Addicting Pasta Salad

When my sister first made me try this, I was skeptical, but this stuff is the perfect BBQ side dish.
Recipe stolen from my sister Emily, as mentioned.

Combine 2 cups cooked macaroni with chopped green onions, baby dill pickles (I know, I know, but trust me, it's good), and 2 cups-ish of grated cheddar cheese.

Sauce:
1 cup mayo
2 tablespoons mustard
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup white vinegar

Mix sauce with first mixture and refrigerate.
It's also tasty with chicken.

Enjoy!

Kid Friendly Peanut Butter Cookies.

I babysat for my nieces Chloe and Lily a couple of weekends ago and wanted a really easy recipe to make with them. I found this recipe for PB cookies that uses only three ingredients, perfect!

Lily with a spoonful full of peanut butter.

Sugar, eggs, peanut butter.

Yum.

The recipe:
1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1 egg
I also added some mini chocolate chips that I found in my sister's cupboard.

Mix all ingredients until smooth, bake at 350 F for 6 to 8 minutes.

These were so insanely easy and tasty, too. Clean-up is easy too since you don't have to use a bunch of measuring cups.

Key-Lime Pie

I like how this blog is mostly about food. Someone should suggest some beauty tricks for us to try.

Anyways,

I made this key lime pie recently and it was deliciously delicious.

The recipe told me key lime juice would be easier to find than key limes, but that was false. I squeezed all of these babies by hand, and in the end I was still a couple of tablespoons short. I ended up cutting it with a little lemon juice, which was fine.

Graham Cracker Pie crust. The smell of this thing is so very amazing.

And the final product!

I got the recipe for both the crust and pie from Kendra's Betty Crocker Cookbook (pgs 128, 134, and 217).

First make the Graham Cracker crust:

1 1/2 cups finely crushed regular graham crackers (about 20 squares)
1/3 cup butter
3 tablespoons sugar

In medium bowl, stir all ingredients until well mixed. Press mixture firmly against bottom and side of 9-inch pie plate.

Then the filling:

4 large egg yokes
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup fresh or bottled Key lime juice
1 or 2 drops green food color, if desired (I did this)
1 1/2 cups Sweetened Whipped Cream

1. Heat oven to 375 F
2. Mix egg yolks, milk, lime juice, and food color with electric mixer on medium speed about 1 minute or until well blended. Pour into unbaked pie crust.
3. Bake 14 to 16 minutes or until center is set. Cool on wire rack 15 minutes. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Spread with Sweetened Whipped Cream.

And lastly the Sweetened Whipped Cream:

1 cup heavy whipping cream (chilled)
2 tablespoons granulated or powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

In chilled medium bowl, beat all ingredients with electric mixture on high speed until soft peaks form.