St. Patrick’s Day is such a fun holiday. There are no gift-giving pressures, no awkward parties, no lingering feelings of guilt on your pocketbook…the list goes on. All that is required of this holiday is that you WEAR GREEN. Oh, and HAVE FUN! I should also probably throw in there GET DRUNK. But hey, perhaps [...]
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FUN St. Patty’s Day Ideas
Posted in Entertaining, Holidays, tagged appetizers, Beer Fest, Entertaining, party, Pub Crawl, St. Patrick's Day on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cyber Tuesday! – 1/26/2010 – MORE Super Bowl Ideas!
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Dips & Salsa, Entertaining, Game Day!, tagged appetizers, Entertaining, football, Game Day!, nfl, super bowl on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well, being the football freaks that we are, we decided to post more ideas for your Super Bowl (or Pro-Bowl) party! You’d think the Super Bowl was the biggest holiday/celebration of the year by the way we are pumping it up!! Well people, it is pretty darn close! The excitement of the Super Bowl is [...]
Cyber Tuesday! – 1/19/2010 – Getting ready for the SUPERBOWL
Posted in Cyber Tuesdays!, Entertaining, Game Day!, tagged appetizers, Cyber Tuesday, dips, Drinks, Entertaining, football, Game Day!, Snacks, super bowl on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m back! I apologize for my brief blogging absence…we were trying to recover from a long weekend out of town and from the Chargers losing to the Jets. We were at the game which made it especially devastating! However, we are moving on and looking ahead to a great season next year. That said we [...]
Apple & Caramelized Onion Flatbread
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, tagged appetizers, apples, balsamic vinegar, balsamic vinegar reduction, cocktail party, New Year's appetizers, onions, pizza dough, shallots on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, so maybe this isn’t flatbread…we are always looking for shortcuts and for this recipe idea we decided to use store-bought pizza dough instead of making the flatbread ourselves. With a little T.L.C. the store bought stuff is actually pretty darn good!! We brought this appetizer to my family’s Christmas Eve celebration (in which we [...]
Bacon-Wrapped Lil’ Smokies
Posted in 25 Days of Holiday Ideas!, Appetizers & Snacks, tagged 25 Days of Holiday Ideas!, appetizers, bacon, brown sugar, lil'smokies, recipe request on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you like bacon as much as we do, you will absolutely love this appetizer! The bacon with the brown sugar caramelized on the outside is irresistible. I made them as an appetizer a few years back for my family’s big Christmas day open-house. They are really easy to make a lot of and everyone [...]
Holiday Cyber Tuesday #1: APPETIZERS
Posted in 25 Days of Holiday Ideas!, Appetizers & Snacks, Cyber Tuesdays!, tagged 25 Days of Holiday Ideas!, appetizers, Cyber Tuesday, Holiday appetizers, holiday party on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am loving surfing the net for cool Holiday ideas to share…SO fun!!! Looks like we have four Cyber Tuesdays during New in the Kitchen’s “25 Days of Holiday Ideas” special. So…we’ll break them down like we did for our “Thanksgiving Countdown”. This week I’m going to focus on Holiday Appetizers. Fun, fun!! Be sure [...]
Basil Marinated Mozzarella Balls
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, tagged appetizers, balsamic vinegar, basil, marinated, mozzarella, olive oil, toothpick snacks on November 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
These are fantastic when served with toothpicks as an appetizer. They are also great sliced in half and put in a green salad with Balsamic Vinegar dressing! Either way they taste great and are super easy to make. Love them. Ingredients: 1 container of small plain buffalo mozzarella balls in water, drained 1 cup of [...]
A GREAT Halloween Food Article
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Holidays, Sweet Treats, tagged appetizers, cupcakes, foodie links, fun food, Halloween, halloween party on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here is a really great article with eight fun recipe ideas for Halloween! My coworker gave it to me today, knowing that I would enjoy reading it. I’m off of work tomorrow so I’m going to play around with one of the cupcake recipes! I’ll let you know how it goes… Here are the recipes: [...]
Halloween Party Appetizer: Cheese Pumpkins
Posted in Appetizers & Snacks, Holidays, tagged appetizers, cheese pumpkins, Halloween, Thanksgiving on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As promised here is our recipe for Cheese Pumpkins. Halloween or Thanksgiving guests will love these! Although putting the pumpkin details on each marble-sized cheese ball can be a little time intensive, I promise it will be worth the effort both when your guests see them and when you eat them! These were a HIT [...]