partyrehab:

Grown Up Pink Lemonade.

What you will need:

• 2 1/2 cups Vodka
• 1 (quart size) Packet of Pink Lemonade Crystal Light
• 2 (12 oz.) Cans Diet Cherry 7-Up
• 1 (12 oz.) Can Light Beer
• Ice
• Lemon Wedges

How to make it:

1. Pour the vodka and Crystal light into a large pitcher.
2. Fill the pitcher ½ way with ice.
3. Pour the remaining ingredients into the pitcher and stir.
4. Serve cold with lemon wedges.

truth-lied:

Ingredients

1 teaspoon olive oil

2 cups halved cherry tomatoes (about 1 pound)

2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

1/2 cup low-fat mayonnaise

2 tablespoons whole-grain Dijon mustard

1 garlic clove, minced

1 loaf French bread, cut in half horizontally

3 ounces Brie cheese, sliced

3 cups shredded grilled chicken breast

2 cups romaine lettuce leaves

Directions

1. Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add tomatoes; cook 4 minutes, stirring once. Remove from heat; stir in 2 tablespoons vinegar. Sprinkle tomatoes with thyme, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and pepper. Set aside.

2. Mix mayonnaise, mustard, and garlic in a small bowl and spread mixture evenly over both inside halves of the bread.

3. Spoon tomatoes evenly over bottom half of loaf. Arrange Brie over tomatoes, chicken over Brie, and top with lettuce. Place top half of loaf over all and cut loaf into 6 pieces.

partyrehab:

Strawberry Pretzel Whiptini.

What you need:

• 4 tablespoons strawberry daiquiri/margarita non-alcoholic mix
• 3 tablespoons Pinnacle Whipped Vodka
• 2 tablespoons milk or cream
• 1 teaspoon instant cheesecake flavored pudding mix
• Strawberry ice cream sauce
• Crushed pretzels
• Cool Whip

How to make:

1. Mix strawberry mix, vodka, milk/cream, and pudding mix in shaker with ice. Shake for about 30 seconds.
2. Dip rim of glass in strawberry sauce then dip into crushed pretzels. Strain drink into glass.
3. Top with Cool Whip.

wehavethemunchies:

Barbequed Maple Balsamic Burger with Sharp Cheddar Cheese

animerecipes:

Fish Pie - Kiki’s Delivery Service

Howdy y’all!  The mysterious roommate here, and I’m going to tell you all about dis fish pie hurr! Remember in Kiki’s Delivery Service when Kiki helped the lovely ladies made this fancy fish pie for their granddaughter’s birthday?  Well, this was just like that time… but different.  My mom was in town, and the purveyor of this blog and I decided to make some yummy dinner for us all.  And the best part of all was that she didn’t turn up her nose and say, “Oh… another one of those crummy fish pies again,” in fact, she loved it!  I even got to make the fish on top!  That was the best part about it.

Ingredients

• 4 fillets of herring, or 3 fillets of another larger, white fish (we used rockfish, you could use sole, tilapia, or cod)
  
• 1 leek
• 1 medium while onion
• 1 carrot
• 5 medium potatoes (bakers or russets)
• 2 cups spinach
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons deli style or whole ground mustard
• 2 bay leaves
• 3 cups milk
• 2 tablespoons salt
• 2 tablespoons pepper

Directions

1. Cut up the potatoes and put them in a pot of boiling water.  Boil for about 5 minutes, then add in two eggs and boil for 5 more minutes.  Take out the eggs, and strain the potatoes.  Then mash the potatoes in a bowl with 2/3 cup of milk.
2. Add the mashed potatoes to the bottom of your casserole dish, saving about 1 potato worth of mash in the bowl.
3. Slice all of the vegetables and the hardboiled eggs and saute them in a pan with some oil or butter and the bay leaves.
4. Add in the rest of the milk, the mashed potato that you saved, mustard, salt and pepper.  Cook everything on medium heat stirring occasionally, until the milk reaches a thick consistency, then add it into the casserole pan.  Remember to remove the bay leaves.
5. Cut the fish fillets into 3 inch wide chunks, and then add it into the casserole pan.
6. Unroll the pie crust and put it on top.  You can cut it into strips, and cut out a fish if you want to make it like the one in Kiki’s Delivery Service.  Once you finish covering the casserole pan with the pie crust, beat an egg and brush it on top of the pie crust.
7. Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20-30 minutes, or until the crust is to your liking.

MINI OREO CHEESECAKES
printable recipe
16 ounces cream cheese
2/3 cup sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. lemon juice
1/2 cup sour cream
1 package regular size Oreo cookies
1 package mini Oreo cookies (chop about 1 cup to use in batter, the rest are garnish on top)

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

Place one full size Oreo cookie in the bottom of every mini cheesecake cup. This will serve as the “crust” of the cookie.

Beat the cream cheese for several minutes until it is smooth and creamy.

Add the sugar and salt. Add eggs one at a time until incorporated.

Add the vanilla extract and lemon juice. Fold in the sour cream and chopped Oreo cookies and mix until combined.

Pour the mixture into the prepared cups and bake for 22-25 minutes (the tops should spring back slightly when touched).

WHIPPING CREAM TOPPING
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/8 tsp. unflavored gelatin
2 tsp. corn starch
2 tbsp. instant vanilla pudding mix

Combine all ingredients and beat for several minutes until the cream thickens and soft peaks form. Pipe onto tops of cheesecakes and garnish with a mini Oreo.

raspberry white chocolate chip ice cream

5 egg yolks
2/3 cup powdered sugar
2 cups half and half

1/2 cup finely chopped white chocolate
2 tsp. vanilla extract

Scald half and half over medium heat in a medium sauce pan. Remove from heat.

In a stand mixer whisk together the yolks and sugar until light and fluffy, then gradually pour the scalded half and half down the side of the bowl as the mixer is still going.

Pour the mixture back into the sauce pan, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until the mixture has thickened and will coat the back of the spoon. Remove from heat, and pour through a fine mesh sieve into a clean bowl. Add in vanilla. Chill the custard thoroughly. About two hours.

Transfer the mixture to an ice cream maker. Add raspberries. Allow the ice cream to churn until near finished then add the white chocolate chunks. Freeze according to the manufacturer’s instructions.

foodboners:

open faced veggie sandwiches!

• 2 slices dark bread
• 2 cocktail tomatoes, chopped in small cubes (1 cm)
• 1 cup chopped english cucumber
• 1 cup sweet pea shoots, chopped
• 2 tbsp cream cheese
• 2 tbsp blue cheese, crumbled
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste

recipe at the source!

Chocolate Stripes

Give the bottle a good shake every once in a while. Store in a dark, cool place for 2 months or longer.

PRINTABLE RECIPE

Ingredients:

• Cream soda (make sure it isn’t flat, like mine)
• 2 C. heavy cream
• 6 TBSP. sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 tsp. imitation butter (find this at the grocery store by the vanilla and almond extracts)

Directions:

1. Pour cold cream soda into mugs until almost full.

2. Beat together the cream, sugar, vanilla, and imitation butter on high speed for about six or seven minutes, until soft peaks start to form.

3. Spoon a big scoop of the cream mixture on top of the cream soda. If you want, you can put some foam in the bottom of the class, too and pour cream soda on top.

Another option: You can also add 1/2 tsp. of imitation butter to every 12 ounces of cream soda. I have read that this is yummy. I tried it without measuring and I am pretty sure I added way to much imitation butter to a couple of them (sorry grandma. I think you got one of those.) Or you can ad 1 oz. light rum to each serving, but then it is no longer kid friendly. I have also read that you can add butterscotch sauce to the cream soda.

I also really want to try this recipe for butter beer and see if it tastes any different, but it is more labor intensive.

Recipe adapted from My Bakingdom

losing-every-extra-pound:

20 Summer Smoothie Recipes
Watermelon Frosty
Grapefruit Pink Smoothie
Strawberry Lemonade Frosty
Pinkie Sweet Pomegranate Smoothie
Citrus Frosty
Peaches and Cream Smoothie
Fresh Orange Juice Smoothie
Peachy Hemp Protein Smoothie
Peachy Lychee Daiquiri
Calm Chamomile Smoothie
Pina Avocado Smoothie
Kiwi Basil Smoothie
Blue Acai Smoothie
Blueberry Kickstart Smoothie
Berry-Cado Smoothie
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
Blueberry Coconut Water Frosty
Dark and Frosty Acai Smoothie
Almond Butter Shake
Chocolate Chai Shake

thedrunkenmoogle:

Besaid Island (Final Fantasy X cocktail)

Ingredients:
30 ml white rum (Bacardi Superior used)
30 ml watermelon liqueur (Marie Brizard Watermelon used)
1 lime (for lime juice and garnish)

Directions: Mix the rum and watermelon liqueur in a lowball glass over ice.  Squeeze in lime juice and add a lime wedge to the side as a garnish.  While this isn’t a drink you would order at a Blitzball match, it seems absolutely perfect for watching the Spira sunset on the beach.

Drink created and photographed by Cocktail.daa.jp.

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