Café Rio Rice

3 c water
4 t chicken bouillon
4 t garlic –minced
½ bunch cilantro
1 can green chiles—or equivalent fresh
¾ t salt
1 T butter
½ onion
3 c rice (see note)

Blend cilantro, green chiles and onion together in food processor. Bring water to a boil and add all ingredients, simmer covered 30 minutes.

Cafe Rio Chicken

1 small bottle Kraft Zesty Italian Dressing
1 T chili powder
1 T cumin
3 cloves garlic—minced
5 lbs chicken breast

Cook all together in a crock pot for 4 hours, shred meat and cook 1 additional hour.

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.