Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins

1 box Devil's Food cake mix
1 can pumkin

Combine the cake mix and pumpkin and spoon into greased muffin cups.
Bake at 400 for 20 minutes
Optional: frost with cream cheese frosting.

These are amazingly good! Not overly rich.
yeilds: 18ish muffins (depending on how many helpers are licking batter while you spoon the muffins)

Nope, we haven't all starved to death!

I've been cooking, but really really lazy about posting it. This past week, I got out magazines, cookbooks, and combed the internet. I found some great recipes!!!!! We have had 2 new dishes in the last 3 days, and I have 2 new one planned for next week.

This week, we had:
Mexican Chicken Pasta

16 oz of penne cooked and drained
1 large chicken breast cooked and diced
1 cup frozen corn1 can black beans drained and rinsed
1 1/2 cups queso
1/3 cup of milk
1 cup mexican cheese
1 large tomato diced
Combine queso, milk, corn and beans
pour over pasta and chicken
toss with cheese
place in oven (350) for 20 minutes or until heated.
top with tomato and serve
Yeilds : 6 servings
I'm served it with tortilla chips and salsa.

*I had rave reviews, but upon eating it as left overs travis said it was missing something, but wasn't sure what the something was.


Tonight I'm doing pork chops (one of my favorites)
I get an email daily from allrecipes.com
This past week I got a recipe for marinated baked pork chops. We are having those tonight with green beans, mashed potatoes, and apple sauce.

1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons ketchup
6 pork chops, trimmed

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
In a small bowl, thoroughly blend soy sauce, vegetable oil, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, brown sugar, and ketchup.
Place pork chops in a medium baking dish, and spread with 1/2 the sauce.
Bake pork chops 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Turn, and spread with remaining sauce. Continue baking 30 minutes