Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Strawberries & Cream

Tastes just like homemade strawberry ice cream.

Ingredients:
1 bag frozen/sliced strawberries
3/4 cup fat free half & half (coffee creamer)
4 teaspoons sugar or 4 Splenda packets

Directions:
Mix the cream and sugar. Spoon the sweetened cream over the frozen berries. The cream will freeze when it hits the berries making a thin coating of ice cream-like ice on the outside. Serve immediately.

** Don't defrost the berries, serve frozen.

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Crack Pot Roast

It's so easy to make and tastes so good, I call it "crack" pot roast

Ingredients:
4-5 lb beef chuck roast
3 carrots (peeled then cut into 3 large chunks)
2 potatoes (peeled then cut in half)
1 large onion (peeled then cut into 4 large chunks)
2 zucchini (cut off ends then cut in half)
2 packages Lipton Onion Soup Mix (dry seasoning packet)
1 cup water

Directions:
Pour water and 1 onion soup packet into the crock pot. Wash the roast and then place it into the crock pot. Place all of the veggies on top of the meat and sprinkle the second packet over the top of the meat and veggies. Put the lid on and walk away for 5-6 hours. If you are home during the cooking process, then remove the veggies from the pot after 3 hours, so that they don't get too over cooked or mushy. If not then it's OK ... as Rob and Uncle John say ... "it all goes down the same".

** Food Network tip = place cold items into a cold crock pot, place warm items into a heated crock pot !! (Apparently, if you do the opposite and merge hot items and a cold pot then you are inviting salmonella into your dish.)