Recipes from 'Angels Among Us' dinner...

Pumpkin Cake

1 large 29 oz can pumpkin

1 box yellow cake mix

1 cup milk

1 tsp cinnamon

1 cup melted butter

1/8 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp salt

3 eggs

1 cup sugar

1/4 tsp ginger

1/8 tsp nutmeg

Prepare pumpkin mixture pour in a 9" by 13" cake pan. Sprinkle yellow cake mix over pumpkin mixture. Melt butter pour over yellow cake. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Enjoy hot or cold.

Top with home made whipped cream or Cool Whip

World Famous Meat Sauce

1 pound sweet Italian sausage

3/4 pound lean ground beef

1/2 cup minced onion

2 cloves garlic, crushed

1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes

2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste

2 (6.5 ounce) cans canned tomato sauce

1/2 cup water

2 tablespoons white sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil leaves

1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

1 tablespoon salt

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley (I use dried)

Directions

In a Dutch oven, cook sausage, ground beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until well browned. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, and water. Season with sugar, basil, fennel seeds, Italian seasoning, salt, pepper, and parsley. Simmer, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.

Jaada's Lion House Roll Recipe

Lion House Rolls

2 Tbls. yeast

2 C. warm water

1/3 C. sugar

1/3 C. butter

2 tsp. salt

2/3 C. dry milk

1 egg

5-6 C. flour

Melted butter

Mix yeast and water and set aside for 5 minutes. In a mixing bowl cream sugar and butter. Add salt, dry milk and egg. Mix.

Add yeast and water mixture. Mix. One cup at a time, add the flour. With the dough hook, let it knead for a couple minutes on the mixer. Cover the bowl and let rise for 2- 3 hours. Pre-set oven to 400 degrees. Separate the dough in half and roll out into two circles. Brush the circles with melted butter. Cut into triangles like a pizza. Roll into the center making sure the point of the triangle is on the bottom when placed on the cookie sheet so the roll doesn't puff open when baked. Brush tops of rolls with melted butter. Cover and let rise 1/2 hour to 1 hour longer. Bake for 12-15 minutes.

Honey Butter:

1 C. butter

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 C. honey (my mom likes to use creamed honey, I just use what I have:))

Whip butter 7-10 minutes. Add vanilla and honey and whip 7-10 additional minutes. Chill before serving. For a real treat, at the end, I mix in 1/4 C. homemade raspberry jam!

Banana Bundt Cake by Janene H.

Banana Bundt Cake or easy Banana Bread

Banana (3 med) or Pumpkin or Zucchini, or any other fruit you enjoy.

1 box of cake mix. choose any flavor of mix.

(I usually use a vanilla cake mix but spice or chocolate work well also.)

Follow the directions on the box of cake mix except that you substitute

the water for:

1¼ cup mashed bananas (or other fruit), and ¼ cup water.

Mix thoroughly per package directions. (This will be thicker than a

regular cake batter). Now pour into a bunt pan or small loaf pans.

Generously spray with non-stick cooking spray like Pam. Bake per box

directions and test cake with a tooth pick. You may need to bake it a

few more minutes or a few less with the small loaf pans. When done,

let cool for about 5 minutes and then turn it out on a cooling rack.

When completely cool drizzle softened frosting over the cake or loaf,

or dust with powdered sugar. This looks gourmet, but it is quick and

easy.