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Cook and Tell – Black Magic Favors

23 Nov

I am sure many of you have gone to events where you left with a party favor at the end. Everyone tries to be creative and leave you with something cute, memorable, personal, useful, etc. But what happens most of the time is that either the favors are left behind at the event or are forgotten in the back of a drawer. What’s never forgotten however, is food. Wouldn’t you agree?

With this in mind, I decided to take a chance and leave my guests with something sweet to remember the event by. Thank you Confessions of a Tart for the great idea.

What is better than a chocolaty, moist cupcake topped with cream cheese frosting? It may be gone fast, but it’ll remain in your memory forever.

Black Magic cupcake

These delicious, perfectly sized little black magic cupcakes are extremely easy to make. I was surprised myself how easy it was. I got the recipe for the cupcakes from Milk & Honey Cafe, and the cream cheese frosting from All Recipes.

The individually packaged portions are even figure friendly ;) The cupcake boxescan be purchased on Amazon.com.

Individually packaged cupcakes

I would like to send a special thanks to Shrimpaholic for her support and help with this venture.

 

In the Kitchen with…Anna (a.k.a. Hot Chick with a Skillet #1)

28 Jul

No, I didn’t fall off the face of the earth. I did, on the other hand, finally get a chance to share another installment of “In the Kitchen with…” This time it’s a two parter, and it’s also known as “Hot Chicks with Skillets”. I got together with a couple of ladies and we (really they) cooked up two dishes in one day.

Today we’ll start with Anna’s quiche, and the second part will be crab cakes by the lead of the Hot Chicks with Skillets, Lyuba.

For the Quiche recipe you will need the following ingredients (the proportions will depend on the size of the quiche you will be preparing):
Red onion
Eggs
Mushrooms
Red Bell Peppers
Oil and butter (for cooking)
Shredded cheese (Anna used a blend of four cheeses)
Pillsbury crescent roll

mushrooms, eggs, red bell peppers, onions, pillsbury crescent roll, shredded cheese, oil, eggs, cream cheese

First thing is to cut up the onion, add butter and oil to a heated skillet, and add the cut up onion to the skillet

Saute the onions on the skillet, while the onions are sauteing, chop up the mushrooms and add the mushrooms to the skillet with the cut up onion. Continue sauteing the onion and mushrooms until both are softened.

While the mushrooms and onions are sauteing, add eggs and cream cheese to a mixing bowl and mix until well blended, add shredded cheese and mix until well combined.

Chop up the red bell pepper and add the pepper as well as the cooked mushrooms and onion mixture to the egg and cheese mixture. Mix all the ingredients until well combined

Unroll the Pillsbury crescent roll dough and line a baking dish (in our case it was a glass, oven-safe bowl
). Fill the baking dish with the quiche mixture and place in the oven. Bake the quiche at 375 degrees Fahrenheit, for approximately 45 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the quiche.

Finally, here is the hard working chef with her final creation!

The quiche was delish!

 

Sunday Breakfast Series – Smoked Salmon Breakfast

14 Mar

Over a relatively short period of time I accumulated what I would consider to be a large collection of recipes. Whether it be from cookbooks, cooking magazines, the internet or from family members, I now have a drawer full of recipes.

Since it’s only truly on Sundays that we could allow ourselves a lazy morning, A (the hubby) and I, thought it would be great to have a new breakfast dish every Sunday.

Last Sunday was the first day of our Sunday Breakfasts. We started with a very simple dish, small smoked salmon canapes.

Salmon-Breakfast

To add this to your Sunday morning table here is what you will need:

Smoked Salmon
Cream Cheese
Sliced bread
Dried Dill Weed
Red onions

Toast the bread and cut off the crust to create bread squares. Spread each bread square with cream cheese top with slices of smoked salmon and sprinkle with dried dill weed. Peel a red onion and cut in half. Cut one of the halves cross wise. Arrange on a plate and serve.

These canapes are a great option for a light Sunday breakfast.

Keep coming back because there are great breakfasts coming soon in the Sunday Breakfast Series!

P.S. I wanted to give a shout out to my great friend V of VandJ Photography, who gave me some great photo editing tips!!! Thanks V, you’re the best!

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