Chel's Banana Bread

3/4 C butter

1 1/2 C sugar

3 eggs

3 C flour

1 1/2 t baking soda

1 1/2 t salt

2 t vanilla

4 bananas

1 C chocolate chips or nuts or both (optional)

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs. Add dry ingredients. Add vanilla and bananas.

350F, 50 mins. Makes 2 large loaves

Lemon Meringue Pie

This was AMAZING!! I don't know why she used a pressure cooker to mix/cook the filling. You could easily use a saucepan.

New York Style Cheesecake

She used a pressure cooker to bake the cheesecake. I would just find a recipe that tells you how to cook it in an oven.

Grasshopper Mint Brownies

The brownies were really good, but I didn't think any better than a box. The frosting, on the other hand, was superb. Half the recipe for 9x13.

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

Decadent Ice Cream Sandwiches

Sausage and Penne

1 lb Italian sausage
Purple onion, diced
2 cans Italian stewed tomatoes
3/4 C grated Parmesan
3/4 C cream
Rosemary to taste
Penne

Brown sausage, onion, and rosemary with a little olive oil. Add tomatoes; crush with hands. Simmer until tomatoes are reduced by half. Add cream and Parmesan; heat through. Mix with penne.

Packard's Popular Ono Chicken

My coworker's husband made this for us; he's from Tonga. YUM!

Sauce for Chicken-

2 cups soy sauce

2 cups sugar

¼ to ½ cup fresh ginger chopped

¼ to ½ cup green onions chopped

1 T. sesame oil

*Stir the sauce with a spoon until sugar is dissolved. (It might take 5 minutes or so.)

*Place sauce aside

*DO NOT COOK THE SAUCE

Cooking Chicken-

Combine flour, salt, and pepper to taste

*Dip chicken in flour mixture

*Fry the chicken in oil (Packard has the chicken swimming in the oil.)

*When chicken is cooked, place it in the sauce for a few minutes

*Take chicken out of sauce and serve over rice

*The sauce makes a great dressing for the rice

Pressure Cooker

Several of the following recipes call for using a pressure cooker. I imagine the same results can come from boiling, using a crockpot, etc. Read over the recipe to find out which other method would be best.

Shar's BBQ Boneless Southwestern Ribs (pressure cooker)

4-5 lbs boneless country style ribs
or
4-5 lbs baby back ribs
or
4-5 lbs pork loin (your choice, they all taste about the same)

Homemade BBQ sauce

In a 5 litre waffle bottom pressure cooker:
Preheat pressure cooker on medium high heat until water dances across bottom of pan. Add ribs and allow the juices to sear inside the meat (approx. 5-7 mins). When the meat releases easily from the pan, turn it over.
Place lid on pressure cooker and bring up to second ring. Pressure for 20 mins (beef) or 50 mins (pork). Allow pressure to drop on its own.
Remove ribs from iquid and place in a bowl. Shred and smother with homemade BBQ sauce to taste.

To broil:
Do Not Shred. Place whole ribs on parchment lined cookie sheet. Place under broiler until golden brown.

To grill:
Do Not Shred. Place ribs on hot grill until golden brown.

Homemade BBQ Sauce:
2 C ketchup
1 C water mixed with 2 T beef broth powder
1/2 C brown sugar
2 T smokey mesquite bbq seasoning

In blender, add all ingredients and mix together. Pour over meat and serve.