The Pioneer Woman Cookbook Giveaway

My first cookbook giveaway went so well, I am going to do it again !! I am giving away The Pioneer Woman's Cookbook.  I love this cookbook.  I love The Pioneer Woman.  I love cooking.  OK, enough rambling. The giveaway will run until Sunday March 20th at midnight. 

To win this great cookbook you must......

1. Become a follower of this blog
2. Already a follower, like Tnt-cook on facebook
3. Already follow and like me, share this giveaway on your blog or facebook page
4. You must leave a comment and let me know you did this as I will pick the winner out of the comments section  
5. Do all of these and I will love you forever ;)

I want to thank everyone who is already a follower of my blog or likes Tnt-cook on facebook, you guys make this all worth while.  Keep reading and leaving me comments and I will keep turning out great recipes !!

Cookbook dilema and give away, yes you heard me, COOKBOOK GIVE AWAY!!

OK, I have three cookbooks I bought over the weekend.  I love all three of them.  I made The Charleston Cheese Dip out of Trisha Yearwood's cookbook and my husband loved it.  (I had to check them out, how could I not!!!) Soooo, I am keeping that one. I have two cookbooks left to chose from. I found lots of great recipes I would love to try in both of them.  How can I give one of these two cookbooks up?? So to make it easy for me I decided to let the winner pick.  How great am I ??? 
No, seriously, I want to keep both these cookbooks, so this is really great of me !!! LOL !!!

I'm just kidding, I am happy to share my love of cooking and baking with all my friends and giving away a cookbook is a great way of sharing. 

Now onto the cookbooks.


The first is:


Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips

The second is:

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl

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See, I told you, two great cookbooks.  I love Ina, I always watch her show on Food network, and she really does make it look so easy.  And The Pioneer Woman, whats not to love about her?  I check her blog out all the time. 

To be eligible to win one of these great cookbooks, you must:

Become a follower of this blog ! (let me know in the comments of this blog you did this)

Want another chance? After becoming a follower.....

Let me know your favorite recipe from this blog. (let me know in the comments again)

I will pick the winner randomly on Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Good Luck !!

My granddaughter Devin's visit !!

This is what I found on my doorstep last Friday morning.

Devin was just dumped on my doorstep at 5 am !!

900 miles from home.

Her parents were no where around.

Just kidding,

My mother drove David, Heather and Devin to Oklahoma to see me !!

They spent a week here.

We had a great time.

Here is a preview of what happens when grandma gets a hold of a baby !!?

We play dress up

We play with daddy

We play with Grandpa

Grandpa's silly

We eat rice cereal

We have our picture taken 5,000 times

and we get lots of lovin when we cry

I miss you Devin, see you soon :)

Italian Sausage Pizza Cassarole

I had some turkey italian sausage I bought a few days ago and was looking for a recipe to make with them.

I ran across this recipe on a great website I? turn to when I'm in the mood to cook.
I'm always in the mood to cook !!!

Ingredients:

splash of Olive Oil

3 Italian Sausage Links or bulk Sausage

1/4-1/2 cup Chopped Onion

2 cloves crushed Garlic

6 cups Penne Pasta, cooked and drained

2 (8 ounce) can Tomato Sauce or Pizza Sause

2 cups grated Mozzarella Cheese

2 tablespoons dried Iitalian Seasoning

add-ins: black olives, mushrooms, green pepper..........

Directions:

Take the italian sausage links and cut down the middle to remove the casing.

Add a splash of olive oil to skillet,

cook sausage and onion over medium heat until meat is about half way through cooking.

Add the crushed garlic.

Continue cooking until the meat is no longer pink.  Drain.

Add the tomato sauce/pizza sauce.

Add the italian seasoning if using tomato sauce.

Mix the meat and the sauce together well.

Layer the bottom of a buttered 13x9 inch cassarole pan with the penne pasta.

Top the pasta with the meat mixture.

Top the pasta mixture with grated mozzarella.

I ran out of grated cheese,

so I used the sliced I had on hand.

That's what happens when you cook in your jammies and don't want to run to the store ;)

Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes until casserole is heated through
and the cheese is melted.

 

 

YUMMY

Serve with salad and garlic bread if you really want to impress them !!!

Apple Dumpling

Fall is in the air and

Halloween is just around the corner.

I love this time of year.

When the days are nice and warm

and the nights are cool, great for sleeping !

I love Fall cooking.

Pumpkin pie, potato soup, pork roast with stuffing and ....

Apple Dumplings

Ingredients:

2 whole Granny Smith Apples

2 cans (8 Oz. Cans) Crescent Rolls

1 1/2 sticks Butter

3/4 cup Sugar

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

1 teaspoon Vanilla

Cinnamon, To Taste

1/2 can (12 Oz.) Mountain Dew Soda

Preparation Instructions:

 Peel and core two Granny Smith apples.
I used three because mine were small,
and I like a little more apple in my dumplings.

Cut the apples into eight slices.

I cut mine into four because my apples were on the small size.

Open the cans of crescent rolls and unroll the dough.

Roll up an apple slice in each of the crescent rolls.

Here ya go, not perfect, but you get the idea.

See the nice slice of apple in there.

Place each one into the buttered baking pan.

  

  Melt the 1 1/2 sticks of butter in a saucepan.

 Add the 3/4 cups sugar

and the 1/2 cup brown sugar.

Add the vanilla and stir until just starting to combine.

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Pour the mixture over the top of the dumplings,

making sure to coat them.

This is the interesting part.

Pour Mountain Dew all around the edge of the pan

 and down the center.
It makes a great sauce as it cooks with the butter and sugar.

Sprinkle the top with cinnamon.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes,
(mine were done in 40 mins. since my apples were cut bigger)

make sure they don�t get too brown.

You want them golden brown and crispy on top,
soft and apple dumpling-ly on the bottom.

Oh baby !! 

These would be great with whipping cream or vanilla ice cream.

Taylor ate them as fast as I could get them out of the pan and onto his plate.

He requested I make more tomorrow.

I also brought a pan to work and 1/2 an hour later the pan came home empty.

I guess they must be good :)

ENJOY