Frito Salad

3 chopped tomatoes
1 green pepper, chopped
2 cups grated cheese
1 can kidney beans
1 can black beans
1 bunch green onion, chopped
1 bag fritos corn chips
catalina dressing to liking

Add everything together but fritos and catalina dressing. Just before serving add the fritos and dressing or it will get soggy and nasty!

Roasted Potatoes with Rosemary

4 pounds small variety potatoes, whole or cut in half
1/3 C crisco olive oil
3-4 gloves garlic, chopped
1 C onion
2 TBL chooped rosemary
Salt and pepper to taste

Heat oven to 425.
Place potatoes, oil, garlic, onion, rosemary and salt and pepper in large baking pan.
Toss well to mix ingredients.
Bake 40 to 45 minutes, stirring occasionally and gently until the potatoes are cooked and lightly brown.

Hearty Fiesta Bean Soup

Ingredients:
1 (15 oz) can chicken broth
1 (16 oz) can fat-free refried beans
1 (15 oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 (15.25 oz) can corn, drained and rinsed
1 (10 oz) can diced tomatoes & chilies
Directions:
Put the broth and refried beans into a soup pot and heat, while whisking together, until the beans have incorporated fully into the broth. Add the rest of the ingredients and heat, while stirring until the soup is boiling.
Serve with cilantro, cheese, sour cream and corn chips.

O'Henrys

Yummy and super easy!

2/3 c margarine
4 c oatmeal
1 c brown sugar
1/2 c light corn syrup
2 tsp vanilla
1 c chocolate chips
2/3 c peanut butter

Melt margarine. Add oatmeal, brown sugar, corn syrup, and vanilla. Spread in buttered 9x13 inch pan. Bake 350* for 12 minutes. Cool. In double broiler, mix chocolate chips and peanut butter. Melt. Spread on cooked oatmeal mixture and cool.

{ Almond-Craisn Spinach Salad }

I am always looking for a new and healthy salad, I found this on my cousins blog and thought it sounded GREAT. I haven't tried it yet but I intend to tonight for dinner, I thought that I would post it and let you all try it too.

Toss the following:
2-3 Cups of Spinach (de-stemmed)
1/8 Cup sliced Almonds
1/8 Cup Craisins
1/2 Cup Matchstick Carrots
2 TBSP. Light Raspberry Vinaigrette

Beef Stroganoff: Paula Deen Style

So sorry to hear of your loss, Annell. I hope you and your family are doing okay.

This is just another Paula Deen recipe that we love!

Ingredients
1 1/2 pounds cubed round steak, cut into thin strips
House Seasoning, recipe follows
All-purpose flour
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons butter
1 medium onion, sliced
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 (10 3/4-ounce) can beef broth
1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
Salt and black pepper
1 cup sour cream
Cooked egg noodles

Directions:
Season the steak strips with House Seasoning, then dust with flour. In a large skillet, quickly brown them on both sides in the olive oil and butter. Remove the steak from the pan. Add the onion slices and mushrooms to the pan drippings. Saute for a few minutes, until the onion is tender. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon flour. Put the steak back into the pan with the onion and mushrooms. Add the mushroom soup and beef broth. Cook over low heat for about 30 minutes, covered. Adjust seasoning to taste, adding salt and pepper, as needed. Stir in the sour cream the last few minutes, right before you serve. Serve over cooked noodles.

House Seasoning:
1 cup salt
1/4 cup black pepper
1/4 cup garlic powder
Mix the ingredients together and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.
Yields: 1 1/2 cups

Cafe Rio Sweet Pork

Don't let all the ingredients scare you away from trying this recipe. My mom made it when we visited them last and it was wonderful! She didn't have the ingredients for the rice or dressing so she just made the sweet pork, put it onto tortillas and my kids loved it!

Sweet Pork
-1 pork roast
-1 can of Coke
-1 bottle of red taco sauce
-1 C of Brown sugar

Put the roast in the crock pot and fill the crock pot 1/3 full of water. Put on low overnight. In the morning the roast should be tender and you should be able to shred it with a fork. In a bowl blend ingredients and pour over roast. Let it simmer all day, to thicken the sauce leave the lid off the crock pot.

Cilantro Lime Rice
-1 bag of rice
-3 cans of Chicken Broth
-Zest and juice of 2 limes
-Cilantro

Cook rice with the lime juice and zest and the broth instead of water. After the rice is cooked chop up some cilantro and mix through.

Dressing
-1 C Mayo
-1 pkg. of dry buttermilk ranch dressing
-2 tomatillos
-1 jalapeno
-1 bunch of cilantro or to taste
-A dash of lime juice

Mix it together in your blender or food processor and enjoy. Chill before serving.

Put the pork mixture, rice and dressing on a tortilla and eat until your heart is content. You won't be sorry that you tried this recipe! For those of you that don't know what tomatillos look like I have included a picture below.