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What are the Can Do Moms making for dinner? Check out these homegrown recipes, straight from their family kitchens.

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Unbelievable Chili Recipe
Great for adults and kids
2 TBLS olive oil
1 ½ CUPS chopped onion
6 Garlic Cloves
2 LBS ground chuck
1 Envelope or ¼ CUP Taco Seasoning
1 TSP dried basil
½ TSP dried oregano
½ TSP dried thyme
1 15 OZ can tomato sauce
1 Box or Large Can Chicken or Vegetable broth
1 6 OZ can tomato paste
15-16 OZ cans of kidney beans, drained

Heat oil in heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add onions and garlic and sauté until translucent. Add chuck and cook until brown, breaking up the meat. Add taco seasoning, basil, oregano and thyme. Stir for 2 minutes. Mix in tomato sauce, paste and broth stirring occasionally to prevent sticking and simmer for about 1 ½ hours. Mix in beans. Simmer 5 minutes. Season to taste salt and pepper.
Add flour/water mixture if needs thickening. Better the next day but also can serve while hot. Add sprinkled cheese, sour cream and have some corn bread on the side.

Kauai Corn Bread
This recipe is a favorite in our family—any season and goes great with Chris’ Chili Recipe for a cold winter day…reminds us of warmer days in Kauai. We bought this recipe for a small fee from a little restaurant on the top of Wailea Canyon in Kauai.

3 Eggs
1 ¼ cup milk
½ pound butter melted
3 cups Bisquick
1 cup sugar
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ cup stone ground corn meal

Stir eggs, milk, combine dry ingredients. Add egg-milk mixture and melted butter. Pour into 9 by 13 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.

Grandma Cathy’s Hot Fudge
Your family and friends won’t believe that you could create something so yummy! It is chocoholics dream!

Heat (low heat):
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
½ cube butter
½ tsp salt

Slowly add:
1 cup chocolate chips
1 tsp vanilla
¼ cup water

Serve over vanilla ice cream hot off the stove.

Chris’s Cold Remedy
For those of you that are willing to do anything not to get sick. Must be administered at the FIRST SIGNS of cold or flu. Please don’t drive or operate large equipment during treatment!

1 dose Oscillococcinum
3 packets of Emergency Vitamin C
Any dose of vitamin c with zinc
1 ½ vodka tonics
8 hours of sleep

Repeat doses every six hours (excluding vodka tonics) and you will be amazed at how fast you recover.

San Francisco Brownies
These brownies are the best we have had and are definitely a San Francisco treat! You can find Ghirardelli sweet ground chocolate at Whole Foods. Tony Bennett would love these!

4 Eggs
1 ½ Cups Sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 ½ cups Ghirardelli sweet ground chocolate
1 1/3 cups unsifted flour
½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using a spoon, stir eggs with sugar and vanilla, add melted butter or margarine. Add chocolate powder, flour, baking powder and salt.

Spread into greased 13X9 pan. Bake 25-30 minutes.

Great Grandma Ruby Pearl’s Christmas Fudge Recipe
We are fifth generation Californians…which means that we are mostly just American! This recipe has been passed down for all our generations and is our oldest recipe from our family. We eat it every Christmas and has become a favorite treasured gift between our family members.

1- 16 oz bar sweet chocolate
1- 12 oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1- Pint jar marshmallow cream
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
4 ½ cups sugar
1 tall can of milk
1/3 cube butter

Cut up chocolate bar into pieces and put into a large bowl. Add chocolate chips, marshmallow cream and walnuts, let stand.

Cook sugar, milk and butter and medium heat stirring constantly. After it comes to a rolling boil, boil and stir for exactly 4 ½ minutes—no more, no less (in the words of Grandma Pearl). Pour over mixture in bowl and stir until chocolate is melted. Pour into buttered platters and let stand. After it cools for awhile put it into the refrigerator. Let stand about one hour, then mark off into squares. Replace in refrigeration until completely cold and wrap sections in plastic wrap and then foil. Keep in fridge.

Grandma Cathy’s Lasagna
This is our standard Christmas Eve dinner. Always a hit!

1 lb. Italian sausage, bulk Pork Sausage or Ground beef
1 clove garlic, minced
1 TB Parsley flakes
1 TB Basi
1 ½ tsp. salt
1 1b. Can (3 cups) tomatoes
2 6 oz. cans tomato paste
10 oz lasagna wide noodles
3 cups cream style cottage cheese
2 beaten eggs
1 tsp. salt
½ tsp pepper
1 TBS. Parsley flakes
½ cup grated parmesan cheese
1 Lb. mozzarella cheese sliced thin

Brown meat slowly, spooning off excess fat. Add next 6 ingredients. Simmer uncovered 30 minutes to blend flavors, stirring occasionally. While meat sauce is simmering, cook noodles in boiling salted water till tender; drain and rinse in cdold water. Meanwhile combine cottage cheese with next 5 ingredients.
Pleace half the noodles in a 12X9X8’ baking dish. Spread half the cottage cheese mixture over: Add half the mozzarella and half meat sauce. Repeat. Bake at 375 for 30 minutes. Garnish with triangles of mozzarella. Let stand 10-15 minutes before cutting in squares. This will allow it to set. Makes 12 servings.

Fresh Pumpkin Pie
This is our mom’s recipe, passed down from mother to daughter.

1 ¾ cup mashed cooked pumpkin (made from fresh pumpkin)
½ tsp salt
1 ¾ cups milk
3 eggs
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 TBS. granulated sugar
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ginger
½ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp. cloves

Pour into pie crust and bake at 425 until a knife inserted 1” from side of filling comes out clean (about 45-55 minutes).

Mom’s Pie Crust
Our mom makes the best pie crust ever…we are still learning!

1 cup sifted flour
½ tsp salt
1/3 cup and 1 TBS Crisco

Cut dough with dough cutter
Add ¼ cup water
Use hands to mix.
Roll out with rolling pin. Do not roll out more than once.
Lay carefully on pie pan.

Deb’s Tomato Soup
Served with spinach soup for a Christmas treat!

2 tsp butter
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
3 carrots
3 large cans organic tomatoes
1 pinch sugar
2 boxes organic chicken broth
ginger (optional)

Simmer onions and garlic in butter
Add carrots and let simmer for 10 minutes
Add tomatoes and sugar,let simmer for 15 minutes
Add chicken broth
Let cook for 30-45 minutes

Let cool 15 minutes
Slowly puree all ingredients either in a food processor or in a blender

Deb’s Spinach Soup
Served with tomato soup for a Christmas treat!

2 tsp butter
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
2 large potatoes peeled and cut
2 lb fresh organic baby spinach
2 boxes chicken broth

Simmer onions and garlic in butter
Add chicken broth
Add potatoes and let simmer for 25 minutes (until potatoes are cooked)
Add fresh spinach and let cook 5 minutes only

Let cool 15 minutes
Slowly puree all ingredients either in a food processor or in a blender

Texas Sheet Cake
This cake is served at every Luster family Birthday party

2 sticks butter
4 TB cocoa powder (unsweetened)
1 cup water
2cups flour
½ tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
½ cup milk or buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla

Frosting:
1 stick butter
6 TB cocoa powder
6 TB milk or buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
1 box powedered sugar

Combine first three ingredients in a large pot and bring to a boil. Add the next four dry ingredients to the pot, stirring continuously. Take off heat and add eggs, milk and vanilla. Pour into large baking sheet (large lasagna sheet) and bake at 350 for 20-22 minutes. Let cool.
Frosting: Bring to boil the butter, cocoa, milk and vanilla. Take off of heat and stir in powdered sugar. Ice cake while frosting is hot.

South African Hot Buttered Rum Mix
We spent some of our childhood in South Africa (hence the cheetah on CAN DO KID bars). One of our friends came to the U.S. to visit and gave us this amazing recipe.

1 lb. butter melted
1 lb. powdered sugar
1 lb. brown sugar
2 qt. Vanilla Ice Cream
Nutmeg and cinnamon

Mix all together and put in freezer.

For Hot buttered Rums:

In large mug: Scoop out 2-3 TB of mix, add rum (to your taste!). Pour hot water (from boiling teapot) and stir! For a bit sweeter, add more of this low-calorie mix! This is a delicious winter holiday drink!

To all those amazing CAN DO people that have helped us grow! Happy Holidays!

CAN DO KID, Inc.
www.IamACanDoKid.com
179 Homestead Blvd.
Mill Valley CA 94941
415/388-9011

CAN DO KID Original Moms Holiday Cookbook
Favorite Recipes that the CAN DO sisters serve to their families during the Holiday Season!

RECIPE for a Holiday Evening:

Friends and family (as many as you wish)
Family games
Fun music
Laughter
Yummy holiday treats (from this cookbook of course)
Being grateful for all you have

Place all the above ingredients in one room together for a beautiful,
tasty and fun holiday evening!

To our favorite CAN DO PEOPLE!--

Have a magical holiday season!
Thank you for helping us grow!

Blessings,
Deb and Chris

Deb’s Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies
People come to Deb’s house just to have these freshly baked cookies!

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup white sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs (3 small eggs)
2 ¼ cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt

¾ bag Ghiradelli dark chocolate chips

Mix butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. In separate bowl mix flour, soda, powder and salt. Add to butter/sugar mixture and mix.

Add chocolate chips
Place tsp fulls on cookie sheet and bake 8-9 minutes at 350 degrees

Churchill’s Fruit Cobbler
We come from generations of farmers and ranchers. Our grandparents had apricot orchards. As kids we used to help with the apricot harvest every summer. There is nothing like fresh apricots off the tree! This is a great recipe for apricots and other fruit! Quick and easy, tastes like it took hours…

Butter the bottom of a casserole dish
Cut plums, apricots, peaches, or whatever desired fruit (7 or so) into pieces and put at bottom of dish
Sprinkle mixture on top

Mixture:
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1 egg
Pour on top of fruit
Melt 1 cube of butter over top of it

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes and serve with vanilla ice cream