Sugar Cookie

ingredients:
• 1 c margarine
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp vanilla (or 1/2 tsp almond extract)
• 3 1/2 c flour The contents of this book are a collec-
• 1/2 tsp baking powder tion of recipes and songs that mean a lot
• 1/2 tsp baking soda to me and my family. While I own and have
• 1/2 tsp salt
currated most of the content, There are
a few songs in here that I do not own.
I do not intend to sell or duplicate this
directions:
book in any form. This is for personal use
Cream margarine and sugar. Blend in eggs and vanil-
as it has great personal value and
la. Add dry ingredients together in a separate bowl.
significance.
Slowly mix in dry ingredients. Chill for 1 hour. Place
on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 400 de-
grees 6 to 8 minutes.
You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Davis
The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
But when I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
I’ll always love you and make you happy
If you will only say the same
But if you leave me and love another
You’ll regret it all some day
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
You told me once, dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between
But now you’ve left me and love another
You have shattered all of my dreams
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
In all my dreams, dear, you seem to leave me
When I awake my poor heart pains
So when you come back and make me happy
I’ll forgive you dear, I’ll take all the blame
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away
 Pineapple Cookies M&M Cookies
ingredients: ingredients:
• 1 egg • 1 tsp baking soda • 1 cup shortening • 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter or margarine • 1/4 tsp ground ginger • 1/2 cup sugar • 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups sugar • 3 1/2 cups flour • 2 eggs • 2 1/4 cup flour
• 1 9-oz can crushed pineapple with juice • 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt
directions: • 1 1/2 cup M&M’s
directions:
Cream together butter and sugar. Mix in egg. Stir in pine-
Mix together and put on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake
apple. Add dry ingredients and mix until well blended. Drop
at 375 degrees for 8 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.
by spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 400
degrees for 8 minutes or until edges are browning.

Lemon Cake Cookies Chocolate Chip Cookies

ingredients: ingredients:
• 1 (15.25 oz ) box lemon cake mix • 1 cup butter, softened • 2 1/4 cups flour
• 2 eggs • 3/4 cup brown sugar • 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil • 3/4 cup sugar • 1 teaspoon salt
• powdered sugar (optional) • 2 eggs • 3/4-1 cup chocolate chips
directions: directions:
Mix cake mix, eggs, and oil in a bowl until combined. Line a Combine butter, sugars, and eggs in one bowl and dry
cookie sheet with parchment paper. Form one inch balls and ingredients in another. Mix together slowly and blend in
roll in powdered sugar. Place 2 inches apart. Bake at 350 chocolate chips and nuts. Bake at 375 degrees for 10
degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. minutes or until golden brown.
 Banana Oatmeal
Oatmeal Cookies Cookies
ingredients: ingredients:
• 3 cups butter or shortening • 2 cup chocolate chips • 1 1/2 c sifted flour • 1 3/4 to 2 c rolled oats
• 3 teaspoons baking soda (optional) • 1 tsp salt • 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups brown sugar • 1 cup walnuts • 1/2 c sugar (white) • 2 cups mashed bananas ( or
• 2 cups white sugar • 3/4 tsp cinnamon applesauce, pears or peaches)
• 4 1/2 tsp vanilla • 1/2 c brown sugar
• 6 eggs • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 4 1/2 cups sifted flour • 3/4 c shortening
• 3 tsp salt • 1 egg, well beaten
• 6 cup oatmeal • 1/2 c nuts

directions:
Mix dry and wet ingredients separately then com-
bine and bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes
or until golden brown.
directions:
Sift flour, sugars, soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg into
a large bowl. Cut into shortening and add fruit,
nuts, and oats. Beat until thoroughly mixed. Drop
by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 to 375 for 12 to 15 minutes.
 Pumpkin Cookies
ingredients:
• 1/2 c shortening
• 1 1/2 c sugar
• 1 c pumpkin puree
• 1 egg
• 1/2 c chopped nuts
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 1/2 c flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
Pudding Cookies
ingredients:
• 1 tsp vanilla extract • 3 eggs • 1 1/2 c chopped nuts
• 1 tsp nutmeg • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda or fruit (optional)
• 3 1/2 c unsifted all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 c butter or margarine, softened
• 1 c firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 c granulated sugar
• 1 pkg JELL-O® Instant Pudding Mix*
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 3 c baking chips*

directions:
Cream shortening and sugar. Add pumpkin and
slightly beaten egg. Sift together dry ingredients
and add to the mixture. Add nuts. Drop by tea-
spoons onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350
degrees for 10 minutes. Optional: frost with cream
cheese frosting.
directions:
Mix flour with baking soda. Combine butter, sugars,
pudding mix and vanilla in a large mixer bowl; beat
until smooth and creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually
add flour mixture, then stir in chips and nuts/fruit.
(Batter will be stiff.) Drop by rounded measuring
teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets, about
2 inches apart. Bake at 375 for 8 to 10 minutes.
Makes about 10 dozen.
 Two Little Girls in Blue
An old man engaged in a photograph
In a locket he’d worn for years
His nephew then asked him the reason why
That picture had caused him tears.
Come listen, my lad, and I’ll tell too you
A story that’s strange but true
Your father and I at school one day
Met two little girls in blue.
Chorus:
Two little girls in blue, Lad
Two little girls in blue
They were sisters and we were brothers
And learned to love them too
One little girl in blue, Lad
Won your fathers heart
She became your mother, I married the other and
we have drifted apart.
This picture is one of those girls he said
And to me she was once alive.
I thought her unfaithful
We quarreled Lad
And parted that night for life.
My fancy of jealousy wounded her heart
A heart that was good and true
For two better girls never lived than those
Those two little girls in blue.
Chorus:
Two little girls in blue, Lad
Two little girls in blue
They were sisters and we were brothers
And learned to love them too
One little girl in blue, Lad
Won your fathers heart
She became your mother, I married the other and
we have drifted apart.
 German Chocolate Cake Coconut Pecan Frosting
ingredients: ingredients:
• 1 pkg 4 oz baker’s chocolate • 1 cup buttermilk • 1 cup evaporated milk
• 1/2 c boiling water • 4 egg whites, stiffly • 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup butter beaten • 3 egg yolks
• 2 cups sugar • 1/2 cup butter
• 4 egg yolks, unbeaten • 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp vanilla • 1 1/3 cup coconut flakes
• 2 1/2 c sifted flour • 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda

directions: directions:
Melt chocolate in boiling water. Cool, cream butter Combine milk, sugar, yolks, butter, and vanilla. Cook
and sugar until fluffy. Add egg yolks one at a time and stir over medium heat until thickened, about 12
and beat well after each. Add melted chocolate and minutes. Add coconuts and pecans. Beat until thick
vanilla. Mix well. Sift together flour, salt, and soda. enough to spread over german chocolate cake.
Add slowly alternating with buttermilk to chocolate
mixture, beating after each addition. Fold in beat-
en egg whites. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40
minutes.
 Carrot Cake Chocolate Zucchini Cake
ingredients: ingredients:
• 1 ½ Cup Vegetable Oil • 3 eggs • 2 tsp salt
• 2 Cups Sugar • 1 cup white sugar • 1 tsp cinnamon
• 4 Eggs • 1 cup brown sugar • 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 Tsp Baking Soda • 1 cup oil • 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 Tsp Salt • 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 ½ Tsp Cinnamon • 2 cup zucchini, grated
• 2 ½ Tsp Vanilla • 1 cup nuts (optional)
• 3 Cups Grated Raw Carrots • 2 cups flour
• 2 oz chocolate (4 Tbsp)

directions:
Combine oil, sugar, and eggs thoroughly. Sift to-
gether dry ingredients and add to wet mixture.
Beat well. Add in vanilla and carrots. Pour into
a greased cake pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 40
minutes to an hour. Serve with your favorite cream
cheese frosting.
directions:
Beat eggs and add sugar. Add the rest of the
remaining ingredients. Mix together and put into a
greased and floured bundt cake pan. Bake at 350
degrees for 40 minutes.
Bumming Around
Dean Martin
I got an ol’ slouch hat
Got my roll on my shoulder
I’m as free as a breeze
An’ I’ll do as I please
Just a bummin’ around
Got a million friends
Don’t feel any older
I’ve got nothin’ to lose
Not even the blues
Just a bummin’ around
Whenever worries start
To botherin’ me
I grab my coat, my ol’ slouch hat
Hit the trail again, you see
I ain’t got a dime
Don’t care where I’m goin’
Where I’m as free as a breeze
An’ I’ll do as I please
Just a bummin’ around
I’ve got nothin’ to lose
Not even the blues
Just a bummin’ around
Whenever worries start
To botherin’ me
I grab my coat, my ol’ slouch hat
Hit the trail again, you see
I ain’t got a dime
Don’t care where I’m goin’
‘Cause I’m as free as a breeze
An’ I’ll do as I please
Just a bummin’ around
Just bummin’ around
 3 Bean Chili
ingredients:
• 2 lbs ground beef • 2 tsp red pepper flakes
• 1 whole onion, chopped • 1/2 tsp ground red
• 1 cup celery diced pepper
• 3/4 cup carrots diced • 3 cans (10 1/2 oz each)
• 1 shallot finely minced of diced tomatoes w/
• 1 garlic minced green chiles.
• 1 Tbsp dried oregano • 2 cans kidney beans
• 2 Tbsp chili powder • 1 can pinto beans
• 1 Tbsp paprika • 1 can navy/white beans.
Green Chile Roast Soup
ingredients:
• 4 to 5 lb chuck roast • 1 c diced carrots
• 1 large yellow or white onion • 2 shallots
• 1 c diced celery
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 8 Tbsp beef bouillon
• 5 cups water
• 3 27 oz cans whole green chiles
• 2 28 oz cans petite diced tomatoes
• 1 lb baby yukon potatoes (or 2 cups diced potatoes)

directions:
Brown ground beef in a pan then add onions, shal-
lots, garlic, celery, and carrots. Cook until onions
are translucent and celery is soft. Add seasonings
and cook until fragrant. Add cans of tomatoes and
pinto beans (undrained). Drain kidney and navy/
white beans and add to pot. Put on a medium high
heat and let simmer for 30 minutes. Serve with
shredded cheese and tortilla chips (optional).
directions:
Sear all sides of chuck roast in a boiling pot. Add
diced onion, celery, garlic, and diced shallots. Sau-
te until onions and shallots are almost translucent.
Add bouillon and water. Add canned tomatoes, green
chiles and carrots. Bring to a boil then reduce heat
and simmer for two hours. Add potatoes and simmer
for an additional hour. Serve with tortilla strips or
bread rolls.
 Chicken Adobo
ingredients:
• 3 pieces dried bay leaves • 2 lbs chicken, cut into
• 8 tablespoons soy sauce serving pieces
• 4 tablespoons white vinegar
• 5 cloves garlic crushed
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 3 tablespoons cooking oil
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt optional
• 1 teaspoon whole peppercorn
directions:
Combine chicken, soy sauce, and garlic in a large
bowl. Mix well and let marinate for at least one
hour. In a cooking pot, heat some cooking oil and pan
fry the marinated chicken for two minutes per side.
Pour remaining marinade and garlic into the pan, add
water and bring to a boil. Add dried bay leaves and
whole peppercorn. Simmer for 30 minutes or until
the chicken gets tender. Add vinegar. Stir and cook
for 10 minutes. Add sugar and salt. Stir, turn off
heat, and serve hot.
Pho (Vietnamese Soup)
ingredients:
• 5 star anise • 2 teaspoons fish sauce
• 2 cardamom pods • fine sea salt, to taste
• 4 whole cloves of garlic • 8 ounces steak, sliced
• 3 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks thin.
• 1 Tbsp brown sugar • 7 ounces uncooked thin
• 1 Tbsp whole coriander seeds rice noodles
• 8 cups beef, chicken, or vegetable stock.
• 1 large white onion, peeled and halved
• 3-inch piece of fresh ginger, halved lengthwise
directions:
Broil onions and ginger for 7-10 minutes until slight-
ly charred. In a stockpot, heat anise, cloves, cinnamon,
cardamon, and coriander over medium-high heat until
fragrant. Add charred items and stock. Reduce to
medium-low heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain
and discard spices. Stir in fish sauce and sugar. Prepare
rice noodles according to package instructions. Serve in
a bowl with broth and submerge meat.
garnishes: fresh herbs (cilantro, mint, orThai basil, bean
sprouts, lime wedges, chiles or jalapeños, green onions,
sauces (hoisin/sriracha), etc.
 Greek Chicken Soup Lemon Rice
ingredients:
ingredients: • 1 stick of butter (1/2 c butter)
• 10 cups chicken broth • 1/2 tsp crushed red • 2 c white rice (not instant)
• 1 clove garlic, minced pepper flakes
• 1/2 cup lemon juice
• 1 red onion diced • 1/2 tsp celery salt
• 1 lemon, zested and juiced. • 4 oz crumbled feta • 4 c chicken broth
• 1 1/4 cup celery diced • Salt and pepper to directions:
• 1/3 cup green onions, diced taste In a medium saucepan melt butter on medium heat. Add
• 1 1/4 cup shredded carrots diced rice, stir constantly and slightly toast rice, Add lemon juice
• 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts and turn heat to medium low. After a minute add chicken
• 1 cup israeli couscous (pearl) broth. Place lid on pan and let cook until the rice is done..

directions:
In a boiling pot, saute onions, garlic, celery, carrots until Meat Candy
onions are translucent. Add red pepper flakes, celery salt
and lemon zest. Cook until fragrant. Add chicken broth
ingredients:
• 4 chicken breasts • 1 lemon
and uncooked breasts. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat
• 4 Tbsp olive oil
to medium and simmer for 5-10 minutes or until chicken
• 6 Tbsp honey
breast is cooked. Remove. Stir in the couscous and shred
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
the chicken. Stir in the chicken and add the juice of 1/2
the lemon. Serve with feta and green onions on top. directions:
Slice breasts, drizzle oil and honey over them. Zest lem-
on and put over chicken. Add lemon pepper. Mix together
and marinate for 15-20 minutes. Place on a hot barbeque,
cook until done.

Shine On Harvest Moon
Oh, Shine on, Shine on Harvest Moon
Up in the sky
I ain’t had no lovin’
Since January, February, June or July
Snow time ain’t no time to sit
Outdoors and spoon
So, shine on, shine on Harvest Moon,
For me and my gal.
By The Light Of
The Silvery Moon
By the light of the silvery moon
I want to spoon
To my honey I’ll croon loves tune
Honeymoon keep a shining in June
Your silvery gleam will bring loves dream
We’ll be cuddling soon,
By the silvery moon.
 Dutch Babies with
Fruit Cobbler Lemon Curd
ingredients: ingredients:
• 1 stick of butter 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup milk 3 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 cup flour 1/2 cup milk, warm
• 1 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup flour
• 2 tsp baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar
• 4 to 5 cups fruit (blackberries, cherries, and peaches 1/4 teaspoon salt
are common favorites.) 1/2 cup lemon curd
2 cups blueberries
1 tablespoon powdered/confectioners sugar

directions:
Melt one stick of butter in a 9x13 baking pan. While
your butter is melting, mix together milk, flour,
sugar and baking powder together in a bowl. Pour
over melted butter. Pour in in 4-5 cups of fruit on
top of that. Sprinkle some extra sugar on top. Bake
for 30-35 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
If cooking in a Dutch oven outdoors, add 20 hot
coals on top lid and 10 coals underneath until the
cobbler’s crust is golden brown. Serve warm.
directions:
Melt butter in an oven safe skillet, place in a pre-
heated 425 degree oven until the butter melts (30
seconds) before pouring in a mixture of the eggs,
milk, flour, sugar and salt and returning to the oven
to bake for 15-20 minutes or until puffed and
golden brown.
Let cool until the puffing goes down before filling
with the lemon curd, blueberries. Dust with pow-
dered sugar and serve.
 The Preacher and The
Bear
Oh, a preacher went a hunting, t’was on a Sunday
morn.
T’was against his religion, so he took his gun along
He shot himself some very fine Quail and one big
Belgian Hare.
And on his way returning home—met a great big
grizzly bear…
That bear walked out into the middle of the road
as the Preacher looked up to see.
He got so excited he climbed up a sycamore tree.
That bear lay down in the middle of the road and
the Preacher climbed.
Out on a limb—and he raised his eyes to the Lord
in the skies and these words he said to him.
Chorus:
“Oh Lord: did you deliver Daniel from the lion’s
den?
Also deliver Jonah from the belly of the whale and
then.
Three Hebrew children from the fiery furnace, so
the good book.
Do declare---now Lord if you don’t help me for
pity sake don’t help that bear.”
That Preacher he stayed up in that tree, I guess it
was all night
He said “now Lord if you don’t help me, You’ll see
and awful fight.”
Well, just about then the limb let go and the
Preacher came tumbling down.
You should have seen him get his razor out just be-
fore he hit the ground.
He cut Mr. Bear a right and left swing, he put up a
pretty good fight
The bear wrapped his arms around him and squeezed
a little too tight.
The Preacher he lost his razor, but the bear hung
on with a grin
The Preacher raised his eyes to the Lord in the
skies and these words he

Said to him.
Chorus:
“Oh Lord: did you deliver Daniel from the lion’s
den?
Also deliver Jonah from the belly of the whale and
then
Three Hebrew children from the fiery furnace, so
the good book
Do declare---now Lord if you don’t help me for
pity sake don’t help that bear.”
Green Pepper Steak
ingredients:
• 1/2 Cup Soy Sauce • 2 Lbs Beef Chuck
• 1/4 Cup Vegetable Oil or Round Steak (Fat
• 2 Cloves Garlic, Grated trimmed.)
• 3 Stalks of Celery, Sliced
• 2 Tbsp Cornstarch
• 1 ½ Cups Cold Water
• 2 Tomatoes, Cut into Wedges
• 2 Cups Red or Green Peppers, Sliced
• 1 Tbsp Fresh Grated Ginger or 1 Tsp Ground Ginger
directions:
Brown steak in skillet with oil. Add garlic, ginger,
sliced peppers and celery. Sweat down the vegeta-
bles until at your desired doneness. Add cornstarch
to water and pour into meat and vegetables. Heat
to a simmer and thickened. Add tomatoes right at
the end of cooking. Toss everything lightly and serve
with egg noodles or steamed rice.

Gentle fallen leaf he cried
And with love to her, she promised
Soon to be his Indian Bride.
On one autumn day he wandered
Over the prairie waste alone
Long she watched and long she waited
But his fate was never known
With the summer flowers she faded
With the autumn leaves she died
And they closed her eyes forever
By the black foot river side.
Pizza Dough
ingredients:
• 1 1/4 cup warm water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoon oil
• 3 1/2 - 4 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon dry yeast (or 1 package)
directions:
Dissolve yeast In warm water. Stir in oil and salt. Add
flour and knead. Brush flour on bowl and dough and let
sit to double in bulk. Knead, roll out and place onto pizza
stone. Bake at 450 degrees. for 15 to 20 minutes.
Pizza Sauce
ingredients:
• 1 small can tomato sauce
• 1 small can tomato paste • A pinch of oregano
• 1/4 tsp minced garlic (or garlic powder)
• 1/2 tsp italian seasoning/pizza seasoning
directions:
Mix together in a small bowl and let sit for 15 minutes.
 Pizza Toppings Indian Maiden
• Canadian Bacon • Bell Peppers (green,
• Pepperoni red, orange, yellow) Far beyond the rolling prairies
• Sausage • Onion Where the noble forest lies
• Hamburger • Olives (Black & Green)
• Bacon • Mushrooms Dwells the fairest Indian maiden
• Chicken • Tomatoes Ever seen by mortal eyes
• Ham • Artichokes Her eyes they sparkle like the sunbeams
• Mushrooms • Pineapple Daughter of a Warrior Chief
• Jalepenos • Banana Peppers Come to cheer their home in autumn
So they called her fallen leaf.

Chorus:
Fallen leaf the breeze has whispered
Of the spirit’s early flight
For within that lonely wigwam
There’s an ail of woe tonight

Far in the depths of the tangled forest

All alone one summer day
Came a hunter sad and weary
On his long and lonesome way
Don’t forget the CHEESE! Weeks went by but still he lingered
 Enchilada Chicken Enchilada Sauce
ingredients: ingredients:
• 2-4 chicken breasts • 1-2 large onions, diced • 4 oz can green chiles
• 1 large onion • 4 cloves garlic, smashed
• 1 clove garlic • 12-20 roma tomatoes, diced
directions: • 1 1/2 cups water or chicken stock
Dice the large onion and mince garlic. Place into a greased directions:
dish with chicken and cover with tin foil. Bake at 350 Add onion, garlic, and tomatoes to boiling pot with oil and
degrees for thirty minutes or until chicken is thoroughly saute until skins wilt. Add water/chicken stock and bring
cooked. Let cool and shred. Serve in hot tortillas with to a simmer. After one hour of simmering, add homemade
your favorite rice, beans and cheese. Smother with enchilada seasoning. After two hours blend using an immer-
homemade enchilada sauce. sion blender. Simmer for a remaining 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

Enchilada Seasoning
ingredients
• 2-3 Tbsp chili powder • 1 tsp salt
• 1 Tbsp paprika • 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp onion powder • 1-2 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp garlic powder • 1/4 tsp mexican oregano
directions:
Combine seasonings together and use in homemade enchilada
sauce recipe.
Chicken Tamale Casserole
ingredients:
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 14.5 oz cream-style corn
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 1/2 cups enchilada sauce
• 8.5 oz corn muffin mix, (such as Jiffy)
• 2 cups taco cheese blend, shredded , divided
• 3 cups shredded cooked chicken, from rotisserie chicken
directions:
In a large bowl combine the corn muffin mix, cream
corn, eggs, milk, seasoning and 1 cup of cheese.
Combine and pour into casserole dish. Bake at 400
degrees for 20 minutes. Remove and score the top.
Pour enchilada sauce all over. Top with shredded
chicken and remaining cheese. Bake an additional 20
minutes. Cool for 10 minutes and serve.
Optional toppings: diced tomato, sour cream,
shredded lettuce, sliced black olives, green onions,
fresh cilantro, salsa, jalepeno.
Taco Casserole
ingredients:
• 1 lb extra lean ground beef
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 1 can kernel corn drained
• 1 can pinto beans, drained
• 1 pkg taco seasonings mix
• 8 to 12 corn tortillas
• 1 cup cup shredded cheese
• Sliced jalapeno peppers
• 2 cans rotel tomatoes with green chiles drained
directions:
Brown ground beef and onions together until cooked.
Add corn, beans, tomatoes and taco seasonings mix well
and simmer for 5 minutes. Spray the baking dish (8x12
inches) and place half of the tortillas on the bottom.
Spoon half of beef mixture on top, sprinkle cheese over
beef. Then layer the last of the tortillas and beef
mixture.
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 25 minutes. Remove and
add remaining cheese on top. Add jalapeno peppers on
top. Cook for an additional 5 minutes to melt cheese.
Let stand for 5 minutes then serve.
 And they said it will be useful, John, someday.
When you settle down in life, find some girl to be
your wife,
You’ll find it might be handy, I declare.
On a cold and stormy night when the fire is burning
bright,
You’ll be seated in the old armchair.
Chorus:
How the tittered and how they tat,
How my brother and me sister laughed.
When they heard the lawyer declare,
Grannies’ only left to you the old armchair.
Well, what they said was true for in just a year or
two
Strange to say, I settled down and married life.
I first the girl to court and then the ring I bought,
I took her to church and then she was my wife.
Now this old girl and me we’re as happy as can be,
And when the day is over, I declare, we never far
Would roam but each night would stay at home and
Be seated in the old armchair.
Chorus:
How the tittered and how they tat,
How my brother and me sister laughed.
When they heard the lawyer declare,
Grannies’ only left to you the old armchair.
One night the chair fell down, when I picked it up I
found
That the seat had fallen out upon the floor.
And there to my surprise, I saw before my eyes
A lot of notes, ten thousand pounds or more.
When my brother heard of this, the fellow I confess
Went nearly mad with rage and tore his hair.
But I only laughed at him and I said unto him, Jim,
Don’t you wish you had the old armchair?
Chorus:
How the tittered and how they tat,

How my brother and me sister laughed.
When they heard the lawyer declare,
Grannies’ only left to you the old armchair.
I Met Her In A Garden
I met her in a garden, in that old Kentucky town,
The moon was shining down,
She wore a gingham gown.
I kissed her as I placed a yellow tulip in her hair,
And on my coat she pinned a rose so fair.
Times have not changed her loveliness,
She’s just the same to me,
I’ll never forget those olden days,
Those days that used to be.
When you wore a tulip, a big yellow tulip,
And I wore a big red rose.
When you caressed me,
It was then heaven blessed me,
What a blessing, no one knows.
The Old Arm Chair
Oh, my grandmother she, at the age of 83
One day in May was taken ill and died.
And after she was dead, the will of course was read
By the lawyer and we all stood by his side.
To my brother, it was found, she had left 100
pounds
The same unto my sister, I declare,
But when it came to me, the lawyer said I see,
Grannie’s left to you the old armchair.
Chorus:
How the tittered and how they tat,
How my brother and me sister laughed.
When they heard the lawyer declare,
Grannies’ only left to you the old armchair.
Well I thought it hardly fair, still I said I didn’t
care
And in the evening took the chair away
My brother at me laughed and me sister at me
chafed
 Aunt Betty’s Donuts
ingredients:
• 2 pkgs dry yeast You made life cheery, when you called me deary,
• 1/2 cup warm water T’was down where the blue grass grows.
• 2 cans evaporated milk (Scalded)
• 8 Tbsp shortening1
Your lips were sweeter than julep,
• 1/2 cup sugar When you wore a tulip,
• 1 tsp salt And I wore a big red rose.
• 8 to 10 cups flour
• 4 eggs (Slightly beaten)

directions:
That’s it. Figure it out and fry it up! Really, really good
donuts!
 Pie Crust Betty’s Biscuits
ingredients:
• 5 Cups Flour • 1/2 tsp Salt ingredients:
• 1Tbsp Vinegar • 5 Cups Flour
• 1 Cup Water - Ice Cold • 3 Tsp Baking Soda
• 2 1/2 Cups Shortening or Lard • 3 Tsp Baking Powder
• 1/3 Cup Sugar
directions: • 1 Tsp Salt
Sift together flour and salt, add lard and mix in well. Add • ¾ Cup Lard plus 2 to 4 Tbsp melted on the side.
vinegar to ice cold water. Add water slowly to the mix- • 2 ½ to 3 Cups Buttermilk
ture until it holds together properly. Roll out into crusts.
Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown.

directions:
Blueberry Filling Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar,
ingredients: and salt. Cut lard into dry ingredients. Add but-
• 6 cups blueberries • 1/2 teaspoon ground termilk to dough until well formed but still slightly
• 3/4 cup sugar cinnamon sticky. Lightly flour dough, cut into rounds and put
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch in a cookie sheet placing melted lard on both sides
• 1 tablespoon bottled lemon juice of biscuits. Bake in the oven at 450 degrees for
directions: 10 to 15 minutes until brown.
Combine blueberries and sugar in saucepan over medium heat.
Bring to a boil and cook until blueberries become soft.
Combine lemon and cornstarch. Pour into blueberries. Con-
tinue to simmer until thicken. Remove from heat.
 White Bread Banana Bread
ingredients: ingredients:
• 12 cups White Flour • 3-4 ripe bananas, mashed • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cups Warm Water • 1/3 cup butter, melted • 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 Tbsp Yeast • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3 Tbsp Margarine • 1 egg, beaten
• 2 Tsp Salt • 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 Cup White Sugar • 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 4 Cups Hot Water • 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup chopped walnuts or chocolate chips (optional)

directions:
Dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water. Mix
margarine, sugar, and salt into the 4 cups of hot
water. Let cool to lukewarm and add yeast mix-
ture. Add flour 1 cup at a time until the dough is
well formed but sticky. Knead 10 minutes. Let rise
twice. Form 4 loaves. Bake at 375 degrees for 40
minutes.
directions:
In a mixing bowl, combine mashed bananas with
melted butter. Add sugar, egg, and vanilla and stir
well. Add baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and
salt to the mixture. Stir to combine. Add flour and
nuts/chips. Stir until no streaks of flour remain.
Pour into a lightly greased and floured loaf pan and
bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes. Cool
for ten minutes and cut thick slices.
 Cream Puffs Chocolate Icing
ingredients:
ingredients: • 2oz baker chocolate • 7 Tbsp milk
• 1 Cup Boiling Water • 1/4 tsp salt • 2 Tbsp vegetable short-
• ½ Cup Margarine • 1 1/2 cup sugar ening
• ¼ Tsp Salt • 1 Tbsp corn syrup • 2 Tbsp butter
• 1 Cup Flour
• 4 Eggs directions:
• 2 to 4 Tbsp Confectioner Sugar (Powdered Sugar) Stir constantly for 1 1/2 minutes in order to not
burn chocolate. Mix until thoroughly combined.

directions:
Melt margarine in 1 cup boiling water. Add flour and salt, Raspberry Syrup
stir vigorously. Cook until mixture forms a ball of dough
ingredients:
that doesn’t separate. Remove from heat, let cool com- • 1 lime slice
• 1 cup water
pletely. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each unit
• 1 cup raspberries
smooth. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto a greased cookie
• ¾ cup ganulated sugar
sheet about 2 1/2 to 3 inches apart.
• 2 tablespoon lime juice, freshly squeezed
Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes, adjust oven tempera-
ture to 325 degrees and bake 25 minutes longer. Remove directions:
from the oven. Cool on rack. Split and fill with instant In a skillet, heat raspberries, sugar, lemon juice, water,
pudding. and lime slice over medium-high heat. Lower heat when it
Sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar or top with chocolate starts to boil. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Cool, strain,
icing. and served over your favorite pastries!
 Hard Candy Christmas
Dolly Parton
Hey, maybe I’ll dye my hair
Maybe I’ll move somewhere
Maybe I’ll get a car

Maybe I’ll drive so far

That I’ll lose track
Me, I’ll bounce right back
Maybe I’ll sleep real late

Maybe I’ll lose some weight

Hard Candy Maybe I’ll clear my junk
ingredients: Maybe I’ll just get drunk on apple wine
• 1 cup corn syrup Me, I’ll be just
• 2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup water Fine and dandy
*Flavoring depends on flavoring package instructions. Lord it’s like a hard candy Christmas
directions: I’m barely getting through tomorrow
Boil until a hard ball forms when dropped into a bowl of But still I won’t let
room temperature water (or reaches hard ball stage on a Sorrow bring me way down
candy thermometer.) Color and flavor. Pour onto a but-
tered cookie sheet.
 I’ll be fine and dandy
Lord it’s like a hard candy Christmas
I’m barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won’t let
Sorrow get me way down
Hey, maybe I’ll learn to sew
Maybe I’ll just lie low
Maybe I’ll hit the bars
Maybe I’ll count the stars until dawn
Me, I will go on
Maybe I’ll settle down
Maybe I’ll just leave town
Maybe I’ll have some fun
Maybe I’ll meet someone
And make him mine
Me, I’ll be just
Fine and dandy
Lord it’s like a hard candy Christmas
I’m barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won’t let
Sorrow bring me way down
I’ll be fine and dandy
Lord it’s like a hard candy Christmas
I’m barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won’t let
Sorrow bring me way down
I’ll be fine and dandy
Lord it’s like a hard candy Christmas
I’m barely getting through tomorrow
But still I won’t let
Sorrow bring me way down
‘Cause I’ll be fine
(I’ll be fine)
Oh, I’ll be fine
 Patches
(Dickey Lee)
Down by the river that flows by the coal yards
Stand wooden houses with shutters torn down
There lives a girl everybody calls Patches
Patches, my darling, of Old Shanty town
I hear a neighbour telling my father
He says a girl name of Patches was found
Floating face down in that dirty old river
That flows by the coal yards in Old Shanty Town

We planned to marry when June brought the summer Patches, oh what can I do
I couldn’t wait to make Patches my bride I swear I’ll always love you
Now I don’t see how that ever can happen It may not be right
My folks say “No” and my heart breaks inside But I’ll join you tonight
Patches I’m coming to you
Patches, oh what can I do
I swear I’ll always love you
But a girl from that place
Would just bring me disgrace
So my folks won’t let me love you

Each night I cry as I think of that shanty

And pretty Patches there watching the door
She dosn’t know that I can’t come to see her
Patches must think that I love her no more
 Kielbasa & Cabbage Colcannon Soup
ingredients: ingredients:
• 1 package of bacon • 1 onion, diced • 4 cups cabbage, shredded
• 1 whole onion • 2 large leeks, sliced • salt and pepper to taste
• 2 kielbasa sausages • 3 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1 whole cabbage • 6 cups chicken broth
• 6-8 large russet potatoes • 1 teaspoon thyme, chopped
• Salt and pepper to taste • 1/2 cup heavy/whipping cream
• 1/3 cup of apple cider vinegar. • 2 green onions, sliced and divided
• 8 ounces bacon, cut into 1 inch slices
• 2 pounds potatoes, cut into bite sized pieces

directions:
Dice bacon into bite size pieces and cook in a pan until
desired crunchiness. Drain on a paper towel lined plate and
saute onions and diced kielbasa sausages in bacon grease.
In another pot, par boil peeled and diced tomatoes for 6-8
minutes. Strain and let sit.
Once the onions are translucent, add diced cabbage and
cook until softened. Add potatoes, apple cider vinegar, and
salt and pepper. Stir to combine everything before serving.
directions:
Cook the bacon in boiling pot before setting aside.
Drain and reserve 2 tablespoons of bacon grease in
the pan. Add the onions, leeks and whites of the
green onions. Cook over medium-high heat until
tender. Add the garlic and thyme. Cook until
fragrant. Add the broth, cream, potatoes,
cabbage, and bacon, bring to a boil reduce the heat
and simmer until the potatoes are tender, about 10
minutes.Season with salt and pepper to taste, mix in
the rest of the green onions and enjoy!