When you're attending a convention or business meeting, pin your name tag on the right side of your shirt or jacket. Why? When people shake hands, their eyes are initially focused on the other person's right shoulder.
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ROLY-POLY SNACK BALLS
1/2 lb. Ground sausage
1 8-count pkg. Crescent rolls
1/2 cup Cheddar cheese, grated
Optional:
16 slices Bacon
Vegetable bits
In a skillet, brown sausage until thoroughly cooked. Drain and pat with a paper towel to get rid of any excess grease. (This step may be done the night before. Refrigerate cooked and drained sausage in a covered container.)
Remove crescent roll dough from package and spread each piece on a sheet of wax paper.
Place one spoonful of cooked sausage and one spoonful of grated cheese in the center of each piece of dough.
Roll dough into a ball and place on a cookie sheet. Bake according to package directions.
Optional – for an extra special breakfast, decorate the cooked breakfast balls with faces, using small pieces of vegetables or fruit. You might even try adding a bacon bow tie when you serve the breakfast balls. ; For each bow tie take two pieces of bacon, fold and twist together in the shape of a bow, and then cook in the microwave until very crisp.
Yield 8 balls
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PIZZA GRILLED CHEESE
1 Tbl. Butter or margarine, softened
2 slices Bread
1 slice Provolone or mozzarella cheese
6 slices Pepperoni
3 Tbl. Pizza sauce
Optional Additional pizza sauce to serve on the side
Butter one side of each slice of bread. Place one slice in a skillet, butter side down. Top with the cheese, pepperoni, pizza sauce and second bread slice, butter side up. Cook over medium heat until golden brown, turning once. Serve with additional pizza sauce if desired to dip sandwich into.
Yield: 1 serving
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DOUBLE CHOCOLATE BARS
1 pkg. (16 oz.) Cream-filled chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed (like Oreos)
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) Butter or margarine, melted
1 can (14 oz.) Sweetened condensed milk
2 cups (12 oz.) Miniature semisweet chocolate chips, divided
Combine cookie crumbs and butter; pat onto the bottom of an ungreased 13-in x 9-inch x 2-inch baking pan. Combine milk and 1 cup of chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl. Cover and microwave on high for 1 minute or until chips are melted; stir until smooth. Pour over the crust. Sprinkle with remaining chips.
Bake at 350? for 10 ? 12 minutes or until the chips are melted.
Cool. These bars are very rich, so cut them into bite-size pieces.
Yield: About 4 dozen.
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To remove lint from laundry, put a yard of nylon netting (available in the fabric department of stores) in the dryer with the wet clothes. Use white for light colored fabrics, and dark for brown, blacks and navy clothes.
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CARAWAY POTATO SOUP
2/3 lb. Round red potatoes, peeled and diced
1/4 cup Chopped onion
1/4 cup Chopped celery
1 tsp. Chicken-flavored bouillon granules
1/8 tsp. Freshly ground pepper
1 (10 1/2 oz.) can Low-sodium chicken broth
1/3 cup Evaporated skimmed milk divided
1 tsp. Reduced-calorie margarine
1 tsp. Caraway seeds (If you do not like caraway, omit)
Combine first 6 ingredients in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 20 minutes. Add milk and margarine, stirring until margarine melts.
Transfer half of potato mixture to container of an *electric blender or food processor; cover and process until smooth, stopping once to scrape down sides. Return pureed mixture to saucepan; add caraway seeds. Cook over medium heat until thoroughly heated.
* A potato masher may be used instead of a blender or processor and mash it as much as you would like to make it as smooth or lumpy as you prefer.
Yield: 2 servings
Nutritional information per serving:
Calories 170; calories from fat 17%; fat 3.2g; carbohydrate 29.5g; protein 7.8g; cholesterol 2mg; sodium 550mg
Exchanges: 2 starch; 1/2 fat
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VEGETABLE MARTIANS
10 Cherry tomatoes, baby pattypan squash or combination
5 to 10 Thin slices cucumber or zucchini
1/4 tsp. Reduced-fat soft cream cheese or mustard
5 to 8 Currants or raisins , cut into halves
10 Chow mein noodles
5 Wooden picks or pretzel sticks
Skewer vegetables on wooden picks to form martian bodies. Use cream cheese or mustard to make eyes or to attach currants for eyes and mouths. Press 2 chow mein noodles into top of each martian for antennae. Remove wooden picks before serving.
Yield: 5 martians
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Raspberry Salad
2 small boxes Raspberry Jell-o
2 cups Hot water
2 cups Applesauce (I used the sweetened type)
1 large box or bag Frozen raspberries
Mix all together and let set in a 9×13 pan.
In a bowl, combine:
1 (3 oz.) pkg. Cream cheese
1 cup Miniature marshmallows
1/2 pt (8 oz.) Whipping cream (I used heavy type)
Let stand over night. In the morning, beat until fluffy. Pour over top of raspberry mixture in pan.
Refrigerate until served and if you have leftovers, refrigerate.
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Frozen Sweet Corn
8 cups Raw Corn (off of the cobs and rinse corn)
1/4 lb. Butter
1 Tablespoon Salt
2 Tbl. to 1/4 cup Granulated sugar (optional)
1 cup Water
Dash Pepper
Cut corn off of the cobs and rinse and measure to make 8 cups. (Easiest way is to put the pointed end of the cob on the tube of a tube cake pan that has been set in a large baking pan and cut it off with an electric knife.) Put all ingredients into a saucepan and simmer for 4 minutes (start timing after the corn starts to simmer [simmer means that small bubbles form around the edge of the kettle].)
Cool and put in freezer cartons. Label and freeze. The cooking will be finished when it is prepared for a meal.
This is a very tasty recipe and the corn tastes like fresh when served. I used the sugar in the recipe.
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