Easy Chicken Paprikash

This is a nice easy recipe for the fall and winter.  I love anything with paprika in it.  My kids like anything that has sauce!

I used Penzey's paprika.  They have many different types!  I used a combination of half sharp and sweet.

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Slow Cooker Porter Pot Roast

Lots of ingredients here. I took a picture so those of you who don't live in western New York would know what beef culinary gravy was...notice the boxes on the left! The beer that was used is also pictured here.

Here is a photo of the finished product.  The meat just fell off the bone. 

I poured the au jus with the onions, garlic and flavor all over EVERYTHING!  YUM!

Cheesecake

This cheesecake has one VERY thick crust.  I think you may want to adjust it when you make it for yourself.  Marlene says she does some adjusting when she makes it.  A lot of people liked the thicker crust. 

All I know is that the center was creamy and delicious.  This is not a dry cheesecake!

Gooey Butter Cookies

I got this recipe from Chris Czuczman.  Her cookies came out nice and flat and VERY tasty. 

I followed her recipe and I got pudgy cookies...with the same flavor as hers!  I am not sure why they came out so different, but I guess, since they taste the same, it doesn't really matter!  I am going to blame it on my awful oven.  Have I mentioned that baking in my oven is like an experiment everytime I use it?  Someday, the oven fairy will drop a new oven right on top of that old one in my kitchen!!

Turtle Pumpkin Pie

I was sitting at a doctor's appointment waiting to get a KUB x-ray and I found this one as I paged through a magazine.  I think I may have found a new Thanksgiving favorite.

I loved how easy it was to make and the bottom of the graham cracker pie crust is covered with caramel syrup and chopped pecans.  YUMMY!  It has a great pumpkin flavor.  Nice change from your regular pumpkin pie.