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Microwave Chocolate Fudge

A New, Quick Way to Make Chocolate Fudge (Microwave Fudge)

Doesn't it look yummy and good and all those good adjectives? I am now in the throes of craving fudge, darn it!!

TWO-MINUTE MICROWAVE FUDGE (delicious!)

Ingredients:
1 lb powdered sugar
2/3 cup cocoa
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:
Sift powdered sugar, cocoa, and salt into a 1 quart microwave safe bowl.
Stir in milk and vanilla.
Mix well.
Place butter on top.
Microwave on high, 2 minutes.
Beat with wooden spoon until smooth.
Stir in nuts (OPTIONAL).
Spread in buttered 8 X 8 X 2 inch baking pan.
Chill about 1 hour or until firm.
Cut into pieces.

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 PHILLY STEAK PEPPER BOATS

You will Need:
4 Bell Peppers
10 oz. Thinly Sliced Roast Beef
8 slices of Provolone Cheese
1 large Sweet onion, sliced
4 Tbsp. Butter
4 Tbsp. Olive Oil
1 Tbsp. Minced Garlic
Sea Salt and Pepper to taste

How you do it:
Slice Peppers in half long ways...clean seeds out and cut stem part off
In a large pan over med heat...add butter, olive oil, garlic and onions...salt and pepper....saute them till they are caramelized...Approx 30 min.
Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees
Slice your roast beef into thin strips and add it to the onion mix .. cook for 10 min. or so
Take 1/2 slice of provolone cheese and lay it to fit in your pepper... fill each pepper with meat/onion mix...
Bake for 15 min. Take out of the oven, then lay the other half of the cheese across the top of each pepper; bake another 5 to 8 min. or until cheese is golden brown on top!
Enjoy ~
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Something to Make You Smile!

Thought this might bring a smile to your faces!!

Cookie (no-bake) recipe and other fun things to make and eat

NO-BAKE OATMEAL COOKIES

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/4 c. unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 pinch of salt
1/2 c. chunky peanut butter
3 c. quick cooking oats


Directions:
In saucepan over medium heat, combine the cocoa, sugar, milk, and butter.  Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.  Boil for 1 minute.  Remove from heat and stir in the salt, vanilla, oats and peanut butter.  Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto waxed paper.  Allow cookies to cool for at least 1 hour.

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COBBLER

Frozen berries, dry cake mix, and 1 can of sprite. yummy cobbler. It sounds so easy - and it is good and weight watcher friendly! Ingredients
Two 12-oz bags frozen mixed berries
1 box white cake mix (no pudding)
1 can of diet 7-up or sierra mist (clear soda)

Instructions
Place frozen fruit in a 9x13 baking dish. Add dry cake mix over the top. Pour soda slowly over cake mix. DO NOT stir the cake mix and the pop - this will give you a 'crust'. If you stir the two, you will have a cake like topping.
Bake 350 for 45-50 min.
You may be able to use frozen peaches instead of mixed berries.
Serves 16

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FILLING CAKE

Ingredients:
 4 cups mini-marshmallows 1 chocolate cake mix, 1 can cherry pie filling, 1 large container of Cool Whip Method: Pour four cups of mini-marshmallows into a greased 9x13 inch cake pan. Prepare chocolate cake mix according to directions on package. Pour over marshmallows. Spoon cherry pie filling evenly over cake. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 50 minutes...or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. COOL~ Top with Cool Whip. Serves 15. (try peach or strawberry pie filling with vanilla cake mix, or apple pie filling with spiced or carrot cake mix.....)

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EASTER BUNNY  RACING CARS

Ingredients
Large Marshmallows, cut horizontally
Bunny Peeps®
Mini pretzels
Cream-Filled Cakes (e.g. Little Debbie® Cloud Cakes™)
Decorator Icing
Frosting
Sprinkles

Instructions
Cut a small rectangle out of the top of the cream-filled cake about a third of the way back from the “front” of the car. Use the white decorator icing to adhere the bunny Peep®, mini pretzel “steering wheel” and large marshmallows in place. Use frosting and sprinkles to decorate your car. Allow to set.

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STRAWBERRY PUNCH

Ingredients:
1 can (46 ounces) pineapple juice, chilled
2-1/4 cups water
3/4 cup thawed pink lemonade concentrate
3/4 cup sugar
1 quart strawberry ice cream
2-1/2 quarts ginger ale, chilled
1 Pint Fresh Strawberries

Directions:
In a punch bowl, combine the first four ingredients.
Add ice cream; stir gently.
Add ginger ale; stir gently.
Cut Fresh Strawberries and add to punch.
Serve immediately. Yield: 6 quarts.
Nutritional Facts
1 serving (1/2 cup) equals 74 calories, 1 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 3 mg cholesterol, 11 mg sodium, 16 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein.

Recipes (Pasty and Apple Cinnamon Bread)

Here are two recipes for you:

PASTIES FOR 6 RECIPE

CRUST:
1 cup lard---but Crisco will work
3 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1 cup very cold water

Mix the shortening,salt and flour together until it looks about pea size with a pastry blender if you have one, or just cut with 2 knives crisscrossed. Add the cold water and mix just until it all sticks together ---don't overwork it or your crust will be tough. Refrigerate it while you do your filling. This is enough to make a 13x9 pan pasty pie -or 6-7 pasties. If you want more make a separate batch--don't double it. Take about a tennis ball sized piece of your dough and roll it out on a counter dusted with flour. Turn it and roll some more. I use an 8" salad plate and lay my crust on it and then place the filling on half, top filling with a pat of butter. Use a little water on your fingers on the bottom half of the edge of the crust then flip the top half over and press it down, the water will make the top half stick to the bottom. Cut off any excess crust hanging over your plate. and flute the edge. Make a small vent hole in your tops. Brush the tops of your pasties with some milk --it make your crust brown better.

FILLING:
1 1/2 lbs.pasty meat (about) SEE NOTE BELOW
4-5 diced potatoes
1 small diced rutabaga
1 small diced onion
diced carrots--Yoopers disagree about the carrots but you decide
salt
pepper
Mix all your filling together add your salt and pepper to taste.

Bake these for 1hr 15 min on 375----I will test one to see if the rutabagas are done because they take the longest to cook and the smaller you cut them the quicker they will cook..so good luck.
NOTE: Pasty meat is typically 3/4 coarse ground beef to 1/4 coarse ground pork, but I've seen finely diced steak as well as venison used too.

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APPLE CINNAMON BREAD


1/3 cup brown sugar (not packed)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2/3 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1 apple, peeled and chopped

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Mix brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl and set aside. Beat white sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until incorporated; add vanilla extract.
Combine flour and baking powder together in another bowl; stir into creamed butter mixture. Mix milk into batter until smooth. Pour half the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Next add half the apples and half the brown sugar cinnamon mixture. Lightly pat apple mixture into batter.
Pour the remaining batter over apple layer; top with remaining apples and add more brown sugar/cinnamon mixture. Lightly pat apples into batter; swirl brown sugar mixture through apples using a finger or spoon.
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes.

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