Salsa

This is one of Brent and I’s favorite snacks to make or should say eat! In the summer I like to go to the farmers market to get the ingredients.  It’s a little time consuming but it is so worth it.   It is easy to make and lasts almost a week.  Can alter the recipe to your liking, make more or less. 

Ingredients

3 large tomatoes

1 large green pepper

2 medium onions

2 jalapenos

1 lime

1 teaspoon Salt

1 can tomato puree (I used about 12oz this time)

Directions

Cut the tomatoes, pepper, onions, jalapenos into small pieces and mix together, add salt.  Squeeze lime juice into the mixture.  Add the can of tomato puree and serve! 

You can easily double the recipe, or add more jalapenos to make spicier.  Last time we used I think 5 jalapenos and I could hardly eat it….so I only put 2 in this time and its perfect for me!

Veggie Pizza

As requested!! I made this for the Super Bowl. Brent never had this before and he loved it!

Veggie Pizza

Ingredients:

2 tubes (8 ounces) crescent rolls

1 package of cream cheese

¾ cup sour cream

Hidden Valley Dip Mix, Original Ranch Dip

1 ½ -2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Carrots, celery, broccoli, cauliflower

Directions:

Roll crescent rolls into a baking pan, pinch seams together.  Bake at 375 for 7-10 minutes, let cool.  In bowl mix soften cream cheese, sour cream and ranch.  Spread this mixture over baked crescent rolls.  Spread cheese and veggies over the top.  Cut into squares with pizza cutter.

Chicken Turnovers!

This is what we had for dinner last night! I made up the mixture before work and then stuffed while the oven was preheating.  One of our favorites!

Ingredients

• 3 diced cooked chicken breasts
• 1 package shredded reduced-fat cream cheese
• 2 tablespoon finely chopped onion
• Salt/pepper
• 1 tablespoon chopped chives
• 2 tubes (8 ounces) crescent rolls (sometimes I use 3 depending on how full I want them-if you do that you’ll have 12 of them instead of 8)
• ¼ cup milk
• Sour Cream

Directions

• In a bowl, combine chicken, cream cheese, onion, salt and pepper, chives. Separate crescent dough into 8 squares; top each with chicken mixture. Fold dough over and seal edges. So it’ll be like 2 of the triangles put together.  Make sure you seal up the creases really well.
• Place on a greased baking sheet. Drizzle milk over the top. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
• Top with Sour Cream!

The start!

This is my first attempt at a blog....so we will see how it goes! I love to cook, have been trying to find a hobby and everyone always asks me for my recipes.  So I thought this might be fun! I plan on posting some of my families favorite recipes-from full meals to appetizers. I'll also try to post pictures.  If you try one of mine let me know how you liked it so I can let others know! :) Enjoy!