Sometimes, when the sun is shining, the sky is blue and the weather is that perfect degree between pleasantly warm and scorching…
You just have to grab your camera, go outside and capture everything you see!
She Who Loves Summer
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Summer Photos
Posted in Entertaining at Home, Flowers, Garden, Musings, tagged Savvy Entertaining, Shanna Hatfield, Summer garden, summer photos on August 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Tortilla Roll Ups
Posted in Entertaining at Home, tagged Savvy Entertaining, tortilla and ham, tortilla bites, Tortilla Roll-Ups, tortilla wraps on August 10, 2012| 4 Comments »
Tortilla Wrap Appetizers
I’ve seen a lot of blog traffic recently as people searched for Tortilla Roll Up recipes.
So to make things easy, I thought I’d repost this recipe from last year.
Enjoy!
Ingredients
Mix up your filling. I know it looks a little… um… interesting.
Please don’t be like me and absentmindedly put the meat on first then try to spread filling over the top. Put the filling on the shell, then layer on the meat!
Filling spread out on the shell, then add the meat.
Roll it up tightly.
Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and let set in the fridge for several hours or overnight. The longer it rests, the better the flavor!
Unwrap, slice and enjoy!
Tortilla and Ham Roll-Ups
4 large flour tortilla (or 6-8 smaller ones)
1 large package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup grated cheddar-jack cheese
1 small can chopped black olives
1/4 cup ranch dressing
1 package of ham lunch meat, thinly sliced
In a bowl, combine cream cheese, cheddar-jack cheese, ranch dressing and olives. Mix well then spread over tortilla, going almost to the edges.
Layer on ham then tightly roll up tortillas. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours or overnight. When you are ready to serve, unwrap, slice into about 1/2-inch wide slices and stand back. You don’t want to get trampled by the crowd as they hurry to devour these.
Sunflowers and Summer
Posted in Garden, Home and Garden, Musings, tagged Savvy Entertaining, Shanna Hatfield, Summer Blog, sunflowers on August 7, 2012| 2 Comments »
I don’t know what it is, but there is something about sunflowers, particularly against the backdrop of wheat fields and blue sky that just screams summer to me.
It probably harkens back to the days of my childhood when wheat harvest was an important part of the summer activities I tried to avoid. The edges of the fields often had volunteer sunflowers waving their bright little heads in the breeze. I always thought they were cheery and fun. My dad thought they were just one step above noxious weeds.
Regardless, they are a beacon of summer and simpler times that yank me back to summer days spent outside, covered in itchy wheat chaff, spending time with my dad.
The other day I was out snapping photos of a garden that is absolutely amazing and lovely and they were actually growing sunflowers in the garden.
And the flowers were bright, cheery and…
made me smile.
She Who Gets Nostalgic Over the Strangest Things
Panting Lizards
Posted in Captain Cavedweller, Musings, tagged Blog humor, Savvy Entertaining, Shanna Hatfield, Zoo on August 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
It’s been hot in our little corner of the world the last few days. Mercifully, not as hot as other parts of the country, but plenty toasty just the same.
A few weeks ago when Captain Cavedweller and I went out of town, we decided to stop by a zoo. It was hot that day, too.
As in roasting.
As in sweltering.
As in suck the air from your lungs suffocating.
As in part of me is still melted back by the giraffes and zebras.
Walking around the zoo, hot and dazed by the oppressive humidity, we didn’t see many of the animals. The only ones who seemed to be acting with any degree of normalcy were those in air conditioned buildings like the birds and meerkats above.
(On a side note, the meerkats are industrious and highly entertaining to watch).
We saw the giraffe family, one which seemed to have a tongue at least three feet long as it stretched to get leaves out of the tree.
We saw lions and tiger and bears, oh my. Except the lions and the tigers were hot and panting in the shade. This sloth bear was the only one moving around and he was moving as fast as a… sloth.
These little guys were to hot and pooped to even eat their breakfast. They just hung out by the food, begging for popsicles.
Not really, but if they could ask, I bet they would have.
The striped hyena was showing about as much enthusiasm as I was feeling at the moment. Did I mention it was hot and sultry and miserably warm?
This guy was moving faster than me by the time we got to his display.
The Komodo dragon was outside, sprawled out, panting and cranky (somewhat like I felt by that time). He gave all new meaning to phrase panting like a lizard on a hot rock.
And oddly, I wanted to join him.
She Who Will Not Be Touring Any Zoos During a Heat Wave Again
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