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Nancy’s Bean Dip – Your guest will love this

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Bean Dip – Great for parties, potlucks or just watching the game.

Origin

This is a dipping sauce that is very famous for its Tex-Mex origin. It is made of beans or refried beans. Unlike regular bean salsa, it is blended into a smooth consistency along with other ingredients like green chiles, cream cheese, cheese, and jalapeno among others.

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Bean Dip

Nancy’s Bean Dip

Great for parties, potlucks or just watching the game.
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Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 20
Calories: 196kcal

Ingredients

  • 1/2 lb ground beef
  • 1/2 pkg taco seasoning
  • 3/4 cups salsa
  • 8 oz velveeta cheese cubed
  • 1 can 15 oz can refried beans

Instructions

  • In a skillet over medium-high heat, brown beef and drain
  • In a large pot, combine cooked beef, taco seasoning, salsa, velveeta and beans.
  • Cook on low for about 10 minutes, stirring frequently, until cheese is melted and dip is warm.

Nutrition

Calories: 196kcal | Carbohydrates: 8.6g | Protein: 9.3g | Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 43mg | Sodium: 357mg

Nancy’s Carrot Cake – Your family will love this

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This is truly the best carrot cake. By-the-way, if you have young ones that do not like carrots, tell them it’s spice cake.

Origin

This is thought to have originated in England where housewives used sweet products (e.g carrots) to naturally sweeten their confections during World War II. In 1943, the Ministry of Food published a short recipe for this cake.

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Carrot Cake

Nancy’s Carrot Cake

This is truly the best carrot cake. By-the-way, if you have young ones that do not like carrots, tell them it's spice cake.
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cake, dessert
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings: 24 servings
Calories: 575kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/4 cups oil
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 cups grated carrots grate fine so the kids don't see them
  • 1 cup chopped nuts

Frosting

  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 6 oz cream cheese (2 3 oz packages)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp milk

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • In a large mixing bowl, beat sugar and oil. Add eggs and beat well.
  • Sift in flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Mix well.
  • Fold in grated carrots and nuts if desired.
  • Place mixture in greased 9×13 inch pan and bake for 1 hour 10 minutes.
  • Check once because ovens may vary.

Frosting

  • Beat together powdered sugar, cream cheese, vanilla, butter and milk.
  • Spread frosting over completely cooled cake.

Nutrition

Calories: 575kcal | Carbohydrates: 63.7g | Protein: 5.1g | Fat: 34.8g | Cholesterol: 69mg | Sodium: 347mg

Chocolate Globs – Your holiday guest will love these

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Chocolate Globs – These are great if you need a chocolate fix.

Origin of Rolled Oats

The Nagel Brothers of Bushnell, IL were the first to invent a process of making rolled oats without having to steam the oats. Until that time, the oats were first steamed to separate the groat from the hull.

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Chocolate Globs

Chocolate Globs

These are great if you need a chocolate fix.
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Let stand: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 15
Calories: 228kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup Condensed Milk
  • 8 tbsp butter
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened chocolate
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups rolled oats (oatmeal)
  • 1 1/2 cups coconut
  • 1/2 cup nuts (if desired)

Instructions

  • Place in a sauce pan the sugar, condensed milk, butter, and unsweetened and chocolate. Bring to a rapid boil and cook 3 to 4 minutes.
  • Remove from heat and stir in vanilla, rolled oats, coconut and nuts
  • Drop onto wax paper by the spoonful. Let set at room temperature until firm.

Notes

Refrigerate in an airtight container.

Nutrition

Calories: 228kcal | Carbohydrates: 37.7g | Protein: 2.2g | Fat: 8.6g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 32mg

Nancy’s Crescent Cheesecake Breakfast – Your guests will love this

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Crescent Cheesecake Breakfast – This is great to bring to a potluck breakfast. You will be a real hit with this one.

Origin

A typical French breakfast consists of a croissant or bread with butter and jam and sometimes a sweet pastry. Fresh fruit juice and hot beverages, like coffee or tea, are also included. Here all meals for French breakfast. The tradition of eating a large meal mid-day continues at dinner time in France.

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Cresent Cheesecake Breakfast

Crescent Cheesecake Breakfast

This is great to bring to a potluck breakfast. You will be a real hit with this one.
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Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: breakfast, dessert, Potluck
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Servings: 16
Calories: 165kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 containers Pillsbury Crescent Dinner Rolls
  • 16 oz Philadelphia cream cheese (2 pkgs)
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 cup sugar

Topping

  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 cup butter

Instructions

  • preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Butter 9 x 13 inch pan
  • Cover the bottom of pan with 1 package of crescent rolls Push section to make one piece.
  • Whip together cream cheese, vanilla, and 1/2 cup of sugar.
  • Place filling over crescent rolls in the pan
  • Place second package of crescent rolls over filling.
  • Melt the butter and brush the top layer of dinner rolls.

Topping

  • Mix sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over top.
  • Bake 20 – 25 minutes.
  • Let cool before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 165kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 117mg | Potassium: 39mg | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 469IU | Calcium: 29mg | Iron: 1mg

Nancy’s Parmesan Spread Toast – Your guest will love this

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Parmesan Spread Toast – These are good appetizers for parties and around the holidays. But really good any time of year.

Origin of Parmesan

Legend has it, that around 900 years ago, Benedictine monks, living in the Parma-Reggio region of Italy, created this cheese when they needed to find a way to extend the shelf-life of the large quantity of milk they were producing.

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Parmesan Spread Toast

Parmesan Spread Toast

These are good appetizers for parties and around the holidays. But really good any time of year.
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Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Keyword: appetizer
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 15
Calories: 267kcal

Ingredients

  • 16 oz parmesan cheese
  • 3 green onions sliced thin
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 loaf bread (baguette) sliced

Instructions

  • preheat oven to 350
  • Mix all ingredients except bread slices
  • Spread mixture on bread slices and place on cookie sheet
  • bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown

Nutrition

Serving: 2slices | Calories: 267kcal | Carbohydrates: 31.8g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 12.7g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 682mg

Nancy’s Snickerdoodles – Who doesn’t love these

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Snickerdoodles – These cookies are “comfort” cookies and while baking them the house smells wonderful.

Origin

“A New England favorite, these large, crinkly-topped sugar cookies are probably German in origin. Their name may be a corruption of the German word ‘Schneckennudeln,’ which translates roughly as ‘crinkly noodles. ‘”

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Snickerdoodles

Snickerdoodles

These cookies are "comfort" cookies. Nancy has been baking these for as long as I can remember. They are easy and while baking them the house smells wonderful.
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cookies
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Total Time: 38 minutes
Servings: 48
Calories: 92kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 cup shortening
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 2 tsp cream of tartar
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Coating

  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp cinnamon

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees
  • Mix together shortening, sugar, eggs
  • Add flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt
  • Mix together and roll into balls the size of a smal walnut.
  • Roll each ball in the coating mixture (sugar and cinnamon)
  • Bake for 8 to 10 minutes

Nutrition

Calories: 92kcal | Carbohydrates: 12.4g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4.3g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 55mg

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