Baked Vegetables

Husbands love this...

In a casserole dish, add

small bag of frozen broccoli
1/2 chopped onion
2 cubed potatoes
2 large carrots, cut on bias
(and any other veg you want, asparagus, cauliflower, zucchini, etc.)

season with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil, dot with butter. Cover with lid or foil. Bake in 350 degree oven for about 45 min until carrots are tender and veg is nice and caramelized. This goes with any kind of meat you want, and isn't it great to only have to make one side?

Baked Cream Corn

This is a wonderful side dish--especially good for Thanksgiving!

3 to 4 cups frozen white corn
2 to 3 cans corn (yellow)
1 cup cream or evaporated milk
1 to 2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar

Heat all ingredients in a large saucepan. In a separate pan, make a roux with 4 Tbsp. butter and 1/2 cup flour. Add to corn mixture and stir. Simmer until it is thickened. Put into a greased 9X13 pan and cover top with shredded parmesan cheese. Bake at 350 F for 15 minutes or until browned on top.

Pretzel Jello Salad

Ok Ladies... really... It's been over a month and no new recipes? We are seriously slacking. :)

This probably isn't a new recipe to a lot of you... But it's one of my favorites to make for when we have people over, or if I'm in charge of bringing a family a meal. It's technically a jello salad... but it's definitely good enough to be dessert! :) There's never any leftovers with this dish! :)

Pretzels (Somebody asked how many- & I don't know! :) Just enough so after you crush them, they cover the bottom of the pan... I just guess)
1 Cube Butter
1 c. Sugar, plus 4 tsp Sugar
12 oz. Cool Whip
8 oz. Softened Cream Cheese
6 oz. Strawberry Jello
16 oz. Frozen strawberries (sliced)

*Crush Pretzels in Bottom of 9x13 pan.
*Melt butter with 4 tsp. Sugar.
*Pour over pretzels and bake at 400 for 6 min.

*Cool in refrigerator (I put mine in the freezer- Make sure it's completely cooled or it melts the next layer and everything meshes together!)

*Beat softened cream cheese, cool whip, and 1 cup Sugar on med/low until smooth

*Spread over COOLED pretzels. (Make sure to seal all the edges so the jello doesn't get into the pretzels)

*Mix Jello with 2 cups Boiling water. Stir until well dissolved.
*Stir in frozen sliced strawberries.
*Let Jello partial set (3 minutes or so) then pour over cream cheese mixture.
*Put in Fridge and let set for 3-4 hours.

GREEN BEANS

Grilled Baby Carrots and Green Beans

1 cup baby carrots, cut length wise
8 oz green beans
1 tbs olive oil
1/2 tsp dried marjoram leaves
1/2 tsp garlic pepper
1/4 tsp salt
1 medium onion, cut into 1/2 in wedges

Heat grill on medium. Toss all ingredients except onion in a large bowl. Place in a grill basket. Cook in covered grill for 10 minutes. Add onion to oil in bowl, toss to coat, add to grill basket. Cook an additional 10 minutes shaking and turing the veges until all veges are crisp tender.

If you like to grill you have to get a grill basket, we use it all the time for potatoes or really any combination of veges and spices.

Corn & Black Bean Salsa

I don't usually give this one out because it's such a hit!! (i like to be the one to bring it to the party)!!

1 can black beans drained

16 oz. corn
(i like to use frozen but you can use canned)
1 green pepper chopped
1 red pepper chopped
1 cucumber
( i like a lot of cucumber so i use a whole one but use as much or little as you want)
chopped fresh cilantro
(i like a lot, use as much or as little as you want)
1 small bottle italian dressing
(i like to use zesty italian and if you can't find the small bottle use 1/2 of a regular size bottle)
Mix it all together & serve with tortilla chips!!!
It's better if you let it sit in the fridge a little before serving.

So yummy, i've even had people eat it as a side dish rather than with chips!!!
Kids love it too!!!

Sweet Topped Raspberry Jello

Ingredients:
3 oz raspberry jello mix
8 oz frozen raspberries
2 oz cream cheese
4 oz Cool Whip
1/4 can condensed milk

Dissolve jello in 3/4 cup boiling water. Stir in raspberries until thawed. Add 3/4 c water, stir and put in fridge to set up. Combine cream cheese, Cool Whip, and condensed milk. Spread over jello when firm.

If you want it to look nicer, cut the jello into individual servings, then spread the topping on each one.

Orangey Bananas

This is a great side dish or snack. My kids LOVE it.

Ingredients:

2 large bananas
1 Tbsp frozen orange juice
1 tsp sugar

*Peel and slice up the bananas.
*Mix the concentrate and sugar and stir into bananas.