Make Mine a Brownie

It’s National Brownie Day and there is NOTHING BETTER than this recipe, I have used it for Years and I’m moving it over from The Quilt Ladies today !
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Hershey Brownie Recipe You know when you pull out the Hershey Cocoa, the recipe is going to be perfect. HERE’S their website

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter)
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Place butter in large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at MEDIUM (50%) 2 to 2-1/2 minutes or until melted. Stir in sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with spoon after each addition. Add cocoa; beat until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and salt; beat well. Stir in nuts, if desired. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Frost if desired. Cut into bars. About 36 brownies.

CHOCOLATE FUDGE FROSTING

1/3 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa
2-2/3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt butter in small saucepan over low heat; add cocoa, stirring constantly until smooth.(Mixture will be very thick.) Remove from heat; pour into medium bowl. Cool slightly.

Add powdered sugar alternately with milk and vanilla, beating to spreading consistency. About 2 cups frosting.

THEY are PERFECT ! !

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Brownie DAY !

Brownie Recipe – The Quilt Ladies

Today is National Brownie day and let’s say…I can make a good brownie! Or Hershey’s can!

Hershey Brownie Recipe You know when you pull out the Hershey Cocoa, the recipe is going to be perfect. HERE’S their website

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter)
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Place butter in large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at MEDIUM (50%) 2 to 2-1/2 minutes or until melted. Stir in sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with spoon after each addition. Add cocoa; beat until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and salt; beat well. Stir in nuts, if desired. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of the pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Frost if desired. Cut into bars. About 36 brownies.

CHOCOLATE FUDGE FROSTING

1/3 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa
2-2/3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt butter in small saucepan over low heat; add cocoa, stirring constantly until smooth.(Mixture will be very thick.) Remove from heat; pour into medium bowl. Cool slightly.

Add powdered sugar alternately with milk and vanilla, beating to spreading consistency. About 2 cups frosting.

THEY are PERFECT ! !

Beth

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Quick & Easy Cheese Broccoli Soup Recipe

From The Quilt Ladies Recipe Box

This Cheese Broccoli Soup is one of my go to recipes. It’s very easy and I do it at least once a month. Recipe is included here, but please know that this is the best clean out the frig soup you can make. It comes out perfect every time.

Use a purchased chicken or cook/shed two chicken breasts. Fiesta Tableware

1 mix of Cheese Broccoli Soup – Make soup as directed on the package. Add 2 Cups of the Rotisserie Chicken cut and shredded. 1 Small onion, 1 can of whole kernel corn drained, 1 can of black beans drained and washed. 1 Carrot diced.

Add all ingredients to a soup pan, stir and let cook for 15-20 minutes just be cook vegetables. Salt and Pepper to your taste.

This soup is great with all vegetable, and great with turkey or ground beef too.

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Super Bowl Food and Memories from LONG Ago !

We have been working on a house rearrange and I found my Mom’s box of recipes at the bottom of a drawer. I love seeing her and my Grandmother’s handwriting.

Mom’s Orange Slush and it’s FANTASTIC ! I remember a HOT summer and my cousin Norma and I sitting on a beach with our kids running all around, playing in the water and the two of us having Slushes and a BALL with four little boys. Husband’s were cooking, and bring us drinks, it’s was one of my favorite times at my folk’s cabin.

This hot cheese dip is the one we all make, Mom would always say, “Just eat it, DON’T look at it, it tastes so much better than it looks !” We all would wait for her to say it every time.

This is my Grandma Glade’s recipe and that first ingredient is LARD ! ONE of the best cakes ever, with LARD. Grandma didn’t measure anything, it was a palm of LARD !

Have a fun super bowl

Beth

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Making Homemade Brownies – The Quilt Ladies

Today is National Chocolate Cake day and let’s say…my cakes aren’t what I would call the best. BUT my brownie’s are! Or Hershey’s are!

Hershey Brownie Recipe You know when you pull out the Hershey Cocoa, the recipe is going to be perfect. HERE’S their website

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter)
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Place butter in large microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at MEDIUM (50%) 2 to 2-1/2 minutes or until melted. Stir in sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with spoon after each addition. Add cocoa; beat until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and salt; beat well. Stir in nuts, if desired. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of the pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Frost if desired. Cut into bars. About 36 brownies.

CHOCOLATE FUDGE FROSTING

1/3 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa
2-2/3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Melt butter in small saucepan over low heat; add cocoa, stirring constantly until smooth.(Mixture will be very thick.) Remove from heat; pour into medium bowl. Cool slightly.

Add powdered sugar alternately with milk and vanilla, beating to spreading consistency. About 2 cups frosting.

THEY are PERFECT ! !

Beth

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My Tortilla Soup Recipe

Well, here I go again, the pounds are coming back on?? I love it here in Florida, Husband’s home and so many things to do, BUT, I LOVE to go out to eat TOO ! I think I have shared before… here I go again !

This is based on Weight Watchers 0 Point Tortilla Soup. But, I need meat in mine, I need the protein to keep me moving a bit longer.

3 chicken breast, in a pot with about 6 cups of water.

add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper. Cook until the chicken is done, remove skin/bones, shred or use 4 cups of Can Chicken Broth (easier)

Pull chicken out and shred.

1 cup Chopped Onions Chopped

2 Garlic Cloves

3 Green Onions Chopped

3-4 stalks of Celery Chopped

1/2 a Green Pepper

1/3 Cup Fresh Cilantro

Spray pan with spray oil.

Cook in soup pan, make everything tender 10-15 minutes

Pour Chicken broth through a strainer and back into pot.(if homemade)

Add Shredded Chicken

Add the rest of the ingredients to the broth

2 – 12oz cans of Diced Tomatoes

1/2 cup Salsa, we like hot, use what you like

1 can Whole Corn – Or fresh off the cob

1/2 teaspoon Cumin

1/2 teaspoon Chili Powder

1/2 teaspoon basil

Simmer and let cook down.

Serve with Sour Cream (I use Greek yogurt)

And taco chips

Suggestions

When you have leftovers after the holidays or party, make this soup, you can add anything to it and it’s wonderful.
Try adding fresh spinach, cut up add in about 5 minutes before serving.
You can use any meat, shred turkey, shred roast beef or pork, if you use another meat or don’t want to do your own chicken stock, use 4 cups of Chicken Broth
This is a make it your own soup.
We eat this year round, mostly I think because it’s a great solo-lunch for me.
It’s very good without meat, it will be a 0 Point meal with no meat.
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My Weight Watchers Tortilla Soup with Chicken

It was JUST yesterday they fit??

Here is Florida I’m in shorts and flip-flops pretty much year around. If I need a sweater it’s not for long and I really like that. UNTIL, yesterday and that pair of shorts I have had for six months is a little TIGHT. Yeah, the dryer didn’t do that, my favorite go to…need a few pounds off recipe.

My Weight Watchers Tortilla Soup with Chicken

This is based on Weight Watchers 0 Point Tortilla Soup. But, I need meat in mine, I need the protein it keeps me moving a bit longer.

3 chicken breast, in a pot with about 6 cups of water.

add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper. Cook until the chicken is done, remove skin/bones. I do it this way, I can control the fat.

Or use 4 cups of Can Chicken Bone Broth

if you can find it, just a better flavor

Pull chicken out and shred.

1 cup Chopped Onions Chopped

2 Garlic Cloves

3 Green Onions Chopped

3-4 stalks of Celery Chopped

1/2 a Green Pepper

1/3 Cup Fresh Cilantro

Spray pan with spray oil.

Cook in soup pan, make everything tender 10-15 minutes

Pour Chicken broth through a strainer and back into pot.(if homemade)

Add Shredded Chicken

Add the rest of the ingredients to the broth

2 – 12oz cans of Diced Tomatoes

1/2 cup Salsa, we like hot, use what you like

1 can Whole Corn – Or fresh off the cob, the best

1/2 teaspoon Cumin

1/2 teaspoon Chili Powder

1/2 teaspoon basil

Simmer and let cook down.

Serve with Sour Cream (I use Greek yogurt)

And taco chips

Suggestions

When you have leftovers after the holidays or party, make this soup, you can add anything to it and it’s wonderful.
Try adding fresh spinach, cut up add in about 5 minutes before serving.
You can use any meat, shred turkey, shred roast beef or pork, if you use another meat or don’t want to do your own chicken stock, use 4 cups of Chicken Broth
This is a make it your own soup.
We eat this year round, mostly I think because it’s a great solo-lunch for me.
It’s very good without meat, it will be a 0 Point meal with no meat.
Beth Ann

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Today is National Brownie day and let’s say…I can make a good brownie! Or Hershey’s can!

Hershey Brownie Recipe You know when you pull out the Hershey Cocoa, the recipe is going to be perfect. HERE’S their website

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter) 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 4 eggs ¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of the pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Frost if desired. Cut into bars. About 36 brownies.

Beth

This Cheese Broccoli Soup is one of my go to recipes. It’s very easy and I do it at least once a month. Recipe is included here, but please know that this is the best clean out the frig soup you can make. It comes out perfect every time.

Use a purchased chicken or cook/shed two chicken breasts. Fiesta Tableware

1 mix of Cheese Broccoli Soup – Make soup as directed on the package. Add 2 Cups of the Rotisserie Chicken cut and shredded. 1 Small onion, 1 can of whole kernel corn drained, 1 can of black beans drained and washed. 1 Carrot diced.

We have been working on a house rearrange and I found my Mom’s box of recipes at the bottom of a drawer. I love seeing her and my Grandmother’s handwriting.

This hot cheese dip is the one we all make, Mom would always say, “Just eat it, DON’T look at it, it tastes so much better than it looks !” We all would wait for her to say it every time.

This is my Grandma Glade’s recipe and that first ingredient is LARD ! ONE of the best cakes ever, with LARD. Grandma didn’t measure anything, it was a palm of LARD !

Have a fun super bowl

Beth

Today is National Chocolate Cake day and let’s say…my cakes aren’t what I would call the best. BUT my brownie’s are! Or Hershey’s are!

Hershey Brownie Recipe You know when you pull out the Hershey Cocoa, the recipe is going to be perfect. HERE’S their website

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter) 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 4 eggs ¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa 1 cup all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of the pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Frost if desired. Cut into bars. About 36 brownies.

Beth

What were you doing last night about Midnight ?Me, baking cookies the easy way, I have done this for years.

I like the Jiffy brand size, it’s just the right size for Husband and I. Isn’t funny how something as simple a this can make me happy !

I have been trying to change over cold coffee. I found out there is NOTHING better with hot cookies !

Beth

Well, here I go again, the pounds are coming back on?? I love it here in Florida, Husband’s home and so many things to do, BUT, I LOVE to go out to eat TOO ! I think I have shared before… here I go again !

This is based on Weight Watchers 0 Point Tortilla Soup. But, I need meat in mine, I need the protein to keep me moving a bit longer.

It was JUST yesterday they fit??

My Weight Watchers Tortilla Soup with Chicken

This is based on Weight Watchers 0 Point Tortilla Soup. But, I need meat in mine, I need the protein it keeps me moving a bit longer.

Beth Ann

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter)
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine (Use butter)
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
¾ cup HERSHEY’S Cocoa or HERSHEY’S SPECIAL DARK Cocoa
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)