Fouth of July treats!

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

Not your Grandma's FATTY meatballs!

Yummm...meatballs!

Everyone loves a good juicy (meat)ball (<-----haaahahah I couldn't resist!)

But- seriously people! It's 2012- and with the US getting fatter all the time...

Grandma's greasy, fatty meatballs are NOT cool!

SO- here's a perfect yumylicious HEALTHYLICIOUS

way to make those juicy balls. (<--- I did it again!)

1.  STEP ONE- Put on your sexy apron and pour yourself a glass of wine! (Mom, if you're reading...take a tylenol too!)

   



Now- Gather some supplies- I don't believe in limiting your portions.

EYE BALL IT!

Ground turkey

S&P (or ADOBO if you're like me)

4 cloves of garlic (MINCE it!)

Red pepper (I went powdered)

Bread crumbs (Get whole grain if you can)

Parmesan OR low fat grated topping

Egg

Oregeno

Parsley

Pack of dry onion dip mix

 Toss them in your mixer and mix until it's a thick, not too wet, lump

Grease a pan and start rollin!

I used extra light EVOO on the pan...just enough to coat the bottom.

My boyfriend loves pesto sauce and it's much healthier than alfredo

I use VEGGIE pasta. It's my new favorite because I hate veggies!