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Thanks for stopping by... We'd like to welcome you to The Recipe Drawer where good taste is always in style. Our focus is to provide a friendly community where anyone can go to find recipes, swap kitchen tales, and plan meals. We'll be building the site up as quickly as we can so stop by often to see what we're cooking up.

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Martin & Wendy

Appetizers...Not Just for Eating Out Anymore

When you cook dinner does your family badger you about when it'll be done? Do your kids gaze at you with ravenous eyes and beg for a snack? Then give them one!

Butter Beans

Ingredients: 
  • 1 lb. dry lima beans
  • ham steak
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 3 T. butter

Rinse lima beans and then soak at least three hours.  Place beans and ham steak in a pot and add water until the beans are covered and the water level is an inch above the beans.

Hamburger Quiche

Ingredients: 
  • 1 lb hamburger
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 c. cheese
  • 1 c. evaporated milk
  • pie shell

Brown meat and onion. In a pie shell, add meat and onion mixture and egg. Add cheese and evaporated milk. Bake at 325 degrees for 25 to 40 minutes. Makes two 9-inch quiches.

Jello Cookies

Ingredients: 
  • 3/4 shortening
  • 1/2 c. sugar
  • 1 pkg. jello, any flavor
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 and 1/2 c. flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. salt

Mix ingredients in order listed. Shape into balls. Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.

Easy Crock Pot Barbeque Chicken

Ingredients: 
  • 1 whole chicken
  • 1 bottle of your favorite barbeque sauce
  • 1/2 yellow bell pepper, sliced long
  • 1/2 orange bell pepper, sliced long

Place the chicken in the crock pot. Cover with barbeque sauce. Add bell pepper slices. Cook on low for 5-6 hours.

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