My family went to a nice BBQ restaurant here in Raleigh for my sister’s birthday.  Instead of bread or biscuits they brought hush puppies to the table before the food arrived.  They didn’t last long at the table.

All day long I’ve craved hush puppies. So I decided to see what I had lying around to make some.   Thankfully I have my favorite deep fryer at the ready always!

Ingredients:

1 pkg Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1/4 cup flour
1/4 onion, finely chopped
1/2 tsp salt
Oil for frying

Directions:

Combine mix, egg, milk, flour, onion and salt.
Mix well
Drop by rounded teaspoon into hot oil.
Fry 4 minutes (turning half way) until golden brown.
Drain well and serve.

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Oh YUM!  S’mores are delicious but with spring coming sometimes we need to add a little color!

Peeps are the perfect way to make colorful, springy s’mores!

Ingredients

Peeps
Cinnamon Graham Crackers
Chocolate Bars

Directions
Create S’mores as usual. (Make a sandwich of peep and chocolate using crackers)

Tip: Pull the head off the chick peep to make it sit better!

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I am not a big fan of new potatoes.  I like my potatoes light and fluffy – like mashed potatoes with heavy cream or baked potatoes. But I had several cans of these in my pantry and they needed to be used so I decided to try and see how it turned out.  If it tanked- well we’d eat boxed Mac & Cheese.

They turned out amazing!  They were delicious and I can’t wait to make them again and I love that they were a set it & forget it side dish!  My Slow Cooker is my absolute favorite kitchen gadget ever!

Ingredients:

2 cans (15 oz) whole new potatoes
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp rosemary, crushed
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/8 tsp garlic salt

Directions:

Place new potatoes in slow cooker.  Drizzle with olive oil.  Sprinkle rosemary, pepper and garlic salt over the potatoes.  Turn potatoes to evenly coat. And spread as evenly as possible.  The edges touching the crock of the slow cooker will get crunchy (and delicious)- so the more that touches the more delicious crunchiness!

Turn slow cooker on 4 hours high or 8 hours low.

If desired, sprinkle with grated parmesan right before serving.

I had three bananas that were going bad. They were really ripe and needed to go- so I decided to make banana nut muffins except that I didn’t have any walnuts like I  usually use but I did have almonds – so I use those.

Ingredients:

1 egg
2 cups Original Bisquick™ mix
3 very ripe bananas
1/3 cup sugar
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/3 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1/3 cup Almonds, chopped Plus 1 extra whole per muffin.

Directions:
Heat oven to 400ºF.
Grease bottoms of muffin cups (or mini muffin cups) or use paper liners.
Mix eggs and bananas with mixer.  Add remainder of ingredients except almonds and chocolate.  Mix well.
Fold in almonds and chocolate.
Bake about 20 minutes for full size muffins, 10 minutes for mini, or until golden brown.

  My family’s favorite appetizer is chicken wings.  Since we’ve been trying to eat at home more I decided to make our own at home using a small fryer (I got mine here). We prefer un-breaded wings so that’s the recipe below.  It’s much easier than you’d think!

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HomeMade Fried Chicken Wings

Prep time:  5 mins

Cook time:  12 mins

Total time:  17 mins

Serves: 12 wings

 

Ingredients

• 12 chicken wingettes, dried well
• ⅔ cup hot sauce
• ½ cup cold butter
• ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
• ⅛ tsp garlic powder
• Oil for Deep Fryer

Instructions

1. Heat oil in the fryer.
2. Add chicken and fry 9 -12 minutes.
3. While chicken is cooking, melt the butter.
4. Add hot sauce, cayenne pepper and garlic powder.
5. Wisk together. Drain the chicken on paper towels when done.
6. Toss in sauce.
7. Serve hot with celery and ranch.

Nutrition Information

Serving size: 3

3.4.3177

These were delicious.  Absolutely delicious and easy and no-bake!  I had leftover cream cheese and pie crusts that were getting close to their best-buy dates from my pre-Christmas purchases and I needed something to make with them.  We love Pie Crust Cookies and Cheesecake dip but I wanted to try something just a bit different.

Ingredients:

Pie Crust
8 oz Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp sour cream

Directions:

Cut out circles of the pie crust 1 inch larger in diameter than the cupcake tin top.
Place the pie crust in the tin to create cups.
Prick he dough with a fork.
Bake 10 minutes or until golden.
Cool completely.

Beat the cream cheese well.
Mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla.
Add sour cream and beat well.
Spoon into cups.  Top with chocolate chips, if desired.

*Tip: If you like them tart add more sour cream.  If you want them more sweet- add more powdered sugar.

I had several packages of thin sliced cheese that was about to expire.  I’d already given some away but knew I wasn’t going to make it to the Food Pantry before it expired.  So I decided to try to make baked cheese crackers.

They are super easy but trust me when I say that you MUST use parchment paper.  I tried an blank baking sheet.  Failure.  Silicon baking mat.  Failure.  Parchment paper- SUCCESS!

Ingredients:
Thin Sliced Cheese of choice (I used Swiss & Cheddar)
Parchment Paper

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line pan with parchment paper.

Place cheese apart on the paper.

Using a pizza cutter (a knife works too but a pizza cutter is easier) cut each into fourths and separate.

Bake for 10-12 minutes until crispy.

Allow to cool and transfer to a air tight container.

We ate ours with soup!

First let me say that these are dangerously addicting as in I could have eaten the entire package myself. I resisted eating them ALL but I did eat enough to know that these are beyond fabulous!  They might be full of calories…and topped with even more….but they are delicious, easy and inexpensive!

Ingredients:
8 Flour Tortillas, soft taco size
Granulated Sugar
White Chocolate Syrup
Vegetable oil for frying

Directions:
Heat oil over medium heat in large pan.
Cut tortilla into fourths.
Fry until golden brown.
Drain well.
Sprinkle sugar generously and top with drizzle of white chocolate syrup.

Enjoy Warm.