Fajitas

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Baked Green Beans

Costco frozen green beans
butter
salt
pepper


375 degree oven, cover pan with green beans. Cook about ten minutes. Toss with salt and return to oven for ten to fifteen minutes. Drizzle with butter when finished.

Buffalo Chicken Wings

Costco frozen chicken wings (one jelly roll pan worth)
1/4 cup Franks Red Hot cayenne pepper sauce
3 Tbs melted butter


Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cover one jelly roll pan with tin foil and generously grease with cooking spray. Place chicken wings on cookie sheet and bake for 50-60 minutes until juices run clear and temp reaches 180 degrees.


Mix melted butter and Franks and coat wings in sauce before serving.


yummy with celery sticks, carrot sticks, buttermilk corn bread

Kristin's Ultimate Chocolate Chippers (Chocolate Chip Cookies)

***Room temp eggs, freeze dough for 45 min before cooking***

¼ c melted butter (or shortening)

¾ c shortening

1/2 c white sugar

1 1/4 c packed brown sugar

2 eggs at room temp + 1 egg yolk

1 tsp vanilla

3 3/4 c flour..(the dough should be firm and slightly sticky, but not too sticky.

3/4 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

12 oz chocolate chips

• Melt ¼ cup butter in the microwave.
• Add the shortening into a large mixing bowl. Combine the butter and the shortening completely.
• Add the white sugar & brown sugar, and vanilla. 
• Add room temperature eggs and 1 egg yolk and combine until fully incorporated. 
• Combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix with a whisk till the dry ingredients are fluffy and well combined.
• Adding a cup at a time, add the flour. The extra egg yolk and the melted butter make the dough sticky. Add  as much as you need to make the dough more firm, but not too firm, but not too sticky. A good place to stop is when it barely sticks to your fingers. 
• 1 Add chocolate chips.
• Freeze the dough. 45min -to h in the freezer or overnight in the fridge. 
•         *Cookies are the best, however, when you chill them in the fridge for 36 hours. The flour relaxes and the butter chills.

A handy trick, is to scoop the dough out into 1 inch sized balls, and place them on a cookie sheet, and then put them in the fridge.

*You want your dough to be cold. It gives the butter less time to spread out in the oven, making your cookies thicker but still chewy. Any handling with your hands will counter act this, so do it as little as possible.

• Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees. The hotter temperature still cooks the cookie but gives it less time to spread out in the oven. 
• Cookies like space, and will spread out if they have room. Place them about 1-2 inches apart. Cook cookies for 9 minutes. 
• The cookies will continue to cook while on the sheet. Leave them there! If they have the air from the cooling rack they will get drier, so scoop them off after 3 minutes, then place them on rack.

from Kristin Sumbot

Guiltless Alfredo Sauce

Yummy with noodles, crepes, on pizza

Guiltless Alfredo Sauce

Ingredients:
2 C low-fat milk
1/3 C (3 oz) low fat cream cheese
2-3 T flour
1 t salt
1 T butter
3 garlic cloves
1 C grated Parmesan cheese

Instructions:

Place milk, cream cheese, flour, and salt in a blender and blend until smooth.  In a non-stick sauce pan, melt butter on med-high heat and add garlic. Let the garlic saute for about 30 seconds, you don’t want to burn it.

Then add milk mixture to the pan. Stir constantly for about 3 or 4 minutes or until it just comes to a simmer. Keep stirring and let it cook for a few minutes more. It should be much thicker now.

When it’s nice and thickened remove the pan from the heat. Add the cheese, stir it up and then cover immediately. Let stand for at least 10 minutes before using. It will continue to thicken upon standing. Also, if you have leftovers in the fridge, the sauce will thicken almost into a solid. Just re-heat and add a little milk and it will be back to normal again

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Crepes with Alfredo Sauce

Crepes (add recipe)
Guiltless Alfredo Sauce
grilled chicken
bacon
tomatoes
mozzarella cheese


YUM!

Salty Cucumbers

Sliced Cucumbers
Mix in Kosher Salt
Refrigerate for at least 10 minutes
Thoroughly rinse salt from cucumbers
Add any time of vinegar (a little bit) to the cucumbers and serve
   (red wine vinegar, balsamic vinaigrette etc)


Add tomatoes too

Pasta Salad

Easy...eat it in the summa time.


Add fresh mozzarella cheese
diced ham
cucumbers
sliced olives


Pepperoni
tomatoes
parmesan cheese