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Nana’s Recipe Box

teresak — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:12:16 +0000

My Aunt Roberta is a very good cook. Martha, her daughter, assures me that the following recipe is one of her favorite things that her mom makes. She takes it to church dinners and family gatherings and never comes home with any leftovers!

It sounded great to me, so I thought I’d share it with you. Let me know if your family likes it.

Cherry Nut Pudding

(We call it Cherry Gloop!)

Crust: 2 cups graham cracker crumbs

¼ lb. melted margarine (melt in pan)

½ cup sugar

Put in 8 x 12 dish, mix, bake 8-10 min @ 350, cool

1 (8 oz) pkg. cream cheese (rm temp)

1 cup confect sugar

2 Tbsp milk

Blend until smooth, spread over cooled crust

½ cup chopped pecans, put over cheese mixture

16 oz cool whip

½ cup sugar

(stir sugar into cool whip)

Spread over nuts

1 can cherry pie filling

½ cup sugar

Mix & spread over cool whip

Refrigerate would serve about 20-25

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Cake Pops-What Nana’s Cooking Up This Monday

teresak — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:11:19 +0000

Have you ever heard of cake pops? I hadn’t until I saw them on a friend’s Facebook page. I did a little research and this weekend Rachel and I attempted to make them (with attempted being the key word).

This is what they are supposed to look like.

These are from Cakebots web site.

or this….

You can read about cake pops at Bakerella.com

Ours did not look like this when we finished. They resembled large, pink meatballs. I would show you what they looked like but just because they weren’t pretty didn’t mean they didn’t taste good.

I know what we did wrong. The trick is in the icing. After we attempted to make ours I found a video that was helpful so I uploaded it for you. We are going to try again later in the week. Maybe I’ll show you how those turn out. Your children or grandchildren will love helping you make these whether they look like the ones above or not!

How to make a cake pop

Bake and cool one 13×9 cake, according to package directions. After cake has cooled smash cake and mix in 1 can of frosting. Then refrigerate mixture for 15 minutes

Remove mixture from fridge and form into balls. (butter your hands first) After forming all balls insert a sucker stick into each ball. Then refrigerate again for another 15 minutes

While cake pops are in the fridge melt your candy melts or chocolate bark. Use candy melts since they come in several colors. (This is where we messed up. We will use candy melts next time. Our icing wasn’t runny enough)

Remove cake pops from fridge. Dip the cake part into the melted chocolate.

After the cake ball is covered insert the stick into a styrofoam block to allow the chocolate coating to harden.

After the chocolate has set ENJOY!

Sounds easy, doesn’t it? That’s what I thought too. I strongly recommend watching the video BEFORE you make them!

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What’s Cooking in Nana’s Kitchen This Weekend

teresak — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:01:07 +0000

I have a lot of mouths to feed at my house. I am not complaining. I love having a house full of people, but most of the people are teenagers and they all have one thing in common….they have ferocious appetites! So when I cook it has to be something that will feed a lot of people.

A good friend and neighbor sent me a recipe and I am going to try it out tonight. If you are in a cooking mood this weekend I thought you might like to try it too.

Thanks, Geneva, for sending this!

Chicken Spaghetti

Whole Chicken Boiled/deboned (I usually boil 3-4 chicken breasts)
1 can mushrooms
1 bell pepper
1 onion
1 small jar pimentos (for color:))
1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
1 stick butter(melted)
3/4 c. milk
16 oz. spaghetti
1 jar Cheez Whiz

Reserve broth from chicken to cook spaghetti. Mix all ingredients together. Cook @350 for 45-1 hr.

Delicious!!

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Mom’s Beef Stroganoff

teresak — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:06:09 +0000

One of my husband’s favorite meals is beef stroganoff. Like most everything else I cook, I use my mom’s recipe. When the boys were younger they weren’t fond of stroganoff, but that changed. I made it tonight and Bill had to go to a meeting. “I’ll eat when I get back home,” he said.

Not a good idea when there are so many boys around. If I hadn’t hid him a plate in the microwave he wouldn’t have gotten any!

What to buy at the store…

one package wide egg noodles

two or three large sirloin steaks boneless (it takes this for a large family, a smaller one could use less)

one can mushroom soup

one large carton of sour cream (I use fat free)

one package dry onion soup mix

What you do….

Brown your steak and chop into bite sizes

put it in cast iron skillet, sprinkle dry onion soup mix and then pour can of mushroom soup over meat

Cover with alumninum foil and put in oven on 350

bake 45 minutes

Boil noodles and drain

Take skillet out of oven and set on stove eye on medium

Add sour cream and stir and mix it all up

When it’s mixed well and bubbled a little spoon over noodles

Feeds four normal people….I have to add more and then hide a plate in the microwave because I feed an army!

I served it tonight with garlic bread and broccoli and cheese

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