Entertaining | Eat Drink and Blog
Jun 16 2009
This is a big hit a parties and is so easy it is embarrassing! I always make a double batch my kids have friends over.
1- 8 oz. package of cream cheese softened
1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup of your favorite salsa
Beat the ingredients together until well blended and not too chunky. Refigerate 30 mintues [...]
Ingredients:
· 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
· 2 onions, chopped
· 6 cloves garlic, crushed
· 2 (4 ounce) cans diced jalapeno peppers
· 2 (4 ounce) cans chopped green chile peppers
· 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon ground cumin
· 2 teaspoons dried oregano
· 2 teaspoons ground cayenne pepper
· 4 (14.5 ounce) cans [...]
I love to make this salsa in the summer .. It’s SO easy and yummy! Your friends will think you slaved forever making this delightful salsa!
4-5 large, red ripe tomatoes, peeled and seeded
1 garlic clove peeled and crushed
1 -3 whole whole jalapeños, deveined and seeded (Optional to taste)
3 green onions, (use only white part)
1 sweet [...]
I was inspired to do these by a recipe I saw on Joy the Baker
but I adapted it heavily. First I used a different recipe for the brownies entirely. It can be found the back of the King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour package; I found a review of it here:Cooking on the Side
then I [...]
It’s grillin’ season. Or so I’ve heard on TV. Around here we grill all year long (unless our grill is covered in a foot of snow as it was for most of December). But there are certain dishes that just belong to summer, aren’t there? In my mind, the classic BBQ side dishes, whether served [...]
I love mustard and I LOVE Mustard Chicken. One of my best friends hates mustard, but LOVES Mustard Chicken. So before you scoff your nose at the recipe, you really need to give it a try. Believe me when I say it’s SCRUMPTIOUS!!
I’m not sure where this recipe originated, but it was passed down to [...]
A couple of weeks ago I made Soft Pretzels (recently posted on both Smitten Kitchen, and The Pioneer Woman) but found that the dough tended to want to shrink back in on itself, making the actual shaping of the Pretzels to be a big giant pain in the arse, so I decided to make pretzel [...]
Type: White (with some small CO2 bubbles!) Variety: local (Portugeuse) grape varieties Loureiro, Arinto, Trajadura, Avesso and Azal Location: Minho, Portugal Drink date: NOW! Here’s what Wikipedia tells you about this variety of wine: The name literally means “Green Wine”, referring to its youthful freshness rather than its color. The Vinhos Verdes are light, fresh, and intended for drinking within [...]
Type: Red Wine Variety: Sangiovese Region: Abruzzi, Italy Drink date: NOW It should come as no surprise, given that I named this one of my favorite cheap table reds yesterday, that this is a $5 wine I think you should go out and try yourself. While I can’t give you an official description of what a “table red” is, [...]
