My Sister Marilyn's Monkey Bread

My sister Marilyn always coming up with something fun to eat. - we always seating around the kitchen table doing nothing but talking and laughing and up pop something good to eat and fun - her old fashion monkey bread good and hot and sticky. with a good cup of her coffee or a good tall glass of ice tea we have a good ole time.

Original recipe makes 1 10 inch tube pan

    3 (12 ounce) packages refrigerated biscuit dough get the cheap ones

    1 cup white sugar

    2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

    1/2 cup sweet butter

    1 cup packed  dark brown sugar

    1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

    1/2 cup raisins or a lot if you like raisins

Directions

Preheat oven to 350  Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube
Mix white sugar and cinnamon in a brown paper bag. Cut biscuits into quarters. Shake biscuit pieces in the sugar cinnamon mix. Arrange pieces in the bottom of the prepared pan. Continue until all biscuits are coated and placed in pan. If using nuts and raisins, arrange them in and among the biscuit pieces as you go along.
In a small saucepan, melt the butter with the brown sugar over medium heat. cook for 1 minute. Pour over the biscuits.
Bake at 350 for 35 minutes. then turn out onto a plate. adding icing topping Do not cut! The bread just pulls apart.

Icing topping
1 cup powder sugar
2 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon milk
1 table of vanilla

blend together until thin to pour over hot monkey adding more chopping nuts if you like... for those little monkeys.

    Roasted Chicken Leg Quarter

 

6 Med sized chicken legs quarters clean and trim of fat

1 tablespoon salt

1 tablespoon black pepper

1 tablespoon cayenne pepper

3 tablespoon garlic powder

3 tablespoon dry sweet basil

1 tablespoon dry rosemary

1 tablespoon  dry thyme

smoked paprika enough to sparkle and cover well six leg quarters


Dry leg quarter and place in baking dish.

Sparkle black pepper first evenly over legs

Next sparkle salt following the trails of black pepper.

Next sparkle the garlic powder all over and the basil and rosemary will be next

Adding more sparkle garlic and basil on the backside chicken leg so you can get more flavor

Sparkle cayenne pepper. you can do the spice heavy if you like and coat the leg quarter to your liking.

Cover and refrigerate over night. flavor of the spices go though the chicken.

Next sparkle smoked paprika all over leg quarter

Keep cover and place in per heated oven 400 degree for 1 1/2 hour pour juices in a bowl and pour over chicken and leave uncover bake for 15 mins or until golden brown.

Sweet Potato Souffle

Sweet Potatoes and Roasted pecan topping. what can you ask for next in a soulffle? never will fall and never will fell at your dinner table, easy and never hard to perpare this classic dish is a treasure. You know sweet potatoes is a vegetable your kids will have no problem eating this dish up!

3 cups sweet potatoes cooked and mashed
1 cup of sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
2 tablespoon vanilla
1/2 cup of evaporated milk
1/2 real sweet butter
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 

Mix potatoes and the ingredients together until will blended...no lumps
pour in a baking dish.

Topping:
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 cup pecans chopped
1/3 butter

Mix well. ingredients will be stiff and crumbly. crumble on top of potatoes mixture bake at 350 for 30  mins

Strawberry Watermelon Salad

1/2 c sugar
1 c water
1/4 watermelon, cut into cubes
3 c strawberries, halved
1/2 pint fresh blueberries
1/2 lemon, squeezed for juice


To make the simple syrup, bring sugar and water to a boil in a small saucepan, let simmer for about 5 minutes and cool.
Place watermelon, strawberries and blueberries in a large bowl and add the syrup, mixing well. adding  lemon juice refigerate until very cold place on cold dishing you can add sliced Bananas if you like.