Recipes: TTOD (To try one day)

Meatballs and yellow rice

Decades ago my boss brought this to a potluck. I add touches here and there and this has been a family and roommate favorite for 15 years.

Carrot Cake w/ dusted sugar coating

The best part of any cake is the icing but you can also have too much. I only icing the tops of each layer with the "sugar crisp" coating the sides for that crunchy "what's that?" suprise.

Per the boxes instructions:
1 cup water/ 1/2 cup vegetable oil/ 3 eggs
Pre heat oven to 350 degrees ** Mix ingredients ** por into pans
Bake for 25 minutes in 2 rounds pans
Make sure the cake is completely cooled before icing

The DJRR secret is "flouring" the bottom of the cake pans with SUGAR to give the crunchy candied texture between eat layer

Sausage Aribiata 2/10/08

This was one of my favorite dinners from the room service menu @ the Chicago Hilton.

This is my version.

Shopping list:

Bratwurst sausasge

Penne pasta (cook per package instructions)

Spagetti sauce

Mushrooms

Petite diced tomatoes

Place bratwurst in a baking pan and cook for 30 minutes...then slice.

Mix together pasta, sauce,mushrooms & diced tomatoes -- then add sliced sausage