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Chili Spiced Nuts

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Chili Spiced Nuts

Quick and easy tasty treat. 

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup pecan halves
  • 3/4 cup pine nuts
  • 3/4 cup hulled pumpkin seeds
  • 1/3 cup pistachios
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 3/4 tsp chipotle powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl mix pecans, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, pistachios and oil. Add sugar, chipotle powder and salt; mix to coat nuts evenly. Add more chili and salt to taste.


  2. Coat a 10”x15” baking pan with cooking oil spray. Spread nuts in pan. 

  3. Bake in a 325 degree oven, stirring occasionally, until nuts are browned, 15-20 minutes. Cool. 

  4. Serve or store airtight at room temperature up to 1 week.

Guacamole

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Guacamole

A summertime favorite

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp finely chopped white onion
  • 4 serranos chiles
  • 2 tbsp cilantro
  • 1 tsp cuman
  • 1/2 tsp sea salt
  • 3 Hass avocados
  • 2/3 cup tomatoes, finely chopped
  • Lime juice from 1/2 lime

Topping

  • 2 tbsp finely chopped white onion
  • 1 tbsp cilantro
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped tomatoes

Instructions

  1. Grind onion, fresh chiles, cilantro, and salt into rough paster, preferably with a molcajete. 

  2. Cut avocados and remove pits. Scoop out the flesh with a wooden spoon. Mash the flesh roughly into the chile mixture until well mixed.


  3. Stir in chopped tomato and sprinkle the guacamole with extra onion, cilantro and tomato.

Baked Tortilla Chips

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Baked Tortilla Chips

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 7 minutes
Total Time 12 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 tsp chili powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 pkg flour or corn tortillas

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

  2. Use pizza cutter to cut tortilla into eight wedges and place on a single layer on a baking sheet.

  3. Combine oil and lime juice in a mister and spray each wedge until moist.


  4. Combine cumin, chili powder and salt in a small bowl and sprinkle on chips.


  5. Bake for seven minutes or until crisp, but not too brown. 

S’mores Shingles

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S'mores Shingles

Cabin-Fever Recipe for Kids

Prep Time 11 minutes
Cook Time 3 minutes
Total Time 14 minutes

Ingredients

  • graham crackers (broken into large squares)
  • small marshmellows
  • coconut
  • almonds
  • 2 squares semi-sweet baking chocolate
  • parchment paper
  • zip-close bag

Instructions

  1. Place parchment paper on a cookie sheet and warm oven to 350 degrees. Have kids add ingredients to top of graham crackers. Use whatever you have on hand-colored sprinkles, butterscotch chips---the sky is the limit on toppings. Place in oven and let marshmallows melt a bit. This only takes a couple of minutes, then turn oven to broil until marshmallows are nicely toasted. (Station yourself right beside the oven because this happens quickly.) Remove from oven.  

  2. Place the chocolate baking squares into a Ziploc bag and microwave at half power 10-12 seconds at a time. Mush the chocolate in the bag in between 10-second zaps until chocolate is melted. Cut a small slit in corner of Ziploc and paint the shingles with sweeps of the bag. The chocolate takes a while to set, but if you don’t mind chocolate covered hands you can serve immediately.