Bacon Mushroom Burger Baked Pasta

Ingredients:

• 1lb pasta
• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 2 cups shredded cheese
• 1 can stewed tomatoes
• 1/2 lb bacon, cooked, drained and chopped
• 6-8 button mushrooms,
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1/2 green pepper chopped
• 2 tbsp McCormick's Montreal Seasoning
• 1 tbsp garlic powder
• 1 tbsp onion powder

Directions:

1. Cook ground beef while you cook the bacon, draining both of excess fat
2. Boil pasta to al dente
3. Sautee peppers for 3-5 minutes, add mushrooms and onions until all are soft
4. In a large bowl mix ground beef, bacon, onions,peppers, mushrooms, 1 can of stewed tomatoes and seasonings
5. Layer mixture in an overn safe bowl with cheese
6. Cook for 1 hour on 300, or until cheese is bubbly

Buttermilk Biscuits

These are buttermilk biscuits from 100 Cakes and Bakes, a book that I cannot find right now. I cut them out with leaf and acorn-shaped cookie cutters, for a more festive look.

All Saint's Day Cookies

I did spell out "Happy All Saint's Day" in letters, but I did not take a picture, with the rest of the dough, I made fall shapes. This recipe comes from page 46, of the book The Cookie Jar. It was originally a recipe for Christmas cookies. The gray leaves are my poor attempt to make brown. I would definately make this again, but with less runny icing. A lot of the icing seemed to end up on the newspaper, which my son tried to eat whenever I was not looking.

Crustless Egg Bake

Ingredients:

• 1/4 green pepper, diced
• 1/2 small onion, diced
• 5-6 button mushrooms, sliced
• 3 tbsp butter, melted
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 2 cups shredded cheese
• 10 eggs, beaten
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• fresh ground pepper to taste

Directions:

1. preheat oven to 300
2. beat eggs and add spices
3. layer green peppers and onions on bottom of 9x13 pan
4. layer cheese on top of green peppers
5. layer mushrooms
6. pour melted butter over top
7. pour egg mixture over over layered vegetables and cheese
8. bake at 300 for 45-55 minutes, or until center is cooked

Steak Subs (and waffle fries)

I did not make the waffle fries, they are Alexia. We bought a huge bag at Costco, they are delicious.

Steak Subs:

• 1- 1/2 lbs of steak, sliced thin
• 1/2 green 1/2 red pepper, sliced
• 1 medium onion or 1/2 one large onion, sliced
• 5-10 button mushrooms, sliced
• 1 tbsp McCormick's Montreal Steak seasoning
• 2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tbsp worcestershire
• 1 tsp onion powder
• provolone or american cheese
• sub buns (or rolls, if you call them that in your neck of the woods)
• olive oil

Directions:

1. In large skillet, add steak and peppers with 1 tbsp olive oil, sautee over medium heat for 5 minutes.
2. add onions, mushrooms, seasonings and worcestershire
3. cook until steak and vegetables reach desired doneness, if you find that you have trouble timing this, try cooking the steak and the vegetables in a separate skillet
4. assemble subs with cheese, place under broiler until cheese melts, if desired

Soul Cakes

Soul! soul! for a soul-cake! I pray, good misses a soul-cake-- An
apple or pear, a plum or a cherry, Any good thing to make us merry, One for
Peter, two for Paul, Three for Him who made us all.

Soul Cakes

• 1 yeast cake (I took this to mean 1 packet of yeast, and it worked)
• 2 cups milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 6 cups flour
• 1/4 cup lukewarm water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 lb. butter
• 3 teaspoons cinnamon

Dissolve the yeastwith 1 teaspoon of sugar in the lukewarm water and let it stand in a warm place. Cream the butter with the sugar. Add the milk which has been scalded and slightly cooled and then add the yeast. Sift the flour with the salt and cinnamon and add to the mixture, kneading for a few minutes. Place in a bowl and allow it to rise in a warm place to double its bulk. Shape the dough into round buns and bake at 375 degrees F. for about thirty minutes or until lightly browned. Originally, these cakes were shaped like men and women and were given raisins or currants for eyes.

I think this recipe was originally in Cooking with Christ, by Florence Berger.

I did not think I would really like these too much but they are great, I ate mine with butter, I plan on giving a few to some friends.

Yellow Cake with Buttercream Icing, for All Saint's Day

Happy All Saints Day

This was a basic Yellow Cake recipe, from the Better Homes and Garden Cook Book. I would post it, but I cannot find the book. I can't find the book that I got the Buttercream Icing recipe from either. This cake was very light tasting and the buttercream icing was rich and smooth. I had to double the recipe to make enough icing to frost the cake initially and the decorations on the cake were made from a second, more stiff buttercream.

My children decided to reach over the cake and mess up the lettering. It is very hard to keep kids away from cake. As of posting this, about half of the cake remains.