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Quick & Easy Banana Dessert Recipes

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Bananas and strawberries go together perfectly in desserts. Here are a few quick and easy banana dessert recipes to fix for after school snacks.

All you need is five simple ingredients and you can make a variety of simple, but impressive banana desserts. 

Ingredients for Quick Banana Dessert Recipes

To prevent the bananas from turning brown toss with lemon juice. 

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Easy Strawberry Trifle Recipes with Bananas

Trifles are wonderful desserts. You just add ingredients that go together in a clear container to make wonderful quick easy desserts for any size of gathering. 

Mini Strawberry-Banana Trifle

Place a vanilla wafer at the bottom of a whiskey glass. Or you could use an “official dessert glass” but my husband likes whiskey, so it’s what I use.

Layer banana pudding, pudding, bananas, strawberries in the glass

Top with whipped topping. (I crushed the vanilla wafers for a middle layer, but it’s not necessary.)

You can also make this is a large Trifle Bowl if you have one. You will need to double or triple the amount of pudding and ingredients as this will make a dessert for a large crowd.

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Strawberry – Banana Pudding

Layer bottom of a 9×13 clear baking dish with vanilla wafers.

Prepare banana pudding. Fold in chopped strawberries

Top with Sliced strawberries, spread with whipped cream (or leave out, it’s just as good)

Serve and enjoy!

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Strawberry- Banana Poke Cake

Prepare a yellow cake in a 9×13 pan. Poke holes in cake with end of a wooden spoon. Spoon prepared banana pudding over cake. Spread so pudding “oozes” down into the holes. 

Top with sliced strawberries and as ALWAYS, served topped with whipped cream.

Banana Split Dessert

This one adds some chocolate to the ingredient listing. Oh, yes, Chocolate!!!

Mix chopped Snickers bars to the banana pudding. Yup, you heard me. chocolate, nuts, caramel. 

In a small dessert bowl layer vanilla wafers on the bottom. Add pudding mixture, top with strawberries and whipped cream. 

All I can say is “Yum, yum!

Bananas are healthy and full of potassium and 33% of of your daily Vitamin B6 needs. It is true that bananas have natural sugar that some medical professionals warn against eating a banana. But they also contain pectin and resistant starch which may moderat blood sugar levels.

So eat your bananas!

Get creative with some quick banana dessert recipes of your own.

Chinese Chicken Stir Fry

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Chicken Stir Fry
Chinese Chicken Stir Fry

I love Chinese food, yet I don’t get a chance to eat it as much as I would like. We live about 30 minutes from Omaha and Lincoln and although it’s not far, we just don’t eat out very much. I do make a mean stir fry at home though and it’s not that it’s hard to make.

By the way the chopsticks above were given to me by my oldest Marine son for Christmas, he made a thrift store run and found amazing presents that fit everyone’s interest and taste. I LOVE these bamboo chopsticks!

I use a wok, but before I had a wok I used a cast iron skillet, the same with the sesame oil and wok oil, it does add a certain flavor, but if you don’t have it leave it out.

Ingredients

  • 3 chicken breasts, cubed, or in strips
  • Bag of frozen Chinese vegetables (or combination of green peppers, shredded carrots, broccoli, etc)
  • 2 TBSP Sesame oil
  • 2 TBSP Wok oil
  • 1/2 onion, sliced
  • 1/2 cup sliced mushrooms
  • Jar of water chestnuts
  • 1/4 cup Soy Sauce
  • 1/4 cup Dorothy Lynch Salad dressing (or catalina style)
  • 2 TBSP Cornstarch (or flour)
  • Cooked Rice

Directions

  1. Preheat oils in wok pan, when hot add onions and cubed chicken
  2. Cook till chicken is cooked throughout.
  3. Push chicken and onions to sides of wok, add vegetables and push on the side
  4. Add 1/2 cup water, salad dressing and soy sauce
  5. Cover and bring liquid to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
  6. Steam vegetables to desired tenderness
  7. Mix 1/4 cup water with cornstarch, add to simmering liquid in middle of wok. Sauce will thicken
  8. Mix all ingredients in sauce, remove from heat.
  9. Serve over cooked rice

Eat and enjoy!

Portebella Mushrooms and Onions

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I love mushrooms and there is nothing better than sauteed mushrooms and onions on a steak. Shoot I don’t even need the steak to enjoy this treat. Simple to fix, 1/4 cup butter (what else) melted in a frying pan, (I prefer cast iron) slice mushrooms and onions and slow cook till tender. Season with your favorite flavors, mine include cracked peppercorns (pepper) and garlic salt.

Portabella Mushrooms and onions
Portabella Mushrooms and onions

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Meatloaf Cupcakes Recipes Your Kids Will Love

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You heard right, it’s a Meatloaf cupcake recipe.

According to my daughter two words that should never be put together. But based on the response from uploading a picture to Facebook I think my Meatloaf Cupcakes with mashed potatoes for frosting deserves some blog time.

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I didn’t find this idea on Pinterest,  it was a Family Magazine recipe while getting my hair cut, although anyone who wants to Pin this is more than welcome.

Meatloaf cupcakes are actually quite easy. In very simplistic terms, use your favorite meatloaf recipe, bake in muffin tins and frost with mashed potatoes. Easy peasy. They actually make meatloaf cupcake tins now!

Now, for a beginning cook who has never made either, here is my recipe below. Remember I’m a “creative cook”, recipes are used as guidelines and measurements are liberally flexible.

Meatloaf Cupcake Recipe

  • 2 lbs of ground beef
  • 1/2 onion, chopped
  • 1 cup bread crumbs
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • Salt & Pepper (1/2 tsp each)
  • Cupcake tins (didn’t have these so I baked them in regular muffin tins, messier, and not as pretty)

Mix raw ground beef with all the remaining items on the list. Scoop into balls and press into muffin tins.  Glaze with ketchup and bake at 350F for 45 minutes.

Since I have posted this Meatloaf Muffin recipe it has become VERY popular on Pinterest. Thank you, everyone, by the way. Now there are multiple stuffed meatloaf muffin recipes and even a special muffin pan designed to drain the fat from the tins, genius I say!

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Mashed Potato Recipe

  • 4-6 potatoes
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • Salt & Pepper
  • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese (optional)

Directions

  1. Peel and slice potatoes into 1/2″ pieces.
  2. Boil in a large pot of water (make sure water is at least 1/2″ over potatoes) until easily poked with a fork.
  3. Drain water (save potato water as stock for cooking) and add milk, butter, sour cream, salt and pepper.
  4. Mash all ingredients together with a potato masher, or blender. 
  5. Add cheese and mix with wooden spoon until cheese is melted. (add more for cheesier frosting)
  6. Insert mashed potatoes into a piping tube, I used my Pampered Chef decorating tube (did I tell you I got a lot for my wedding)
  7. Top with grated salt and pepper
Options
Top with bacon bits, shredded cheese, or chives.
Find More Meatloaf Cupcake Recipes
Get creative with your meatloaf and your cupcakes. Food doesn’t have to be boring. If you have any meatloaf cupcake recipes you would like to share let me know.

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Day 206/365: Garlic and Parsley New Potatoes

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Garlic New Potatoes
Garlic New Potatoes

Produce Stand Recipe #1 (Nelson Produce Stand, Omaha NE)

I love new potatoes, they are so much more tender and fresh than those Russets that sit in burlap bags and plastic sacks in the store. The skin on new potatoes are clean, tender, and delicious.

Ingredients:

  • 1 lb Red new potatoes
  • 1- 2 cloves fresh garlic
  • 4 TBSP Butter
  • 1 TBSP dried parsley
  • Salt & Pepper to taste

Directions:

  1. Cut potatoes into 2-4 pieces depending on size
  2. Cover with water in a small sauce pan
  3. Crush 1-2 cloves of garlic into water
  4. Boil until tender. Drain (can save potato water for soup stock)
  5. Add butter to taste, I like butter so I used a lot. Sprinkle with parsley.
  6. Cover and let flavors meld together