 I was making grilled cheese for dinner one night because I needed an easy dinner night. After making a couple standard cheddar cheese sandwiches, I had an idea. I had sweet onions and spinach and decided to take it up a notch. The resulting caramelized onion and spinach grilled cheese was delicious. So good I have found myself wanting more...in fact, I just had this for lunch. Ingredients:
butter sweet onions, sliced fresh spinach swiss cheese or your favorite cheese sourdough or another nice variety of bread 1. Saute some sliced onions with a little butter over medium heat. (A slice or two of onion for each sandwich.) Cook until the onion starts to turn golden brown and caramelize. Break the onion slices apart as they cook. Add a handful of fresh spinach. Continue to cook just until the spinach wilts. 2. Remove the onion and spinach from the skillet. Place a pat of butter in the center of the skillet. Add a slice of bread then place the onion spinach mixture on the bread. Add the cheese ( I use 2 slices) then top with the second piece of bread. Add a little butter on top of the sandwich so that when you flip it over, the other side will have a buttery crust too. 3. Cook on each side until golden brown.
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This has quickly become my favorite way to prepare asparagus. We have been enjoying lots of asparagus since it is coming into season and has been on sale lately. This is such a simple recipe that lends itself well to whatever vegetables and seasonings you like best. Ingredients: Asparagus Sweet Onions Portabello mushroom caps olive oil butter salt fresh ground pepper 1. Break off the thick ends of the asparagus and discard. Chop the remaining asparagus into 2" pieces. Slice the mushrooms and onions. 2. Drizzle some olive oil into your skillet. Add the vegetables, a few pats of butter, salt and pepper. If you have nice specialty salts this is a fun recipe to use them in. I have been using some nice Hawaiian salts from my in-laws. Just sprinkle in the flavor until you are happy. 
Saute at medium heat, stirring occasionally until vegetables are tender about 15-20 minutes.
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I reduced the cooking time to 12-15 minutes and baked them at 350 degrees F. This recipe makes really moist brownies so it works well for the smaller mini muffin size. I used my cookie dough scoop to put the batter in the mini muffin cups. It was easy and just the right amount of batter. The boys assisted with scooping batter into the muffin pan too (with careful supervision). 
While still warm, I pushed in the tops of the brownies with a spoon to make little nests.
Cool on a wire rack. Then after they cool place CADBURY MINI EGGS in each nest. This is a fun job for any little helpers you may have.
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Kind of a simple week of meals, but some good ones. It must be a busy week when you have pizza twice in one week. Sunday: Pizza, salad (with extended family) Monday: Spaghetti, salad (with extended family)  Tuesday: turkey, stuffing, roasted asparagus Wednesday: Wow Wednesday dinner at church  Thursday: Beef and Broccoli stir fry, white rice Friday: beef stroganoff over noodles, sugar snap peas
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