Green Bean and Red Potato Salad

MMMMMM DROOL. I love this stuff, had it many times growing up and I still love to make it especially when the green beans are nice and tender in the summer months. If you cant get your hands on some nice farm fresh beans, you can sub with some good quality frozen beans.

3 lbs. of red potatoes cubed and boiled
1 1/2 lbs. of fresh green beans or frozen, cooked
chopped fresh parsley
salt
pepper
garlic powder
onion powder
EVOO
apple cider vinegar
spike

Add everything to a large bowl, season to taste, dont be shy with it. mix and let cool and chill out in the fridge 1-3 days. It gets so much better the longer it sits. You probably will want to add more oil and vinegar each day or so, to taste. I like it best at room temp.

SHAPE cookies

I don't know about you, but when I see a cookie recipe in a magazine like SHAPE, I just have to try it out! These babies only have 108 calories and 5 grams of fat for 2 cookies!!!! NOT BAD in my book. I was happy to see they had some thickness to them, not flat cookies. Hey, if they are good enough for cookie monster, they cant be bad healthy cookies. He cant even tell the difference with less fat.

From SHAPE

3/4 cup rolled oats
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup extra-light olive oil
3 TBS. room temp unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1 large egg
1 large egg white
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350*. Spread oats on a baking sheet and toast for 10 mins. Remove and turn off oven.

Meanwhile in a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, beat together oil,butter, and sugars with an electric mixer. Add egg, egg white, and vanilla, beating until well combined. Fold in oats, flour mixture, and chocolate chips. Cover and refrigerate dough for 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 350*. Place rounded teaspoonfuls of dough 2 inches apart onto parchment lined cookie sheets. Bake for 11 mins, and then transfer to a cooling rack.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!

As the weekend is almost upon us, I wanted to be sure to wish you all a very happy Easter! I saw Rachael Ray make these cuties on her show the other day, she of course got the idea off Pinterest! You just take whole hard boiled egg, chop the top off, scoop our the insides and mix how you like your egg yolks. Then fill and top with the little hat, and pop in some caper eyes and a carrot beak! Could NOT be more adorable!!!!!!