Easiest Homemade Cheese

I found this recipe on the internet at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmeXMboUeKQ

She showed how to make this 5 minute cheese. It tastes like mozzarella cheese but crumbled. You can crumble it on a cold salad.  

Easiest Homemade Cheese

2 cups of whole milk, organic, pasteurized. (can not be ultra pasteurized)

1 tsp Kosher salt

2 TBLS white vinegar 

Put the milk and salt in a saucepan, bring the milk to a scald, not a boil. 

When the milk is scalding, add the vinegar. Stir

When it curdles, take off the heat.

Strain with a cheese cloth (I didn't have a cheese cloth, I used a paper towel and strainer under it. be careful, it will rip when you go to squeeze out liquid)

Squeeze out all the liquid.

Crumble and enjoy!

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Cookies and Cream Cookies

Cookies and Cream Cookies

1 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 package cookies n cream pudding mix

2 eggs 

1 tsp vanilla

2 1/4 cup flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

10 oreos, or less, i made it with 4 Oreos and it was just as good

1/2 cup white baking chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream together butter and sugars.

Stir in pudding mix.

Add eggs and vanilla to cream mixture

Mix flour, baking soda and salt into mixture.

Chop ten oreos into small pieces.

Add chopped oreos and white chocolate chips into the dough.

Stir until all ingredients are combined. 

Drop spoonfuls of dough onto greased cookie sheet and bake for 8 minutes or until slightly brown on top.

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Frosted Cashew Cookies

I originally got this recipe from a friend at work years ago when we did a cookie bake together.  I recently googled the recipe and found the same one from Taste of Home.  They are yummy.

COOKIES

1/2 cup butter, soft

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1/3 cup sour cream

1/2 tsp vanilla

2 c flour

3/4 tsp baking power

3/4 tsp baking soda

3/4 tsp salt

1 3/4 c salted cashew pieces

FROSTING

1/2 C butter, soft

3 Tbls half and half or milk

1/4 tsp vanilla

2 c powdered sugar

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1. In a bowl, cream the butter and brown sugar. Beat in egg, sour cream and vanilla; mix well. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in cashews
2. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
3. For the frosting, lightly brown butter in a small saucepan. Remove from the heat; add cream and vanilla. Beat in confectioners' sugar until thick and smooth. Frost cookies. Top each with a cashew half if desired. Yield: about 3 dozen.

Easy Chicken and Rice Casserole

Easy Chicken and Rice Casserole

3 frozen chicken breasts

1 cup jasmine rice, uncooked

2 cans cream of soup. (I used cr of mushroom and cheddar cheese soup because that is all I had in my pantry)

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

3/4 cup milk

3/4 cup chicken broth

1 Tbls onion powder

salt and pepper

First dice chicken and cook in a pan until just almost cooked.  

Mix rice, soup, cheese, milk, broth, onion powder and salt and pepper. 

Mix in diced chicken with the rice. 

Pour into a greased 9x9 pan.

Cover with foil and bake 350 for 45 minutes.

Take the foil off and stir.

Put back in the oven uncovered for 10-15 until rice in cooked.

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Homemade Greek Dressing

Homemade Greek Dressing

1/4 cup + 2 tsp olive oil

3/4 tsp garlic powder

3/4 tsp dried oregano

3/4 tsp dried basil

1/2 tsp pepper

1/2 tsp coarse kosher salt 

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp dijon mustard

1/3 cup + 1 TBLS red wine vinegar (this gives it a great taste)

In a container mix first 8 ingredients. Pour in vinegar and whisk vigorously until blended. 

I put everything in a mason jar with a lid and shook vigorously until blended, then I stored it in the mason jar in the refrigerator. Yumm

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Homemade Dill Dip

HOMEMADE DILL DIP

1/2 cup mayonnaise

1/2 cup + 3 TBLS sour cream or plain greek yogurt. (i used sour cream)

1 TBLS dried dill

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp sea salt

blend everything together and ENJOY! 

I bought dill dip from our grocery store. My family ate it so fast it was gone. So I made some homemade dill dip and put it back in the store bought container. It is a really tastie recipe.  I don't think I will ever buy it again. It is quick and easy not to make it. 

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This is a picture of my dill dip in the store bought container.

This is the same picture as above my homemade dill dip in the store bought container. 

Buttermilk Ranch Dressing

Buttermilk Ranch Dressing YUMM!

1/2 cup Mayonaise

1/2 sour cream

1/2 cup buttermilk

3/4 tsp dried dill weed

1/2 tsp dried parsley

1/2 tsp dried chives

1/4 tsp onion powder

1/2 tsp garlic powder

1/4 tsp fine sea salt

1/8 tsp finely cracked pepper

Whisk together the mayo, sour cream and buttermilk. then add the herbs. 

Store in refrigerator. 

If you think you wont use all of it before it goes bad just cut the recipe in half. 

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