Avacado Toast

5 hard boiled eggs (diced)

Mix these three ingredients together well
2 avocados (diced)
1t Trader Joes Chili Lime seasoning
2t Lime juice
salt and pepper to taste

Then add the hard boiled eggs and place on seeded toast or Trader Joes hash brown patty.

Top with your favorite toppings:

-cheese
-bacon
-cilantro
-tomatoes
-roasted corn
-salsa

Ashlee Macdonald

Brie Braid

1 pizza dough tube
7 oz Brie Cheese (rind shaved off and sliced thin)
Dozen slices of chicken deli meat (diced)
2 T pesto
2 T mayo
6 slices of bacon (diced)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease cookie sheet and spread out pizza dough.  Place brie cheese slices down the middle of the dough.  Mix chicken, pesto, mayo and bacon in a bowl and spread it on the brie cheese.  Then fold up like a calzone so it is sealed or cut the sides into pieces to braid over the filling and then braid all the way down and seal the ends.  Bake for 15 minutes.


Ashlee Macdonald

Kaye's Jello Cake

1 white cake (baked and poke holes in it)

2 pk small jello dissolved in 2 c water

Pour jello mixture over cake and let cool in the refrigerator for a half hour.

Top with whipping cream and serve.


Kaye Macdonald

3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

1 c peanut butter
1 c sugar
1 egg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray cookie sheets with oil.
Cream all the ingredients.  Fold in chocolate chips if you like.  Place cookies on cookie sheet and press fork criss cross on it and bake for 7 minutes.


Ashlee Macdonald

3 ingredient Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 box spice mix
15 oz pumpkin puree
16 oz chocolate chips (milk or semisweet, you choice)


Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray cookie sheets with oil.
Cream the spice mix and pumpkin puree together, then fold in the chocolate chips.
Drop balls of dough and bake for 15 minutes.


Ashlee Macdonald

Sweet Chili Rock Fish

8 fillets of rockfish or tilapia (cleaned)
1/4 cu Trader Joe's Sweet Chili Sauce


Saute fish in skillet over medium heat in chili sauce. 


Ashlee Macdonald

White Pesto Rock Fish

5T Trader Joe's Pesto
1 c Trader Joe's Alfredo Sauce
Dozen rock fish or tilapia fillets (cleaned)


Cover backing sheet with foil and spray with oil.  Then place rockfish on baking sheet and spread sauce over fish and bake on 350 degrees for 30 minutes.


Ashlee Macdonald 

Chicken Shawarma

1 pk Trader Joe's Chicken Shawarma
2 c your favorite hummus
1 c crumbled feta cheese
1/2 cucumber (diced)
1 tomato (diced)
1/2 pepper (diced)
1 can of olives
Dozen flatbreads or make your flatbread (see recipe)

Pan fry or bbq your chicken on each side until cooked through.  Let meat rest, then cube.  Layer your meal:  flatbread, hummus, veggies, meat, feta, olives.  You could replace the flatbread with romaine lettuce for a Shawarma Salad. 


Ashlee Macdonald

Agua Fresca Varieties

4 c watermelon OR honey dew OR pineapple OR strawberry OR cantaloupe 

(cubed & preferably seedless)

1/2 c water
1/2 c sugar
1/4 c lime juice
Dozen ice cubes


Place ingredients in blender from liquid to solid and blend on smoothie setting.  May refrigerate up to 3 days, stir or shake if it has sat, because the drink separates.  You can also freeze the juice into cubes and add to sparkling water or sprite. 

Ashlee Macdonald

7 Layer Brownie

9 full graham crackers (crumbled)
1 cube of butter (melted)
Combine in bowl and press in 9x13 pan.
Then layer the following ingredients on top of the graham cracker crust in order:
1 1/2 C Shredded sweetened coconut
1 C chocolate chips
2 C butterscotch chips
1 (14oz) can of sweetened condensed milk
1 C toffee bits
1 C pecans (finely chopped) or your choice of nut

Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

Ashlee Macdonald

Croque Monsieur Grilled Cheese Sandwich

butter
Pepper Cheddar Bread
hollandaise sauce
mozzarella
slices of chicken deli meat
sun-dried tomatoes
avocado (sliced thin)
bacon (cooked and diced)
Mexican cheese
hollandaise sauce
bread
butter

Layer sandwich in list order above and then grill in waffle maker.

Ashlee Macdonald

Scotcharoos

1 c Karo Syrup
1 c white sugar

Place on medium heat until boil.  Then take off heat and add:

1 c peanut butter

Mix well and add:

6 c rice krispies

Press mix in greased 9x13 pan

Melt 1 c semi sweet chocolate chips and 1 c butterscotch then spread on top of rice krispie mix.


Ashlee Macdonald

Favorite Steak

2 thick rib eye steaks
1 onion (sliced and sauted)
1 avacado
1 lime
1T Trader Joes chili lime seasoning
2T salt
2T pepper
1/2 c feta

Trim fat off steaks and place fat in frying pan over medium heat and let fat drippings coat pan. Sprinkle salt and pepper on cutting board and press steaks into the salt and pepper.  Then place steak in pan of fat and cook each side of steak per your desire of medium, well done, or rare.

Dice avocado and mix with juice of lime and seasoning till well blended and spread over steak.
Caramelize onions and place on avocado spread then top with feta.  Take out fat pieces that are crispy and dice fat for crunch on top of steak.


Top all ingredients on top of salad for a salad.


Ashlee Macdonald

Pecan Cream Pie

3 cups of CRUSHED preferred cookie (animal cookies, Trader Joe letter crackers, or graham crackers)
4T coconut oil

Mix crushed cookies and coconut oil and press in 8x8 pan.

1 c heavy cream
1/4 c powder sugar

Whip heavy cream till stiff, then add powder sugar and whip till blended.

(2) 8oz cream cheese
1/2 c brown sugar
1/4 c maple sugar
1 1/2 c chopped pecans or 13 oz chopped Trader Joe's Pecan Pralines


Whip the cream cheese and add brown sugar, maple sugar and pecans thoroughly.

Fold heavy cream and cream cheese mixture together and spread over cookie crust.

Top with whipped cream, caramel, and pecans.



Ashlee Macdonald

Chocolate Wafer Cake

1 pkg Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers
1 small whipping cream carton (whipped)
1/2 c sugar
vanilla

Whip cream until stiff, then add sugar and vanilla.  Spread 2 tablespoons of whipped cream on display platter. Put a teaspoon of whipped cream on cookie and stand cookie at a diagonal up on display platter.  Repeat till whipping cream and cookies are used up, then use remaining whipping cream to coat the cookie log.

Kaye Macdonald

Marzipan Appetizer

Trader Joes Flat Bread
1 tub (8oz) marzipan cheese
5oz  pomegranate seeds
1/4 chopped pistachios
balsamic glaze

Spread marzipan on flat bread, then sprinkle with pomegranate seeds and pistachios.  Top with sparingly balsamic glaze.

Brenley Hansen

Green Curry

1/2 can of Trader Joe's Green Curry
1 can reduced fat Trader Joe's coconut milk
1 diced onion sautéed
2 diced peppers sautéed
1/3 bag of chopped matchstick carrots
4 chicken breasts cooked and chopped or 20 scallops sautéed

Combine all ingredients prepared and simmer for 20 minutes then serve over rice.

Ashlee Macdonald

Teriyaki Cabbage Salad

1 bag cabbage blend
1/2 bag of matchbox carrots
2 peppers sliced and sautéed
cashews chopped
cilantro half a stalk chopped
Trader Joe's Teriyaki chicken heated through and diced

Mix all ingredients above and dress it with peanut sauce.

Ashlee Macdonald

Boneless Short Ribs

2 packs of boneless pork short ribs about a dozen-15 ribs
1 bottle of Trader Joes bbq sauce

1/2 bottle of sauce over ribs in instapot on meat selection or crockpot on high for 2 hours.

Pull out ribs and put them on a pan and broil for 400 degrees for 5-7 minutes with the other 1/2 bottle of sauce.


Ashlee Macdonald

Yellow Coconut Curry

1 c onion
1 c peppers
saute peppers and onions in olive oil

4-5 salmon burger patties (grilled or pan fried and cut up)
or
3-4 chicken breast (grilled or baked and cut up)

1 can coconut milk
1 bottle Trader Joes Yellow Curry sauce

Combine all ingredients and let simmer for 10 minutes then serve over your favorite rice.



Ashlee Macdonald

Mississippi Roast

5lb roast
1 cube butter
3 T or 1 pkg of ranch dressing mix
3T or 1pkg of dry ajus mix
6 pepperoncini peppers


Place all on crockpot with butter on the very top and cook on low for 8 hours.


Ashlee Macdonald

Chicken Enchiladas

4-6 boneless skinless chicken breasts (crockpot with 1/2 bottle of chunky salsa for 4-6 hours on high)

24 oz chunky mild salsa
28 oz red or green enchilada sauce mild
16 oz sour cream
8 oz Mexican blend shredded cheese
12 flour tortilla shells
3.8 oz sliced black olives

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Shred chicken.  In the bottom of the 9x13 pan pour enough enchilada sauce just to cover the bottom of the pan. Open a tortilla shell, spread with some sour cream, fill with chicken mixture, Roll, Place in pan.  Repeat until pan is full.  Cover with enchilada sauce, salsa, cheese, and olives (optional).  Bake 30 minutes.

Sadie YW Leader

Pecan Bread Pudding

12 Hawaiian Sweet Bread Rolls (torn apart and stale)
3 c heavy whipping cream
6 egg yolks
3/4 c granulated sugar
1 tsp nutmeg

Pecan Toffee Sauce:
3/4 c brown sugar (lightly packed)
1/3 c unsalted butter
1/3 c heavy whipping cream
1 T vanilla
1/2 c chopped pecan pralines

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray 9x13 pan.  Place torn bread in pan.  In a mixing bowl mix the egg yolks, sugar, and nutmeg.  Then whisk in the heavy cream and beat until fully incorporated.  Pour this mixture of custard over the bread.  Press down on the bread pieces until the brea is soaked with the custard.  You will most likely have extra custard depending on how stale your bread is.  Bake the brea pudding for 45 minutes until golden top.  Cool for 10 minutes and serve warm. 

For the sauce: stir brown sugar and butter in a medium sauce pan over medium heat until melted and smooth, about 2 minutes.  Add cream and vanilla and bring to a simmer.  Simmer for 5 minutes.

Top bread pudding with sauce then pecan pralines and vanilla ice cream.


Sweet ReciPEAs
Modified Ashlee

Frozen Hot Chocolate Trader Joe's Style

6oz of your favorite chocolate
6 T hot chocolate mix
3 T sugar
1 carton of TJ whipping cream
1 1/2 c milk
12 ice cubes

TOP with any favorites such as:
spray whipping cream
shaved chocolate
sprinkles
cinnamon

Melt chocolate until smooth, add hot chocolate mix and sugar to chocolate and thoroughly incorporate.  Slowly add whipping cream to chocolate mixture to make room temperature.  Pour milk in blender, then pour chocolate mix in blender, then ice cubes one top then blend.  Pour in 4- 8oz glasses and top with your favorite toppings. 


Ashlee Macdonald