INGREDIENTS: 12 eggs 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1 tsp sweet pickle juice salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS: 1. Place eggs in a large pot. 2. Cover with cold water. 3. Bring to a boil. 4. Turn down to low for 12 minutes. 5. Cool eggs with cold water. 6. Remove shells. 7. Place eggs in bowl and mash with fork. 8. Add mayo, pickle juice, salt, and pepper. 9. Mix well and enjoy on your favorite bread. 10. It will make 12 sandwiches.
Ingredients: 1 cup butter (2 sticks) 2 cups sugar 2 tsp vanilla 4 eggs 3/4 cup Cocoa 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1 cup chopped nuts or mini-chocolate chips (optional)
Directions: 1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan (I used a stone baking dish).
2. Place butter in large bowl and melt in microwave. Stir in sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well with spoon after each addition. Add cocoa; beat until well blended. Add flour, baking powder and salt; beat well. Stir in nuts or chocolate chips or you can sprinkle them on top (optional). Pour batter into prepared pan.
3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cut into bars.
Here are some pictures of my experience...These were made for a birthday celebration in my parents small group. There were some leftover so I got to have one and they were chocolaty!
Get graham crackers and you favorite flavor of ice cream. Let the ice cream soften and then slice it with a knife. You can make thick or thin slices. Freeze and then eat. The graham cracker get a little softer after a few days in the freezer. To keep them fresh you can wrap them in plastic wrap or put them in a zip lock bag. For a added treat you can roll the sides in mini m&m's or mini chocolate chips or anything you like. We did not do that this time but it is delicious!
Enjoy after they freeze. You may need to run under warm water so they will come out of the mold.
We made cheesecake with chocolate chips and layered vanilla and chocolate and chocolate chips! (My cousin, Caroline, and I still have bbq sauce on our faces from supper!)
Slice avocado in half and scoop out the insides into a bowl. Chop the tomato and place in the bowl. Chop onion and add to bowl. Chop cilantro and add to bowl. Next add the salt, pepper and lemon juice.
Mix everything well with a fork. Mashing avocado.
Here is the finished product!
And Mom and I made some festive pico de gallo to go with our beef tacos!
These are the tomatoes that we picked from the garden yesterday. We have Romas, Beefsteaks and Better Boys.
Here is the pressure cooker and jars we cleaned.
Two of my great grandmothers have given us jars. One box has the price of $2.62 on it! I am adding a tsp of salt to each jar.
We put the tomatoes in boiling water for 30 seconds to hep the skins slip off easier. Andrew helped for a while. He put the peeled tomatoes in the jars.
When you take the tomatoes out of the boiling water you place them in very cold water to stop the cooking.
Once the jars are full and the air is out we wipe the rims of the jars clean and place a lid and top on each jar. Next we place them in our pressure cooker with 2qts of water and lock the lid. We cook them at 5lbs of pressure for 10 minutes.
Once we were finished we had to wash all the dish and supplies.
We ended up with 14qts of Romas and 7qts of Beefsteak and Better Boy mixed!
We will use these tomatoes in the winter for chili, salsa and spaghetti sauce!
Tip... try it on a toasted sandwich round!!!
