Shirley's Recipes

2 (8 ounce) containers "Original" Avocado Dip\\

or on a large platter, layer the refried beans, avacado dip, sour cream

2 (8 ounce) containers "Original" Avacado Dip\\

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!!!!![[~peter]] &mdash; [-17 February 2016, 20:37-]
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this is really tasty and I like to eat it
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!!!!![[~Ayong]] &mdash; [-01 December 2015, 16:16-]
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Here's the howto message I got from the pesorn who made the cookbook. There is info in there that I haven't figured out yet. This was a cookbook of recipes from volunteers in the Howard Dean campaign, hence the reference to the "Gov." The cookbook looked great, which may not be apparent from her message:The cookbook is in Adobe's Pagemaker, which I invested in a number of years ago when still on a ton of committees and always making brochures and booklets. I believe most printers can work with Word files as well, it just harder to work in when placing pictures. Check with your local guys for what they will accept, and what format pictures should be in - usually jpeg is ok. Another place to check for printing - colleges sometimes have print shops that are thrilled to get outside jobs.Back in the 'old days', lol, the old cut and paste system was great too. I suggest making a master xerox copy of each page for 2 reasons: you can white out any small shadow lines around a picture, and if the machine jams, your original master isn't ruined. Then either make the copies at Office Depot/Staples or take the master set to a local printer.I used a 70 lb. paper so the opposite page doesn't show through and bought the paper directly from a paper wholesaler because it saved a bit over having it supplied by the printer.. 24 lb. (aka 60 lb.) is more readily available and works pretty well also. The plastic combs aren't expensive, if your'e doing more than 50 it's probably worth getting the box of 100. One of our local Office Depot's has a binding machine out for the customers use, but not all do. Office Max now charges to let you use theirs. If OD/OM or the printer binds them for you they'll probably charge in the $1.25-$1.75 range per book. If it's under 50 pages/25 sheets then folding in half and stapling 2 times in the middle works well. The long staplers are ok once you get the landmark for placing the staples, but a saddle stapler works much better. I used to borrow the one our church had for bulletins and newsletters.Re: the question 'did I use a local printer' - LOL. Well, yes - and no ;-) I sure paid him a lot for time that turned out to be unproductive, but am printing all the insides and color dividers here at home... Becasue it was such a small number of books (under 1000) it was prohibitive to run full-color on the press, so the cover was done on a color copier. That machine was adding a lot of red to the pictures and darkening everything up. I spent untold hours/days/weeks making adjustments to pictures but am no expert at that and besides - then the Gov. would come out with a very orange or purple face, or almost no color at all..... some pictures just wouldn't work so then I had to find replacement... you can see it still isn't as good as it should be. Even the inside graphics needed adjustment, too light/too dark, sometimes not all of them would link (they're actually in a separate file from the pagemaker document), you name it the problem happened - mostly my 'fault' because this is the largest file I've ever done and the first time I used some of the Pagemaker features. The weirdest thing though was how I'd go back (sometimes a cuople months later) and the same things kept cropping up. Finally at the beginning of August we got the cover in pretty good shape - and then they recalibrated the machine. did you hear me scream? Then after having been able to open it, suddenly the inside file was so big the girl couldn't open it so I split it into 3 sections. But then the links went to the great graphics blackhole in the sky - *WT_* and she could only open it in another software package. Which changed the font, which messed up a bunch of pages. And it printed really dark. ::sigh:: That's when I started printing myself. But it's done and I like the finished product (although of course I see lots of little things to improve) ...and I'd do it again in a flash.
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!!!!![[~Gilberto]] &mdash; [-02 June 2015, 06:17-]
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Whitney,I really cenmomd your mom for going vegan so many good reasons for it both for self AND the animals. Is it challenging to stay on a vegan menu? I must try this one (just hope my toddler will be tempted; you know how picky toddlers can be!).
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