Party Mashed Potatoes

I wish I could take credit for this idea.  It turns instant mashed potatoes into something wonderful.

I used the following recipe with the modifications below.


Party Mashed potatoes

http://www.hungryjack.com/Recipes/Details.aspx?recipeID=2891

with the following changes...

-I had an off brand pack of instant potatoes that was only 10.? oz's
-I omitted 1 of the packs of cream cheese
-I only used 8 oz of sour cream
-I only used 1/2 stick of butter
-I omitted onion salt, milk and optional ingredients but I'm sure they'd be good lol

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White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

One of the deserts I made for Thanksgiving was this recipe with the following modifications


http://www.recipezaar.com/No-Bake-Cheesecake-Pumpkin-Pie-26407

Modified version:
-I used a chocolate graham cracker crust
-white chocolate pudding instead of vanilla
-pretty sure I omitted the confectioner's sugar because I didn't have any at the time


It was a big hit

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Too easy Rice Pilaf

The Knorr cilantro cubes in the box are a recent discovery and I am loving them.  The bag of dried veggies came from the San Francisco Herb Co.

It's their dried soup blend.

For 1/2 pot of rice (1 cup water - 1/2 cup rice)  I've been adding 2 teaspoons of the dried vegetables and 1 Knorr cilantro cube.  As soon as the water starts to boil, add them before the rice.  Stir well after adding the rice, then cover and simmer.

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Sausage macaroni

Couldn't really decide on a good name for this.  I had some fresh corn put up in the freezer.  Some ranch dip.  Some leftover sausage links.

• cooked up some macaroni
• boiled 2 ears of corn, cut it off the cob
• crumbled up the sausage
• mixed it all together with the dip and a knorr cilantro cube
• added a little salt, pepper, and california style garlic salt

Not bad...

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Sprouts

grow your own sprouts in your kitchen cabinet :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouting

http://www.isga-sprouts.org/

lots of information out there about how to do this but here are my simple instructions:

using a pint size wide mouth jar and a lid similar to the one shown in the above wikipedia article but without the thing that allows the jar to continue draining on its side...

I use a tablespoon of the seeds - (I'm using a mixed blend of seeds I bought at a health food store).  Dump those in the jar and add water to cover.  Allow to soak overnight, sitting on the counter.  The next day drain off the water and dry off the jar and set it in the kitchen cabinet.  Every day take the jar out of the cabinet, fill with water, swirl it around and drain the water again.  Dry off the jar and place it back in the cabinet.  When sprouts are fully sprouted (~4-5 days) move them to the fridge (in a baggie, or tupperware like container - whatever), clean your jar and start some more lol.

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Turkey Stuffing Meatloaf Muffins

Okay I googled for a recipe for these - found a lot of them.  Printed out one to go by from recipezaar.  But it seemed kind of plain.

Here is that recipe as is/was:

Meatloaf Muffins with Stove Top Stuffing

1 (6 ounce) box Stove Top stuffing mix (any flavor is fine)
2 eggs
1 cup water
2 lbs ground beef or turkey

Mix all ingredients.
Spray muffin tins with Pam
Fill muffin tins to top
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes

My Changes

Intentional

1. I used only 1 lb of ground turkey, my Stove Top mix was turkey as well.
2. I heated my cup of water and dropped a chicken bouillon cube and a cilantro bouillon cube into it.
3. I chopped up a fresh clove of garlic and about 1/4 cup of onion and green pepper and added that.
4. I also added salt, pepper, garlic salt, basil, and oregano

Unintentional
I had planned to use an amount of 'better than eggs' product equal to one egg, not two as the recipe called for, but I forgot to add any at all - it was quite good and didn't fall apart...so I was rather happy with my mistake.

The results :)

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