Recipe: Pumpkin Pancakes

Pumpkin Pancakes

1 cup complete pancake mix, just add water
1 cup water
1/3 cup canned pumpkin pie mix

In medium bowl, combine all ingredients.  Stir until batter is slightly lumpy.  In lightly greased skillet, pour 1/4 cup batter.  Cook until bubbles appear on top of pancake and bottom of pancake is golden brown. Turn pancake over and cook until golden brown.  Makes 6 to 7 pancakes.

I hate to toss out unused ingredients, so when I found myself with leftover pumpkin pie mix, I knew just what I was going to do with it.  Bo, from Bo's Bowl, recently posted a pumpkin waffle recipe, and I fell in love with the idea.  I have to confess, that I do not own a waffle iron, so I decided to make pancakes.  It took a couple of batches to get the consistency and taste that I wanted, but in the end, my family loved the pancakes.

I know, it is the second Tuesday that I posted a recipe instead of a tip again, but I went a little crazy with the pumpkin recipes this year, and I have a bunch of them in draft waiting to be posted on my blog.  I decided since it is the last day of November, I would slip one more pumpkin recipe in on you, the other recipes will have to wait until nest year.

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a copy of my cookbook and a Christmas apron.

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You will love Bo and his blog,  Bo's Bowl.  Not only does he host great giveaways,  his recipes are incredible!  One visit to his blog and you will see why I faithfully follow it.

Also visit my friend Pam's blog, Pam's Midwest Kitchen Korner,  for more great recipes!  Once you read her blog, she will be your friend too! 

Another blog that I think you would enjoy is my friend Janet's blog,  

Chocolate and God.

Recipe: Layered Turkey Enchiladas

Layered Turkey Enchiladas

1 pound cooked turkey or chicken, shredded
2 (4 ounce) cans diced green chiles
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can Cream of Chicken Soup
6 corn tortillas
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In medium bowl, combine turkey, green chiles, and Cream of Chicken Soup.  Mix well.  In lightly greased 13x9 inch baking dish, spread 1/2 cup of turkey mixture.  Arrange 3 tortillas over top.  Spread 1/2 of remaining turkey mixture over tortillas.  Sprinkle 1/2 cup cheese over top.  Arrange 3 tortillas over cheese.  Spread remaining turkey mixture over tortillas.  Sprinkle 1 cup cheese over top.  Bake 45 minutes or until cheese starts to brown.  Makes 6 servings.

Note:  If you like your enchiladas to be spicy, swap out one or both of the cans of green chile for diced Jalapeno peppers.

We had a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving!  After the coma inducing meal, we went to our friends David and Debra's house for pie.  I took the Frozen Harvest Pie, and got thumbs up from everyone who tried it.  Spending time with family and friends is one of the things I love about Thanksgiving.

Typically when people talk about using leftover turkey, they talk about soup or sandwich recipes.  I think it is fun to take leftovers and turn them into a totally different and unexpected meal.  When it comes to leftover Thanksgiving turkey, the above Enchilada recipe and my Green Chile Chicken Pasta recipe, are two of the dishes my family request that I make.

My friends Bo (Bo's Bowl), and Pam (Pam's Midwest Kitchen Korner), put there own twist on the Green Chile Chicken Pasta dish.  Check out their blogs to take a look at their versions.  I love to see how people take my recipes and put their own personality in them!

 Next Friday, I will be drawing a name from my followers to win

a copy of my cookbook and a Christmas apron.

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Check out my blog about the Giveaway for more details.

Visit my friends blogs!

You will love Bo and his blog,  Bo's Bowl.  Not only does he host great giveaways,  his recipes are incredible!  One visit to his blog and you will see why I faithfully follow it.

Also visit my friend Pam's blog, Pam's Midwest Kitchen Korner,  for more great recipes!  Once you read her blog, she will be your friend too! 

Another blog that I think you would enjoy is my friend Janet's blog,  

Chocolate and God.

Recipe: No Bake Pumpkin Pie

No Bake Pumpkin Pie

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1(.25 ounce) packet unflavored gelatin  
2 eggs
2 cups canned pumpkin pie mix
1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker pie crust

In large saucepan, combine sweetened condensed milk, gelatin, and eggs.  Mix well.  Over medium low heat, cook mixture 10 minutes, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Add pumpkin pie mix.  Mix well.  Pour into pie crust.  Refrigerate at least 3 hours.  Keep refrigerated until time to serve.

This no bake pumpkin pie recipe has a creamy texture instead of the firmer texture of the baked version.  When I tested it on friends, it was a big hit!  I should have made two pies, because almost everyone wanted seconds.

There are so many blogs posting Thanksgiving recipes, I had decided to just post some more photos from my trip to Honduras.  After taste testing this pie at last week's radio fundraiser, I had a lot of people request the recipe.  So here it is, just in time for Thanksgiving.  Below are a few of the remaining photographs from our trip to Honduras.

Every morning while we were in Honduras, we ordered fruit, yogurt, and granola for breakfast.  I was pleasantly surprised when on the last day we were in Honduras, our fruit tray arrived with Rambutan fruit on the plate.  The only other place I had eaten this fruit, was in Malaysia.

Rambutan, is a funny looking fruit.  The fruits are round to oval in shape, the ones I ate were about 2 in length.  The thick leathery skin had a deep purplish red color and had lots of fleshy soft spines.

The firm flesh of the fruit is translucent and slightly whitish. It has a sweet flavor, that reminds me of a grape. The fruit contains one large single brown seed.  The fruit grows in clusters on a tree.

Our son had a little problem ordering breakfast at our hotel.
No Spanish + Room Service = Breakfast for 4 instead of for 2!

Fried bananas are a tasty street food!

Fresh tortillas, YUM!

The food we had in Honduras was the typical fare that you could order at an authentic Mexican restaurant in the States.  Honduras is famous for their beef, so a lot of the dishes that we ate were beef based. 

The coffee in Honduras is incredible!  Smooth and rich with a slightly sweet flavor.  Everyone took back several bags of this delicious coffee.

On Friday, I will be posting Leftover Turkey Recipes.

I hope you and your family have a 

Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!

My husband Stan, me, my uncle Dr. Richard Reasoner,
and my son Tyler, in Honduras.

Sign up to follow my blog, for your chance to win a Christmas apron,

and a copy of my cookbook, MY KIND OF COOKING.

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Visit my friends blogs!

You will love Bo and his blog,  Bo's Bowl.  Not only does he host great giveaways,  his recipes are incredible!  One visit to his blog and you will see why I faithfully follow it.

Also visit my friend Pam's blog, Pam's Midwest Kitchen Korner,  for more great recipes!  Once you read her blog, she will be your friend too! 

Another blog that I think you would enjoy is my friend Janet's blog, 

Chocolate and God.

Recipes: Sweet Potatoes Two Ways

 Sweet potatoes are one of the dishes I look forward to having on Thanksgiving Day.  I am always on the lookout for new ways to recreate them.

The Sweet Potato Ball recipe is a remake of a recipe that I spotted on Lisa's Kitchen, a blog that is featured on the Living the Country Life website.  I used canned sweet potatoes and Lisa used sweet potato flakes in her recipe.  It is a delicious, kid pleasing dish that is sure to be a hit at your Thanksgiving meal.

The Living the Country Life website is full of fantastic information, interesting stories, delicious recipes, and more.  It is a website you will want to visit again and again!

Sweet Potato Balls

1 (1 pound 13 ounce) can sweet potatoes or yams, drained
1/3 cup brown sugar
15 mini marshmallows

2 cups slightly crushed corn flakes

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In medium bowl, mash sweet potatoes.  Add brown sugar. Mix well.

Using a cookie scoop, fill with mashed sweet potatoes.

Press a mini marshmallow in the middle of mashed sweet potato in the cookie scoop.

Add additional mashed sweet potatoes, covering marshmallow and forming a ball.

Place sweet potato ball in the middle of the corn flakes.  Roll in corn flakes until completely covered.

Place on a lightly greased baking sheet.  Bake 20 minutes.

Makes 15 Sweet Potato Balls.

Oven and stove top space is scarce when I am cooking up Thanksgiving dinner, so I decided to try making my sweet potatoes in the slow cooker.  This is an easy basic recipe that can be jazzed up with brown sugar and spices.  After I cooked the sweet potatoes in the slow cooker, I put them in a baking dish and topped them with mini marshmallows, then I popped them under the broiler for a couple of minutes.  It was a big hit when I tested the recipe on my family and friends.

Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes

5 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled, cut into chunks
1/2 cup butter, cubed
1 cup maple syrup

In 4 quart slow cooker, place sweet potatoes. Add butter and syrup.  Cook on high 3 to 4 hours or until fork tender.  Makes 10 servings.

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You will love Bo and his blog,  Bo's Bowl.  Not only does he host great giveaways,  his recipes are incredible!  One visit to his blog and you will see why I faithfully follow it.

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Honduras

We just returned from a trip to Honduras.   We went to support the Passion Play of Tegucigalpa, which is one of 15 cities, around the world, that host our presentation.  For more information, visit our Passion Play Ministries International website.

Our PPMI Support Team from the USA and South Africa.

The President of the National Congress of Honduras, Juan  Orlando Hernandez, and his wife attended the first night of the play.  Several other members of the government were also present.  In this photo is the President of Congress, his wife, my husband Stan, me, and our son, Tyler.

On the second night of the production, the Mayor Of Tegucigalpa, Ricardo Alvarez, attended.

It was the second time the Mayor has attended the play.  Last year, he was there to preform a ribbon cutting ceremony, for their inaugural production.  He is very supportive of the Passion Play of Tegucigalpa.

The local press gave the Passion Play of Tegucigalpa great coverage.  In this photo, they are interviewing my husband Stan.

Below are pictures from The Passion Play of Tegucigalpa production.

 

 

It was a wonderful trip.  Honduras is one of our favorite places to travel.  The people are friendly and instantly become your friends. 

I wanted to take her home!

My friend Cesar, a local photographer,
gave me a book about styling food.

Around every corner in Honduras,
there is something beautiful to look at.

Next Tuesday, I will post pictures of the local cuisine.  

Check back on Friday, when I will post two Sweet Potato recipes.

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and a copy of my cookbook, MY KIND OF COOKING.

Check out my blog about the Giveaway for more details.

Visit my friends blogs!

You will love Bo and his blog,  Bo's Bowl.  Not only does he host great giveaways,  his recipes are incredible!  One visit to his blog and you will see why I faithfully follow it.

Also visit my friend Pam's blog, Pam's Midwest Kitchen Korner,  for more great recipes!  Once you read her blog, she will be your friend too!

Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Wontons

Pumpkin Pie Wontons

1 cup canned pumpkin pie filling 

16 wonton wrappers

¼ cup packed brown sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  On each wonton wrapper place, 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie filling in the center.  Wet the edges of the wonton wrapper with water.  Fold wonton wrapper over to form a triangle.  Gently press the air out of the wonton as you seal the edges.  On a lightly greased cookie sheet arrange wontons.  Spray wontons lightly with non-stick cooking spray.  Sprinkle brown sugar over tops of wontons.  Bake 16 to 18 minutes or until lightly golden brown.

My son Tyler, love pumpkin pie, so these wontons were a big hit with him.  The wonton was crisp and sweet, with a little pocket of pumpkin pie filling tucked inside.  They make a great appetizer or even a dessert. 

(The view from our hotel room in Honduras)

We just returned from a trip to Honduras.  

On Tuesday, I will be posting pictures from our trip.

Sign up to follow my blog, for your chance to win a Christmas apron,

and a copy of my cookbook, MY KIND OF COOKING.

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Bo, at Bo's Bowl, is giving away a, Barefoot Contessa Cookbook!   You will love his blog!  Not only does he have great giveaways,  his recipes are incredible!  One visit to his blog and you will see why I faithfully follow it.

Also visit my friend Pam's blog, Pam's Midwest Kitchen Korner,  for more great recipes!  Once you read her blog, she will be your friend too!

Monthly Giveaway

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and a copy of my cookbook, MY KIND OF COOKING

For December's drawing, I will be giving away a copy of my cookbook, MY KIND OF COOKING.  This cookbook has over 500 yummy recipes using only 3, 4, or 5 ingredients.  It has everything from appetizers to desserts and everything in between.  It also includes slow-cooker recipes!  The winner will also receive an apron that just screams "I love Christmas!"

 I will be drawing a name from my followers, on Friday, December 3rd.   The giveaway is open to all of my followers, regardless of where they live.   If your name is drawn and you have a blog, I will mention your blog address on my "Fast Food Fridays" radio show on the The Passion Radio Network, and post your blog address on my blog.

 

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Bo, at Bo's Bowl, is giving a way a, Barefoot Contessa Cookbook!   You will love his blog!  Not only does he have great giveaways,  his recipes are incredible!  One visit to his blog and you will see why I faithfully follow it.

Also visit my friend Pam's blog, Pam's Midwest Kitchen Korner, she is giving away a, John Besh Cookbook.  You will love Pam's delicious recipes!  Once you read her blog, she will be your friend too!