Let's Get Cookin Again

Well....summers is winding down, kids are back in school and of course our schedules are as hectic as ever! That being said....it's time to start cookin again!

WHAT: COOKIN WITH THE CHICKS

WHEN: THESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

TIME: 6:30PM

WHERE: MICHELLE'S HOUSE

THEME: RECIPES WITH 5 INGREDIENTS OR LESS

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE....EMAIL YOUR RECIPE TO COOKINWITHTHECHICKS@GMAIL.COM. THAT WAY I CAN POST EVERYONES RECIPE ON THE BLOG FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB TO SEE!

THANKS AND HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

any questions...Paula 658-8578, Michelle 658-0846, Vicki 658-1007

Banana Cookies

Hi everyone - its Paula...I know its been a really long time. Here is a recipe I tried today. Hope you like it! I had some over-ripe bananas I needed to use and instead of the old favorite, banana bread, I decided to try these cookies. They are moist and delicious - and the frosting! Well, you just have to try them for yourself--

Cookies-

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/4 cup Crisco shortening

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp banana flavoring (can omit and increase vanilla to 1 tsp)

2 lg ripe bananas - peeled and mashed

1 heaping TBS sour cream

1/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

2 cups flour

Cream together butter, shortening, and sugar. Add egg, flavorings, bananas and sour cream; beat well. Add dry ingredients; mix well. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake @ 350 for about 10 min. until bottoms are just lightly browned. Cool and frost.

Frosting- (the best part)

6 TBS brown sugar

1/4 cup whole milk or half and half

4 TBS butter

powdered sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine brown sugar, milk and butter in saucepan; bring to a rolling boil. Remove pan from heat and beat in enough powdered sugar to make frosting spreadable; beat in vanilla. As the frosting cools, it will become difficult to spread. If this happens, reheat in the microwave for a few seconds or add a bit more milk to thin it.

July Class Update

Our July cookin class has been cancelled. We will not be having another cookin night until September - due to some very busy Chicks this summer. More later on Septembers Cookin night.
Have a great summer!

Mexican Food Anyone?

Our May cookin night was smaller in numbers than previous nights, but the food was delish. We decided to do a Cinco De Mayo theme. Thanks to everyone that came and shared a dish. As always, we are glad that you choose to spend an evening with us and share your recipes and ideas.

I did not get any recipes emailed to me, I will request them from those that brought a dish and post as they come in.

We had:

Homemade tortilla chips and bottled salsa, homemade cinnamon crispers, 2 delicious soups, homemade refried beans, chicken enchilada casserole...if I forgot any, Im sorry...like I said, I hope the chicks will email me the recipes so I can post them.

Our next night will be in July and we are going to share a dish that you might have at a summer picnic or bar-b-q.

May Cookin' Night

Hello fellow CHICKS!
We originally had our May cookin night scheduled for the 5th. We are going to reschedule for the next Tuesday, the 12th. Hope you all can still make it...and yes we will still be celebrating Cinco de Mayo, so get your Mexican recipes out!

PS...
Toni, my mom and I made the slushy punch for our famiy get together at Easter...it turned out great!

RECIPES FROM MARCH COOKIN NIGHT...

So...what do ya think I am gonna do with this????

SLUSHY PUNCH --TONI FOSTER
1 can frozen orange juice
1 can frozen lemonade
1 46oz. can pineapple juice
2 packets cherry kool aid (or flavor of your choice) tropical punch is good too
1 bottle fruit juice of your choice (or use a can of frozen fruit juice)
3 to 4 cups sugar
1 gallon of water
4 to 6 two liter bottles lemon lime soda COLD!!! very important
In a large pitcher mix all ingredients except water. Put large pan or several smaller pans in freezer, add pitcher of juice. Then add the water. Mix water & juice around in freezer. Let freeze at least overnight. Take pan out of freezer let stand for 15 or more min. Cut up punch in cubes, then smash it up as much as possible. Put in gallon zip bags. then store in freezer until ready to serve. Put one bag of slush in a punch bowl then add COLD lemon lime soda mix & serve.
I have made this punch with lots of different juices & they are all yummy. I usually just use what ever is on sale or less expensive. At Thanksgiving & Christmas time I like to use cranberry juice cocktail. My family loves to have this punch at all our get togethers! Especially the kids!!!


Grandma’s Sour Cream Raisin Pie--PAULA KELSEY
2 lg eggs 1/4 tsp salt
1 cup sour cream 1/4 tsp nutmeg
3/4 cup sugar 1 cup raisins
1 tsp vanilla
Beat eggs, sour cream, sugar, vanilla, salt and nutmeg together until
well blended. Stir in raisins until well blended. Pour into unbaked pie
shell-bake below oven center @ 375 for 40 min.
Serve with a dollop of sour cream or whipped cream.













Serving up Grandma's Pie

Lindsey made Killer Kelsey Biscuits & Gravy

Vicki made Pineapple Banana Muffins

This is Vicki's Mom Janice, she made a delicious Lemon Pie

This is Paula's Mom Claudine, she made Shrimp Rice Salad

Connie shared her canned meat. Delicious!

Michelle made enchiladas with elk meat.

The other Michelle made "Junk Dip"-sort of a salsa dip, served with tortilla chips.

And here we have the 3 Chicks in the official Chicks apron. The aprons were made by Paula's mom, Claudine. A big thanks for the cute aprons Mom!

I did not get any other recipes emailed to me, if I do, I will post them.

March Cookin Night

I know--I know---it's been a while since my last post. Just a reminder that our next cookin night will be March 3. If you have a recipe that has been in your family for years-or if you have started a family tradition with a recipe of your own, we want you to share it with us. We have had so much fun with our previous meetings and are really looking forward to this one.

We want to try something with the recipes-

not only would we like you to make copies of them to bring, but if you could email the recipe to me, I will post it on the blog for all of the world wide web to enjoy. We noticed that pretty much all of you that brought your recipe to share typed them on the computer, so.....once its typed, send it to me at paulakelsey@cox.net or our cookin email address is cookinwiththechicks@gmail.com. Thanks and we will see you all soon!