Old-Fashioned Pound Cake with Strawberries and Cream

This recipe makes two pound cakes. I found this recipe in the Lion House Desserts cookbook and it is delicious!

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
8 eggs
3 3/4 cups cake flour
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 cup whipped cream (whipped and sweetened to taste)
strawberries

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour two loaf pans. Set aside
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until very light.
3. Add alternately vanilla and eggs with flour on low speed. Whip on low speed until light and fluffy.
4. Add lemon juice and beat until light.
5. Pour into loaf pans and bake 45 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
6. Cool and serve with whipped cream and strawberries.

Marshmallow Chocolate Mousse

Ricky made this dessert for me for Mother's day and it was great. We served raspberries on top as well. We bought all the ingredients for mousse, then realized on Sunday that it called for uncooked eggs (a no-no for pregnant women). So we quickly found this mousse recipe which was perfect. I want to try it with different types of chocolate now. I think it could be really yummy using white chocolate or dark chocolate. We used a baking bar in this recipe, but you could use any kind of chocolate (candy bar, chocolate chips, etc) as long as you use the right amount of chocolate.

3 cups marshmallows
1/2 cup milk
1 (4-0z) bar of baking chocolate, broken (This time we used German Chocolate, but you could use any kind as long as it is 4oz)
1 cup whipping cream
chocolate shavings
raspberries

1. Melt marshmallows, milk and chocolate over low heat. Stir continually. It might take awhile, but don't heat it too quickly.
2. Let cool.
3. Whip 1 cup whipping cream and fold into cooled chocolate mixture. Pour into small dessert dishes and chill.
4. Serve with chocolate shavings and raspberries.

Baked Spaghetti

Delicious! That's all I can say.

1 lb lean ground beef or ground turkey
1/4 tsp onion salt
1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
1 (28-oz) can crushed tomatoes (preferably the kind with Italian herbs)
1 (15-oz) can tomato suace
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp dried oregano
salt, to taste
1 tsp basil flakes
12 ounces whole-wheat spaghetti or linguini, broken in half and cooked al dente
1 (3.8-oz) can sliced black olives
8 ounces grated cheese (any kind you like)
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese

1. Cook ground beef, Italian seasoning, and onion salt. Drain.
2. Add crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce and seasonings.
3. Simmer uncovered for 20 minutes.
4. In 9x13-baking dish, layer half the noodles, half the sauce and half the cheese; repeat.
5. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top.
6. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes.