Cafe Rio Dressing

Café Rio Dressing
1 buttermilk ranch dressing packet (make as per recipe)
2 tomatillos (tomato like vegetable with a husk around them)
½ bunch of cilantro
1 clove garlic
Juice of 1 lime
1 jalapeño (Use the seeds too if you like it spicy. You could substitute a few drops of green tobasco for the jalapeno.)

Use a food processor to blend all the ingredients well. Refrigerate.

Super Soft Sugar Cookies

1 c butter
2 C sugar
2 eggs
1 C sour cream
1 t vanilla
1/2 t baking soda
4 t baking powder
pinch of salt
5 c flour

Cream together butter, sugar, eggs, sour cream and vanilla. Add remaining ingredients. Chill for 1 hour. Roll and cut into desired shapes. Bake 350 for 8-10 min. Do not over bake.

I made these today and they were quite good. I don't know who's recipe it was, but they were handing it out at Relief Society today. I added some craisens to some and chocolate chips to another.

Yummy scrambled eggs

I jsut made this up, but I liked it so much that I want to make it again.

2 eggs
1 egg white

scramble with 1 overflowing tablespoon of fat free ricotta cheese.

2 tablespoons of onion finely chopped

spray the pan with butter flavored pam and sautéed the onions till soft.

add egg mixture

add salt and pepper to taste

add 1 heaping tablespoon of feta cheese

and add small pieces of what ever cheese you have left over. I had muenster and Colby (the muenster makes it very stringy.

cook till done and enjoy

We have a new quilting interest group. We call ourselves the Piece Makers. Anyway, this was our first project. We all had to make 6 pink shoo-fly squares and 6 blue squares. So far, it's a lot of fun learning all the techniques. The blocks I did close ups on were mine.

Avocado Egg Salad Sandwich

This recipe is from Martha Stewart. It's quite good. I had it today on homemade toasted wheat bread.


* 10 hard-boiled egg whites
* 2 hard-boiled egg yolks
* 2 to 3 tablespoons light mayo (I used 2 T fat free yogurt and 1 T Light Mayo)
* 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
* 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
* 1/2 avocado, mashed, plus 1/2 avocado roughly chopped
* Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper

How I put it together is as I was boiling the eggs I cut up the avocado, put the lemon juice over it. Then, added the other ingredients and added the eggs last.

Yummy Berry Trifle

This is a recipe from my friend Kim. She brought it over one night we had them over for dinner. Then, Ryan made it for a school get together (I would of made it, but I was very ill at the time) Anyway, it is excellent! I am making it tonight and just doing strawberry shortcake with it.

1 Yellow Cake Mix
1 Cup Sour Cream
1 Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix
1/2 Cup Oil
4 Eggs

Mix together and spread over a jelly roll. Bake at 300 for 30 min.

Filling

1 Can Sweet Condensed Milk
1/2 Cup Cold Water
1 Sm Box Instant Vanilla Pudding.

Mix together for 2 min and refrigerate till cake is done.

2 Cups of Heavy Cream Whipped till Still.

Fold heavy cream into filling mixture.

Any kind of fresh berry (Blueberry, Black Berry, Strawberry, Raspberry)

Once the cake is done cut up into 1 inch squares.

Layer Trifle

Cake
Filling
Berries

Do this till at the top you have berries.

Note: There are many ways to save on the calories. I use fat free sour cream, fat free pudding mix, 2 whole eggs and 2 egg whites, fat free sweet condensed milk....you see where I'm going with this. It makes up for the heavy cream. Although, I'm planning on trying this with the fat free whipped topping. I think it would taste just as good with that.