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December 30 Won Ton Appetizers1 lb. Italian Sausage (mild)- cooked and crumbled
1-1/2 c. grated sharp cheddar cheese
1-1/2 c. grated Monterey Jack cheese
1 packet Hidden Valley Mix Dressing (prepared according to packet)
2-1/4 oz. can small black olives sliced/diced
1/2 c. diced red bell pepper
1/2 c. diced green bell pepper
1 pkg. won ton wrappers
Sour Cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine all ingredients excluding won ton wrappers in a bowl.
 Spray cupcake pans with cooking spray. You can either use mini cupcake pans or regular sized cupcake pans.
 Push won ton wrappers with your thumb down inside each cupcake pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 5 min. without filling.
 Take out of oven and put filling inside each wrapper and return to oven. And continue to bake until cheese is
bubbly and edges of won ton wrappers are golden. Serve with a dallop of sour cream and enjoy!
 Pickle Dip1 cup or more of chopped pickles (I use hamburger slices)
pickle juice
2 cream cheese blocks (softened)
pretzels
With a fork mix the cream cheese and pickles and pickle juice together. It takes a lot of hard mixing but it is definitely worth it. Then serve with pretzels. I know it sounds like a weird combo bu it is always a big hit no matter where I take it.
 June 03 Talking about if life hands you lemons....I just read this on another site Amanda's site and I really wanted to post it because I love lemon deserts. MMMM. This cookie recipe sounded really great for the summer time.
Quote if life hands you lemons.... April 09 Taco SoupI made this recipe this weekend and my whole family loved it! It is pretty seldom that I please the whole family with one meal.
1 pound ground chuck
1 medium onion diced
1 pkg. taco seasoning mix
1 pkg. hidden valley ranch dressing mix
1 can mild (or hot) rotel tomatos
1 can mexican rotel tomatos
1 can mexicorn (or regular corn)
1 can white hominy
1 can chili beans
1 can V-8 or other vegtable juice
Brown ground chuck and diced onion together. Drain. Add taco seasoning mix and Hidden Valley Ranch seasoning mix to the ground meat. Then open and add all the rest of the cans. The only cans that I drained where the corn and hominy. I used the juice from the rest.
Then add about half the can of Vegtable Juice and simmer for about 30 minutes or longer if desired until heated through.
I doubled this recipe and used a whole can of the juice. Whenever I doubled it the recipe made about a stock pot full.
This is BEST served with shredded cheddar cheese and a dallop of sour cream on each serving and top with Fritos.
I liked this recipe because it was easy and inexpensive.
January 15 Penne RosaPenne Rosa
3 cups penne pasta, uncooked 1 finely chopped green/red pepper 1package cream cheese, cubed 1 cup tomato juice 3 green onions, chopped 2 teaspoons basil 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 tomatoes, diced 2 cups cooked chicken, cubed
This recipe is a keeper. It's so simple to cook and tastes awesome and it's quick! For the Italian dinner when I prepared it, I actually grilled the chicken ahead of time but I think that this would be a great thing to do if you had left over chicken as well! October 04 PICKLE DIPOkay-I know that I forgot that I said I was going to start posting some of my recipes. I do want to tell you that a majority of my favorite recipes are generally pretty simple, few ingredients and a lot of times weird combinations. But I do promise you that I won't post anything that hasn't already been Sweeney Family Tested and Approved.
 2 packages of cream cheese presoftened
1 full cup of chopped hamburger sliced dill pickels (for some reason these taste better than regular dill pickles)
pickle juice from the jar(enough to make the dip a creamy consistency)
You have to mix this stuff like crazy! Most of the time whenever I give people this recipe the thing that they do wrong is to not mix it well enough. Also-you will wear your hand out mixing it unless your cream cheese is really soft. You can eat it right away after you make it but it usually tastes even better if you make it ahead of time and refrigerate.
Serve with the bite sized pretzels. It is really good!!!!
I made this recently to take to a shower and this crazy pickle dip was the hit of all of the appetizers at the shower. The crazy thing about it is that everyone loves it that tries it and it is so easy and CHEAP to make! And if I don't make this for EVERY family get together or holiday I am in trouble with everyone. So give it a try and let me know what you think. August 23 RECIPESOkay here is something else about me. I LOVE to cook really good food. But only when I am not tired otherwise it is a chore.
Anyway I decided that I am going to start posting some really good recipes. So here it goes here is my first one:
Hawiian Dip
2 cream cheeses softened
1 small can manadarin oranges, very well drained
1 smal can chopped pineapple, very well drained
1 cup coconut-minced finely
1/4 cup green pepper-minced finely
1/4 cup onion-minced finely
walnuts
I chopped the coconut, green pepper and onion together in my food processor and then I mixed all of the ingredients together except for the walnuts. Place the dip in a decorative bowl and cover with the walnuts and refrigerate for at least an hour or up to overnight. Serve with Ritz crackers.
This is soooooo good. I know it sounds really strange with the fruits and the green pepper and onion but I LOVE it and everyone else who usually tries it loves it as well. |
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