OLIVE CHEESE PUFFS

40 Spanish olives with pimento

  • 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese

  • ¼ cup soft butter

  • ½ cup sifted flour

  • 1/8 t. salt

  • ½ t. paprika

  • 1/8 t. Worcestershire sauce

Mix cheese and butter.  Add flour then rest of ingredients.  Wrap 1 t. of dough around each olive.  Bake on a greased sheet at 415 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

GORGONZOLA TRIANGLES

  • 4 T. soft butter

  • 5 oz. creamy Gorgonzola cut in small pieces

  • 2 T. chopped fresh parsley/basil

  • 1 ½ T. chopped pine nuts

  • Black pepper

  • 1 ½ T. whole pine nuts

  • 8 slices Pepperidge Farm thin sliced bread with crusts removed

Heat oven to 400 Degrees

Mix butter, cheese, herbs, pepper well with wooden spoon.  Mix in whole pine nuts.  Spread mix over bread slices.  Toast in oven until bread is light brown at edges – about 10 minutes.  Cut each slice diagonally into two triangles and cool.

GORGONZOLA PISTACCIO LOAF

  • 1 # cream cheese room temperature

  •  8 oz. Gorgonzola cheese room temperature

  •  1 cup unsalted butter room temperature

  •  1 cup chopped fresh parsley

  •  1 cup shelled chopped pistachios

Moisten 2 18” cheese cloth squares.  Line a 8” x 4” loaf pan with cheese cloth draping excess over sides.  Combine cheeses and butter.  Spread 1/3 of mixture into pan; sprinkle with chopped parsley.  Cover with half of remaining cheese.  Sprinkle with pistachios.  Cover with remaining cheese mixture.  Fold ends of cloth over.  Press down lightly.  Chill until firm – about 1 hour.  Invert onto plate and carefully remove cheese cloth.  Serve with sesame thin crackers.

EGG CHEESE BAKE

  • 1 # link sausage cooked and cut up

  • 6 eggs

  • 1 ¾ cup Hungry Jack Pancake Mix

  • 1 t. fine herbs

  • 1 cup creamed cottage cheese

  • ¼ cup oil

  • ¾ cup cubed Monterey Jack cheese

Mix all of the above together and bake in a greased Pyrex casserole at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

CRAB CHEDDAR ROLLS

  • ½ cup butter

  • ½ # grated cheddar cheese

  • ¼ t. dry mustard

  • 2 cans drained crabmeat

  • 1 large loaf of thin sliced white bread crusts removed

Roll bread slices flat.  Melt butter, add cheese, mustard and crab
meat.  Spread mixture thinly on bread slices.  Roll up long side jelly roll
style.  You can freeze at this point.

To serve:  Cut rolls in half while frozen.  Roll in melted butter.  Let thaw then bake at 400 degrees 10-15 minutes.

CHEESE SQUARES – MARY JO’S

  • 3 slices white sandwich bread

  • 1 egg

  • 1 T. milk

Dip one slice in egg and milk mixture.  Sandwich this slice between 2 dry slices of bread. Cut off crusts.  Cut into four squares.  Dip in melted mutter and parmesan cheese.  Refrigerate 2 hours.  Bake 20 minutes at 400 Degrees. 

  •  12 slices of bread uses 2 eggs and ¼ # butter.

CHEESE SOUFFLE FROM MARY JO HEALEY

  • 8 slices of bread, crusts removed and buttered on both sides and cubed

  • 2 T. dried onion

  • 1 # sharp grated cheddar

  • 6 eggs

  • 3 cups milk

  • ½ t. salt

Grease a large Pyrex pan.  Lay bread cubes on bottom.  Sprinkle with grated onion and cheese over top.  Beat eggs.  Add milk and salt.  Pour egg mix over bread and let sit overnight in refrigerator.   Bake at 350 degrees
for 50 minutes.  You can add crumbled bacon or chopped ham or sausage before adding egg mix.

CHEESE COOKIES

  • 2 cups finely shredded cheddar cheese

  • 1 stick soft butter

  • ½ t. dry mustard

  • ½ t. salt

  • ¼ cup chopped chives

  • 1 ½ cups flour

Cream butter and cheese.  Add mustard, salt, and chives.  Add flour.
Knead until thoroughly mixed and roll able.  Roll into log and cut off ¼” slices.  Bake 375 degrees for 7-8 minutes.

CHEESE CAKE

  • Two 8 oz packages of cream cheese

  • 2 eggs

  • ½ cups sugar

  • 1 t. vanilla

  • Dash of cinnamon

  • 1 pint of sour cream

  • 6 T. sugar

  • 1 t. vanilla

Make a crumb crust for a 9” spring form pan.  Use any crumbs, but Holland Rusks are good.  Bake crust 10 minutes and cool.  Mix cheese, eggs, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon.  Pour into crust and bake at
350 degrees for 30-40 minutes.  Cool for 20 minutes.  Mix sour cream, sugar and
vanilla.  Pour on top of cheese cake.  Return to oven for another 10 minutes.  Cool and refrigerate.