Try new recipes.

If you like ‘shrooms, you’ll love the spin on these!

2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 to 1/2 ground ginger
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
8 ounces mushrooms, halved
2 tablespoons sliced green onion

In a medium saucepan combine all ingredients. Cook & stir over medium heat until heated through. Serve & enjoy.

2 cans black-eyed peas, drained & rinsed
1 small onion, chopped fine
1/2 cup chopped bell pepper
1 jar black olives, drained & chopped
1 can whole kernal corn, drained
2 cans rotel
1 can kidney beans, drained & rinsed
1 can pinto beans, drained & rinsed
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 envelope ranch dressing mix
1/2 bottle Zesty Italian salad dressing

Put all ingredients in a large bowl & stir. Cover & chill. Serve as a dip with tortilla chips or as a vegetable side dish.

I made this for a recent family get together and everyone (except my little brother who has issues with rotel) loved it.

This was a fantastic new recipe, but then we love cilantro!

1/2 cup salsa
1/2 cup corn
6 (8 inch) flour tortillas
18 bacon slices, cooked & chopped
lettuce (chopped)
Avacado-Lime Sauce

Stir together salsa & corn. Set aside. Top 1 side of each tortilla evenly with bacon, lettuce & corn salsa. Drizzle with Avacado-Lime Sauce. Roll up and enjoy.

Avacado-Lime Sauce

1 avacado, mashed
4 teaspoons lime juice
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro
salt to taste

Stir together first 5 ingredients in a small bowl. Chill until ready to serve.

I’m always trying out new breakfast recipes and this one will become a favorite among my guests.

one slice canadian bacon
shredded mozzarella cheese
one egg
2 Tbsp. whipping cream
salt
pepper
paprika
toasted english muffin
parsley

Spray an individual baking ramekin with cooking spary. Place canadian bacon in the bottom of the dish. Fill the dish loosely with shredded mozzarella cheese. Make a hole in the center of the cheese and crack one egg into the hole. Pour whipping cream around the yolk of the egg. Lightly season with salt, pepper & paprika. Bake at 350 degrees until the yolk is done, about 30 minutes. Cool slightly and then carefully insert a spatula under the bacon and lift it out upright(with the bacon on the bottom)onto the english muffin. Sprinkle with parsley and serve. Makes one delicious serving.

Kinda odd to have on a hot, steamy summer night but I was looking for something easy and this fit the bill. My family loved it!

Crab Bisque

1 can cream of asparagus soup (undiluted)
1 can cream of mushroom soup (undiluted)
1 can white crab meat
1 sm. carton half & half
1 sm. carton whipping cream

Heat soup. Add 1 can crab meat after soup is heated almost to boiling, but don’t allow to boil. Add 1 carton half & half and 1 carton whipping cream. Stir constantly to prevent sticking. Serve & enjoy.

1 can crescent dinner rolls
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 stick margarine
Fresh peaches

Heat orange juice, sugar and margarine. Peel and quarter peaches, and roll up in dinner rolls. Place in a pyrex dish and pour sauce over rolls. Bake at 450 degrees until brown.

Decided to give this recipe a go when i had a pound of ground chicken in the fridge that i didn’t want to go bad. Turned out pretty good….i used empanada discs that i found in the freezer section at the store and i totally forgot to put in the jalopeno! WTH. Oh well, next time i’ll do it by the recipe, using shredded chicken & the jalopeno. Still turned out pretty yummie though. :)

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I need to focus my adventurous tendencies onto more urgent stuff.
I can get more creative with cooking when I choose to.
I’ll definitely be back with this one.

Making room for now!

Found a recipe the other day in my handwriting…don’t remember where I got it….just that i copied it from somewhere a few years ago….so i decided to give it a try last night.
Puerto Rican Style Chicken StewYUM! It turned out sooo good! :)

I made these candy graduation caps for someone my mom knows. I wish I could say they were my own idea, but I saw them on Bakerella’s site. Everybody seemed to like them so I’d definitely make them again. : )