Happy Fourth of July Folks!!!!
Wahoo Independence day! The greatest mid-summer excuse to not go to work and throw a big BBQ bash!!
I bet you're dying to know what I'm doing! <--I'm just THAT interesting
Well, wonder no more!
My honey and I have been invited to a bash at our neighbors place.
These are neighbors we have only met once, and though I'm sure we made a fine (PSH, AWESOME!) impression, it is in my nature to go overboard in attempting to better that impression.
SO, I went to super target this morning...an hour and $70 later, I came out with
-Meatballs
-Frozen mixed berries
-Hawaiian bread rolls
-Fresh strawberries
-BBQ sauce
-White chocolate
-Pink Moscato champagne
-A Korean BBQ slow cooker sauce
-Blue sprinkles
-Diet sprite
-Wax paper
-Frozen raspberry lemonade concentrate
Then I threw it all in a crock pot and waited 2 hours.
JUST KIDDING!
BUT....in less than 2 hours you can do all of these fun and easy party platters!
Start here:
Meatballs. Crock pot. 2 sauces. Plop them in and let them work.
Now, while that's working, take your bread rolls, squish them flatter (cuz they're big suckers!)
Mix oil, melted butter, parsley and garlic powder into a bowl.
Slice each roll in half and spread your sauce
Bake at 350 until they're crispy.
I only made one package of the rolls into garlic rolls. I left the remainder plain so that people can choose.
These rolls are going to serve as buns for your meatballs.
BAM- instant meatball sliders!!!
Next, melt your white chocolate in the microwave. It only took a minute for me.
Setup a little conveyor belt
Strawberries>Melted white chocolate>Blue sprinkles>Cookie sheet covered in wax paper
Dip your strawberries in the chocolate and then the sprinkles. Careful to leave some of the white chocolate showing.
Yummmm
CRAP- Now I have leftover chocolate AND sprinkles!
At this point, I begin frantically searching my house for something that I can dip into these spare ingredients.
SCORE!
POPCORN.
This idea is genius and freaking DELISH
pop a bag of popcorn, while it's still hot, mix in your sprinkles and melted chocolate.
THAT's some good stuff!
NEXT we're going to made the pink champagne punch!!...But I haven't made it yet, so that'll be posted later!
Have fun today! Be SAFE!
<3S
