Ingredients:

• 1 package rolled up croissant pastry dough
• 1 can fruit filling (apple, cherry, blueberry, etc.)
• Melted butter
• Large granule sugar

Directions:

1. Roll out croissant dough triangles
2. At the large end of the triangle, put a small amount of filling
3. Roll dough with filling up, starting from large end of the triangle
4. Brush butter over top of turnover
5. Sprinkle sugar over top of turnovers
6. Bake at 350 degrees for ~20 mins, or until pasty dough is golden brown

We’ve found that adding 5-6 cherries (with very little cherry sauce) is the right amount of filling.  Also, about 2-3 apple slices seems to work well.  Also, brushing the butter over top of the turnovers helps to brown the dough a bit.  The sugar makes them a bit sweeter and look pretty.  Also, as is probably true with most pastries, it’s better to let them cool on a cooling rack so the bottoms don’t get soggy (see pictures).

• Raw peppers (4-5): Red, orange, and yellow are best (green peppers aren’t as tasty)
• 1 cup white minute rice
• 1 pound hamburger
• 1 large can tomato sauce (29 oz)
• 1 small can diced tomatoes (14.5 oz)
• Salt / pepper / other seasonings to taste
• Shredded cheese (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Brown hamburger, drain
3. Cook white rice
4. Clean peppers, cut in half long way
5. Grease baking dish(es)
6. Mix rice and hamburger together
7. Mix in enough tomato sauce to coat rice and beef mixture
8. Mix in 1/4 can of diced tomatoes
9. Place halved peppers in baking dish(es)
10. Stuff halved peppers with rice/hamburger/tomato mixture
11. Cover peppers with remainder of tomato sauce and diced tomatoes
12. Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until peppers are cooked to desired crunchiness
13. Top with cheese before or after baking (if desired)

Ingredients:

• 1 (1 ounce) package taco seasoning mix
• 1 (16 ounce) can refried beans
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
• 1 (16 ounce) jar salsa
• 1 large tomato, chopped
• 1 green bell pepper, chopped
• 1 bunch chopped green onions
• 1 small head iceberg lettuce, shredded
• 1 (6 ounce) can sliced black olives, drained
• 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese

Directions:

1. In a medium bowl, blend the taco seasoning mix and refried beans. Spread the mixture onto a large serving platter.
2. Mix the sour cream and cream cheese in a medium bowl. Spread over the refried beans.
3. Top the layers with salsa. Place a layer of tomato, green bell pepper, green onions and lettuce over the salsa, and top with Cheddar cheese. Garnish with black olives.

Source: Allrecipes.com

Here is a taste of some of the recipies we’ve based our meals/snacks on lately:

• Southwestern pasta salad
• Sweet potato crisps
• Chicken burritos
• Mexican Manicotti
• Cilantro lime salsa
• Chicken veggie southwestern wraps
• Fruit smoothies

We’ve also got some great ideas for the coming days/weeks.

I hope to develop a recipe database soon.  This will allow each of the above listed items to be described in detail, including name, ingredients, preparation details, comments for making it next time, etc.  All this will be easily searchable for easy recall later.  I can then link to the recipe the night it gets made and comment on it in a blog post.  Now I just need to find the time to write the code for such an application…