Pumpkin Bread

We made so much good food from that one pumpkin. Here is the recipe for the pumpkin bread.


wet ingredients:
2 C pumpkin puree
4 eggs
1 C oil
3 C sugar
2/3 C water

dry ingredients:
3 1/2 C flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp cloves
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp allspice

Mix the wet ingredients in one bowl, the dry ingredients in another bowl. Then mix them together. Pour into two greased loaf pans. Bake for 350' for 1 hour.

Pumpkin Cookies

I found this wonderful recipe on Allrecipes.com. It is wonderful. I only swapped out the white flour for wheat flour because I don't have white flour in my house, but you could swap it back if you wanted.

Pumpkin Cookies:

Mix in bowl:
1 C Pumpkin Pured
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 C sugar
1/2 C brown sugar

Mix in another bowl:
2 1/2 flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves, ground
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt

Mix the two together. Drop by spoonful on cookie sheets. Bake 350' for 15-20 mins.

Recipe has this but they were sweet enough that we didn't need/ want the icing:

Icing:
1 T butter, melted
3 T milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 C powdered sugar

Sloppy Joes

We made sloppy Joes last night. I have to admit, we are a Manwich family. I have tried making this a few different way and nothing tastes as good as Manwich. I just wanted to share the few ideas that I have to really make this a nicer dinner.


1. I wash and slice potatoes into strips, toss in olive oil, seasoning salt and salt. Broil till brown.
aprx 10mins, stir, 10 more mins.
2. I brown the g.beef and add the can of manwich, plus a little extra ketchup if it seems a little "thick". To this I add some canned/frozen veggies: corn or peas are great.
3. While potatoes are baking, I lay out the buns on a cooking sheet. Pile on the sloppy joe mixture onto the bottom bun.
4. Add lots of yummy shredded cheese to both sides of the bun, top half and on sloppy joe mixture.
5. Put cooked potatoes on bottom rack.
6. Broil the bun tray till cheese is melted ~ apx 3 min, watch closely!

Serve hot! This is a yummy treat for us.... enjoy!

Raisin Molasses Drop Cookies

We love trying new recipes: this was directly off the raisin box, and we just altered it a ton. Here is what we did:

3/4 c olive oil
1/2 c molasses
1 c honey
1/2 c buttermilk
2 eggs
3 1/2 c flour
1/2 c flax seed meal
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
2 c raisins/ craisins

Cream wet ingredients. Add dry and mix. If it seems a little too wet, then add a little flour/ or too dry then add a little buttermilk. Drop by spoonfuls onto baking sheet. Bake 375* for 10-12 mins.

We loved them!!! Definitely healthy!!

THE Ice Cream Cake

These are the spectacular ice cream cakes that I made for Isaiah's birthday party. I searched around a lot on the internet but couldn't find a recipe that I liked exactly, so I sorta made this up. It turned out wonderful. The sliced picture above is another cake made with butterfinger crust which we made a few days ago because we liked the cake so much and poor Isaiah was so distracted at his party that he didn't get a piece of cake himself. So of course we made another one for him the next day...
Above are the two finished cakes.
Above is my mess as I make the cakes.

Need:

Cake
Ice cream
1 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips
1 C heavy whipping cream
1 tub cool whip
1/4 C butter, melted
1/2 bag oreos, crushed

I made the actually cake from boxes (Duncan Hines)
Just follow the recipe. Cool and slice horizontally in half, to make thinner pieces of cake .

Crust is just the butter and the oreos pressed into a spring form pan. Freeze 15 min.

Gnash: heat cream, pour over the chocolate chips in a bowl. Mix thoroughly. Cool to room temp.
Pour a cup full on crust, spread, place one layer of cake on this and freeze 15 min.

Pick any ice cream flavor, we used cookie dough. Thaw in fridge till soft but not runny. Spread some on frozen cake. Place layer of cake. Spread with more gnash. Freeze 15 min.

Continue layering cake, gnash and ice cream, freezing in between. Vary the thickness how you like it. We sprinkled crushed butterfingers on the ice cream on the second cake!! great idea!!

To serve, remove from freezer, thaw for 10 - 20 min depending, just don't let it get drippy.
Spread with thawed cool whip. Run butcher knife under hot water to cut easier and serve immediately!!!

ENJOY!!