Fiesta Dip, Gringo Dip and Blueberry Crumble

We had a March madness potluck last month at work, so I decided to finally use my 3 section crockpot that I got for Christmas...

The recipe for Fiesta Dip came with the crockpot..

Put refried beans, salsa, and cheddar cheese in the crockpot...

 The second dip is Gringo Dip! Everyone's favorite at 54th St.

You put Velveeta Queso Blanco, shredded pepper jack, shredded parmesan, pico de gallo, milk, cayenne, and frozen spinach in the crockpot...

 And the third one I decided to make a dessert, blueberry crumble

Put a can of blueberry pie filling in the bottom...

 Cut some butter into a box of yellow cake mix...

 And crumble that on top...

 I prepared these the night before work and stuck them in the fridge to wait....

 And here they are in the corner of my office heating up...

Everyone loved the Fiesta Dip and it was the first one gone. The Gringo dip really does taste like the real thing and I still have the ingredients to make more! The Blueberry Crumble took forever to bake and I had to leave for an appointment, so my friend Jenn ended up eating most of it and told me how good it was...there was just blueberry goo left when I got back to the office.

Baked Eggs and Spring Blizzard

I got this recipe I believe from the Yahoo webpages weekly recipes a really long time ago..

Cook some bacon...

 Crack an egg into each ramekin...

 Add some milk...

 Mix up cheddar, parsely, salt and pepper....

 Add some to each ramekin...

 Top with crumbled bacon...

These were okay, but nothing extraordinary.

 And here are some pics of our (hopefully) last Spring blizzard....

Mocha brownies and Baked Ravioli

This recipe was cut out of the newspaper...

You cream the butter and sugar...

 Melt some baking chocolate...

 Add eggs...

 Melted chocolate...

 Then add that in...

 Add vanilla also, then the flour...

 Put it in the pan...

 And cool...

 Then the icing is butter, powdered sugar, cocoa, salt and vanilla....

 Add some cooled coffee...the proportions were off on this and it made it pretty runny so I had to add more powdered sugar...

 Then ice. This was strongly coffee flavored, so it was too much for me. Some people at work liked it, but you really need to eat it quickly or else the coffee makes the icing liquefy.

 Next is baked ravioli from Pinterest...Heat up some olive oil, garlic powder, salt and pepper...

 Add thyme, oregano and stewed tomatoes and diced Italian tomatoes...

 Chop up the chunks with your spoon and simmer.

 Boil your frozen ravioli

 Add everything together...

 Get ready to bake...

 Cover with Parmesan and mozzarella

 All done

 With some Texas toast...this was really good!

Blizzard and Bridesmaids dress

Here are some pics of what I thought would be our last blizzard of the year..from last month.

This is the one that caused our office to close at noon on Thursday and be totally closed on Friday.

Windows frozen over...

And here is a pic from the website of the dress I will be wearing in my friend Mary's wedding in October!

This is the exact color, not sure if we will do the sash though...

Quotes Vol. 28

"Cause it was us baby, way before then. And we're still together. And I meant every word I said. When I said that I love you I meant that I love you forever." ~ REO Speedwagon

"I can't fight this feeling any longer. And yet I'm still afraid to let it flow. What started out as friendship has grown stronger. I only wish I had the strength to let it show." ~ REO Speedwagon

"Cause I feel so secure when we're together. You give my life direction. You make everything so clear." ~ REO Speedwagon

"You must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body." ~ CJ Mahaney

"I love you when you're happy, I love you when you're blue. I love you when you're mad at me, so how can I get tired of you?" ~ The Beatles

"I listen for your footsteps coming up the drive. Listen for your footsteps, but they don't arrive. Waiting for your knock dear on my old front door. I don't hear it. Does it mean you don't love me anymore?" ~ The Beatles

"I wouldn't change one second of our life together." ~ The Time Traveller's Wife

"I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that. It's not because you're beautiful and smart. I don't feel alone anymore." ~ The Time Traveller's Wife

"I wonder where you are tonight and why I'm by myself. I don't see you. Does it mean you don't love me anymore?" ~ The Beatles

"Don't pass me by, don't make me cry, don't make me blue. Cause you know darling I love only you. You'll never know it hurt me so, how I hate to see you go." ~ The Beatles

"We all remember the bed time stories of our childhood. The shoe fit Cinderella, the frog was turned into a prince, Sleeping Beauty was awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales. The stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories. The ones that start in dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. The nightmares always seem to become reality." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed. Because this is like that moment in the morning when you first wake up and you're still half asleep and everything seems...things are possible, dreams feel true and for that one moment between waking and dreaming anything can be real and then you open your eyes and the sun hits you and then you realize...I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"And in her eyes you see nothing. No sign of love behind the tears. Cried for no one. A love that should have lasted years." ~ The Beatles

"I got arms that long to hold you and keep you by my side. I got lips that long to kiss you and keep you satisfied." ~ The Beatles

"We enter the world alone and we leave it alone and everything that happens in between we owe it to ourselves to find a little company. We need help, we need support, otherwise we are in it by ourselves. Strangers, cut off from each other, and we forget just how connected we all are. So instead, we choose love, we choose life, and for a moment, we feel just a little bit less alone." ~ Grey's Anatomy

"I'm a different person now and I won't go back to being small." ~ Big Love

"When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic." ~ Jane Wagner

"A house is not a home when the two of us are far apart and one of us has a broken heart." ~ Burt Bacharach

"I'm not meant to live alone, turn this house into a home. When I climb the stairs and turn the key, oh please be there saying that you're still in love with me." ~ Burt Bacharach

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." ~ Carl W. Buechner

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." ~ Nelson Mandela

"Intelligence is when you find a mistake in your boss's work. Wisdom is when you think about it and decide not to mention it."

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally." ~ Flannery O'Connor

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing and then marry him." ~ Cher

"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." ~ Carrie Snow

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow up to be." ~ J.K. Rowling

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Chocolate Chip Oreo Cookies and Stuffed Bell Peppers

This first recipe is from Pinterest....first you cream the butter and sugars.

Add egg and vanilla...

 Then put all the dry ingredients in another bowl and mix up.

 Mix everything together...

 Then add some chocolate chips and some smashed up Oreos...

 And bake

 These were really good, but the proportions were off and it didn't make very many. It's basically a recipe for chocolate chip cookies and then you also add some Oreos.

 This next recipe was one I cut out of a newspaper.

You cook some rice...

 Brown some meat....

 Heat up some Ro-tel and diced tomatoes...

 Cut some peppers in half...

 Mix everything together...

 And stuff the peppers...with some leftover...

 Top with Cheddar cheese while baking...

 And done. These were pretty bland and didn't have as much flavor as the stuffed peppers I usually make.