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July 5, 2013

Corned Beef & Cabbage Paninis

For the Saint Patrick's Day Brunch, we decided to have a Soup & Sandwich option.  We came up with the corned beef & cabbage paninis as a way to put a new twist on a traditional St. Paddy's Day meal.


Ingredients:
Bread- we used italian loaf, sliced pretty thin
Corned Beef- thin sliced from deli
Cooked Cabbage- Cook in water with a little beer, mustard seed, salt & pepper.  Cut into bite size pieces (otherwise sandwich will pull apart when trying to bite through it!)
Dill Mustard Chapagne Sauce (I found at TJ Maxx)
Gouda Cheese
Butter

Directions:
-Butter outsides of bread
-Spread Dill Mustard Sauce on insides of bread
-Stack Corned Beef, Cooked Cabbage & Gouda Cheese on bread

Since we were doing an "Open House" style buffet, we made the sandwiches ahead of time and used toothpicks to hold them together on the platter.  The panini maker was on the side of the buffet, so guests could take their sandwich and heat it themselves (so it was nice & hot when they were ready to eat it).

These went really well with the Potato Cheese Soup!

Potato Cheese Soup Recipe

Long overdue... I'm finally getting around to posting recipes from the Saint Patty's Day brunch.

We kind of winged it (which is the reason I don't have amounts of each listed below).
I wish I took up close photos of the food... this is the best I've got!

Ingredients:
Potatoes- cooked in salted water
Baby Carrots- cooked in salted water
Beer- 1 bottle
Cream
Beef Broth
Velveeta Cheese
Green Onion
Bacon
Salt
Pepper
Minced Onion

Blend in blender- potatoes & carrots with cream, beer & Broth
Added blended ingredients to crock pot with:
Velveeta cheese
Green Onion - chopped
Bacon - chopped
Celery Seed
Salt
Pepper
Minced Onion

Cooked for a three hours in crock pot

February 11, 2013

Curious George Food & Goodies



FOOD
We had some snacks out when the guests arrived.
When possible, we created more little signs to go with the theme...

-Donuts (sign: Curious George & the Donut Delivery)
-Veggie Platter (sign: Curious George and the Perfect Carrot)
-Banana Chips
-Trail Mix
-Popcorn

For lunch, we served Pizza.







Our birthday boy likes ice cream cake, so we got the fun watermelon & orange rolls from Friendly's, as well as a chocolate ice cream cake.




DRINKS

For the kiddos:  Banana Punch
Recipe:  Use a blender to mix the following ingredients, then split into smaller containers & freeze:
-2 mashed bananas
-1 cans (12 oz) Orange Juice Concentrate
-1/2 can (12 oz) Lemonade Concentrate
-1/2 can (46 oz) of Pineapple Juice
- 1.5 cups water

Before the party starts, place the frozen portions in a punch bowl.  Pour unrefridgerated 7-Up over it.


For the adults:
-Monkey Bay wine
-Golden Monkey Beer
-Coffee
-Soda








GOODY BAGS

After printing out a small copies of the "Curious George and the Birthday Surprise" book cover, I used a glue stick to attach the image to plain yellow bags.





We also had some Godparents and adult family members attending (without kids).  
For those guests, we made a mason jar of Banana Bread ingredients with recipe attached, & sent them home with a bunch of bananas with balloons tied to them.



PLAYLIST
Songs to consider for background music... 
some of them are a stretch, but the subtlety is sometimes half the fun!
Curious George Main Title Theme (Dr. John)
Hey, Hey We're the Monkees (Pop Feast)
Upside Down (Jack Johnson)
The Happy Little Monkey's song (Ooh and Aah)
The First Mate is a Monkey (Randy Crenshaw)
Monkey Wrench (Foo Fighters)
Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
Baby Monkey (Parry Gripp)
Funky Monkey (Siedah Garrett)
I Wanna Be Like You (Phil Harris)
Monkey Song (Big Bopper)
The Monkey Song (Rhythm 'n Kids)
Curious George (JoBoxers)
Follow that Monkey (Jackie Greene)
Life Less Ordinary (Carbon Leaf)
Coconut (Harry Nilsson)
Bouncing Around the Room (Phish)
Proudest Monkey (Dave Matthews)
Baby Monkey (Parry Gripp)


OTHER IDEAS 

October 4, 2012

Circus Party- Food & Goodies




FOOD & GOODIES

-Animal Crackers (in the circus train boxes)

-Popcorn in circus themed bags, and also in an old fashioned looking popper.

-Circus Peanuts


-Boxes of Cracker Jacks

-Hot dogs

-Pizza

-Cotton Candy

-Cupcakes with plastic animals or candy stars on top (pic & recipes below)









GOODY BAGS

-Striped bags to hold goodies

-Clown noses

-Circus themed tattoos

-Circus rubber duckies

-Lions used from the Leaping Lion game

-Box of Animal Crackers for little kids, Cracker Jacks for big kids



OTHER ITEMS 
Things I've found after-the-fact, that I would have liked to use!
(isn't that always the way?)
-Big Top Baking Cups
-Finger Puppet set
-Plush circus hats
-Paper circus hats
-Felt clown hats
-Inflatable seating here and here
-Clown Puppets
-Circus Train Cupcake liners & toppers
-Big Top placemats
-Circus Magnets






CUPCAKE RECIPE
I made two kinds of cupcakes, with two types of icing.  
Both recipes were easy and came out great.




Devils Food Cupcakes
(makes approx. 20 cupcakes)
1 3/4 cups flour
2/3 unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick unsalted butter (room temp)
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs (room temp)
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups buttermilk

-Preheat oven to 350 and line muffin tin with cupcake liners
-Whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda & salt together in bowl
-In separate bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.  Add eggs one at a time, while continuing to beat.  Beat in vanilla.  With mixer on low, add the flour mixture alternating with the buttermilk- beginning & ending with the flour mixture. 
-Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling each approx. 2/3 full.
-Bake 17-19 min. using toothpick test to ensure center is cooked.  Let cool completely in muffin pan.

Magnolia's Vanilla Cupcakes
1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs (room temp)
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

-Preheat oven to 350 and line muffin tins with cupcake liners
-combine flours in small bowl
-In large bowl, cream the butter with an electric mixer on medium.
-Gradually add sugar and beat until fluffy (3 min)
-Add eggs on at a time, while continuing to beat.  Add the dry ingredients in three parts, alternating with the milk and vanilla.  
-Beat so ingredients are well incorporated, but do not overbeat.
-Spoon batter into cupcake liners, filling 3/4 full.
-Bake 20-25 min. or until toothpick test is clean.

Cream Cheese Icing
16 oz. cream cheese, softened & cut into small pieces
6 Tbsp unsalted butter, softened & cut into small pieces
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
5 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

-In large bowl, beat cream cheese & butter with electric mixer (medium speed) until smooth- about 3 min.
-Add vanilla and beat well.
-Gradually add sugar, 1 cup at a time, continuously beating.
-Add desired food coloring
-Cover & refrigerate for 2-3 hours (but no longer) to thicken before using.

Buttercream Icing
1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
3 cups confectioners' sugar
2 Tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
pinch of salt

-In large bown, cream butter with an electric mixer until soft & light (about 3 min)
-Add remaining ingredients & beat until smooth & fluffy
-Add desired food coloring
-Use immediately or cover & refrigerate until needed.




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