WE ARE COOKING ON A BUDGET WITH PAT

Pat's Kitchen - March Recipes

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to send along some recipes for this month that are easy, yummy and should please the family.

Quick Cheese Puffs - Appetizer or Snack

1 tube refrigerated biscuits
3 Tablespoons melted butter or margarine
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/4 grated cheddar cheese (mix the two cheeses)
Separate biscuits and cut each biscuit into quarters. Roll each piece in melted butter and then into the grated cheeses. Place on baking sheet and bake at 450* about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot.

Five-Cup Salad

1 cup canned mandarin oranges
1 cup small marshmellows
1/2 cup flaked coconut
1 cup chunk-style pineapple
1 cup sour cream
Drain the fruit and mix all the ingredients together. Allow to stand refrigerated 3 to 4 hours to blend the ingredients. Enjoy!

Best Ever Meat Loaf
1 and 1/2 lbs. hamburger
1 and 1/2 cups bread crumbs (use white bread and cut in pieces)
1 and 1/2 cups milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
Dash of black pepper
1 egg
Pinch of sage or poultry seasoning
Mix bread pieces , milk, beaten egg and seasonings together in a bowl and let the bread and mixture sit and soften for 1/2 hour. Mix in the hamburger until well mixed. Turn into a lightly greased loaf pan and bake as follows. 1 hour at 400*, 1 1/4 hr. at 375* or 1 1/2* at 350*
You can throw some potatoes in the oven to be baked at the same time as your meatloaf.

Stuffed Hotdogs................yes stuffed hotdogs and they are yummy and easy!

6 Tablespoons butter or margarine
1/2 cup finely diced celery
1 small onion diced
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon peper
1/2 teaspoon sage
3 cups dried breadcrumbs ( I like to cut white bread into small tiny pieces)
1/2 cup water
Cook diced celery and onion in butter or margarine. Add salt, pepper and sage. Add bread crumbs and water. Split 8 or 10 hotdogs and stuff with dressing. Wrap each stuffed dog with a strip of bacon. Secure with toothpick and bake at 425* for 30 minutes.

Quick Party Bars

1 stick margarine or butter
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup oatmeal
1 cup chocolate bits
Nuts (optional)
Cream shortening and add light brown sugar. Add vanilla and egg and beat until light and creamy. Add sifted flour, fold in oatmeal. NO baking powder in this recipe. Turn into buttered 8 x 8 pan and bake at 350* for 20 minutes. Place on rack to cool and spread melted chocolate chips all over the top. Add chopped nuts if desired. Cool and cut into bars.

Love and Hugs from my kitchen to yours! Pat

SUGAR COOKIE FROST-OFF with our GRANDSON'S

Our grandson's love to cook , especially when it's sugar cookies. They had a blast frosting the remainder of cookies before I took them all to the Smyrna West Assisted Living Facility. They decided the cookies were good with or without the icing! We had fun. See Pap in the background? He is always there to help out. Love, Pat

SMYRNA WEST - OPENING

We served at Smyrna West Assisted Living Facility on Sat. Feb. 27th. I was there with Sara and Wanda Langford to serve the residents. We spent the first hour visiting the residents in their rooms getting to know them and then invited those who wanted to participate to come and frost some sugar cookies I had baked and brought to Smyrna West. It was a fun time and we told stories while the residents sat around the table. This gave our new friends time to share about their lives. It is so important to take the time to talk, laugh and learn about each other.

Thanks Wanda for joining us at this event.

Love, Pat and Sara

NEW OPENINGS - FairGreen Assisted Living

We opened FairGreen Assisted Living Facility last Thursday afternoon on Feb. 25th. I was there with Sara and we had Debbie and Megan Godfrey along with Sandy Smith to help with the residents. It was a great day of serving. We specialized by doing nails and hand messages. The gals loved being pampered and here are the pictures to show their excitement.

Thanks so much to all of you who are willing to Love, Serve and Connect. It matters!

Love, Pat