SMASHBURGER Taco

 The princess and Uncle Parker thinks we need to have a new “Taco Tuesday" post and they wanted to share their creation of the SMASHBURGER TACO, (the newest, hottest videos trending all over Facebook). They were actually really good. Check out all the videos and choose one to try, you can’t go wrong… here is our favorite:  https://fb.watch/EQOnCSAxXw/?fs=e

New Year's Eve Party

We always try to start the NEW YEAR with a table full of NEW to us recipes... This year was no exception. The only problem was that everyone started eating before I could snap the pictures. So you get plates with spaces... Lol!

Mozzarella Caprese Bites with crusty bread

Teriyaki meatball

  

Bacon Wrapped Little Smokies
With Brown Sugar BBQ 

Homage Chessy Pizza Bites

BBQed Brie & "Make Your Own Tapas" - FHE Style

How many of you dream about food and new recipes....?
I do!
I dream about food and food presentation.

I know last week I posted that my inspirational Monday's this month would be about "Monkey Breads", but I have to share with you my two nights of dreaming about my "Make Your Own" Tapas platter that I put together for our Family Home Evening this week....

Starting in top left corner and going to the right.... Mustard, honeydew, pineapple, coconut tai beef, pancetta, herbed cheese, salsa, ham, cheddar cheese. Center - BBQed Brie, Bottom row - left to right - pickled veggies, apple slices, baguette, glazed carrots, on the side you will see homemade smoked salmon with cucumber dill sauce and crackers, then in the other tray you will find assorted breads.

BBQed Brie - (taken from show on the cooking network)

1 brie round
2 tablespoon maple syrup
sprinkle of Cayenne Pepper
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
leaves from 2 tyme sprigs
Make small slits in to top of the brie round and sprinkle the next 4 ingredients  on top of the cheese, wrap in tin foil and place on BBQ rack for about 5 minutes. Serve warm with crackers and bread.

 

Country Style Baked Beans

Baked Beans are always better if they are made the day ahead of serving and can be slow roasted in the oven, crockpot or dutchoven. And until I moved to South Carolina, I didn't realize there were so many styles of baked beans... Southern style, Country style, Boston baked, Deep Dish or just plain original. Today, we chose Country Style which starts out with left over country ham, salt pork or maple cured bacon, you choose. This recipe is from the pantry, it is a combination of three or four other recipes that I have played with and twiked through the years.

• 3 cans white navy or pinto beans, drained not rinsed
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1 1/2 cup chicken stock
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 1 large red onion diced
• 2 cloves garlic, diced
• 1/2 cup diced red pepper
• 1 tablespoon mustard
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 cup diced country ham, uncooked salt pork or bacon 
• 1 c brown sugar
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• Lightly saute' meat, onion, garlic and red pepper in 1/2 cup chicken stock and maple syrup. Then Place all ingredients in crockpot or Dutch oven, cover and cook for 8 to 10 hours on low. Stir a few times, if possible.

Hawaiian Chicken Kabobs

Our Family loves to grill and we spend most of our summer evenings and weekends trying and creating new recipes and ideas. Today our Super Saturday Blog Hop is all about HAWAIIAN KABOBS and we are featuring a new recipe we came up with using chicken. Our Challenge ingredient was to use Lawry's Hawaiian Marinade and actually this was the first time we had ever used this marinade at the pantry. We were really impressed, but found it to be a little to much on the savory side, we were expecting a little sweeter tasting sauce. 

Step #1 - Rinse, pat dry one pound (about 8 small pieces) of chicken breasts and cover with one full bottle of Lawry's Hawaiian Marinade. Cover, chill and let chicken marinade in sauce for at least two hours. (We let ours set for about 4 hours)

Step #2 - Turn grill on to heat on medium and pull Chicken breasts out of the marinade. Discard extra liquid, we don't use this liquid for glazing and grilling because it is filled with raw meat juices. 

Step#3 - While grill is heating up, cut chicken and assorted favorite grilling veggies into bite sized chunks or 1 x 3 inch strips and place on bamboo skewers (remember to soak your skewers). We used red pepper, mushrooms and onions. These also would have been good with fresh grilled pineapple chunks. 

Step#4 - Place Kabobs on grill and cook for about 5 - 6 minutes on each side, brushing every two minutes with more glazing sauce. For our glazing sauce, we used a marinade of 1 cup Larwy's Hawaiian Marinade, 1 teaspoon Worchestershire sauce and 1 tablespoon honey. 

Step #5 - We served our Kabobs hot over Sweet Peas & Rice.