Fresh Fruit Crisp

Ingredients

• 1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• fill 2/3 full 9x13 pan of apples, peaches, or pears, etc.
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 

**** Vanilla Ice Cream goes best with this

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Combine oats, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and dash salt.
3. Cut in butter till mixture resembles coarse crumbs; set aside.
4. Peel, core, and slice fruit to make 5 to 6 cups.
5. Place fruit in a baking dish
6. sprinkle with granulated sugar
7. sprinkle crumb mixture over all
8. bake in oven for 40-45 min.
9. serve with ice cream

***  6 servings

Rhubarb Cake

Ingredients

• 1 package yellow cake mix
• 4 cups chopped or frozen rhubarb
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup cream

Directions

1. prepare cake batter according to package directions.
2. pour into a greased pan 13in. x 9in x 2in baking dish.
3. sprinkle with rhubarb and sugar.
4. slowly pour cream over top
5. bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until goldenbrown.
6. cool for 15 minutes before serving.
7. serve with ice cream if desired.
8. refrigerate leftovers

Yield: 12-15 servings

Cereal Candy

Ingredients

• 18oz box Golden Grahams
• 6 cups Rice Chex
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 cups mini marshmallows
• 7oz bag of coconut (I toast mine lightly in the oven)
• 3 sticks butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds (I toast mine lightly in the oven)

if you are alergic to almonds you can substitute it for pecans or walnuts

Directions

1. Mix cereal, nuts, coconut in large bowl.
2. Boil sugar, butter, and marshmallows in saucepan for three minutes.
3. Remove from heat.
4. Add vanilla.
5. Pour mixture over cereal mix.
6. Toss lightly until combined.
7.  Cool on waxed paper.
8.  Store covered tightly.

Corn Salsa

Ingredients

• 1 small onion, chopped
• three large roma tomatoes, diced
• 1 can of white shoepeg corn, drained
• 1 can of regular corn, drained
• 1 can of black beans, drained and rinsed
• 1-2 jalapinos
• avocado (if available)
• fresh cilantro to taste
• 3/4 t. salt
• garlic to taste
• T. lime juice

Directions

1. mix ingredients together.
2. walah!!!

Rice Crispy Treats

Ingredients

• 1 bag of marshmallows
• 1/4 cup margarine
• 1 small bag of rice crispies

Directions

1. heat marshmallows and margarine until melted in large bowl.
2. add the rice crispies.
3. stir until well mixed.
4. spray a cake pan with pam.
5. put mixture in pan.
6. spray your hands with pam, and smoosh the treat to the pan.  

Puppy Chow

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup margarine
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 9 cups chex
• 3/4 cup powder sugar

Directions

1. mix together the first three ingredients in a microwavable bowl.
2. heat for 1 minute.
3. stir, and heat for 30 minutes.
4. stir, and add vanilla
5. put the chex in a 2 gallon bag
6. pour chocolate mixture in the bag
7. mix together in bag
8. add the powder sugar in the bag
9. mix again

Mom's Salad Dressing

Ingredients

• 2 T. cider vinegar
• 1/4 c. sugar
• 2 T. honey
• 1 1/2 t. lemon juice
• 1/2 t. paprika
• 1/2 t. ground mustard
• 1/2 t. grated onion
• 1/4 t. celery seed
• dash salt
• 1/3 c. canola oil

Directions

1. mix all ingredients but canola oil in a large glass measuring cup
2. microwave for 1-2 minutes until sugar is dissolved
3. whisk in oil

This salad works best with a salad topped with chicken and mandarin oranges or strawberries.........