Grandma's Bowl Chili

I thought I'd share a recipe that my family has used as long as I can remember. My grandmother was an AWESOME cook. She could make anything without a recipe in her hand. She made this bowl chili all the time and it is GREAT. It is one recipe of hers that I am capable of making!

You Will Need:

1 lb. Ground Beef

1 (46 oz.) can of Tomato Juice

2 TBSP Vinegar

1 onion, chopped

1 1/2 TBSP Chili Powder

1 tsp Black Pepper

1 TBSP Salt

1 can pinto beans

Brown the Beef and drain excess grease

Add the chopped onion

Dump Beef and onion mixture into a cooking pot. Add All other ingredients except the Beans. 

I usually use more than 2 TBSP of vinegar because I don't like a tomato-y taste. Just add to your taste.

Let the Chili simmer for about an hour, then add the pinto beans.

Voila!

(we actually added spaghetti noodles, because my husband likes his chili this way.)

Enjoy!

Linking up with Molly for YOLO Monday

Homemade Strawberry Oreos

On occasion, I run across a Pinterest gold mine. That's what happened on the day I found these little gems. Strawberry Valentine Oreo Cookies. I'm going to have to go out on a limb and say this recipe is the best dessert I've made.

All of this comes as no surprise to me because the Recipe comes from the Six Sisters' Stuff blog. Almost every Pinterest recipe success I've had can be contributed to these ladies. They are apparently FANTASTIC cooks.

You can check out the link to their page in order to find the complete detailed recipe, but these little suckers aren't hard to make.

Here is a quick peek at what you'll need:

The cookie comes from a combination of Strawberry Cake Mix, Shortening, and  eggs.

You form the mixture into equally sized scoops and bake for your cookie base.

The next step is your filling made of confectioner's sugar, butter, vanilla, and cream cheese.

Lather your filling in between two cookies and you have a masterpiece!

A great Valentine's Day treat to share. 

For the full recipe go to the Six Sisters' Stuff Blog

Linking up with Helene for her last Tell Me About it Tuesday link up!

Superbowl Appetizer: Buffalo Chicken Dip

It's almost Superbowl time in the NFL. I have to share a great go-to appetizer recipe with you all for the occasion. I've had it in the good ol' recipe book for a couple of years now, but I always pull it out when I need a good dish to take somewhere. This one came from my friend Lauren and it is delish. I made it for my family's annual New Year's Eve Party. (The bread in the picture was great too, I'll have to blog about it later.)

Ingredients:

1 Bottle of Ranch Dressing

1 Bar of Cream Cheese

2 Large Cans of Tyson canned Chicken

2 Small Cans of Tyson canned Chicken

1 Bottle of Frank's Hot Wing Sauce

1 Bag of Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

1. Spread the softened cream cheese into the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish

2. Next, mix the drained chicken with the hot wing sauce. You can use the whole bottle, the more you add the hotter the dip.

3. Spread the Chicken over the cream cheese

4. Pour ranch dressing over chicken. ( I didn't use the entire bottle of ranch, but did use most of it)

5. Spread the dressing evenly over the chicken

6. Top the dish with the entire bag of shredded mozzarella cheese

Bake at 350, uncovered for 45 minutes.

I served the dish with Scoops tortilla chips.

Bon Apetit!

Holiday Candy Making & No Bake Peanut Corn Crunch

In preparation for Christmas, I felt it was only appropriate to do some holiday baking!

One of my best friends came home for the holidays and we decided it was time to get our bake on.

Kaitlyn and Me

We definitely did it right, making all kinds of tasty, holiday treats.

We made some great candy including Oreo balls (if you haven't had these, you are missing out. Oreo cookies, cream cheese and white chocolate)

We also tried some nutter butter balls. You just grind a package of nutter butter cookies in a food processor, mix with cream cheese and dip in milk chocolate. They were great and super easy. 

Another new recipe we tried were Reese cookies. We put pre-made chocolate chip cookie dough in mini muffin tins and baked them. After they came out of the oven, we put a mini reese cup in each one. We had a few issues with getting these out of the tin though (I recommend greasing the sheet :) ).

Our Oreo candy in progress

Just a little of our baking mess

I HAVE to share our last recipe with you. It was GREAT and will be added to the list of "must bake" for holidays to come. It's the perfect combination of salty and sweet.

Kaitlyn found this recipe on pinterest here. I decided to call it:

No Bake Peanut Corn Crunch

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1 cup light corn syrup

1 cup peanut butter

1 bag of Frito Lay Corn Chips

Milk Chocolate baking chips (optional)

Simple enough, just dump the peanut butter, corn syrup, and sugar into a pot.

Heat and mix these ingredients until they are creamy smooth as pictured below

Spread the corn chips out onto a baking sheet and pour the mixture evenly over the chips

You can drizzle chocolate over the final product if you choose. It doesn't seem to make a difference in taste, but it looks nice :)

Pull apart and share. So delicious!

I love some quality friend time and finding great new recipes. You should try it!