From Marilyn Johnson 

1 or 2 carrots peeled and sliced thin on the diagonal

1 onion cut into bit size pieces

1 can pineapple chunks – drained

Saute carrots and onion in small amount of oil until tender crisp.  Remove from pan and set aside. 

Skinless chicken breasts cut into abt. 1 inch pieces.

1/2 t. garlic salt

1/2 C. flour

1/2 C. corn starch

1 egg beaten 

Mix cornstarch and flour together.  Set aside.  Sprinkle chicken with garlic salt, dip into beaten egg, then shake in flour mixture.  Brown in a little hot oil.  Remove from pan, drain and set aside. 

In same pan mix and bring to a boil: 

3/4 C. sugar

1/4 C. chicken stock

1/2 C. catsup

1 T. soy sauce

1/4 t. salt

1 C. water 

After sauce comes to a boil add the chicken and vegetables.  Simmer until chicken is cooked through.  Add pineapple chunks and heat.  If the sauce isn’t as thick as you would like it you can thicken it with some of the left over cornstarch mixture.  Serve over cooked rice.  

Depending on how much chicken you use you might want to double the sauce.

So here’s Shannon and Whit’s recipe:
One can of orange Shasta soda
Lots of vanilla icecream
Blend. Voilla.
Beware: to much pop and pop goes the blender lid.

Bread Recipe:

Soften 1T. yeast in 1/4 C. warm water in which a pinch of sugar has been added.

From here on I use the DUMP method for making bread.

6-7 C. bread flour (You may use any %whole wheat to refined white flours. I usually use 50/50.)

1/3 C. sugar

1 scant T. salt

2 T. oil (olive)

1 egg

2 1/2 C HOT water.

Mix in KitchenAid or similar appliance.  Add foamy yeast water and let knead for several minutes.  Adjust amount of water or flour according to how wet the dough looks.  My dough is fairly sticky.  After rising and kneading once more (in the metal bowl with the dough hook of course) the dough usually pulls away from the sides of the metal bowl–but, just barely.  I use flour to handle the dough and divide into two lumps for two cookie sheet pizzas.

I form the pizza crust.  It rises for 5-10 minutes and then I prebake at 425 F the crusts before applying sauce, cheese, pepperoni, ham, pineapple, olives, whatever.

Pizza Sauce:

Combine the following in a microwave able measuring cup or bowl:

One small can of tomato sauce (6-8 oz.?)

1 t. oregano

1/2 t. rosemary

1 T. olive oil

2 t. sugar

1/4 t. pepper

salt if necessary (Taste the canned sauce first.  It may be salty enough.)

Microwave on high for 2-3 minutes.

I’ve been having fun shoveling snow.  Most of the time I borrow my brother Paul’s 4-wheeler with a shovel.  Turns out to be fun attacking all that white stuff with machine.  All that shoveling tires me out and then I sit and knit at night.  I was lucky enough to win a pair of knitted slippers from Jeanee S. at a YW’s Christmas party.  I knit them in the round from the toe and use three needle bind off at the back of the heel.  Very quick knitting with doubled yarn and size 7 needles.  I’ll write up instructions upon request.

From the kitchen of Sandy Garrett

A decade ago I lived in Ft. Collins, CO.  Sandy Garrett was the Activity Committee head and planned a beautiful Night of the Nativity at a ward members home/barn.  As we left the barn (stable) with the live animals and baby Jesus we were each given a spicy, rich gingersnap.

I had to have the recipe.  The cookies are flat.  In fact, Sandy said to drop the cookie tray onto the kitchen counter after taking them out of the hot oven in order to make the cookies fall.  My cookies always seem to fall without the added help.  The cookie dough is very sticky.  Remember to use that small ice cream scoop for perfectly sized cookies.

Cream:

1 ½ C. Shortening

2 C. Sugar

2 Eggs

 1 ½ C. Molasses

Sift and then add to above:

2 tsp. Baking Soda

4 1/3 C. Flour

2 Tsp. Cinnamon

2 Tsp. Ground Cloves

2 Tsp. Ginger

This makes a very sticky dough.  Roll into balls the size of walnuts and roll in sugar.  I simply scoop mine and plop the dough ball into the bowl of sugar.  Place nine (versus the normal 12) cookie balls per cooking sheet because these cookies spread. 

Bake for 10 minutes at 375 F.  The cookies will look under done, but you will able to lift the edges.

She melted the carmel in a pyrex bowl, dipped the apples then dipped them again in melted chocolate.  I don’t know how long she cooked the carmel in the microwave, but the carmel was not chewable.  It was terribly hard.  Proves again that looks aren’t everything.