Mile High United Way

Banana Bread
Ingredients:
4 Small or 3 Large Bananas
1 Egg
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 1/2 cups Flour
1 cup Sugar
1 Stick Butter
1 tsp Vanilla

Preheat Oven at 400* Bake 45-60 Minutes
Line bread tin with butter- Helps it not stick
Mash Bananas in Bowl with fork
Stir in egg, sugar, salt
Melt Butter in a pan- once melted place in bowl and stir
Lastly, Add flour and baking soda
Mix well
Put mix in buttered bread tin and place in Oven

Enjoy :)

Danielle Kubler  2 days ago Enjoy

Strawberries & Cream

3 lbs of fresh strawberries cut up into 4 pieces

Cream:
Pint of heavy whipping cream
1 can of condensed milk (depends how sweet you want it)
1 can of evaporated milk
1 cup of sour cream
1/2 cup of crushed nuts any nuts works (for garnish)

Cream all the liquids together into soft peeks
Fold strawberries
Add preference of nuts on top

Biscuits and Gravy Casserole:
Ingredients: 1 Tube Grands Biscuits, 1 roll pork sausage, 2 tbsp. Butter, 1/4 cup flour, 2.5 cups milk divided, 1/4 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 7 eggs and Shredded Colby jack cheese to your discretion.
Instructions: preheat oven to 375*. Grease 9X13 baking dish. Cut each biscuit into quarters and scatter across bottom of baking dish. Cook sausage in large pan, crumbling it. Once cooked, let cool on paper towel. Leave 1 cup of crumbled sausage in pan for gravy. For gravy, add butter to sausage pan, and set over medium heat. Add flour and stir for 2 minutes. Whisk in 2 cups milk. Add garlic powder, salt and pepper. Set gravy aside. Sprinkle cooked sausage over the biscuits. Sprinkle some cheese over sausage. Whisk all eggs and remainder of milk and pour over the cheese, sausage and biscuits in baking dish. Now pour over the gravy and add remaining cheese. Bake for 30 minutes.

Carne Guisada

Ingredients

3 lbs stew meat
1 tablespoon oil (lard, bacon grease, etc)
1 medium onion, diced
1 small green bell pepper or jalapeño, diced (or some of both)
3 tablespoons tomato sauce
1 teaspoon garlic powder or 3 cloves of garlic, minced
2 teaspoon ground cumin
2 teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken stock

1. In a large pan, brown the stew meat, onions and green pepper (if using) over high heat.
Add the tomato sauce (or tomato), garlic powder (or fresh garlic), cumin, salt and pepper and stir well.

2. Sprinkle the flour over the meat and mix well. Add the water (or stock) and mix well so there are no lumps.

3. Bring to a boil, cover pan and reduce heat to low. Cook for 1 ½ hours, or until meat is tender. Taste and adjust seasonings if necessary.

Serve with flour tortillas or rice.

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