Put the cottage cheese, sugar, and lemon juice in a blender container, adjust the lid, and blend until the mixture is creamy. Add the milk, a tablespoon at a time, and blend until the desired consistency is reached. Use on crisp green salads or molded and fresh fruit salads.

Drain chickpeas and rinse well. Cut cucumber into thin slices, then halve them. Cut tomato into wedges, then halve them. Put cucumbers and tomato pieces, as well as red peppers and scallions, in a bowl. Set aside. Dice avocado. Put in a large bowl, and add oil and juice from half the lemon. Add the […]

Peel and chop avocados into a bowl. Mash with garlic and lemon juice. Add remaining ingredients, mixture will be chunky. To prepare individual salads, spoon mixture on shredded or whole lettuce leaves. Top with diced tomato for garnish and serve with tortilla chips. If made ahead of time, save pit and put in dip until […]

-DRESSING – 1/2 c Mayonnaise 1 c Sour cream 2 1/2 ts Curry powder Scrape out and discard the seeds from the halved cucumber with a teaspoon and slice the halves into 1/2″ cubes. Place these cubes in a small bowl and sprinkle with salt to draw out their excess moisture. Let the cubes stand […]

Combine first five ingredients. Dissolve lemon Jello in boiling water. Dissolve unflavored gelatin in cold water, and when dissolved, add to lemon Jello. Mix in remaining ingredients. Add first five ingredients and pour into a pan. Refrigerate until firm. Makes 12 servings.

Dissolve gelatin in 2 cups hot cider; stir in raisins. Let cool. Add remaining 2 cups cider; chill until consistency of unbeaten egg whites. Stir in chopped apples, celery, lemon juice and rind. Pour into a lightly oiled 6 cup mold. Chill until set. Unmold onto lettuce leaves and garnish with apple slices, if desired.

*Note: tomatoes should be peeled, seeded and chopped. Combine tomatoes, shallots and chopped mint in bowl. Add 1/3 cup olive oil and vinegar. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Add lemon peel. Refrigerate at least 1 hour to blend flavors. Cut eggplants into 1/4-inch slices. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and brush both sides […]

Combine sugar, salt, cayenne pepper, paprika, and garlic juice in a bowl. Add vinegar and oil slowly, beating constantly. Add onions or shallots, parsley, pimento, and capers. Mix well. Pour over asparagus and refrigerate overnite.

-DRESSING – 1/2 c White sesame seeds, warmed — & ground into a paste 3 tb Sake 2 ts Sugar 2 tb All purpose soy sauce Snip off & discard the ends of the green beans & cut them into 1/2″ lengths. Drop the beans into 2 c of lightly salted boiling water, reduce the […]

Mix olive oil and garlic together and let sit at room temperature to marinate for at least 8 hours but up to 4 days. Remove crust from bread and cut bread into 3/4 inch cubes. Remove garlic from the oil and toss bread cubes with 4 T of oil. Bake them for 20 minutes at […]