Wacky Cake

Wacky Cake

- Bakes at 350*
- Need: 8x8 Cake Pan

• 1 1/2 cups flour
  
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 3 heaping tbsp baking cocoa
  
• 1/2 tsp salt
  
• 1 scant tsp baking soda
  

- Sift all of these ingredients into an ungreased 8x8 cake pan, make 3 wells(indentations with spoon) in sifted ingredients.
- In one put 5tbsp oil
- In another 1 tsp vanilla
- Into third 1tbsp white vinegar
- Pour 1 cup cold water over all ingredients
- Mix well with a fork
- Bake in 350* oven, about 30 minutes

[Yes! This Does Not Take Any Eggs!!]

Cinnamon Mocha Coffee

Cinnamon Mocha Coffee

• Make 5 cups of coffee
• Adding 1 tbsp of cinnamon & 1/4 tsp nutmeg to coffee grounds before brewing
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup chocolate syrup
  
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
  
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
  

• In large saucepan combine milk & chocolate syrup & brown sugar, cook over low heat, stir occasionally - until sugar dissolves
• Stir in vanilla & coffee - serve in mugs
  

[You can put whip cream on top if you want too]

Enjoy!

Peanut Butter Fudgies

Peanut Butter Fudgies

Ingredients needed:

• 2 cups sugar
  
• 2 1/2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup milk
  
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
  
• 1/2 cup Jif Peanut Butter
  
• 2 cups quick cooking rolled oats
  

Directions:

• In a large saucepan, combine sugar and cocoa powder; add milk, stirring until smooth
  
• Add butter or margarine
  
• Bring to boiling over high heat; boil 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
  
• Add Jif, stirring until melted. Stir in rolled oats; mix well.
  
• Drop from teaspoon onto waxed paper. Cool thoroughly.
• Makes 3 1/2 dozen candies.

Enjoy!!

Sloppy Joes

Sloppy Joes

• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1/2 cup & 2tbsp ketchup
  
• 1/4 cup water
  
• 1 tsp brown sugar
  
• 1 tsp salt
  
• 1/4 tsp mustard
• 1/4 tsp chili powder, pinch of all spice

- Cook beef and onion over medium heat until no longer pink, drain
- Add all other ingredients, bring to a boil, reduce heat to low
- Simmer until heated through(It will thicken some)
- Serve on buns

Enjoy!

Parmesan Noodles

Parmesan Noodles

• Medium egg noodles
• 3 tbsp chopped onion
  
• 2 tbsp butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• Garlic Salt & Pepper - a little or a lot depending on what you like
  

- Cook noodles, drain, mix in other ingredients

Scalloped Potatoes

Scalloped Potatoes

- Pre heat your oven to 325*

• 5 Potatoes Peeled & Sliced
• 1/4 Cup Butter Or Margarine
  
• 3 tbsp Flour
  
• 1 tsp Salt
• Dash of Pepper
• 3 Cups Milk

- In large saucepan melt butter, stir in flour, salt & pepper, stir till smooth
- Gradually add milk, bring to a boil, stir about 2 minutes til thick & bubbly
- Pre heat oven 325*
- Placed potatoes in greased 9" baking pan
- Add sauce, stir to coat potatoes
- Cover and back 30 minutes , uncover, bake 30-40 minutes longer, till potatoes are tender

**TIP: If you want this quick use canned sliced potatoes, use 2 cans, if you only have one can cut ingredients in half. When you use canned potatoes it should only take about 30 minutes at 350*

Enjoy!!

Beefy Biscuit Cups

Beefy Biscuit Cups

- Preheat Oven To 375*

• Ground Beef
• Spaghetti Sauce
  
• Large Refrigerated Biscuits
  
• Shredded Cheese

- Brown Beef, Drain, Add Sauce, Cook Till Heated
- Press Biscuits Into Greased Muffin Cups
- Press Into Bottom & Up Sides
- Spoon About 2tbsp Of Meat Mix Into Center
- Bake In Preheated Oven at 375* For 15-17 Minutes Till Golden Brown
- Sprinkle Cheese on Top
- Bake About 3 MoreMinutes Or Until Cheese Melts

Enjoy!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Just a short update on everything. The Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie turned out amazing! Sorry I didn't take any pictures to show everyone. I was quite busy!

On the ham I made my own glaze with pineapple chucks, pineapple juice, maraschino cherries and dark brown sugar. If you'd like the recipe I can whip one up for you!

How did every one else's holiday dinner turn out? And for every one that doesn't celebrate Christmas what did every one else do? And what is some traditions for your holidays?

Mini Cheesecakes

Mini Cheesecakes

- Pre heat your oven to 350*
- You will need muffin cups

• Mix: 2 packages(80z each) cream cheese, softened
  
• 1/2 cup sugar & 1/2 tsp vanilla
  
• Add: 2 eggs
• Place: 12 vanilla wafers in bottom of paper lined muffin cups
• Preheat Oven to 350*
• Bake 20 minutes or until centers are set
• Cool, refrigerate 2 hours or overnight
  

- If you want you can top them with any fruit that you would have on cheescake.

Enjoy!

Hot Fudge Sauce

Hot Fudge Sauce

(Makes 2 Cups)

• 2 cups sugar
  
• 1 /4 Cup baking cocoa
• 1 can (5 oz) evaporated milk
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, cubed
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

- In small saucepan combine sugar & cocoa stir in milk and add butter(margarine)
- Bring to a boil over medium heat
- Stir constantly reduce heat to low
- Keep stirring about a minute until it starts to thicken a little
- Remove from heat, stir in vanilla
- Serve warm, put leftovers in refrigerator

To reheat: Put in saucepan over medium heat, bring to a boil, stir until smooth.

Merry Christmas Eve!

Trina and I would like to wish everyone out there where ever you may be a Merry Christmas Eve, we just finished making the Peanut Butter Pie we have up here on the blog, it was one of the first recipes we posted. I think it came out okay considering neither of us have ever made it before, I'm so use to my mom making it and it looks perfect when it comes out. All I have to do is add some more whipped topping and drizzle hot fudge and peanut butter over the topping tomorrow when we're ready to have some. It's so good, I can't wait, I look forward to having it each holiday season, this will be the first time Trina tries it, let's hope she likes it.

I'll be posting a few more recipes today, I'm not sure if I'll get any up tomorrow but Friday it's back to the grind and posting more recipes. We would love to hear how everyone's holiday goes, what you made, if it came out right or was it a disaster? We're having ham and all the goodies to go with it, I'll let everyone know how dinner is but I'm sure it'll be great because Trina is a very good cook.

Well, off to watch some Christmas movies and hang out, if there's a recipe you'd like to see please leave us a comment or if you have a story to share with us, e-mail us at Coast2CoastRecipes@gmail.com, we'll post it here on the blog! Just be sure to give us your name and if you want us to post your e-mail or something along with it, thanks

Happy Holidays, Cooking & Blogging!!

AppleSauce Cake

This is a recipe for AppleSauce Cake that my mom recently gave too me, it's the one my grandma use to make. Pre-heat your oven to 350* for this cake and you'll need a bundt pan to bake it in.

AppleSauce Cake

• 1/2 cup Butter or margarine, softened
• 1 cup sugar
  
• 1 cup applesauce
  
• 1 cup raisins
  
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional
  
• 1/2 cup each green & red cherries (These are sold in jars, can use one color too)
• 1/2 cup flour
  
• 1/4 tsp ground gloves
• 1 tsp cinnamon
  
• 1/4 tsp salt
  
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder

- Set aside a few cherry halves for top
- Mix all ingredients together
- Pour into greased & floured bundt pan
- Place cherries on top, bake in pre heated 350* oven for one hour

Enjoy!! I can't find a picture of this one, but if I do I'll add it to this posting.

Monkey Bread

*Oven at 350
*Need a bunt pan

• 3 tubes buttermilk biscuits
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 cup brown sugar (lite or dark)
• 1 stick butter

Cut each biscuit into quarters. In baggy add all dry ingredients. Shake and coat each piece.Don't put too many at once, or they'll stick together. After all are coated, put all in bag to make them stick together. Throw pieces into ungreased bunt pan. DO NOT arrange. Add melted butter over top evenly.
Bake at 350 for 30min. Flip put of pan immediately.

Image via Google Image search

Zucchini Cake

*Oven at 350

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup veggie oil
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups zucchini (shredded)
• 3 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3 tsp cinnamon
• 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

Mix all ingredients, zucchini last. Pour into greased 13x9in glass/metal pan at 350 for 30-35min.

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1 pkg cream cheese
• 1/2 stick butter
• 3/4-1/2 cup confection sugar (powdered sugar)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Blend to creamy desire.

Chicken Escarole

• Whole chicken skinned or cut up in pieces
• 4-6 carrots sliced or diced
• 2 onions chucked
• Salt & Pepper
• Oregano
• Garlic powder
• Parsley
• Chicken base (or bouillon)
• 1 good bunch of Escarole chopped and washed good
• 1 box Orzo's or small pasta

*Meatballs

• 1 lb hamburg
• 1/2-3/4lbs ground pork
• Breadcrumbs
• 1 egg
• 1/4 or less milk
• Salt & pepper
• Parm grated cheese
• Garlic powder
• Oregano
• Parsley

Mix all together. Roll into xxsmall balls. Can be put in fridge until read for soup.

In lg stock pot, put whole chicken, or cut up. Cover with water. Add onions and carrots. Add all seasonings. Cook for about 2-3 hrs. Until chicken starts to fall off the bones or very tender.

Take out chicken, let cool to be able to handle. Pull all chicken off bones. Throw bones & grizzle out. Add chicken back to pot. Add chicken base to taste. If need more seasonings (garlic powder ect.) add now.

Cut up 1 good size bunch of escarole and add to pot. Make sure you wash it good first. Add the meatballs.

Simmer for about 1/2 hr. When balls are cooked through.

In the meantime cook your orzo's. While escarole & meatballs cook, add all to pot. Drain pasta. Have bread on side and
enjoy!!

Image is via Google Image search

Addictive Chicken

This is a recipe that Trina created herself one night when cooking dinner and we both fell in love with it, it's personally one of my favorites, she named it Addictive Chicken, we tried to think of another name for it but we didn't have any luck haha. It's a very easy meal to prepare and very cheap as far as cost goes and it's very filling as well.

- Preheat oven to 375*
- 1 Can -Cream of Chicken or Cream of Mushroom(as long as it's cream of chicken)
- 1/2 can water
- Chicken(depending on how many people, boneless or bone it doesn't matter)
- Pasta (egg noodles, rice, pasta, ramen noodles, it's your choice)

In a casserole dish/baking pan place chicken in pan. I use a 8x8 brownie pan for four pieces of chicken.

In a bowl mix 1 can of Cream of Chicken with 1/2 can of water
Add spices to taste. I usually use Adobo seasoning and Grill Masters Mesquite to taste.

After sauce is mixed pour over chicken. Make sure chicken is covered. If need more sauce whip some up. That's why I use a brownie 8x8 pan. 1 can of sauce covers nicely.

Place in oven for approximately 1/2 hour. After 1/2 hour cut into chicken making sure chicken isn't pink. Once cooked leave in oven and shut off to keep chicken warm while getting pasta ready.

Prepare pasta/rice/noodles accordingly. After pasta is done take chicken out and place over pasta. Pour sauce over and enjoy!

Tip - It's also good with Spinach between the chicken and rice or if you chose some sort of pasta. Sarah personally loves it with the Spinach but it's totally optional.

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Hi everyone!

We're so happy we've been able to post a couple recipes already, do you have one you'd like to share with us or possibly one you'd like to see? If you want to share one please feel free to leave it in a comment or you can e-mail us at coast2coastrecipes@gmail.com, we'll gladly post it in a new blog post and give you credit for the recipe as well.

We'd love to hear about any cooking or baking disasters you might have had over the years or over this Holiday season, yes, their bad but sometimes others like to hear about them, we would love here at Coast 2 Coast Cooking's Blog. We'll be posting a lot of recipes over this week but we will keep the blog up to date every single day with new recipes or tips for cooking/baking. For any past blog entries please check out the blog archive which can be found on the side hand side of the blog.

Happy Holidays & Happy Blogging!

Decadent Peanut Butter Pie

My mom makes this pie every Christmas but now that I recently moved out to California and will be spending my Christmas here, the best friend and I will be attempting to make this pie on Christmas Eve. It's very rich and sweet so it's one of those once a year kind of treats, my mom didn't make this recipe up herself, neither did I, it's from Smuckers so I want to give credit where it's deserved.

*Decadent Peanut Butter Pie*

1 prepared chocolate cookie pie crust
1 cup Jif creamy peanut butter
8 oz cream cheese (at room temperature)
1/2 cup sugar
12 oz container of non-dairy whipped topping, divided
1 jar (11.75 oz) Smucker’s Hot Fudge Ice Cream Toppings, divided

Drizzle: 2 tbs Smucker’s Hot Fudge and 2 tbs Jif Peanut Butter

In a medium bowl, beat together the Jif peanut butter, cream cheese and sugar. Gently fold in 3 cups whipped topping. Spoon mixture into the pie shell. Using a spatula, smooth mixture to edges of pie.

Reserving 2 tablespoons of Smucker’s Hot Fudge, place remaining Smucker’s Hot Fudge into a microwave safe bowl or glass measuring cup. Microwave for 1 minute. Stir. Spread Smucker’s Hot Fudge over pie to cover the peanut butter layer. Refrigerate until serving time.

Just before serving, spread the remaining whipped topping over hot fudge layer, being careful not to mix the two layer.

Place the 2 tbs Smucker’s Hot Fudge in a small baggie and knead for a few seconds. Cut a tiny hole in the corner of the bag and drizzle over pie. Do the same with 2 tbs Jif Peanut Butter going in the opposite direction of the Smucker’s Hot Fudge.

Enjoy! What makes this dessert so easy is that it's a no bake pie! It's a great treat, anyone who has ever tried it after my mom made it loved it, my cousin thought one year he'd have two pieces, he did than he regretted it because he didn't believe it was so sweet until he didn't feel well lol, so be prepared, one decent size piece at a time is good. It will last for a few days, that is if their are leftovers. I doubt there will be if you bring it to a Christmas Party or if your having company over or going somewhere and bringing dessert.

*I found the picture of the pie via a Google image search, I had one of the one my mom made a couple Christmas' ago but I just can't seem to locate it.

Welcome To Coast 2 Coast Cooking's Blog!

Welcome to Coast 2 Coast Cooking your home for recipes, cooking tip and more. This is the place where you can find recipes from desserts to meals to appetizers. If you have a recipe you'd like to share please leave it via a comment. Here is our first recipe on the blog, it's a recipe my mom always use to make when I was a kid.


*Peanut Butter Cookies*

(Can be filled with preserves, cherries or chocolate chips)

- 1 Cup Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1/2 Cup Packed Brownsugar
- 1/4 Cup Sugar
- 1 Cup Smooth Peanut Butter
- 1/2 Cup Butter Or Margarine, Softened
- 1 Large Egg
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract

- Sift together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Set Aside
- In large bowl combine sugars, add peanut butter and butter
- Beat until smooth and creamy(I beat with a fork)
- Add egg and vanilla, mix
- Refrigerate at least 1 hour
- Shape dough into 1" balls
- Place on cookie sheet, 1 1/2" apart
- Make indent in center with wooden spoon handle
- Bake in 375& oven 10-12 minutes

*Will be soft, cool till able to lift off sheet to rack
*Full Centers
*Makes 5 Dozen