Picnic in Canyon

Wednesday August 24th! (the date has been changed from the 25th, due to Back to School Night at Cedar Ridge) Meet at the church at 6:10 for carpool so we can use passes to get through the toll booth. We'll begin at 6:30. We will enjoy a potluck picnic dinner up American Fork Canyon at Swinging Bridge (look for the sign-up). We will also be having an optional service exchange. If you are in need of a babysitter for the night, Kem and Tomoko have a list of YW who are willing to babysit.

Relief Society Hike

"Step It Up" July 28th-Battle Creek Hike in Pleasant Grove-Meet in the church parking lot at 6:50 for carpool. We will leave at 7:00. The hike is a fairly easy hike following along a Creek-bed and ends at a waterfall. Bring some cash for snow cones afterwards!

*If you need a babysitter, the list of girls who would babysit for free of charge is available.  Please talk to Kem or Tomoko

Visiting Teaching Conference

Alicia's Healthy Smoothie & Dips

The Smoothie: 

A handful of spinach, 2 cups of the Costco spectrum blend frozen fruit (peaches, pineapple, blueberries and strawberries), 8 oz water and 2 bananas.

Cheezy Sauce

1 ½ cup raw cashews

3/4 cup chopped red bell pepper

2 garlic cloves

1/2 cup nutritional yeast(Good Earth's bulk section)

3 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice

½ teaspoon chili powder

½ cup water

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

Place all ingredients in blender. (Wet ingredients first!) Blend until smooth. Use as a sandwich spread, a dip for crackers or veggies, for nacho cheese, or anything else you want to use it for.

Recipe from www.simplehealthytasty.com

Dill Dip

1 cup veganaise

1 tbs Spice Hunter's Dill Blend

*Any of the above ingredients can be found at Good Earth.

January 27th Relief Society Meeting

Stuffed Pizza Rolls from Brooke

This is a recipe copied directly from ourbestbites.com

Stuffed Pizza Rolls
(I don't really measure, so you get what you get here!)
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1 roll refrigerated pizza dough* (or make your own) I pick up the scone/pizza dough from Kohler's bakery
marinara/pizza sauce (click here to make your own)
2 T grated Parmesan cheese (sorry, I don't know how to make that)
1 T olive oil or melted butter
1/2 t garlic powder
1 t dried Italian seasoning
mozzerella cheese
Pizza toppings of your choice: ie, ham and pineapple, pepperoni slices, sausage, etc.

*You can use regular pizza dough, or thin crust. I used thin crust when taking these pictures.

Preheat oven to heat specified on pizza dough package. Usually it's 400 degrees. If you make your own dough, 400 is usually a good heat as well.

Unroll your pizza dough onto a lightly floured surface. Pat or roll the dough so it's about 12" by 8". You're going to want to cut it into 24 squares, so just eyeball it if you need to. Use a pizza cutter to slice the dough into 24 squares (bet ya didn't see that one comin' did ya?)

Place cheese and desired toppings on each square. (Note that you're not putting the marinara sauce on the dough- it's for dipping after) You guys are smart, right? Just eyeball how much. You just need to be able to enclose the toppings in the dough so keep that in mind. For these ones pictured I used a teaspoon each of cheese, canadian bacon, and pineapple.

Tortilla Soup from Tomoko

Tortilla Soup

2 cans cream of chicken soup

1-2 cans chicken broth

4 cooked and diced chicken breast

1/2 cup diced celery

1/4 cup chopped green peppers

1 small died onion

1 can corn

garlic to taste

1-2 cups salsa (start from 1cup and add more to taste)

salt ant pepper to taste

cumin to taste

Saute celery, green peppers, onion and garlic in small amount of butter until soft.  Add rest of ingredients and heat until ready to serve.  Top each bowl with tortilla chips, grated cheese, cilantro, avocado, sour cream and green onion.

I wanted to make a lot so I used 3 cans cream of chicken soup.  I didn't have a can of chicken broth but I used the soup that I cooked the chicken breast in.  I had no green pepper either either.  I served it with tortilla chips, cheese, sour cream, and avocado in different bowls and everyone topped their soup with whatever they wanted.  My kids like it too.