Chocolate Trifle

Chocolate Trifle 
Amber Hershey 

1 box of either devil's food cake or brownies

1 regular size container of cool whip, thawed

1 large box of chocolate pudding

6-9 heath or skor bars (you could do pretty much any kind of candy bar, I just think these two are exceptionally good.)

Bake cake or brownies according to package directions, allow to cool completely. Once cool, break the cake/brownies up into small-ish pieces. I usually do this part by hand and they don't need to be uniform in size.

Make pudding according to box directions if making instant pudding. If making the kind that you cook, make sure you prepare it well enough in advance that it has time to cool completely.

Smash up the candy bars into fairly small pieces. 

Once all of that is done, start layering into a trifle dish. If you don't have a trifle dish you can layer into glasses or goblets. Do a layer of cake, a layer of pudding, a layer of cool whip, and a layer of candy bar bits. Repeat until ingredients are gone. I usually make this in a trifle dish and typically end up with 3 layers. 

You can serve this immediately and it will be delicious, but it gets even better if you give it time to chill in the fridge for a few hours before you serve it.

Wingers Sticky Fingers: Your hubby will love you even more if you make this.

Sorry No Pictures... My hubby and i downed these before i could get some pictures.

Winger's Sticky Fingers Recipe
Larissa Terry 

1 pkg. frozen breaded chicken strips (We use Tyson brand)

6 Tbl. Frank's Hot Sauce (It has to be Franks Hot Sauce, no other sauce will taste as good)

4 Tbl. water

1 1/2 c. brown sugar

Chicken:

 Prepare the chicken strips as directed on the back of the package.

Sauce:

 Heat hot sauce, water and brown sugar in a saucepan over medium heat, until sugar is dissolved.
Pour sauce over chicken, and enjoy!  Serve with ranch dressing for dipping.
Serves 2-3 people.

We served ours with Sweet Potato Fries... when i find a Really good Sweet Potato Recipe i'll share it with ya.

Mike uses the sauce on EVERYTHING, i just keep it in a jar in the fridge and he puts it one whatever he wants. 

Bagels!

Bagels
Abby Belnap

Ingredients:

2 cups warm water

2 tsp yeast

2 tbs honey

3 tsp salt

3 cups white flour

3 cups whole wheat flour

favorite toppings such as sesame seeds or poppy seeds set aside on a small plate to dip the bagels in

Poaching liquid:

2-3 quarts water

1 1/2 tbs honey

1 tbs baking soda

1 tsp salt

Directions:

Add the yeast, sugar, and salt to the warm water and let the yeast activate for several minutes until nice and foamy. 

Using a mixer or by hand, add the flour slowly while mixing and let mix for about 3 minutes after all the flour is well incorporated.  Let sit in the bowl for 5 minutes and then mix again for another 3 minutes.

Put in a greased bowl, covered, and let rise for an hour.

Divide the dough into 12 equal balls and shape into bagels.  How we did this was we took the balls of dough, stuck our finger in the middle to create a whole we spun the dough around our two pointer fingers until it formed a nice ring.

Place the shaped bagels on a baking sheet covered with wax paper and cover them.  Refrigerate over night.

Remove the bagels the next day and allow to come to room temperature.

Let the poaching liquid come to a boil and give each bagel about 30 seconds or so in the boiling liquid.  After the time is up remove them and put them puffy side down onto the plate of toppings.  Remove and place on a baking sheet bottom side down.  We used a pizza stone sprinkled with a little corn meal and it worked fantastic.

Bake at 450 for about 12 minutes or until slightly golden.  Allow to cool on a wire rack.

Price-Matching at Walmart

I heard about price-matching at Walmart but was kind of wary of it. It seemed scary and hard. Well I started price-matching a couple months ago and noticed a huge difference when I go grocery shopping. I never go over budget anymore (I used to go over all the time), and I feel like I get a lot more for my buck. I thought I could share what I do and maybe it'll help some of you.

1. Read Wal-mart's Ad-Match Policy. It's short, don't worry. You will be prepared about what you can and can't do.
2. Optional: read How I Grocery Shop by the Fun, Cheap, or Free Queen. I read this post when I wanted to start doing it, and I feel like it really prepared me to price-match. She has some really great tips.
3. I go to savvy shopper deals which is a website that puts all the deals into one easy place. I choose Utah as my location and then go to the shopping wizard. I go through the categories to see what's on sale and then plan my meals around what's on sale. 
4. On my shopping list I write all my regular items, then I write down my price-matching items. I write down the item, the on sale price, and what store it's on sale. I never bring my ads in because the policy says you don't need it.
5. While shopping I try to keep my items organized in regular items and price-matching items. At checkout I put up all my WIC items, then regular items, than price-matching items. I let the cashier know up front that I have price-matching items at the end. When we get to those items I tell them the price of each item and they type it in. Tip: bring sticky notes with you and write the price on the item when you pick it off the shelf. Then when you get to the checkout, you don't have to tell the cashier. They just read the sticky note and type it in themselves.

In all the weeks I've gone, I've only had problems once. The cashier was an older gentleman and kept telling me I needed to bring the ads in next time. I didn't know that I didn't need the ads, so I will be better prepared next time. If you have more questions, feel free to ask me. I love talking about how this has helped me and would love to see it help other people too!

The Family Committee in the stake has created an FHE resource guide to act as an aid for helping members within the stake to study The Family: A Proclamation to the World during the month of October. The document is posted on our RS facebook page.  You can download it there!

Teriyaki Tuna and Veggies

For those of you who have lots of canned tuna and can't eat it quickly, I have a recipe for you. I don't really like tuna, but I do like this recipe. Original recipe found here.

Teriyaki Tuna & Veggies

Heather Paulsen

Ingredients
2 sheets (12x18–inches each) aluminum foil
2 cans tuna (5 oz. each), drained and broken up with fork
1 can (16 oz.) pineapple chunks in juice, drained
4 tablespoons teriyaki sauce
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 bag (16 oz.) frozen mixed vegetables for stir fry, thawed
cooked rice

1. Preheat oven to 450°F or grill to medium–high.
2. Half the frozen vegetables and center each half on the aluminum foil sheets. Half the pineapple chunks and put each half on top of the vegetables. Top each with a can of tuna. Combine the teriyaki sauce, ginger, and salt; spoon evenly over tuna, pineapple, and vegetables.
3. Bring up foil sides. Double fold top and ends to seal packet, leaving room for heat circulation inside.
4. Bake 16 to 18 minutes on a cookie sheet in oven OR grill 8 to 10 minutes in covered grill.
5. Serve over cooked rice. Add salt, pepper, and more teriyaki sauce as desired.

Zucchini Bars...

I have had many requests for this Recipe and i know many of you have so much Zucchini you don't know what to do with it, this may only take about 2 cups or half a Zucchini but but you can make to if you want :)

Zucchini Bars

Larissa Terry

4 eggs
2 C. Sugar
1 C. Vegetable Oil
1 c. unpeeled grated Zucchini
1/2 tsp. Salt

2 tsp. Cinnamon

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. backing Powder
2 1/2 C. Flour
1/2 C. Chopped nuts (optional)

Cream together the eggs sugar and oil. Add zucchini (stir in). Stir together in a separate bowl Flour, salt, cinnamon, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix Flour mixture & egg mixture. add nuts. Grease a cookie sheet & pour mixture into pan. Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes. Frost Cake when they are cool

Frosting!!
4oz. package great cheese
1 Tlb milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. Margarine
3 C. Powdered sugar

Mix all together with electric mixer.

Enjoy.. it's really good with ice cream too.