A Few More for You

*Blogger's note*
*This isn't supposed to be a blog exclusively about food or recipes in particular. It just happens to be that way right now. Perhaps I will take you all by surprise by whipping out some galvanizingly political diatribe for my next piece. Until then, try some tasty food.*
If you are annoyed by my overuse of our little friend the asterisk, sorry, I just don't know yet how to do any fancier formatting. Or, rather, get over it, it's my b*l*o*g. At least it's not a comma splice.*

I got all het up about this-here recipe experimentation, then the responses stopped coming and the excitement fizzled. Perhaps a few more recipes will get things going. Every one of these looks delicious! I hope to try a few this weekend and report back to you.

In the meantime, a friend of mine reports that the taco pie is delicious.

*A lovely lady from Alabama sent the two following recipes:

MEXICAN WON TONS

Ingredients:
1 lb cooked, crumbled, drained sausage
1 green pepper diced
1 sm. can chopped black olives
1 8 oz. bottle ranch dressing
2 cups shredded Mexican cheese
1-2 packs of wontons (60 ct.)

Directions:

Preheat oven for 350 degrees and get as many mini muffin pans as possible. Cook, crumble, drain sausage & mix in all the ingredients in large bowl. Take wontons and put into mini muffin pan to form a basket. Cook wontons for 5 minutes to make crispy. Then spoon 1 heaping tablesppon of sausage mixture into wonton baskets and put back into oven for about 7 minutes until wontons are golden brown.

* They make great appetizers for a party!


CARAMELITAS

(I acutally melt real caramels in a double broiler - 1 pkg mixed with some half-andhalf - for this recipe instead of using caramel ice cream topping and if you are a caramel lover, it's amazing! I also don't include walnuts b/c I don't like nuts.)

Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 cups quick-cooking oats
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups butter or margarine, melted
1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 (12 ounce) jar caramel topping
Preheat oven to 350*F
Grease bottom and sides of a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan.
Combine 2 cups flour, oats, brown sugar, baking soda, salt and butter in a large bowl.
Firmly press half the mixture into the bottom of baking dish; reserve remaining half for the top.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle the chocolate chips and walnuts over the crust.
Mix the caramel topping with the 6 tablespoons flour, mixing well.
Drizzle caramel mixture over the chocolate chips and nuts.
Sprinkle the remaining oat mixture evenly over the caramel.
Bake for an additional 20 to 22 minutes.
Cool completely before cutting into bars.

* These last two recipes are from a woman in Israel.

1)Spinach Angel-hair with a tomato/garbonzo sauce
1pk of spinach angel-hair pasta
1 can of chopped tomato
1 pk of cherry tomatoes
1 can of garbanzo beans
oregano
basil
sage
2-3 garlic cloves (pressed or chopped)
salt
pepper
red pepper
To make the sauce:
heat up in a sauce pan some olive oil. then put garlic
in heat that up for about 30 sec add the other spices
as much as you want
then add the tomatoes and lastly add the beans.
Heat all of that up and then mix the pasta and add parmesan 0n-top.

2)Tofu with asparagus:
Grill asparagus in oven with olive-oil rosemary and
garlic until somewhat crunchy.
Finely chop tofu (extra firm) then put tofu in hot pan
with olive oil tumeric, garlic, salt, pepper, basil
until brown and somewhat crunchy.