Strawberry/Blackberry Smoothie

6-8 Strawberries
4-6 Blackberries
1 Banana
1 Single Serving Cup of Strawberry Flavored Yogurt
Low Fat Milk
Sugar
Ice

Get your blender out and wash up the strawberries and blackberries. You will want to remove the stems off the strawberries. Next, slice the strawberries into halves. Cut your banana into smaller pieces as well. This will make things blend easier. Once you have that done it’s time to put everything into the blender.You will want to add the strawberries, banana, and blackberries first. Next, pour in the strawberry yogurt. Pour about 1 cup of low fat milk. You will also add in 3-6 tablespoons of sugar. This is to add a little bit more sweetness into the smoothie. Finally, pour in the ice. We filled a tall glass up with ice cubes to use in this recipe. That will give you an idea of how much ice you may want to add. Hit that blend button after all the ingredients are in there.

Garrett enjoying his smoothie!!!

Homemade Fortune Cookies

I found this recipe just browsing the Internet and thought how fun & simple! But my favorite part was I had all the ingredients! The batter has just a few steps, and the only tricky part is thinning out the batter on the cookie sheet. Once you perfect this (and even if you don’t) you’ll have your friends and family blown away by your pastry skill! Forming the actual cookies is as simple as folding them while they’re still hot. So get creative, come up with some fun predictors of the future and whip up a batch of the future!

Homemade Fortune Cookies

3 egg whites
3/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter — melted
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour


Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium-sized bowl, combine ingredients in the above order, mixing well after each addition. Chill batter for 15 minutes.

On a well-greased cookie sheet, drop a spoonful of dough for each cookie. It is very important to spread dough very thin with back of spoon to about 3 inch diameter. Bake about 5 minutes or until edges are lightly brown. Working quickly, place a fortune in the center of each cookie. Fold cookie in half enclosing fortune, to form a semi-circle. Grasp rounded edges of semi-circle between thumb and forefinger on one hand. Place forefinger of other hand at center of folded edge, and push in, making certain solid sides of cookie puff out. Place each cookie in small size muffin tin, open edges up, until cookie is set. Store in airtight container. Note: the fortune needs to be on thick paper if it's to thin it will stick in the batter! I know this from experience!

Enjoy!

Supper Corn Chowder

I found this very very simple recipe in a cook book I like to use Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book! And to make a long story short Adam came home one day after work with a ton of bagged kernel corn....so of course every once in a while I look for ways that I can use it. So I found this chowder recipe & my family seems to enjoy it {we have it probably once every 2 weeks}

Ingredients:
5 slices bacon
1 medium onion, thinly sliced and separated in rings
2 cups cooked or canned whole kernel corn
1 cup diced cooked potatoes
1 10 1/2-ounce can condensed cream of mushroom soup {I don't always use...and it's still good!}
2 1/2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt

Now cook bacon till crisp in large saucepan. Remove bacon; pour off drippings, returning 3 tablespoons to pan. Add onion and cook till lightly browned. Add remaining ingredients and dash pepper. Heat to boiling; reduce heat and simmer a minute or two. top each serving with crumbled bacon and butter. {I don't use the butter}. Make 6 servings

It's that easy and it really has a great taste! I hope you enjoy!

Guacamole

Last night Adam & I made homemade guacamole for the first time ever! And to be honest It wasn't hard at all & I think we really enjoyed it better then the bought stuff! Now we looked up tons of different ways to make it and we both couldn't pick just one so we kinda came up with our own {but still very basic guacamole}

Our ingredients:

2 medium avocados {for the two of us...if you have more then 2 I recommend more!}
The juice of 1 lime
Half a medium yellow onion
1 small tomato
1 teaspoon of garlic powder
1 teaspoon of salt
3 chive's

Put it all in a medium bowl and mix together {I used a potato masher.. it worked great!}. & serve immediately!

Cheese Ball

I love making these cheese balls for get together's or just at home snacking in front of the t.v. because there so simple & easy....and full of flavor!

Ingredients: 2 {8 oz} Boxes of Philadelphia Cream Cheese, 1 {3 oz} of Corn Beef {if you like a lot of meat use 6 oz}, 3 green chives cut up, 1 tablespoon of Garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon of Accent {I didn't have any Accent on hand so I used salt..it worked fine}

Get a medium size bowel put all you ingredients in and take off your jewelry ladies because it's about to get messy! combine all the ingredients together! Roll into a bowl and that quickly your done! Easy right!?!



The most important part is to wrap tightly with plastic wrap and set in the refrigerator over night!

& enjoy!

P.s. Thanks for the recipe Mom!

Chocolate Cookie Dough Brownies

I ran across this recipe and I just had to try it and now share it they are Delicious!!! And as you can see it's a good way to get the kids in the kitchen to help!

Ingredients: 1box Betty Crocker® Original Supreme brownie mix (with chocolate syrup pouch)1/3 cup vegetable oil 1/4 cup water 2 eggs 1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® chocolate chip cookie mix 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened 1 egg

1.Heat oven to 350ºF. Grease bottom only of 13x9-inch pan. Make brownie mix as directed on box, using oil, water and 2 eggs. Spread in pan.2.Make cookie mix as directed on pouch, using butter and 1 egg. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls evenly onto brownie batter; press down lightly.3.Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted 2 inches from side of pan comes out almost clean.

Garrett helping clean up! {His favorite part of the whole cooking process!}

All finished and ready to enjoy! I hope ya'll enjoy them as much as my family has!

POTATO NACHOS

I found a little twist on nachos! basically with out the hard tortilla chips we used potatos cut into circles as the chips and it was amazing I'll never go back! Now this recipe can be made to taste. Top the nachos as you like the ONLY difference is the potatoes! Plus great for the vegetarian in the family....my sister-n-law is so when she comes over I have something she can enjoy too!

1 1/2 pounds russet potatoes
1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt.
1 cup Mexican blend shredded cheese
1/4 cup rinsed and drained canned black beans
1/4 cup diced tomatoes
1/4 cup sliced black olives
1/4 cup sliced green onions
3 tablespoons canned diced green chile's
TO SERVE:
Salsa, guacamole and sour cream (optional)

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Scrub potatoes and cut into 1/2-inch thick wedges. Place potatoes into a medium size bowl with the oil, garlic salt . Stir well to coat potatoes with oil and seasonings. Transfer to a large baking sheet and spread into a single layer.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, stirring several times, until crisp and golden brown.

Top with cheese, beans, tomatoes, olives, onions and chile's.

Bake for 5 minutes more to melt cheese.

Serve with salsa, guacamole and sour cream.

Enjoy!