About me: I am Dominic Deery, My bday is March 17, 2007 I am 13 years old, my favorite sports are hockey, baseball, and football, but I do wrestling for fun. I have a sister, a dog my parents are hs sweethearts have been together since 1999. I lived in New York for 4 years, my favorite color is green.

Table of Contents:

Appetizer

Pages- 3,4——-Wontons

Pages- 5,6——-Cheeseball

Pages- 7,8——-French Bread Bowl

Breads 

Pages- 9,10—–Sausage stuffed loaf

Pages- 11,12—-Banana Bread

Salads

Pages- 13,14—-Mediterranean Salad

Pages- 15,16—-Taco Salad

Pages- 17,18—-Dill Pickle Salad

Breakfast 

Pages- 19,20—-Breakfast Burritos

Dinners

Pages- 21,22—-Tater tot Casserole

Pages- 23,24—-Beef Stroganoff

Pages- 25,26—-Smothered Pork Chops

Pages- 27,28—-Chicken and Rice

Pages- 29,30—-Beef Enchiladas

Dessert 

Pages- 31,32—-No Bake Cookies

My Great Aunt Karens CRAB/CREAM CHEESE WONTONS

Ingredients:

8oz cream cheese (room temp)

½ tsp sesame oil

¼ tsp soy sauce

¼ tsp pepper

1 ¼ C chives

2 cloves garlic

Crab ( I use fake)

Wontons, 1 beaten egg, oil

Preparation:

Mix all ingredients in order. Place in wonton, and fold over sides. Use beaten egg to moisten edges of side so they seal together. Fry in oil @ 350 about 1 minute. Drain on paper towel.Can make, cool, and wrap in airtight container and freeze. To re-heat, arrange frozen wontons on baking sheet. Bake in 300 oven until hot, about 15 minutes

Smoky Cheese Ball

Ingredients:

2- 8oz packages cream cheese

2 c. shredded smoky cheddar cheese (8 oz)

½ c. butter or margarine

2 tbsp milk

2 tsp. steak sauce

1 c. finely chopped nuts

Assorted crackers

Preparation:

Combine cream cheese, shredded cheese, softened butter, milk and steak sauce in a mixing bowl. Beat with mixer until fluffy. Chill slightly and shape into ball. Place nuts on wax paper and gently roll cheese ball over the nuts to coat. Serve with crackers. (Makes 1 large ball or 2 small balls.)

French Bread Dip

Ingredients:

1 pt. IMO

1c mayonnaise

1 bunch green onions

1 can water chestnuts

½ pkg. spinach-chopped

1 pkg. Knorrs dry vegetable soup mix

Preparation:

Mix all ingredients together- French Bread-cut off top and scoop out-leaving shell and use pieces to dip in the mix. 

Fill scooped out bread shell with mix

Sausage-Stuffed Loaf

Ingredients:

2 Italian sausages

½ lb. ground beef

½ c. chopped onion

¼ c. chopped green pepper

1 medium tomato-chopped

1 can (15 oz.) chunky Italian-style tomato sauce

½ tsp. dried basil

½ tsp. dried oregano

½ tsp. sugar

¼ tsp. aniseed

¼ tsp. salt

⅛ tsp. garlic powder

1 loaf (1 lb) French bread

¼ – ½ c. shredded Parmesan cheese

Coarsely ground pepper

Preparation:

In a skillet, cook sausages until no longer pink. Remove and set aside. In the same skillet, cook beef, onion and green pepper until beef is no longer pink; drain.  Stir in tomato, tomato sauce and seasonings.  Cut sausages in half lengthwise and slice; add to meat sauce.  Cut a wedge out of top of the bread, about 2 in. wide and three-fourths of the way through the loaf.  Fill loaf with meat sauce. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and pepper.  Wrap in heavy-duty foil and bake at 400 ° for 15-20 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 6 servings.

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

½ c. shortening

1 c. sugar

2 eggs

¾ c. mashed ripe banana

1¼ c. sifted all-purpose flour

¾ tsp. salt

½ tsp. baking soda

Preparation:

Cream shortening and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Stir in mashed (well) bananas. Sift together dry ingredients and add them to the banana mixture. Pour into greased 9x9x2-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350º for 30-35 minutes

Mediterranean Salad

Ingredients:

1 Cucumber (chopped)

1 Tomato ( chopped)

1/2 Red onion (chopped)

1/2 cup of Black olives (cut up)

1/2 Sweet pepper (red, orange or yellow /chopped)

Feta cheese

1/2 cup Lite zesty Italian dressing

Mix all ingredients add Italian dressing and top with Feta Cheese—-Double for a bigger salad!

Taco salad

Ingredients:

1 lb. ground beef

1 can kidney beans – drained

1 head lettuce

4 tomatoes, 1 large onion chopped, 

1 bottle French dressing 

Hot sauce

1 avocado

1 can olives

Salt and pepper

Sour cream

Sharp cheddar cheese grated – 1 loaf

Tortilla chips (crushed)

Preparation:

Cook ground beef until red is gone. Add beans partially drained and let simmer awhile. 

In a large bowl tear lettuce, add tomatoes, onion, avocado, olives, cheese.  Mix with dressing.  Add a few drops of hot sauce and mix again.  Add hamburger & beans, salt & pepper & crushed chips.  Top each serving with a spoonful of sour cream and hot sauce (optional).

Preparation:

1. Place cooked pasta in a large mixing bowl.2. Add in cheese, pickles, pickle juice, dill, mayo, sour cream, pepper and garlic salt, stir to combine.3. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours

Breakfast Burrito

Ingredients:

1 roll Sausage (ground and cooked)

1 package of Bacon (cut up and cooked)

1 cup Ham cut-up (cooked)

1/2 cup of green or red pepper

1/2 cup of onion

1/2 cup of cooked hashbrowns or rice (your choice)

1/2 cup of salsa

Tortilla shells (I like to use the large flour ones)

1 cup of shredded cheese

Cook and mix all of the above ingredients (except tortilla shells and cheese)

Warm tortillas, then put ingredients into the tortillas and top with cheese

Roll tortillas into burritos shapes

Then I press and cook them on the frying pan on both sides.

Tater Tot Casserole

Ingredients:

Frozen bag of tater tots

1 lb of hamburger

1 can of cream of celery soup

1 cup of shredded cheese

Salt, pepper, Johhnys seasoning

Brown hamburger and drain fat.

Mix in can of celery soup

Season to taste with above seasonings

Mix in tater tots

Pour into casserole dish and top with shredded cheese

Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 min

Beef Stroganoff

4 lbs lean round steak

3 big brown onions

2 med-size cans mushrooms (stems & pieces) 

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1 qt. sour cream 

1 bay leaf, glove garlic, paprika 

Preparation:

Shred meat into ⅛ inch slices and cut into ¼ inch strips.  Pour juice off mushrooms into bowl with 3 tbsp. Flour and stir to a smooth paste.  Complete the sauce by stirring in 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce and sour cream. Peel, quarter and slice onions.  

Heat 2 large skillets.  Put ¼ lb. Butter in one and fry onions. When golden and translucent, stir in the mushrooms and sour cream sauce and allow mixture to cook for a few more minutes.  

Put a split clove of garlic and a bay leaf in the other pan with 1 tbsp shortening.  When pan is very hot, put in meet and stir so that all pieces sear quickly on all sides.  When brown, sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika.  Use a heavy hand in this for seasoning must be strong enough for all the other ingredients. 

Add mushroom, onions and sauce to the meat and simmer all for 1/2 hour.  It will need almost constant stirring.  Serve now, or if time, set aside for 24 hours to allow some further blending.  Reheat in moderate oven (350º) for 30 minutes.

Smothered Pork Chops

Ingredients:

6 pork chops, center cut

Salt and pepper to taste

1 can mushroom soup 

½ tsp thyme

1 tsp parsley flakes

½ c. sour cream

1 3½ oz. can French-fried onions

Preparation:

Brown chops; arrange in baking pan and season with salt and pepper. Combine soup, ½ can water, and thyme. Heat. Add parsley, sour cream and half the onions. Pour over chops; cover. Bake at 350 ° for about 1 hour. Remove cover. Add remaining onions. Bake 5 minutes longer. Makes 6 servings

My Grandpa Paynes Chicken & rice

1 whole chicken

3 cans cream of mushroom soup

2 boxes of rice a roni

Cut the chicken into pieces and remove the skin

Cook the chicken and cream of mushroom soup in a crock pot all day.

Strain the chicken and keep the juice from the crockpot.

The chicken meat will fall apart remove the bones from the mix

Cook the rice a roni as instructed on the box, however instead of using water, use the juice from the crockpot.

Add the chicken meat to the rice simmer a few minutes longer and serve up

No Bake Cookies

Ingredients:

½ c. butter

2 c. sugar

½ c. milk

3 tbsp. cocoa

½ c. creamy peanut butter

4 c. rice krispies

1 tbsp. vanilla

Preparation: