Spinach Dip

INGREDIENTS - 1 bag frozen spinach 1 bag Knorr powdered vegetable dip 2 cans water chestnut 1 cup sour cream 1 cup mayonnaise DIRECTIONS Drain the frozen spinach. Mince the water chestnuts. Mix it all up and you´re good to go. Great with chips and crackers.

3 Cheese Spaghetti

One word: P A S T A !! oh and lots of cheese to go with it so, ENJOY!

INGREDIENTS

1/2 onion
1 can Carnation evaporated milk
50 grams manchego cheese
1 block cream cheese
1 8 oz can Nestle´s table cream
1 tbsp Knorr chicken flavor bouillon

DIRECTIONS

Boil the spaghetti along with a little bit of salt and garlic powder, you know the whole throw-it-at-the-wall-and-if- it -sticks- then- it´s- ready thing. After its ready blend the milk along with the manchego and the table cream. Pour onto spaghetti, mix it all up and you´re good to go!

Almond Jell-O

INGREDIENTS -

5 cups milk

1 cup peeled and crushed almonds

397 gr condensed milk

2 boxes vanilla-flavored Jello

DIRECTIONS -

Boil the milk in a cooking pot. Pour Jello and condensed milk into blender, add a little milk once milk has started to boil. Add blended mix and crushed almonds. Pour into mold and refrigerate for at least 6 hours.

Enjoy!

Caramel-Pecan Cheese Pie

Delicious, cheap and simple, this pie is one of my favorites. No complex ingredients, no special cooking skills needed. However, the pleasure will be postponed, you need to refrigerate the pie for 4 hours.

INGREDIENTS -

9 whole Honey Maid Honey Grahams

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1/3 cup Parkay, melted

1 cup pecan havles, divided

2 Philadelphia Cream Cheese blocks (8 oz.), softened (just roll them around on a hard surface for a couple of minutes)

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

2 tbsp. vanilla

2 eggs

1/4 cup Smuckers caramel ice cream topping

DIRECTIONS-

Preheat oven to 325° F. Mix graham crumbs, sugar and Parkay. Press mix firmly on 9 inch pie plate. Beat the cream cheese, the brown sugar and the vanilla in a bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until it blends well (no bubbles, not too thick, but not too runny). Add the eggs to the mix, and mix until just blended. Pour over crust. Place pecans around edge of pie.
Bake for 45 minutes or until the center is set. Take it out, cool it for a while (on a rack or plate). Refrigerate for 4 hours. After taking it out of the fridge, drizzle it with the caramel topping and voila!

Chilaquiles con Crema

Okay, this is sOoOoO Mexican, I know! No, it´s not spicy and no, it won´t upset your stomach hahaha!

INGREDIENTS -

150 grams white cheese

1/2 kilo corn tortillas

1 can tomato puree

1/4 liter Mexican cream (NOT SOUR!)

1/2 onion

2 cloves garlic

1 cup oil

DIRECTIONS-

Cut up the tortillas in squares and fry over warm oil. After they´re fried, dry the excess oil by pressing a napkin over the tortillas. Place them in a container or large plate. Do not dispose of the oil in the pan. Mash the tomato along with the garlic, the onion and the puree. Add a little bit of salt and get it in the blender (and yes, blend it).

Using the extra oil from the tortillas, brown the mix from the blender (now a salsa) and pour it over the tortillas. Mix well and add the cream. Get in the cheese and put in in the oven (low heat) for about 10 minutes. Serve warm.

BACON SNACK

Snacking on bacon is one of my favorite things to do...ok, it´s not but I do REALLY LOVE bacon and thing is, I was about to give you my mom´s green spaghetti recipe, but then I realized that would've been a mistake, so next best thing was this one...

Enjoy!

INGREDIENTS -

1 8oz block Philadelphia cream cheese

1 cup bacon, chopped and fried

1 chipotle pepper

8 prunes

1 pack Crackets saltine crackers

1 pack grounded pepper

DIRECTIONS-

Mix the cheese and the prunes and pepper with salt and pepper and shape it into a bar of approximately 6 inches long. Spread the bacon on a flat surface (a plate, etc) and pass the cheese bar over the bacon so as to cover it all over with bacon bits. Refrigerate for about an hour.

Get it out of the fridge, get the crackers out and ENJOY!

Pecan Kisses

Sweet, simple.. thing is, after you try one, you´ll want to eat them all up. Consider yourself warned!

INGREDIENTS-

1 pack Marias cookies (the Gamesa ones).. crush them

250 grams chopped pecans

1 cup milk

1 cup Nestle, LA LECHERA sweetened condensed milk

1 sheet cellophane (YES, cellophane!)

Sugar, or brown sugar.. or whatever kind of sugar you prefer.

DIRECTONS-

Grind the cookies, pour into container along with pecans. Add the milk little by little. With the mix, shape it into medium size balls. Sprinkle the balls with sugar (I recommend brown sugar) then use the cellophane to wrap ´em.

Spinach Cream

I lOoOoOve this one!!! It is delicious and oh-so-easy!

INGREDIENTS -

1/2 kilo spinach

2 tablespoons butter

1 can Clavel milk

salt, pepper and Knorr chicken flavor bouillon (the green top one)

DIRECTIONS -

Wash and mash the raw spinach. Melt the butter in a pot and then add the spinach along with a little bit of water. Add the salt and pepper, and let simmer over a low flame. After a couple of minutes, add the milk and the bouillon. Do NOT let it boil! Again, use a low flame to heat it up, mix it and you´re good to go!

Chipotle Tuna

Chipotle Tuna

Okay, so, enough with the sweet on with the spicy-salty food, right? It was about time, so here it is! The tuna and chipotle recipe takes only approximately 10 minutes of preparation, is a healthy snack and is very very tasty. However, if you are not one for spicy food, I would advise you to only use half of the chipotle can.

INGREDIENTS -

2 tuna cans (either in water or in oil)

3 tablespoons minced onion

2 tomatoes (minced)

1 garlic clove (minced)

1 small chipotle can

cilantro (minced, and as much, or as little as you want)

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

DIRECTIONS-

Brown onion and garlic in pan (with the oil, of course!) and after browning, add minced tomatoe, a sprinkle of salt and pepper and let boil for a couple of minutes. Add the chipotle and finally, add the tuna and cilantro. Get the crackers out and you´re good to go!

Sweet Fruit

A sweet fruit treat!

INGREDIENTS -

1 cup cubed pineapple

2 washed and cut oranges (cut into little pieces)

1 cup grapes

1 cup Coca-Cola

1 grapefruit (cut up into little pieces)

2 apples.. washed, peeled and cubed

DIRECTIONS-

Peel and cut all the fruit. Place the fruit in a medium size container, pour the Coca-Cola over it and mix. Place the fruit in smaller containers and refrigerate for an hour before serving.

(the recipe does not originally include strawberries, however, it´ll work well if you also add a bunch of these cubed!)
Enjoy!

Cinnamon Roll Icing

Here is the icing recipe, just in time!

INGREDIENTS -

1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar - Confectioner´s
1 Tablespoon Milk

DIRECTIONS -

Sift the powdered sugar into a medium bowl.

With a wire whisk, mix the sugar and the milk at a fast pace.

The icing should be thick, but runny. You might need to add more milk or more sugar to get this consistency.

Drizzle the icing onto the WARM cinnamon rolls.

When the icing hardens and becomes white again, then your rolls are ready!!