My all time favorite Christmas cookie!!

Peanut Butter Blossoms

(or better known as hershey kiss cookies)

• 1/2 cup Butter Shortening
• 1/2 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Sugar
• 48 foil-wrapped milk chocolate pieces, unwrapped
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• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Cream together shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar and 1/2 cup sugar. Add egg, milk and vanilla. Beat well.
• Sire together flour, baking soda and salt. Add to creamed mixture. Beat on low speed until stiff dough forms
• Shape into 1-inch balls. Roll in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown
• Top each cookie immediately with an unwrapped chocolate piece, pressing down firmly so that cookie cracks around edge. Remove from cookie sheets to cool.

Steak Stew

3-4 cans of whole potatoes

2 cans of vegetable beef soup

1 cheap cut of steak

Combine all ingredients with 1 can of water in crock-pot and cook 6-8 hours on high (mine usually cooks 8 only because I get it the crock-pot early so I don't have to worry about it later) or until steak is done.

Crock-Pot Pulled Pork

2lbs Pork Loin
1 1/2 cup Onions
1 cup BBQ sauce
1 cup diet soda


Place pork loin in crock-pot. Mix the onions, diet soda and bbq sauce in a separate bowl. Then pour over loin. Cook on high for at least 4-6 hours or until loin in done and then I shred the loin and keep it cooking in the crock pot for at least an hour (you don't have to do this step, I do this do it can absorb the bbq mixutre). Then remove from pot and I add more bbq sauce before I serve it.


Hope you enjoy!

The best chocolate chip cookies ever!!

I have been using this recipe for years to make the best chocolate chip cookies!!

4 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups butter (softened)
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
2 of the small packages of vanilla instant pudding
4 eggs
2 teaspoons of vanilla
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups chocolate chunks


Preheat oven to 350
Mix baking soda and flour in a separate bowl.
In another bowl mix together the butter, sugar and brown sugar. Stir in the vanilla pudding. Then add in the vanilla and eggs.
Blend in the flour mixutre into the bowl with the butter, sugar, etc.
Then stir in the chocolate chips and chunks.
Bake 10-12 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.

Scalloped Potatoes and Ham

Here is the recipe that I use:

5lbs of potatoes
1-2.5lb ham precooked (or sometimes if we have ham I will use the leftovers to make this)
2-cans of cream of chicken
1-8oz package of cheese (I use mild cheddar)
Milk

Slice potatoes and layer the bottom of the crock-pot.
Then slice the ham into cubes and layer that on top of potatoes.
Then sprinkle cheese on top of ham.
Continue layering until you fill crock-pot ending with cheese.
Spread the 2 cans of cream of chicken over the top.
I fill one of the cans of cream of chicken almost full and pour it on top.

Cook on high for at least 6 hours or until potatoes are soft.


(This is also good the next day!!)