Summer Salad

Ingredients:
Spinach leaves
Grilled Chicken (cooled)
Strawberries
Pepper Jack Cheese

Directions:
1. Tear the spinach into bite size pieces, cut the chicken and the strawberries into small pieces and cube the cheese.
2. Put it all in a bowl and eat as a salad or put into homemade tortillas.

Review: Next time I make this I'll be sure to have poppyseed dressing on hand, as I think that would go together really well. But the strawberries were juicy enough that we really didn't notice the lack of dressing. The zip in the cheese went so well with the sweetness from the strawberries, and the chicken and spinach complimented it all really well!

Homemade Tortillas

Ingredients:
3 cups wheat flour
1 cup warm water
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/4 cup oil

Directions:

1.Measure liquid ingredients into a mixing bowl.

2. Add baking powder and salt. Add the flour until the dough is workable. Leave for 10 minutes.

3. Shape into 8 balls and let dough stand for 10 more minutes. Roll to form a 10 inch circle.

4. We cooked ours on a George Foreman Grill, but you could also cook it on a greased griddle. We kept ours on for just over a minute each.

REVIEW: D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S. I don't think I'll ever be buying store bought tortillas again! I will try playing around with adding different seasonings to it, but they were yummy as is!

Homemade Lemonade

Ingredients:

3 unwaxed lemons, quartered
3/4 cup sugar
6 1/4 cups water
lemon slices and ice, to serve

Directions:

1. Place the quartered lemons, the sugar and part of the water in a blender or food processor. Blend for a few seconds until the lemons are finely chopped.

2. Pour the mixture through a strainer into your serving jug. Add the remaining water and stir well. Add ice cubes and lemon slices for serving.


Review: This is easy to make and delicious!

Breakfast Burrito

Recipe from Taste of Home Best of the Holidays magazine

Ingredients:

• 1 lb bulk pork sausage
• 1-1/2 cups Southern style hash brown potatoes
• 1/4 cup diced onion
• 1/4 cup diced red or green peppers
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 12 flour tortillas (8 inches),
  
• 1/2 cup shredded Cheddar Cheese

Directions:

1. In a large skillet cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink, drain. Add the potatoes, onion and pepper, cook and stir for 6-8 minutes or until tender.
2. Add eggs; cook and stir until set.
3. Spoon filling into center of each tortilla, sprinkle with cheese. Fold sides and ends over filling and roll up.

To Freeze and Reheat:

1. Wrap each burrito in wax paper and foil. Freeze for up to 1 month.
2. To reheat, remove foil and wax paper. Microwave on high for 2 minutes.

Review: This recipe is so easily adaptable to your tastes! We love it done following this recipe, but we've also adapted it a little bit at times; adding seasoning, bacon and other vegetables. It is so handy having these in our freezer! We triple the recipe and stock our freezer.
We have made these with the larger tortillas and put a bit more filling in them. With the 8 inch we need to eat two each to be full. With the larger size we only need one each.

Oven Baked Sweet Potato Fries

Recipe from here - I loosely followed it.

Ingredients:

• 11/2 lbs Sweet Potato
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

• Peel and cut potatoes into fries.
• Preheat oven to 425 F (if you do it before peeling the oven will be heating for a very long time!!) Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
  
• Put fries, oil and seasonings into a bowl or zip lock bag. Stir or shake to coat fries.
• Spread onto baking sheet in a single layer.
• Cook for 30 minutes, turning every 10 minutes.

Review: I added way more salt and paprika to mine, and a little bit more cinnamon. I love the flavor! The ones I made for the freezer I did not season at all. Just cut the Sweet Potato and stuck it in the freezer. I cut my fries pretty thin and they were done after 20-25 minutes, so make sure to watch your fries during the last ten minutes of cooking!

Eggless Eggnog

Ingredients:

• 1/2 gallon cold milk, divided
• 1 package (3.4 ounces) Instant French Vanilla Pudding
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract*
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon*
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg*

*I added more of these because I like them :)

Directions:

1. In a bowl whisk 3/4 cup milk and pudding until smooth.
2. Add remaining ingredients.
3. Refrigerate until serving.

Review: A delicious, non eggy alternative to eggnog! This tastes so festive!! I made it up two hours before serving, and it tasted MUCH better after having been in the fridge, so I'd suggest making it ahead of time so it has time to sit in the fridge.

Hot Chocolate

Ingredients

1/3 cup + a tiny bit more sugar
1/3 cup cocoa (I used Hershey's dark)
Pinch of salt

1/3 cup boiling water

3 1/2 cups milk

1 cap full vanilla
sprinkle of cinnamon

Directions

1. In a saucepan add first three ingredients to boiling water. Stir consistently for a minute or two.
2. Add milk and stir until hot. Make sure to keep stirring so as not to burn!
   
3. Just before serving add vanilla and cinnamon.
4. Serve hot!

Review: Delicious rich, hot chocolate! Makes two very generous servings :)