Non peanut butter no-bake cookies

From dianaskitchen.com we found this non peanut butter No-Bake Cookies recipe.

No-Bake Cookies

These favorite no-bake cookies are made with cocoa, coconut, and oats

* 1/2 cup butter

* 1/2 cup milk

* 2 cups sugar

* 3 cups quick-cooking oats

* 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa

* 1/2 cup coconut

In a large saucepan, combine butter, milk and sugar; bring to a rolling boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Continue boiling for 1 minute. Remove from heat; stir in oats, cocoa, and coconut. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper.

Makes about 36 yummy no-bake cookies.

OR

with peanut butter and no coconut try

No Bake Cookies

2 c sugar

1/2 c milk

1 cube butter

1/4 c cocoa

1/2 c peanut butter

3 c. oatmeal

1 tsp. vanilla

Mix sugar, 1/4 c. of the milk, butter and cocoa and bring to boil. Boil for 1.5 minutes. While hot add peanut butter, oatmeal and vanilla. Add up to the rest of the milk as needed. Drop on waxed paper or lightly buttered an until cool.

Sarah's Impossible-to-Mess-Up-Lasagna

Most of our children really like lasagna and request it much more often than I make it.  Then I remembered that Sarah had shared her easy version of lasagna in our recipe exchange.  We like it and it IS so easy! Our sons are just returning from the Father Son's Camp Out and are hungry, so I'm glad it's ready to come out of the oven!   I hope you enjoy it sometime soon too.  

Sarah's Impossible-to-Mess-Up-Lasagna

Cook one package of lasagna noodles according to package directions (adding a small amount of olive oil to your boiling water will make the pasta easier to work with later).  

Drain hot water and allow noodles to cool. (I usually run pour cold water over them and then leave a little water over them so they don't stick together)

In a large skillet, cook 1 lb of hamburger or turkey burger and drain it.

Add 1 jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce,

Add 3-4 oz. of sour cream,

Add 3-4 oz. of cottage cheese,

Add 8 ounces shredded cheese of your choice,

Spread a small amount of sauce across the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Alternately layer noodles and 1/3 of sauce in three layers and top with more cheese.

Cook for 40 minutes at 350 degrees. You can put the oven on broil for the last 3-4 minutes, to bubble and brown the cheese.

If you're doubling or tripling the recipe, you can easily make THREE 9x13 pans with 2 packages of 16 ounce lasagna noodles.

You can also stretch the sauce by just adding another jar of spaghetti sauce, but not adding more meat.

Blender Whole Wheat Pancakes

My cousin Janis put this recipe in our family cookbook years ago and I just tried them for the first time this morning.  Even though they are thinner than usual, we really liked the taste!  I also like that I can make whole wheat pancakes so easily and quickly with little mess and no stirring.  A bonus is that since you make them in the blender, or in our case the Vitamix, you just pour the batter onto the hot griddle.  

It took my Mother awhile to get used to sweet (maple syrup) on bread (pancakes) when she moved to the U.S.  Now she eats them with an egg on top with maple syrup on it as does most of the rest of our family. It's taken my husband some time to yet used to this taste!  

Try it, you may like it too.

Blender Whole Wheat Pancakes

1 c. whole wheat (the kernels) 

1 c. water or milk

Add and blend 4 minutes more (less for vitamix):

1/2 c. oil

1/2 c. milk

2 eggs

1/2 tsp. salt

4 tsp. baking powder

Fire Bread

Each year the Mountain Man Rendezvous we attend, we hope they will serve "Fire Bread", then name youngest dubbed it when he saw it being made over the campfire there. They ran out of it this year before we tasted it, so we had to make some at home. We ate Hawthorne berry and Elderberry jam on them made my the Mountain Man Leprechaun.

I searched the internet for an authentic recipe and chose this one to try.

NATIVE AMERICAN FRY BREAD RECIPES

4 cups flour

2 tbsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1/2 cup shortening (I used oil)

1 cup warm water

Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add in the shortening and water. Add only enough water to make dough stick together. Knead dough until smooth, make into fist-sized balls. Cover them with a towel for 10 minutes then pat them out into circles about the size of a pancake. Fry in hot cooking oil in cast iron skillet until brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels, serve with jam.