Hi Todd,

Love your recipe site. Here are some I sorta invented.

Thanks,
Dean

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Honey-Roasted Peanut Butter and Banana

Peter Pan makes something yummy called "Honey-Roasted" peanut butter. You have no idea how sweet and good this is. It has honey added. After eating this, I can't eat standard peanut butter any more.

I love eating this out of the jar with a spoon. I also add banana pieces. Here's how.

Ingredients
Peter Pan Honey-Roasted Peanut Butter
Teaspoon or tablespoon (your preference)
A banana

1. Peel the banana and cut it into 3/8-inch slices.

2. Put the slices on a plate.

3. Open the jar of peanut butter.

4. Dip a spoonful of the peanut butter.

5. Move the spoon to the plate and use the peanut butter to stick one of the slices.

6. Put in mouth. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

(try this with a granola bar broken into pieces... mmmmm)


ALTERNATIVE

Honey-Roasted Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich

Use the peanut butter and banana slices to make a peanut butter and banana sandwich. (This was Elvis's favorite).

Ingredients
Two slices of bread
Jar of Peter Pan Honey-Roasted Peanut Butter
One banana cut into slices.

1. Smear peanut butter on the two slices of bread.

2. Place the banana slices side-by-side on the peanut butter of one of the bread slices until the peanut butter is covered with banana slices.

3. Put the other bread slice, peanut butter side down, onto the banana slices.

4. You should now have a peanut butter and banana sandwich.

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Egg Drop Ramen

If you look at fried rice closely, you will see bits of egg white and yolk sprinkled in it. This certainly adds to the taste.

I found that an egg could be added to ramen, and mmmmm is this good and makes it more tasty.

Ingredients
Top Ramen soup and noodles (the Oriental flavor works best)
One raw egg

1. Make the ramen as you normally do.

2. After the noodles have separated and are swirling loose in the boiling broth, do this.

3. Keep the pot boiling the ramen.

4. Keep fork within reach to quickly grab it. (The faster you do the following, the better.)

5. Break the egg on the edge of the pot and let the egg white and yolk fall into the middle of the boiling liquid in the pot.

6. Grab the fork quickly and stick its prongs down into the dropped egg.

7. Briskly stir the egg around and around, such as with an egg whisk.

8. Stop when the egg has divided up into the soup, which should still be boiling and cooking the egg.

9. Turn off heat and take pot of burner. Let sit with no cover until cool enough to eat.

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Chinese Takeout Leftovers Soup

The Chinese have their typical soups: egg drop, won ton, etc. But, if you have leftovers from a Chinese takeout meal, don't throw them away. Make your own Chinese soup!

Ingredients
Chinese takeout food leftovers
Soy sauce (packages or bottle)
Other spices you like, such as pepper, tobasco, whatever.

1. Put leftovers in a pot on the stove.

2. Add a some water. This is relative to how much leftovers you have in the pot.
Don't add too much water and make it too thin. The flavoring in the leftovers are needed to flavor the soup.

3. Add some soy sauce which enhances the flavor. Stir as you add ingredients.

4. Use whatever spices you prefer. I like it spicy hot, so I use pepper, touch of hot sauce (such as Tobasco type). A little garlic, etc. Experiment.

5. You hopefully have made your own yummy Chinese soup.

Hint: in the super market, where you buy soy sauce, chow mein noodles, etc., look for "Chili-Garlic" sauce.  Woooooooo... is this hot and good!

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Egg Roll Dip

I love egg rolls and dipping them in sauce. However, the typical complimentary soy sauce, duck sauce or chinese mustard you get in the Chinese takeout restaurant just doesn't get it.

I found Hoisin sauce and that was it. It has a tangy sweet/sour taste and makes egg rolls mm mm good.

You can find jars of Hoisin sauce in the supermarket where you also buy soy sauce, chow mein noodles, etc.

Ingredients
Egg rolls (fresh cooked are best)
Jar of Hoisin sauce.

1. Cut the egg roll in half so the veggies are exposed to soak up the sauce.

2. Put a small amount of Hoisin sauce into a bowl for dipping.

3. Dip the egg roll open end into the sauce and take a bite.

4. Dip again and bite. Keep dipping and biting until you've had your fill.

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Quick Spaghetti Sauce Chili

I was reading the ingredients of a can of spaghetti (Hunts brand. Costs $1.00). It had tomato sauce, meat, garlic, spices, you name it. Hunts has a variety of spaghetti sauces with italian sausage, or roasted garlic, or three cheeses, etc..

I thought "What is chili? Tomato sauce, garlic, salt, pepper, spices, etc..."

So, rather than buy all the separate ingredients of chili - tomato sauce, etc. - why not just use spaghetti sauce and go from there?

Ingredients
Can of spaghetti sauce (Look at the many flavors from Hunts).
Can of kidney beans (light or dark, your choice)
Chili powder
Crushed red pepper
Black pepper
Hot sauce (Tobasco type)

1. Pour can of spaghetti sauce into pot and cook at medium on the stove.

2. Drain kidney beans and add them to pot.

3. Add some water to make it not so thick, unless you like thick chili.

4. Add chili powder according to your taste.

5. All other ingredients optional depending on how hot you like your chili.

6. Cook the chili until you are ready to eat.

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Garbanzo No-Ramen Soup

There are many ramen recipes that tell you just to use the noodles and not the soup mix that comes with it. What do you do with this leftover soup? I made this with what was lying around. Delicious. I LUV garbanzos!

Ingredients
One package of ramen soup mix (any flavor you like).
One can of garbanzo beans.

1. Put same amount of water in a pot that you would normally use when cooking ramen. Bring to a boil.

2. Stir in the package of ramen soup. Move pot off burner.

3. Open can of garbanzo beans. Use fork to scoop out half the can of beans into the pot. (Do not pour them and the juice into the pot. This will dilute the soup.)

4. Let pot of soup cool to eating temperature. Dip out a bowl of the soup and beans and eat.

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Quickie Cheese Hot Dog

I had hot dogs but no hot dog buns. I had a loaf of bread. I thought "What is a hot dog bun? Just bread wrapped around a hot dog." So, I don't use hot dog buns any more. I just use a slice of bread.

Ingredients
One slice of bread
One slice of sandwich-size cheese
One hot dog

1. On plate, put a slice of bread.

2. Put slice of cheese on the bread.

3. Put hot dog on cheese, lengthwise down the bread, from top to bottom.

4. Place plate of ingredients into microwave and nuke for 30-45 seconds. Or until you see the cheese starting to soften and melt.

5. Remove from microwave.

6. Wrap up the bread around the hot dog and put any other ingredients (mustard, etc) on the hot dog. Then eat.
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My name is Dean.
I live in Winter Haven, Florida where the first Ford Edsel was sold, 1957.
 

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