• 2 lb Ground Beef
• 1 1/2 ts Ground Cumin
• 1 tb Chili Powder
• 1 cn (16 Oz) Tomatoes, chopped
• 2 c Small Curd Cottage Cheese
• 1 Egg
• 2 c Lettuce, shredded
• 10 Corn Tortillas
• 1/4 ts Garlic Powder
• 1/4 ts Red Pepper
• 1/2 ts Black Pepper
• 1/2 c Cheddar Cheese, grated
• 1/2 c Tomatoes, chopped
• 1/4 c Black Olives, sliced
• 3 Green Onions, chopped

Brown ground beef and drain. Add cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, red pepper, pepper, and tomatoes. Heat through. Cover bottom and sides of 9 x 13 inch baking dish with tortillas. Pour beef mixture over tortillas. Place a layer of tortillas over beef mixture. Combine cottage cheese, cheddar, and egg. Pour over tortillas. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes. remove from oven and sprinkle with lettuce, tomatoes, green onion, and olives in diagonal rows over the top.

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• 1 1/2 lb Turnips, peeled and thinly sliced
• 2 ts Butter
• 1 Onion, thinly sliced
• 2/3 c Chopped celery
• 2 ts Flour
• 1 c Milk
• 1/2 c Grated sharp cheese salt and pepper to taste
• 3 ts Bread crumbs

Cook turnips in boiling, salted water to cover until just tender. Drain, Saute in butter the onion, green pepper, and celery until tender. Sprinkle with flour and cook 1 minutes. Add milk and stir until thickened. Stir in cheese, salt and pepper. Combine cheese sauce with turnips, place in baking dish and top with crumbs. Brown under broiler. May be prepared ahead and placed under broiler just before serving.

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• 1 lb Hamburger
• 1 Envelope taco seasoning mix
• 1 cn Tomato sauce
• 1 1/2 c Water
• 1 c Grated cheese (more if you, want it)
• Bag baked tortilla chips

Saute meat in skillet. Add taco seasoning mix, tomato sauce, and water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer uncovered 15 min. Add tortilla chips; mix, being careful not to break the chips. Pour into a 2-inch-deep by 8 inch round or square baking dish. Bake in 400 oven 10-15 minutes. Top with cheese.

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The other day Jordon was commenting how much he missed his recipe from his youth. Here it is.

• 1 c Frozen peas
• 1 cn Condensed cream of celery soup
• 1/2 c Milk
• 1/2 c (2 oz) shredded Swiss cheese
• 1 cn (6 1/2 oz) tuna, drained and flaked
• 2 c Cooked corkscrew or other Macaroni (1 Cup uncooked)
• 2 Hard boiled eggs, chopped
• 1/2 c Crumbled potato chips

Place peas in small microwave-safe bowl. Cover with vented plastic wrap; Microwave on HIGH 1-2 minutes or until tender. Drain and set aside.

In 1 1/2 quart microwave-safe casserole, stir soup and milk until smooth. Stir in cheese. Fold tuna, macaroni, eggs and peas into soup mixture. Cover with lid; microwave on HIGH 5-7 minutes or until hot and bubbling, stirring once during cooking. Let stand, covered, 5 minutes.

Sprinkle potato chips over casserole.

NOTE: Cream of Chicken or Cream of Mushroom can be substituted for the Cream of Celery Soup

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Not always. 

Gonzalez's workplace looks like any number of packing sheds in California's fruit and vegetable industry, where the state that grows half the country's produce has for decades relied on a low-paid immigrant workforce to tend and harvest its crops. But this is no ordinary plant--Gonzalez's employer is a leader in the organic food business, an industry that prides itself on a gentler approach to the land and the people who work it. Her experience illustrates just how far the organic food movement has yet to go to fulfill its promise of a more socially just food system.

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So how healthy is your Starbucks coffee? A Starbucks venti Caffe Mocha has 490 calories or the same as a McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese

A 24-ounce Java Chip Frappuccino with whipped cream has 650 calories, not to mention almost an entire day’s allowance of saturated fat.

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Cookbook 411 has some wonderful bacon and egg tarts.

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