Raspberry Sauce

A fast and fresh dessert topping for a store bought angel food cake or individual short cakes.

1 small jar red raspberry jelly or jam
1 cup fresh raspberries
cake of your choice
Whipped cream
dash of love

Dissolve jelly in a small saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat. Gently fold raspberries in sauce. Spoon over cake and top with whipped cream. Sprinkle with love. Serves 4.

New Cream Cheese Dip

We always looked forward to Mom's dried beef 
Cream Cheese Ball for the holidays. Like any cheese ball  the cracker usually broke as we tried to spread the hard mixture. I thought it would be nice to make a creamier mixture to dip and scoop with a cracker instead. This is what I came up with and now it's a family favorite!

1- 8 ounce pack of cream cheese, room temperature

1 jar chipped beef, rinsed, pat dry

1 small onion, chopped

2 Tbsp Miracle Whip

2-4 squirts Worcestershire

1- Tbsp horseradish or 1/4 cup Woeber's Horseradish Sauce

1/2 cup sour cream or plain yogurt 

Rinse the salt off the chipped beef and pat dry with a paper towel, then chop.  Using electric mixer combine cream cheese, Miracle Whip, Worcestershire, horseradish and sour cream until smooth. Add chopped beef and onion. Pour in a liberal amount of love. Mix well. Keep refrigerated until needed. Serve with crackers.

Soup for A Thousand

1 elephant, freshly butchered
2 bushels of potatoes
1 bushel of carrots
1/2 bushel onions
1/2 bushel celery
salt and pepper to taste

Chop elephant into bite sized pieces. Simmer for 24 hours in 5 gallons of beef broth.
Add diced vegetables one hour before serving.

If you have more than a thousand guests and need more soup, add a squirrel.

Submitted by Debbie Bishop

Chocolate Lasagna

This is a family favorite with a layer of that special center you find in a Dairy Queen ice cream cake!

1 package regular Oreo Cookies - about 36
6 TBSP butter, melted
1 - 8 ounce cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup sugar
2 TBSP milk
2 - 8 ounce tubs Cool Whip
2 - 3.9 ounce Chocolate Instant Pudding
3 and 1/4 cups cold milk
1 and 1/2 cups mini chocolate chips
a pinch of love

1. Place all Oreo's in a large Ziploc bag and crush them with a rolling pin until they are fine crumbs. Or use your food processor.
2. Place Oreo crumbs into a bowls. Using a fork, stir in melted butter until well blended.
3. Pour cookie mixture into a 9x13 pan or glass dish. Press the crumbs into the bottom of the pan. Place in refrigerator while working on other layers.
4. Using a mixer, beat softened cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add milk, and sugar. Continue to mix until creamy.
5. Gently fold in 1 tub of Cool Whip trying not to beat the air out of whipped cream.
6. Spread over the cookie crumb layer. Return to refrigerator.
7. In a bowl, combine chocolate instant pudding with 3 and 1/4 cups cold milk. Whisk for several minutes until pudding starts to thicken. Use a spatula to spread onto cream cheese layer.
8. Spread remaining Cool whip on top.
9. Place in refrigerator for 4 hours.
10. Sprinkle mini chocolate chips on top before serving.