Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

This is one of my families favorites. It take minutes to make and it is absolutely delicious.
                                                          
Ingredients:
1- 10" graham cracker crust                                       1- box instant chocolate pudding            
 1- box instant vanilla pudding                                     2/3 cups non fat dry milk
2/3 cup nonfat dry milk powder                                  1 1/4 cup cold water
1 1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup chunky peanut butter                                    

                               2 cups whipped topping or fresh whipped cream

Filling layer 1: add dry milk powder to pudding mix. Add water and mix until smooth. Mix in peanut butter. Spread in bottom of pie crust. Filling layer 2: Use same bowl from layer 1 (no need to wash it). Add dry milk to pudding mix. Stir in water and mix until smooth. Pour over peanut butter layer.Let pie set in fridge. To top cover with whipped topping and chocolate curls or chips. If using fresh whipped cream DO NOT put on pie until serving and keep topping in fridge in air tight container.
*sugar free pudding works great

Hope you enjoy :)

Dry hamburgers? No more!

Tired of dry, tasteless hamburgers? Then I have a feeling you`ll like this :)           Yields: 4 patties

Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef
1 egg yolk
1/4 cup and 2 Tbs dry bread crumbs
1- 2 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
1 clove garlic minced or 2 tsp garlic powder

Mix all the ingredients together in a big bowl with your hands form into 4 patties. Oil grill grates lightly and grill patties about 5 minutes per side or until done.

Boil and Bake `em

Fries. The ultimate potato temptation. When we get them from a drive through they are frozen then deep fried and then handed to us from a window in paper bags. Yum. Oven baked fries, although they are a tiny bit different, are infinitely better for you then fast food fries so try this recipe out and hopefully you will see that a drive through grease fest is not the only way to satisfy your potato craving :)

6-8 medium sized potatoes is enough for my family of four, but you will most likely have to adjust it for your families needs.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Wash potatoes and cover with water in a large pot. Bring to a boil and leave it there for 8 minutes or until for just pierces the first inch of potato. Drain potatoes the leave in strainer and cover with towel for 5 minutes. Cut into desired sizes. Remember the smaller they are cut the crispier they will be and vice versa. The potatoes will be sticky and that is what you want, so don`t panic :). Once cut cover with olive oil and favorite seasonings, my personal favs are: garlic powder, fresh ground pepper, onion salt, and fresh ground italian seasonings. Put on cookie sheet in on layer (do not overcrowd) and cook  for 30 minutes take them out flip the over and mix them around the put on top rack for 20- 25 minutes. Enjoy :)

Notes: When boiling anything  if you place a wooden spoon over the top of the pot it won`t boil over, try it :).
When you boil potatoes always start in cold water and I mean ALWAYS. If you start them in already boiling water the outside will be mushy by the time the inside is cooked.

This is for you :)

Soooooo, my good friend Melynda decided that I needed to start a blog. She set conditions and rules by which I would run this blog such as: I have to post at least one thing a week, I have to stick with it, they need to be easy recipes etc.. I don`t know how that is gonna work out but here goes. As my page says, I am Megan and I love food. Simple as that :) And although I am doing this willingly, you have to know I feel like a moron for doing it since I am going to have all of one person reading this (if I am lucky that is) but I am doing it anyway, in the hope that Melynda can at least get a kick out of my feeble attempts. Hope you enjoy:)