Cheesecake Factory’s Avocado Egg Rolls Recipe

Have you ever been to Cheesecake Factory?

If so, have you ever tried Cheesecake Factory’s Avocado Egg rolls?

If not, I am tell you that you MUST! These beauties are to die for and can be eaten by the dozens.

My mom recently found a recipe for them and tried them out and we were all oooh-ing and awwww-ing over their DELICIOUS-NESS!!

She found the recipe HERE and made a few modifications. :)

Cheesecake Factory Avocado Egg Rolls
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Author: Kristy {Lil’ Luna} via Food. com
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 5 mins
Total time: 15 mins
Serves: 3
A copy cat recipe for Cheesecake Factory’s Avocado Egg Rolls
Ingredients
  • DIPPING SAUCE:
  • 1-4 tsp. white vinegar
  • 1 tsp. balsamic vinegar
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1 pinch powdered saffron
  • 1/2 cup chopped cashews
  • 2/3 cup fresh cilantro
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 2 green onions
  • 1 TB granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp. black pepper
  • 1 tsp. ground cumin
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • EGG ROLLS
  • 1 large diced avocado
  • 2 TB sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, chopped
  • 1/2 tsp. chopped fresh cilantro
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 3 egg roll wraps
  • 1 egg, beaten
Instructions
  1. Stir together vinegars, honey and saffron in a microwave safe bowl, and heat for 1 minute. Puree first mixture in a blender adding cashews, 2/3 cup cilantro, garlic, onions, sugar, pepper and cumin. Pour mixture into a bowl and add oil. Stir and refrigerate. Stir together avocado, tomatoes, onion, 1/2 tsp. cilantro and salt. Add 1/3 filling onto the center of each egg roll wrapper. Position the wrapper so that a corner is pointing toward you; fold the bottom corner up 1/4 way over the filling. Brush remaining corners and edges of the wrapper with egg, roll up from side to side, fold top corner over all and press to seal. Repeat for the remaining wrappers. Deep-fry egg rolls in 375 degree oil for 3-4 minutes or until wrappers are golden brown.
  2. Serve with dipping sauce.

WOW! So good. Am drooling right now…

ENJOY!

XO - Kristyn

Quote Gallery Wall

I LOVE Gallery Walls.

A few months back I decided to make a Quote Gallery Wall.

I tried to narrow down some of my favorite quotes and sayings and came up with these ones.


My inspiration came from Pinterest. I’ve tried tracking down the original source a gazillion times with no luck. :(

{If you know the original source, please let me know so I can link to it here}

The gallery was so easy and fun to make.

If you’d like to make one too, here is what you’ll need:

SUPPLIES:

-Wood – 1 ft. x 4ft. pieces sold at Lowe’s for $6

-White Spray Paint (I use Rustoleum)

-Black Spray Paint

-Vinyl

-Spray Polyurethane

-Sand Paper

-Hooks

DIRECTIONS:

1. Begin by designing, cutting and weeding the vinyl for your quotes to fit the size of boards you made.

2. Spray Paint Boards White (or whatever color you want the words to be). Let dry.

3. Add vinyl to the boards.

4. Spray Black Paint (or whatever color you want the board to be). Let dry.

5. Peel away vinyl. The vinyl letters should have worked great as stencils. I use Rustoleum Spray Enamel for the paint colors because I feel like they work really well in covering.

6. Sand to distress and spray with spray Polyurethane and let dry.

7. Add hooks and hang.

I’m hoping to be able to add more to my wall as I find more quotes I love. More than anything I love that I can see all these great quotes and sayings each day that will inspire and remind me about all the important things. :)

PS – Painted the walls a butter-y yellow, so had to redo my Vinyl Gallery Wall.

If you want to see the directions for that go HERE. :)

ENJOY!

XO - Kristyn

Sonoran Living Segment – Last Minute Valentines

Ask and you shall receive…

Several friends, family and readers have asked to see my Segment on Sonoran Living that was this past Monday.

Let me say – it was a TON of fun! I was a bit nervous, but they are so fun and relaxed on set and that definitely helped! I was so excited to be sharing a ton of last-minute DIY Valentines and had no idea we’d be talking about Pinterest at all, but I didn’t mind considering Pinterest has really helped my traffic! It’s a great way to find awesome stuff but also to get your stuff out on the web!

Any who – back to the segment… SO, Lo got the morning off so he could come with me and my mom was kind enough to come watch the kids. We took off pretty early because I wanted to make sure I got there with plenty of time. I was one of the first ones there. I got my table set up and just waited for the time the show went live. I was EXTREMELY excited to find out that Chris Powell from Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition was on the show that day. He came into the Green Room with his wife and baby and I just had to act cool and not freak out like I wanted to inside. The hubby and I watched the whole first season of EMWLE so we love Chris and love how inspirational he is by helping so many people lose weight. We had a nice chat with him and his wife, and it made us like him even more. He also has an adorable son named Cash that I was able to hold and play with for awhile. He is so stinkin’ cute, and he made me miss my Evie even more that morning. It was fun sitting in the Green Room watching everyone come on and was even more fun when they called me over and had me put on my mic. I went onto stage and talked to Stephanie for a bit and before I knew it we were live! And then before I knew it, it was all over! I felt like I didn’t say any of the things I had practiced or wanted to mention. Oh well!! I had a good chat with Stephanie afterwards and was so happy that she allowed me to be on the show. In case you missed any of the Valentines I posted here on the blog, you can find a round-up of them HERE. I know V-Day is over, but you can always bookmark and pin them for next year. :)

Without further adieu, here is my first TV appearance.

{And yes, unfortunately, I’m just this nerdy in person!}

 

And here is some pics from the set, including one with Chris Powell. :)

{Dang – I’m white!!!} :)

ENJOY!

XO - Kristyn

Lil’ Luna Link Party #64

Happy Valentine’s, my friends!!!

I hope you all have HOT DATES planned for tonight.  ;)

LAST WEEK’S MOST VIEWED LINK WAS:

How to Thrift Store Shop from A Diamond in the Stuff 

OTHER TOP HITS AND FAVS:

TOP: Have a Ball Valentines from Tattered & Inked - Freebie Valentine Hershey Kiss Labels from Shindig Parties - Be My Valentines Printables from While He Was Napping

BOTTOM: Tic Tac Toe Valentines from Creations by Kara - Valentine’s Candy Sundaes from Cute as a Fox – Baby Boy Diaper Cake from Daylights

TOP: Photography Tips fro Sweet C’s Designs - Conversation Heart Paper Plate Baskets from Shaken Together - Custom ABC Board Book BOTTOM: from One Dog Woof

BOTTOM: Slow Cooker Chicken Cordon Bleu from Chef-in-Training - St. Patrick’s Subway Art from Every Creative Endeavor - Brownies Bites from A Pumpkin and a Princess

Thank you to all those who linked up!

You guys ROCK!

Here’s to an even BIGGER and BETTER party!

RULES:
1. Link to the specific post for something YOU have created – craft, recipe, idea (and not to your main blog page).
2. No ads for shops, giveaways, etc. please :)
3. Grab the Linkin’ with Lil’ Luna Button to add to your blog {which is under construction}

4. Be sure to spread the love and visit other posts and leave them a comment!

Can’t wait to see what everyone links up!


Wood Blocks Craft

Hello, everyone!  

I’m Ginger from

Ginger Snap Crafts,

and, let me tell YOU, I am so 

excited to be at Lil’ Luna today.  

Kristyn is an amazingly talented lady,

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her blog, 

& I am truly honored to be here!  Yay!  

Over on my blog, I LOVE sharing cute, simple & easy crafts.  

When you see one of my projects, I want you to say, 

“Yes! I can do that (& I can do it even better!)” ;)  

I hope to share fun ideas that inspire YOU to create along with me. 

 

Today I’d love to show you how to make 

these super fun & versatile

blocks {that say a lot}.

From these 7 blocks with 4 letters on each one

you can make 15+ seasonal words!!

(I originally got the idea to make these from here.)

 

You’ll need the following supplies:

a 4×4 cut into 7 square blocks

(You can buy 4×4′s at

Home Depot or Lowes.)

paint & paint brushes

sand paper

*vinyl lettering

*For my vinyl lettering I used a few of my favorite fonts.

I wanted my blocks to be mismatched & kind of fun. :)

FYI: I used a different font on each block.

 

Fonts I used:

cafe rojo, hula skirt, ck chemistry, elise,

fontmoochers, high tower text, impervious

(All these fonts are free, 

just search for them online 

& they should be really easy to find.)

 

I slightly sanded my blocks, 

and then I painted them.  

FYI: I also painted each block a different color.

Thought they’d look cute like that. :)

Then I let the paint dry, 

and then I applied the vinyl lettering.

For more detailed vinyl lettering instructions you can go here.

BLOCK 1- H, Y, E, D
BLOCK 2- A, C, R, S
BLOCK 3- R, P, E, T
BLOCK 4- V, N, L, O
BLOCK 5- E, O, M, D 
BLOCK 6- S, M, K, I
BLOCK 7- T, F, B, W 

 

That’s it!  Super cute & easy! :)

Here are some of the words you can spell:

Family

Blessed

Snow

Home

Harvest

Spooky

Winter

Mother

Dream

Easter 

Freedom 

Welcome

Friends

Faith

Hope

Monster

Can you think of any others??? :)

Pop over to my blog today, 

& I’ll be sharing the tutorial on how to 

make this easy {established block} 

to go along with my new seasonal blocks.  

They look really cute together! :)

Thank you so much for having me over, Kristyn!

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Such a great idea!! Love all the words you can come up with.

Be sure to go on over to Ginger Snap Crafts to see all the lovely projects Ginger has made.

And for more information about Ginger, Please go HERE.