Wedding Reception Lemon Beverage

2 1/2 cups sugar

1 gallon water

1 tablespoon citric acid

1 tablespoon lemon extract

Mix together and add to 1/2 bag crushed ice.

Best consumed on a lazy rocking chair or swing, on a front porch or back patio, with a cool breeze blowing through your hair, and the sounds of summer serenading your sweet surrender to those savory surroundings.

Fresh Roasted Idaho Steelhead

Ingredients:

1 fresh Idaho Steely - (Have Gary catch it for you! He catches the big ones!)

2 lemons

3 sprigs of rosemary

4 carrots

5 potatoes

4 stalks of celery

olive oil

salt

pepper

Directions:

Send Gary out to catch a fish here:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Send Gary out to clean the fish. Scrape the skin with a knife (with the grain) to get as much slime off as you can. Rub the skin under water to get more off too. Pat the skin dry with a paper towel. Place the fish on a piece of foil spread over a cookie sheet.

Slice 1 lemon into 1/4 inch discs. Squeeze the other lemon all over the inside of the fish's cavity. Place the slices inside the cavity too. Place most of the sprigs of rosemary (after you wash them) in the cavity (save a couple of leaves, enough for 2 teaspoons). Hold the cavity open while someone else sprinkles salt & pepper in it. Pour a fair amount of olive oil inside the cavity. Close the cavity. Bunch the foil up around the fish so it'll keep most of the liquid.

Place tray into oven for 15 minutes.

Peel and slice carrots into 1 inch segments. Slice celery into 1 inch segments. Peel and slice potatoes into wedges. Place all of the veggies onto a sheet of foil. Sprinkle with salt & pepper, and 2 teaspoons of rosemary.

Pull fish out of oven at 15 minutes, place foil full of veggies on the tray. Drizzle with a fair amount of olive oil. Place the tray back in the oven for another 25 minutes.

Enjoy!

Pop-Up Pancakes

These are really good, fast and easy!

1 cup of milk

1 cup of flour

6 eggs

1/4 cup melted butter

dash of salt

grease muffin tins or 9x13 pan

bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes of until golden brown

they will raise and 'pop up' but when you take them out they fall and are a scrumptious style of a german pancake.

Top it off with syrup, powdered sugar, or fruit!

Orange Julius

Cook time: 0 minutes

Prep time: 10 minutes

6 oz. frozen orange juice concentrate

1 cup milk

1 cup water

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

8-9 ice cubes

Blend all of the ingredients at the same time EXCEPT for the ice cubes. Then add the ice cubes one at a time. It's a lot of sugar right? I know.

Café Rio Pork

3-4 lbs pork loin

½ cup water

2 cups brown sugar

1 bottle La Victoria Salsa Verde Green Salsa

1 can of Coke

1-2 TBS Cumin

Cook pork and water in crock pot on low for 7-8 hours. Drain and shred meat. Put back in crock pot and add rest of ingredients. Heat until meat is warm. May be frozen

Dressing

1 1/3 cup sour cream

¾ cup mayo

½ bunch cilantro (or more if desired)

1 pkg Ranch dressing mix (dry)

4 TBS Salsa Verde Green Salsa

2 Cloves garlic

1/8 tsp. Tabasco sauce

Juice of ½ lime

Place Ingredients in blender and mix well.

Frosted Peanut Butter Bars

½ cup crunchy peanut better

1/3 cup butter, softened

¾ cup sugar

¾ cup packed brown sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

¼ tsp salt

Frosting:

1/3 cup creamy peanut butter

1 tsp vanilla

1/3 cup milk

2 ½ c powdered sugar

In a large bowl, stir together peanut butter and butter until creamy. Gradually beat in sugars. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Stir in flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into peanut butter mixture. Spread batter in a greased 13X9 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool the pan.

For Frosting: Beat together creamy peanut butter and vanilla. Beat in 2 tablespoons milk and 1 cup powdered sugar until smooth. Gradually beat in remaining sugar and milk until smooth. Use to frost cooled peanut butter bars. Makes 24 pieces.

Snickers salad

Fun size snickers

Small vanilla pudding

Apples

1 Big whipped cream

Cut the apples into bite size pieces along with the snickers. Mix the vanilla pudding and whipped cream and then add the apples and snickers. J

Jodi’s Frito Salad

3 tomatoes chopped

3 green onions chopped

1 green pepper chopped

Large can of kidney beans drained

Large Catalina dressing

1 bag of Fritos chips (sometime use a little more)

Mix together, then add Frito chips right before serving

Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

1 German chocolate cake mix

Cream cheese mixture

1 package of cream cheese

1/3 cup of sugar

Chocolate chips

1 egg white (if needed to make consistency smooth)

Make the cake mix as directed and then make the cream cheese mixture as directed. Grease the Bundt pan. Put the chocolate cake mix in the bundt pan. Then put spoonfuls of the cream cheese mixture over the top and marble with a fork. Then sprinkle with lots of chocolate chips. Bake for the desired temperature and time on the German chocolate cake mix box.

Wassail

6 cups apple cider

2 cups cranberry cocktail

2 TBS appspice

9 whole cloves

2 cinnamon sticks

Put ingredients in pot on the stove, heat up and then add ¼ cup of sugar. At the end slice and peel oranges and let the slices float at the top-pretty!