Potato Salad
- Boil potatoes in skins till fork tender
- Hard boil eggs
- When eggs and potatoes are cool, cut up and then add:
- green onions, celery, pickles, MIRACLE WHIP
Thanksgiving Dressing
- Box (more or less, depending on how many people you are serving) bread crumbs
- Butter, celery, onion, chicken stock or Better Than Boulion, chicken thighs
- In frying pan, saute butter, celery and onions. Add to stuffing mix along with chicken stock till moist.
- Cook chicken thighs in boiling water, then pull apart and add to stuffing mix. Put in oven safe pan and heat at 350º till heated through.
Waldorf Salad
- Apples, celery, walnuts, MIRACLE WHIP
- Cut up apples, celery and walnuts and mix with Miracle Whip
Cheesy Potatoes
- Potatoes, cheese, Cream of Chicken soup, sour cream, milk, onions
- Boil potatoes in skins till fork tender
- Saute onions, then add soup, sour cream and milk to thin
- Peel potatoes and grate into large baking dish. Mix in soup mixture. Top with grated cheese and bake at 350º for 30 minutes or until heated through.
Wells Banana Ice Cream
- 6 bananas
- 5-6 cups sugar
- 4 qts half & half
- small package vanilla instant pudding
- dash vanilla
- 6 eggs
- pinch salt
- ice and rock salt
Mix together and put in ice cream maker till yummy! Layer ice and rock salt in container. Half this recipe fills the container and makes a LOT of ice cream!
Chicken Noodle Soup
- Chicken breast
- Grandma’s frozen noodles (in freezer section at grocery store)
- Onion and celery chopped
- Better than Bouillon
- Campbells cream of chicken soup
- Chicken stock, 32 ozs.
Boil chicken breast till done. Set aside. Cook celery and onion in a little oil in large pot till soft. Add chicken stock, shredded chicken and about one or two teaspoons of Better than Bouillon. Add noodles. Simmer for about 20 minutes, then add 1 or 2 cans of soup, depending on how much chicken stock was used. Simmer another 15 minutes, then enjoy!
Clam Chowder
- Two 6 oz. cans minced clams
- 1 cup chopped onion (or to taste)
- 1 cup chopped celery (or to taste)
- 2 cups cubed, raw, peeled potatoes
- 3/4 cups flour
- 3/4 cups butter
- 1 quart half and half
- 2 tablespoons wine vinegar
- pinch salt and sugar
Drain clams and pour liquid over vegetables. Add enough water to just cover and simmer covered until potatoes are tender (20 mins.)
Make white sauce – whisk flour into melted butter and thicken with half and half (simmer till thick). Add to vegetables. Add clams, vinegar, sugar, and salt and pepper to taste. Heat through and serve.
Christmas Eggnog
- Beat together: 2 eggs, 1 can Eagle canned milk, 1 tsp. vanilla, pinch salt, 1 quart whole milk.
- Make whip cream or use Cool Whip; gently fold into egg mixture. Top with nutmeg or cinnamon, or both!
Sloppy Joes
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 1 small onion, diced
- 2 or 3 stalks celery, diced
- 1 green pepper, diced
- 1 can tomato soup
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 2 tablespoons mustard
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- salt and pepper
Fry meat, onion, celery, pepper. Add to slow cooker. Add soup, ketchup, mustard, sugar.
Cook 4 hours on high till heated through. Serve on hamburger buns.
My Mother’s Meatloaf (my husband, Tim Kelly, complained that meatloaf was just a giant hamburger with ketchup on top, and would never eat it. What’s wrong with a giant hamburger? He loved hamburgers.)
- Ground beef
- Eggs, cracker crumbs, diced onion, salt and pepper, ketchup
Mix all ingredients (amount depends on how many you want to feed) and shape into loaf and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes. I usually put celery stalks underneath the meatloaf to keep it from sitting in the grease while it cooks. Last 15 minutes pour ketchup on top. Serve with mashed potatoes and green peas. Yes, green peas. That’s my favorite!
Christmas Fruit Salad
- One can cubed pineapple
- One can mandarin oranges
- Handful chopped walnuts
- Two cups mini marshmallows
- One cup sour cream
Mix together and chill.
See’s Candy Fudge
- 4 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 Tbs. vanilla, 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
- 1 (12 oz. can) evaporated milk
- 3 cups milk chocolate chips
- 2 cups chopped walnuts (if you like nuts!)
- 2 cups mini marshmallows
Put chocolate chips, walnuts, and marshmallows in large bowl. Boil the sugar, vanilla, butter and evaporated milk for 11 minutes after bringing to a full boil, stirring constantly. Pour over chocolate chip mixture in bowl. Stir until melted. Pour into a buttered, or foil lined, 13 X 9 glass pan. Chill.
Banana Bread
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda, 5 Tbs. milk, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup mashed bananas
- 1/2 cup walnuts (optional)
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In a large bowl, cream sugar and butter. Beat the egg slightly, and mix into the creamed mixture and add the bananas. Mix in sifted ingredients until just combined. Stir in milk and nuts. Spread batter into one greased and floured 9 X 5 inch loaf pan. Sprinkle top with sugar.
Bake at 350 until top is brown and cracks along the top.
