Day 5

Day 5-Your favorite recipes

Let me first apologize for the blurry photos. I was too lazy to type these all out and obviously I need to work on my photography skills. I hate it when people post blurry pictures on their blogs but here I am doing just that. I'll stop judging. :)

When I saw that Day 5 was asking for favorite recipes I was a little stumped. We don't really have a "go to" meal at our house. Well we do, it's Nachos but you really don't need a recipe for that now do you?  So I opened up my very old box of recipes and pulled out the most used ones. You can tell they are the most used. Just look at them. Spotted with juice, water, soup and  love.

I love Chicken Rice Roger for two reasons, one it is super fast and easy to fix and two I can prepare and cook it all in the same 9X13 pan.  I have had this recipe for over 20 years. I got it from my mom. The funny thing is I didn't know why this recipe was called Chicken Rice Roger until just this past year. My mom has a dear friend named, you guessed it, Roger.  He gave the recipe to her and so she named it Chicken Rice Roger.    (I usually half the butter amount)

Cabbage Patch Soup is our favorite soup because it is like eating a taco in soup form plus you get the yummy goodness and color of the red cabbage. We usually top this with sour cream and grated cheese.  I have also had this with corn instead of the cabbage but I prefer the cabbage.  I got this recipe from an old boyfriend's mom. They say everyone comes into our lives for a reason. Cabbage Patch Soup is a good enough reason for me. :)

A good friend of mine brought us over Cake Mix Cookies for Christmas one year, about seven years ago and it has been my "go to" cookie recipe ever since. We love the way you can mix any cake mix with any yummy additions you want and we have never been disappointed. Another yummy variety I don't have on the recipe card is a dark chocolate cake mix with chopped Maraschino cherries added. Yum! Yum! Yum! 

After the birth of my second son a young couple that lived in our apartment complex brought this dinner by for us. I had never had it before and I loved it. I love that it is a complete meal in a one dish. I have since grown to love it because even my pickiest eaters will eat their broccoli (yes it is spelled wrong on the card) when it is served in this casserole. 

This is our newest addition to the Brown Family Favorite's but is one mine grown kids always call for. We make it with cut up  petite steaks. They are a cheaper, so tougher, cut of steak but cooking it all day in the crock-pot helps tenderize it and the flavor of this stroganoff is so delicious you can sometimes catch us licking our plates. 

This poor battered recipe is a family favorite and when I say family I mean the whole extended family. We have this punch at every family gathering. It is full of yummy fruit juices and lots of sugar so you know it's good.  You can use sugar free pop to cut down on the sugar if you want to. This recipe makes four punch bowls full which is a lot of punch so it's perfect for a big group.

Our list wouldn't be complete with out our most favorite vegetable dish. My sister-in-law showed up at a family dinner with this recipe once and she has had to bring it to most of them ever since. At first we were all hesitant to try it. We thought she was nuts. Who likes creamed corn? Gross!!!  But I am telling you this is heaven in a bowl and now my married son is making it for his in-law family gatherings. 

After I posted these recipes someone asked me where my Cheese Popcorn recipe was. Anyone that really knows my family knows that we have cheese popcorn every Sunday for dinner. It has been a family tradition for the Browns long before I became a Brown. I think every girl that ever dated my husband, or his little brother, has had the experience of eating cheese popcorn with the Browns. We've shared it with a few son's girlfriends ourselves. lol  So I posted the recipe on ScrapMatters a few weeks back so I am just copying and pasting it from there since I don't have anything actually written out. 

Okay here is my Dinner Popcorn or Heart Attack Popcorn as I like to call it.
Basically you just pop your popcorn. We use an air popper and my son and my husband each eat out of those big white tupperware bowls while the rest of us each get a medium size bowl each.

Melt your butter like you would regularly for your popcorn before you pour it onto your popcorn add cubed cheddar cheese (I usually cut about three thick slices per bowl) to it and microwave it for about 45 seconds, just enough to melt the cheese (too long and it makes your cheese get too hard when it cools) then pour this golden gooey deliciousness over your bowl of popcorn and mix it in good. Add salt if you want to.

Some times we add sliced apples to the top of the bowl to eat with it.

This is a family tradition. Even my 85 year old in-laws still have cheese popcorn for dinner on Sundays.

Anyone caught rifling through the popcorn picking out the cheesy pieces is told to "stop gold digging".

There you have it. Nothing fancy or fussy but these recipes are now being enjoyed by the next generation so they will remain our family's favorites.