Shepherd's Pie

1 small onion
1.5 pounds ground beef
Two 8oz cans tomato sauce
2 small cans whole kernel corn
8-10 med new red potatoes
1.5 cups milk
12 tbl butter
Sour cream
2 cups instant biscuit mix

Potato layer: Peel and slice potatoes 1/4 inch thick. Cook in boiling water about 15 minutes. Whip with an electric mixer, adding about 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup sour cream, and a stick of butter. Salt and pepper to taste.

Beef layer: Saute onion in 2 tbl butter. Add ground beef. After beef is browned, drain. Return to low heat and add tomato sauce and one small can of whole kernel corn.

Biscuit layer: Combine biscuit mix and 1 cup milk. The mix should be thinner than normal biscuit dough, but not runny.

Using a greased 8x11 (or larger) casserole dish, layer the mashed potatoes about half-way up. Next, add the other can (heated) of corn, then the beef layer. Top with the biscuit dough and 4 tablespoons of melted butter. Bake at 350 for about 35 minutes, or until biscuit layer is golden brown.

Cake mix cookies

Chrissy and I were at a meeting last night and somebody brought some good cookies. I told her I liked the cookies, and she gave me the recipe. I bet she had no idea it would be on the internet 12 hours later...

1 box Duncan Hines cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 tbl water
1 pack chocolate chips (or 1/2 pack choc chips and 1/2 bag Reece's Pieces)

Stir

Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes

Snickerdoodle Cookies

Nanny sent this note and recipe along:

Hi Brad, I just made my first Snickerdoodles and if you eat one right out of the oven with a cold glass of milk, you'll think you've died and gone to heaven!.....almost. Here's the recipe:

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup oleo softened
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbl sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp cinnamon
2 3/4 cups plain flour
2 tsp cream of tartar

Heat oven to 400 degrees. In large bowl combine 1 1/2 cups sugar and oleo; beat until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well.

Add flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt, mix until well blended. In small bowl, combine 2 tbl sugar and cinnamon.

Shape dough into 1 inch balls, roll in cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake at 400 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets.

Note: for thinner cookies: place balls of coated dough on cookie sheet and press gently with the bottom of a glass dipped in flour. 4 dz cookies. (they're better than Wal Mart's!)

Butterfinger Cake

Ingredients:
1 yellow cake mix, baked according to pkg. directions
1 jar Caramel Ice Cream Topping
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 (16 oz.) tub Cool Whip
3 regular size Butterfinger bars

Preparation/Instructions:
After cake has cooked and cooled, take a wooden spoon and punch holes all over cake. Open and pour sweetened condensed milk over top of cake. Let that soak in and then pour caramel ice cream topping over it. Top with Cool Whip and crushed Butterfinger pieces. Keep refrigerated.

(This is pretty similar to Nanny's Better Than You-Know-What Cake, which uses Heath Bars and Chocolate Cake.)