Peanut Butter Banana Bread

yield: 1 loaf (9x5 pan)

• 3-4 ripe bananas
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup peanut butter

1. preheat over to 350-degrees
2. mash bananas
3. add sugar, eggs and oil
4. mix well
5. stir in flour, soda and salt
6. add peanut butter, mix well
7. pour into grease loaf pan
8. bake 50-60 mins

Next time I’m going to do 4 bananas (I only did three this time), a bit more peanut butter and I’m going to add chocolate chips!  YUM!

Sarah’s Tuna Casserole

yield: 6 servings

• 2 cans of tuna
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• 1/2 bag of egg noodles
• 1 can of peas
• 2 stalks of celery, chopped
• shiracha (hot sauce), you can leave this out if you choose
• 1/4 tsp paprika
• 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup crushed potato chips
• 4 oz of velveeta, cubed
• salt and pepper to taste

1. preheat oven to 375-degrees
2. cook noodles as directed on package
3. in a bowl combine tuna, cream of mushroom, peas, celery, shiracha, paprika, velveeta, salt and pepper
4. add noodles to mixture
5. pour into 9x9 baking dish
6. top with parmesan and chips
7. bake 30 mins

We tried doing the velveeta on top of the chips at the end by decided to “amend” our version of Sarah’s recipe by adding the cubes into the mixture next time.  And Sarah also recommended using bread crumbs to top the casserole instead of chips…but we had leftover chips so we chose to use those instead.  Either would be delicious!  Also, we did it with about 1/2 tsp of the hot sauce and while it had a very faint hint of it, it wasn’t spicy at all.  Bryker gobbled this recipe up in a hurry – we all did!

French Onion Pork Chop Skillet

yield: 6 servings

• 6 boneless pork chops
• 2 onions, thinly sliced
• 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 pkg (6 oz) stuffing mix for chicken
• 1-1/2 cups hot water
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella

1. heat large nonstick skillet with cooking spray on medium heat
2. add onions and chops
3. cook until chops are done (160-degrees)
4. remove chops from skillet
5. cook and stir onions 5 more minutes
6. stir in Worcestershire sauce
7. return chops to skillet, top with onion mixture
8. mix stuffing and water, spoon around edge of skillet
9. top with cheese
10. cook another 5 minutes until cheese is melted
11. SERVE

Full-Fudge Bars

yield: 9 bars (or 16 smaller bars)

• 1 pkg yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup + 1 Tbsp butter, softened
• 1 egg
• 1 pkg milk choc chips
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk

1. preheat over to 350-degrees
2. grease 9x9 baking dish
3. mix cake, 1/2 cup butter and egg
4. reserve 1/3 of mixture and pat remaining into baking dish
5. melt chips, milk and 1 Tbsp butter
6. pour chocolate mixture over cake mixture in baking dish
7. top with remaining crumb mixture
8. bake for 25 mins

Garlic Bread

I like to think I’ve come up with a tasty garlic bread recipe…and Mike tends to agree so I thought I’d blog it.

• french loaf from bakery
• 1 stick butter, softened
• 1 Tbsp minced garlic
• 1 Tbsp parsley flakes
• 1/4 cup parmesan
• 1/2 tsp garlic salt

1. preheat oven to 400-degrees
2. slice bread however you like to eat/serve it
3. mix all ingredients other than bread
4. spread on bread generously
5. bake 10-20 mins (keep an eye on it)
6. eat it – yum!