Banana Bread

 

You Will Need:

• 1 stick butter (softened)
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs beaten
• 1 cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts)
• 2-3 ripe bananas (mashed)
• 2 cups  all purpose flour (sift after measuring)
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease loaf pan. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add beaten eggs. Add mashed bananas to the sugar mixture, alternately with dry ingredients. Add nuts and vanilla extract. Pour mixture into a greased loaf pan bake 1 hour or until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the middle of loaf. 

Enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Cookies With Coconut

 

You Will Need: 

• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 stick butter (softened)
• 1 stick margarine (softened)
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips semi-sweet
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut

Preheat oven to 375 degrees,  line cookie sheet with parchment paper,  combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl, set aside, in a large bowl combine butter, margarine, sugars, until smooth, add vanilla extract, and eggs, stir well until blended, add flour mixture, when blended well add mini chocolate chips and coconut. Drop by Tablespoons onto lined cookie sheets, cook 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on cookie racks. 

Makes about 36 cookies

Enjoy!

Italian Chicken and Bean Soup Slow Cooker

 

You Will Need:

• 1/2 stick of butter
• medium yellow onion
• 3 tsp. minced garlic (or 3 garlic cloves chopped)
• 3 cups chicken broth
• 1 15 oz. can petite diced tomatoes (undrained)
• 1/2 tsp. sugar
• 1 tsp. dried basil
• 1/2 tsp. dried parsley
• 1/2 tsp. dried oregano
• salt and pepper to taste
• 4 (15 oz) cans white kidney beans (cannellini beans) drained and rinsed
• 1 1/2 lbs. chicken breast tenderloin strips
• 3 cups fresh spinach
• grated parmesan cheese to garnish

In a skillet saute the onion and garlic in butter, place chicken in slow cooker add onion and garlic and other ingredients, (besides the spinach and parmesan cheese). Cover, cook on high 15 minutes then reduce heat to low and cook 5 hours, take out chicken strips and shred with two forks, add it back to slow cooker, then add the spinach, cook another hour or so, until the spinach is cooked and tender. Salt and pepper to taste, place in bowls and top with grated parmesan cheese. 

Serve with buttered Italian or French bread or toasted garlic bread

Enjoy!

Sweet Hawaiian Chicken With Coconut Rice

The chicken in this recipe is cooked in the slow cooker, the coconut rice is made on the stove top

You Will Need: 

• 2 lbs. chicken chicken tenderloin strips
• 1 cup pineapple juice
• 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
• 1/3 cup soy sauce
• 3 to 4 green onion (chop and separate white bottom from the green tops)

 Add chicken to slow cooker, stir together pineapple juice, brown sugar, and soy sauce, and whites of the onion in a small bowl, pour over chicken and stir. Turn slow cooker on high for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to low, cook for 5-6 hours. Shred chicken with two forks at the end of cooking. Before serving, add in the green tops of the onion. Serve with Coconut Rice (Recipe Is Below)

For Coconut Rice You Will Need:

• 1 cup jasmine rice (or other white rice) 
• 1 (15 oz.) can of coconut milk (unsweetened) 
• water (as needed) 

Combine can of coconut milk with rice in a medium pot, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 15 minutes, stir; if rice is not tender, add a little more water and continue cooking until rice is tender and water is absorbed, continue stirring frequently until rice is done).

 

Serve with savory bacon green beans and crescent roll.

Enjoy!