Hawaiian chicken

6-8 pieces of chicken (boneless is easiest)
1 jar of BBQ sauce
2 cups pineapple juice
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 tsp garlic powder
1 1/2 tbsp dry mustard
1 1/2 tbsp ginger
1 tsp pepper

Place chicken in a slow cooker. Mix together all ingredients for sauce. Pour over chicken. Bake on low 6ish hours. Serve over rice.

Orange chip muffins

6 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups orange juice
4 eggs
2 15oz cans of mandarin oranges, chopped
1 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix together all ingredients. Spoon batter into cups of a greased muffin pan/stone. Bake 12-15 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Makes 48 muffins

Applesauce

I don't usually make my own applesauce, but if we have a large enough batch of apples that the kids haven't eaten and need to be used, I'll throw this together. Then, of course, my kids love to eat it warm, just because I made it.

About 3lbs. of apples (we had Granny Smiths and Galas)
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 cup lemon juice
About 8 cups apple juice

Core and peel apples. Put them in a pot with lemon and apple juices (this prevents so much discoloration of the apples and prevents having to put in sugar at the end). Boil until very tender. Drain and put apple chunks in large bowl. You can either mash or mix apples to desired consistency. Add cinnamon. Pressure can whatever the kids don't devour.

Cracker Jack cookies

3 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soa
1 tsp salt
2 cups butter, melted
2 cup brown sugar
2 cups sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
4 cups oatmeal
4 cups Rice Krispies

Mix together everyting down to the Rice Crispies. After mixture is smooth, hand stir in the cereal. Drop into heaping spoonfuls on baking pan/stone. Bake on 350 degrees until they are evenly browned. Cool.

NOTES: 1-This dough is very thick.
2-These cookies are to be chewy, so when you start to remove them from a hot pan, they bunch together. Let them cool for a few minutes, then try to remove them.

Makes 13 dozen

Salsa chicken

chicken pieces (we used 3 breasts, 4 thighs, and 6 legs)
2 cups salsa
1/2 cup taco seasoning
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream

Place rinsed chicken in crockpot. Mix together rest of ingredients. Pour over chicken. Cook on low for 6-8 hours, until done.

Chicken Alfredo

chicken pieces (We did 2 boneless breasts, 4 boneless thighs, and 6 legs)
salt
flour
olive oil or cooking spray
1 bag of egg noodles

SAUCE:
3 tsp garlic, minced
3 tbsp onion, minced
4 1/2 cups whipping cream
1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
1 1/2 tsp pepper

Rinse chicken; salt; coat in flour. Fry chicken in olive oil or cooking spray until mostly done. In a saucepan, combine ingredients for alfredo sauce. Simmer over medium heat, whisking the whole time to prevent lumps. Remove chicken from heat, placing it in a 9x13 inch baking pan. Pour alfredo sauce over chicken. Bake on 350 degrees for about an hour, until done. While chicken is baking, boil the pasta; set aside.
Remove chicken from oven. Place chicken pieces on plate; pour sauce over pasta.

Edible playdough

My kids LOVE this stuff. They play and play, but you have the assurance that when they eat some (and all kids inevitably do), they're not eating chemicals and poisons. AND, what's better than all of that? It's easy to make, easy to clean up!

8 cups smooth peanut butter
8 cups powdered milk
1 cup honey

Mix together in a large bowl. If the mixture is still sticky, simply add small amounts of powdered milk until it's not. Store in an airtight container. Whatever's leftover that your kiddies don't eat, the dog can have :)