Breakfast for Teens

Breakfast for Teens

Teenagers in the house for one week.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!
Oat meal for breakfast, teen style.

Senior's don't even think about eating this one.

Oat Meal Cookies

1 c butter
3/4 brown sugar
1/2 c sugar
1 t vanilla
1 t cinnamon
1 t salt
2 eggs
1 1/2 c flour
3 c oatmeal
1/2 chocolate chips


Bake at 375 for 10 - 12 minites

Crock Pot Pork Roast





Still cooking for teenagers.

4 lb Pork Shoulder

Marinade over night:

1 c orange juice
2 T vinegar
8 gloves garlic minced
1 t cayenne pepper
1 t chili powder
2 T olive oil
2 t oregano

Place in crock pot on low for 7 hours.


The meat should fall of the bone when completely cooked.

Serve with flour tortillas

Fill tortillas with shredded pork,
Shredded lettuce
Cheese
green onions
chopped tomatoes
sour cream
sliced avocado

Serve with rice and vegetables,

Drain juices from crock pot to use for liquid for cooking rice.

Crown Rack of Lamb

Crown Rack of Lamb Roast

Ingredients:

2 racks of lamb, 7 ribs each

Onion powder
Garlic powder
Black Pepper
(be sure to use powder and not onion salt or garlic salt)
Trim fat from roast, remove fat from rib bone tips
Using butcher twine tie two ends together making one long piece of 14 ribs
Rub with spices
Bend into Crown shape using butcher twine to secure the shape.
Place roast in shallow pan and roast at 400 for 30-35 minutes.

Remove from oven, cover with foil and let stand for 15 minutes.

Serve with rice and vegetables

Remove all string, place roast on top of rice, fill center of crown with additional rice.

Crock Pot Week.

Johnny and Scout are staying with us for a week, Crock Pot means food is always ready when they are hungry; easy, delicious, and convenient.

Crock Pot Chicken Wings

1/3 c soy sauce
1 T honey
2 T oil
1/2 c onion minced
2 cloves garlic minced
1 T ginger ( keep a ginger root in the freezer and you always have fresh ginger available)

20 chicken wings with above ingredients in Crock Pot on low for 7 hours.

Just finished my back yard, how do you like it?


Okay, not my yard, the Flower Fields in Carlsbad.

A little view of heaven.

The hills are alive with the color of spring. Beautiful day, 80, view of the ocean, surrounded by happy people enjoying life.

Dinner will be light tonight.

Shrimp and Pasta

This Has Been Sea Food Week

Pasta with Shrimp, Tomatoes and Basil

1 lb fresh large shrimp
4-5 Roma Tomatoes, seeded and chopped
4 gloves fresh garlic, chopped coarsely
2 T olive oil
1 cup fresh basil, chopped
1 T tomato paste
1/4 c Parmesans cheese

1/2 lb Bow Tie Pasta

Cook pasta 14 minutes
Saute Shrimp, 2 gloves garlic in olive oil, 3-4 minutes
Saute tomatoes, basil, tomato paste, 2 glove garlic.

Pour shrimp mixture over pasta, top with Parmesan cheese.

Roasted Peppers with Scallops and Shrimp

1 each:
red pepper
yellow pepper
green pepper
white onion.
Slice peppers and onions and lay out on a cookie sheet.
Drizzle with olive oil and bake at 400 for 1 hour.


1/2 lb large shrimp
1/2 lb large scallops

Saute shrimp and scallops for 3-5 minutes, do not over cook.

Mix pepper mixture with shrimp and scallops, serve with rice.

Sea Food Chowder

Sea Food Chowder

Ingredients:

1/4 lb salt pork or bacon diced (optional, high salt content)
1 cup each chopped onions, celery and carrots
1/4 cup flower,
5 - 6 unpeeled red potatoes diced
fresh corn from 2 ears of corn

3 cans chopped clams
1 lb bay shrimp
1/2 lb small scallops
1 qt low fat half and half
(you may use low fat milk)
1 t cayenne pepper
1/4 cup parsley

In a 4 1/2 qt pot, brown the diced salt pork or bacon

add onions, celery & carrots and saute 10-15 minutes,

stir in flower.
Drain clams and add broth only, stir mixture.
Add 5-6 red potatoes, corn,
add enough water to cover mixture.
Cook till all is tender (30 - 40 min)
add clams, bay shrimp, scallops and half & half,
season with 1 t cayenne pepper.
Stir constantly till mixture bubbles,
add cornstarch and water mixture to thicken as desired,
add parsley.

Serve with French Sour Dough bread,
slice bread and toast, spray with "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter".

Fresh Salmon with Mango Chutney

Mango Chutney

1 cup minced mango
1/2 c minced red onion
1/2 c basil
1/4 c capers
1/2 c diced tomatoes
1/4 c sliced green onion

Fresh Salmon
Brush salmon with olive oil
BBQ, do not over cook, it is done when it begins to flake.
About 3 minutes on each side on a hot BBQ



Brown Rice with green onions and Shrimp
Low Sodium Soy Sauce

Strawberry Trifle

It wouldn't be Easter at the

Honescko's house without

Strawberry Trifle.

Quick and Easy

1 Cup Strawberry Yogurt
1 Cup Strawberry Jello
1 Cup Whipping Cream.

The 19 year old clerk at Ralph's picked up the carton of cream and said,
"I didn't know you could buy whipping cream like this."
The younger generation just knows Reddi Whip.

1 Angel Food Cake
2 boxes of fresh strawberries
1 c mango chunks
1 c pineapple chunks


Mix together yogurt, jello and whipped cream.
Break Angel Food Cake up into small chunks.
Add Sliced Strawberries, Mangoes and Pineapple chunks.

Layer in a trifle bowel:

Angel Food Cake chunks
sliced fresh strawberries
top with cream mixture

Let it sit overnight in the refrigerator.

Linguine and Clams

Linguine with Clam Sauce

Saute 1/2 onion minced and 2 cloves garlic in 2 T olive oil,
Pour in 1/2 c white wine.

Add 1 cup chicken broth, saute 3 minutes.

Add 32 oz. clams drained, (save the juice)
simmer 2 minutes.
Add 1/2 c clam juice
thicken with 1 T cornstarch and 2 T clam juice.

Prepare 1 lb linguine

Pour clam sauce over linguine and top with
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese and fresh parsley
pour clams over