BLT dip

1 C sour cream
1 C mayonnaise
1/2 C diced tomatoes
1/2 C bacon - I just buy the real bacon pieces in the salad dressing isle
1 C chopped fresh spinach
1/2 C shredded cheese

Combine all ingredients together.
Serve with baguettes, crackers, or chips

Sara's breadsticks

-I got this recipe from Sara, but I LOVE it. I make these all the time.

Here is that recipe for the breadsticks....

1 1/2 C warm water
2 TBSP sugar
1 TBSP yeast
1/2 tsp salt
3 1/2 or 4 C flour
1/4 C butter
3/4 C moz. cheese
Johnny's garlic seasoning

Mix water, sugar, and yeast together in mixing bowl. Let it sit for 5 mins. Add salt and flour, one cup at a time. Mix for 5 mins. Let rest for 5 mins. Melt butter and pour half of it in the cookie sheet. Place dough in center of cookie sheet and sit for 2-3 mins. (just in a ball) Spread dough out flat on the pan. Pour other half of butter on dough. Spread around. Sprinkle Johnny's all over the top. Sprinkle cheese on top of that. With a pizza cutter, cut in 3 rows lengthwise, 12 rows heightwise. Put pan in oven at 170 degrees for 7-10 mins. Breadsticks will rise about 1 inch. Then turn oven to 350 degrees and bake for another 12 mins, or until golden brown. (I don't take them out while I wait for the oven to preheat to 350) Let sit for 5 mins out of oven and recut.

-Im sure you can use any kind of garlic seasoning. You can buy Johnny's at Costco. It is delish, and we use it in all sorts of stuff.

Apricot Chicken

1 sm. jar Smuckers apricot preserves
1 env. Lipton onion soup mix
1 (8 oz.) bottle French salad dressing
8 boneless skinless chicken breasts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place chicken in shallow pan. Mix apricot preserves, onion soup mix and French dressing in bowl. Mix well. Pour mixture over chicken. Bake in oven for one hour and serve.

-I will make this if I have to bring someone dinner, or I will just half the recipe. It sounds kind of gross, but it is so yummy. It's kind of like a sweet and sour chicken.

7 Spice Rub

1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup sweet paprika
1/4 cup kosher salt
1/4 cup chili powder
1/4 cup dry mustard
1 tbsp freshly ground black pepper
2 tsp Old Bay Seasoning (found at Walmart) (I also have used Lawry's)
1/2 tsp ground ginger

In a small bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients.
The dry rub can be refrigerated or frozen for up to 6 months.

We had this at a sushi restaurant on our edamame. It was so yummy so I found a recipe. The recipe says it is delicious on all types of foods, including chicken, beef and seafood. So far we have only tried it on edamame. It would be easy to half the recipe if you want to try it out to see if you like it.

Hawaiian Shoyu Chicken

1 cup sugar (white or brown)
1 cup water
1 cup aloha shoyu sauce (I found it at walmart by the soy sauce)
1 tsp garlic
1 tsp ginger
3 lbs chicken breasts (cut in 3 pieces)
2 tbsp chopped green onion

Add everything but green onions in a big skillet or frying pan. Bring to a boil on high for 10 minutes. Reduce to medium heat and cook for 50 minutes stirring often. Last 10 minutes put in chopped onions. Serve with sticky rice.

This chicken is SOOOOO good. It is kind of like sweet and sour chicken.

Cool Whip Strawberry Jello Salad

1 large box Vanilla Cook 'n Serve Pudding
1 large box strawberry Jello
2 small boxes (3oz each) Tapioca Pudding
16 oz Cool Whip
Fresh Strawberries

Pour puddings and jello in medium size sauce pan. Add 6 cups of water. Bring to low boil, sir continuously. Simmer on low boil, still stirring until netar thickness. Pour in 9x13 pan. Let set in fridge for 4 hours. Scrape jello out of pan into large bowl. Add cool whip and mix with hand mixer. Fold in fresh strawberries. Refrigerate until serving.

Hazel's Cinnamon Raison Bread

So if you went to USU I am sure at some point you bought a HUGE YUMMY slice of bread at Hazel's in the student center. Well I have been fortunate enough to get the recipe. (Brady's mom worked with her in a calling) Anyway I thought I should share it with you. It is not an exact recipe so I have made it 5 or so times and it was a work in progress. All attempts were good but finally on the 5th it brought back the yumminess and memories of those college days. It also reminds me of mom's bread when she would make it growing up; fluffy and moist!

**This is best made in a bosch so if you do not have one half the recipe so you don't kill your motor.

Makes 5 loaves

hazels cinnamon raison bread

5 tbsp yeast

1 cup warm water

1 tbsp sugar

4 1/2 cups hotter water

2 tbsp salt

1/4 cup oil

10 cups flour (may be up to 18)

1 tbsp sugar for every cup of flour added

2 1/2 cups raisons

mix yeast, warm water and sugar together, let sit for 5 mins. mix the rest of the ingredients except raisons. keep adding flour after 10 cups until right consistency. will pull away from mixer and keep it clean while mixing. add raisons while dough is still a little sticky. mix on high for 8 mins. let rise in bowl till double in size. separate into 5 loaves. oil the counter and pat the bread out like cinnamon roll. add loads and loads of cinnamon and sugar and then add a little more. roll like a cinnamon roll and tuck ends under. put tucked ends on bottom of loaf pan. let bread rise double in pans. bake at 350 for 30-35 mins.