Dirt Cake

1 block (8oz) cream cheese, softened
2 pkgs vanilla pudding
3c milk
1 tub (8oz) cool whip
1 pkg gummy worms
1 pkg oreos

1. Prepare pudding according to directions but use only the 3c of milk.
2. Using a hand mixer or stand mixer, cream the cream cheese.
3. Add the pudding to the cream cheese and beat until combined.
4. Stir in the cool whip.
5. Put oreos in ziplock baggy and beat the crap out of them until they're crushed.
6. Put 3/4 of oreo mixture in bottom of 9x13 pan.
7. Top with pudding mixture.
8. Sprinkle remaining oreos on top and top with gummy worms.

A few notes about this:

• I also crushed up some animal crackers (because my husband got into the oreos and those were the only ones on hand. You could use the chocolate version of those as well!) and on a positive I can tell people there's dead animals in it too! HA!
• I found some gummy "rocks" on sale, I put those on top as well!
• My mom once couldn't find gummy worms so she used gummy dinosaurs instead!

It's a cute dessert that people of all ages enjoy. This was the cake I have wanted for my birthday for probably 16 out of my 19 (almost 20) years and I still love it! Oh! And since I'm making this for Easter I make throw on some egg shaped gummy/candy things too!
Hope you like it!

Italian Polenta Porridge & Chicken Sausage

1c corn meal
3c water
1 1/2c crushed tomatoes
2 chicken sausage links, cut up in bite sized pieces (Mine were precooked.)
Pepper (black and white) & salt (I used garlic salt) to taste
Mozzarella cheese

1. Bring the 3c water to a boil.
2. Slowly pour in corn meal while whisking constantly.
3. Add salt and pepper.
4. Cook for 10min.
5. Add crushed tomatoes.
6. Let cook until cornmeal is soft I probably left mine for 15min.
7. Add chicken sausage.
8. Cook another 5min to let sausage heat thru.
9. Check seasonings.

*****Put into a bowl and top with shredded mozzarella cheese.

It was really pretty good!! I added some cream cheese later to make it a little more rich. If you don't want this as "soupy" just add another 1/2-3/4c polenta. This recipe will make about 4c polenta. If you want more for this dish I suggest cooking up a chicken breast and serving with it, that'd be pretty good.

:)

*****EDIT: Just now realized that if you do not want this like porridge, you can cool it for 45min or so and then reheat in the oven or in microwave and it will be a bit more thick! :)