Fruit Juice Fizzies

Ingredients:

Fruit juice(s) (pick your favorite flavor or combine several; the only thing I’ve found that doesn’t seem to work is lemonade)
Carbondated water (I use Nałęczowianka carbonated mineral water from the local international grocery; they sell it in six packs of good-sized bottles)
Lime juice (optional)

1. Pour about two inches of fruit juice into the bottom of the glass.
2. Pour in carbondated water to maximum fill point.
3. For extra fizz or added tartness, put in a dash of lime juice.
4. Enjoy.

Dammit, I Want Tuna Casserole

Ingredients:

1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
2 cans tuna, drained
2 cups macaroni noodles
1 cup frozen peas
Black pepper

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Boil the macaroni in salted water until almost done.
3. While the noodles are boiling, mix the tuna, soup, and peas in a lubed casserole dish.
4. Drain the almost finished noodles and add them to the casserole dish.
5. Mix the noodles and tuna-soup-peas mixture thoroughly. Add black pepper to taste.
6. Cover the casserole dish and place in heated oven.
7. Bake casserole for 40 minutes.
8. As baking nears an end, crush a little of something crunchy (potato chips, tortilla chips, corn flakes, etc.).
9. Remove casserole from oven. Uncover and add crushed crunchy stuff to top.
10. Bake casserole another 5 minutes.
11. Remove, let cool a little bit, and enjoy.

Extra Special Super Bonus recipe!: The girlfriend enjoys drinking the "tuna juice" drained from the tuna cans. Collect it in a small glass and enjoy. If you dare.

Weezie's Rice Pudding

Ingredients:

2 cups milk
1 cup cooked rice (both white and brown work)
1 tablespoon and one large pat butter
0.33 cup sugar
0.25 teaspoon salt
0.33 cup raisins
2 eggs

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Dump sugar, salt, raisins, and eggs into the medium bowl.
3. Stir together.
4. Heat milk, butter, and rice in the small pot.
5. When all the butter has melted, stir the milk/butter/rice mixture into the sugar/salt/raisins/eggs mixture in the medium bowl.
6. Stir together.
7. Grease baking dish with a large pat of butter.
8. Pour milk/butter/rice/sugar/salt/raisins/eggs mixture into the baking dish.
9. Pour about a half-inch of water in the broiler pan.
10. Put the broiler pan in the heated oven.
11. Set the baking dish in the broiler pan.
12. Bake for 1 hour or until the mixture has set.
13. Remove from oven and enjoy.
    

Super-quick Banana Bread

Ingredients:

1.75 cups all-purpose flour
2.25 teaspoons baking powder
0.5 teaspoon salt
0.33 cup shortening
0.66 cup sugar
2 eggs
4 mostly brown bananas, smashed

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix ingredients together using electric beaters until mostly smooth.
3. Pour mixture into standard-sized bread pan.
4. Put pan in oven.
5. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Start checking every five minutes at 45 minutes until done. You'll know it's done when the edges are brown on the center stops looking totally mushy.
   

Grandma Wagner's Thursday Night Special

Ingredients:

2 cups elbow macaroni
1 can condensed tomato soup (like Campbell's)
0.5 cup milk
1 cup diced sharp or extra sharp cheddar cheese

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Boil the macaroni.
3. Drain the finished macaroni and rinse with cold water.
4. Mix soup and milk in a pot, while heating on the stove.
5. Add a 0.25 cup of cheese to the milk and soup mixture. Heat until the cheese is melted and the melange is smooth.
6. Lube the casserole dish.
7. Dump the noodles into the casserole dish.
8. Pour cheese, milk, and soup sauce over the noodles.
9. Scatter remaining cheese across the top of the casserole.
10. Place the casserole dish and contents in the over and cook for 30-45 minutes, until the cheese on top is melted and the edges are starting to brown.
11. Remove from over and let stand and cool for a couple of minutes.
12. Enjoy.