October Recipe 2

Well lucky, lucky you! Since Halloween is this month I've given you a dish that the kids can have at their party, now you get one recipe for the adult party! If you want more recipes, if you can't find an ingredient, if you have a question, or you want a certain recipe on the website, just email me @ savannah.gannon@gmail.com!

Vampire's Blood

Ingredients

2 parts vodka
1 part grenadine
Old Smokey moonshine soaked cherries
Plastic vampire teeth
red food coloring
sugar

Instructions

1. Add ice, vodka, grenadine, 4-5 drops of food coloring, and 4 cherries into a shaker. 
2. Shake well.
3. In a small bowl mix sugar and res food coloring - for every 1/4 cup of sugar add 8 drops of food coloring. 
4. Pour small amount of vodka onto plate and sugar mixture onto another plate.
5. Rim glasses by dipping in vodka, then in sugar. 
6. Pour drink into rimmed glasses.
7. Add 1 cherry and one set of teeth

Enjoy!!!! 

October Recipe

Crispy Spider Webs

Ingredients

Salt and Pepper (to taste)
1/2 tablespoon of basil (dried)

2 cups of Parmigiano Regiano
Multiple sprigs of fresh Basil (for garnish)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit 
2. Cover two or three sheet pans with wax paper or silicone
3. Mix cheese, basil, salt and pepper thoroughly.  
4. Take a tablespoon and fill it with cheese mixture. 
5. Sprinkle in a section of the sheet pan in a circle like shape. 
6. Repeat until mixture is gone
7. Let cool completely. 
8. Garnish with basil and anything else that's spooky! 

Enjoy and have a SPOOKTACULAR Halloween!!!!

*** If you have any suggestions, comments, or questions, just email me at savannah.gannon@gmail.com! ***

September Recipe

Squash Soup

Ingredients
1 large butternut squash
2 cups of vegtable or turkey stock
1 1/2 cups of sour cream
1/4 cup cooked crumbled bacon
1 cup gruyere chese
Chives (for garnish)
Chopped Pecans (for garnish)
Salt and Pepper
Olive oil
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon all spice
2/3 teaspoon oregano (dried)
Heavy cream (if soup is too thick)

Instructions
1. Skin and cut squash into cubes and cover in olive oil, salt, pepper, pumpkin pie spice, and all spice.
2. Roast for 45 minutes and let cool.
3. While the squash is cooling, mix sour cream, stock, and cheese.
4. Put stock mixture into a large pot and put the burner on medium-low.
5. Once squash is completely cooled, put into pot and mash with a potato masher.
6. Add oregano and heavy cream as needed if soup is too thick.
7. Turn up heat inbetween medium, and medium-high.
8. Let simmer for 30-45 minutes
9. Garnish with extra cheese, sour cream, chives, and bacon if desired.

   ENJOY!

August Recipe

Yummmmm!

Honey Lemon Bruschetta

Ingredients

Mint leaves

Sea salt

Spreadable Butter or Margarine

1/2 teaspoon of olive oil 

1/2 - 3/4 loaf of french bread or a medium loaf of crusty Italian bread

1 large garlic clove cut in half (or 2 small ones)

1 tablespoon of honey (or 1 big squeeze of the honey bear)

2 cups ricotta

2 lemons 

Instructions

1. Cut the bread on the bias. Butter both sides and toast under broiler or in the oven until pale brown.
2. After bread has been toasted, rub with garlic clove until it's smothered in garlic. 
3. Mix ricotta, lemon juice, zest of one lemon, olive oil, and honey together. 
4. Spread the ricotta mixture equally onto each slice of bread. 
5. Bake in oven for 3-4 minutes, or until bread is golden brown. 
6. After the bread has cooled, zest the other lemon on top of the bread and garnish with mint leaves. 

HELP

The main reason I started this blog, was to help starving people around the world. I'm not really sure how to get donations over the internet, and I'm also not quite sure how to give money to those countries that need it. If you can find an efficient way to donate. Post a comment, telling everyone that looks at this blog, how to do it. Let's change the world, one dollar at a time. 

July Recipe

Spruced-Up Potato Salad

Ingredients:

1 lb. of red potatoes (boiled and cut into quarters)

2 cups of quality mayonaise

4 chopped sprigs of rosemary (or a 1 1/2 teaspoons dried)

salt and pepper to taste

4 strips of cooked and crumbled bacon (or 1/2 bag bacon bits)

1/2 cup grated pepperjack cheese (any cheese will do)

Instructions:

After boiled, quartered potatoes have completely cooled, put in a large bowl. Mix with mayo, rosemary, salt, pepper, bacon, and cheese. Let set in fridge for at least 2-3 hours (I prefer over night). Pull out when ready to serve, and enjoy! 

  

The World is Food

When you think of food, you think of cooking. You think of a date, going to a restaurant, or shopping at Wal-Mart. Food is easy to get to. But when someone in Uganda thinks of food, they think how empty their stomach is. How they would do anything to get a tiny morsel of something to eat. Starving people die everyday, all because we waste our food. Then, we stand here doing nothing about it! It's time to act, because if we don't. The more innocent people die everyday.