Frittata

Ingredients:
1 medium sized diced russet potato
1/4 diced green bell pepper
1/4 diced white onion
2 diced garlic cloves
4 large diced baby bella mushrooms
2 hand fulls of spinach
4 beaten eggs
Feta cheese
Salt
Pepper
Cayenne Pepper

*I also added:
-1/2 jalapeno
-4 strips of bacon
-avocado

How to:

Preheat oven at 400 degrees

To make your life easy:
1. Dice the potato and put into a bowl or zip lock bag (if you choose zip lock bag pierce the bag with a fork to allow for movement of hot air) and insert into microwave for 3 minutes
*2. If you're adding bacon and do not want to make it stove top, put 3 pieces of paper towel on a plate (2 underneath and one on top) with the 4 strips of bacon in between. Heat for 2.5 minutes on either side.

After rinsing, chop/dice:
Bell pepper, onion, garlic, mushrooms and spinach.

Sautee:
Add a teaspoon of olive oil to a pan and begin to sauté onion, garlic and bell pepper until it becomes aromatic, then add the softened potato dices. Cook until the potato browns a little.

Then add the mushrooms and spinach (and jalapeno if you choose). Cook until all spinach is wilted.

Since I didn't have a skillet, I used a pie pan; I transferred all of the veggies (+bacon) to the pie pan.

Whisk 4 eggs adding the salt, pepper and cayenne pepper at this point.

Pour the whisked eggs over the veggies in skillet/pie pan and sprinkle feta cheese on top.

Put into the oven for 15 minutes. To check if it is ready, stick in a tooth pick. If it comes up clean, it is ready, if not, leave it in for a few more minutes.

When serving, add fresh avocado slices on top and enjoy!

Guacamole

Ingredients:
4 Medium Avocados
2 vine ripe tomatoes
3 small serrano peppers or 2 large
1/2 a large white onion
1/2 bunch cilantro
2-3 lemons
garlic salt
salt
pepper

Recipe:
1. Cut avocados in half and take out the avocado meat, place into a medium sized mixing bowl. (Do not mash or cut into smaller pieces)
2. Dice tomatoes and add to the mixing bowl
3. Dice half of the union and add
4. Chop cilantro and add
5. Chop serranos and add
6. Add garlic salt, salt and pepper to taste
8. Add lemon
9. Now use a fork to mash the avocado as you are mixing all of the ingredients in (there should be no mixing and or mashing before this step!)
10. Taste test, if something is missing - you most likely were too light with the garlic salt and lemon, so try adding some of that

Marina's Creamed Corn

1 pkg frozen kernel corn (20 oz)
4 oz whipping cream
4 oz homo (sic) milk
½ tsp salt
⅛ tsp MSG (!)

3 tsp sugar
pinch of pepper
1 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp cornstarch or 2 tbsp flour

Recipe
Combine all ingredients except butter and flour in a pot and bring to a boil. Simmer 5 minutes. Blend butter with flour or cornstarch. Add to corn mixture well & remove from heat.

Variation: Put finished corn in heat proof casserole dish. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Put in oven under 350 until evenly browned.

(Triple for a 9x13 dish)

Marina's Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup (2 sticks, one salted/on unsalted) butter, room temp.
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 ¼ cup flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350. In small bowl, stir flour with baking soda and salt. In large mixing bowl, combine butter with sugar and brown sugar. Mix until well blended, then add eggs and mix again. Then add vanilla and mix. Gradually, blend flour mixture into large bowl. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoon onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Makes appoximately 5 dozens

Marina's Bufteak

Meat
1-2 eggs (depends on how much meat)
Pepper
Salt
½ -1 onion (depends on how much meat)
¼ cup red wine

Recipe
Marinate meat: Mix minced onion, meat, salt, pepper, and wine in bowl. Let sit in refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

Whip the eggs together in a bowl and add salt and pepper. Put bread crumbs on a flat plate. Place the meat in the egg mixture then cover it with the bread crumbs. Heat oil in frying pan on top of stove. Put meat in pan and let cook on med-low heat. Turn over and when both sides have browned remove from pan onto plate. Best when using meat which is thinly sliced.

Marina's Deviled Eggs

15 eggs
1 Whole Dill Pickle
Mayo
Dry Mustard
Pepper
Salt
Paprika

Recipe
Put the eggs in a pot and bring to boil. Once at a boil turn down heat and let it continue boiling for 15 minutes. Turn off the heat and drain the water. Add ice immediately and fill pot with cold water. Peel the eggs. Cut the eggs length wise and remove the yolk into a bowl. Smash with a fork and set aside. Cut the pickle into really small pieces then add to yolk bowl. Add about 2 tablespoons mayo; a dash of salt; pepper to taste; and two pinches of dry mustard to the yolk bowl. Mix everything together. Spoon into the whites. Once all the yolk mixture has been spooned in all of the whites of the eggs then top off with paprika for looks.

Titi's Spaghetti and Meat Sauce

1.5lb ground beef as lean as you can find or ground turkey
1 large minced onion
1 large can italian stewed tomatoes
1 large can tomato sauce
1 tbsp garlic (3 med cloves, minced)
3 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp brown sugar
salt, pepper to taste
1.5tsp allspice
3/4tsp oregano

boil 1-1.5lb spaghetti.

Recipe
brown onion in olive oil, add ground beef, stir and break up into pieces until browned. add remaining ingredients and 1 can water. bring to boil and let simmer covered for 30-40m.