Ruths Chris Style Sweet Potatoes

This recipe came from The Girl Who Ate Everything blog.

Just made these for Christmas tonight and they were a very big hit! They were our favorite part of dinner!

Crust:
1 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
1 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup butter, melted

Combine brown sugar, flour, nuts and butter in mixing bowl. Set aside.

Sweet Potato Mixture
3 cups cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs, well beaten
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
(splash of milk if needed)

Note: To cook sweet potatoes first wash and dry them carefully then you can either: 1) Bake them at 400 degrees for 50-60 minutes 2) Boil them for 30 minutes or 3) Pierce them with a fork and microwave them for about 15-20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a medium-size casserole dish with nonstick spray.

Combine sweet potatoes, sugar, salt, vanilla, eggs and butter in a large mixing bowl in the order listed. Beat thoroughly with a hand mixer for about 3-4 minutes to increase the fluffiness of the sweet potato mixture. Add a splash of milk if needed and mix.

Pour mixture into the baking dish. Bake for 25 minutes. At this point, dish can be covered and refrigerated for a couple of days.

Sprinkle the surface of the sweet potato mixture evenly with the crust mixture and return to oven for 10 minutes. Allow to set at least 30 minutes before serving.
The brown sugar and pecan crust should be slightly browned and crunchy. Makes 12 servings.

Chicken Roll ups

Or Shirley Burgorses as we like to call them. I found the recipe from a family recipe book of my MIL's and made a copy. The recipe came from Mrs. Shirley Burgorse so that's what we call them, and they are one of my fav's!

Filling ingredients:
1 package crescent rolls
2 cooked chicken breast, shredded
1 8oz block cream cheese (softened)
1 onion (finely diced)


4 Tb melted butter
bread crumbs

Mix together the filling ingredients, and fill the crescents with mixture (Fill them with a lot of the mixture, I always have a little extra after I'm done)
Dip each roll in melted butter and roll around the bread crumbs. Place on cookie sheet and bake at 350 for about 20-25 minutes (Keep an eye on them)

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 3/4 teaspoon soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Preparation:

Cream sugars, butter or margarine, and peanut butter. Beat in egg, then stir in remaining ingredients. Shape dough into a small balls; place on lightly greased baking sheets then press the dough balls down with a fork to make ridges down the center. Dip fork tines in flour the fork each time before pressing a cookie. Bake at 350° for about 12 minutes. (Bake for a little less time for chewier cookies.) Makes about 2 dozen peanut butter cookies.