Pumpkin and Sausage Stuffed Shells

1 jar Aldis Pumpkin Chipolte Pasta Sauce**

abt 15  lg pasta shells

mozzarella cheese

1lb  package ground sausage (could use hot or sage sausage)

Boil shells until al dente. Drain

Fry up sausage with bell pepper and mushrooms or any other veggie you would like - onions or zucchini might be good - would be great place to use leftover vegggies

Pour a small amt of sauce on the bottom of the baking dish. Place drained empty shells on top of the sauce and spoon fill w the sausage mixture. Pour the remaining sauce on top of the shells and sprinkle w cheese Bake at 350 until hot and bubbly

** I did find a recipe for a pumpkin chipolte sauce here  if you don't have an Aldis - I have not tried it

Grilled Sausage, Peppers, Onions and Tomatoes

1 pkg John Morell sausage cut in chunks

2 bell pepper (we used red)

grape tomatoes

3 small red onions sliced 

peppers and onion marinated for 45 min- 1 hr in

olive oil, Worcestershire sauce, Italian seasoning and garlic powder

added tomatoes to onion and pepper 

and cook on the grill on a low heat 

salt pepper and chipolte powder to taste

cook until pepper 

and and onions are soft 

add chucks of sausage 

and cover with them pepper/onion mix

cook until sausage is done 

sprinkle and toss Romano

 cheese and serve

Turtle Somethin'

This cake is far tooo easy
My hsb usually has Black Forest Cake
for his birthday
But recently the cover
of Midwest Life
had a cake similar to this one

                                                         Make a chocolate cake 
                                                          according to the pkg

I did add pecans to the batter

Drizzle heated chocolate frosting

Drizzle Caramel Ice Cream Sauce

Viola.....

Sprinkle pecans

The cover:



my version:

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potato salad

As many of you know

or don't know

As I make some of the family 

favorites

I have been posting them so that

my kids and family members

 will have them

I figured it would

 be nice not to have to

ask for them, that 

no matter where

 they are they can 

get online and find them

most being tutorials

So here is 

my potato salad recipe

I really don't measure anything

Chop:

pickles

celery

black olives

green onions

and add mustard to mix

cube potatoes

and boil

with eggs

boil potatoes until fork tender

run cooked potatoes

under water to stop cooking process

allow eggs to cool 

 peel and chop

while some of the potatoes

are cooling I smash 

them on the side of the bowl

this makes it a little creamier

I add the potatoes 

and eggs to the pickle combo

and refrigerate

until chilled

Add just enough Hellman's

or Best Foods Mayo

to moisten

Allow flavors to meld together and cool

Viola!

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In a Snap

This is a no brainer recipe

4lbs green beans

snapped and put in 

a crockpot

1 C water

1 pkg turkey bacon crumbles

cook until done!

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Whoopie Pies

A tried to make these a while back

without a pan and it was a disaster

Sooo when I saw this

 in the store I knew it was for me

I used a reg cake mix

made according 

to pkg direction

the 1st batch was 2/3 full 

like they said

and they came out thick

you are suppose 

to put 2 of them together

so the second batch 

came out smaller

but we preferred

 the bigger ones 

and I cut them in half

after they cooled

 Made the frosting:

 1 1/2 C powder sugar

2 C marshmallow cream

1 C butter flavored crisco

(you could use butter)

 once cut dollop the frosting

 and put the top on

the one on the right is cut

the one on the left is 2

 They definitely were a hit!

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