Fruit dip or sopapillas

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Serve with chopped fruit.

Or put in crescent rolls and top with butter cinnamon and sugar and bake.

MexiCali Breakfast Burrito with Chipotle Sour Cream

MexiCali Breakfast Burrito with Chipotle Sour Cream
There are a lot of steps to this recipe, and it is rather time-consuming to make. However, the recipe yields more than enough for seconds, and you're going to want them. Double the recipe? Yep. You might even want to do that. These are, hands down, the best breakfast burritoes you'll ever eat.

Garlic Grilled Chicken
1 chicken breast, cut in half lengthwise
2 T. melted butter
1 T. worchestschire sauce
1 T. minced garlic (the bottled sort)
½ tsp. cumin
Salt
Pepper
Place chicken in a shallow baking dish. Mix together remaining ingredients and pour over the top of the chicken. Allow to marinate for 10 minutes (or up to overnight). Grill marinated chicken on a hot grill until cooked through. Allow to cool. Dice into bite-size pieces.
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Fluffy Cheddar Scrambled Eggs
6 scrambled eggs
1 T. pancake mix
2 T. milk
½ tsp. onion powder
¼ tsp. garlic salt
½ c. sharp grated cheddar
Beat eggs, milk, onion powder, and garlic salt together until well mixed. Pour into a non-stick cooking pan. Cook, scrambled-egg style over medium heat. Sprinkle with cheddar cheese, turn off heat, allowing cheese to melt over eggs.
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Green Chili Rice
1 c. prepared brown basmati rice, warmed
¼ c. green chili’s
Juice of 1 lime
Pinch salt

Stir together all ingredients in a large bowl.
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Fresh Pico de Gallo
1/3 c. tomatoes, diced
¼ c. purple onions, diced
¼ c. cilantro, diced
Mix all ingredients together in a medium bowl. Add Salt & fresh ground pepper to taste.

*Chipotle Sour Cream

2-4 Tbsp. chopped chipotles in adobo sauce

1 c. sour cream

Mix together in a small bowl.
Spoon ample amounts of each ingredient onto a large, good-quality tortilla. Roll tortilla up. Serve immediately.

Grandma W's Goulash

- 2/3 box or bag Shell pasta (medium or large- not small)

- 28 oz can diced tomatoes

- smallest can of tomato paste (even just a couple of scoops)

-1 small white onion chopped

- 1lb of ground meat ( I use 1/2 lb)

-2-3 medium carrots grated

- italian seasoning

-chili powder

- chopped fresh garlic

- salt and sugar to taste

Sautee onion and garlic in oil or butter till soft, throw in grated carrots and stir till slightly softened. Add ground beef to the same pan and brown. Pour in tomatoes and tomato paste. Add seasonings, salt and sugar to taste. Add sauce to cooked pasta and let simmer for any desired amount of time. Simmering not necessary but grandma does it so I do too.

Serve with buttered sourdough and carrots and grated cheddar cheese.