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Tortellini Salad

This is good as a main dish or side dish.

Cook cheese tortellini by package instructions.  While draining rinse with cold water to begin the cooling process immediately.  Add one red and one green bell pepper that is diced very small.  Add 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese.  Add a good pinch of salt and a health bunch of turns of the ground black pepper.  Then shake up your favorite italian dressing and pour over all of the ingredients.  Gently fold and stir all together without breaking up the tortellini's.  Cover with plastic wrap and put in the fridge for a few hours or over night before you are going to serve.  Really fresh and delicious!  (If you chill this over night and the next day it is a bit dry because it absorbed the dressing, then pout a little more and toss right before you serve.)

Tortilla Roll Ups

It does not get any simpler than this - and so tasty, so yummy!

Make these the the day before your going to serve.  Leave a block of cream cheese out an hour or so to make spreading is a bit easier.  Take a burrito size (or larger) and spread a thin layer of cream cheese.  Next sprinkle hot sauce down the middle.  Then a couple spoonfuls of chopped olives and use the back of the spoon to spread them around.  Next place three slices of turkey down the same middle that you did the hot sauce.  Then roll up the tortilla as tight as possible.  Wrap with foil and put in the fridge.  When ready to serve, take out of foil and slice in 1in pieces and plate. 

Clifford as a cake - how fun!

This was such a fun cake to make for my daughter's 3rd birthday!  Red is tricky but do-able.  I bought red color paste and then I bought red food mist.  The outline is chocolate icing in a tube with a very fine tip.  The white of the eyes is decorating gel.  The white on the bones is just classic white frosting.

The cake inside is Funfetti cake, which Sally calls sparkle cake!  I made it to the box specifications.  The rest is free hand carving, a prayer, a wink and a nudge!  Sally loved it!  She said, "Oh, Mommy, it's Clifford.  Thank you, thank you berry much!"  Your welcome sweetie!