Rick's Favorite Recipes: April 2013

This web site contains my favorite recipes. As you look at my recipes, you will notice the majority of the are very simple. This is the type of food my family enjoys most. I spent a number of years cooking for Marriott Corp., a country club, a hotel and an old english restaurant and I have come to enjoy cooking the things my family enjoys. Some of them will have stories and memories of the friends and family that share their recipes with me. Others are ones I have collected from cookbooks, magazines or the internet. I have tried to give credit where credit is due. I hope you enjoy some my favorite recipes.

I want to thank my mother for her patience in teaching me to cook. I started cooking for the family when I was in the sixth grade. My mom was working and my dad was going to school at BYU working on his masters degree. Mom would leave me instructions on what to cook for dinner and if I had questions I would call her. Thanks mom for the help and encouragement. I love you.

Under the tab Rick's Healthy Recipes are of course healthy recipes. There are some Vegan, Vegetarian and of course just plain healthy ones.

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Raspberry Vanilla Jello Salad

Raspberry Vanilla Jello Salad

Jello is a favorite around this house. I have not many recipes that were not a hit. This recipe comes from the blog Butter With Side Of Bread. http://www.butterwithasideofbread.com/2013/02/raspberry-vanilla-jello-salad.html

Ingredients:

1 lrg box instant vanilla pudding
32 oz contain vanilla yogurt
8 oz container Cool Whip(thawed)
1 pkg frozen raspberries

Directions

Combine pudding mix with vanilla yogurt. Mix well. Fold Cool Whip into pudding mixture. Fold in raspberries.

Cherry Cheese Pie

I have been making this pie for a lot of years. I think the recipe came from the back of the condensed milk can. I have seen it on the graham cracker crust package and the cream cheese package.

Ingredients:

1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 9" graham cracker crust pie shell
1 21oz can cherry pie filling

Directions

Beat the cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Stir in lemon juice and vanilla. Pour into pie shell and chill 4 hours. Top with cherry pie filling and serve.