Blueberry Cream Cheese Crescents

Simple but very yummy recipe. I use this one for Breakfast or Dinner. I got this recipe out of a Kraft Magazine.

1 pkg of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls

Cream Cheese

Blueberries or berry of your choice

Sugar

Unroll crescent and use two triangles to make a rectangle. You will get 4 from a package. Then spread cream cheese on the crescent, leave an inch on the end sides of the rectangle. Sprinkle some sugar on the cream cheese. Next put your berries on the cream cheese. Take your two ends of the rectangle and connect them so that it makes a square. Pinch your other sides so the berries don't come out. Bake at 375 degrees for 13 minutes. Sprinkle with some powdered sugar. Enjoy.

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California Steak

This is an easy crockpot recipe and is perfect when you're going to be gone for a few hours and want to eat almost immediately after you get home!



Round Steak
1 pkg of Onion Soup
1 1/4 cup of water
1/2 cup sour cream

Brown both sides of round steak with flour in a pan. Put Round steak, water, and onion soup in a crockpot on high and cook for 4 to 5 hours. Remove round steak and add sour cream to the sauce. If you want a little thicker sauce you can always use a flour or cornstarch and water mixture to thicken it a little more. Serve with rice or egg noodles.

1, 2, 3 Peanut Butter Cookies

A friend of mine purchased a new cookie press. Inside was this incredibly easy and super delicious recipe. They are so easy that Parker made these all by himself!

 

Peanut Butter Cookies

1 c. Creamy Peanut Butter
1 c. Sugar
1 Egg

Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Use cookie press to press dough into shapes. (you could also criss-cross a ball of dough with a sugared fork to make a normal peanut butter cookie shape if you don’t have a press.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. (Like always I would recommend taking them out when they look a little doughy, let the cookies cool and they will be moist  and chewy.)

Creamy Herb Pork Chops

This is a big hit at our house and a fun way to cook pork.  Technically I think a pork chop has a bone and I usually use the boneless 'pork chops' from Sams/Costco and butterfly them so they aren't too thick.
The original recipe was from Better Homes and Garden's New Cook Book, but I've changed it so much it's probably more mine.

4-6 pork chops
1 Tbls butter
1 Tbls olive oil
parsley
2 tsp flour
1/2 tsp basil
1 cube of beef bouillon
1/4 tsp pepper
2/3 cup milk
2 Tbls water

Heat the butter and olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.  Sprinkle salt and pepper over the pork and cook about 5-6 minutes on each side.  If I have thicker chops I will add a lid to make sure the middle gets
done.  Remove the pork and reserve the drippings.  For sauce (or gravy) stir parsley, flour, basil, bouillon and pepper into drippings.  Then add milk all at once.  Stir until thickened and bubbly.  Add water.  Stir until done.  You can put the chops back in and reheat - but I find that if I'm quick with the sauce they don't need to
go back in.  The recipe calls for the sauce on the pork chops, I tend to add a bit extra milk and make enough for gravy for our mashed potatoes as well.

I serve this with mashed potatoes and cooked apple slices.  Mike likes his pork chops with applesauce, but
the kids and I prefer apples.  To make the apples, slice up 1-2 apples thin, toss with lemon juice and sprinkle liberally with cinnamon.  Heat 1-2 Tbls butter in a pan.  Cook your apples, stirring as needed until soft.  They are a big hit!