Chili weekend

No that isn't a misspelling in the title.  I thought I would post my chili recipe in this post as the weather has turned and I turn to this recipe often.  My family loves this chili and it even has a place in our Christmas celebration as it is what we eat whieldecorating the Christmas tree.  I guess it is considered Cincinnati chili as it is little different than what most people think of when they think of chili.

Mindy's chili
I am just guessing at the amounts as I just kinda eye everything

Elbow macaroni  depending on how soupy you like you chili 1 cup to 2cups
1 can of chili beans
1 envelope of onion soup mix
hamburger  again depend on how much you like 1pound  (I usually use about 1 1/2 pounds as we like our chili meaty)
one can of tomato juice (the large cans found in the juice aisle)

put macaroni on to cook (cook till tender).  meanwhile brown hamburger.  I open both cans and add a bit of chili powder and the onion soup mix to the tomato juice.  drain macaroni and mix all ingredients together.  Add chili powder to taste.  Simmer until heated through.  serve with crackers.  Is even better the next day.





    

French Bread Pizza

I guess this is the day for me to post some family favorites.

french bread pizza  You will need french bread one loaf makes about 6 pizzas so figure according to how many pizzas you want.  About 1/2 jar of spaghetti sauce, 1 1/2 lb hamburger, i jar cheese spread and what ever toppings you want.  This is enough for about 12 pizzas.
Brown the hamburger,  while you are browning the hamburger

cut the french bread in half then each of those halves into three pieces

spread each piece with cheese spread  this adds a little zing to the pizzas

 

next after your hamburger is brown drain well and add your spaghetti sauce.  You don't want this mixture to be to runny.

spread the meat mixture on the pizzas.

add whatever toppings you want, I like mushrooms but the rest of the family doesn't although this is the perfect pizza for individual likes, here I just added pepperoni 

top with your favorite cheese and put in the oven at about 350 for 15 minutes

enjoy

 

Chocolate chip cherry muffins

These are some of our families favorite muffins.  They can be used as a snack, dessert, or breakfast.  If you like chocolate covered cherries you will love this recipe.  I got it off of the Taste of Home website here.

Here are the cherries before I cut them in half.  I get a total of 18 muffins, Hannah usually gets 12 when she makes them as she doesn't cut the cherries.

All the ingredients before I mix them.

A bit blurry but ready to put in the oven.

I always double the recipe.  We also don't use the pecans, confectioner's sugar or cream cheese.  We don't put the glaze on but just leave them plain.  I also have found that I need to cook them a bit longer than the recipe says.

 Fresh out of the oven.

yumm

Dave will be taking some of these with him when he leaves for Texas.