Cooking lessons and spoiling my neice and great nephew

Coartney was always a sporty kind of girl.  Was playing ball or working with her 4H animals.  Didn't spend much time in the kitchen.  Sooo Aunt Kak is challenging her to learn to cook.  Her husband is so excited about it too. 

                                       Meal #2 Sloppy Joe's,  tator tots and steamed veggies.

 Oh she made an apple pie too.

Jarrett wasn't real big on the carrots.

We're making her a cookbook so she'll have lots of meals she can make by the time John is home from Afghanistan.  

Meal #1 was spaghetti and garlic bread.

Next week pork chops.  MMMMMM

SLOPPY JOE’S

THINGS YOU NEED:

SKILLET

SPATULA

MEASURING CUPS

BASTER TO DRAIN GREASE OFF HAMBURGER

OLD JAR FOR GREASE

2 LB HAMBURGER

¾ CUP BROWN SUGAR

1 TLB WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE

2  CUPS KETCHUP

BUNS

1.       COOK HAMBURGER

2.       DRAIN GREASE OFF AND PUT IN OLD JAR

3.       TURN HEAT BACK ON AND ADD BROWN SUGAR, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE AND KETCHUP.

4.       STIR UNTIL HEATED THROUGH AND SUGAR IS MELTED.  (TASTE TEST)

5.       SERVE ON HAMBURGER BUN

SERVE WITH CHIPS OR TATOR TOTS AND A VEGETABLE.

REMEMBER WE’RE GOING FOR BALANCED MEALS.

 

Grandma Kak’s Apple Pie

Supplies you Need:

Apple Peeler                           Wooden Spoon

Mixing Bowl                          Not Sharp Knife

Measuring Cups                     2-Cookie Sheets

Measuring Spoons                 Hot Pads

7 Apples                                  Frozen pie crusts

1/1/2 cup Sugar

1/3 cup Flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

ground nutmeg

Pie crust (bottom and top)

2 tablespoons butter

1.                Turn oven on to 400 degree’s

2.                Get your Apple peeler and peel, core and slice the apples.

3.                Put the apples into your mixing bowl.

4.                Put Sugar, Flour Cinnamon into bowl on top of apples.

5.                Take nutmeg and shake it 3 times on top of apples.

6.                Stir all together with wooden spoon.

7.                Get out your Pie Pan that has your pie crust you just made in it.

8.                Put the apples and all the rest of the mixture into the pie pan.

9.                Get a stick of butter out and cut two tablespoons of butter off the stick.

10.           Cut the butter up into little chunks and put on top of apples.

11.           Lay your top crust over apples and unfold.

12.           You will need to cut the extra crust off of the edge of the pie pan.

13.           Get your finger wet with a little water and run it between the top and bottom pie crusts.  (This will make them stick together.)

14.           Pinch the two pies crusts together with your fingers or you can smash them together with a fork if you want.

15.           Take the “not sharp” knife and cut three marks in the top of your pie crust.

16.           Do the same thing again to make the second pie.

17.           Get a cookie sheet out and put your pie on it.

18.           Put the cookie sheet with the pie on it into the oven and bake it.

19.           Set the timer for 50 minutes.

20.           Get your pie out after it’s done.

21.           Hubby tells you just HOW GOOD your pie is and gives you a kiss on the cheek.