Ray parrella's pasta salad

Yield: 6 Servings MMM

Ingredients:

8 oz Creamy Italian dressing
1 tb Lemon juice
4 tb ;Water
1/2 ts Oregano flakes
1/2 ts Basil flakes MMMMM---------------------------SALAD--------------------------------
8 oz Small pasta medium shells -- or fusilli
2 c Chopped fresh vegetables*
1 c Tuna

Instructions:

chicken or seafood -- cooked or canned Lettuce for salad plates *Vegetables can include all or some of the following: broccoli or cauliflower florets fresh tomatoes carrots sweet pepper green onion zucchini or summer squash. To make the dressing put all ingredients in a large decanter mixing well. Refrigerate. To make the salad cook pasta according to package directions. Drain rinse coat with a little dressing and toss. This will keep pasta from sticking and preserve it for several days. Store in covered container in refrigerator. Before serving heat pasta for 30 seconds in microwave then toss with vegetables and tuna chicken or seafood. Add a little more dressing. Serve on lettuce-lined plates. Yield: 6 to 8 servings. Colombo wrote: "This is a delightful salad that's excellent on a hot summer night." From Alice Colombo's 08/05/92 "Cook's Corner" column in "The (Louisville KY) Courier-Journal in response to Louisvillean Olivia

McCullough's request for the recipe. Typed for you by Cathy Harned.

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Title: RAY'S ATOMIC WINGS

Categories: Chicken, Appetizers

Yield: 1 Servings

3 lb To 4 lbs of chicken wings

- cut up, washed thoroughly

- wing tips removed

1 Lg bottle Durkee hot sauce

1 Cube butter

2 tb Smoke hickory flavor

1 tb Worcestershire sauce

1 1/4 ts Horseradish

1 1/4 ts Crushed garlic

1/4 ts Salt

1/4 ts Pepper, to taste

3 c Oil

After cutting up chicken and washing, make sure chicken is dried off

before deep frying. Also, season the parts with a little season salt

before deep frying. Fry chicken parts for about 10 minutes per batch

or golden brown. After you've cooked all of them, dry off all oil

from cooking. SAUCE: Mix the Durkee sauce with melted butter, salt &

pepper, Worcestershire, smoke and crushed garlic in a saucepan until

ingredients are mixed well; over low heat. Pull off stove and dip

each chicken wing part in sauce and lay them in a casserole pan. Any

left over sauce can be poured over wings. Bake in oven at 350 degrees

for 45 to 60 minutes. Cover with foil when baking.

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Title: RAY'S SUPER EASY BASIC CHEESECAKE

Categories: Cheese, Cheesecakes

Yield: 1 Servings

32 oz Ricotta cheese -- softened

24 oz Cream cheese -- softened

2/3 c Sugar

3 lg Eggs -- beaten

1 ts Vanilla

1/2 Box graham cracker crumbs

1/4 lb Butter, unsalted --

Softened

Crust: In a large bowl: put graham cracker crumbs. Knead in 1/2 stick

of butter. Press onto bottom of 9 prepared spring form pan. Chill for about 15 minutes before filling. Filling: Dust off the blender. Drop in 1 tub of ricotta (16 oz) 1 brick of cream chesse (12 oz) 1/2 tsp vanilla 1/3 cup sugar 2 eggs and 1/4 stick of butter. Blend until smooth. Pour GENTLY on top of crust. Repeat for seond half of ingredients. Bake @ 325 NO HO From: Real Thai: The Best Of Thailand's