Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Aunt Georgia's Spaghetti Sauce

2 LB Ground Beef
1 Medium chopped onion
1 Green Pepper, chopped
2 15oz cans tomato sauce
2 12oz cans tomato paste
2 envelopes spaghetti sauce mix
3 C. Water
1 TB. Sugar
1 tsp. oregano
2 Cloves Garlic, chopped
1 Bay Leaf

Brown onion and green pepper with beef. Mix remaining ingredients, simmer for 1.5 hours.

Megan's Cheesy Breakfast Potatoes

1/2 C. Butter
1/2 C. Chopped Onions
1 pkg. 16oz frozen shredded Hashbrown Potatoes
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 soup can milk
1 C. Shredded Cheddar
1 C. Cheese Cracker Crumbs
Pepper to taste

Melt butter in skillet, saute onion. Stir in potatoes, soup and milk. Add cheese, pepper and 1/2 the cracker crumbs. Pour into shallow casserole dish, top with remaining cracker crumbs. Bake covered @375 for 35 to 40 minutes.

Aunt Georgia's Fudge

3-1/3 C. Sugar
1 C. butter or margarine
1 C. packed dark brown sugar
1 can (12 ounces) evaporated milk
32 large marshmellows, halved
2 C. (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
2 milk chocolate candy bars (7 ounces each), broken
2 squares (1 ounce each) semisweet baking chocolate, chopped
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 C. chopped pecans

In a large saucepan, combine first four ingredients. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is disolved. Bring to a rapid boil; boil for 5 minutes, stiring constantly. Remove from the heat; stir in marshmellows until melted. Add chocolate bars and baking chocolate; stir until melted. Fold in vanilla and pecans; mix well. Pour into a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Chill until firm. Cut into squares. Yield 5-1/2 pounds.

Uncle ?'s Enchiladas

Sauce
2 8oz cans tomato sauce
1 can tomato soup
2 cans enchilada sauce
1 LB Hamburger
1 TB White Vinegar
1 TB Sugar

Brown Ground beef, add remaining ingredients. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.

In a pie pan layer sauce, shredded iceberg lettuce, grated cheddar cheese, diced onions then fried tortilla. Repeate. Two tortillas in one pie pan will fill up MOST the Gale men. Place built enchilads in warm oven. Meanwhile fry one egg per pie pan. Top enchilads with fried eggs and enjoy.


Apparently some of the Uncle's (I am not sure which ones) used to make this recipe in school because it makes a lot of food for super cheap.

Grandma Gale's Carrot Cake

2 tsp. Cinnamon
2 C. Flour
2 C. Sugar
2 tsp. Baking soda
2 tsp. Baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 C. Cooking Oil
4 Eggs
1 C. Chopped Walnuts
3 C. Grated Carrots

- Mix all the dry ingredients, add oil, eggs, nuts and carrots. Mix well. Bake in 3 8inch prepared layer pans. Bake @350 for 25 minutes. Cool on wire racks then frost.

Frosting -
1 - 8oz cream cheese - softened
1/4 LB margarine
4 C. Powdered Sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1 C. Chopped Walnuts