Chesse Cake

8 oz cream cheese
1/2 cup of sugar
carton of whip cream
1 drop of vanilla

Mix and pour into a gram cracker crust
refrigerate tell settled.

Add strawberries on top

Cumin-spiced flank steak with grape tomoato salsa

2 red bell peppers
1 yellow bell pepper
2 jalapenos
1 cup of grape tomatoes
1 yellow onion cut into 1/2 inch wedges
2 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper
1-1 1/2 lbs flank steak
2 tbs ground cumin
1 tsp chili powder
1 tbsp fresh lime juice

Broil veggies with salt and pepper and 1 tbs of oil tell soft about 15 mins

Heat 1 tbs of oil in skillet over med heat season steak with cumin, chili powder, salt and pepper tell done

Chop up jalapenos and mix up veggies

Serve steak with veggies on top.

Serve with rice.

Breakfast Ideas

Dear Ryan

If I ever ask what do you want for breakfast we usually eat:

pancakes
waffles
cinnamon rolls
muffins

I will even make you eggs with jalapenos.

Grilled cheese

2 slices of bread
enough slices of cheese to cover bread
butter

Butter 2 slices of bread put the butter side down on that pan cover with cheese and put the other slice of bread on top butter side up.

Fry tell cheese is melted flipping when necessary.

Philly Cheese Steaks

Buy a package of steak-ums (in the freezer section of the grocery store)
onion
green pepper
hogi rolls
provolone cheese


Cut up onion and green pepper saute. When almost done add meat and top with cheese. I put mine on a toasted hogi roll but any bread will do.

Serve with chips

Taco Salad

Ground hamburger meat
Chips
lettuces
Cheese
Tomatoes
Avocado
Onion
Salsa
Sour Cream


Mix all ingredients together and eat! Yum!

frozen food

Sometimes when I am to tired or lazy to cook we like to eat:

PF Changs frozen skillet sweet and sour chicken. I add brown or white rice to it

or

Stoffers frozen lazanna I add green beans and garlic bread to it

chicken roll ups

1 cooked chicken breast shredded
8 oz cream cheese
onion (as much as you like)
1 package of crescent rolls

melted butter
bread crumbs

Mix together chicken, onion and cream cheese. Unroll crescent rolls. Spoon chicken mixture into crescent rolls, coat with butter and cover with bread crumbs.

cook at 350 for 20 mins.

Serve with green beans.

manacotti

box of manicotti noodles
mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese
ricotta cheese
jar of pasta sauce


Boil pasta noodles tell done about 7 mins or whatever the directions on the package says
Mix mozzarella cheese parmesan cheese and ricotta cheese together.
Pour a layer of pasta sauce into a baking dish
Fill manicotti tubes with cheese mixture and place in baking dish
Cover the top of the manicotti with pasta sauce
bake at 350 for 30 mins

Serve with garlic bread, green beans and a salad.

Rice

This is for you Ryan

If you want a side dish of rice

Rice-a-roni follow the instructions of the box

Brown rice follow the instructions on the box

White rice follow the instructions on the box.

French Fries

Oil
Potatoes
salt
chile powder (optional)
ketchup (optional)

Heat up oil in a fryer or a pot on the stove
Cut up potatoes to look like french-fries when the oil is hot add potatoes to it.

Cook about 20 minutes or until soft
Pat dry and add salt and chile powder for a spice

Dip in ketchup!

Twice baked potaotes

Potatoes
Cheese
milk
butter

Bake potatoes in oven for about an hour at 400

Pull out, when cool enough to touch cut down the middle and scoop out the middle leaving the shell.

Mix together potatoes, milk, cheese and butter put back into the potatoes shell and top with more cheese.

Bake another 15 min in oven.

You could substitute the milk for sour cream or even cream cheese and it would be good.

Pizza

Add your recipe here Ryan!

hamburgers

Ryan this is one you can make

Hamburger patties
Buns
cheese
Avocado or guacamole
A1 sauce


Grill hamburgers tell there done. I like mine well done. In the last minute add sliced cheese on top to melt.

Since Ryan doesn't like ketchup we stated putting either smashed up avocados or making guacamole and topping our hamburgs with that.

Adding A1 sauce is good as well.

Serve with french fries

Shake-n-bake

Chicken
Box of shake-n-bake

Open box of shake-n-bake take out bag that is inside pour the bread crumbs and chicken into. Shake the bag and place on baking pan and cook tell done.

Serve with potatoes, rice, corn, or green beans

I asked Ryan to make this because I was at work and it was simple for him to make. I come home and he hadn't started. I asked him why and he said I didn't know how to make it. I said you just put it in the bag and shake it and he said is thats all it seemed to easy.

Roasted Chicken

This is a Rachel Ray one pot chicken dinner that I adapted.

2 chicken breast
4-5 red potatoes
2 onions ( I used to use one but that was never enough for my onion loving husband)
1/2 bag of carrots
olive oil
salt
thyme

Adjust quantities to what you like and how many people are eating

Mix everything together put in roaster and bake at 425 for 40 min.

If using boneless chicken breast I don't add them tell the last 10-15 min so they don't get to dry

Crab

I've only made this once but crab is Ryan's favorite so I should do it again. I found this recipe here

Here is a slightly altered recipe:

1/4 (1/2 stick) c. butter
1/4 c. olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp. thyme
1/2 tsp. rosemary
1 lb of crab
Thickly sliced zucchini, bell pepper and potatoes

Melt butter with olive oil in a small saucepan over medium heat, then stir in garlic, thyme and rosemary. Remove from heat. Broil veggies with some butter add the crab for the last 4 minutes brushing with butter, until crab is heated through thoroughly. Remaining butter may be used as dipping sauce

Chicken Enchiladas

Cooked Shredded Chicken ( I use 2 chicken breasts)
2 cups Green enchilada sauce
1 cup Sour cream
1 can cream of chicken
1 can green chiles
shredded cheese
Tortillas

Mix all ingredients together excepted tortillas. Then spoon into tortillas, roll up and place in baking dish. I like to spread extra enchilada sauce and cheese on top.

Bake at 350 for 20-30 min

Argenine Chicken

4 chicken breasts,
1/2 cup oil
1 onion chopped,
3 TBS parsley chopped,
2 med carrots grated thin,
5 bay leaves,
1 green pepper diced,
salt pepper to taste,
2 TBS chopped garlic,
1 TBS whole oregano,
1/4 cup dry white cooking wine (I always use water but the alcohol cooks out)
1/2 cup sugar,
2 28oz cans whole tomatoes chopped
2 28oz cans tomato sauce. (You may want to half all ingredients except chicken)

Brown chicken with bay leaves in oil in large pot. Add next 6 ingredients and cook lightly. Add rest of ingredients and spices: cook over low heat & stir, making sure not to burn the bottom. Cook about 1 hour.

You can also through all the ingredients into the crock pot and cook on low about 5 hours

Serve with rice.

Tacos

1 Roast
1 can of green salsa
1 can of green chiles
corn tortillas
tomatoes
avocado
cheese
onion


Put roast and salsa in a crock-pot for 8 hours on low
When done shred roast and mix with green chiles

Fry tortillas tell they are slightly crispy top with meat, cheese, avocado, tomoaotes and onion.