Red Enchilada Sauce

This recipe saved us when we didn't have any cans of enchilada sauce. It's very easy and you probably have all the ingredients in your pantry!

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp. chili powder
• 2 tbsp. flour
• 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1 c. tomato sauce
• 1 c. water

Directions

1. Mix and boil first three ingredients in sauce pan.
   
2. Mix in tomato sauce and water.
   
3. Stir occasionally until boiling.

Frozen Taquito Enchiladas

Ingredients

• Frozen taquitos
• Enchilada sauce
• Grated cheese
• Sour cream
• Olives

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 deg F.
   
2. Line bottom of pan with single layer of frozen taquitos.
   
3. Top with enchilada sauce, cheese, and olives.
   
4. Bake for about 25 minutes and serve with sour cream.

Very easy and very tasty.

Caramel Fondue

Perfect for apple dipping!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 2 tbsp water
• 1 15 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 tsp vanilla

Directions

1. In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.
   
2. Stir in sugar, corn syrup and water. Bring to a boil.
   
3. Stir in condensed milk, simmer, stirring constantly until mixture reaches thread stage (230 degrees on a candy thermometer).
   
4. Add vanilla.
   
5. Place in fondue pot or crock pot.

Pumpkin Cookies

Great fall cookies!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup pumpkin pie mix (I use one 15 oz can)
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 bag chocolate chips

Directions

1. Cream shortening and sugar.
   
2. Add egg, vanilla, and pumpkin.
   
3. Sift in dry ingredients.
   
4. Add chocolate chips.
   
5. Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes.

Incredibly delicious and healthy waffles

This is a variation of my dad's famous Belgium Waffles but now it is changed to my mom's standards. :)

3 cups wheat flour
1 cup white flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
(at least) 4 Tbsp Splenda (I always put more in)
Cinnamon (however much you want)
Mix together well

in a separate bowl mix:
2 eggs (or 3 egg whites)
1 1/2 cup oil
3 cups milk (add more as needed because the batter gets pretty thick)

mix wet and dry ingredients then pour into waffle maker. or for pancakes add chocolate chips

Unbelievable Lasagna

I've made this twice and it hasn't failed me yet. It's so easy!

- Lasagna
- Spaghetti sauce
- Ricotta cheese
- Cottage cheese
- Parmesan cheese
- Mozzarella cheese

Spread some sauce in the bottom of a baking dish. Layer the following until you run out of stuff: UNCOOKED (yes, that's why it's unbelievable lasagna -- it's unbelievably easy!) lasagna, sauce, ricotta, cottage, parmesan, and mozzarella. Final layer consists of only lasagna, sauce, mozzarella, and paremsan. Bake at 350 for 45-55 minutes.

Crockpot Applesauce

You can thank Betty Crocker and a little bit of experimenting on my part for this recipe. It's perfect for cold autumn mornings!

- Apples, preferably the tasty McIntosh apples from upstate New York. :)
- 1/4 cup water for approximately every 5 medium-sized apples
- 1/4 cup brown sugar or 3-4 tbsp white sugar for approximately every 5 medium-sized apples
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon, again, for approximately every 5 medium-sized apples
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg -- you guessed it -- for approximately every 5 medium-sized apples

Peel apples if desired, but if you choose to do so, please realize that you're doing more work than necessary for applesauce that won't be quite as healthy. Cut apples into fourths, toss in a crockpot, top with water, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Cook on high for about 2 hours or until apples are soft. Mash apples using an electric hand mixer -- because we all know electric mixers make things easier. Serve warm or chilled -- both are delicious.