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The one thing I always make (makes a good breakfast or snack food)- it's really simple and everytime I make it everyone oohs and aaahs and say they must have the recipe:
JUST THREE INGREDIENTS!!!!!
1 block of Philidelphia Cream Cheese (use the fat free if you like- same result).
1 Jimmy Dean Sausage (if you like hot food get the hot- if you like mild get the mild).
1 can of Grands Biscuits. (for the Brits out there- Biscuit means something completely different in America- it's a bready product so stop puking)
Step 1: Cook the sausage.
Step 2: Drain fat.
Step 3: Mix sausage and Cream Cheese.
Step 4: Roll out the individual biscuits thinly- not too thin so that it breaks apart- but otherwise thinner the better.
Step 5: Put sausage/cheese mix in flattened biscuit (about tablespoon works- depends how thin you made them)- fold over and crimp the edges together.
Step 6: Bake at temperature on biscuit label until golden brown.
Step 7: Bask in the glory as your friends marvel at how yummy it tastes...
They're best fresh cooked- although you can save the cheese/sausage mix in the fridge for a while. I was a little skeptical at first about mixing sausage and cream-cheese but it is amazingly good and addictive.
If you want a little less sweetness- add less cheese.
After Xmas once- I experimented putting a little cranberry sauce in as well to give it tangyness- this somehow improved it even more. My wife prefers strawberry jam added because she doesn't like cranberries- to me this is just too sweet- you're better with something tart.
Another simple but effective idea.
Choclate bar cookies.
1) Get your favourite sugar cookie or peanut-butter cookie recipe.
2) Get your favourite candy bar "fun size" bag.
3) Make cookie dough- place balls of cookie dough around an (unwrapped) candy bar.
4) Bake as you would you're favourite cookie.
Personally, I think Snickers bars make a good cookie in the middle- Mars works too. I've tried dove chocolates but they end up a little hard. Andes Mints also work- try using a chocolate cookie dough for these.
Or... you can just serve everyone snail jello!
JUST THREE INGREDIENTS!!!!!
1 block of Philidelphia Cream Cheese (use the fat free if you like- same result).
1 Jimmy Dean Sausage (if you like hot food get the hot- if you like mild get the mild).
1 can of Grands Biscuits. (for the Brits out there- Biscuit means something completely different in America- it's a bready product so stop puking)
Step 1: Cook the sausage.
Step 2: Drain fat.
Step 3: Mix sausage and Cream Cheese.
Step 4: Roll out the individual biscuits thinly- not too thin so that it breaks apart- but otherwise thinner the better.
Step 5: Put sausage/cheese mix in flattened biscuit (about tablespoon works- depends how thin you made them)- fold over and crimp the edges together.
Step 6: Bake at temperature on biscuit label until golden brown.
Step 7: Bask in the glory as your friends marvel at how yummy it tastes...
They're best fresh cooked- although you can save the cheese/sausage mix in the fridge for a while. I was a little skeptical at first about mixing sausage and cream-cheese but it is amazingly good and addictive.
If you want a little less sweetness- add less cheese.
After Xmas once- I experimented putting a little cranberry sauce in as well to give it tangyness- this somehow improved it even more. My wife prefers strawberry jam added because she doesn't like cranberries- to me this is just too sweet- you're better with something tart.
Another simple but effective idea.
Choclate bar cookies.
1) Get your favourite sugar cookie or peanut-butter cookie recipe.
2) Get your favourite candy bar "fun size" bag.
3) Make cookie dough- place balls of cookie dough around an (unwrapped) candy bar.
4) Bake as you would you're favourite cookie.
Personally, I think Snickers bars make a good cookie in the middle- Mars works too. I've tried dove chocolates but they end up a little hard. Andes Mints also work- try using a chocolate cookie dough for these.
Or... you can just serve everyone snail jello!
And talking about cookies... Another fun thing to do... find two recipes of cookies that have similar baking requirements (temp/time).
Mix together the two batches.
Then on one tray take a small ball of each and squish them together... BUT NOT TOO MUCH- you don't want them to mix. If the cookies mixes are two different colours you end up with cookies that are half one colour half another. If the mixes start out the same- add food colouring to one.
You can also make one cookie flavour- divide the batch in two and add different food colourings to each batch... same result.
Mix together the two batches.
Then on one tray take a small ball of each and squish them together... BUT NOT TOO MUCH- you don't want them to mix. If the cookies mixes are two different colours you end up with cookies that are half one colour half another. If the mixes start out the same- add food colouring to one.
You can also make one cookie flavour- divide the batch in two and add different food colourings to each batch... same result.
Thanks for the ideas but I have decided on a corn salad dish, chicken salad (Zig got me going on this!) open face on small slices of crusty bread, my sister is bringing a broccoli salad and one other is bringing a fruit salad. Oh and of course, the wine! :drool: Should be a nice girls night in.
Good choice...nice and light. You don't want to be all full and bloated for the tickle-fight.
Ok, I am doing this from memory so the amounts are not certain but it is really hard to mess this up as you just adjust to your preference....
1 bag frozen corn, thawed
1/2 cup chopped purple onion
1 diced tomato (can use halved cherry or grape tomatoes)
1 can kidney beans - rinsed and drained (can omit if you dont like them)
mix with enough Italian dressing to moisten ingredients
S&P if desired
This time I might include some fresh chopped Basil to add flavor and color...
This is excellent served cold. I got it years ago from a diet/vegetarian cookbook. It is always a hit! :drool:
healthy? what is that?!
you can always have "Carrot Fries" much like french fries but made from carrots.
slice carrots, little bit of salt and oil, bake...my sister claims they are good.
you can always have "Carrot Fries" much like french fries but made from carrots.
slice carrots, little bit of salt and oil, bake...my sister claims they are good.
