Ranch Roll-Ups

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Garlic Pizza Pockets

• ½ stick of butter, more if for dipping
• ½ t. garlic powder,more if for dipping
• 1 t. parsley flakes
• ¼ t. oregano
• 6 slices of ham
• 8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
• ¼ c. chopped onion
• 1 tube refrigerated pizza dough, not thin crust (prevents tearing)
• 2 - 4 T. pizza sauce (optional), plus extra for dipping.  I would probably only use 2 T. since I'm also using the garlic butter.     I don't want it to run off the edge.  =)

►In microwavable mixing bowl, melt ½ stick of butter.  Add ½ t. garlic powder, parsley flakes, and oregano.  Stir together.
Cut the ham into small squares with pizza cutter and add to mixing bowl.  Add mozzarella cheese, onions, and pizza sauce.  Stir together until you can see the parsley (or sauce if you used it) is evenly distributed throughout.
I made mine without sauce this time.  It wasn't dry because of the butter and melted cheese.
►Spray cookie sheet, and lightly spray plastic cutting board if you have one.  Unroll pizza dough onto cutting board (easier to handle if cold), stretching slightly.  With pizza cutter, cut into eight pieces.
►Spoon 1/3 - 1/2 c. mixture onto each piece in center, making sure none is near the side edges.  Pick up the dough by the thickest end and stretch slightly as you fold it over to the other end.  Press edges together with fork, being careful not to puncture the dough.  Carefully place on greased cookie sheet.
►Bake at 425º for 12-15 minutes until lightly browned.
Makes eight.
Great with salad!
►Serve with pizza sauce or garlic butter (1 stick butter to 1 t. garlic powder).

JohnDavid even liked it without pizza sauce in it.  =)

It was a success!!!

Super Bowl Snacks!

A couple of years ago, we made football-shaped chocolate rice crispies.
Last year we made football brownies!

This is Rebekah putting on the laces.
I got the idea from the Betty Crocker website. Of course, ours don't look quite as perfect as theirs, and the pics were made w/ my fuzzy cell phone, but my kids had a good time decorating them.
We also had salsa and chips - shown here in our football-shaped serving dish. Heat the salsa and add sour cream.... de-LISH!
My mother-in-law bought all of us these cool
football cups. :o)
We also had Totino's pizza rolls (on sale for .50 per box!), and veggies and dip -- finger food! Perfect for a football game. :o)

New plan for this year... hope it ends up well.  Stay tuned. =)

Chicken Crescent Pockets

Mmmmmm!!!

• 1 t. garlic salt
• ¼ t. pepper
• 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 2 T. butter, softened
• 2 T. milk
  
• ½ c. onion, chopped
• ¼ green pepper, chopped (optional)
  
• ¼ red pepper, chopped (optional)
  
• 2 c. chicken, cooked and cut into cubes
• 2 cans (8 count) refrigerated crescent rolls
  

~Mix together cream cheese, butter, garlic salt, pepper, and milk.  Add in onions and peppers, then add in chicken.
~Open and roll out crescent rolls.  Separate each can into 4 rectangles (8 for both cans).  Pinch together perforations to seal.  Spoon in about 1/3 c. mixture onto each rectangle, fold over and pinch to seal shut.
~Place on lightly greased cookie sheet.
Bake 350º for about 22-25 minutes until lightly browned.
~To reheat: 350º for about 10-12 minutes.  It will brown a little more.  If you don't want it any more brown, cover lightly with foil for the first 5 or 6 minutes.  Remove foil and finish heating to crisp the bread.
Great with seasoned rice and broccoli.  =)

LOL!  My son tasted it and told me I'd better write that boys probably wouldn't like it.  hahaha!  =D 

I'll have to make him a pizza pocket.  

For appetizers, these can be made by using each triangle.  Spoon some of the mixture near the end of the triangle.   Fold over the two short ends, then fold the long end all the way over the top and tuck under.  

   Garlic Cream Cheese Spread    

If you have a little leftover, you can use as a spread for Ritz or any vegetable cracker.  Good even without the chicken and peppers, as shown here.  →  The above recipe without the chicken will top about 30-35 crackers.

You may also like Pineapple Cream Cheese Spread.

Peppers & Onions French Bread Topper

WOW!  Look what Rebekah made for lunch!  =)

• 1 large onion, sliced/chopped
• 1 green bell pepper, sliced
• 3-4 slices of ham, cut into pieces
• 1 garlic clove, smashed/chopped
  
• 1/4 t. oregano
• 1 t. Italian seasoning 
• 6-8 slices of French bread
  
• 6-8 slices provolone cheese
• 1 large tomato, diced
  

In skillet with a little butter, cook the onions, green pepper, ham, and seasonings.  Spoon onto slices of French bread on a cookie sheet.  Top each with a slice of Provolone cheese.  Bake at 450º for 5-7 minutes until cheese is melted.
Top with diced tomatoes.  Sprinkle with pepper or oregano.  Makes 6-8, yum yum!

We didn't have any French bread, so Rebekah just made theirs with loaf bread.  Mine in the picture has no bread.  (and no, it's not a plateful!  that's a saucer.  =)

Pineapple Cream Cheese Spread

Great quick party snack.  My sister made this while she was here this weekend.

• 1 20-oz. can crushed pineapple in heavy syrup
• 1 8-oz. block of cream cheese, softened to room temperature

Drain pineapple, then use electric mixer to mix pineapple and cream cheese.  That's it!  You're done.

Serve on Ritz crackers or other vegetable snack crackers.  My sister's family likes it on white bread with the crusts trimmed off.  I like it with... a spoon!  lol.

Pigs in a Blanket

So easy and simple, most everyone can make these with no instruction.  =)

• 1 pkg Li'l Smokies sausages
• 1 roll Pillsbury crescent rolls

Unroll the crescent rolls, and use a pizza cutter to cut each roll into 5 pieces. (FIVE  - I know! I didn't believe it either when I first heard it!) It's easier to handle the dough if it's fresh out of the fridge.

Lay the sausage on the large end of the dough, and roll it up, pressing slightly to make the pointed end of the dough stick.

Arrange on greased/sprayed large baking sheet.
Bake at 375º for 12-15 minutes.   Makes 40.

These can also be made with layered canned biscuits (peel the layers), or with the Li'l Smokies weiners, or sausages that have cheese in them.

Free Tip:  If you've peeled the outer layer off the crescent roll tube and set it beside the hot stove for a minute, then when you're leaning down to get a pan out of the stove drawer, the crescent rolls might POP off the stove and hit you on the head, HA HA HA!
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Easy Oven Potatoes

My sister-in-law brought these at Thanksgiving, and MMMM, they're good!  It's nearly the same as the Easy Oven Fries, except you cube the potatoes, and more will fit in the pan.

• 6 scrubbed, cubed potatoes
• ¼ c. olive oil
• 1 package of (dry) Lipton soup! =)  I like Herb and Garlic; Rebekah likes Onion. 
  

Spray cookie sheet first.  Pile cubed potatoes in the middle of the pan.  Drizzle oil over potatoes, tossing to coat.  Sprinkle dry onion soup mix over potatoes, tossing to coat.   Bake at 450º for 28-30 minutes.  You might want to turn on broil for a couple of minutes, but since they're coated, they'll already look a little brown.

Rebekah made these today. =)

This recipe fills a 7 x 11 baking dish.

Rebekah made these to take to a family gathering this afternoon, but after we'd each sampled a few (and they're sooo good!), Rebekah said she didn't think the rest of the potatoes were going to make it getting there! 
Hmmm... I thought about the endangered potatoes.

"Do you have a smaller dish???"

HA HA HA!!!

Easy Oven Fries

Saw this recipe on Rachael Ray a year or so ago, and not sure which one it is, but she has about 5 pages of recipes for FRIES!  So I'm sure it's one of those.  =) I'm sure I've strayed from the original, tho. 
Here's a few of Rachael Ray's recipes that are similar. Oven Steak Fries, Oven Fries, Red Potato Oven Fries.

• 4 medium potatoes
  
• 2 T. olive oil
• Garlic salt and/or other spices (basil, oregano, etc)
  I love using a packet of dry Lipton Garlic & Herb mix

-Scrub and wash potatoes.  Cut into medium-thin slices.

-Line cookie sheet with parchment paper, and pile the sliced potatoes in the middle.   

-Drizzle oil over the potatoes, tossing to coat, then spread them out on the pan.

Sprinkle on any spices(s) of your choice and/or salt.

►Bake at 450º for 25-27 minutes, then broil for 2 minutes.

This post was made in Dec, 2009.  

It's Jan, 2022, and that is still my favorite knife!  

Ham and Swiss (or Provolone) Cheese Rolls

Yummy, and doesn't take too long, either.  My mother-in-law had given me the recipe a long time ago, using the tiny rolls.  Then recently, my sister-in-law made them at our house using regular dinner rolls.  =)

• 12 dinner rolls, already baked. 
  
• 4 rectangle slices of ham, or 12 thin round slices (like Land O' Lakes) 
• 8 oz. package of cheese of your choice (I like Provolone)
• 1 stick of butter
• 2 t. mustard
• 1 T. poppy seeds
• 1½ T. minced onion/onion flakes 
• 2 t. Worcestershire sauce 

-Preheat oven to 350°.

-Melt butter in microwavable bowl.  

-Add poppy seeds, minced onion, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce.

►Or leave the poppy seeds until last and sprinkle on top. 

-Using a serrated knife, slice open all the rolls, placing the bottom halves in large pan.  
-Thinly (make that butter go far!) spread one-half  the mixture on the open bottom half of the rolls, being sure to get the edges.

-With a pizza cutter, cut the ham to fit on the rolls.  

If rectangle-shaped ham, you can cut it in half lengthways, then cut each half into thirds.  I use 2 layers of ham per roll (so 1 rectangle slice for three rolls).  Stack and cut several slices at a time.

If thin round ham, I just kinda fold a third of it over, then bring the side over.  It looks kinda like a triangle with a rounded bottom edge. 

Not sure what shape/size your cheese will be, so just break it up to fit the rolls.  For provolone, I use 1 slice for 2 rolls.  I break off top and side to leave enough for 1 roll, then break and fit the edge pieces on the next roll. 

-Put on the roll "lids," and spread remaining mixture across rolls.

-Sprinkle on poppy seeds if you did not include them in the butter mixture. 

►Cover with tin foil, and bake at 350º for 18-20 minutes.

Some people like to put it all together a day ahead, then bake the day of.  
This lets the butter soak in more. 

GREAT with potato salad and baked beans.  =)

Cheesy Tortilla Cups

I made these for lunch today, and my family loved them!

• 12 small flour tortillas
• 1 tomato diced
• ½ onion, diced
• ½ red (or green) bell pepper, diced
• 8 oz. cheddar cheese (and/or other cheeses)
• 6 slices of ham cut into pieces
• about 1 tsp. or so of dried basil
• a little chili powder

Place each tortilla into a cupcake pan. Put a spoonful of cheese in the bottom of each tortilla. Then fill with onion, ham, tomatoes, and peppers. (It will cook down.)  Sprinkle with basil and chili powder. Top with more cheese.  Bake at 350º for 9-11 minutes or until cheese is bubbly and tortillas are toasty.

Sausage Balls

So simple!  Takes awhile, but only three ingredients!

• 3 cups of Bisquick 
• 16 oz. sausage - I use Frank Corriher's
• 12 oz. shredded cheddar cheese

In large mixing bowl, pour in Bisquick, and pinch/add pieces of sausage, tossing a little as you go to coat with Bisquick.
Add cheese, and knead/mix till well blended.

Roll into small 1 inch balls; place on greased pan.

Bake at 375º for 16-18 minutes.

Freeze (on an ungreased pan) whatever you don't use. After freezing, transfer to a gallon ziploc bag.  Makes around 80 sausage balls.

ETA:

Betty Crocker uses a few more ingredients, and sounds delicious!!!  I'm going to have to try this.

• 4 c. (16 oz.) cheddar cheese instead of 12 oz.
• ½ c. grated Parmesan cheese (2 oz.)
• ½ c. milk
• ½ t. dried rosemary leaves, crushed
• 1½ t. chopped fresh parsley OR ½ t. parsley flakes

ETA #2:  It tastes pretty much the same, maybe a LITTLE fluffier, but it's stickier to roll out.  It does make more.  I think we got 95 out of it.