Easy recipes for those short on time.
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Rosy Rice: Substitute tomato juice or V-8 for half of the cooking water when making rice.
Honey Lime Dressing simply thin honey with fresh or bottled lime juice. Better than you'd think!
Quickie appetizers long toothpicks or plastic swords - two cheeses of different colors, seedless grapes of two different colors. Cut cheese into cubes, put one of each color on a stick, alternating cheese with grape.
Grape Cream To 4 cups of seedless grapes add 1 cup sour cream and 1/2 cup brown sugar. Chill for at least two hours, serve in sherbet glasses.
Baked Tomato SlicesCrumble one or two large biscuits of shredded wheat. Slice 3 tomatoes (1 lb) 1/4" thick, bread with wheat crumbs. Place on oiled baking sheet and sprinkle each with 1/2 tsp thyme (or spice of your choice - garlic, Vegit etc.), 1/8 tsp black pepper, pinch of sugar. Bake 15-30 minutes at 350F
Fake Hollandaise Sauce 3/4 cup mayonnaise, 1/3 cup milk, salt, pepper and 1 tsp lemon juice. Cook milk and mayonnaise in double boiler 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Add s, p and juice, stir one minute. Serve on fish, or on sunny side up eggs (Eggs Benedict) etc.