Chunky Chicks' Recipes

This is a fast and easy dish to make.

16oz package of bow tie pasta
1 jar of Alfredo sauce
1 cup mixed frozen veggies
1 can of tuna
Parmesan cheese

Follow package directions for bow tie pasta. At the same time you put your pasta in the water to cook add the mixed veggies. Drain and return your pasta veggie mixture to the pot. Add tuna and Alfredo sauce. Sprinkle on Parmesan cheese to taste!

Great with salad and french or garlic bread.

It's easy and amazingly enough all five of my children like it more than the box stuff.

16oz of elbow macaroni
1 lb. of  cheese (I like mild cheddar but it's up to your personal taste)
1 cup of milk

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Cook macaroni according to package directions
• Pour half the macaroni is a 9 x13" pan 
• Top evenly with half your cheese
• Repeat above for second layer
• Pour milk over the top
• At this point you may salt and pepper if you like
• Bake for 25 minutes

I sometimes add a pound of cooked hamburger in between the two layers.

This is one of my family's favorites. It's inexpensive to make and feeds eight, which is perfect for large families like mine.  Yet, another one of those recipes that I just threw  together one day and everyone liked it. :)



4 cups - Cooked Chicken (boneless/skinless)
16 oz.  - Penne Pasta
14 oz. - Frozen Broccoli Florets
16 oz. - Jar of Alfredo Sauce
1 cup -  Milk
1/8 cup - Parmesan cheese
1/2 stack of Saltine Crackers
1 tsp of Garlic Salt (or more if you like!)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cook penne pasta and broccoli according to package directions. (I like to cook both of them in one pot.)  Combine cooked pasta, broccoli, chicken, Alfredo sauce and milk in a larger bowl and mix.  After it's mixed evenly distribute mixture in a 9x13 pan. 

Crush your half a stack of crackers and mix in Parmesan cheese and garlic salt.  Sprinkle evenly on top of casserole.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

I like to serve mine with a tossed green salad with Buttermilk Ranch Dressing, of course, and  Baguette with real butter.

Yes, Tiffucini! I'm Tiffany & this is my concoction so, I had the privilege of naming it after me. :)

First thing I need to tell you about me is that I'm a Buttermilk Ranch Dressing snob! I don't like bottled Ranch at all.  I will even ask before I order at a restaurant if they make their own Buttermilk Ranch or if it comes from a jar. That said let's start with making Buttermilk Ranch Dressing.  You can use the bottled Ranch if you prefer but I high recommend making it yourself.

Buttermilk Ranch Dressing



1 cup real mayonnaise
1 cup buttermilk
1 packet of Hidden Valley Ranch Buttermilk Recipe

Prepare according to package directions.



Tiffucini



8 oz. thin spaghetti
1/2 cup of Buttermilk Ranch Dressing (you can use more to taste!)
1/8 cup of Parmesan cheese
1 T  butter
garlic salt to taste (I prefer Lawry's)

Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Drain pasta and return it to the pot you cooked it in.  Everything should be hot enough that you no longer need the burner.  Combine spaghetti, butter and Parmesan cheese, sprinkle on garlic salt, and finally pour in ranch dressing and stir.  -Serves 4

This makes an excellent side dish but I like to eat is alone at lunch just as much.