Cinnamon Rolls

2 Pkg yeast 14 cups flour

2 cups water 3/4 cup melted butter

2 Tbs sugar 1 cup sugar

1 cup evaporated milk 6 eggs

1 cup boiling water 1 tsp salt

• Put 2 cups water and 2 Tbs sugar in bowl.
• Combine boiling water and evaporated milk and add to mixture.
• Add 3 cups flour with yeast sprinkled on top. Beat well.
• Melt butter and add 1 cup sugar. Add this to mixture.
• Add eggs, salt and remaining flour. Mix 10 minutes.
• If you do not have bread mixer add last flour and mix with hands. (will be soft dough).
• Let rise 2 hours or until double.

• Roll to about 1/8 inch thick.
• Spread with butter, sugar (I like to use brown sugar) and cinnamon.
• Can add pecans, walnuts, or raisins.
• Roll up like jelly roll and cut in 3/4 to 1 inch pieces.
• Place on greased cookie sheet.
• Let rise 1 hour
• Bake 10 - 15 minutes or until brown at 350° F.

Frost with glaze. I like to use a thin frosting made with cream cheese and powder sugar butter and canned milk.

Mom was always a high achiever - waking at 6 am to stuff the turkey, make cinnamon rolls and everything else from scratch! Wow... I get tired just thinking about it (but will a reminiscent smile on my face :)

Beans and Chips

I asked Micah what we call this meal, just to make sure we didn't have some fancy name for it. Nope, its just beans and chips. I suppose if you knew how to cook you would add lettuce and other fancy things and call it taco salad. But for us, beans and chips is all it is.

Cook 1 lb of hamburger with taco seasoning.

Add one can each:

Pinto Beans, drained

Kidney Beans, drained

Tomatoes, undrained

Heat it all up, serve over tortilla chips and add some cheese.

That's it folks.

Tuna Burgers

AKA Tuna Melt

This is another Stevenson Classic.

It's your basic tuna fish, with cheese - no relish - then put it on a hamburger bun, wrap in tinfoil, put in the oven at about 350 for 10 min or until warm.

Sorry the picture isn't so great - there's really no way to make it look more appealing :)

Stevenson Breakfast Cake

Stevenson Family Breakfast Cake!

Cake:

1/2 cup of butter or margarine

1 cup granulated sugar

3 eggs

2 cups regular all purpose flour

1 tsp of baking powder

1 tsp of soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup sour cream or yogurt

Topping:

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 tbs flour

1 tsp cinnamon

2 tbs butter or margarine

• In a large bowl of your electric mixer, cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs and sour cream or yogurt. Add flour with baking powder, soda, and salt.
  
• Spread mixture in a greased baking pan (13 by 9 by 2 inches).
• Sprinkle with topping made as follows;

Combine the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon; mix together; cut butter until the consistency of corn meal. Bake in moderate oven at 350 , about 30 minutes Cut in squares and serve either hot or cold. Makes 12 servings

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This is one of our favorite breakfasts! Avarie is a great help in the kitchen and Micah loves watching and cleaning

up in her own special way!

- The Hagers

Snoopy No Bake Cookies

(photo from flickr)

INGREDIENTS
2 cups white sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
3 cups quick cooking oats

DIRECTIONS
In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar, cocoa, milk and margarine. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Boil for 1 minute, then remove from heat and stir in the vanilla, salt, peanut butter and oats.
Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto waxed paper. Allow cookies to cool for at least 1 hour. Store in an airtight container.

Why did we call them Snoopy no bake cookies? I have no idea but it's better than the Spanglers name for them which was 'monkey poops'. Unfortunately I have all the ingredients to make these so they are going to temp me till I do. I'll let you know how long I hold out.

Morning Rice

For all the weird names we had for things I don't think this one ever did get a name...
This was made for breakfast
Left-over Cooked Rice (make sure that when you're dishing up dinner you don' t use the sauce spoon for the rice or it will taste funny)
Milk
Brown Sugar (we used to use enough to turn the milk brown... you might choose to use it a bit more sparingly)
Sugar
Cinnamon
Nutmeg (I like to use Pumpkin Pie Spice for a nice taste)
Butter
I think that's about it. Heat it in the microwave for a minute or so and enjoy a nice warm oatmeal alternative.

Texas Sheet Cake

Texas Sheet Cake

2 Cups Flour
2 Cups Sugar
2 Sticks Margarine
4 Tbs Cocoa
1 Cup Water
1/2 Cup Buttermilk
2 Eggs beaten
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp Cinnamon
Sift flour and sugar together into a large bowl
In a saucepan, bring to boil the margarine, cocoa and water and pour over the sugar and flour, mixing well
Add the last 4 ingredients and mix well. (Batter will be thin)
Pour into greased very heavy cookie sheet, 18x12x1
Bake 20 minutes at 400 Degrees. While cake is baking prepared frosting.

Frosting:
1 Stick margarine
2 Tbs. Cocoa
6 Tbs. Milk
1 Tsp. Vanilla
1 Cup Nuts
1 lbs. Powder Sugar (3 1/2 - 4 cups)

Bring to boil all ingredients except powdered sugar and nuts.
Sift powdered sugar into boiled ingredients, beat, add nuts, and frost cake while hot.

Spam, Spam, Spam, Potatoes & Spam

Your blog inspired me to make one of Avarie's classic Stevenson favorites for dinner. The classic Spam and Potatoes. You all know I don't cook, so any hot meal is a treat around here. This past year when I've made this classic I've actually used dehydrated hash browns. Tonight I had REAL potatoes.

1. Shred potatoes. I used 6 for a big skillet.

2. Heat some oil in the bottom of the skillet and throw the shredded potatoes in.

3. Add a can of spam, cubed.

4. Heat and stir occasionally until done.

That's about as complicated as it gets around here. Yum!