EASY CHEESE FONDUE

1/2 Cup Butter
1/4 Cup All-purpose Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon
1/4 Teaspoon Dry Mustard
1/4 Teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
11/2 Cups Milk
2 Cups Cheddar Cheese, shredded
For Dipping:

Any variety of bread, cut into cubes
Little Smokie
Apple Slices
Pine Apple Chunks
Pear Chunks
Pretzels

For the fondue, melt the butter into a medium saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour, salt, pepper, mustard, and worcestershire sauce until smoth. Cook one minute. Gradually add the milk while constantly stirring. Bring to a boil, cook 2 minutes or until thickened, stirring often. Reduce heat. add cheese, stirring until melted. Transfer to a fondue pot or crockpot to keep warm. Serve with the sides for dipping.

BEST EVER ONION RINGS

3 Large Yellow Onion or 1 extra, exta large
Flour for coating
1 Cup Buttermilk
Plain Bread Crumbs
Cracker Meal
Salt
Oil for frying
Parmesan Cheese

Slice the onions about 3/4 inch thick to create rings. Soak them in ice water for 2 hours. Drain well. In a medium bowl mix equal parts of bread crumbs and cracker meal.(Crackers crushed fine in a ziplock bag) Season with a little salt. Using three different bowls make up the coating. In first bowl add the flour. In second bowl add the buttermilk, and in the third add the bread/cracker crumbs mixture. Coat the rings in the flour, shaking them slightly to get excess flour off them. Dip the flour coated rings into the buttermilk, allow excess to drip off. Then cover them well witht he bread crumb/cracker meal mixture. Stack the breaded onion rings slanted on a plate or baking sheet. Place in ref. overnight. The next day fry in hot oil until brown and crispy. Drain on paper towel or wire rack. Season at once with a little salt and parmesan cheese.

COCONUT COOL WHIP PIE

2 T. butter 3/4 cup sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
1/3 cup flour or corn starch
2 eggs well beaten
2 cups milk
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup coconut
1 tub Cool Whip (8 oz.)
1 Pie Crust, baked

Combine butter, sugar, salt, flour and eggs in a medium kettle. Add milk slowly, stirring constantly. Cook until thick. Remove from heat and add vanilla. Refrigerate until cool and add the coconut and 1/2 the tub of cool whip. Put filling into the baked and cooled shell. Top with remainig cool whip. Garnish with toasted coconut. Chill.

CHOC. CHIP BANANA BREAD WITH GLAZE

1 Cup Ripe Bananas, mashed
11/2 Cups Chocolate Chip
11/4 Cups Flour
3/4 Cup Sugar   
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon Salt 
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1 Teaspoon Nutmeg
2 Eggs
1/2 Cup Cooled Melted Butter or Veg. Oil
1/2 Cup Plain Yogurt or Sour Cream
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Preheat the oven to 350. Lightly spray a 9 x 5 loaf pan. Mash the bananas and sit aside. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt , baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg into a large bowl. Add in yur dry mix ings. In a medium bowl, wisk eggs, butter or oil, yogurt or sour cram and the vanilla. Stir in you bananas into egg mixture and then fold into dry mixture until combined. Spread the batter into the prepared pans. Bake for 55 minutes. Cool for 30 minutes in the pan and then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.

Glaze:
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
2 Tablespoons Cocoa
2 Tablespoons Milk
1/4 Teaspoon Vanilla
Pinch of Salt

In a bowl wisk all of this together and pour over cooled cake.

CHEESECAKE STRAWBERRIES

1 Carton or more Strawberries, washed and dried
8 Oz. Pkg. Cream Cheese, softened
1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
1 Sleeve Graham Crackers
1/2 Cup Mini Chocolate Chips

Cut the hulls off washed strawberries. Take a knife and core the strawberries, don't cut thru to the outside tho. In a bowl mix the cream cheese and powdered sugar together. Take a ziplock bag and put this mixture in it. Snip off the end and squeeze the filling into the strawberries. Let it come up to the top of the berries. Take another ziplock bag and put the graham crackers in it and crush them.  Pour into a small bowl. Dip the strawberries into the graham crackers. Take and put the choc. chips in a bowl in mircowave and melt them. Let cool just a little. Take a ziplock back and put the melted choc. in it. Snip off the end and drizzle the choc. over the strawberries. Very good.

BUTTERSCOTCH BARS

1/4 Cup Unsalted Butter, room temp.
1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
1/2 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
11/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda

BUTTERSCOTCH TOPPING:
1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Dark Brown Sugar, packed   
1/2 Cup Golden Corn Syrup
1/4 Cup Water
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Cup Walnut Pieces
3/4 Cup Unsweetened Coconut
3/4 Cup Chocolate Chips
1/2 Cup Whipping Cream  
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 8-inch square pan or use parchment paper.
In a bowl, cream butter and sugars together. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until fluffy.  In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Add to butter mixture and stir until evenly blended. Spread batter into the prepared and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Let sit awhile to cool. Then in a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in sugars, corn syrup, water and salt and increase heat to medium-high. When mixture boils, stir in walnut pieces and coconut. Simmer for 7 minutes, stirring often (mixture will be thick and darker in color). Remove from heat and stir in cream and vanilla watch the steam. Pour butterscoth over the cake and sprinkle with chocolate chips. Bake for 13 to 16 minutes, until bubbling around the edges. Let cool before cutting into squares or bars.

OUR DIET GROUP TURKEY WRAP

Whole Wheat Tortilla Wrap
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
Sliced Turkey Breast
Lettuce
Tomato
 Fat-Free Spreadable Cream Cheese

You can use fat-free spreadable cream cheese on this with or without the hummus if you don't like hummus. Spread a layer of cream cheese then a layer of hummus. Next a layer of turkey, lettuce and tomato. Roll up wrap and enjoy. Cut in half.