New Year's Cheeseball!

Mom's Cheeseball - probably from Mickey Babcock!

2 pkg cream cheese - softened and room temp
1 8oz shredded cheese
2 tsp Worcheshire sauce
10 oz can crushed pinapple - drained
1/2 pkg of Onion soup mix
chopped walnuts to cover

1.) combine with hands and divide into 2 balls
2.) roll in chopped walnuts
3.) refrigerate to harden before serving ~1hr

Bruschetta

Hi Ladies! Thought I would post since it has been a while for all of us.

Hope your summers are well!

Ingredients:
Two Fresh Plastic Grape or Cherry Tomatoes Containers (You can also use plum tomatoes but I prefer the other)
6 – 10 Fresh Basil Leaves
2 Fresh Crushed Garlic Cloves (you can also garlic from the jar. Just make sure you use the correct amount)
¼ Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 Teaspoon Balsamic Vinegar
Coarse Salt to Taste (I use about 1 – 2 teaspoons)
1 Baguette (cut into


Chop tomatoes and basil leaves together in a food processor. Pay attention while doing this, you don’t want to puree the tomatoes. They should still be a little chunky. Pour into a bowl.
Add garlic, olive oil, vinegar and mix.
Add salt to taste.
Allow the mixture to blend flavors for a couple of hours before serving.
Slice the baguette on a diagonal into ½ thick slices.

Dreamy Guacamole

(This one is from a mission companion of mine who is thinking about joining the blog. I hope she does soon. This looks good! )

Dreamy Guacamole

6 avocados
1 bunch of cilantro
4-6 green onions
2 limes
3-4 roma tomatoes
Garlic salt (to taste)
Salt and pepper (to taste)
White vinegar (1/4-1/2 C)

This is usually the order that I do this in.

Juice of the 2 limes. (if you like more lime taste you could zest it)
Put in the avocados cut up. Mix the 2 together.
Finely chop the cilantro. (Use as much or as little as you like, I tend to like more)
Chop the onions as finely as you can.
De-seed and juice the tomatoes. Roughly chop.
Add the garlic salt, pepper and salt to your liking.
Add ¼ c of white vinegar.

Then depending on how soft the avocadoes are, mash with a potato masher or a pastry cutter until the consistency that you like. If they are not ripe enough, add the other ¼ C of vinegar and continue to mash.

Serve!

Enjoy!


Ally

Black Bean Salsa

Ingredients:

4 medium tomatoes, seeded & chopped
1/2 C green onion - some tops included
4 T fresh cilantro, snipped
2 garlic clove, pressed
4 T lime juice
1 can (15oz) black beans, **RINSED & drained **
1 can S&W Carribean black beans
1/2 t salt
1/4 t ground lack pepper

Instructions:

Chop and seed tomatoes. Chop green onions. Coasrsely snip cilantro using kitchen shears.
Combine tomatoes, green onions and cilantro in 2 qt. bowl.
press garlic and add lime juice to the mixture. Add beans ( make sure to rinse the black beans), salt and pepper; mix gently. Cover and refrigerate 1-2hours to blend flavors.
Serve with warm chips, crackers

Servings:6 cups
Recipe provided by Jan