Strawberry Pretzel Dessert

Bottom Layer:

3 cups crushed pretzels      1 stick butter, melted

3 T. sugar

Middle Layer:

8 oz. cream cheese, softened      1 cup sugar

Top Layer:

2 cups boiling water      6 oz. strawberry jello

2 cups frozen strawberries, thawed to slushy consistency

Directions:  Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease a 9” x 11” baking dish.

For bottom layer, mix together ingredients, spread in pan, and bake for 8 minutes.  

Cool.

For middle layer, combine cream cheese and sugar.  Spread on top of cooled pretzels.

For top layer, add strawberry jello to boiling water.  Stir well.  Then add strawberries.  

Pour this mixture on top of the cream cheese.

Refrigerate one hour.

Comment:  A Lisa dessert so good that Grandma Romer eats it for breakfast!

Quick Dividend Chicken

1/8 tsp. garlic powder      ¼ tsp. thyme

¼ cup sliced almonds      ¼ tsp. pepper

¼ cup parmesan cheese      1 tsp. Lowry’s salt

2 T. parsley flakes

½ cup plain bread crumbs

2 pkgs. Boneless, skinless chicken breasts

½ cup melted butter  

Directions:  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Grease 8” x 11” baking dish.  

Mix together dry ingredients.  Dip chicken in butter, then in mixture.  Place breaded 

chick in baking dish.  Bake for 45 minutes.

Comment:  Serve with twice-baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, or baked potatoes.  A 

Lisa entry…interesting that this wonderful chicken is paired with potatoes?!?  A 

potential influence from Doug…

Chicken Adobo (A traditional Filipino recipe)

1 whole chicken, cut-up

2 cups white vinegar

¾ cup soy sauce

¼ cup Worchestershire sauce

2 T. whole peppercorns (black pepper) 

4 - 5 bay leaves

15 - 20 whole, peeled garlic cloves

Directions:  Place all of the above ingredients in a deep pot on the stove.  Cook on 

high heat for 10 minutes, then turn down to low and simmer for 1 – 1 ½ hours.  

Comment:  Serve with Jasmine rice and mild pepper rings. Lisa’s specialty.  

Delicious!

Whiskey Slushes

3 cups Bourbon whiskey

1 ½ cups sugar

12 oz. frozen orange juice

12 oz. frozen lemonade

5 cups water

Directions:  Combine all ingredients.  Mix well and place in the freezer overnight.  

To serve, add two tablespoons of this mixture to a glass. Add 7-Up, ginger ale, squire 

or your choice of soda.  To make them stronger, add more mixture.

Comment:  The only time we can drink early in the day at Grandma & Grandpa 

Romer’s house is when we celebrate the holiday with a Whiskey Slush.  Merry 

Christmas!

Tom & Jerry Mixture

3 eggs      6 oz. powdered sugar

6 drops vanilla      dash nutmeg

pinch of baking soda      Rum

Whiskey      boiling water

Directions:  Separate eggs into whites and yolks.  Beat egg whites and sugar until 

very stiff.  Beat egg yolks stiff.   Fold the yolks into the egg whites.  Add vanilla, 

baking soda.  

Place 1 jigger each rum and whiskey in a coffee cup.  Add 2 T. of mixture.  Then, 

add boiling water slowly and dash of nutmeg.

Comment:  The adult temptation at all of Grandma Bendele’s Christmas gatherings.