PINEAPPLE CASSEROLE

1 (20 ounce) can pineapple tibits, drained


1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

3/4 cup white sugar

1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese

1 2/3 cups crushed ritz crackers

3 tablespoons butter, melted

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Combine the pineapple chunks and crushed pineapple with syrup. Mix together and pour into a 2 quart baking dish.

Mix together the flour and sugar, sprinkle evenly on top of pineapple. Cover with cheese, top cheese with cracker crumbs and drizzle melted butter on top.

Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) or 25 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes and serve. Good served with pork chops, tenderloin or ham.

RASEBERRY CREAM CHEESE DELIGHTS

2 3oz. packs of raseberry jello
1 bag of frozen rasberrys    or
1 can of rasberry pie filling if you can find it
1 8oz. can of crushed pineapples, drained save juice
1/2 cup chopped pecans
2 cups of boiling water
Add boiling water to jello, then add the juice to cup and then fill rest of the way up to 1 cup mark with water. Mix,then add the pineapple  and rasberries or rasberry pie filling and the pecans. Mix good and put in a glass 2 quart square bowl and put in ref. until it gets firm.

Cream Cheese Topping:
1 8oz. cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup or a little more to your liking chopped pecans
Combine the cream cheese and sugar and beat. until smooth, then add the sour cream and vanilla and beat again until smooth. Put over top of jello layer. Then sprinkle pecans on top of this. let chill until ready to serve. keep ref.
If you like you can make a graham cracker crusts by using 2 packs of regular or honey grahams crackers. Not two boxes. Crush them up in a ziplock bag using a meat pounder or hammer. Then put about 1/2 stick of butter in this , spread out in pan and bake for 6 minutes. Let cool. Then add the jello filling. Make sure it is cool or the jello wont work right. Can also use the lucky if bite left  pie crust on it also.
2 cups of flour
2 sticks of blue bonnet, melted
3 Tablespoons of water
melt butter, add flour and water, stir, pat out in pan and bake for 10 minutes but watch closly as this will really burn easy and will taste scorched. let cool also.

LOUISE'S STRAWBERRY CAKE

Louise's Strawberry Cake
This recipe came from my neighbor and good friend. This is so good and different. I don't know if you can still find the Instant Strawberry Pudding or not. I know Walmart did carry it under their brand and Kroger did have it.

1 Box of Strawberry Cake Mix
3 Boxes of Instant Large Strawberry Pudding Mix
1 Medium Cool Whip

MIx cake mix up in a bowl according to instructions on box. Spray pan and Bake in a 9 x 13 pan for 30 minutes. Let cool. Punch holes in it..

Frosting:
Put Instant pudding in a bowl and add  the milk Make sure you read the directions I think it calls for three cups instead of two.. I add a cup extra. It  will just make more frosting. I think these may be small boxes if they are make sure you buy three. Put the pudding over all the  top and in the holes of cake.
Put the cool whip on top of cake. Keep ref.

THANKSGIVING AND THE MOP

While we were all sitting around talking this year after our Thanksgiving dinner we began telling about some of the crazy things we had done when we first got married. So they remembered what my husband done to me on one of our first Thanksgiving dinners.
Our family had met at our trailer for Thanksgiving dinner back in the 70's. We had just got married and being only 19 years old we were still kids. I had worked most of the time after school and on the weekends so I did not know nothing about cooking as my mom worked also and we really never cooked a lot of new things back then and we did not have Food TV network to teach use how to cook. It was just old time grub and mainly basic stuff.
Anyway we were having dinner at our house that year and my mom and dad and in-laws were all there helping cook. We were trying to get it all done before all of the rest of the crew landed in. lol.
My husband wanted a drink of cold water out of the fridge. So I gave him a glass and told him to pour some. I went on about doing what ever it was and he came back in the kitchen and said that the water tasted like Kool-Aid. I had cleaned the pitcher but it must have still left a taste in it so I told him to get the mop and just reclean it. I noticed he left the kitchen and never paid any attention to what he  did with the pitcher. My new Tupperware one. He was gone for a while and here he came back in the kitchen and said I can't get the mop down in the pitcher. Now what had he done, he had went outside, got my mop that I mop with and tried to stick it down in the pitcher to clean it. No he is not crazy, just did not know nothing about cooking or cleaning. It was my fault because the mop
I wanted him to use was my dish-mop which I had in my dishwater. They have never let us live that one down and that has been 30 years ago. So be carefual what you ask your husband to do in your kitchen. He still don't know how to cook, which he was always gone working in the coal mines during most of our marriage, and now is, To Over The Hill, to learn  lol. I think he can boil a egg and use the microwave and george foreman grill for a hamburger. Also fix a egg sandwich but that is about it. His excuse, if I learn how to cook now you will never do no cooking. Isn't that just like a man. Hay, I need a break sometime. But I still enjoy cooking and getting new recipes.

RAY'S CORN CASSEROLE

2 boxs of Jiffy Muffin Mix
1 Can of cream style corn use good kind
1 Can of whole kernal corn, drained
1 small can of green chiles, drained
1 Bag of Montanery Jack Cheese
Make up one box of Jiffy Mix and pour into a 7 x 11 x 2 inch deep pan
I think you can find these at Walmart or Kroger
Put the cream style corn in next
Put the chiles in next
Put the whole kerneal in next
Put the cheese over this
Then make up the other box of Jiffy Mix and pour over the cheese and bake for 30 minutes on 350.Watch and don't let top of it get two brown.

HOW TO BOIL A EGG

For all of those who don't know how to boil eggs. This is how you do it. After my daughter called Thanksgiving asking me why her eggs was cracking and the whites was coming out of the shell, she wanted to know what was wrong. So I told her. She had put the water on to boil. Then she put the eggs in. lol. Now I thought everyone knew that you do not put cold eggs in hot water. You put the eggs in a kettle of cold water, add some salt so the eggs will peel good then turn the stove on and boil them for 10 minutes or more to your liking. I guess she takes back after me asking my mom how to make a egg. lol.

RECIPE SITE

This is a new recipe site I found.
http://www.recipelion.com/