Chicken Teriyaki

2 Tb Sake or White Wine
1/4 c Mirin
1/4 c Soy Sauce
2 Tb Brown Sugar
1 Tb Fresh grated Ginger
4 Green Onions Sliced
Splash of Sesame oil
2 pounds Chicken thighs or breast cut into bite size pieces
1/2 Tb Olive oil
Pepper to taste

Combine sake or wine, mirin, soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger, green onions, sesame oil and mix well. Add chicken and let marinate for at least one hour. Heat olive oil in pan add chicken with juices and cook until no longer pink. Serve with rice.

*I like to slightly increase the mirin and soy sauce and use about 1-1 1/2 tsp sesame oil.

Graham Cracker Crust

1 1/2 c Crushed Graham Crackers
3 Tb Sugar
1 tsp Cinnamon
1/3 c Melted Butter

Combine all ingredients and press into pie pan. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

Cream Cheese Pie

2 8 oz pkgs Cream Cheese
3 Eggs
3/4 c Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1/2 Tb Lemon Juice
1/4 c sugar
1 rsp Vanilla
8 oz Sour Cream
Graham Cracker Crust

Blend cream cheese, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and lemon juice in a blender until smooth. Pour into pie crust and bake at 325 for 25 minutes. It should look a little runny. Take from oven while you blend sour cream, sugar, and vanilla in a blender. I like to make sure there isn't too many air bubbles from the blender or the top will not look smooth. Pour carefully over cooked cream cheese. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Let cool and refrigerate over night.

Yorkshire Pudding

1 c Flour
1 c milk
3 Eggs
1 tsp Salt
1/2 stick Butter

Pre-heat oven to 350. Place butter in cake pan and put in oven until butter is melted. Mix all ingredients together until smooth. Pour batter in pan and cook for 30-40 minutes. Will rise and bubble up.

Crescent Rolls

1 pkg Yeast
1 tsp Sugar
1/2 c Warm Water
1/2 c Butter
3 1/2-4 c Flour
1 c Warm Milk
3 Eggs Well Beaten
3/4 tsp Salt
1/3 c Sugar*

In a sauce pan melt butter, milk, sugar, and salt. Mix well. While cooling  mix yeast and 1 tsp sugar and warm water and dissolve. When milk mixture is cool add dissolved yeast. Stir in flour. Let rise 5-6 hours. Turn over onto lightly floured surface. Knead a few times. Cut in half. Roll out to a 12 inch circle. Melt butter and spread over rolled out dough. Cut pie style. Roll each piece from thick end to small. Place on cookie sheet and let rise another 4-6 hours. Cook at 350 for 10-12 minutes, should be golden. When just out of oven brush with melted butter. Dough can be made a day ahead and refrigerated over night then rolled out. You can also cut time by using instant yeast. You would only raise once.

*You can use 1/2 cup sugar to make either orange rolls or cinnamon rolls

Dinner in a Pumpkin

1 Small to Medium Pumpkin
1 Onion chopped
2 T Oil
1 1/2 -2 lbs Hamburger
2 T Soy Sauce
2 T Brown Sugar
4 oz Mushrooms sliced
1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
1 1/2 c Cooked Rice
8 oz Sliced Water Chestnuts

Optional Seasonings
1/2-1 tea Nutmeg
1/2-1 tsp Pepper

Brown hamburger and drain grease out. Add rest of ingredients to hamburger and mix together. Hollow out the pumpkin and fill with hamburger mixture and replace top of pumpkin. Place on cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 1 hour or until Pumpkin is cooked. We like to draw a face on the pumpkin with a perm marker before cooking on Halloween.