Easy Milk Chocolate Frosting

3 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla Melt 3 tablespoons margarine over low heat in a saucepan. Remove from heat and add 2 tablespoons cocoa, stir until dissolved. Add 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until smooth. For plain frosting, add 2 more tablespoons powdered sugar instead of the cocoa.

Chocolate Potato Cake Icing

1 cup canned milk
1 cup sugar
3 egg yolks
1 cup margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup coconut
1 cup nuts Combine all ingredients in a sauce pan, boil stirring over medium heat until thickened. Cool and frost cake.

Rebecca Quilts!

Rebecca finished her first quilt today and I figured it would be best to share it on her blog.  She has made this quilt for her baby sister (ok yet to be born baby sister) Julia Dawn Healey is due to come into the world March 29th 2012.  We are having give away for those that guess Julia's B-day or birth weight you can visit http://richardquilts.blogspot.com to join in that giveaway.  Until the baby is born this quilt will sit in her empty crib in Rebecca's sister comes home from the hospital.

 Showing off the back previous to being washed.

Cutting up the rag quilt.  Rebecca did every thing her self on this quilt from cutting up the blocks to sewing it all together.  She even cut the rag quilt herself.  She is very happy with how it turned out.
















Linking Too
http://emsewandsew.blogspot.com
http://southernlovely.blogspot.com
http://quiltedeuphoria.blogspot.com

Meat Loaf

1 pound ground beef
1 egg
4 slices of bread, take bread and get it wet under tap, squeeze out water.
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 small onion minced







Mix together and mold into pan. bake at 350 for 45 minutes. when it is almost done, put tomato soup on top.

Dutch Oven BBQ Chicken and Rice Scout Style

Last Saturday the 11 year old scout patrol met for lunch.  We had asked our scout to come up with a meal plan but he had forgot to plan something so we fell back to the old standard as Doug my assistant calls it.  The recipe is simple and easy.  I like it best in the Dutch Oven but can be made on the stove just as easy.



2-3 pieces of Boneless Skinless Chicken.
1 Onion
1 Green Pepper (optional Doug loves the color so to him we had to have it)
1-2 Cans Corn
1-2 Bottles of BBQ sauce I like the honey BBQ
1 box Minute Rice
Seasonings to taste (Salt, Pepper, Garlic salt or minced garlic or what ever spices you like with BBQ)

Brown in the dutch oven (using oil) the Chicken.  You can add the onions at this time also depending on how cooked you like your onions, I toss mine in now.  Once the chicken is browned pull it out of the Dutch Oven and cut it up into smaller pieces.  Toss them back into Dutch Oven.  Have scout help or if at home and have kids get them to help (why do you think BeccaCooks likes to cook so much get them involved)

Once the chicken is cooked though you can add the Corn (with its liquid), and the BBQ sauce.  Take the empty BBQ sauce containers fill them with water shake them up and pour that water also into pot.  You can add little or a lot of liquid depending on how many you need to serve.



Bring the liquid to a boil and then add the minute rice.  Stir well continue cooking for about 5 minutes.  Then serve.

If you are new to dutch oven cooking or old hat the way you clean up is different then in the kitchen.  You never wash your dutch oven out, with soap.  They get seasoned with oil.  Because the BBQ sauce will seep into the pores of my dutch oven and make every thing taste BBQ I fill my Dutch oven full of water and boil it for 5 min after cooking my BBQ chicken and rice and then I re-oil my pot and put it away.  My scouts love this meal and I hope that you will also.

Thanks

BeccaCooks Scouter Dad.

Home Made Spray and Wash

2 cups liquid tide
2 cups ammonia
2 cups water Mix together and put in a spray bottle. Spray spots before washing.

Pumpkin Muffins

1 cup pumpkin
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup melted margarine
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2 cups flour (or 1 cup white and 1 cup wheat)
2 teaspoons baking powder




Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix pumpkin, brown sugar, margarine, and eggs. In separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and stir until just combined. Spoon batter into 12 muffin cups. Bake 20 minutes.

Variations: Add 1/2 cup chocolate chips, 1/2 cup raisins, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg.

Apricot Cake

1 cup sugar
1 cup oil
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons soda dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water
1 pint apricots with juice, blended
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup nuts


 Blend eggs, oil and sugar. Add dissolved soda and fruit. Add flour and spices. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes.

Lemon Meringue Bars

Crust:
1 cup butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 cups flour

Filling:
4 eggs beaten
2 cups sugar
6 teaspoons lemon juice


Crust:
Combine and mix well, press into a 9 X 113 pan. Bake 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until brown.

Filling:
Combine and pour over cool crust. Bake at 350 degree about 30 minutes or until set. Cool and 1/4 cup flour sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cut in squares

Simple Dinner

BeccaCooks cooked us up dinner last week and wanted to share with all a simple mood.  She cooked up a box of angle hair pasta roni, Chicken and fresh spinach.  She had a fun time getting the place mat all set up and then had to eat in front of us what a nice kid.