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Here's this weeks questions for Four Foods on Friday. By Fun, Crafts and Recipes. If you would like to play along visit there where the questions are posted weekly.

#1. Does your family usually eat meals in the kitchen or somewhere else?

In the kitchen. No TV. That's a rule.

#2. Who usually does the dishes in your house?

I do mostly, my husband will help more on the weekends.

#3. What’s your favorite small appliance or tool in the kitchen? My two slice toaster. I like it for bagels, toast, english muffins, etc. better then the toaster oven.

#4. This one’s for my son. Share a recipe for chili. I love chili, but never really made it myself. But here's a recipe I found in one of my crockpot cookbooks. It looks so easy I think I'll have to try it.

Short-Cut Chili Con Carne
1 lb. lean ground beef
1 small onion, chopped
1 tsp. salt
1 to 2 tsp. chili powder
1 bay leaf
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
2 (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce
2 (16 oz.) cans kidney beans

brown ground beef, drain fat. In crockpot combine all the ingredients. Cover and cook on high for 2 to 3 hours. Remove bay leaf. Makes 6 to 7 servings.

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If you want to play along visit the blog: Fun, Crafts and Recipes. Where questions are posted weekly. Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are this week’s four questions.

#1. What’s your favorite carbonated beverage?

Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Diet Orange

#2. What’s your favorite spicy food?

I don't like spicy foods

#3. How do you handle hot dishes? Oven mitt, pot holder, towel?

Pot holders

#4. Ice cream. How do you like yours?

Believe it or not I'm not a huge fan of ice cream. I literally will get the kiddie size if I get it somewhere and in a sugar cone, usually coffee ice cream. I do like the half chocolate half vanilla twist you can get a Dairy Queen.

Hope these aren't to boring answers!

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Four Foods on Friday time again. Here's this weeks questions:

#1. What’s the worst tasting food you’ve ever eaten?

Anchovies on Ceasar Salad. I love Ceasar Salad and if you get it at a restaurant they usually ask if you want anchovies. One time they just put them on with out asking and I thought I'd try them. Yuck. That was the only time I ever tried them.

#2. Share a funny or embarrassing story about a meal you’ve made.

I was cooking a meal for my in-laws (future in-laws at the time, because it was before we were married.) but I wanted to make a dessert with a meringue topping. I have never made meringue topping in my life so had no idea how to make it. It wasn't coming out right. Was coming out soupy. My friend who was there trying to help had no idea either. I tried calling my mom, she wasn't home. I was starting to panic, when honest to God, I turned on the TV and on PBS was Julia Child, explaining how to make meringue! I couldn't believe it. Julia Child saved me!

#3. What food do you burn or have problems cooking most often?

A lot of times chicken. It either comes out dry, to greasy, to undercooked. I have a hard time getting it just right.

#4. Name two foods you’ll be eating on this Thanksgiving.

Turkey and clam dip! (we always have clam dip at parties as an appetizer!)

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Here's another Four Foods on Friday, hosted by Fun, Crafts and Recipes.
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Today's questions are Thanksgiving themed:


#1. Stuffing. Boxed or from scratch?

From scratch of course! Although I'm not the one who makes it, my husband does or my mother.

#2. If you were served the perfect Thanksgiving dinner what would it be?

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, veggies, and my mother's famous Pecan Rolls!

#3. What’s your favorite Thanksgiving leftover?

The Turkey! And the stuffing, but there usually isn't much of that leftover.

#4. Share a recipe using turkey.

Great for after Thanksgiving when you have the turkey carcass:

Turkey Soup:

(Can be cooked in crock pot or on stove)

1 turkey carcass, broken into pieces
2 qts. water
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 onion, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 carrot, chopped (I add more than that)
seasonings to your liking
6 ozs. noodles (cooked and drained) or cooked rice. (my husband likes it with noodles and I like it with rice)

Combine turkey carcass and water in slow-cooking pot. Boil until meat falls off the bone. Remove meat from bones and return to water. Add salt, pepper, seasonings, onion, celery and carrots. Cook on low for 5 to 6 hours (if using crock pot.) Drop cooked noodles or rice, into pot with meat. Cook for another 20 to 30 minutes. You can also freeze any leftover soup in individual containers.

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Join Four Foods on Friday by visiting Fun, Crafts and Recipes. Questions are posted weekly and you can get a lot of great ideas for recipes too! The theme this week for the election, is RED, WHITE AND BLUE. Here's this weeks questions:

#1. Name a food you like that uses a red sauce or anything red in it.

Spaghetti & Meatballs, of course!

#2. Name a food you like with whipped cream in it or on it.

Apple Pie and Strawberry Shortcake

#3. Name a food you like with blueberry in it.

Pancakes, muffins, cake

#4. Share a recipe for pasta or dessert or a beverage.

Speaking of Blueberries, here's a recipe for a Blueberry Cake:

Ingredients:

3/4 C. sugar
1/4 C. butter
1 egg
1/2 C. milk
2 C. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
2 C. blueberries

Topping:

1/2 C. brown sugar
1/3 C. flour
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 C. soft butter

Cream sugar and butter, beat in egg, add dry ingredients, and milk. Mix in blueberries. Sprinkle topping over top. Bake in 8 inch pan at 375 degrees, for 50 min.

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#1. What kind of pretzels are your favorite?

Any Snyders pretzels. Especially Butter Snaps.

#2. What’s your favorite way to eat pancakes?

With lots of butter & syrup. And sometimes with blueberries in them.

#3. Do you make garlic bread from scratch or buy frozen?

Usually buy frozen.

#4. Share a recipe that calls for mozzarella cheese.

Trio Cheese Lasagna Roll UP

Ingredients
1 lb. lasagna noodles
32 oz. pasta sauce
2 lb. ricotta cheese
1 lb. mozzarella cheese, grated or diced small
1/2 C. Parmesan cheese, divided
1/4 C. chopped parsley
2 eggs, beaten

Directions

Preheat over to 350 degrees.Cook lasagna noodles in boiling salted water until almost done. Rinse in cold water, then toss with some olive oil (about 2 Tbs.) to keep from sticking. Cut each noodle into three equal pieces. In a bowl, combine ricotta, 1 C. mozzarella, 1/4 C. Parmesan, eggs and parsley. Spoon some of the ricotta mixture (roughly 2 Tbs.) of the mozzarella on each piece of lasagna noodle and roll up. In a 9x13-inch baking dish , place 1 C. of sauce on the bottom. If there are any leftover noodles, place them over the sauce. Place 1/2 of the roll-ups, seam side down,on the noodles. Then sprinkle 1/2 of the mozzarella, then 1/2 of the sauce. Then the remaining roll-ups, sauce, mozzarella and the 1/4 C. Parmesan. Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil and bake for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake for 15 minutes longer. Makes about 32 roll-ups.

Freezing directions: when lasagna is ready to bake,cover tightly with foil and freeze.Do not defrost before baking.It must be baked from frozen state 2 1/2 hours at 350 degrees.

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It's TGIF! Here's another Four Foods on Friday. You can join in the fun by visiting Fun, Crafts and Recipes.

The questions are posted there, and to see other participants. Here are this weeks questions:


#1. Name something you use cream cheese in/on.

Have to have it on bagels!

#2. Do you use yogurt in any recipes?

Not really

#3. Macaroni salad. What do you like/put in yours?

One time I had it with artichokes in it, and it was delicious. My sister-in-law made it, but she never makes it the same way twice!

#4. Share a recipe that you use sour cream in.

Recipe my mother always made when I was growing up, and I have made too.

Sour Cream Coffee Cake:

Bake at 325 for 40 min.

1/2 cup butter
1 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 c. sifted flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp. vanilla

Topping mixture:

1/3 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. white sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup chopped nuts

Pour half of batter in lightly greased 9X9 pan, cover with half topping mixture, pour remaining batter over, cover with remaining topping mixture.

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#1. I passed Costco and saw gas at $2.84 and have had Costco on the brain since. Share a cupcake, muffin or cookie recipe.

Cranberry Muffins

1 cup coarsely chopped cranberries
2/3 cup sugar
2 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/3 cup butter or margarine softened
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup chopped nuts

Mix cranberries, 1/3 cup of the sugar and set aside. Sift flour, remaining sugar, baking powder, and cinnamon together in large bowl. Cut in butter. Beat egg, milk, and vanilla in another bowl, then stir them into flour mixture. Stir in nuts and reserved cranberries and sugar into the batter. Spoon into greased muffin tins. Bake at 400 for approx. 20 minutes. 8 large or 12 medium muffins.

#2. Cupcakes, muffins and cookies require something to drink. What do you drink with them?

I drink coffee especially with muffins, the kids drink milk.

#3. Which do you prefer, mini muffins and cupcakes or full sized ones?

mini, if I feel guilty about the calories, full size if I don't care!

#4. What type of muffin or cupcake pan do you use? Silicone, disposable, etc.

I have one that makes 12 at a time. I'm not sure what it's made out of, but it is pretty cheap and probably aluminum.

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#1. Pasta. How do you tell when it’s done? Do you cook on medium or high?
Cook on high, until it's really boiling, turn down. Then at about 10 minutes pull out a piece and taste it!
#2. Deep frying. What kind of oil do you use?
Vegetable oil. Even though I don't do much deep frying.

#3. Grilling. Do you grill on foil or directly on the grill?
Pretty much directly on the grill.

#4. Share a recipe that involves cooking something two different ways.Example, for lasagna you might fry the meat and bake the whole dish.

Supper Popover:

1 lb. ground beef
1 (15 oz.) can tomato sauce
1/4 c. green pepper,chopped
2 T. flour
1 tsp. parsley
1/4 tsp. pepper
2 c. shredded cheese
2 eggs
1 c. milk
2 T. vegetable oil
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 T. onion, chopped

Cook and drain ground beef. Stir in tomato sauce, green pepper, 2 T. flour, pepper and parsley. Boil and stir 1 minute. Pour into greased 9 x 13-inch pan. Sprinkle cheese on top. Beat eggs, milk, oil, 1 cup flour and salt. Pour over cheese. Sprinkle with onions. Bake until puffy and golden brown, 25-30 minutes. Serve immediately. Serves 6-8.


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#1. Turnips. Love em or leave em?
Leave them. The only time anyone in my family makes them is Thanksgiving. And my sister is the only one who really likes them.
#2. What’s your favorite roasted dish
Roast Chicken
#3. Salsa. What kind do you like?
Better Than Freds Salsa (it's made in my state of NH)
#4. Share directions on how to make your favorite quick meal, meaning start to finish in about 30 minutes or less.
Tuna Fish Casserole. Cook a package of egg noodles. Drain. Add 1 can drained tuna fish, 1 can cream of mushroom soup, and about a can and a half of milk. Stir & heat up a little more. Serve.

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My first time joining. Decided to play along. Visit Fun, Crafts and Recipes to play too.

#1. Share a recipe for something Italian.

Chicken Cacciatore. I actually made this last night for dinner. For the first time in a long time. I made a simple version of it. Just added chicken thighs (you can use any kind of chicken), large can of tomato sauce, large can of stewed tomatoes, chopped onion, chopped green pepper. And I added a little water to it to. Just threw all that into a crockpot and cooked for about 5 to 6 hours. And viola! Done. The chicken comes out so tender, it falls of the bone.


#2. Jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade, fruit butter or butter. What’s on your toast or bread?

Usually Grape Jelly, that's what my kids like and that's all we usually have in the fridge!

#3. What’s your favorite Kellogg’s product? (Since they’re multinational I’m hoping everyone can answer this one. If you don’t have Kellogg’s products, what’s your favorite cold breakfast cereal?)

Frosted Mini-Wheats


#4. Do you like liver? What about liverwurst?

Actually never tried it. My Brother-in-law and my Father used to eat liver and liverwurst. Smelled yucky and looked yucky I never could bring myself to try either of them.