Worlds Best Salsa

2 cans stewed tomatoes
2 fresh tomatoes
1/4 cup chopped jalapeno peppers (out of a bottle)
1/2 medium onion chopped
shake of garlic salt
dash of chopped parsley greens for color may be omitted

Put all in blender for about 3 seconds- longer and it gets runny.

Grandma Ione's Meatloaf

2 lbs ground beef
1 lbs sausage
1 carrot small grated
2 small potato grated
1 small onion chopped
1 small green pepper chopped
14 mashed soda crackers
salt and pepper
1/2 cup canned milk (can use regular)

Mix above ingredients. Bake at 325 for 2hrs. Last half hour drain and pour can of tomato soup over it, not diluted.

Tam Wood Lemon Drink

1 Gallon water
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 T citric acid
1 bag crushed ice

Kalua Pork

1/4 cup soy sauce
3 T coarse salt
1 tsp worchesershire sauce
1 clove garlic
5-6 lbs boneless pork roast (shoulder)
1/4 cup BBQ sauce

If more oriental flavor is wanted omit BBQ sauce and use 1 tsp ground ginger or 1 tsp liquid smoke flavoring.

Combine the first ingredients mix well (I use a cooking bag in a crock pot).Place roast in center of foil if in oven. Rub roast with soy sauce mixture. Roast at 375 for 5 hrs. Shred the pork before serving.

Buttermilk Pancakes

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3 T sugar
2 large eggs lightly beaten
3 cups buttermilk
4 T unsalted butter melted
1 cup blueberries

Preheat griddle to 375.
Whisk flour, baking powder, soda, salt, sugar in bowl. Add eggs, buttermilk, and 4 T butter. Whisk to combine. Cook- add blueberries to top then flip.

Lemon Cake

This recipe comes from Virginia Ward's Kitchen

1 pkg lemon cake mix
1 pkg instant lemon pudding
4 eggs
1/2 cup salad oil (Wesson)
1 cup water

Bake in ungreased pan 35 min at 350.
While hot prick cake with fork 1 in apart. Pour glaze over top of cake while hot.

Glaze
2 cups powdered sugar
2 T wesson oil
1/3 cup orange juice- Add only a little at a time until frosting is of the right consistency, It should be a little thin (thinner then regular frosting).

Pastry Dinner Rolls

1 can roll dough
1/2 cup cinnamon sugar mixture
a bag of large marshmellows
1/2 cup melted margerine

Take one marshmellow per roll, dip it in the melted margerine, roll into the cinnamon sugar mixture seal it inside the unbaked biscuit dough and bake.

Grandma Ione Crazy Chocolate Cake

Preheat oven to 350. Bake for 30 min.

3 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
6 T cocoa unsweetened
2 tsp soda
2 tsp salt
12 T melted shortening or vegetable oil 2/3 cup
2 tsp vanilla
2 T vinegar
2 1/2 cups cold water

Measure flour, then sift again. Sift all dry ingrediants together in ungreased oblong cake pan. Smooth out and make 3 depressions in it. In 1st hole put salad oil, 2nd vinegar, 3rd vanilla. Stir until well blended but do not beat. Batter will be on the thin side.

*Combine dry ingredients, add to combined wet ingredients. Do not over mix. Can place in 9x13 cake pan.
*Frost with Buttercream Frosting


Buttercream Frosting:
Powdered Sugar
Butter-softened at Room Temp
Vanilla
Milk

Graham Cracker Crust 9"Pie

22-24 crackers =1/4cup
1/4 cup sugar
6 T melted butter

Blend together. Place into pie plate. Chill 45 min or freezer for 10-15min. Do not bake.

Lemon Meringue Pie- Grandma Ione

CRUST:
1 1/4 cup crushed graham crackers
2 T sugar
1 cube melted butter

Combine and mix together. Place 10min in freezer

PIE: (lemon custard)
2 can Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup lemon juice plus 2 T lemon juice
1 tsp lemon extract
2 egg yolks- add 1 at a time

Mix together add to a cold gram cracker crust. Do not bake.

Meringue: top of pie
3 egg whites
1/2 t vanilla
1/4 t cream of tartar

whip till soft peaks form then add 1/4 cup sugar and whip till stiff peaks form
Spread on top of the lemon custard pie to the edge of the crust. Use the back end of a spatula and lift meringue to make peaks.

Bake 350 12-15 minutes or until tips of peaks are browned