Hot Cocoa with Cinnamon

Well, I don't make it by scratch, I like to  use those cheapie packets from the store. while making this, listen to this list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0lsBdPjUME&feature=&p=CF21B6BA711F06C0&index=0&playnext=1

you'll need
coffee (either brewed or instant)
Cinnamon candy (the little discs or candy canes that are cinnamon)
Cocoa packets (ones with the marshmallows are good too)
heavy whipping cream
Largish Mugs or whatever you put your hot drinks in
spoons

fill a mug 2/3 full of brewed coffee or hot water
add 1 packet of cocoa
add 2 full tbsp of coffee if you don't have brewed already
drop in one cinnamon disc.
stir
add heavy whipping cream until happy with consistency
stir

sip

listen to the playlist, read a book.

Enjoy the winter coming upon us.

Breakfast quick and easy .... ISH

two cans of those cheap flakey biscuits from the store, pillsbury if you want, and not the big ones, the little ones
two cans of cream of mushroom soup (unless you are a no no on mushrooms, then use cream of chicken)
one can of milk
one ham steak
spices
PREHEAT OVEN TO 350

Soup pot (small)
small roaster (one 8x11 one 8x8)

heat up cream of soup in pot with milk
spice with pepper (about 2-3 tbsp maybe less)
and salt (about 2-3 tbsp maybe less)
spice to taste basically

put the two cans of biscuits in the larger roaster
sprinkle spices in bottom of small roaster
put ham in small roaster and spice top of ham
put both in oven until biscuits are done
leave ham in for about 5 minutes more

take all out
cut ham into chuncks
break biscuits onto plate
put chunks of ham on biscuits
smother with hot cream of soup mix (aka GRAVY)

EAT

Simple Tasty Hamburgers

Baking pan/Roasting pan
tinfoil

about 2lbs hamburger
onion soup mix

PREHEAT OVEN TO 350

mix together hamburger and soup mix.
form hamburgers
top hamburgers with turkey bacon (cut in half and X across)
bake for about 20 min

TURN OFF STOVE!
remove hamburgers

put on buns
add various toppings/condiments

EAT

A little Interlude

I Think you all get the idea I like to cook with cheese and Meat. #1: because it is cheaper and fills up hollow legs faster than fancy vegetables and fruits, however, we do have those on our menu on occasion. I am planning on getting a little heavy whipping cream to dribble on some of the Fruit Salad I have in the cupboard. *I can always use more canned fruits for the boys*

I am going to have to lay off a lot of the meats and cheeses though. I have been scheduled for a chest x-ray on Wednesday, the doctors need to determine if it is my lungs or my heart. I hope that if anything it's just asthma. I can take care of that. If not, they will be putting me on Nitro. 

My Grandma on my dad's side had Heart failure. As soon as they said "We may put you on nitro because it could be an issue with your heart".... ALL I could think of was seeing my Grandma's feet from behind her bed when we came back from running errands. I was 12. 

SO...yeah. I just hope it's asthma.

Bread Lasagna

ROASTING PAN
stew pot or some kind of pot.
Stirring spoon
colander

PREHEAT OVEN TO 350
Spray roasting pan with non stick spray
in soup pot, brown hamburger with Italian seasoning, garlic powder and pepper
drain in colander.
brown a bit longer till it's crispy
add one small can of spaghetti sauce
add one small can of Sloppy Joe Mix
(sloppy joe, a slop sloppy joe uh huh)

stir and bubble boil for a bit

TURN OFF HEAT UNDER POT

spoon the meat sauce over one layer of bread in the roaster pan.
sprinkle cheese (about 1/2 lb) over sauce
put another layer of bread on top
pour rest of sauce over that second layer of bread
dump about 1 1/2 lbs of cheese on that, spread it out evenly

bake for about 25 min or until cheese on top is melty if not toasty gold

TURN OFF STOVE

pull out of oven and let set for a while, then

EAT!!!!!

Take on Diced Ham recipe below

PREHEAT OVEN AT 350

Use those thin pork chops. dice up, fry in a pot with a 1/2 stick of butter salt, Italian seasoning, onion powder or whatever spices you want.
spray down little roasting pan (8x8) with butter spray
this time add a little more milk to the egg mix
put about 1/4 cup of RICE in with the egg mix
pour the egg mix in the roaster
put the chopped up chops in egg mix. pour the left over butter on top of that
cover with about 1lb of cheese.

bake for about 20 min until cheese is light golden

TURN OFF STOVE!!!
pull out the little roaster
let cool
EAT!

Diced Ham and Egg Scramble with toast and pancakes

Frying pan

Roaster

Spatula

Dice up a Ham Steak

Fry in frying pan with 1/2 stick of butter, not that margarine crap, and add spices to it (whatever you would like, from my Italian seasoning to jalapeños and Tabasco.. add garlic, always, and some onion powder

Scramble as many eggs as you want with milk in the frying pan using the spatula

Line a roaster with tin foil

dump in the ham and spread it out

cover with the scrambled eggs

add cheese to top.

PREHEAT OVEN TO 350

put the roaster in the oven for about 15 min or so, making sure the cheese is melty.

I've frozen pancakes from the freezer section of the store, they were cheap and easy to nuke

Nuke up as many pancakes you want.

toast as much bread as you want

TURN OFF STOVE

pull out the scrambled stuffs

top the toast with the scrambled stuffs

put the pancakes on a separate plate and eat those however you want.

SLOPPY JOES

This is just to let anyone out there reading this that I made Sloppy Joes tonight. 1 1/2 lbs hamburger, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning.
browned the hamburger to a crisp,
added one can o' SJ sauce...
stirred really well
put on buns.

Pretty easy to make sloppy joes :)

BUT
I ran out of sloppy joe stuffs, so i made pancakes.

AFTER the Texas Toast:

Just not enough made... next time, will have to make at least two boxes of this ... with 16 of those damn chops... plus some side stuff like mashed potatoes and/or veggies.

IT WAS ALL GONE!!! >.<

so i boiled up some hotdogs. pretty easy to boil up some hot dogs: RECIPE AS FOLLOWS:

1 Pot of water
STOVE TOP

put as many hot dogs as you want in pot of water.
turn on stove top to med high or so.

boil until hot dogs split.

TURN OFF STOVE TOP

take from water.

put in bun

add various condiments.

EAT!!

Texas Toast and Pork Chops with Turkey Bacon

Well, gonna try this out. Not a recipe I'd ever seen but, meh. let's see what happens. I'll comment on the turn out after I'm done making it.

Roasting pan
PREHEAT oven to 350

Texas Toast Garlic bread (8 Piece pkg)
those thin sliced boneless pork chops from Walmart
pkg of Turkey bacon

melt a stick of butter in a sauté pan or frying pan or any kind of ... pan.
add spices to taste (Italian for me! with a smidge of Tabasco and a bit of juice of jalapeños from those pre-sliced ones you get in a jar, and a bit of onion salt)
fry the frak out of the pork chops.
put on top of Texas toast that you put in sprayed down roasting tin/pan
cut the turkey bacon in half shortways and X over the pork chops as thick as you want it.
IF you want to use REAL Bacon, COOK IT FIRST so it's not floppy and soggy on top of the already cooked pork chops. but do the same, and as thick on there as you want.....

OOHH HEY, I may put an overeasy egg on top of it!!! that's an idea. i'll see what happens
Lincoln just gave me the "HOLY HELL THAT SOUNDS AWESOME" wide eyed nod to the egg thing... lemme see if i can pull that off.. ok, will add more butter to fry the eggs.

bake for 10-20 min, depending on how crisp you want.
Sprinkle with fine shredded cheese.

Pull from oven, TURN OFF THE OVEN

set on top of oven, let cool for about 10 min or so,

EAT

Spicy Chicken Wings

Roasting Pan
Tin Foil
barbecue sauce of any  kind (but since this is SPICY chicken wings, get SPICY sauce!!)
Preheat oven to 350

get about 2-3lbs of chicken wings, you can get 'em from any grocery store, if not, buy 15 chickens, chop off the wings and do whatever you want with the rest....ahem..

line a roaster with foil
spray with non stick spray
dredge wings in sauce and put in roaster, pack them tight-ish, on top of each other is fine, too.
put roaster in oven
bake for about 30 min
take out, dump on a platter, let cool a bit,

EAT.

AND NOW CHICKEN!

I love those frozen skinless chicken breasts! PERFECT to use in almost any chicken recipe, unless that recipe calls for wings. ANYWAY:

Roasting Pan
Ziplock Freezer Bags
Rolling Pin
Tin Foil
STOVE
preheat to 375

4 large boneless skinless chicken breasts (thawed)
FLIPZ CRACKERS (the ones with the garlic herb baked in, you know, the pretzel on one side, cracker on the other)

LINE ROASTER WITH TINFOIL! (if you EVER want to NEVER wash a roaster or baking pan again, use tinfoil to line it.
SPRAY TINFOIL WITH that pam stuff. or whatever generic spray you can find OR
cut up a stick A FULL STICK of butter into those perfectly sectioned out pats and place each pat in the roaster BEFORE the chicken.
Fill a ziplock FREEZER bag (they're heavier and don't rip as easy) with flipz crackers. zip shut. CRUSH CRACKERS TO A FINE POWDER WITH ROLLING PIN... NOW you will have to open the bag a little to let the air out as you crush the crackers into that fine powder, or it will POP!

beat 2 jumbo eggs in a smaller bowl (one that the chicken will fit into)
pour cracker powder into a differant bowl.
dip chicken in the eggs, then roll it in the powder. until completely dredged.
Put the chicken on top of the pats of butter.
cover with another piece of tinfoil
put in oven for about 20-30 min
pull out, remove tinfoil, bake for another 10. pull from oven,
TURN OFF STOVE

pull chicken and set it on a platter. let cool a bit.
serve with perhaps some of that rice or even some lumpy stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob6TTU1knUM