Loaded Potato Wedges with French Onion Dip

Does it look so YUMMY? I betcha :D

My eldest daughter was asking me what I would make for dinner? I told her that I would make the potato wedges with crumbled bacons, sliced olives and cheese. She was jumping high and down and said "YES, I miss that eating that!".

Smart lil lady, my own favorite food critic!

Grab like 4 to 6 potatoes, any choice of yours- cut into the wedges.

Put those potato wedges on the baking sheet and sprinkle some of salt. Bake it at 350 degree until the wedges becomes soft by insert the fork into it.

Sprinkle some cheddar cheese on the potato wedges then bake it until melt. Take it out from the oven and cool it off a little bit.

-crumbled bacons, any of your choice (you can cook those bacons while potato wedges are in the oven baking)

-finely chopped green olives

-some of dills, finely chopped

Put those on aside then assemble yourself with those 3 things on your potato wedges.

French Onion dip:

1 medium sweet yellow onion, finely chopped

Pinch of salt

1 1/2 cup sour cream

3/4 cup mayo

some of chopped dill

couple dashes of garlic powder

couple of freshly squeezed lemon juice

Cook the onions with a little bit of oil until it becomes caramelized. Let the onions cool it off then mix with rest of the ingredients. Sprinkle with couple of crumbled bacons, olives, dill and freshly black ground pepper.

Enjoy it.

Quinoa Salad with Green Olives, Red Onions and Oranges with Orange Cumin Dressing

Do you ever think that green olives, red onions and oranges would be great combinations along with the orange cumin dressing?

To be honest with you, it does! It gives more flavors to mix up with those quinoa. I made it at the pool party and everyone loved it! A friend was asking who made this and discovered it was me. She was telling me that it was something different that she never had it before and really enjoyed the savory of the tastes.

It's a healthy vegan dish to dine~ If adding those feta cheese, then it would be a combination of dairy and vegan dish even thou :).

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup of quinoa, a choice of yours- red, black or white or mix it together as two or three

3 cups of water

Cook it as what you normally cook for the rice until it becomes transparent white curly

1/2 cups of finely chopped green olives

1/2 cups of endamames or golden raisins

1 medium red onions, finely sliced

2 oranges, peeled and finely chopped

handful of fresh cilantro, finely chopped

1/2 cups of feta cheese, if you want to add it or not

Orange Cumin Dressing:

1 cup of orange juice

1 zest of orange

1/2 cups of olive oil

1 teaspoon of cumin seeds, toasted and crushed

Mix it altogether. For the dressing, you may want to pour the oil slowly while whisking to make it look like a dressing.

You can put it in the refrigerator for couple hours before serving.

Enjoy it!