Transcribed from an audio book, so it's a little bit sketchy.
Chocolate Pudding
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 heaping tbsp cocoa
1 lg tsp vanilla
(finely chopped pecans)

Stir the cocoa into the butter. Dump into dry ingredients, add vanilla. Pour into greased loaf pan and set in a larger pan of water.
350 degrees. Bake 40 - 50 minutes. Doubled, makes 3 pans. Can eat raw. Top should be crunchy, bottom gooey.

Hot Cheese Dip
Serve with Fritos or Doritos
1 pound ground chuck, browned and grease poured off
Taco seasoning
Taco sauce
Hot cheez-whiz

Margaritas
1 12 oz can frozen limeade
1 bottle Corona beer
12 oz 7-up (never sprite)
12 oz really good tequila

Don't attempt to mix in a blender, stir briskly in a pitcher.

Lovely Italian Drink
3 parts absolut courant
1 part triple sec
1 part Rose's lime juice

Shake over ice and serve in chilled martini glass.

Coconut Caramel Pie
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup finely chopped pecans

Press into 2 pie plates and bake 10 minutes at 350 degrees until tan.

In large bowl, mix
8 oz cream cheese
1 can Eagle Brand milk
16 oz Cool Whip
Pour into pie crusts.
Combine:
7 oz coconut
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Spread on a cookie sheet and toast in the oven, watching carefully.

Spread on pies.

Pour a 12 oz jar caramel sauce over the pies. Freeze for awhile to firm up or eat warm with a spoon.

This sauce is a cross between remoulade and thousand island salad dressing.

Mississippi Comeback Sauce
3 cloves garlic
2 cups mayonnaise
1/2 cup chilis sauce
1/2 cup catsup
1 cup salad oil
2 tbsp black pepper
Juice of 2 lemons
2 tsp yellow mustard
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
2 dashes Tabasco sauce
1/2 onion, grated

Whirl in food processor. Serve on salads and just about anything else, especially fried food.


Butterfinger Cookies
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/3 cups dark brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
4 eggs (can use just the whites)
3 running over teaspoons vanilla
MIx together and add:
2 1/2 cups chunky peanut butter
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Stir in Butterfinger nuggets or 20 oz of chopped up Butterfingers. Drop on greased baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees 8 - 10 minutes.


Double or triple this
Pineapple Casserole
20 oz can of pineapple chunks or tidbits in juice, drained
3 tbsp reserved pineapple juice
1/2 cup sugar
3 tbsp flour
1 cup grated sharp cheese (reduced fat okay)
Pour into a greased casserole.
Mix
1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup Ritz cracker crumbs
Pour over the pineapple.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 - 30 minutes.


They want to start having Family-less reunions with all the food, blankets on the ground, and games - but no family because that would ruin it.

The menu:
Fried chicken with skin
Deviled eggs
Fried okra and squash breaded in cornmeal
(can stick cut off stem end of the pods on your forehead and wear it all day)
Chocolate pie
Banana pudding
Hot biscuits
Corn on the cob
Fresh lima beans
Fresh lady peas
Green bean casserole
Ribs
Cornbread
Blackberry cobbler
Sliced off the vine tomatoes
Homemade mayonnaise
Oceans of sweet tea