Chicken and Rice

3-5 chicken breasts (I usually make 3 breasts for my family of 5)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can water
2 cups minute rice
1 pkg lipton onion soup

Mix all together and put in a glass baking dish. Bake at 325 for 2 hours. You may want to check it after about 1 1/2 hours to see if the chicken is done.

Baked Cream Cheese Pie

Crust:
1 1/2 cup crushed graham crackers
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup melted butter or margarine
Place in pie shell, put in freezer

Mixture:
1 tsp vanilla
8 oz cream cheese
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 TBSP lemon juice
dash salt

topping:
1 cup sour cream
2 TBSP sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla

Beat cream cheese until fluffy. Add sugar, lemon juice, vanilla and salt. Beat eggs separately. Add to mixture. Pour into cold crust. Bake at 325 for 25-30 minutes. Mix together topping ingredients. Spread over the top of pie while still warm. Bake another 10 minutes (to tell whether the pie is done, it will dorm in the middle). When cooled, add fruit topping.

Favorite Pancakes

This is just the basic pancake mix if you don't have a mix.

1 1/4 cups flour
1 TBSP sugar
2 TBSP salad oil
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 beaten egg

Sift together dry ingredients. Combine egg, milk and salad oil. Add dry ingredients, stirring just till moistened. Makes about 8 four inch pancakes

Broccoli Salad

1/2 bag of broccoli from Costco
Bacon to taste
Mozzarella cheese to taste
1/2 red onion chopped fine
1/8-/14 cup red wine vinegar
2 cups mayo
1 cup sugar

Chop broccoli and onion. Cook and crumble bacon. Add cheese. Blend the last 3 ingredients and pour over salad to taste.

Easy Calzones

Ingredients:

1 can Pillsbury pizza dough (in the refrigerated section)
1 can pizza sauce (i like Contindina)
1 package shredded mozzarella cheese
pepperoni
olives
sausage
mushrooms
any toppings you want


Unroll the dough on a pizza stone or a greased cookie sheet.
cut into 4 pieces. spread sauce on half of each piece of dough.
add cheese and toppings fold dough so toppings are covered
squeeze ends together with fork


cook at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until crust is browm

CHICKEN AND RICE

I don't know the name of this recipe but it is one of our favorites because of how easy and yummy it is. My kids really love it!

Chicken breasts (however many you want to use)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can water
2 cups rice (I've always used minute rice. I don't know if it works with long grain rice)
1 package lipton onion soup mix.

Put together and bake at 325 covered for 2 hours.

BEEF BURGANDY

This is a great dinner to have with garlic mashed potatoes and rolls.
It is a recipe from my mother in law and is fabulous! You can change the quantity to suit your family.

Cube two 4 pound round steaks
Add 1 lb mushrooms (sliced)
Sprinkle 1 pkg onion soup mix over
Mix together: 2 cans golden mushroom soup
1 2/3 cup Burgandy wine
Mix with beef cubes
Bake 3 1/2 hours covered at 350.

WATT'S CROCK POT BEEF STEW

This is another great recipe from the "Favorites" cookbook. It is a very quick and easy crockpot dinner.

1 pound beef stew meat
4 medium potatoes, cut into large pieces
4 carrots, sliced or 4 handfuls of baby carrots
1 bay leaf
1 package dry onion soup mix
1 (10 3/4 oz) can cream of celery soup
1 (10 3/4 oz) can cream of mushroom soup
1 (8 oz) can tomato sauce
1 (10 oz) package frozen peas (optional, but I wouldn't add till the last 1/2 hour to hour)

Combine ingredients in a crock pot. Cook for 6 to 8 hours on low heat or for 4 to 5 hours on high heat, stirring occasionally to mix.