My cousin posted a link to this site for the chocolate bowl recipe. What a great idea! I thought they looked delicious and such a fun party treat. Thought I would pass it along. Let me know how they turn out!

Here's the link!

I didn't have any tortillas last night to go with my Bajio Chicken salad (we wanted to make it more like burritos than an actual salad), so I used this recipe my sister in law sent me. It worked in a pinch (and my daughter had fun rolling them!), but it was really not my favorite recipe. It says it makes 15-20, but when I first started rolling them out, they were really thin. They almost turned out crunchy because they were too thin. I started adding two together to make them thicker and they turned out a little better. Still not my favorite though. Any ideas, or thoughts? Any great tortilla recipes?

Home Made Tortillas

2 cups – All Purpose Flour
½ tsp. salt
2/3 cup warm water
¼ cup oil
Additional Flour

Rub flour, salt, & oil together with your fingers until completely
incorporated and fine crumbs form.  Pour water into dry ingredients and
immediately work it in with a fork.  Dough will be in large clumps.
Sprinkle flour and knead until smooth, about 2 minutes.  Divide dough into
12 – 15 portions and shape into balls about 2 inches in diameter.  Set
dough balls on a plate, cover with plastic wrap, and let dough rest for at
least 30 minutes before baking.  Roll out until thin, rolling from the
center to the outside. It may be helpful to roll the dough between 2 sheets
of plastic wrap.  Bake on very hot, ungreased griddle until freckled, about
20 seconds on each side.  Serve warm.

This is a really easy cinnamon roll recipe. It, like any other bread recipe, just takes a while to do. So if you are planning on enjoying some of these scrumptious cinnamon rolls, block out a good 4 hours to make sure you have enough time. My sister got this recipe from someone at church and I am hooked! I made them for church yesterday for a lesson I was teaching on Women and their Divine ROLLS. So, hence the Cinnamon ROLLS. Anywho... I figured it 12-13 year old girls didn't remember anything about my lesson, they would atleast remember that I made good cinnamon rolls, right?! :)
The only thing I have noticed and done wrong with this recipe is that I made the milk, water and butter mixture too hot and it killed my yeast. If your mixture gets too hot, just make sure you let it cool before adding it into the dry mixture. Good luck!

This makes about 25 cinnamon rolls.

Mix:
2 C. flour (I do half white, half wheat flour)
1 1/2 C. sugar ( For most of my recipes, I cut down on the sugar. But not for cinnamon rolls! I go all out!)
1 1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tbs. (or 2 packs) yeast

In saucepan, heat (to approx. 140 degrees):
1 C. milk
1 C. water
1/2 C. butter

Add:
Liquid to flour mixture. Mix for 3 min. on medium speed. Add 3-4 cups of flour, 1 cup at a time to form a firm dough. Place dough in a greased bowl. Cover with plastic and allow to rise until doubled (about 45 min.).

Mix:
3/4 C. sugar
1/8 C. cinnamon

Divide dough in 1/2. Punch down, then form a square and roll out into a rectangle. Spread 1/4 C. softened butter over surface. Sprinkle 1/2 of sugar mixture on dough. Roll dough into a log (roll from stomach, up). Slice dough about 1 1/2 to 2 inches apart. Place slices on a greased jelly roll pan (I used a big cookie sheet). Cover with plastic or a towel. Allow to rise until doubled (about 30 min). Repeat with other half of dough.

Bake:
365 for 16-20 min.

Frosting:
Mix until smooth:
About 1 1/2 C. powdered sugar
1/4 C. butter (melted)
1/4 C. milk

Frost cinnamon rolls while warm. Pair these with a glass of cold milk and you have a great treat!!

If you are like me and are a "chocoholic", you will like this. I hope I meet in heaven, the person that first thought of putting chocolate and peanut butter together. YUM! And to add to it, put banana and you have an even better treat!!
My husband was searching for something sweet one night and came up with this. Melted chocolate meltys, covering a banana that had peanut butter smothered in the middle. The picture doesn't do it justice. Really, this is fabulous! I made this for a treat for the kids this afternoon (okay, and for me too!) and we had leftover chocolate. I am not going to waste it of course, so I decided to use it and cover pretzels with it. I don't know about you and your kids, but if your kids like pretzels and chocolate as much as mine do, they will think this combo is great. Have fun!

I have been on a salad craze this week. Taco salad, now Oriental Chicken Salad, and later this week, Bajio/Cafe Rio Salad. Guess that is what happens when you buy lettuce/spinach in bulk at Costco! Gotta use it up! This is a recipe that I wasn't so sure I would like the dressing. I am kind of the boring, plain jane, stick to the usual type of person. I like my ranch dressing best. This actually is a Green onion dressing. And it is GREEN! Looks kind of gross, but tastes good on salad. Bad part about this salad, it really doesn't have many veggies in it, so I add mushrooms. The other bad thing, the rice noodles and wontons are fried. That is never good. But the good thing about this is that it is different than your everyday salad, and it has that oriental flavor.

-4 Chicken Breast halves (seasoned, cooked, and chopped or shredded; I cook mine in italian dressing in the oven or on the stove)
-1 head romaine lettuce (chopped)
-1 head red leaf lettuce (I don't usually have this so I substitute spinach) (chopped)
4 green onions finely sliced
6 oz. toasted slivered almonds

4 oz. Rice sticks (basically a big handfull)
(You can find these in almost any store in the Asian section. They are kind of hard to break apart so use scissors.)
Heat oil and throw in rice sticks. Turn over once to lightly brown. Remove from oil and drain on paper towels. (If oil is hot enough, they will "poof" up. If the oil is not hot enough, they will be hard and inedible.)

12-16 oz. egg roll wrappers or wonton skins - Cut into 1-1/2 inch squares. Lightly brown in medium hot oil, drain on paper towels.

Mix all above ingredients in LARGE salad bowl. Serve tossed with dressing, or dressing on the side.

Dressing:
Mix well in blender:
8 green onions (entire onion)
1/2 C. sugar
1 C. oil
3/4 C. Seasoned Rice Vinegar
1 tsp. Pepper
1 tsp. Salt

You can make half the dressing. It will feed about 3-4 people. You only need a little bit because it is strong (as you can imagine with 8 green onions!). Don't think about kissing anyone after you eat this :)

Need to add variety to your salads? Something new to do with ground beef? Why not make a taco salad?? I like this because it is a good salad to take places because people can load up on the sides to create more filler. Try different sides to create variety. Or try different meats or dressings....

For a salad to feed 2 adults and 2 kids, I do a big handful of spinach, and about 5 big leaves of romaine lettuce (chopped).

Meat:
I use about a pound of ground beef or elk meat. Brown and add a pkg. of taco seasoning ( I think you have to add water to this too. Look on back of pkg. for directions). Or if you don't have taco seasoning, we have made our own variety with using garlic powder, onion salt, chili powder, cayenne pepper, and season salt. Pour and keep trying until you get the right flavor for you.

Sides:
chopped tomatoes
cilantro
avocado slices
sliced olives
cucumbers
mushrooms
black beans
shredded cheese

Dressings:
Ranch
Salsa

To create, place tortilla chips (crunched up a bit so it makes it easier to eat) on bottom of plate. Add lettuce/spinach. Then add your meat and sides. Or try it the other way around. Doesn't really matter because it all gets mixed up anyway. Have fun with it!

This cake has a lot of different varieties of names and how to make it. I will post, what I think to be the BEST way. It is the chocolate version, so what can be better?! It is a great cake to use for parties or get togethers because it is always such a hit! You can cook it in a cake pan like a regular cake, or for the last event I made it for, we were trying to feed a lot of people so we cooked it in a large cookie sheet (or jelly roll pan) to spread it out a bit. Turned out great. Hope yours does too!

Bake:
1 devils food cake mix (or any kind of chocolate cake mix) according to package directions

After cooked, poke holes all over the cake with the opposite end of a spatula, end of a bbq skewer, or using a fork. (Or be creative. As long as there are holes in it, it doesn't matter what you use!)

Then pour sweetened condensed milk and caramel ice cream topping all over the cake, letting it seep into the holes. The more you pour, the better the cake. But don't overdo it or you will have a mushy cake.

Put cake in the fridge for a couple hours.

Then cover top with a container of cool whip, sprinkled with toffee chips.

DELICIOUS!!!