Leftover Rice Pudding

We eat ALOT of rice in our house.  Unfortunately, we don't really like leftover rice.  I have a husband who is a little particular about the stickiness of his rice.  :-)

If we have a lot of extra, I make this for dessert.

Here is the original link:

http://www.thehungryhousewife.com/2008/07/left-over-rice-make-rice-pudding.html

Ingredients

• 2 cups cooked rice
• about 3 cups milk
• ½ cup sugar
• ⅛ tsp salt
• 1½ tsp vanilla
• ½ cup raisins or fruit of choice-I use craisins
• Spices to taste …like cinnamon, nutmeg, all spice, etc-I usually just stick to cinnamon

Instructions

1. All add ingredients to the cooked rice except the spices and bring to a boil.
2. Boil for a few minutes and then cook until most of the milk is absorbed.
3. Once you get to your desired consistency, add your spices.

I prefer to eat it warm.  If we have leftover leftover rice pudding, I just microwave it before we eat it again.  If it gets too dry, you can add a little extra milk before microwaving.

Spinach Quiche

Whenever I make pie dough, its enough for 2 pies.  If I just want to make one pie for dessert (although this rarely happens), I use the other half of the dough for quiche, for dinner. 

Here is the pie dough recipe: Butter Pie Crust

I adapted this recipe from easy-french-food.com

After the pie dough is in your pie pan, poke holes in it with a fork.  Bake it (empty), for 10 mins, at 400 deg.

While its baking,

Saute the onion in the olive oil until its soft.  Then add the spinach and cook until its wilted.  Alow to cool. 

(10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained - or 1 pound fresh spinach, cleaned and torn in small pieces

1/2 an onion, chopped

2 tablespoons olive oil

While the spinach and onions are cooling, mix:

4 eggs

1-1/2 cups milk

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1 cup shredded cheese

4-6 slices of cooked bacon, broken into pieces

Then add the cooled onion and spinach.  

Pour all of the ingredients into the pie plate.  Bake at 375 deg, for about 45 mins. 

Apple Crumb Pie and Apple Crisp

This is a compilation of a bunch of recipes put together. 

This is the pie dough recipe that I use:  Butter Pie Crust

The filling is this recipe:

5 cups diced peeled tart apples

1/2 cup sugar

2 tablespoon all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

This is a Taste of Home recipe, called Apple Crumble Pie.   The orignal also has 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg but I usually skip it.

The crumbs are my mama's recipe:

For cakey crumbs:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 c butter

For crispy crumbs:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup butter

Bake 25 mins,  375 deg, with foil covering the edges.  Remove the foil and bake for another 20 mins.

This my favorite apple crisp recipe.  No pictures yet:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Best-Apple-Crisp-Ever/Detail.aspx?src=etaf

Taco Soup

1 lb lean ground beef (or turkey)
1 onion, chopped
1 pkg taco seasonings
1 pkg dry Ranch seasonings
2 large cans diced tomatoes, undrained
1 can Rotel tomatoes, undrained
2 cans of beans or the equivalent of pre-cooked dried beans.  See link below about beans. 
1 can whole kernel corn

Brown meat and onion. Drain. Add seasonings. Drain beans and corn. Add to meat along with tomatoes. Simmer until well blended and hot. Eat and enjoy.

I don't used canned beans.  Here is my blog post about using dried beans:  Beans

Crunchy Apple Muffins

I love this recipe, just the way it is:

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Crunchy-Apple-Muffins

Creamy Italian or Ranch Chicken

Ingredients
1.5 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 pkg Good Seasons Italian dressing mix
1/4 cup water
1 8oz pkg low fat cream cheese
1 can 98% fat free cream of chicken soup


Directions
1. Place chicken in crock pot
2. Mix together Italian dressing mix and water. Pour over chicken.
3. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours OR low for 8 hours.
4. Mix together cream cheese and soup in separate bowl.
5. Carefully remove chicken from crock pot to plate.
6. Pour cream cheese/soup mixture into crock pot and mix together with dressing in bottom.
7. Return chicken to crock pot and mix gently to shred the chicken.
8. Cook on LOW until heated through.

Serve with rice or noodles. 

For creamy ranch chicken:

Substitute ranch dressing mix and sour cream instead of cream cheese.  

Taco Seasoning

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/taco-seasoning-ii/detail.aspx

I use this exact recipe without cayenne.  I mix it in a jar and its enough for 4 lbs of ground meat.

Brown meat and then add 7 tsp of taco seasoning and 3/4 cups of water.  Bring to a boil and then simmer for 5 mins.