish’s NY Cheesecake

Ingredients:
2- 8oz pkgs cream cheese
1 pint sour cream (2- 8oz containers)
1 lb ricotta cheese
4 eggs slightly beaten
1 ½ cups sugar
1 stick melted butter / margarine
3 tsp flour
3 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon juice

Preparation:
Grease spring form pan (9”). Preheat oven 325 degrees. Mix cheeses together, blend well, add other ingredients. Pour into spring pan. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Turn off oven, leave in oven 2 hours. Chill well. If it cracks on top this is good.

Eileen’s Beef Bourginon

Ingredients:
1 lb. stew beef
¼ cup butter
2 tbsp flour
1 ¼ cup red cooking wine
2 tbsp sugar
¼ tsp thyme
1 tsp peppercorns
½ lb mushrooms
3 slices bacon
1 tsp tomato paste
2 cubes beef boullion
¼ tsp salt
1 small bayleaf
½ lb sm white onions
1 clove garlic

Preparation:
Sautee mushrooms in butter and fry bacon, add beef to bacon drippings and blend in flour. Add clove of garlic, tomato paste, red wine and all seasonings. Cover and simmer until beef is tender. Add onions and mushrooms and cook.

Dee Dee's Chicken Francesca

Ingredients:
1 Pound Thin Chicken Cutlets
Salt and Pepper, to taste
1 Cup Flour
1 Beaten Egg
2 Tablespoons Butter
1 Can Chicken Broth
1 Lemon
Cooking Oil

Preparation:
Salt and Pepper cutlets, then flour.
Put oil in frying pan and heat.
Put cutlets in beaten egg; Add cutlets to hot oil.
Cook about 5 minutes, turning over once.
Remove cutlets from oil; pour off oil from frying pan.
Wipe pan with paper towel.
Put cutlets back into frying pan.
Add chicken broth and butter to pan. Bring to a boil until butter melts.
Lower flame and squeeze lemon juice over cutlets.
Turn over once; simmer for another 15 minutes.

If you want to thicken broth, put 2 Tablespoons cornstarch in a cup and add a little water to make a paste. Bring cutlets to a boil again and add cornstarch mixture, stirring slowly.

Remove from heat and serve.

Nana's Apple Cake

Ingredients:
6 apples
6 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon

3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
½ cup orange juice
3 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
4 eggs

Preparation:
Peel and slice apples. Mix with 6 tablespoons sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Set aside.

Mix remaining ingredients together well.

Mix apples to cake batter.

Pour into a greased 9x13” pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Aunt Kathy’s Beef and Noodle Casserole

Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
1 cup chopped onion
4 oz cooked noodles
1 can peas
1/3 cup diced celery
1/3 cup diced green pepper
1 can mushroom soup, thinned with
1 ¼ cup milk


Preparation:
Brown the ground beef and drain fat. Add the onions and cook a few minutes. Cook the noodles, drain and mix with meat and onions. Add the rest of the ingredients. Dot with butter or two strips of bacon.

Bake 1 hour at 325 degrees.

Aunt Kathy's Chicken with Rice

Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts
1 cup rice, uncooked
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can water
1 cup milk
1 pkg onion soup mix

Preparation:
Mix last 5 ingredients together.
Pour into buttered 9x13” baking dish.
Layer chicken on top.
Cover, bake 350 degrees for 1 ½ hours.
Uncover last 15 minutes.

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Aunt Kathy's Danish Puff

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
½ cup margarine
2 tablespoons water
½ cup margarine
1 cup water
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 cup flour
¼ teaspoon salt
3 eggs
About 2 cups confection sugar
About 1 ½ tsp almond extract
A little bit of milk

Preparation:
Cut ½ cup margarine into 1 cup flour, sprinkle with water and mix with fork. Round into 2 strips 12”x4” arranging them 3” apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Pat out with floured hands.

Mix the 2nd half cup margarine and water in a saucepan. When boiling, add almond flavoring. Remove from heat. Stir in with a wooden spoon 2nd cup flour and salt all at once.

When smooth and thick, add 1 egg at a time beating until smooth after each. Spread half the mixture over each strip of pastry. Spread this mixture all the way to the edge of each strip.

Bake 55-60 minutes at 350 degrees.

When cool make the frosting (the last three ingredients). Decorate with sliced almonds or quartered cherries.

Pat's Vegetable Salad

Ingredients:
3 cups broccoli florets
3 cups cauliflower florets
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup raisins
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon cider vinegar or red wine vinegar
4 slices bacon, crisp-cooked and crumbled
2 Tablespoons sunflower seed kernels

Preparation:
Toss the broccoli, cauliflower, cheese, onion and raisins in a salad bowl- next add mayonnaise mixture to the broccoli mixture, and mix until coated. Cover and chill for 1 hour. Sprinkle with bacon and sunflower kernels just before serving.

Janice's Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake Ingredients:
2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
4 eggs
3/4 cup vegetable oil
3 cups carrots, peeled and shredded
3/4 cup nuts - optional

Carrot Cake Preparation:
In large bowl put flour, sugar, soda, cinnamon, baking power and salt. Mix at low speed until well mixed.

Add eggs and oil, beat continuously until well blended.

Mix in carrots and nuts.

Pour batter into a bundt or angel food cake pan, bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 for minutes, or until knife when inserted comes clean.


Frosting Ingredients:
8 oz cream cheese
2 tablespoons of margarine or butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Frosting Preparation:
Have above ingredients softened at room temperature, mix and frost.

John's Thai Beef (or Squid) Salad

Ingredients:
Steak (or Squid if you like seafood)
3 Limes
Fish Sauce, to taste (found in Asian section)
1 Purple Onion, thinly sliced
Cucumber, thinly sliced
Grape Tomatoes
Crushed Red Pepper, to taste
White Rice

Preparation:
Broil the steak. Juice 3 limes and add some fish sauce to taste. Add thin purple onion slices, some thin cucumber slices and grape tomatoes. Add lime juice, fish sauce and a little crushed red pepper (for heat) to taste. Slice beef into thin strips.

Serve with white rice.

If you want the full effect, toast some white rice and make it into powder and sprinkle some on the beef.

John's Enchiladas

Ingredients:
3 Cans of Whole Tomatoes
1-1/2 Pound Of Hamburger
Mexican Chile Powder, to taste
Garlic Salt, to taste
1 Red Bell Pepper, diced
1 Yellow Bell Pepper, diced
1 Large Vidalia Onion, diced
1 Pack of 12 Corn Tortillas
Shredded Cheddar Cheese

Preparation:
Start to brown hamburger. Right before it’s brown, put in the onions. Right before onions are almost fully cooked, put in a little bit of the Mexican Chile powder, to taste.

Put the mixture in a big pot and add tomatoes. Crush the tomatoes to let the water within the tomatoes out. Season with garlic salt, to taste. Add in diced red and yellow bell peppers. Let simmer for 35 minutes.

Put a layer of the mixture in a 9x13 pan. Cover mixture with a layer of corn tortillas. Add another layer of the hamburger mixture and top with shredded cheddar cheese. Add another layer of corn tortillas, hamburger mixture and shredded cheese.

Bake For 35-40 minutes at 300 degrees.

Make sure the cheese is melted.

Krista's Chicken and Pasta

Ingredients:
1 package of fettuccini noodles
1 package of chicken breasts
1 stick of butter or tofu for lower fat
1 cup of parmesan cheese
1 cup of heavy cream
fresh broccoli

Preparation:
Cook fettuccine noodles. Take a package of chicken breasts and slice it into bite size pieces. Cook the chicken in a stick of butter then add a cup of Parmesan cheese and a cup of heavy cream (may be substituted with tofu for lower fat). While the sauce is thickening, steam some broccoli and then mix the noodles and chicken and broccoli.

Krista's Breakfast Casserole

Ingredients:
2 cups milk
6 slices of bread, cubed
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
6 eggs
1 T dry mustard
1 pound sausage, browned

Preparation:
Mix it all together and you can let it sit overnight if you want to.
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.