Warm and creamy bacon dip

Warm and Creamy Bacon Dip

• 8 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
• 2 c. sour cream
• 3 oz. cooked bacon, crumbled (or bacon bits.)
• 2 c. Cheddar cheese, shredded
• 1 c. green onion, chopped

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. In a bowl, combine all the ingredients. Place in a 1-quart baking dish. Cover and heat in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until hot. Serve with sliced French bread, crackers, and/or chips.

Lemon bars

• 3 cups all purpose flour 
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of butter (3 sticks) melted completley




• 6 whole eggs
• 3 cups white sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/3 cup FRESH lemon juice. 
• the outer yellow zest from 2 or 3 lemons.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Mix flour and powdered sugar together, then pour the butter over the dry ingredients. Mix together gently, until just crumbly. Lightly spray a 9 x 13″ pan with cooking spray, and press the crumbs firmly into the pan in an even layer. Bake for 15 minutes at 350.
3. In bowl whip the six eggs with a whisk until they are uniform and light. Add the sugar, baking powder and flour, and stir to combine well. With a microplane or small grater, zest only the outer yellow skin from two of your lemons, about 2 tablespoons. Add to the egg/sugar mixture. Squeeze the lemons, straining out the seeds and pulp, and add 1/3 cup of juice.
4. After 15 minutes, pull the crust from the oven, and immediately pour the curd mixture over the hot crust, scraping the bowl to get it all. Return to oven it for 45 minutes, or until set.
5. Let cool COMPLETELY before slicing into neat squares. Dust with powdered sugar. 

7 up biscuits

INGREDIENTS:
4 cups Bisquick
1 cup sour cream
1 cup 7-up
1/2 cup melted butter

DIRECTIONS:
Mix Bisquick, sour cream and 7 up. Dough will be very soft - don't worry. Knead and fold dough until coated with your baking mix. Pat dough out and cut biscuits using a round biscuit / cookie cutter. Melt butter in bottom of cookie sheet pan or 9x13 casserole dish. Place biscuits on top of melted butter and bake @ 425 degrees for 12-15 minutes or until brown.

Southern Fried Cornbread

2/3 cup cornmeal
1/3 cup self rising flour
1/3 cup low fat buttermilk
1 large egg
oil for frying (I used about 3 tbsps coconut oil, but you can use whatever you like)

Combine first 4 ingredients together in a bowl, mixing well. Mixture should be very moist but not soupy. Heat oil in skillet and drop by spoonfuls into oil. Cook til brown on one side and flip (it cooks kind of like a pancake) to brown on the other side. Place on plate with paper towels and blot any excess oil.

Doritos Chicken Casserole

Comments suggested adding diced green chilies, black beans, frozen corn. Can also sub ground beef for the chicken and use cream of mushroom instead. 

Chicken Casserole

• 4-5 chicken breasts or tenderloins 
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 tube crushed Ritz crackers
• 1 stick melted butter
• 1 T poppy seeds (optional)

Cook chicken in oil on the stove, seasoned with garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper)

cut up cooked chicken into bite-sized pieces, and put in a 9 x 13 casserole dish

Mix cream of chicken soup and sour cream and spread over chicken. Put the tube of crackers in a ziploc bag and crush with a rolling pin, spread crushed crackers over soup and sour cream mixture. Melt butter and drizzle over the top. Sprinkle poppy seeds on top (I usually omit these.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 1/2 hour until golden brown and bubbly.

Sausage Balls

One lb. spicy breakfast sausage
Two cups grated cheddar
Three cups bisquick

Mix all ingredients together and make bite sized balls, put on baking sheet (ungreased) and bake 350 degrees about twenty or 25 minutes or till done and nicely browned.