Cooking Club recipes

Almond Pine Cones
1 8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup mayonnaise
5 crisply cooked bacon slices, crumbled
1 Tbsp chopped green onion
1/2 tsp dill weed
1/8 tsp pepper
Combine softened cream cheese and mayonnaise
Mix well. Cover, chill overnight, form mixture
into 2 pine cone shapes on serving platter.
Beginning with narrow end, press slivered
almonds at an slight angle into cheese in rows
until all cheese is covered. Garnish with real
or artificial pine sprigs. Serve with crackers

Mexican Shrimp Cocktail
1 bag frozen shrimp
Boil shrimp in water with onion
wedges, a little cilantro and garlic and
celery if desired. Boil till cooked, cool and
peel shrimp. Marinate shrimp in fresh lemon
juice.
2-4 onions, cut up fine
8-10 roma tomatoes, chopped
2-4 chopped, peeled cucumbers
4 avocadoes
finely chopped cilantro, amount desired
Mix vegetables together in large bowl and add
1 jar seafood cocktail sauce
1 large bottle Clamato juice
Salt
Add marinated shrimp to mixture and serve in
a cocktail glass with lemon wedges and saltine
crackers

Herb Butter Spread
soften 2 cubes of butter
add herbs and spices
I used Garlic and Herb
salt free blend (Frontier brand)
which has sesame seed, black pepper
garlic, green onion, lemon peel, citric acid
2 shakes of season salt

loaves of Voltrumpia bread or any cocktail
bread or artisan bread

You can use whatever herbs you like
Chervil, tarragon, rosemary, basil, chives
parsley, thyme etc.

Fines Herb Butter
1-1/2 teaspoon parsley
3/4 teaspoon tarragon
1/2 teaspoon rosemary
1/2 teaspoon chives