Smothered Chicken

Ingredients
chicken breasts
chicken spices (garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper)
bacon or bacon bits
grated cheddar cheese
mushrooms (for those who like it

Pound chicken until thin, in a skillet over medium heat cook chicken like normal, seasoning both sides. Once chicken is cooked thoroughly place mushrooms, cooked bacon cut up (or bacon bits) and mushrooms on top of each breast, then cover with desired amount of grated cheddar cheese. Cover the skillet and remove from heat, set aside to melt the cheese. Then do this next step:

Honey Mustard

1/3 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
1 tablespoon honey
1/2 tablespoon lemon juice

mix together, place a good amount on a plate the size of the chicken breast, place cooked and cheese melted chicken on top of the honey mustard and enjoy!

Dad's Cream Puffs

½ C. Butter

1 C. Flour

½ t. Salt

4 Eggs

Melt butter in 1 cup of boiling water, add all flour (and salt) and stir vigioursly. Cook and stir till mix forms a ball that doesn’t separate. Remove from heat, cool slightly then add eggs one at a time, beat until smooth. Then take a heaping Tablespoon and place 3 in apart on greased cookie sheet.

Bake @ 450° for 15 mins, reduce to 325° and bake for 25 more minutes. Remove and slice open each puff, turn off oven and put back in cooling oven to dry (watch for no more shinny spots).  

For filling, 1 package of your choice of instant pudding, mix with whipped cream if desired. Sprinkle powder sugar on top. 

Makes 10. 

Strawberry Filled Cheesecake

Strawberry Filled Cheesecake

Strawberry Filling

2 ½ C.    Strawberries (Frozen or fresh, whole or chopped)

½  C.       Sugar

2 ½ T.     Cornstarch

Stir to boiling and boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Cool completely.

Crust

11 oz      Shortbread cookies (or graham crackers) finely crushed

3 T.         Butter melted

2 T.         Water

1 t.          Vanilla

Blend cookies until almost tasty, add rest of ingredients. Slightly grease a spring form pan. Put crust in pan and press 1 ¾ inch up the sides. Refrigerate for 15 minutes, bake for 10 minutes @ 350°. Reduce heat to 325°, melt 2 oz of semi sweet chocolate and spread on bottom of crust. Chill for 10 minutes.

Cream Cheese Mixture*

4 pkgs 8 oz          Cream cheese

1 ½ C.                    Sugar

4                              Eggs

2 t.                          Vanilla

Beat the cream cheese alone really good then add sugar and beat for a long time. Then add one egg at a time until blended, mix in vanilla. Place half of cream cheese mixture in pan and bake for 35 minutes at 325°. Remove from oven and cool for 20 minutes, then but the strawberry filling in the pan and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and add the rest of the cream cheese mixture and bake for 50 minutes. (to prevent cracking try having a pan with water in the over and cracking the oven door just a tiny bit)

Cool completely then remove sides of spring form pan. Garnish with chocolate striped across the top and serve with white chocolate dipped strawberries. Store in refrigerator.

*Note: the spring form pan I have was a little small for this recipe, it fit but almost when over the top while cooking. To prevent this the next time I just 3/4ed the cream cheese mixture and reduce cook time by 5 minutes in each step during the cream cheese part. Turned out great.

Plain Cheese Cake

Follow above recipe, omit strawberry filling and cook entire cream cheese mixture in the crust for 1 hour at 325°.