Donut Muffins

1 3/4 cup flour (or you could use 1/2 cup whole flour and 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour)

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp cinnamon

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

3/4 cups milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

• Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, connamon and nutmeg until combined.
• Make a well in flour mixture
• In the well add oil, egg, milk and vamilla
• Stir wet ingredients into the dry, mixing only until incorporated.
• Spoon into greased muffin tins and bake at 350 degrees for 15 - 20 min. (more like 20)
• Brush cooled muffins with melted utter and sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar or powdered sugar.
  

Fail Proof Roast and Gravy

about 2 lbs Beef or Pork Roast
1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 can Cream of Celery Soup
1 envelope Brown Gravy
water

1. Preheat oven to 350. place roast in a heave oven-safe pot with a lid. You can use any size or type of roast. The only things that changes is the cooking time.
2. After the roast is in the pot, add just a bit of water (should be come about 1/2 inch up the side of the pot. I used about 1 cup. Then, salt and pepper the roast. Go easy on the salt because the salt in the gravy mix. In a small bowl, combine the two soups and the packet of gravy mix.
3. After the soup and gravy are mixed together, pour the mixture over the top of the roast. Make sure the roast is completely cover with the mixture.
4. Cover with a lid, and place in the oven for 2 hours or more to start. The roast should be fork tender when done so if you need to cook it longer, do it. The key is that it's done when it's fork tender so keep checking it once you pass the 2 hour point. Serve.
5. You can cook it in a pot and cook on the stove, in a crock pot or a dutch oven.
   

Baked French Toast

1 loaf Crusty Sourdough Or French Bread

8 whole Eggs

2 cups Whole Milk

½ cups Whipping (heavy) Cream

¾ cups Sugar

2 Tablespoons Vanilla Extract

Topping

½ cups All-purpose Flour

½ cups Firmly Packed Brown Sugar

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

¼ teaspoons Salt

1 stick Cold Butter, Cut Into Pieces

Fresh Fruit (optional)

Preparation Instructions

Grease 9 x 13-inch baking pan with butter. Tear bread into chunks (or cut into cubes) and evenly distribute in the pan.

Mix together eggs, milk, cream, sugar, and vanilla. Pour evenly over bread. Cover tightly and store in the fridge several hours or overnight.

In a separate bowl, mix flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Add nutmeg if desired. Add butter pieces and but into the dry mixture until mixture resembles fine pebbles. Store in a Ziploc in the fridge.

When you’re ready to bake the casserole, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove casserole from oven and sprinkle crumb mixture over the top. (If you’re using fruit, sprinkle on before the crumb mixture.) Bake for 45 minutes for a softer, more bread pudding texture. Bake 1 hour or more for a firmer, less liquid texture.

Scoop out individual portions. Top with butter and drizzle with maple syrup.

Brownies for a Crowd

-8 eggs
-2 tsp salt
-2 cups of butter, melted
-1 1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa
-4 cups sugar
-3 cups flour
-2 tsp vanilla

1. Beat eggs with a mixer in a large bowl. Then add sugar, salt, vanilla and beat for 1 min.
2. Add melted butter and blend. In another bowl, mix flour and cocoa with a whisk until well blended
3. Add flour mixture to egg mixture and mix until well combined.
4. Spread onto a greased jelly roll pan (12x17) and bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 min. Cool for 15 min. and spread with frosting.

Frosting

• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cocoa
• milk

Blend powdered sugar, butter, and cocoa along with enough milk to make the frosting a spreadable consistency. Spread over the brownies after they had cooled for 15 min. Keep spreading as the frosting melts making it nice and even on the brownies. Allow brownies to continue to cool. Makes 30 good sized brownies.

Heavenly Dessert

Mix Well:

1/2 cups sugar

1 cup flour

1 stick margarine

1/2 cup chopped nuts

Press in the bottom of a 9x12" pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 min. and cool.

Mix well together:

1 cup powdered sugar

1 pkg cream cheese (8oz)

1 cup Cool Whip (buy 12 oz use 1 cup now and rest later)

Spread over crust:

Mix together:

3 cups cold milk

2 small pkg instant pudding (any flavor)

Beat well until starting to set. Pour over other ingredients and let set for 10 min. pread the rest of Cool Whip over top and sprinkle nuts on top. Keep refrigerated.

Baking Powder Biscuit Deluxe

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg, unbeaten
2/3 cup milk

Sift flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cream of tartar into bowl. Add the shortening to the flour mixture and blend together until it has a cornmeal consistency. Pour milk into flour mixture slowly. Add egg and stir to stiff dough. Knead five times. Cut with 1 1/2" cutter. Bake on cookie sheet for 10 to 15 min. at 450 degrees.

+You don't always have to cut the biscuit round if you don't have a biscuit cutter you can cut them with your pizza cutter or a knife all works.

I got this recipe from a friend Denise Holyoak. She got it out of a cattleman's wife cookbook out of Wyoming.

A Cowboy's Favorite Sandwich

2 to 3 pounds cube steak (tenderized round steak that's been extra-tenderized)
1 large onion or 2 small/medium onion
4 large biscuit, bread or French bread
Butter
Lawry's Seasoned Salt
Worcestershire Sauce
Hot Sauce

-Slice onions and cook in 1/4 stick butter until soft and light brown. Remove and set aside.
-Slice cube steak against the grain. Season with Lawry's
-Heat 2 tbs butter over high heat (in same skillet) until melted and beginning to brown.
-Add meat in single layer. Cook one side until brown, then flip and cook until brown, about a minute on both sides.
-Add Worcestershire sauce to taste, 5 to 6 shakes hot sauce, and 2 tbs butter. Add cooked onions. Stir to combine.
-Butter halved bread and brown on skillet.
-To assemble, lay bottom half of bread  on plate. Place meat mixture, followed by a spoon full of juice from the pan. Top with other half of roll, cut in half, and devour!

+A lot of time a cowboys family lives to far from the store to just zip on down and pick up a bag of French Roll. In the picture above I used a biscuit recipe, but instead of cutting round, I used my pizza cutter and cut them long so that I could then cut in half to put my meat mixture in. Or you could use your light bread recipe and forming the dough to look like French/Deli Rolls

+In this recipe I added green chili strips which I think added extra flavor. Your choice.