Cream Cheese and Salsa Dip

Need a quick and easy appatizer or dip?


Put one block of cream cheese on a platter.
Pour a jar of Salsa on top.
Let is stand for about 10 minutes...to let th cream cheese get soft.
VOILA!
Quick and easy dip!!

Chicken Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

Dressing:

3 TBSP white vinegar

2 TBSP mayo

1 TBSP Honey

salt

pepper

1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1/4 cup chopped dill

Pasta:

8 ounces of pasta---bow ties, wagon wheels, garden rotini etc..

2 cups white chicken meat cut into bit size peices

1 red bell pepper diced

2 celery ribs diced

1/2 cup crumbled Feta cheese

Boil and drain the pasta. Rinse with cool water. Let it sit until room temperature.

Wisk together vinegar, mayo, honey, salt, and pepper. Wisk in the EVOO and dill.

Mix the chicken, pasta, bell pepper, and celery in a large bowl. Drizzle dressing over the top. Add the Feta cheese on top. Mix it up real good. Refrigerate. Toss again before serving.

Red Beans and Rice

I thought everyone knew how to make Red Beans and Rice, but everytime I make them, someone always asks me "How do you make this?" So I decided to post it here!

Ingredients:
1 pkg. dried red kidney beans
1 pkg. Seasoning blend (frozen)
Tonys
garlic
*sausage* optional

Chop a few cloves of garlic and place into a large bowl. Add dried beans and cover with water. Let them soak overnight. In the morning, drain the beans and rinse them off real good.

Add beans to the crockpot along with the seasoning blend and fill with water. (covering the beans by about 2-3 inches)
Cook on LOW for about 6 hours or HIGH for about 3 hours.
About an hour before you are ready to serve them, add about 1/8 cup of Tonys. (yes, that much) ----you could add a little bit every hour, but since I cook this while I am not home, I just add it all at the end.
This is the time you would add the sausage. Cut it up and cook on the stove until brown. Add to the beans.
Cook for another hour or so. You may need to add more water during the process.

Serve over rice. And with cornbread and greens!

White Corn Salad (Shoepeg Corn)

Ingredients:

1 can of Shoepeg corn (white corn)
1 tomato---chopped
1 bell pepper--chopped
1 onion--chopped
2 TBSP mayo
pepper

Place all ingredients in a large bowl. Do not drain the corn. Add the mayo 1 TBSP at a time. This salad should be a little runny, but not juicy. (if that makes sense!!)
Add pepper and place in the fridge for about an hour. Serve COLD!

Chicken and Dumplins

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, cut up and de-boned
1 bag of Seasoning Blend (in the freezer section)
2 cups of celery--cut up
2 cans Chicken brooth
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 pkg, biscuits--You know, the ones in the fridge section..unless you wanna make homemade ones, but that would take too long!

Place all the ingredients in the crock pot, except the biscuits. If you need more liquid, add more brooth or soup.

Cook on low for about 6 hours.
Cut each biscuit into 4's. Drop them in the crock pot and cook on HIGH for about 1 hour.


*You can add carrots to this also
**instead of biscuits, you can use tortillas...cut into small strips and cook for additional 30 minutes instead of an hour