Joyful Living

Baked Acorn Squash with Apple Stuffing (diabetic recipe)

Busy Day Soup

• 1 lb hamburger
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 can bean with bacon soup
• 1 can vegetable soup
• 2 cans water (use soup cans)
• 1 can tomato soup
• 1/2 tsp chili powder

Orange Rolls

Noodles with Cabbage

Savory Sausage Casserole

Sugar Cookies

These cookies are sooooo soft!

Sugar Cookies
1 Cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
4 cups flour

Cream together shortening, sugar; add eggs and vanilla.

Sift together flour, salt, soda; add to creamed mixture.

Heat oven to 375*F

Form dough into 2" balls and place 2" apart on cookie sheet. 

Bake 8-10 minutes or until edges start to turn golden.

You can roll dough balls in sugar, sprinkles, or coconut before baking.  They also taste great with a hershey kiss pressed into dough ball before baked.  You can also frost these.

Coffee Cake Muffins

Coffee Cake Muffins

Mix the following in a small bowl and set aside:
(topping)
3 Tbl all purpose flour
3 Tbl brown sugar
1/4 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbl butter, cut in
3 Tbl chopped pecans

Mix the following in a large bowl and set aside:
1 1/2 Cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
Cut in 1/4 cup butter

In a medium size bowl, mix the following:
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk

Make a well in the center of the flour mixture in the large bowl.  Add the egg mixture to the well and draw in dry ingredients.  Mix until just moistened.  Batter will be lumpy.

Fill muffin cups that have been lined 1/3 full with batter (should use about half the batter).  Cover batter in cups with divided amounts (abt a Tbl each) of half the topping.  Fill the cups with remaining batter and top with the rest of the topping.

Bake at 400*F for 17 minutes.