Heidi's Chocolate Chip Cookies

from friend Heidi Birkenkamp

Oven @ 375*

1 C butter
1/4 C sugar
3/4 C brown sugar

Cream together

Next, add

1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs

Beat til fluffy

2 1/3 C flour
1 tsp soda
2 small or 1 large box instant vanilla pudding

1 small bag milk choc chips
1 C nuts (optional)

Bake about 8 minutes

Steak and Blue Cheese Salad

Mixed salad greens
Sliced bell peppers
Cherry tomatoes
Blue Cheese Dressing
Leftover flank steak, sliced -OR- Oscar Meyer brand deli-style Roast Beef lunch meat
1/2 C. Italian dressing
1/2 C. Steak sauce

Mix flank steak or roast beef with the Italian dressing and steak sauce in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate 3-4 hours. Layer salad greens, bell peppers, and meat on plates. Garnish with cherry tomatoes and top with blue cheese dressing.

Serve with dinner rolls.

Fruit Smoothies

1/2 quart vanilla yogurt
1 C. frozen strawberries
1 banana
1 C. orange juice

Combine all ingredients in blender and serve cold. If a more slushy effect is preferred, add crushed ice if your blender can handle it. If not, thaw the strawberries before blending.

BBQ Chicken Pizza

1 Prepared pizza crust
1 jar barbeque sauce
1 C. cooked, shredded chicken
Sliced red onion
2 C. cheddar cheese

Spread pizza crust with BBQ sauce, add chicken, onion, and cheddar cheese. Cook @ 400* until brown and bubbly.

5 Cup Salad

1 C. Pineapple chunks
1 C. Madarian oranges
1 C. Whipped cream
1 C. Coconut flakes
1 C. mini marshmallows

Stir together. Chill overnight. Serve.

Country Breakfast Quiche

1 lb. sausage
Potatoes, grated as hash browns
1 lb. grated cheese
1/2 c. chopped onion
1/2 c. chopped bell pepper
6 eggs, well beaten
Crumble sausage and cook. Drain and set aside. Cook hash browns, place some of hash browns in bottom of butter quiche dish - to line it - sprinkle sausage and 1/2 cheese - sprinkle rest of potatoes over all. Pour beaten eggs over all. Then sprinkle remaining cheese on top. Cook until brown in hot oven. Serve hot.

Blueberry Cobbler

1/2 can (21 oz) blueberry pie filling
1/2 teaspoon shredded orange peel
1/2 cup buttermilk baking mix
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 teaspoons butter or margarine, softened

Heat oven to 400*. Mix pie filling and orange peel in ungreased 2 1/2 cup casserole. Heat in oven 15 minutes. Stir baking mix, sugar, orange juice and butter with fork to soft dough. Drop dough by spoonfuls (2 or 3) onto hot blueberry mixture. Bake until topping is light brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm, with light cream or ice cream.

2 servings