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Super Secret White Chili (by Anonymous)

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Stuff you’ll need:

  • 1-1/2 lbs bone in chicken breast
  • 2(4oz) cans diced green chiles u drained
  • 2-3 hindquarters
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons snipped fresh cilantro
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 2 tablespoons ground cumin
  • 1 (19 oz) can cannelloni beans, undrained
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 (15 oz) can Great- Northern beans, undrained
  • shredded Colby or Monterey Jack cheese
  • tortilla chips (Mission Brand)

Stuff you’ll need to do:

  • In large saucepan, just cover chicken with salted water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low, simmer, covered, until chicken is fork-tender and juices run clear (20 to 25 minutes). Remove chicken from bones; cut into 1-inch pieces. Heat oil in dutch oven; saute’ garlic and onion over medium heat until onion is tender (4 to 5 minutes). Stir in chicken and remaining ingredients except cheese and tortilla chips; heat through. Ladle into soup bowls; sprinkle with cheese and crushed tortilla chips. Don’t overcook – it will get mushy.

Notes:

  • Keep the broth from the boiled chicken to thin the chili. Sometimes I add only one can of green chilies, and usually I use three different kinds of beans – the Randall’s northern bean in a jar are good, and I like to add red beans for color.
    Can heat slowly in a crock pot – on high for 2-3 hours, low for about 4 hours.

Smore Brownies

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Stuff you’ll need:

Crust:

  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 1 1/2 cups crushed graham cracker crumbs
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • Pinch fine salt

Brownies:

  • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter
  • 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
  • 1 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
  • 4 large cold eggs
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour

Topping:

  • 4 cups large marshmallows

Stuff you’ll need to do:

  • Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and heat oven to 325 degrees F. Line an 8 by-8-inch square baking pan with foil so it hangs over the edges by about 1 inch.For the crust: Lightly butter the foil with some of the melted butter. Stir the rest of the butter together with the crumbs, sugar, and salt in a medium bowl. Press the crumb mixture evenly over the bottom of the pan. Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

    Meanwhile, make the brownie. Put the butter and chocolate in a medium microwave safe bowl. Melt in the microwave on 75 percent power for 2 minutes. Stir, and microwave again until completely melted, about 2 minutes more. Alternatively, put the butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Bring a saucepan filled with 1 inch or so of water to a very slow simmer; set the bowl on the pan without touching the water. Stir occasionally until melted. Stir the light brown and white sugars, vanilla and salt into the melted chocolate. Add the eggs and beat vigorously to make a thick and glossy batter. Add the flour and stir until just incorporated.

    Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake until the top is crispy and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out mostly clean, with a few crumbs, about 40 to 45 minutes.

    Remove from the oven and carefully position a rack about 6 inches from the broiler and preheat on low. Layer marshmallows across the top and toast under the broiler until golden, (keep an eye on it, it can go quick), about 2 minutes. Cool on a rack, gently removing the brownies from the pan using the aluminum flaps. Carefully separate any marshmallow from the foil and fold away. Cut into 12 (2-inch) squares.

(credit of foodnetwork.com)

Nate’s Cheese Ball

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Stuff you’ll need and need to do:

  • 2 – 8 ounce blocks of cream cheese
  • 8 ounces shredded cheddar cheese (room temp)
  • 2 sticks or butter or margarine (room temp)
  • 1 pound of Velveeta
  • 1 Tbs onion chopped fine
  • 1 Tbs chopped pimento olives
  • 1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
  • 2.5 ounce jar of dried beef chopped

Mix and roll in crushed bacon thin crackers.  Makes 4 balls. Freezes well.