Semi-Homemade Recipes ... shrimp or crab spread

Cocktail Shrimp or Crab Spread
This is Sooo easy, you may think it can't taste good.
I have made this for parties so many times & every time it's a hit!

1 block of cream cheese
1 can of crab meat or tiny salad shrimp... drained
1 bottle of Cocktail sauce
ritz type crackers

Put the block of cream cheese on a plate.... pour about 1/4 to 1/2 bottle of cocktail sauce over it. Dump on crab meat or shrimp. That's it! Put crackers around on a plate & let guests spread with a little spread knife onto crackers. it's really colorful during the Holidays.
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Semi-Homemade Recipes ... Chicken Dip

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Great Crockpot recipe! This is sooo good, my kids eat it like nachos for dinner!

Spicy Chicken Dip

1/2 rotisserie chicken from the grocery store OR leftover roasted chicken (2 or 3 cups chopped)
1 block cream cheese
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
1 can condensed cream of celery soup
1 can OR fresh roasted green chilies
Tortilla chips

Chop up the chicken.... clean chilies if your are using fresh roasted.
put cheese & soups in crock pot & slo cook till mixed & creamy. Stirring once in a while.
Add chicken & chilies... slo cook for about an hr or so.
Serve warm with Tortilla chips.


Perfect Party Dip!!!

Semi-Homemade Recipes ... Pound Cake dessert

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Pineapple pound cake....

Try to resist saying "WOW" when you take a bite of this Dessert!!!

1 Sara Lee Pound cake

1 larger can of crushed pineapple

about 1 cup pineapple juice or you can use coconut milk for a "pina colada" taste

1 container of Cool whip

1/4 cup rum (optional with adults) omit if you have kids enjoying this dessert.

combine the juice from can of pineapple, extra pineapple juice (or coconut milk)

& rum. pour in a pan that fits the pound cake. Set the pound cake on top of juice mix... spoon a little over the top & let sit in fridge for about an hr or till the juice is soaked up into the bottom of the pound cake.

Mix the pineapple with the cool whip. When pound cake is ready... "frost" your cake with the pineapple cool whip. Cool i bit in fridge. Slice & serve!

Semi-Homemade Recipes ... Stuffing

Fast & tasty stuffing for your roasted chicken, turkey or cornish hens.... We love this recipe. Remember your apron & let's get cooking.

1/2 lb breakfast sausage

1/4 chopped onion

1 small can (or fresh) mushrooms Chopped

some poultry seasoning

2 boxes of StoveTop stuffing... chicken or turkey flavor.

brown the sausage & onions. add in the chopped mushrooms & a sprinkle of poultry seasoning, stir & cook for a couple min.

In a large pot... cook the stovetop as instructed EXCEPT... add the sausage mixture to the boiling water with butter part of the instructions. Then add the seasoned stuffing mixture.

after I let it sit covered.... then I stuff my turkey or chicken OR put in covered baking dish & put in the oven during the last 1/2 hr while the chicken or turkey is roasting.

Semi-Homemade Recipes ... Baked Beans

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Open a can & add some great ingredients & you have the perfect Semi homemade Baked Beans.

I have always had these baked beans. There is no better. I never order baked beans at a restaurant because they are always a soupy BBQ sausey yukky mess.

Take this to your next BBQ or Potluck & EVERYONE will want your "secret recipe"

1 lb Hamburger

1/2 an onion chopped

1/2 lb bacon

2 big cans of BUSH'S ORIGINAL Baked beans

brown sugar

ketchup

Brown your hamburger, onions & chopped bacon till fully cooked.

add beans, about 1 tblsp brown sugar & a couple Tbsp Ketchup. Mix.

Pour in a baking dish with a cover. Bake at 350 degrees till heated thru.

Serve as a side at your next BBQ!

Semi-Homemade Recipes ... Clam Chowder

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This is the best clam chowder! With a few ingredients & opening a few cans, you will have a YUMMY Clam Chowder.

2 cans of Campbells Condensed Cream of Potato soup
1 can of chopped Clams
2 "cans of milk OR 1/2 & 1/2"
about 1/4 of an onion chopped

1/2 LB bacon.

Cut up bacon in small chunks.... fry to almost crispy. Add chopped onions & saute till soft.

in a pot.... add soup, milk (or 1/2 & 1/2 for thicker creamier) Mix & heat, Add bacon/onion mix & simmer. add salt & pepper if you like. Feel free to add more or less of any ingred. Make to your taste.

My Grandmother liked this recipe better than any of the restaurants she went to on the east coast!

Semi-Homemade Recipes ... Meat Buns

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My mom always said, "a good cook knows what cans & boxes to open". For the next few days I will be posting some great recipes with ingredients that come from "pre packaged" items.

I cook this way alot... making up things & use my kids as "guinea pigs" LOL. Sometimes we have great food that I never remember how I made it the last time or some "clunkers".

But here will be some of the ones my kid's did not spit out & laugh at me.

Come back each day for the next few days & discover how you can make great meals or sides from things you may already have in your pantry, fridge or freezer.

So today's recipe will be "meat buns"

There are several different ones so try the ones you like or try them all!

First.... these all take Rhodes Dinner ROLLS dough.

I get the big bags at Sam's Club ... take out as many as I need & keep the rest in the freezer.

For quick thaw & rise ... put in a greased pan ... cover lightly with foil that has been sprayed with PAM or wiped with a little oil. Put in a 200 degree oven till they rise to double (about 1/2 to 1 hr)

NOW.... for Sloppy Joe Buns:

This has been the only recipe for Sloppy joes my grandmother... mother ... me & now my

daughters use.

2 lbs hamburger

about 1/4 of an onion chopped fine (optional)

1 can Condensed Tomato soup

1 can Condensed (campbells) Chicken Gumbo soup
1 tsp Worch. sauce.

Fry hamburger with onions till cooked well. Dump in soups & worch. sauce. Let cook with a lid PARTWAY open. Just so it won't bubble all over the stove but will cook down some. Let cool for Bun recipe.

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OR...If you have leftover pork or beef roast...

Warm up roast & pull apart with 2 forks. Add a bottle of your favorite bbq sauce & simmer down. Let cool for bun recipe.

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OR Ham, salami or pastrami & cheese:

Thin sliced deli meat & any cheese you like. Cut in small squares to fit in Bun.

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OK.... Now that your rolls have risen... take out 1 roll & stretch into a circle in your hand (about 3 or 4 inches in diameter)

Put about 2 tsp or so of meat mixture (or deli meat & cheese) in the middle of the dough circle.

Fold up sides & seal... making a "bun".

Line up in greased pan or cookie sheet.

Cover with a light towel & put in a warm place & let rise again.

Brush with an egg/water wash & sprinkle with Sesame seeds (optional)

Bake at 350 for 20 min. Carefully separate Buns if they baked together & put back in oven for about 7 more min. If you used a cookie sheet & they stayed separated... just bake for 27 min.

Enjoy your fresh baked "Sandwich"