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Rigatoni With Barbecue Sauce

1 Package rigatoni pasta -- (10oz)

2 Cans squirtable cheese spread

1 Small Jar barbecue sauce

16 Whole black peppercorns -- (16 to 20)

1 carrot

Cook pasta according to directions on package. Rinse the pasta in cold water.

To make snakes:Covering one end of the rigatoni with your finger (to prevent leakage), carefully

fill each piece of pasta with cheese spread. Place six to eight cheese-filled rigatonis end to end on a

serving platter, in a realistically curvy snake shape. Using a toothpick, spread lines of barbecue

sauce along the top of each snake for markings. To form heads, use barbecue sauce to glue two

black peppercorn eyes onto the end opposite the tail of each snake. Wash, dry and carefully peel

skin off carrot. When completely clean of skin,make one more peeling for each snake you have

formed. At the narrow end of each peel, carefully cut out a long, thin triangle. These are your

snakes forked tongues. Position tongues.

Casserole

1 c Bisquick

1 c Shredded Cheddar cheese

1 lb Ground beef, turkey or pork

Sausage

---TO MAKE LITTER---

2 c Long grain rice

3 3/4 c Water

2 ts Salt

2 tb Butter or margarine

--TOOLS--

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lg Mixing bowl

Rectangular baking pan

Deep saucepan with lid

Fork

Paper towels

lg Spoon

Stainless steel pooper scooper

To make dumps: With an adult's help, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Using clean hands, mix

together the dump ingredients in a large bowl. Mold pieces of this mixture into various size/shape

dumps.

Place so they don't touch each other in an ungreased baking pan. Use two if they don't all fit. With

an adult's help, bake the dumps for about 20 minutes or until they are all brown, firm and slightly

crusty.

While the meat cooks, put all four litter ingredients into a large saucepan. Then, with an adult's

help, heat on high until the water comes to a boil. Stir, turn heat to low and cover the pan. Simmer

without lifting the cover for fourteen minutes.

With an adult's help, remove the saucepan from the stove and carefully (to avoid having your face

melted away by the steam), lift off the cover. Break apart, or "fluff" the rice with a fork and set pan

aside.

When dumps are done, carefully transfer them onto paper towels to drain.

Spoon the rice and dumps into the now empty baking pan, leaving some dumps partially

uncovered, the way Kitty does when he/she is in a hurry. Serves 8-10 litterbox lovers. Use pooper

scooper to serve.

Chicken Pancakes

Strawberries

Pancake mix

Bananas

Powdered sugar

--TOOLS--

Knife

Cutting board

Mixing bowl

lg Flat skillet

Spatula

Plates

With an adult's help, chop the berries into small chunks, allowing one or two per pancake face. Set

aside.

With an adult's help, prepare the pancake mix according to package directions. When the pancakes

are done, place each serving in a stack on a separate plate.

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For every two stacks of pancakes, you need to peel one banana. Carefully slice off the two ends

and put one on top of each stack for a nose. Then cut two thin slices from each endfor eyes. Then

cut banana in half for a long curved mouth.

Arrange the strawberry chunk chicken all around each face. Use clean fingers to drop a pinch

of powdered sugar on each for a tasty bit of pus. Serves as many little polka dotted people as

your heart desires.

Pizza

1 Red bell pepper (4 oz.)

12 Sticks (1 oz. each) mozzarella

8 Small (about 5" diam.) baked pizza crusts

1 cup Pizza sauce

Core, stem and seed pepper; cut lengthwise into 1"-wide strips. Cut each strip crosswise into 1/2"

pieces (fingernails). Round corners on one end of each piece.

Cut each cheese stick in half crosswise. On rounded end of each stick (finger), cut out a 1/2"-

square notch into which a pepper piece will fit to make a nail.

Lay crusts slightly apart on 3 baking sheets, each 12"x15". Spread pizza sauce evenly over each

crust. Lay 3 cheese fingers well apart on each crust: fit a red pepper nail onto each. Bake in a 450F

oven until cheese just begins to melt, about 8 min.

Yield: 8 personal pizzas

Chuckie's Favorite

2 teaspoons of butter or margerine

2 medium onions chopped

16 ounces of cream style corn

2-10 ounce cans of cream of mushroom soup

2 cups milk

Whatever leftover vegetables you have in the fridge! (tomatoes, green beans, Mushrooms,

cauliflower, etc)

Saute onions in the butter. Add everything else and bring it to a boil. Simmer 5 minutes. Serve

immediately with a barf bag of course!