Mix up the pudding with milk and beat for 2mins. Pour it in the crust and refrigerate so the pudding sets up. Top with Cool Whip. You could add some chocolate chips, shaved chocolate, crushed candy canes or some hot cocoa powder as a garnish on top.
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Mashed Potatoes
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Tacos
1lb Ground Turkey 1lb Ground Beef 2 Taco Seasoning Packets Lettuce Tomatoes Salsa Sour Cream Shredded Cheese Taco Shells Flour Tortillas Avocado Tortilla Chips Our family tends to like different types of shells- hard, soft, little, burrito size, or just chips. If you want to make your own seasoning see my recipe.
Taco Seasoning
This is a recipe I put together for those times where you forget to get a packet of seasoning at the store! We typically cook 2lbs of meat for tacos at our house. I like to do 1lb of ground turkey and a pound of ground beef. It’s less expensive and a little leaner. 1/8Read More
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
This is pretty easy. The hardest part is culling all the seeds out of the squishy pumpkin innards. Here is a recipe we found. I think we cooked the seeds a little longer. You want them to look roasted and be fairly crunchy. https://www.jessicagavin.com/how-to-roast-pumpkin-seeds/
Pad Thai
Brandi found this recipe online and we made it during a spring break where we picked a different country each day of the week. Her printed pdf is available here for credit to the original source & instructions. 4 ounces dry pad thai noodles 1 (rice noodles)Boiling water to cover noodles1 large shallot, finely dicedRead More
Roasted Butternut Squash
I found this recipe at https://www.aheadofthyme.com/roasted-butternut-squash/ and just tried it this year. It was great! We just get the butternut squash pre-cut at Costco. butternut squash – one medium head butternut squash peeled and cubed into 1-inch pieces (about 5-6 cups). olive oil rosemary – I used dried rosemary buy you can also substitute withRead More
Cheesy Corn
Dump in all ingredients and let it get real happy for 4+hrs on low in crock pot! Lower the temperature and let it simmer until it’s time to eat.
Hot Apple Cider
Jug of cider 128oz Cinnamon Sticks 6-8 Whole Cloves 8-10 1/2 Lemon or 2Tbsp Lemon Juice Dump in ingredients. Cut lemon in half. Simmer and serve hot. It’s ok to purchase regular apple juice which is often less expensive than cider.
Thanksgiving Dinner
This is a running list of our traditional Thanksgiving meal. In 2020 we had COVID-19 over Thanksgiving, so we decided to cook this for Christmas in hopes that we could all enjoy it together. Its been a tradition now to serve this for both holidays since it’s such a well loved meal!