Egg Salad

I like to make this every year with the eggs my kids color for Easter. Some times you get some colorful egg salad. You can eat it as a side dish or put it on bread for an egg sandwich. 

12 hard boiled eggs
3/4 cup Miracle Whip
1 Tbs mustard
2 Tbs pickle relish (optional)
paprika to taste

Place uncooked eggs in a large pan of warm water. Heat over Med/High heat. Turn heat to low just before it starts to boil (boiling the eggs may cause them to crack). Cover and let the eggs cook for 20 minutes. Rinse the eggs under cool water and than place in the fridge until they are completely cooled. Peal the eggs and then chop them (in a bowl) into bite sized pieces. Add the Miracle whip, mustard, relish and mix well. Than sprinkle the Paprika on top.

Garlic Cheese Rolls

These are so good. I like to make them when we eat spaghetti.Or use them as an appetizer when dinners going to be a little late. They are smaller than they look in the picture...more bite size.

1 can Grands biscuits (8pk)

8 string cheese sticks

butter (I used butter spray)

garlic powder

parmesan cheese (dry powdery kind)

Cut each biscuit into fourths and also cut each cheese stick into fourths. Wrap a biscuit piece around each piece of cheese. Use your fingers to pinch and seal each one so the cheese doesn't ooze out while baking. Spritz with butter spray and sprinkle with garlic and parmesan cheese. Bake as directed on the can of biscuits or at 350 for about 10 minutes.

Note: keep a close eye on them and don't over bake or the cheese will ooze out. I bake mine for less time than it says on the can.

Honey Mustard dressing

My son loves honey mustard dipping sauce (it's tragic when we run out). I forgot to buy some and had to search the fridge to throw something together for him. I didn't use a recipe or measure anything out thinking it would be the only time I would need to make it from scratch. Well, that was over a year ago and my son has asked me a dozen times since to make it again. So I searched several recipes on the web trying to find a recipe similar to the one I whipped up. This one is very close and it tastes really good.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup mayonnaise (not Miracle Whip) 

2 Tbs yellow mustard

2 Tbs honey

1 Tbs lemon juice (or vinegar)

Mix it all together and enjoy. This can be used as a dip or dressing.

The first time I made this I only had Miracle Whip and that's what I used. It was way too sweet. So if that's all you have on hand than you may want to cut back on the honey. I have not tried it with vinegar yet but the recipe I found said you could use either lemon juice or vinegar. If you've tried this with Vinegar leave a comment and let me know how it tastes.

Slow Cooked Apples

Ingredients:
5 cups apples (4 medium apples)
2 Tbs water
2 Tbs melted butter
1 Tbs lemon juice
1 tsp cinnamon
1/3 cup brown sugar

Mix the water, butter and lemon juice and pour over the apples in the crock pot. Than sprinkle with the brown sugar and cinnamon and toss to coat. Cover and cook on low for 2 -3 hours.

Option: pour the sauce into a pan and add about a tsp of corn starch and than heat until it thickens. Than pour over apples.