Friday, December 30, 2011

Spinach balls

Want to know a way to trick your kids early on to love spinach?  This recipe for spinach balls is the way my mom did it for my sister and me.  Granted there is butter and cheese involved, which doesn't hurt, but the fact that we got to squish all the ingredients with our hands made it really fun for us!



SPINACH BALLS
Ingredients:
- 2 10 oz. packages of frozen chopped spinach (thawed and drained)
- 2 cups pepperidge farms dried stuffing
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 4 eggs
- salt and pepper for taste

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Mix ingredients in bowl until complete mixed together
3. Roll mixture into 1-inch balls and placed on baking sheet (put tin foil on baking sheet to avoid clean up)
4. Bake spinach balls for 12-15 minutes

Monday, December 26, 2011

Thanksgiving Turkeys!

Hey folks! Sorry for the lack of recent posts... Jessie and I have been very busy this holiday season, but not too busy to cook and try some new restaurants!!!  Here's a cute idea that I did for Thanksgiving this year that the kids went crazy for.


OREO TURKEYS
Ingredients:
- Oreos
- Candy Corn
- Malted Milk Balls
- Red Hots
- Chocolate Icing

Directions:
1. Open up oreo so that icing is all on one side
2. smear chocolate icing on the non icing inside of the oreo
3. Place four candy corn on chocolate icing to make fan (turkey wings)
4. Push Candy Corn sided oreo perpendicular into a corner white icing sided oreo
5. Push malted milke ball into front of white icing sided oreo (turkey head)
6. push red hot in front of malted milk ball (gobbler)

So much fun!  and no cooking involved!