Chicken & Sage Mushroom Gravy

From Southern Living...

1 1/2 lbs thin-sliced boneless, skinless chicken breasts

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp black pepper

3 T oil

10 oz sliced mushrooms

2 T flour

1 14 1/2 oz can chicken broth

1/4 tsp dried sage

1/8 tsp nutmeg

Season chicken on both sides with 1/8 tsp of both salt and pepper.  Heat 2 T of oil in large skillet and saute for 3 minutes.  Turn and saute for an additional 2-3 minutes or until chicken is cooked throughout.  Remove.  Add remaining 1 T of oil and the mushrooms to the skillet and cook for 5 minutes stirring occasionally or until softened and lightly browned.  Sprinkle flour over mushrooms and cook for 1 minute.  Gradually stir in broth.  Add dried sage, nutmeg and remaining 1/8 tsp of salt and pepper and simmer for 2 minutes.  Add chicken and simmer until heated throughout.  Serve over egg noodles.  Enjoy!

Cinnamon Crusted Banana Bread

This is really yummy! :) It's from my mom's friend Tricia. I made it the other night.

6 over ripe bananas-mashed
3/4 c. butter
3 c. sugar
3 eggs
1/2 t. salt
3 t. baking soda
2 t. cinnamon
2 t. Pampered Chef cinnamon plus
2 t. Mexican vanilla
2 t. orange extract
1lb. sour cream
4 1/2 c. flour

Mix together in a mixer while on low. Grease 3 large loaf pans with Line pans with Crisco & 2 T. sugar mixed with 1 t. cinnamon. Bake at 300 degrees for approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. Check inside with a spaghetti noodle. Brush the top with butter.

Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Hi Everybody,

Here is a yummy cake recipe that I had at bunco last week. It was definately a winner with everyone.

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Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Ganache

2 c. sugar
2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. ground cloves
¼ tsp. allspice
¼ tsp. ginger
4 large eggs
1 can pumpkin (15 oz.)
1 c. vegetable oil (I used canola)
1 c. wheat bran cereal (I used all bran)
1 c. semisweet chocolate chips
1 c. chopped pecans (I’ve made with and without and like it better without)

For the cake, I started with wet ingredients and just added all dry, mixed until constituted. Don’t over mix. Bake in a Bundt pan at 350 (recipe says 1 hour but that was too long in my oven) I baked for 50 minutes and it was more moist than at 1 hour.

Ganache:
½ c. whipping cream
1 c. semisweet chips
Microwave cream in a 2 cup glass measuring cup on High for 1 minute. Add chocolate, stir until melted and let stand for 10 minutes before drizzling over cake. With the ganache, less is definately more!

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Hey guys! So, I was at young womens last night, and my young womens leader was saying how they have a recipe blog for her and her family/friends, where they put their favorite recipes, or new ones that they have tried. I thought it was such a good idea, and so I thought that since we have some amazing cooks in this family, we should start one! So, if you want to be a user on this, I can just add you I think.... somehow. Well I'll figure it out! So hope you think this is a cute idea!

Krista