Easy Marinara Sauce

1 T olive oil
1 pinch of dried pepper flakes
1 T Italian seasoning
One 15 oz can of crushed tomatoes
One 15 oz can of tomato sauce
One 6 oz can of tomato paste
1/4 cup of sugar
1 T garlic salt

Heat sauce pan to medium heat. Add olive oil, dried pepper flakes and Italian seasonings.  Allow seasonings to infuse the oil for 45-60 seconds.  Add crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, sugar and garlic salt.  Bring to a simmer for twenty minutes.

Sweet Coconut Rice

Ingredients:
1 cup red skin peanuts
2 cups sweet glutenous uncooked rice

1/2 cup shredded coconut (sweetened)

1 cup coconut juice (water can be substituted)

1 cup water

1 cup coconut milk

3/4 cup sugar

1 tsp salt

Instructions:

Soak peanuts 8-12 hrs in a bowl of water.  Rinse peanuts and strain.  In a rice cooker, add rice, peanuts, coconut juice, water, shredded coconut, and salt.  Cook the rice as normal in the rice cooker.  Gently stir rice mixture, then drizzle coconut milk and sugar over mixture.  Use the cook cycle a second time with the rice cooker.  This gently melts the sugar and coconut milk into the rice mixture, as a result, the sugar does not burn.  

At this point, the sweet rice is ready!  However, if you are one for a crunch, I suggest a few more repetitious steps.  Leaving your rice cooker lid open, run the cook cycle on the rice cooker two or more times.  After the second time, flip the rice over.  The layer on top will be crunchy.  To make the layer on the bottom crunchy, run the rice cooker one to two more times with the lid open. 

Cheesy Sausage Biscuits

Ingredients:

1 cup ground sausage
2 1/2 cups Bisquick mix
1 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
2-4 oz diced green chiles (optional)
2/3 cup milk


Instructions:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In a bowl, mix sausage, bisquick, 3/4 cup cheese, green chiles, and milk together until well incorporated. Hands are the best tool for this. Once dough comes together, roll out dough to a 1/2 inch thick. Cut into pieces, sprinkle remaining cheese on tops, then bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes.


Makes approximately 16-20 biscuits