GRILLED BACON AND CHEESE SANDWICHES

8 Slices of Sour dough bread
4 Slices of Mozz. Cheese
2 Large tomatoes, sliced thin
8 Slices of bacon ,fried
4 Tablespoons of sour cream
4 Tablespoons of chopped onion
1/4 Teasp. Oregano
4 Slices of Chedder Cheese
4 Tablespoons softened butter

For each sandwich:
Lay a piece of sliced moz. cheese on a slice of bread. Two slices of tomato on top of the cheese. Then add two bacon strips. Then 1 Tablespoon of sour cream and 1 teaspoon of chopped onion. Then a slice of chedder cheese. Then add the other piece of bread. Spread butter on each slice of bread and grill.

GYRO-STYLE PORK SANDWICH

1 LB. Boneless pork loin
4 Tablespoons olive oil
1 Tablespoon prepared mustard
1/2 Cup lemon juice
2 Cloves of garlic, minced
1 Teaspoon dried oregano
1 Cup plain yougurt
1 Cucumber, peeled and chopped
1/2 Teaspoon garlic, crushed
1/2 Teaspoon dill
1 Small red onion, peeled and thinly sliced
2 Pita loaves, halved

Cut pork crosswise into thin slices. Slice thin into strips 5 x 12 inch. Combine olive oil, mustard, lemon juice, garlic and oregano. Pour over pork slices. Cover and ref. for 1-8 hours.
Meanwhile in a small bowl. Stir together the yougurt, cucumber, garlic and dill. Cover and ref.
Preheat the oven to 450. Drain marinade from pork slices and place pork in single layer in a shallow sprayed pan. Roast until crisp about 10-12 minutes.Open each pita half to form a pocket. Put the pork into each half. Top each samdwich with some of the chilled yougurt mixture and the sliced onions.

HAM ROLL UPS

2 8oz. Cream Cheese, Sofened
1 8oz. Pack of Cheddar cheese
1 Pack of thin sliced ham, the 59Cent type
Or two slices of deli ham choped fine
2 Green onions chooped real fine
1/3 Cup or less of chopped green pepper
1 Pack of Flour Tortillas, Burito size

Mix cream cheese, onion and pepper  and ham all up together in a bowl. Then add the cheddar cheese. Spread this on the Tortillas. Cut each one into three pieces to serve. Keep ref. These are real good.

PINTO BEANS THE MOUNTAIN WAY

1 or 2 Lb. bag of pinto beans
1 Stick of Blue Bonnet Marg.or Parkay
1/2 Pack of bacon, fried and save the grease
Or can use 1 Medium piece of salt bacon and 1/3 cup oil
Water
Salt

Do Not Salt Beans Until Almost Done Ever.........

Now some people just don't know how to fix pinto beans or what we call them soup beans. Everyone I know loves my beans and no I don't mean to brag a bit they just do. I am like Paula I like to use butter or marg. This to me is what makes the beans. These are so good you can drink the soup. But cooking beans depends what type of kettle you cook them in and what kind of beans to buy. I like to buy the Walmanrt brand or the Kroger brand. Some beans makes red soup and that I do not like. I also don't like to fix them in a crockpot as this turns the soup red. Now for how to fix them. Of course, look them for the rocks that are sometimes in them. Do you ever wonder how they get in them, I do. Then wash them good at least three times. Then put them in a aluium. kettle or a heavy kettle and let them soak over night in water. To me this is what makes them so good.The next morning  fry up your bacon. I put some cooking oil in the pan and cut my bacon up in small pieces and let cook on medium not on high as the bacon will taste burned and this will ruin the flavor of the beans. Me, I sometimes just fry up the whole pack and make a sandwich with part of it. I let it get crunchy. Let cool .
Then pour the water off of the soaked bean and put fresh in the kettle and put them on and let boil for around 10 minutes or until you see a white foam form. Be carefual and don't get burnt and take them off of the stove and put them in a strainer, wash them again and put more water in them and put back on the stove on medium. I put a lid on mine and put a chopstick underneath the back side of the lid to let the steam out or they will overflow on your stove. Now add the bacon grease from the bacon and if you like you can put some of the bacon in as this gives more flavor, just don't be on a diet.lol. Next add the marg. cut in small pieces, I don't like to use anything but blue bonnet or parkay for this. If I don't use the bacon grease I add 1/3 cup of cooking oil along with the butter. I know, enough grease to about kill you.  I let mine cook for around 2 hours or until the beans are done. I add more water to them along the way make sure you keep pleanty of water in them that is what makes them so good if it is to much just let them cook a while longer and some of the water will cook out. If you like you can put some beno in them believe me you need this but I just put a medium potato that I peel and wash in them when they cook about half way done. This will work also. BUT don't let the potato cook to pieces. Take it out. Let it cook in them for at least 15 minutes. I only salt them when they are almost done. You have to taste them more than once to do this. I learned the hard way about salting beans. I cooked a pot for at least 4 hours one time and ask someone why it took so long. When did you salt them. At the beginning I said. No wonder they would not get done then. lol. I like to turn mine up on high for 5 minutes to get the soup thick but watch or they will BURN fast to. They will stick quick to the bottom of the kettle on high if you don't have a heavy kettle so if you don't use one just keep cooking them on medium.I also take some of them out and mash up and put them back in and this makes the soup thick. If 2 hours is not enough time to cook them just let them keep cooking longer on medium. Enjoy becuase they are good. Also  you can add a piece of salt bacon and cut it like a tic tac toe grid and put in them and not fry any bacon up.  Make sure you taste the beans before adding salt if you use this as they will be to salty. I love to eat the salt bacon with my beans. But still add the butter and some oil around 1/3 cup oil.  Fix some of my cornbread I will post to eat with these. We like to put chow-chow in them or add some mayo to our bowl and some people put some mustard in them in their bowl.We also got to have that big piece of onion to eat with them. Just remember to brush your teeth if you are going somewhere. lol. Most people fix fried potatoes as a side dish to go along with them and fried pork chops with pepper on them. If the butter don't blend in the beans when cooking at first don't worry just stir them and it will blend in. I stir mine about 5 times to make sure they don't stick to the bottom of the kettle. Sometimes even with water in them they will stick. Make sure you check on them.

CRYING OVER HER DOG

Everyone in out family are dog lovers. I have 4 granddog's and yes I call them my granddog's because I love them like my grandchildren. In another post I was talking about my granddaughter losing her black lab. She came and stayed all night with her little cousin who was in visiting. They had went to bed and was singing over one of the mikes you can buy now that lets you here yourself sing. Now my mother-in-law loves to sing, she was in the room with them in another bed so she ask them to let her sing them a song. She sung a very old song that my father-in-law used to sing to my kids when they were little. It was about two little girls with golden curls who had got some matches and played with them and then got burned up. Now these two was listening to every word taking it all in. It is such a sad song. Now my granddaughter just could't take this so she began bawling . She cried for at least a hour and my mother-in-law could not get her to stop. So they ask her what was she crying so about and she said my dog. Now this went on for at least another hour. When she starts crying she goes into fits. So here I get a phone call to come get her as they were leaving the next day and had to get some sleep.  I walked down and got her around one in the morning and brought her up to my house and  her face was swelled and eyes so red and I ask now what has caused all of this. I miss my dog she said and I can't stand to think that I can't get to see him no more and play with him. A big snow is on and he is in his grave and I know he is so cold. Now what do  you say to this.....
She finally stopped crying and got a piece of paper and began drawing. She drew a picture of a man and put Jesus under it and then she drew a picture of her dog and put Patch then she wrote Patch is with Jesus in heaven. This calmed her down by drawing . So if this ever happens just get a piece of paper and let them draw it will take their mind off of what they are crying about even if it is three in the morning. It don't matter how long your dog has been dead you still miss them. Mine has been dead for at least 10 years and every time I see a picute of her I cry and me a old grandma. She was a long haired golden retriver and my kids grew up with her. They are the best dogs to get for a child for a pet for a large dog. They watch out for them and really are very protective of them. They are also so gentle or the girls are. No wonder Oprah loves hers so much.The labs are the same way. But for a small dog for a pet for inside the house to me a yorkie or a poodle is the best. But that is just what we have been around alot. I love my other granddog's which are toy yorkies and a toy poodle. The one named Lucy is such a big baby and oh yes you can spoil them just like a child. Cody , the poodle is around 18 years old and has lost his teeth about two weeks ago and now is on soft food. He still loves to be petted and loves running outside altho he can't see that good now. He keeps up with the other ones tho.
 It is so sad to go by the roadside and see all the dogs people sit out to strave to death or get killed with a car. If I see them I always try to take some dog food back with me to feed them. I know I can't keep them but at least they won't starve for a while as long as I can see them.

ANGIE'S PECAN FROSTING

8 Oz. Cream Cheese, softened
1 Stick of butter or marg.
1 Box of Powdered Sugar
2 Teaspoons vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans

Cream the cheese with the marg. or butter and then add the powdered sugar, then the vanilla. Last the pecans. Mix well. Put on a choc. cake or a yellow cake. Also good on a Swedish Nut Cake.

AMY'S WEDDING FRUIT SALAD

2- 8OZ. Cream Cheese, softened
1 Large box of Instant French Vanilla pudding
1 Small Cool Whip
1 Can of Mandrian Oranges, drained
Green and Red Grapes cut in half
Strawberrys cut in half or sliced
Chopped Pineapples or tibits

Mix the pudding with room temp. cream cheese. Do not add the milk to the pudding, just use the dry mixture.Then add a small amout of cool whip to this. Mix well. Taste and see if it is enough to your liking.
Then add the fruits and mix and ref.