Recipe: Spicy Buffalo Chicken Dip

16 oz. cooked chicken (shredded) or canned chicken
8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
1/4 - 1/2 c. ranch dressing (I prefer the lesser amount)
1/3 c. "Frank's Original Hot Sauce"--no substitutions
Bag of your favorite tortilla chips

Crockpot directions:
Combine all ingredients in a crockpot and heat on low, stirring every 10-15 minutes until dip is warm (may take 45 minutes depending on your crockpot). Set temp on "warm" when serving at parties.
 
Microwave directions:
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl, preferably glass. Heat in microwave on high for 3 minutes or until mixture is heated evenly. Stir halfway through heating time.


Serve with tortilla chips.

Recipe: Helen Wride's "Long Johns" Maple Bars

"Long Johns" Maple Bars / Doughnuts

Dough Ingredients:
1/2 c. butter
1/2 c. sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1 t. salt
2 packages yeast
2 c. warm water
7-8 c. sifted flour

Directions:
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and salt. Sprinkle yeast over warm water. When dissolved add to sugar mixture and knead in flour to make a soft dough. Let rise until doubled. Roll 1/4-inch thick. Cut for bars or doughnuts, let rise approximately one hour. Fry in fat 370 degrees. Drain.

Maple Frosting for Long Johns 

Frosting Ingredients:
1/4 c. butter
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/4 t. maple flavoring (or mapleine)
1 c. sifted powdered sugar

Also can use powdered sugar frosting flavored with mapleine.

Cook's note: You may want to half the recipe if you're not planning on feeding a whole Wride Tribe.

Wride's Guide Cookbook--FREE Download

Please meet my family's favorite cookbook:

the Wride's Guide to Good Home Cookin'.

The 2006 edition was a success, with tasty treats, amazing mains, and delicious desserts. Now with the 2008 insert, it contains over 200 mouth-watering recipes!

• Original 2006 Cookbook + 2008 Recipes = Over 200 recipes in the Treasured Collection Worth Hoarding
• Just print, 3-hole punch, and insert into the binder of your choice (2" binder works well). A 3-ring binder also makes it a snap to add more of your own family's favorite recipes.

Click here to download the FREE cookbook files to print your own copy.

Throwback to how young I was in 2008.

Print Your Own Wride's Guide Cookbook

Thanks to Google Drive, I'm including links to the cookbook files so that you can print your very own copy of Wride's Guide to Good Home Cookin'!

Materials:

Besides a printer, you'll need:

• a 2" binder with clear sleeve for cover

• 80-120 lbs. cardstock for cover and dividers

• 20 lbs. printer paper

• 3-hole punch

Optional: 70 sheet protectors (for both dividers and interior recipe pages). The dividers print file includes DIY tabs, so you can choose to attach matching tabs to the dividers for a papercrafty-look (see images at end of post), OR slip divider pages into sheet protectors. *I highly recommend that all the recipe pages are put in sheet protectors, unless you're an immaculate cook without elvish helpers.

 

Easy access to all cookbook files:

Wride's Guide to Good Home Cookin': all files in a Google Drive folder

 

All the pieces-parts of the cookbook:

Exterior: Cookbook Cover (full color, print on cardstock)

Interior: Cookbook Dividers (full color, print on cardstock, single-sided)

Interior: Original 2006 Recipes (b/w, print on regular printer paper, double-sided)

Interior: Additional 2008 Recipes (b/w, print on regular printer paper, double-sided)

 

Please enjoy this recipe collection worth hoarding, but also worth sharing. Bon Apetit!

 

 

* Alana Lee retains the copyright to the cookbook files and all images contained therein. These files are for non-commercial use only--meaning you aren't going to sell the files/images or sell any cookbooks created with these files. Thanks for being honest. 

Better-Than-Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 c. butter, softened
3/4 c. sugar
3/4 c. brown sugar, packed
1 t. vanilla
2 large eggs
2-3/4 to 3 c. all-purpose flour
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
Chocolate chips

Mix butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly. Add soda, salt and 2 cups flour and mix. Add remaining flour 1/4 c. at a time until desired consistency is reached (dough should be slightly tacky when you touch it, and little or no dough should remain on your finger if you touch it). Stir in chocolate chips.

Bake 9-11 minutes at 375 degrees.

I like to use milk chocolate chips and Heath toffee bits. So yummy.

Seductive Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
1 c. butter
1 c. butter-flavored Crisco
1 c. granulated sugar
1-1/2 c. brown sugar
1 T. pure vanilla
2 eggs
4 c. all-purpose flour
1 t. baking powder
1 t. soda
2 t. salt
1 pkg chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream together butter, Crisco, both sugars, vanilla and eggs until light and fluffy. Stir in flour, soda, baking powder and salt until well blended. Add chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoon and bake for 8-10 minutes, until golden.

Strawberry Cucumber Limonade

This stuff is the best lemonade I've ever sipped--seriously. I've been a fan of cucumber lemonade for over a year. And then I decided to mix two of my favorite flavors. The thought of adding cucumber and strawberry together was pure genius, if I may say so. It is totally worth the effort!!

Strawberry Cucumber Limonade (Lime-uh-nade)

by Alana Lee

Ingredients

3/4 c. sugar

2 T. lime juice

3/4 c. less 2 T lemon juice

3-3/4 c. cold water

few dashes salt (optional)

2 T. cucumber juice

1/2 c. strawberry puree.

a handful or two of ice cubes

Directions

1. Pour sugar and water into pitcher.

2. Pour 2 T of lime juice into a glass measuring cup. Now add lemon juice until lime-lemon mixture equals 3/4 c. Add to sugar water.

3. Add a dash or two of salt if desired. (Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't.)

4. Whisk well until sugar is dissolved.

5. Peel and slice half a cucumber and puree it in a mixer. Strain the pulp out using cloth or mesh fabric. Stir in cucumber juice

6. Cut of the stems of fresh, juicy strawberries and puree in mixer. Add 1/2 c. strawberry puree.

7. Whisk in ice cubes and serve.

Hint: Puree and drain pulp of one cucumber and store in fridge in a mason jar for easy mixing next time.