Easy Chicken Enchilada Casserole

I made this the other night and it turned out really nicely. Much easier than rolling each individual tortilla. I only used one large chicken breast and it turned out fine. This recipe serves a small family, so you need to double if you are having company (I like using cream of mushroom soup and cream of chicken when doubling). This is from memory so hopefully it works out allright.

Preheat oven: 350 dregees

Ingredients:

2-3 chicken breasts
8 -10 small corn tortillas, broken up
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 small can of green chiles
8 oz. sour cream
1-2 cups shredded cheese (mild cheddar or colby mix)
1/4 cup chopped green onions (optional)
1/4 cup chopped olives (optional)

1. Boil chicken breasts or chop them and cook in olive oil. If you boil, you can shred the chicken after it has cooled and it goes much further.
2. Mix soup, chiles, sour cream, and cooked chopped/shredded chicken in a bowl.
3. Grease 8x8 pan, layer bottom with small amount of soup mixture, 1/3 of tortillas, then 1/3 of soup/chicken mixture, and 1/3 of cheese.
4. Continue to layer until you are out of ingredients, finish with cheese on top, garnish top with green onions and olives.
5. Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Remove foil and bake another 10 minutes, or until sides are bubbling and cheese is melted.

We usually put lettuce and salsa on top. Enjoy!

Banana Bread

1 cup Shortening
2 cups sugar
6 bananas
4 eggs
4 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup nut chopped

Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs one at a time and mix. Add mashed bananas and mix well. Add flour, baking soda, salt and nuts. Mix well.

Bake 350 degrees in 2 well greased and floured loaf pans for 1 hour and 15mins.

Yo' Mama's Simple Bread

Great for Cinnamon Rolls and Dough Dodgers

2 1/2 cups warm (hot) water
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 packages yeast

Let yeast activate then add:

1/2 cup powered milk
1/3 cup oil
1 Tbsp. salt

Add 7 cups of flour one cup at a time mixing after each cup. Turn out onto counter and knead.
Let rise until double the size- about 1 hour (skip to cinnamon rolls and dough dodgers directions from here if desired)
Punch down, roll into loaves, put into loaf pans. Let rise again -1hour.
Bake 350-375 degrees-35mins

OR for Cinnamon rolls

Roll out dough, add butter, sugar, and cinnamon. Roll up and slice for cinnamon rolls, let rise and bake for 20-25 mins.

OR for Dough Dodgers

Pull off pieces and shape into small balls. Flatten the balls and cook in hot oil. Great with Soup.

Adams Family Spinach Salad

Ingredients:
1 bag of spinach
1 cup of chopped tomato or Cherry tomato (more if you like )
6 slices of Bacon cooked and cut into bite size pieces
1/4 medium Onions chopped (if you don't like onions, put less, but make sure to add . It is part of flavoring)

Dressing
1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 T Sugar
1/2 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Dry mustard
2 T Lemon juice
1 T Ketchup
3 T Olive oil

Instructions:

Mix all the dressing ingredients in a small bowl, heat 5-10 seconds in the microwave if the dry ingredients need to be dissolved.
Prepare the salad in a large bowl by putting spinach, tomato, onion and bacon.
Right before eating , mix dressing into the Salad and hand toss.

Picture of this salad coming soon!

Black Bean Salsa

Ingredients:

4 medium tomatoes, seeded & chopped
1/2 C green onion - some tops included
4 T fresh cilantro, snipped
2 garlic clove, pressed
4 T lime juice
1 can (15oz) black beans, **RINSED & drained **
1 can S&W Carribean black beans
1/2 t salt
1/4 t ground lack pepper

Instructions:

Chop and seed tomatoes. Chop green onions. Coasrsely snip cilantro using kitchen shears.
Combine tomatoes, green onions and cilantro in 2 qt. bowl.
press garlic and add lime juice to the mixture. Add beans ( make sure to rinse the black beans), salt and pepper; mix gently. Cover and refrigerate 1-2hours to blend flavors.
Serve with warm chips, crackers

Servings:6 cups
Recipe provided by Jan

Slow Cooker Lasagna

This may not look all that appetizing, but it's very tasty. It tastes just like baked lasagna. I can put this together during Claire's nap and I don't have to worry about it again until it's time to eat. Makes about 4 to 6 servings depending how hungry you are.

1/2 to 1 lb of Ground Beef or Turkey

1/4 cup of diced onions

1/4 cup of diced green peppers

12 oz. of Ricotta or cottage cheese

1 egg

1 and 1/2 cups of mozzarella cheese (more or less, depending how cheesy you are :)

28 oz jar of prepared spaghetti sauce

1/2 to 1 cup water

9 uncooked lasagna noodles broken up in pieces to fit

1. Brown beef or Turkey and cook with onion and green pepper in a skillet

2. Add sauce and water.

3. Mix egg and ricotta/cottage with one cup of mozzarella in separate bowl

3. Spread 1/4th of meat sauce on bottom of greased crock pot

4. Break 1/3 of noodles to cover meat sauce

5. Cover meat sauce with 1/3 cheese mixture

6. Continue to layer and end with rest of meat sauce on top.

7. Cover and cook on low for about 3-4 hours. During last 1/2 hour cover with remaining mozzarella cheese.

Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies

These sugar cookies are perfect for Christmas or whenever you need an excuse to get out the Cookie Cutters (Fourth of July, maybe)!

1/2 Butter (One Stick)

1 Cup White Sugar

1 egg

1 1/2 tsp Vanilla

1/2 cup sour cream

3 1/4 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp nutmeg

Chill dough at least an hour. Roll out 1/2 inch thick. Bake 400 degrees, 8-12 min.