BLT Roll-ups

I made these this past week for a co-worker's wedding shower luncheon. They went over well, which always makes me happy! :)

6 - 9in tomato basil or garden spinach tortillas
8oz cream cheese, softened
3 Tbsp - ranch dressing
1 pound bacon cooked and crumbled
1 cup shredded lettuce
3 Roma tomatoes, diced

Directions:

Lay tortillas out on flat surface. Combine cream cheese and dressing in small bowel and mix until smooth. Divide between the 6 tortillas and spread into a thin even layer. Sprinkle with a sixth of bacon, lettuce and tomato over each tortilla. Starting at edge roll each tortilla up tightly into a spiral shaped log. Wrap each log in saran wrap and chill for 2 hours. Cut each log into 1.5 - 2in sections.

Cheesy Hashbrown Casserole

Ingredients:

1-lb ground beef (cooked and drained)
5 cups shredded hashbrowns
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup chopped onion
8oz mexican blend shredded cheese

Preheat oven: 350 degrees

Set aside 1/2 cup shredded cheese. Combine all remaining ingredients in large bowel and mix well.

Pour into 8x8 inch glass baking dish.

Bake 50-55 minutes or until center is hot and edges are golden brown. Sprinkle with reserved cheese over top. Return to oven for 2 more minutes to melt cheese.

(As a side note: I tend to leave the cooked beef out of the rest of the mixture and then layer it into the dish. It's just a personal choice, either way it will turn up with the same results)

Warm Bacon Potato Salad

Ingredients:

1/2 cup white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon coarse-grained mustard
1 tablespoon sugar
2 1/2 pounds red potatoes, diced into 1-inch cubes
salt
6 bacon slices, chopped
1 medium sized red onion, diced
black pepper
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4 cup freshly chopped dill leaves

Directions:

For the Vinaigrette:
Mix together the white wine vinegar, mustard, sugar in a small bowel and set aside.

Add potatoes to pot of salted cold water. Bring to boil, over high heat then reduce heat to simmer and cook for 20 minutes until tender. Drain and place in large bowel. Cover with foil to keep warm.

Add bacon to large saute pan and cook until crisp over medium heat. Remove to a paper towel lined sheet tray and reserve. Add onion, garlic and dash of pepper to bacon grease and saute until tender, about 3 minutes. Add vinaigrette to vegetables, let cook until reduced and thickened, about 2-3 minutes.

Add potatoes, dill and bacon to the pan and toss to coat with dressing. Allow to cook for 3 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

09.05.10

This Sunday Sam and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary! I feel very blessed to share my life with someone so amazing. We started our celebration Saturday night with a campfire and some wine. Sunday morning we went to breakfast at a place called "Burnt Toast". Then we headed out to Yorktown mall, mostly to look for a dress for me to wear for dinner that night but didn't find anything I liked. So instead we ended up buying a blu-ray player as Sam's anniversary gift. My gift was a new ring. It's a white gold band that has 3 blue sapphire gemstones in it. It signifies our wedding month stone. Later that night we went to dinner at Fox Fire, a nice restaurant right across from where we had our reception 1 year before. We walked along the river and took a few pictures to remember the day by.






When we got home we toasted each other using the flutes we received at our wedding shower and watched our wedding video. The night before I had attempted to make a replica layer of our wedding cake. However it didn't turn out so well. The cake was yummy but the decoration was not so pretty. Cake decorator successfully removed from my "what I want to be when I grow up" list.

It was a lovely day but just like the actual wedding day it went by all too fast. :( I look forward to celebrating many more anniversaries with my hunny!!!