Lana's Crab Rangoon

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Today I am sharing one of my favorite items to get in an Asian restaurant, Crab Rangoon. I think they are a purely American addition to the Asian restaurant scene. According to wikipedia they were introduced at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904. Now, didn't you want to know that?
Me too!

So please enjoy this. I have to say, they were fantastic. We will be having these again, I am sure of it!

Lana's Crab Rangoon

Ingredients: (By the way... this is SO cheap)

Wanton wrappers (in the produce section of your grocery store)
Cream cheese
Imitation crab- one "leg" chopped
the green stem of 1 green onion - very thin slices

Heat oil to deep fry... whatever method you usually use to deep fry

Prepare the wanton
Put one small ball of cream cheese on wanton then a few pieces of crab and a few pieces of green onion.

Fold into a triangle

Then fold the ends together.

Now, is your oil all hot and ready to go?
Good!
Here we go!
It will only take a few minutes. DO NOT leave them. You will want to flip them after about a minute to get both sides golden brown.

Remove from oil and place on paper towel.
Then EAT!
A little duck sauce is great for dipping!

This is SO easy, really! My friend Stacey inspired me and now, all I can do is think of all the wonderful things I can put in these Wanton wrappers!

A little secret... they work GREAT for ravioli too!

Chicken-N-Rice Throw Down!

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Ok, so it is not so much a Throw-down as a Throw-together! I was trying to figure out what to make the other day and came up with a mighty nice chicken and rice meal. The day before I had made Sticky Chicken. It totally ROCKED! If you have spent much time around Temp My Tummy posts you will surely have seen the Sticky Chicken recipe posted by The Newlyweds. She is one smart cookie. This chicken is good for SO much. On this day I chose to use it for my Throw-together.

So here it is, Lana's Throw-together Chicken -N-Rice
... your gonna love it!

Ingredients
Sticky Chicken - taken off the bone and shredded
or 3 boneless chicken breast cooked and cut in pieces

1 cup rice prepared as package directs

1 can Cream of Chicken Soup

1 1/2 cup Sour Cream

1-2 cups shredded Colby cheddar cheese (use whatever cheddar you have)

1 sleeve of Ritz crackers -crushed

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare your rice as directed on package. Mix shredded chicken, soup, sour cream, cheese and rice in a 13x9 greased baking dish. Cover with the crushed crackers.

Now, how hard is that? I KNOW! It was so good. So please, feel free to make your own variation according to what is in your pantry.

Be sure to check out all the great foodie treats at Lisa's blog!

Tempt My Tummy Tuesday- Nutter Butter Pie

(this was originally posted by me in Aug. 2008)

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Today, we have Pie, Pie, Me- O-My! It is one of my all time favorites, Nutter Butter Frozen Peanut Butter Pie. Now... That is a NAME! It leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination, but let me tell you it is utter heaven. I know you will love this.

Here is the recipe:

24 Nutter Butter cookies (try with all you might not to eat them... seriously)
1 Pkg. cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 tub of Cool Whip
5 Tbsp butter, melted
1 cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Tbsp vanilla

CRUSH cookies and mix with butter. Then press in to the bottom of a pie plate

MIX the cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium speed. Gently stir in 1 1/2 cups of Cool Whip.

FREEZE 4 hours or overnight. Garnish with remaining Cool Whip and cookies.

How EASY is that? I KNOW! Get with it ladies, anyone can do this.

Now, when you make this try to save a little for someone else will ya?

Now... quick... Go see Lisa at Blessed With Grace for Mr. Linky and all the other TMTT fun!

Sleezy Chicken

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From my favorite cookbook is a recipe that I have been making for a long time. I was recently asked by two people from my past to give them this recipe. It was at that point I realized, I have been making this recipe for a LONG time!

It actually has no name. It is part of a recipe called "Versatile Baked Chicken" There are 3 Variations and I choose the second. It is my most favorite, full of cheesy goodness. Since it has such a sad name "Variation 2" we began calling it "Cheesy Chicken" just so it didn't sound so sad. But in college... that "Cheesy Chicken" became "Sleezy Chicken" and thus it remains... my favorite chicken of all time...

Versatile Baked Chicken
Variation 2
"Sleezy Chicken"

8 boneless chicken breasts

Butter Mixture
1/2 cup butter
2 cloves garlic minced

Crumb Mixture
1/2 Italian bread crumbs
1 1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Melt butter and add garlic in a bowl
• Combine all crumb mixture ingredients in another dish
• Dip chicken into butter and then roll and thoroughly coat in crumb mixture
• (At this point the chicken may be frozen for later baking)
• Place chicken pieces in a large baking dish. Drizzle any remaining butter on top and sprinkle with any remaining crumbs.
• Bake 45-60 minutes.

Yep, your gonna love this.

Pancake Night!

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First of all, I KNOW I have been a delinquent blogger. I KNOW!!! There has been so much going on, I just had to take a break, yes, I should have told you first, but I was not able to just sit and find the words. I has been crazy to say the least. I do plan on posting all about it but for now I will just say, my life should be slowing down a bit. This is a promise I have given my husband, my sweet, husband, who has let me spend many hours in rehearsals for months preparing. My Husband who knows that my true love after God, him and my daughter is singing praises to my God.
I had the privilege to lead in Worship this past weekend for our annual Ladies' Retreat. It blessed my socks off! I will tell you more, but just know, my plan is to get back into my Blogger groove soon!

Now, on the the FOOD!

Pancake Night!

Because last night was the end of the CRAZY around here, we opted for a nice easy dinner of pancakes. Boy, I forgot how good it is to have Breakfast for Dinner! Can I hear an amen out there? Growing up, we did this a lot. My Dad's favorite meal was breakfast, but he wanted it for dinner because he was too busy to have it in the morning.

My daughter LOVES pancakes and asks for them all the time. I like to make them a special treat, which means in Mommy talk, " I'm too busy to make them very often." When I do make them, we go all out! Now, I DO NOT make mine from scratch, that is just silly! I usually have our grocery store brand "bisquick" and I go from there.

I use the recipe on the box which calls for:
mix, milk, eggs and a little bit of sugar.
I add:
vanilla
cinnamon
and this is the MUST have ingredient at our house....
red food coloring to make PINK pancakes.

I do not measure my "extras" it is by taste preference. BUT the vanilla adds a nice homey taste and flavor that I really recommend. We also add mashed up bananas from time to time.

SO... what about you? Do you add anything fun to your pancakes?

Do tell!

What works for you? This really works for ME.