Ancho Chile Fudge Pie

When I went to see my Aunt Wanda a week or so ago, she gave me this recipe from my cousin Cindy. I made it and it is absolutely delicious served warm with coolwhip or ice cream.

Ingredients:
1- 9 inch deep dish pie crust ( frozen)
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter (2sticks)
1/2 cup pecans chopped
1/2 cup walnuts chopped
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup melted and 1/2 cup not melted
2 tsp. ancho chile peppers pureed

Ancho Whole Chilies-- to prepare Boil whole dried chile in small pan of boiling water for 3 minutes. Drain, Remove stems, seeds and grind in blender. Makes kind of paste. Can freeze rest for another pie.
Melt butter, allow to cool,You can toast pecans and walnuts, I did not and it was perfect. (too much trouble)
Beat eggs well, add flour, and sugars. Mix til smooth, Add cooled butter, add nuts, chile peppers, melted choc. chips, and whole choc. chips. Pour in pie shell, bake at 325 degrees for 45-55 min. Enjoy

I made ahead for company and kept in frig, heated it to serve.

GinGin's Turkey and Dressing

This recipe for turkey and dressing is a combination of my mom's, my mother-in-law, and my grandmothers. They are and were allvery good cooks!!! This is the best turkey I've ever eaten and it is so moist, even the white meat melts in your mouth if you do not overcook.

Turkey

Thaw your turkey in the refrigerator for about 3-4 days depending on the size of the bird. Take you turkey out of frig. Unpackage, rinse under cold water, remove insides from both cavities, be sure to check both ends. Inside largest cavity place several sticks of celery, about 1/2 onion, and 1/2 of an orange. Salt and pepper his outside and lay 2-3 slices of bacon across his breast. Place turkey in a Turkey cooking bag and seal with the enclosed tie. Next place the turkey in your old granite roaster. If you don't have an old one they still sell them at Walmart. Those black spatter-ware with a big lid.

Bake for the required time that is says on the outside of turkey per pound. It's nice if the turkey has that little pop out button to tell you if it is done. I cooked my turkey this year for about 2 1/2 -3 hours. It was delicious. I think I have overcooked them many times before.

Take the insides that you removed and place in a large saucpot with water and simmer on the stove for about 2 hours.

Now for the dressing, Take some white bread, about 12 slices, lay it out on a pan or in the pan your going to place your dressing. Make a batch of cornbread. Or if your smart you'll have beans and cornbread the week before and save about half of the cornbread and use it for your dressing. Take you bread and cornbread about half and half. I probably use more cornbread. I would say I used 4 cups of white bread and 6 cups of cornbread. Take about 4 slices of celery and one large onion cut them up and place in small food processor to chop them up . That's the fastest and easiest way. Pour the 1 cup celery and 1 cup onion into a bowl with one stick of margarine and microwave on high for 2 min. Add this mixture to your bread mixture. Next add

about half of the broth from you giblets. Beat up three eggs, and add 2-3 cups of milk. Pour these liquids into your bread, and celery and onions. Add salt and pepper, and sprinkle lightly with sage. Bake this mixture at 350 degrees for about an hour and an hour and 1/2.

Gravy

Take two cans of chicken broth and take about have of the juice from your turkey that are now saved inside the cooking bag. pour these into a large saucepan. Mix about 1/2 - 3/4 cup of flour with about 3 cups of milk, I use a large plastic cup to mix this up and use a whisk. Add the flour and milk to the broth and cook on medium heat for till almost boils and it will thicken stir constantly to keep from burning. This is a delicous creamy gravy.

Cinnamon Rolls

I made these wonderful cinnamon rolls from The Pioneer Woman's website. I have been trying many of her recipes and they are really great. If you would like her recipe go to her wonderful website www.thepioneerwoman.com Most of the bread recipes that I have made cinnamon rolls from has had eggs in the dough, but this one does not and that surprised me. I made her frosting recipe for half of the cinnamon rolls and made my own frosting for the other half. For my frosting I used 1/2 bag of powdered sugar, 1/2 stick of butter and about 1/4 cup of milk and 1 tsp. vanilla. This recipe made four pans of cinnamon rolls this size.

KB Salsa- Picante

1 lb can of chopped tomatoes, or whole
1/2-1 onion( depends on your tastes)
2-3 whole jalepenos (slice and remove seeds)
salt
pepper
garlic salt or garlic powder
Lawry's season salt
2-3 shakes worchestershire sauce

Place all in blender and blend just until small pieces are chopped. You can eat it now, or I usually cook it on top of the stove until bubbly. It seems if you cook a little it does not give you quite as much bad breath. Store in a jar in the frig. We eat it so fast there is no need to can. If you have fresh tomatoes you can do this also and hot water bath can it.
I wish I had had a garden this year. But I guess I was too lazy!!

Beer Bread

This is the best bread to make quickly and EAT Quickly. Be sure to eat it fresh out of the oven. I love to fix it with Brisket, Beans, and potato salad.



3 cups of Self-Rising Flour (don't use all purpose flour)

1/2 cup sugar

1 can beer

1/2 stick butter, ( I use margarine)



Mix, flour, sugar and beer

Pour into a loaf pan.

Cook at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Remove loaf from the oven and pour the 1/2 stick of melted butter over the top. Return the loaf to the oven, and cook 10 additional minutes.





You can add 1/4 cup of cheddar cheese, 1 pkg. of Ranch Dip

Glorified Spaghetti

8 oz. spaghetti
3 qts. boiling water salted
1 green pepper, chopped (optional) I leave this out as it disagrees with me
1/2 large onion chopped
1 lb. ground beef
1 8 oz. can sliced mushrooms
1 can diced tomatoes
1 t. sugar
6 T. grated cheese ( I use about 2 cups on top)

salt
pepper
garlic salt season as desired

In large saucepot bring salted water to bowl, when boiling add spaghetti to cook while cooking meat mixture. Boil spaghetti till just tender.
Brown ground beef in skillet, add chopped onions, and green pepper. After beef and onion mixture has simmered add the canned tomatoes (you might like to mash these a bit), tsp. sugar, and mushrooms. Drain spaghetti and add to meat mixture, stir together and poor into 9 X 13 casserole dish. Top with about 2 cups cheddar cheese. Bake at 350 degrees until well heated.

This is not your typical spaghetti dish with a marinara sauce, but my family really enjoys this dish for a change from the same old spaghetti dish. It may seem like it needs more of a sauce than just the tomatoes , but it is actually quite delicious!