Why is it that the sound of the gentle rain hitting the window pane and the feel of a warm old sweater wrapped around me makes me want to make banana bread or zucchini bread? It always seems to bring sweet little smiles on young and old faces that come into the kitchen to see,"what smells so good?"Or how about chicken pot pie to take the chill off? Here are a few recipes that I found very easy and so good.
Banana Nut Bread
1 1/2 cups sugar and 3 tablespoons
3/4 cups butter
4 eggs
3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. soda
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. salt
4-5 bananas
1 1/2 cups nuts
cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time,sift flour, mash bananas,add soda and salt to bananas
add bananas to butter and beat. Add flour and bake for about 1 hour at 350 degrees. Makes 2 big or 3
small loaves.( Be sure dough is quite stiff if not add a little more flour.
Zucchini Nut Bread
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups grated zucchini unpeeled
1/2 cups nuts- 1 cups raisins (opt)
3 cups flour -1 tsp. soda-1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder-3 tsp. cinnamon
Sift dry ingredients, add to rest of mixture grease small loaf pans.let stand
15 min. Bake 1 hr.at 325 degrees approx.
Chicken Pot Pie
5 boneless skinless chick. breast
boil and cubed
1/2 onion-chopped
1 can crm. chicken soup
2 cups chick. broth
1 can of crm. of celery soup
15 oz. can mixed veggies
place chicken in a 13x9 dish set
aside -combine the above and pour over chicken top with crust batter and
bake 400 degrees for 45- min. until golden brown
Crust
1 cup flour
1/2 cup of butter melted
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup milk
Mix well and spread over chicken.
Now when is dinner ready?
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