Posted in Holidays, tagged Cinco de Mayo recipes, Savvy Entertaining, Shanna Hatfield on May 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
With Cinco De Mayo coming up in a few days, I thought I’d share some links to some yummy Mexican recipes.
Enjoy!
Chicken Tortilla Stack from Taste and Tell
Seared Steak Fajitas from Martha Stewart
Tamales Verdes by My Humble Kitchen
Mexican Wedding Cakes from Cooking By Moonlight
Mexican Hot Chocolate with Puff Pastry by Today’s Nest
Happy Cinco de Mayo from She Who Needs to Make Some Churros
Posted in Entertaining at Home, Holidays, tagged american holidays, american traditions, May Day, Shanna Hatfield on May 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Happy May Day!
Captain Cavedweller and I were just discussing May Day and memories we have (him not so much as me, but I think the holiday tends to capture the interest of little girls much more than little boys).
May Day is a spring celebration that falls exactly half a year from November 1. It’s related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic Festival of Walpurgis Night. As Europe became Christianized, the pagan holidays lost their religious foundations and morphed into the popular secular celebration.The celebration in America is best known for its tradition of dancing the maypole dance and baskets of flowers left on doorsteps as a surprise gift.
I remember one year at school we had a maypole using one of the pieces of playground equipment. Someone climbed to the top and fastened crepe paper streamers and then some of the students got to weave the streamers in and out in the traditional dance. I thought it was awesome. CC remembered doing something similar at his school using the tetherball pole.I also remember making May baskets and leaving them on a neighbor’s doorstep. My mom was also the recipient of some of my early May Day basket efforts which no doubt involved dandelions shoved into a canning jar.Wherever or however you celebrate this welcoming of spring, I hope you have a beautiful day!She Who Should Make a May Basket or Two
Posted in Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, tagged Easter Recipes, Savvy Entertaining, Shanna Hatfield on March 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some of my favorite Easter recipes.
Enjoy!
She Who is Now Craving Jelly Beans
Posted in Cake, Desserts, Entertaining at Home, Holidays, Recipes, tagged cupcake recipes, Savvy Entertaining, Shanna Hatfield on March 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
If you want a fast and easy dessert to celebration St. Patrick’s Day, try cupcakes.
You can start out with store boughten cupcakes or make your own.
Start out with a cake mix.
Then add in green food coloring. As much as as little as you want. I remember my brother made a green cake once to surprise us. Because of the ugly shade of green it ended up being after it baked, no one wanted to eat it. Sorry, Kim!
You can do two things with the cupcakes: 1. frost and decorate them or 2. add some marshmallow creme before you frost and decorate them. Depending on how sweet and gooey you want to make them, you can go either way.
I spooned the creme into a ziploc bag and cut off the end to make handling it as mess free and easy as possible.
After I piped some creme on the cupcake, I added some sparkly green edible gel.
After nuking a can of frosting for about 15 seconds, I dipped the cupcakes right into the can. I’m a lazy slug that way. I can honestly say, though, I’ve never frosted cupcakes so fast in my whole life.
It was, like, totally wicked!
Oh, you know what I mean.
I found some sweet little green nonpareils at Wally-world, which were just the perfect thing to use to top my cupcakes.
Especially after I colored the frosting green and added sparkling green gel shamrocks.
Wishing you a fabulous and safe St. Patrick’s Day!
She Who Enjoys a Wee Bit ‘O The Irish
