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Snacks & Appetizers

jalapeño poppers

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I went to the other end of our house while these were baking and when I came back, whoa, was the air filled with jalapeño scent! Sounds a little overpowering, but if you like this kind of food, it was mouth-watering. Haha, think Scentsy has “Jalapeño” yet? :)

I left the stems on just so the filling didn’t go over all over the baking sheet, but a few of them spilled over a little anyway. It wasn’t bad. Next time, I might not fill them quite so over-full and also place them closer together to prop each other up.

Don’t skip the bread crumbs – it helps hold it all together and makes the best little crunch on top! I didn’t have any so I crushed up some mini toasts and that worked marvelously.

We decided this was a keeper recipe! Print it .

Oh, and p.s. we discovered they’re totally fine reheated in the microwave, but it was best when we would refrigerate the filling & peppers and then make fresh every time. Enjoy!

Snacks & Appetizers

tea sandwiches

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Sept 25, 2010.

In addition to the Banana Brunch Punch we offered at my mom’s brunch party, this was one of the dishes served.

Honestly, I had been a non-fan of croissants for many years due to an experience that isn’t nice table talk. :) However, I gave this a try – and so did many other people! We all agreed on its tastiness. Several asked me to share the recipe on my blog which is how it ended up showing up on the DK in the first place.

Print the recipe  for your next brunch or finger food gathering!

Sides: Veggies

cornbread

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Feb 25, 2011.

This cornbread was very moist. Surprisingly so!

It was the first recipe I cooked from the A Taste of Oregon cookbook we received for our wedding and, in Mike’s words, “didn’t taste like any cornbread he’d ever had before.”

It’s sweeter than most but the refreshing part of it was that it didn’t taste like you were putting a spoonful of dry bread crumbs into your mouth.

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P.S. Does it also work at 9800 feet elevation? Yes, it does!

Main Dishes

tomato pie

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Aug 22, 2011.

I think all beginner gardeners are required to start with tomatoes. They are so easy to grow and give a little boost to the confidence of the newbie. :)

In our case, we had tomatoes coming out our ears the first year I planted a garden! So what did I do?

Make pie, of course!

It was fun, easy, and also pretty. Gotta have pretty…
(One tip, though – use a crust cover.)

 

Click  to download the recipe. Happy Summer cooking!

Recipe from Taste of Home.

 

 

 

Snacks & Appetizers

whole wheat goldfish crackers

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Looking Back: Originally posted on Nov. 7, 2011

Now THESE bring back memories, my goodness! It’s already been 2.5 years since my friend, Courtney, and I made these and shared them on the blog. It was fun to go back and remember… but it also made me miss my little fishy cracker cutter! Hope it’s safely in storage somewhere in the States…

From the original post:

Back in March, my friend Courtney and I were chatting about one of our favorite food bloggers and, in particular, about one of her posts – .  We had identical initial reactions…”Who in the world has tiny fish cookie cutters?!” 

A few weeks later I had to buy some ingredients online for a “hired cake pop job” and decided to get them from the same website as SK’s goldfish cookie cutter!  I ordered my sprinkles and my fishie and couldn’t wait to show Courtney what I had done. haha.

Well, us being us, our schedules clashed until the very end of the summer.  Alas, we were able to meet and make cute little fishies!  She bought another cutter of a slightly different shape so we had two breeds.

Seriously, you have to make these.  They really taste like goldfish crackers!

Here is the : 
Better print it now just in case…