The Krogstad sandwich 2 slices Franz Oregon Western Hazelnut bread Two tablespoons Litehouse Chunky (or Marie’s) Blue Cheese or Roquefort dressing 5 thin slices smoked turkey 1 or 2 slices Swiss cheese or Columbus salami 2 or three slices ripe tomato A couple of leaves of crisp head lettuce Using a toaster oven toast the bread just a little and spread the blue cheese dressing on the slices of bread, add the Swiss cheese and the smoked turkey towards the end of toasting just to warm. Remove from the oven and add the tomato and lettuce. (If the tomato is a little over ripe be sure and remove the seed section from it.) Cut the sandwich into two triangles and serve on a beautiful plate. Yummy good! As good as going out!

It is fine to substitute low fat blue cheese for the dressing, and use no additional cheese or salami, but the bread must be Franz Oregon Western Hazelnut bread or it isn’t a Krogstad. Western Hazelnut http://www.franzbakery.com/ Order Columbus Salami http://www.farawayfoods.com/columbus.htm Columbus Salami Company site http://www.columbussalame.com/

Everyone wants something warm for the winter so here is my contribution:

Chocolate milk

This is the best and most flavorful chocolate milk without sugar you can make in my humble opinion. Malted milk adds favor.

Chocolate milk with no added sugar
Ingredients:
Droste Cocoa (Dutch processed, imported from Holland, unsweeted), OR Herchey's European Style Dutch Processed Cocoa (less expensive than the Droste, and still very good)
Nestle Carnation Malted Milk (original)
Pure vanilla extract
NuNaturals White Stevia Powder (alternative natural sweetener)
Milk or soy milk (unsweetened)

In a large cup or solid glass combine --
2 teaspoons cocoa,
2 packages stevia powder,
2 tablespoons malted milk
a drop or two vanilla,
with just enough milk or soy milk
to make into a thin paste and mix. When blended add enough additional milk or soy to fill the cup, stirring until completely blended. Nuke until warm, remove from microwave, stir and return to microwave and nuke until hot.

I have found that Stevia powder does not generate the kind of headaches one may associate with artificially manufactured sweeteners, however do not overuse.

For more information on Stevia please view Chet Day's site http://chetday.com/stevia.html.

Bon Appetit!~