POCKET POTATOES

These potatoes are so easy to fix. You can add different ings. to them if you like.


6 – 8 Large Red Potatoes
1 Bell Pepper, green or red
1 Medium Onion
5 Tablespoons Butter or marg.
Smoked Sausage
Cabbage, cut up
Salt and Pepper
Aluminum Foil

Peel and slice your potatoes. Cut up the peppers and onions in strips or chunks.  Slice or shred up the cabage.Slice the smoked sausage.  Put the butter slices over top of vegs.Take a piece of aluminum foil and spray it. It needs to be big enough to hold your vegs, and smoked sausage. Put your vegs on the alum. foil. Salt and pepper them. Fold the alum. foil over and fold over the sides to make a pocket. Put on grill or in oven and bake or grill for 25 minutes or until done. They need to be turned over every 15 minutes. You can leave the smoked sausage out if you like. Can also use hot banana peppers if you like for more flavor. Can also use just regular potaotes. Watch when opening up the pouches as there is steam in them and you can get burned by the steam.

SWEET SALAD DESSERT

1 (20)oz. Can Pineapple Tidbits
1 (11)oz. Can Mardarin Oranges
1 Small Box Instant Lemon Pudding
1 Cup Fresh Strawberries, quarted
1 Cup Bananas, sliced

Drain the pineapple and oranges, reserving the liquid. Prepare the pudding using the liquid from the fruit instead of the milk. In a bowl combine the pineapple, oranges and strawberries. Lightly fold in the pudding. Chill for at least 2 hours. Always add the bananas just before serving. I don't slice them until then.

SWEET POTATO FRYS

2 Medium Sweet Potatoes, peeled
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
Kosher Salt around 1/2 Teaspoon
Black Pepper around 1/4 Teaspoon
Cinnamon around 1/2 to 1 Teaspoon

Peel the sweet potatoes then cut in half then cut in half again or make wedges or speers out of them. Place on a baking sheet and drizzle the olive oil over them. Put on a cookie sheet in a single layer. Mix the salt, brown sugar, pepper and cinnamon. Sprinkle the mixture onto your potatoes. Bake for 16 minutes and then turn and bake on the other side. Can sprinkle with a little more salt. Serve hot.

COLD SPAGETTI SALAD

1Box of Thin Spagetti Noodles, cooked and drained
2-4 Tomatoes, every how many you like in this dish
1 Jar or small can Blace Olives, diced into fine pieces
1/2 to 1 Onion, diced fine
1/2 Cucumber, chopped and deseeded
1/2 Bottle Italian Dressing, not the red kind
Pepperonis

In this salad you can about add what you like. Some likes pepperonis, some don't. I like to add the onion when I am about ready to serve it. To me it can sometimes make it taste bitter. Mix all the ings. up in a bowl. Pour the dressing on top and mix again. Ref. overnight for the flavors to blend. Keep ref.

RITZ PINEAPPLE CASSEROLE

2 (20)oz. Can Pineapple Chunks, reserve the juice
1 Cup Sugar
3 Tablespoons Flour
2 Cups Cheddar Cheese, grated
1 Roll Ritz Crackers, crushed
1 Stick Melted Butter


Butter a 2 quart casserole dish. Preheat oven to 350. Mix 4 tablespoons of the pineapple juice, sugar, flour and butter together. Add the pineapple chunks and cheese and mix well. Pour this into the casserole dish and bake for 20 minutes. Reduce the heat to 300 and put the ritz crackers all over the top and bake for 20 more minutes. Don't let the ritz crackers burn. They are very easy to do this.

NO-BAKE ORANGE CANDY

1/2 Cup butter
1 Box Vanilla Wafers(crushed fine)
1 Box Of Powdered Sugar
1 (6)oz. Can Frozen Orange Juice, thawed
1 Bag of Coconut

Melt the butter. In a bowl put in the powdered sugar. Add the melted butter. Next add the crushed vanilla wafers. Put them in a food processer to cruch them or put in a ziplock bag and take a hammer to them. They have to be fine. Add the orange juice and stir. Then take and roll them into 1 inch balls about 1 teaspoon to each one. If the mixture is to warm put in ref. to let get cool enough to roll. Then roll them in coconut or crushed pecans. Put them in a plate and ref. them.

RANCH FRIED CHICKEN

Chicken the way to every preachers heart. Why is it that every preacher loves fried chicken on Sunday. That is what my mom fixed on Sundays for my dad who was a preacher for 65 years. That sure was a lot of chicken. There are all kinds of coating you can use for chicken. If you like it sweet add a little powdered sugar to the flour. If you like it hot add some cajun seasoning or some hot sauce to it before you put it in the flour.

2 Chicken Breasts, Cut into Tenders or Chicken Tenders
Buttermilk
1 Pack of Dry Ranch Dip Mix
Peanut Oil

Wash the chicken. Put in a bowl and pour buttermilk over it almost up to the top. Let this soak for overnight. It makes it juicy and tender. Then put the ranch dip mix in some flour and stir it up. Take a chicken tender out of the buttermilk and coat it in the flour mixture. Have the skillet a little warm and put in it. Do the rest and fry until done on medium low. Watch or they will burn. Peanut oil will not let chicken scorch like regular oil.