Tomato Basil Pesto Panini

Ingredients

Bread
Basil Pesto
Fresh Mozzarella Cheese
Tomatoes
Pasta Sauce (optional)

Spread a thin layer of Basil Pesto on one side of the bread. Layer a thickly cut tomato with mozzarella cheese. Add pasta sauce to the other piece of bread if you want (I didn't have pasta sauce so I just put on another slab of pesto). Cook in a Panini Maker/ George Forman or cook like a grilled cheese. It's super easy and Delish!

Slow Cooker Barbecue Beef Sandwiches

3	pounds beef boneless chuck roast
1	cup barbecue sauce
1/2	cup peach or apricot preserves
1/3	cup chopped green bell pepper
1	tablespoon Dijon mustard
2	teaspoons packed brown sugar
1	small onion, sliced
12	kaiser or hamburger buns, split

1. Trim excess fat from beef. Cut beef into 4 pieces. Place beef in 4- to 5-quart slow cooker.
2. Mix remaining ingredients except buns; pour over beef. Cover and cook on low heat setting 7 to 8 hours or until beef is tender.
3. Remove beef to cutting board. Cut into thin slices; return to cooker.
4. Cover and cook on low heat setting 20 to 30 minutes longer or until beef is hot. Fill buns with beef mixture.
   
   New Betty Crocker summertime favorite!

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Sassy Sloppy Joe's

The other night I started making sloppy joes' needing a quick and easy dinner, hamburger was browned added the seasoning packet and water, then realized I had no tomato paste or sauce.  Okay, so I just started adding any tomato substance I could find and came up with the following recipe and my family LOVED them and keeps requesting them so I thought I better write down the combination before I forgot.

Ingredients:
1 green pepper
1 onion
2 lbs hamburger
2 sloppy joe seasoning packets
1 cup water
1 cup ketchup
1 (10 oz.) can diced tomato & green chili's (undrained)
1 (4 oz.) can diced green chilli's HOT (undrained)

Saute onion and green pepper in same pan brown hamburger and drain. Add remaining ingredients and bring to boil, cook down liquid.  Serve.

Hot Bacon Dip

Ingredients

• 1 (16 oz.) package sour cream
• 1 (16 oz.) jar Real Bacon Bits
• 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
• 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup chopped green onions

Directions

1. Heat oven to 400°F.
2. In bowl, combine all ingredients. Place in 2-quart baking dish; cover.
3. Bake dip 25 to 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly. Serve with assorted fresh vegetables, crackers and/or chips.
4. Makes approximately 5 1/2 cups.
5. Just for fun, place 2 1/2 to 3 cups dip in a hollowed, round sourdough loaf. Wrap bread in foil and bake 30 minutes at 400°F.

Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings

Super Easy to make and turned out pretty good!

INGREDIENTS:
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
2 tablespoons butter
2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup
1 onion, finely diced
2 (10 ounce) packages refrigerated biscuit dough, torn into pieces

DIRECTIONS:
1. Place the chicken, butter, soup, and onion in a slow cooker, and fill with enough water to cover.
2. Cover, and cook for 5 hours on High. About 1.5 hours before serving, shred the chicken and place the torn biscuit dough in the slow cooker, turn on low. Cook until the dough is no longer raw in the center.

(***I like to add half water and half chick broth and add some veggies)

Caramel Filled Chocolate Cookies

I love these rolo cookies! I made them for a church gathering and they were a big hit!!! I can't get enough of them. I found the recipe on sisterscafe.blogspot.com.

2 1/2 C. all purpose flour

3/4 C. unsweetened cocoa

1 tsp. baking soda

1 C. sugar

1 C. firmly packed brown sugar

1 C. softened butter

2 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

1 C. chopped pecans

48 Rolo, unwrapped 9 oz. pkg.

1 Tbs. sugar

4 oz. vanilla flavored candy coating (I used guittard vanilla chocolate chips)

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup and level off. In a small bowl, combine four, cocoa and baking soda; blend well.

In a large bowl, beat 1 cup sugar, brown sugar and butter until light. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well. Add flour mixture, blend well. Stir in 1/2 Cup of the pecans.

Form each cookie with floured hands, shape about 1 tablespoonful dough around 1 Rolo, covering completely.

In a small bowl, combine remaining 1/2 pecans and 1 tablespoon sugar. Press one side of each ball into pecan mixture. Place nut side up, 2" apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 10 minutes or until set and slightly cracked. Cool 2 min. Remove from cookie sheet to cool on wire rack. Melt the vanilla flavored candy coating in a saucepan or in a baggie in the microwave. Drizzle over cookies.