Since I have talked about Halloween and parties this week, I had to give you a beverage recipe for your party right? Adding a little wiggle to your party will make you everyone’s favorite host or hostess! As you can guess this recipe comes from my friends at Wiggly Bridge Distillery in York, Maine!
INGREDIENTS
1 ounce of ginger beer, plus 2 ounces
1.5 ounces Wiggly Bridge distillery barrel aged rum
1 egg white
TO RIM THE GLASS
Cinnamon
Brown sugar
FOR GARNISH
Dash of ground cloves
Cinnamon stick for garnish
DIRECTIONS
Add one ounce of the ginger beer and all of the other ingredients together in a shaker with ice (not using the other 2 ounces of ginger beer yet). Shake like crazy, blending ingredients well. Mix a small about of cinnamon (1/4 teaspoon) with about a Tablespoon of brown sugar, rim your chilled glass. Add the remaining 2 ounces of ginger beer in your glass and strain the shaker into the glass on top of the ginger beer. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and ground cloves.
Cheers!
More party food! Yay! Who doesn’t like meatballs? I am always looking for a new twist or new sauces for meatballs and this one was just right! You can make these meatballs on the larger side for dinner or smaller to feed a crowd as an appetizer! Did you know meatballs are really hard to take good pictures of? Regardless of the picture the taste is really good!
INGREDIENTS
2 pounds lean ground beef
1 cup quick cooking oats or breadcrumbs
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
4 garlic cloves, pressed
1 cup ketchup
2/3 cup honey
3 Tablespoons soy sauce
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix the ground beef, oats, eggs, milk and garlic seasonings together. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil sprayed with non-stick spray. Roll your meatballs and place on baking sheet until all the ground beef has been used. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until cooked through and no longer pink in the middle. While the meatballs are cooking you can make the sauce. Mix together pressed garlic, ketchup, honey and soy in a large saucepan and heat through. When the meatballs are done baking. toss in the sauce and serve warm.
Enjoy!
This recipe comes from www.nurselovesfarmer.com
This is a great recipe for any holiday! I made them obviously for Halloween, but you can change the candies for whatever holiday you are celebrating. These are super simple to make and because they are sweet you can cut them just a little smaller than normal. This makes a sheet pan full so it certainly will feed a lot of hungry friends and family!
INGREDIENTS
1 cup of packed brown sugar
1 cup of margarine (I used butter)
1 whole egg
2 cups of flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
6-8 ounces chocolate chips
Candies to top, I used M & M’s and candy corn
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together brown sugar and margarine or butter. Add egg and mix well. Add flour, salt and vanilla mixing well. The dough will be thick. Spread the dough onto a cookie sheet spreading it to a thickness of 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned. When slightly brown take then out of the oven add the chocolate chips evenly over the top and put back in the oven for one more minute. Remove from the oven and spread the chocolate I’ve the entire top of the cookie layer and sprinkle evenly with the candies. Place in the fridge to chill and let the chocolate cool completely. When cool remove from the fridge and cut into pieces.
Enjoy!
With Halloween just around the corner, I have a couple great recipes for your family. If you are having a Halloween party both of these recipes would fit perfectly. When our kids were young we always had big parties with family, friends and neighbors before the kids would go trick or treating. One of the things I always made sure of is having a pot or slow cooker filled with something warm. Living in NH the kids had been trick or treating in rain and snow and most always cold! This sloppy joe recipe serves 8, but can easily be doubled and kept warm in a slow cooker! We really liked this for a couple reasons. While is simmered on the stove top my house smelled really, really good. Secondly the flavor is a little bit sweet, nothing over powering, so this is very kid friendly. Trust me the adults will also enjoy this. Robby had two portions before it hit the table!
INGREDIENTS
2 pounds ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
1 1/4 cups ketchup
1/2 cup water
1 Tablespoon brown sugar
1 Tablespoon white vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground mustard
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/4 teaspoon allspice
8 sandwich buns, split
DIRECTIONS
In a large pot, cook beef and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink, drain excess fat. Stir in ketchup, water, brown sugar, vinegar, salt, mustard, chili powder and allspice. Bring to a boil and reduce heat to a simmer, keep uncovered. Simmer for 35-40 minutes. Spoon about a half a cup on to each of the buns and serve warm.
Enjoy!
As some of you know, my husband Jim has been a military pilot for almost 30 years. He is currently in the Army National Guard in NH flying Medevac helicopters. When Jim heard they were having a military food service grilling Iron Chef competition, he knew we should go and I’m so glad we did! It was a beautiful cool NH afternoon filled with lots of great smelling food!
This was a little different than the typical iron chef show that we all know and love. This was made up of individuals from all of the service branches and they were split up into mixed teams, ten teams with 6 – 7 people on each team. This means they are working with team members they didn’t know, crazy right? They not only had to cook but also had to make a team sign with a team name, picture and with all of the team member names on the sign. This was the first thirty minutes of the competition.
Once that was done, the real fun began. The teams all had a large table set up in between the work stations where they had lots of ingredients for them to share. They all had their own grilling station and table for them to work. None of the members knew what they would be cooking, but they could get a sneak peak at the ingredient/spice table they had to share! Each team had one hour to cook a meat, vegetable and starch for a entree meal, along with a dessert.
Just prior to the cooking start time they revealed the ingredients to cook and there were lots of great options for these unsung hero’s that feed our troops each day! They had chicken, steak, zucchini, potatoes, watermelon and pineapple to name just a few things!
It did not take long before the smell of some delicious looking food was in the air. Jim and I were able to speak with all of the chefs as they were cooking and see what they were making. I can say that these chefs have some great creative talent! And what was amazing to watch is these groups that don’t know each other, worked so well together. That speaks volumes about our military service men and women as they are all working for the same goal and to do it well no matter what the circumstance or stress level is.
There were a number of military judges. I don’t know how they did it with so many great smells, watching, and I have no doubt, tasting food! The judges had a number of things that went to the scoring of each team. Much more than the TV Iron Chef! I can say, watching this competition, they all won with their creativity, team work and great effort each team put out into this competition!
CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH TEAM AND MEMBERS
FOR A JOB WELL DONE!
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