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This afternoon is a neighborhood Patio Party....everyone brings a dish to share, BYOB and a chair to sit in.
I'm taking leftovers!
I used the leftover Italian Beef Pot Roast to make Italian Beef Sliders on dinner rolls with mozzarella cheese and the leftover Cuban Picadillo to make Picadillo Empanadas ~ I found frozen empanada wrappers in the freezer section since I really didn't know which recipe of the many I found would be best to make. It's fun to take something you don't know a thing about just to see the reaction you get from neighbors!
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The food I took to the Patio Party was a huge success! ((what a relief!))
The best part of going to a pot luck party is coming home with empty containers. When asked for recipes it was almost embarassing to admit the pot roast recipe was the '3-pouch' dry mix one that Norm & I got from some lady named 'Bev' on the old Cooking.com forum. She had given the 'recipe' when the topic was "What's your BEST Crockpot recipe?". It sounded really strange to me at the time but has been a family favorite ever since the first time I made it.
The empanadas with the picadillo were really tasty, too. I wasn't absolutely sure how they would turn out since most of the recipes I saw suggested doing a deep fry with oil to cook the dough and make them crispy. But I really don't like to deep fry anything (such a mess) so I went with an egg wash on the dough rounds and baked them at 375° for 30 minutes or so until they got golden brown. No one really noticed the raisins (admitedly, I did chop them smaller than using whole ones) but the olive slices were very visible ~ and added a nice briney, salty taste. It's definately a recipe I'll use again sometime.
One of the neighbors brought a dish of baked beans, stated it was a Paula Deen recipe. And it was really tasty. It was canned beans with pineapple and BBQ sauce of some kind and French Fried Onions sprinkled over the top. Of course, I got my fill of the deviled eggs (always a winner), macaroni salad (a favorite of mine), salads and.....for dessert ~ RICE KRISPY TREATS! There was also a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting and a brownie trifle. Way too much to eat and now I'm stuffed.
I'm hoping everyone wants to go out this evening to do our walk around the neighborhood at 7 pm ~ a great way to let supper settle and walk off the 'overly full' feeling!
I'm taking leftovers!
I used the leftover Italian Beef Pot Roast to make Italian Beef Sliders on dinner rolls with mozzarella cheese and the leftover Cuban Picadillo to make Picadillo Empanadas ~ I found frozen empanada wrappers in the freezer section since I really didn't know which recipe of the many I found would be best to make. It's fun to take something you don't know a thing about just to see the reaction you get from neighbors!
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The food I took to the Patio Party was a huge success! ((what a relief!))
The best part of going to a pot luck party is coming home with empty containers. When asked for recipes it was almost embarassing to admit the pot roast recipe was the '3-pouch' dry mix one that Norm & I got from some lady named 'Bev' on the old Cooking.com forum. She had given the 'recipe' when the topic was "What's your BEST Crockpot recipe?". It sounded really strange to me at the time but has been a family favorite ever since the first time I made it.
The empanadas with the picadillo were really tasty, too. I wasn't absolutely sure how they would turn out since most of the recipes I saw suggested doing a deep fry with oil to cook the dough and make them crispy. But I really don't like to deep fry anything (such a mess) so I went with an egg wash on the dough rounds and baked them at 375° for 30 minutes or so until they got golden brown. No one really noticed the raisins (admitedly, I did chop them smaller than using whole ones) but the olive slices were very visible ~ and added a nice briney, salty taste. It's definately a recipe I'll use again sometime.
One of the neighbors brought a dish of baked beans, stated it was a Paula Deen recipe. And it was really tasty. It was canned beans with pineapple and BBQ sauce of some kind and French Fried Onions sprinkled over the top. Of course, I got my fill of the deviled eggs (always a winner), macaroni salad (a favorite of mine), salads and.....for dessert ~ RICE KRISPY TREATS! There was also a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting and a brownie trifle. Way too much to eat and now I'm stuffed.
I'm hoping everyone wants to go out this evening to do our walk around the neighborhood at 7 pm ~ a great way to let supper settle and walk off the 'overly full' feeling!
