Guacamole

Get some tortilla chips and whip up this easy dip.

Ingredients:
4 avocados
1 garlic clove minced
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 tomato, finely chopped
1/4 cup red onion or yellow, finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
3 hits of hot pepper sauce

Half the avocados, get rid of the pit and scoop out the inside
Roughly mash the avocado in a bowl
Stir in the lemon juice and garlic
Stir in the remaining ingredients

There ya go. Delicious and not too fattening.

Italian Sausage & Peppers

I found this recipe online and it's awesome!!!!

Ingredients:
2 tbspns olive oil or a few drizzles around the Large skillet.
(you'll need a lid)
6 to 12 hot or sweet Italian sausages.
1 garlic clove minced
1 onion thinly sliced
2 thinly sliced red peppers (about 1/4 inch slices)
1 thinly sliced green pepper
3 tblspns tomato paste
3/4 cup white wine
salt and pepper to taste

First heat the oil and fry the sausages on all sides till browned
Set browned sausage aside
Add the onions, garlic, peppers and saute a bit
make a small space and add the tomato paste.
Now stir it all up.
Mix in the white wine
salt and pepper (optional)
Slice up your sausage into 3/4 inch rounds or use whole
Add to the skillet and stir

Cook covered over low heat for 20 minutes or until
onions and peppers are tender

Serve on Italian bread, with pasta or over rice.
This is a winner!

Macaroni & Cheese

Who doesn't like Macaroni and cheese?
I've tried many recipes, but I like this one best.
However: I'm always looking for a better one.
If you have one please send it to me.

This one is from "America's Test Kitchen" It Rocks!!!!!!

Ingredients:
For the bread crumb topping
6 slices of white sandwich bread (about 6 ounces) torn into rough pieces
3 tablespoons unsalted butter (cold) cut into 6 pieces

For the pasta and cheese
1 pound elbow macaroni (I usually use Cavatappi)
1 tablespoon table salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons mustard powder
1/4 teaspoons ccayenne pepper (optional)
5 cups milk
8 ounces Monterey Jack cheese shredded (2 cups)
8 ounces Cheddar cheese shredded (2 cups)
1 teaspoon table salt

For the bread crumbs:
Pulse bread and butter in food processor until crumbs are no larger
than 1/8 inch, set aside. (about 10-15 1 second pulses). Set aside

For the pasta and cheese:
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle and hear broiler. Bring 4 qts. of water to
boil in Dutch oven over high heat. Add macaroni and 1 tbspn salt: cook until
pasta is tender. Drain past and set aside in colander.

In now empty Dutch oven, heat butter over med-high heat until foaming.
Add flour, mustard and cayenne (if using) and whisk well to combine.
Contnue whisking until mixture becomes fragrandt and deepens in color,
about 1 minute. Gradually whisk in milk: bring mixture to boil, whisking
constantly ( mixture must reach full boil to fully thicken). Reduce heat to
mediym and simmer, whisking occasionally, until thickened to consistency
of heavy cream, about 5 minutes. 
Off heat, whisk in cheeses and 1 tspn salt until cheeses are fully melted.
Add pasta and cook over med-low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is
steaming and heated through, about 6 minutes.

Transfer mixture to broiler-safe 9 by 13 inch baking dish and sprinkle evenly
with bread crumbs. Broil until crumbs are deep golden brown, 3-5 minutes.
Cool about 5 minutes then serve.

Roasted Chicken

Very, very easy and totally comforting. It will impress your friends.

First buy a chicken.

Heat the oven to 425 degrees

Rinse it with cold water and pat it dry. (first take off the wrap)
Some people stick all kinds of crap in the cavity. Like half lemon or orange,
some thyme sprigs or maybe some celery with the leaves on it.
I think that’s only useful if you’re making gravey. It will give it some extra flavor.
I do it down and dirty. An empty vaccum cavity.

Okay, take that bird and put some olive oil or whatever oil you have handy on it
(not motor oil).
Oil that baby good. Don’t worry you can wash your hands later.
Now sprinkle season salt all over it.
If you don’t have season salt, use some salt, pepper, garlic power and paprika.
Or...whatever spice you like.
Now put the bird on a rack in a roasting pan.
You don’t have a rack...don’t use one.

Stick it in the oven for 75 minutes.
If you like you can baste it with the juices that fill the pan or a little more oil.

It will come out perfect. Non of those bloody joints.

Serve it with some rice and a vegetable. Enjoy!!!!

Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

I love crispy cookies. I hate those soft ones. Eat cake if you want soft cookies.
Anyway this old hippie has the best chocolate chip cookie recipe. And believe me...
us hippies lived on chocolate chip cookies in the sixties.

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 tspn baking soda
1 tspn salt
1 cup softened butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
1 tspn vanilla
1 package semisweet chocolate pieces 12 ounces or 2 cups
1 cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix: flour, baking soda and salt and set aside
In a large bowl mix butter (or margarine) until creamy and fluffy
Stir in flour mixture, nuts and chocolate until well mixed
Shape in 1 or 2 inch balls.
Place about 3 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake on middle rack 20-25 minutes until golden and edges are lightly browned.
Cool completely on cookie sheet.

You are about to enter cookie heaven!

Noodle Kugel

8 oz. Box med or wide egg noodles
1 stick butter or margarine
4 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
8 oz. milk
8 oz. cottage cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
cinnamon sugar

Boil noodles 5 minutes and drain
Mix all ingredients and pour into
buttered 13x9x2 baking dish (pyrex)
sprinkle cinnamon sugar all over top
Bake at 375˚ for 20 minutes
Let cool at least 1/2 hour.