Pumpkin Dip

Small can of pumpkin
Small package of vanilla pudding
Small container of Cool Whip
1 t. pumpkin pie spice

Whip all together. Chill. Serve with fruit, graham crackers or tortilla crisps.

Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread

15 frozen Rhoades Rolls
1 small package butterscotch cook and serve pudding mix
1/2 c butter melted
1 t cinnamon
1/2 brown sugar

Place frozen rolls in a greased bundt pan. Sprinkle dry pudding on top. Combine butterand brown sugar in small bowl. Pour over rolls. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Add chopped pecans if you like nuts.  Place in oven over night to raise. Preheat oven to 350 degrees in the morning. Bake for 30 min with a foil covered cookie sheet underneath  ( it will drip). Turn upside down on plate before serving

Grandma Rogers Cinnamon Rolls

1/3 cup warm water
1 T sugar
2 yeast

Step 1: combine water yeast and sugar

6 T vegetable oil
1/2 c sugar
1 t salt

Step 2: Mix oil sugar and salt in large bowl

1 c scalded milk
1 cup cold water
3 eggs beaten
7 cups flour

1 cube butter
Sugar and cinnamon
Nuts and/or raisins if desired

3: Add milk and cold water to oil mixture.
4: Mix in 3 cups flour with electric mixer
5: Add eggs, yeast mixture, and 3 more cups of flour. Mix well. Turn out onto counter and need in the last cup of flour.  Let raise.
6: Heat oven to 400 degrees
7: Divide dough. Roll out. Melt butter and use half on rolled out dough. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and sugar. Roll up, cut and place on cookie sheet.
8: Let raise again, for about 15 min.
9: bake for 10 min or until lightly golden.

Frost with frosting as soon as they come out of the oven:

3 cups powdered sugar
1 t vanilla
Milk

Mix with fork until runny consistency.

Taco soup

1 30oz can diced tomatoes
1 15oz can black beans
1 15 oz can pinto beans
1 15 oz can kidney beans
1 15 oz can corn (do not drain)
1/2 c salsa
1 diced green pepper
1 t lime juice
2 cans shredded chicken or one boiled chicken breast shredded
1 pkg dry taco seasoning
1 pkg Hidden valley ranch dip mix

Mix all and cook in crockpot for 3 hours or on stove top until hot and bubbly.
Serve with shredded cheese, olives, sour cream and tortilla chips.

Tropical Chicken Skewers with Mango Dipping Sauce

Skewers:
Pineapple Chunks
2 inch chunks boneless skinless chicken breast
Red bell pepper
Salt & peper

Arrange food onto skewers. Salt and pepper lightly. Spray grill with cooking spray. Grill until chicken is done.

Mango Dipping Sauce:
1 large Mango chopped
1/4 c plain yogurt
1 small jalapeño seeded and chopped
Juice of 1 lime
1 green onion.

Pulse all in a blender. Sauce will keep for 2 days

Banana Cake

1 Boxed White Cake Mix
2/3 cup water
1 T vinegar
1 t baking soda
2 Eggs
1 1/4 cup mashed very ripe bananas

Mix water, vinegar and baking soda. Combine with cake mix and eggs in large mixing bowl. Add bananas. Mix with mixer for 3 minutes. Pour into greased and floured cake pan. Bake at 350 for 35 min. Cool in refrigerator . Frost with creamy butter frosting

Creamy Butter Frosting
4 cups powdered sugar
4 T soft butter
Heavy cream
1t vanilla

CakeMix until smooth. Frost.

This cake is better made the day before serving. We like it cold.