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Crustless Sausage & Tomato Quiche
Butter
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 cup crushed tomatoes
1 cup crumbled, cooked sausage
8 eggs
3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
salt & pepper

Preheat oven 300 degrees. 
Liberally butter a 9″ pie plate. 
In frying pan, cook sausage and onion in butter until almost done. Set aside to cool. Drain all liquid from crushed tomatoes. Set aside. Scramble eggs in bowl. Add cooled sausage & onion and salt & pepper, to taste. Pour mixture into the buttered pie plate. Cook in preheated 300 degree oven for 25 minutes, until mix balloons in the plate and eggs are just set, not hard. Remove from oven. Turn oven off. Top quiche with the cheese. Put back in oven to melt cheese. Pull out of oven and top with a bit of fresh sprigs of cilantro, if desired. Serve with salsa and sour cream on the side. Yum!

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Sweet Potato Slaw 
4 cups shredded raw sweet potato (one large potato typically enough) 
2 cups peeled, diced apples 
3/4 cup shredded coconut 
1 tablespoon lemon juice 
1 cup celery, thinly chopped 
1 cup raisins 
2/3 cup sunflower seeds 
1/2 teaspoon salt 
2/3 cup mayonnaise, homemade

Soak shredded sweet potatoes in ice cold water 10 minutes. Drain. In large bowl, toss apples with lemon juice. Add potatoes, coconut, celery, raisins, seeds, and salt. Toss well. Add mayonnaise and blend well. Chill at least one hour, then serve. Variation: Chopped walnuts or pecans instead of sunflower seeds.…

This is one of my favorite, newest recipes!

Amy’s Honey BBQ Grill Burgers

3 lbs. Ground Beef 
1/2c. Finely Minced Onion 
1 c. Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey BBQ Sauce 
1 Tbsp. Salt* 
1 Tbsp. Pepper* 
Mesquite Seasoning by McCormick 
Country Bob’s Seasoning Salt

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Mix together the ground beef, minced onions, BBQ sauce, salt, and pepper in a large mixing bowl. Mix the seasonings and sauce with your hands until meat is completely saturated with BBQ sauce. Make the mixture into patties (the thicker the better). Sprinkle the patties with Mesquite Seasoning and Country Bob’s Seasoning Salt. Cook on the grill until done. Serve on hamburger buns with desired condiments. Should make 10 burgers.

*optional, add more or less for taste.

Let me also share a quick punch idea for your 4th of July parties!

Quick, Easy Punch

All you do is get two containers of any type of sherbet, 2 gallons of ginger ale or 7-Up (I prefer ginger ale.), and a large punch bowl. Put the sherbet in the bowl and pour ginger ale/7-up over the top of the sherbet about 10 minutes before you are ready to serve it. There you have it! A nice, quick punch for the party. I always buy extra containers of sherbet and ginger ale too so you can make more when you run out.…

I’ve always loved tuna salad. It’s a quick lunch — a sandwich — that doesn’t seem like an ordinary lunch sandwich. Tuna salad is much more of a meal!

For years I’ve made tuna salad every which way, depending on what ingredients I have on hand and in many cases just trying to get it right.

A friend of mine gets tuna salad at a local organic grocery store, and she mentioned an ingredient — white beans — which I had never heard of or considered before in tuna salad.

That added to those other perfect components that I customarily use have led to create the best tuna salad in the world today!

This is what I did:

Begin with boiling three eggs.

Get out a medium-sized bowl. I recommend using something with a lid, like Tupperware, in which you can store your leftovers in the refrigerator. You’ll probably have leftovers, depending on how many people you’re serving.

Put one can of tuna in the bowl.

Chops red onions — about a third of a large one — into the bowl.

Chop two stalks of celery and add to the bowl.

Open a can of navy beans. I’m sure you could substitute other white beans, like great northern beans, butter beans, or white kidney beans. I personally just prefer the navy beans.

Rinse the beans in a colander and drain. In a separate small bowl, mash the beans with a fork until they are creamy and smooth. Set aside.

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Ingredients:

1 (8 oz.) pkg cream cheese (softened)

1 large bag of pepperoni slices

1 can or jar of pizza sauce

1 large bag of shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions:

1. Spread cream cheese into the bottom of a 8 x 8 square baking pan.

2. Top with about 1/3 cup of pizza sauce, spread evenly.

3. Sprinkle a generous amount of shredded cheese on top.

4. Place pepperoni slices in a single layer on the top.

5. Repeat step two through four.

6. Bake in 350 oven until the top layer of cheese is melted.

7. Serve warm with Tostidoes or your favorite potato chip.…

Get the items you will be needing together:

-Large square glass pan 
-2 Squash 
-2 Zucchini 
-2 large potatoes 
-Olive oil 
-Your preferred seasonings

Step 1-Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.

Step 2-Peal your potatoes and cube them, Then you can wash your squash and zucchini. Cut these into cubes as well. Do not peal them.

Step 3-Cover the bottom of the glass pan with olive oil, place all of your vegetables in the pan. Season. Be sure the olive oil covers the bottom of the pan.

Step 4-Place in oven and cook until all vegetables are soft. Usually about 30 minutes to an hour. Stir the vegetables occasionally to be sure they are not sticking. If they are, add a little more olive oil.

Serve with your main dish of choice, and enjoy. I enjoy it with baked chicken, it seems to bring out the flavor.…

Carrot and Raisin Salad Recipe

2 lbs. large carrots – grated (either with hand-grater or food-processor)

1/2 to 3/4 cup raisins

1/2 to 1 cup Best Foods Mayonnaise, according to taste (Substitute Miracle Whip, if preferred)

All ingredients can be adjusted (+ or -) to taste.

Grate carrots and place in suitable serving bowl.

Mix in raisins to taste (Substitute Spanish peanuts for a twist on this salad).

Mix in mayo until suitably moistened throughout.

Chill a few hours before serving.…