Scalloped Potatoes (aka Funeral Potatoes)

I'm making these for Easter so figured I would post it.

6-8 large potatoes
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 Tbsp minced dried onions
1/4 c melted butter
1/4 c milk
1 cup sour cream
Shredded cheddar cheese
1 tsp salt

Boil potatoes in skins until tender, cool enough to remove peels, shred potatoes into a large bowl. Soak dried onions in milk to rehydrate while potatoes are cooking. Mix together melted butter, soup, sour cream, salt, onions, and milk. Blend sauce and potatoes, add cheese to preference (at least 1/2- 1 cup). (Whit apparently says to double or triple the sauce). Top with more grated cheese or buttered crushed corn flakes. Bake @ 350 in greased pan, preferably glass, until heated through and bubbly hot.

Note: extra potatoes can stretch this but it may be more dry, add sour cream, cheese, butter , etc. to consistency you like. You can also just use a package of shredded frozen hash browns, but they have a different texture. Play with it and make it your own!

Monkey Bread

This one also comes from the 30th Ward cookbook from 1991, it is attributed to a lady named Lori Scott...I have no idea who she is. :)

3 cans refrigerator biscuits (10 count)
mix together: 1/2 cup sugar & 1 tsp cinnamon
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter or margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar (well packed)
3 Tbsp water

Remove biscuits from can.  Cut each biscuit into four pieces. Combine sugar and cinnamon; coat biscuit pieces.  Drop pieces into greased bundt pan.  (I use pam)  Bring to boil the butter, sugar, brown sugar and water.  Pour mixture over biscuits.  bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes.  Before "dumping onto plate, cool 3-5 minutes.  To eat, just pull off bits of biscuits. [NOTE: nuts, raisins, maraschino cherries may be added among the biscuits.] Best eaten warm.

Zippy Beef

I don't actually have instructions for this, like most of my recipes, it's just a list of ingredients.  I should write this down as it is exactly in my cookbook and see if you can decipher it.  :)

1 lb ground beef, browned
4 oz uncooked noodles (elbow, that you cook before assembling)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
3/4 c milk
2/3 c ketchup
1/4 c chopped green pepper
1-2 T onion (assuming minced here)
1/2 c cheese
potato chips for topping

Mix everything except potato chips together in a casserole dish.  Top with chips and bake until bubbly at 350.

Chicken Delight

5-6 chicken breasts, cooked, cubed
Broccoli--cooked to fill bottom of 9x13 pan
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup miracle whip
1 tsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp curry powder

Cover cooked broccoli w/ cubed chicken.  Mix soup, miracle whip, lemon juice and curry.  Pour over chicken.  Sprinkle w/ grated cheddar cheese and buttered soft bread crumbs (crumble approx. 2 slices bread into 1/4 cup melted butter).  Bake uncovered 20-30 minutes at 350 'til hot and bubbly.  Serve with rice.

**I've started halving this for me and Dave and just use an 8x8 pan.  It's enough for two dinners for us and P (P loves it!)  But, sometimes I don't halve the sauce, just the amount of broccoli and chicken.  All depends on how saucy I want it.

Banana Bread

• 5 bananas

• 4 eggs (well beaten)

• 1 cup shortening

• 2 c sugar

• 4 c flour

• 2 t soda

• 1 t salt

Beat bananas to a liquid, add eggs.  Cream the sugar and shortening then add banana-egg mix. Sift flour, soda and salt. Pour into 2 well-greased loaf pans.   

Bake at 250 for 90 minutes (until the toothpick comes out clean)

To get the soft crust that we all love, let the bread cool on a cooling rack for a bit, then wrap it in tin foil while it's still warm so all the steam will soak back into the crust making it soft and delicious! 

Blonde Brownies

Our friends laugh when we make these because all three of us are blonde AND Ryan doesn't like chocolate.  They joke and call us racist.  Whatever, these are awesomely delicious!

 

Cream Together:

• 1 cup margarine
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 t vanilla

 Add to cream:

• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 1 t soda
• 1/4 t salt
• 2 cups peanut butter chips

Bake at 350* for 30-35 minutes in a greased 9x13

 

Requests:

Here is what I want (I am home so could ask mom and post them myself I guess...)

Dad's chocolate cake
pasta carbinara
chicken delight
banana bread
blonde brownies
Texas sheet cake
Chocolate crinkles
Fudge
zippy beef
monkey bread
carrot cake

I'm blanking on other things we ate growing up.

(This is Caitlin - I'm crossing off things as people post them!)