1/11/2009

Cucumber Dip

Submitted by: Ann Hatzopoulos

Servings: 64

Ingredients:
2 medium cucumbers
12 ounces cream cheese, softened
4 green onions, finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
crackers or bread

Directions:
Peel cucumbers and cut lengthwise into quarters. Remove seeds. Chop cucumbers very finely.
Place chopped cucumbers in a large kitchen towel and wring to remove all the liquid.
Combine cream cheese, cucumbers, green onions, salt and pepper in a medium bowl; mix well.

Serve with crackers or bread slices.

1/07/2009

Orange Cheesecake


Submitted by: Elizabeth Lowell

Servings: 28-32

Ingredients:
CRUST
12 graham crackers, crushed (about 2 cups to cover bottom of baking dish)
3 Tablespoons sugar
1 stick melted butter

FILLING
1 small package orange jello
8 oz cream cheese
1 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons orange juice

Directions:
For CRUST:
Mix together and smooth on bottom of 9x13 baking dish
Bake at 350 until brown, around 10 minutes

For FILLING:
Mix package of orange jello with 1 cup boiling water. Let cool.
Mix cream cheese, sugar and orange juice. Pour cooled jello into cream cheese mixture and put mixture into pie crust. Refrigerate until cool.

(original recipe called for lemon jello and lemon juice but all we had on hand was orange)