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Summer Entertaining Essentials

Posted in Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, tagged , , , on May 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Here are some tips for Summer Essentials to make your warm weather gatherings simple and easy!

She Who Needs to Plan a Party

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Memorial Day Party Tips

Posted in Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, tagged , , , , on May 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Here we are heading into the Memorial Day weekend. How did that happen? Wasn’t it just Easter?

For those of you planning a barbecue or party this weekend, here are my top ten condiment rules.

If you are looking for other picnic, barbecue and summer party or entertaining tips, download a free copy of my Savvy Summer Entertaining guide.

You’ll find a bunch of fun ideas, useful tips and recipes!

Whatever you decide to do this weekend, be safe and have fun!

She Who Needs to Plan a Barbecue

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Easter Bunny Salad

Posted in Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, Quick and Easy, Recipes, Salads, tagged , , , , on April 6, 2012| 1 Comment »

When I was a young girl, my mom had a circa 1960-something Betty Crocker cook-book for kids that originally belonged to my sister. I glommed onto it once I decided I wanted to bake and create in the kitchen. This was one of the first things I made. Mom also made these pear bunnies for us sometimes and they never failed to make me smile.

Easy and simple, make pear bunnies for Easter and see if your kids aren’t begging for more.

Ingredients - leaf lettuce, a can of pear halves (or fresh pears, cut in half) cottage cheese, cranberries, sliced almonds and Red Hots. You are supposed to use raisins instead of cranberries, but since I hate raisins, my bunnies have bizarre red eyes.

 

Put leaf lettuce on a plate. You can use as many as you like.

 

Place pear half on lettuce, split side down.

 

Add a dollop of cottage cheese at the broad end of the pear for a tail.

 

Stick in sliced almonds for ears, cranberries for eyes and a Red Hot nose.

 

Enjoy!

 

She Who Wishes You all a Very Happy Easter!

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Easter Bunny Bread

Posted in Appetizers, bread, Easter, Entertaining at Home, Entertaining Ideas, Holidays, Recipes, tagged , , , on April 5, 2012| 1 Comment »

Here’s a fast and fun recipe you can make using bread dough from a tube. Youngsters, and the young at heart, will really enjoy these!

Ingredients - bread dough, an egg and salt. If you have refrigerated breadsticks in a tube they would be perfect. I used a tube of dough I had on hand. If you want to be miss Betty-homemaker, you could also use made-from-scratch bread dough. I was not feeling the Betty-ness.

 

If you are using a piece of bread dough, roll into a log (or take out of tube) and cut into slices about 1-1/2 inches thick.

 

Roll slices into about a 12-inch long piece.

 

Fold in half, this forms the bottom of the bunny.

 

Lap the ends over each other once...

 

Then twice to form the body and ears.

 

Reserve a few pieces of dough to make the tail. Just pinch off a little ball and place it in the space created by the twists.

 

Separate the egg white from the yolk. Lightly beat egg white and then brush onto bread before putting into oven. Bake the bread according at 350 degrees until lightly browned.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

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