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Chile Relleno Burritos

• Pack of a dozen flour tortillas
• Large can whole green chiles
• 1 pound monterey jack cheese, cut in 1/4" thick slices
• Large can tomato sauce
• 1 pound hamburger

In a large frying pan, brown hamburger; drain. Add tomato sauce and simmer. Add about a tablespoon of crushed red pepper and 1 tsp. chili powder. While that's simmering, heat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a 9x13 inch pan. In each tortilla, roll up a slice of cheese and a chile. Line burritos up in baking pan. Add juice from can of chiles to sauce. Pour sauce over burritos and bake for 25 minutes or until cheese is melted. Serve with refried beans.

Jaz's Italian Soup

• 1 pound hamburger
• 2 cans whole peeled tomatoes
• 1/2 pound pasta (I usually use elbow macaroni
• 1 can kidney beans
• 1 can white beans
• 1 can beef broth
• Oregano, cilantro, basil, parsley, marjoram

In a soup kettle, brown hamburger. Drain. In food processor, process one can of tomatoes until it's small chunks. Puree the other can. Add both to hamburger, along with beans and beef broth. Season to taste. Simmer for at least half an hour. Cook pasta separately and add just before serving. Sprinkle each serving dish with fresh grated parmesan and serve with breadsticks hot from the oven.

Chili

• 1 pound hamburger
• 1 can diced green chilies
• 1 large can whole peeled tomatoes
• 1 can dark red kidney beans
• 1 can light red kidney beans
• 1 large can spicy chili beans
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper
• Shredded cheddar cheese
• onions

Rose Beads

• 1/2 cups Fresh Rose petals ( finely chopped up)
• 1/4 cups of flour
• 2 teas. Salt
• Add rose oil (optional)
• Add water if necessary

Knead the above ingredients until its like dough. Roll out and use a thimble as a cutter. Roll up into a bead the size of a large pea and string onto wire and let dry out. Take the beads off the wire and string onto beading thread with gold beads for spacers.

Cinnamon Ornaments

• 10 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 6 tablespoons warm applesauce

Mix together.

Sprinkle cinnamon on your cutting board. Roll dough to 1/4" thick (if you roll it thinner, they may curl when drying)

Cut into shapes with regular cookie cutters. Poke small hole at top of each shape for ribbon to be inserted.

Lay flat onto wire wracks (the type you use to cool cookies, etc.) and place in a 150 degrees oven. Leave for 6 hours. If you can't leave for 6 hours, simply leave oven on for 2-3 hours and then after turning oven off, keep ornaments in to dry further.

When all dry and hard...insert ribbon or twine into hole and you have an ornament or party favor or gift tag addition or......it's up to you. I usually cut in the shape of gingerbread men and decorate with puffy paint to resemble frosting. Cute!

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