Category Archives: Recipes

Dirty Rice

Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef
1 cup black beans
2 1/2 cups water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil (optional)
1 package ZATARAIN’S® Dirty Rice Mix, Original

Directions:
1. Brown ground beef in large skillet on medium-high heat. Drain fat. Set aside.

2. Bring water to boil in medium saucepan. Stir in rice mix, black beans and ground beef; return to boil. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 25 minutes or until rice is tender.

3. Remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes. Fluff with fork before serving

Banana Bread

Ingredients:

  • 1 ¾ cup flour 
  • 1 ½ cup sugar
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup oil
  • ⅓ cup sourmilk (add a tsp of vinegar to regular milk and stir; let it sit for a couple of minutes)
  • 1 tsp of vanilla
  • 2 ripe bananas mushed up

Directions:
  1. Preheat the oven to 350
  2. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. 
  3. Mix in the wet ingredients.
  4. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top,
  5. Spray pan and pour in the batter.
  6. Bake for 40-45 minutes.

Optional: put walnuts in it 

Mounds

Ingredients:

  • 3 egg whites
  • 1/2 cup of sugar
  • 3 to 4 cups of coconut
  • 1 tsp of vanilla
  • 10 oz bag of Ghirardelli chocolate chips

Directions:

  1. Mix together the egg whites, sugar, coconut and vanilla
  2. Scoop them into little clumps onto a greased cookie pan
  3. Bake for 8 minutes at 400 degrees.
  4. Let them cool on the baking sheet for about 20 minutes.
  5. Microwave the chocolate chips for a minute. Stir it, and then microwave for another 30 to 45 seconds. Stir again
  6. Use a spoon to spread the chocolate on top of the coconut clumps.

Meatloaf

Ingredients:

  • 1 lb of hamburger meat
  • 1/2 sleeve of saltine crackers
  • 1 packet of Lipton Recipe Secrets Soup & Dip Mix
  • ketchup
  • 1 egg 

Directions:

  1. Heat the oven to 350.
  2. Crush the saltine crackers.
  3. Mix in the egg, packet of Lipton Recipe Secrets Soup & Dip Mix, meat, and some ketchup.
  4. Put the mixture into a pan, and put a layer of ketchup on top.
  5. Bake for 30 minutes.

 Ready to serve!