Berry Trifle

Ingredients

• Pound cake
• Instant vanilla pudding
• Chocolate covered toffee bits
• Strawberries, blueberries and raspberries

Directions

1. Make pudding according to package directions and let set
2. Cube pound cake
3. Slice strawberries
4. Layer pound cake, pudding, toffee bits and berries
5. Repeat layers
6. Enjoy fresh or chilled

Sweet and Sour Chicken and Fried Rice

This is one of Tyler's favorites that comes from home...well...something that his mom used to make I should say! The fried rice is my add on to make it a more complete meal. Serve with egg rolls as well to top it all off!

Sweet and Sour Chicken
Ingredients

Chicken tenders
2 eggs
2 tbsp milk
Corn starch
Vegetable Oil

For Sauce
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
1 cup white vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp garlic powder

Directions
1. Mix together milk and eggs
2. Dip tenders in egg mixture and then into corn starch
3. Fry in hot oil until crisp, turning once
4. Place fried tenders in greased pan, pour sauce over tenders, stirring to coat.
5. Bake in 325 degree oven for 1 hour, stirring once.


Fried Rice

Ingredients
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp sesame or vegetable oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tbsp cooking oil
1 stalk celery, thinly bias sliced
3/4 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 8.8 oz pouch cooked white rice
1 cup frozen carrot/pea mixture
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 green onions, sliced

Directions
1. In a small bowl combine eggs and 1 tsp soy sauce. Set aside.
2. Pour 1 tsp sesame oil into a wok or large skillet. Preheat over medium heat. Add garlic and egg miture and stir gently to scramble. When set, remove egg micture from the wok. Cut up any large pieces of egg mixture. Remove wok from heat.
3. Pour 1 tsp cooking oil into the wok or skillet (Add more oil as necessary during cooking.) Return to medium high heat. Stir fry celery in hot oil for 1 minute. Add mushrooms, stir fry for 1 to 2 minutes more or until vegetables are crisp-tender.
4. Add cooked rice, carrots and peas. Sprinkle with 2 tbsp soy sauce. Cook and stir for 4-6 minutes or until heated through. Add cooked egg mixture and green onions; cook and stir about 1 minute more or until heated through.

Sweet and sour chicken from my MIL
fried rice from bhg.com

Stuffed Potato

This is a homemade version of the Claimjumper entree...

Ingredients

Potatoes
Alfredo sauce (I used bottled but if you're feeling ambitious...feel free to make your own!)
Fresh veggies (I like to use summer squash, broccoli, and zuchinni, but again...whatever you feel like eating!)
Grilled chicken strips (Once again, you can grill your own chicken or use store bought strips that only require warming)

Directions

Bake the potatoes until tender, generally about an hour in a 350 degree oven. For the honkers we normally use that we bring back down from Idaho, it can be up to 2 hours!!! Heat alfredo sauce according to directions on bottle. Steam veggies. Warm up the chicken strips according to the directions. Split potato down the middle, pile on the veggies and chicken and smother with warm alfredo sauce. Enjoy!!!

Omit the chicken to make a nice vegetarian dish :)