Aunties Mac & Cheese

I love this baked mac & cheese recipe. My aunt always makes for a larger crowd and it's always goes well!

Ingredients

• One box of cooked pasta noodles - You can use traditional macaroni noodles but I like to use cavatappi noodles.
• Velveeta Cheese (2 cups cubed)
• Shredded Cheddar Cheese (2 cups)
• One egg
• Milk (2 1/2 cups)
• Butter or margarine (1/4 cup)

 

Directions:

 

1.  Place small pieces of butter/margarine (1/4 cup) on bottom of glass baking dish.
2.  Place half of cooked pasta on top of butter in dish.

3.  Sprinkle 1 cup of cubed Velveeta & 1 cup of shredded cheese on top of noodles.
4.  Mix one egg and 2 1/2 cups of milk together.  Drizzle half of the egg mixture over noodles & cheese.

5.  Repeat steps again with layering noodles, cheese and egg mixture
6.  Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.  Stir noodles so everything is well mixed and bake for another 15 minutes.
7.  Let cool before serving.

 

Mango Salsa & Black Bean Layered Dip

I tend to make this dip more often in the summer months and it usually goes over well.  Using the sweet mango salsa makes it!  Enjoy! :)

You will need:

• Whipped Cream Cheese (16 oz.)
• Black Beans (Rinsed)
• Mango Salsa
• Shredded Cheese (Mexican or Colby)
• Serving Dish

 Directions:

1. Spread whipped cream cheese on serving dish.

2. Sprinkle rinsed black beans on top of cream cheese.

3. Layer mango salsa over black beans.

4. Top with shredded cheese.

5. Serve with tortilla chips.

Sausage Roll

A favorite recipe of mine is the famous sausage roll.  My family has been making this for years!  It's easy and always receives many compliments.  We usually make this around holidays, especially when we are up north over fourth of July weekend.  I have friends at my cottage and so many of them love this sausage roll, we have to make three of them!  Once this comes out of the oven, people run to the kitchen because they have learned the hard way...you snooze, you lose!

The recipe only requires three ingredients:

• Ground Sausage - I always use Bob Evans (16oz.)
• Brick of cream cheese (8oz.) - I wouldn't use the reduce fat, it changes the taste a little.
• Crescent Roll tube - I use the Pillsbury Seamless Dough Sheets.

Cooking Steps:

1. To start, cook and brown the sausage in skillet on stove top.
2. After sausage is cooked, add in cream cheese into skillet. Mix cream cheese and sausage together.
3. Roll out crescent dough sheet on greased cookie sheet or baking dish.  Placed cooked sausage/cream cheese in middle of rolled out dough sheet.  I place it in the middle in a line.
4. Wrap sides and ends of dough up and around sausage mixture.  It should cover all of sausage mixture and look like a log/roll.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and place sausage roll in oven for about 15 minutes, or until crescent is golden brown

Let cool for about five minutes, slice and serve.  I usually slice 1.5 inches apart. 

Tip: You can always make the sausage/cream cheese mixture ahead of time and keep in refrigerator.  This makes the prep/cooking even faster in the morning.