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.


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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. 


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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