Appetizers

Crab Dip made with cream cheese, white crab meet and cocktail sauce - so easy!

This is a creamy sausage dip! You can eat it with tortilla chips or even pieces of crusty bread!

In a large bowl stir together sugar and sherry.  Add scallops to the bowl and marinate for 30 minutes or longer.  Remove scallops from marinade and sprinkle with salt.  Center a scallop or scallop piece and a slice of scallion on a piece of bacon.  Wrap and secure with a toothpick.  Arrange wraps on a broiling pan.  Place the broiling pan under the broiler for 10 minutes turing once or until the bacon is golden and cooked.

From the kitchen of Katherine

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2 pounds scallops

4 tablespoons sherry

1 teaspoon white sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2 pounds sliced bacon, cut in half

1 green onion, cut into 1 inch pieces

Beat cream cheese, 2 tsp. of the Pizza Seasoning Blend, and garlic powder until well blended. Spread on bottom of 9 inch glass pie plate. Top with 1 cup mozzarella cheese. Combine tomato sauce and the remaining 1 Tbs. Pizza Seasoning Blend. Pour over cheese layer. Sprinkle with chopped pepper, onion, and remaining cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until heated through and cheese is melted, (or) microwave (high) 5 minutes or until bubbly. Serve with bread sticks.

From the kitchen of Linda Sikut, Watkins Independent Manager

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1 8 oz. Cream Cheese

5 tsp. Watkins Pizza Seasoning Blend, divided

1/8 tsp. Watkins Garlic Powder

2 Cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

1 can (8 oz.) tomato sauce

1/4 Cup chopped red or green bell pepper

2 Tbs. chopped onion

Blend first four ingredients using electric mixer. Use as a dip for apple or pear slices. Makes 1 Cup / 250 mL, 1 Tbs. / 15 mL per serving.

From the kitchen of Linda Sikut, Watkins Independent Manager

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1 Package (8 oz. / 227g) Cream Cheese, softened

1/4 to 1/3 Cup / 60 to 80 mL Brown Sugar

1 tsp. / 5 mL Watkins Original Double Strength Vanilla

1/2 tsp. / 2.5 mL Watkins Caramel Extract

Apples or Pears, cored and sliced

Cut the bacon into thirds (lengthwise). Wrap the bacon around the olive and secure with a toothpick. Can be cooked in the microwave or on the grill until the bacon is done. Serve warm.

Patty Heckathorn, Keystone German Shepherds & Kennels

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Bacon

Olives

Toothpicks

Cook up the chicken in a large dutch oven or large cook pan (cover with water, salt to taste and simmer until the chicken falls off the bone). Remove the chicken from the water and pull off meat from the bone--be careful to remove ALL of the bones. Place the chicken pieces back into the chicken water (broth) and add onion and any additional seasoning(s) you prefer. Add the redskin potatoes (which I precook in the microwave for about 15 minutes). I cut the potatoes into tiny chucks--but you can slice them however you prefer). Add the noodles and cook everything on a medium setting for about 10 minutes. Then add the corn and hardboiled eggs (which I slice into thin slices) and simmer everything for another 10 minutes or until everything is nicely "blended" in taste (I don't time this ladies--so you just have to keep stirring it and tasting it for "doneness"--lol!)

Voila!

Serve with toasted cinnamon bread (Pepperidge Farms has some wonderful "Swirl" breads that are extra thick and toast so wonderfully well).

This makes a tasty mid-afternoon meal that is satisfying and healthy too.

Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

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1 Roasting Chicken (I buy the type already cut up into different sections of the bird)

7 medium sized redskin potatoes

6 hardboiled eggs

1 small Vidalia onion (or onion flakes will do--about 2 tbsps.)

Parsley to taste (parsley flakes are fine--about 1 tbsp.)

2 med. cans of white shoepeg corn

1 small bag of PA Dutch noodles (the small, flat type)

In a food processor blend sundried tomatoes together with Liquid Garlic. Slice Brie in half, divide the tomato mixture between the two Brie rounds, and sprinkle with parsley. Heat on HIGH in microwave 30 seconds or until cheese is soft. Serve with crackers.

From the kitchen of Linda Sikut, Baking a Business

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6 oz. Round Brie

4 oz. Sundried Tomatoes

1/2 teas. Watkins Liquid Garlic Spice

1 Tbsp. Watkins Parsley