Grape and Bow Tie Pasta Salad

Recipe from Ferguson Ridge Church homecoming. 

While my hubby was visiting an area church homecoming one of our friends gave him her daughter's recipe for a broccoli grape salad and let me tell you it is so good that you just cannot quit eating it.

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Chopped Pecans
• 1/2(16oz.) Pack Farfalle(bow-tie) Pasta
• 1 Lb.Fresh Broccoli
• 1 Cup Mayonnaise
• 1/3 Cup Sugar
• 1/2 Cup Red Onion, diced
• 1/3 Cup Red Wine Vinegar
• 1 Teaspoon Salt
• 2 Cups Seedless Red Grapes, halved
• 8 Bacon Slices, cooked and crumbled or Bacon Pieces

Directions:
Cook the past in boiling water until al dente. Drain. Sit aside. Wash the broccoli and tear it apart into very small pieces.Put in a large bowl.Cut all the other ings. up and put in the large bowl and sit aside. In a medium bowl mix the vinegar, sugar, salt and mayo together. Stir good. Pour this over the other ings. and stir again.Ref. and let chill at least a hour before serving.

The bacon pieces are found at Walmart in a white bag down past the dressings. They are the Great Value brand and are very good in this. But if you have any left over make sure you store the bacon pieces in the refrigerator as they will mold if left out and not ref.

East 80 London Ky Yardsale Hot Dog Chili

While going to the London yard sales that they have every Labor Day weekend we went to a area church who was selling hot dogs along with their yard sale items. Let me tell you this was some good hot dogs so the lady very kindly gave us her chili recipe. This really surprised me as most people do not like to give out their recipes. Me, I am glad to give anyone a recipe that I have as that is just part of being kind to people and part of being southern. So here is her recipe for the chili. If you do not like your chili sweet you can cut back on the sugar or leave it out. Me, I like the sweet taste of it as it is very good hot dog chili.

From KEPHANIE J. 

Ingredients:

• 3 LB.GROUND CHUCK OR GROUND BEEF
• 1 LARGE ONION
• 1 CAN TOMATO PASTE
• 1/2 CAN WATER
• 2 TABLESPOONS CHILI POWDER
• 1/4 CUP OR LESS WHITE SUGAR, (REGULAR SUGAR)
• 1 (32oz.) BOTTLE KETCHUP

Directions:

Boil the onion in water until transparent and then drain. Set aside. In a large kettle put the ground chuck or ground beef in water and boil until it is done and then drain this. Mash the meat with a potato masher or a hamburger masher from Pampered Chef. Put the beef and onion back into the kettle and then add the 1 can of tomato paste and the 1/2 can of water and let this simmer for 15 minutes.Next add the 2 tablespoons of chili powder. and the 1/4 cup of sugar along with the (32oz.)bottle of ketchup. Stir good and let simmer for 30 minutes. 

Best if this is made in a crockpot.

Lift up your foot, Laughing at my daughter

My son had bought my daughter a sewing machine for Christmas around two years ago and with her moving she had put it up. So he ask if she had used it yet. No, she told him. So he told her to bring it over with her when she came to visit him. 

As he is a quilter he was going to show her how to thread up her machine. Of course now days most everything comes with a dvd to show you how to operate what you buy.

Since she had never opened the box she did not even know it was in there.
So they put in on and he was showing her how to thread it along with the dvd.

They got some material out for her to practice on. She came to the end of the material and he told her to lift up the foot so she could get the material out from under the plate.

She told him she had her foot lifted and he said no you don't so this went on for a few minutes as he was sitting beside her and could see the presser foot was not lifted. 

What was she doing, lol, lifting her foot up off of the paddle that lets it run. We all looked down and there she was had her foot up in the air. 

Talking about laughing we did. That was a good one.
So if you are sewing and don't know what a foot it it is the part where the needle goes down into the plate and you let the back handle down to hold the material in place. Just don't lift up your big foot off of the paddle lol.......

Ice Cream and Orange Twinkie Cake

• 1 Box Twinkies (10)
• 20 Oz. Can Crushed Pineapple, do not drain
• 1 Large or 2 Small Boxes Orange Jello
• 1 Quart Vanilla Ice Cream, softend
• 1 (16) Cool Whip
• 1 Cup Boiling Water

Cut the twinkies in half, lengthwise and then layer them in a 9 x 13 pan. I like to use a glass pan for this.

Mix the large box or two small boxes of orange jello with one cup of boiling water and mix until the jello is dissolved. Make sure all of it dissolves. Then add the can of undrained pineapples to this and the softened vanilla ice cream. Mix until all is blended and then pour over the twinkies.

Cover the whole top of the twinkies.Then top with the cool whip. Will not need the whole tub of cool whip just add to your liking. Ref. for two hours. Cut in squares and serve.

WHAT WILL SHE SAY NEXT (LOL)

We all love Dr.Oz. There is just so much you can learn from him. Even the little ones love him.
My grandaughter came running to her mom the other day and said mom I am not feeling good. So she ask what was hurting her and she said I am hurting here. So she pointed to where her breast is supposed to be.
My daughter said are you hurting bad and she said yes. So she lifts up her shirt and could not see nothing wrong with her.
I think I need to go to ER. Why, because I think I have got breast cancer. Breast cancer, how can you have breast cancer when you don't even have any breast yet. I was watching Dr. Oz and I think I have got breast cancer like he was talking about.
So she kept telling her she was all right and she then went outside and started playing.
How many times do we watch a medical program and think we have got just what they are talking about, if you are like me almost every time. lol.

T. J. MAX BAGS

If you like to shop at T.J. Max like I do you are going there ever chance you can get. lol. I am not trying to promote these shopping bags but I love to buy these to keep in the car to put my grocery's in instead of having to carry so many bags up the steps.
With having a garden they are so good to put all your beans in or cucumbers you have picked.
I have a load from my jungle that I have created. They will even hold 4 dozen ears of corn and will not rip. This is so much better than the plastic Kroger or Walmart bags we always collect. They come in all kinds of colors and you can find them up front at the checkouts. So for .99 grab you some the next time you are there.
You can even use them for shower gifts or for birthday gifts. They are good also to hold toys or clothes.

NEW WAY TO PLANT TOMATOES

I know it is to late now to plant tomatoes but I learned something this year about planting them.
One of our friends was telling me about how he ask a friend how he raised such big tomatoes. Now me. I put everything on mine trying to get them to grow. So this friend took him and showed him his tomato patch.
He had planted his tomatoes in his corn. Why, because the corn will shade the tomatoes and they will not get the blossom end rot. Mine done this last year. There the tomato was almost ripe and then it stared rotting on the bottom. This year I am going to put some crushed Tums in some water and pour around them.
I was looking at another friends garden and they had their tomatoes planted with two rows of corn on each side of them not in with the corn but out in a row and had cucumbers planted on one side along with the tomatoes. They had planted the German Queen Tomatoes and boy were they big.
I went to the flea market Sat. and they had them there for 1.50 a lb. Now one of those tomatoes will weight at leat 2 lbs. and I wanted one so bad but that was just to much so I just bought me a basket of yellow tomatoes. But have you ever wanted something so bad you can taste it in your mouth.
There is nothing better then a big thick slice of German Queen tomato with salt on it and mayo and bread and make a tomato sandwich. I love mine with Durkee mayo. The dollar tree has a small jar there for a dollar if your family is like mine and just will only use Mircle Whip. lol.