Recipes by Shanny Jean

A Nice Salad

Quantities should be fairly obvious, and since I don't know them off hand, I am not sharing.

Ingredients:
Romaine lettuce
Mandarin oranges
Sliced fresh strawberries
Slivered or sliced almonds
Poppy seed dressing
Optional: other stuff (chicken, boiled eggs, whatever)

Sugar your almonds - put almonds and a smallish (1/4 cup?) amount of sugar in a pan. Mix until sugar melts pretty pretty onto the almonds. Cool them, and wash that pan immediately or you will be really mad at yourself later. Put everything into a bowl and mix it really well. That includes the dressing. Done!

Brownie Orgasm

I never called it that before. My aunt makes these; I usually call them Aunt Connie's Country Kitchen Cookies. They're awsome.

Ingredients:
1 box german chocolate cake mix
1 stick of butter or margarine
1 bag of wrapped caramels (unwrapped)
1 itty bitty can of carnation milk (evaporated, not condensed)
Lots of chopped pecans (you can omit these if you're a weenie)
1 bag of unsweetened chocolate chips (I usually get Godiva, but whatever is fine)

1. Preset the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit (I don't know conversions). Melt caramels with half the milk on the stove. You can use a double boiler, but if you're poor like me a normal pan works just fine. That'll take a while, so multi-task.

2. Melt the stick of butter with the rest of the milk in another pan on the stove. When the butter/milk mixture is liquid, stir in the cake mix. Plop half the cake mixture in a lightly greased 9"x11" (ish? What's the real size?) pan. Bake that little layer for 6 minutes. Let the other half sit somewhere other than the stove.

3. Take the pan out of the oven. Sprinkle the pecans and chocolate chips over the bottom layer. Drizzle caramel mixture all over that. Immediately run water on the caramel pan. You'll be mad at yourself later if you don't. Make very flat pancake shapes with the remaining cake mix, and place them carefully on top of the layers. When all is covered, bake in the oven for about 15-20 minutes.

4. Let cool for at least half an hour. These are good hot, room temperature or refridgerated. Oh man, they are so good.

love and summer,
shanny