Category Archives: Cooking with Betty Zing & Friends

For Humans, Relishes & Dips, Snacks, Tofu & Vegetarian

Mobile Mexi Magic with Tortilla Chips

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Ingredients

  • ½ lb. sharp cheddar cheese (large shred)
  • ½ lb. Monterey Jack cheese (large shred)
  • 4 oz. can green chilies
  • black olives, sliced (to taste)
  • green olives, sliced (to taste)
  • 1 can red kidney beans (drained)
  • 1 can black beans (drained)
  • diced tomatoes, or Ro-tel, or dryish salsa
  • sliced green onions (including green part)
  • 1-3 tablespoons diced jalapeno (optional)

Directions

Mix all ingredients together. Refrigerate. Serve with tortilla chips.

—Jennifer Nelson

brown cat on top of black cat
Pendergast (top) & Corvos (bottom)
For Humans, Seafood, Snacks

Seafood Stuffed Avocados

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Ingredients

black cat
This is Corvos.
  • avocados
  • chopped crab or shrimp
  • mayonaise or Miracle Whip
  • hot pepper relish
  • black pepper
  • dill (fresh is good)
  • optional:

Directions

  1. Cut avocados in half and remove pits

    brown cat, belly up
    This is Pendergast.
  2. Mix seafood, mayo and hot pepper relish (to taste)
  3. Stuff avocado halves with the seafood mixture
  4. Sprinkle black pepper on top (to taste)
  5. Optional:  you can add a bit of curry or paprika, too

—Jennifer Nelson

Cooking with Betty Zing & Friends, Recipes for Non-food

Recipe for Disaster

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NOTE: This is not an edible item, for either pets or humans.  I made this up all by myself (hurray)!  This is a good thing to make on days when everything is going wrong.

green and black drawing of butterfly, with green digital text
This is my pet digital butterfly. Her name is Neobyte.

Ingredients

  • a paper lunch bag (any color)
  • some Elmer’s glue
  • some glitter

Directions

  1. Pour the glue into the paper bag, coat as much of the inside of the bag as is possible, but leave the upper 3″ uncoated!
  2. Dump glitter into the bag.
  3. Close the bag tightly with your fist, around that upper 3″ part.
  4. Shake the bag vigorously.
  5. Open the bag and set aside to dry, overnight.
  6. When you’re having a bad day, look inside the bag: ooo, pretty, pretty!

—Carol