Showing posts with label party food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label party food. Show all posts

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Bacon Themed Birthday for my Son: I need your advice!

Okay, so my son is turning 17 this month.  We're celebrating his birthday next month because he'll be away at camp during his actual birthday.  I know its far from "Clean" or healthy eating, but he loves LOVES bacon.  Heck, I LOVE bacon!  We don't buy it much, obviously, being health conscious most of the time, but I would like to surprise him with a bacon themed party next month.

I need your ideas!  We've found all sorts of bacon themed gifts... other than the ones he already has:

Bacon Flavored Popcorn

Bacon Salt

A Bacon Plushie that talks and says, "I'm Bacon!"

Amongst other things... what I NEED from You is recipes, ideas, anything.

Think Bacon for decorating, finger foods, desserts, cookies... party type stuff.  Please leave me some suggestions, links, photos, recipes, anything you have that you think would be a good fit!  Thank you!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Clean Eating #73: Party food: Mini Spinach Quiches with Tomato, Feta & Swiss

Mini Spinach Quiches with Tomato, Feta & Swiss
Yummy!!  & They keep well in the fridge for quick leftovers!

Ingredients:
18 eggs (You can replace all/half of the eggs with 2 egg whites per egg)
1 bag of frozen spinach
1 large onion
1-2 containers of feta cheese
1 red bell pepper
1 tbsp oil
Optional:
1 green bell pepper
1 package of sliced mushrooms

Directions:
Sautee the veggies in a skillet with a little coconut oil.
Add cooked veggies and feta cheese to OILED baking dishes, ramekins or muffin tins
Add mixed eggs to the veggies
Bake at 375 Degrees until done.
Mini muffin tins take about 7 minutes, AuGratin Dishes took about 15-19



And the next day as leftovers:
Stick a slice of fresh tomato, some pepper & a slice of Swiss cheese. 
The broiler doesn't take long, if you have time, heat it in the oven first, then use the broiler to really heat the topping.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Clean Eating: Quick and Easy Party Food


Hi all, my name is Byn I'm a fitness instructor, artsy type, clean eating blogger (most of the time, when I don't get distracted by weird family style posts or other strange things). 


 Although I love and adore fashion, I don't have the focus, money or energy to devote any time to it... I think it was having five kids that did it, I just spent too much time in maternity clothes, I guess.  


I used to design my own clothes back in the day when I was in school/young and single... but now I guess I'm in a mood for cooking and appearing reasonably homemaker-y.  Well, at least in the blogging world. 


Although I will say, THIS outfit was a complete joke to freak out my hubby...
And I do clean up nice at times and do fun things with my hair (But admittedly, other than date night, I generally have on my workout gear or a fitted T and jeans.  Pretty boring...:)





Quick & Easy Party Food:  Cracker Dip & Sandwich Wraps

Its hot in Oklahoma and I'm not used to it. Wasn't prepared for it.  AND I DON'T LIKE IT!!
No, really.  Its HOT.  It has stayed pretty much well over 100 degrees for far too long this summer.

I hate cooking when it gets hot.  I don't even like to go grocery shopping.

Thus, the decrease of recipes on my blog.  This also results in me eating crappy convenience foods most of the time and gaining 10 plus pounds.  I hate emotional eating, but I do it too often, especially when stressed.

At any rate, I do like to make some cold foods, so we've been pretty much living on sandwich wraps, breakfast burritos and crackers with dip.  Fresh fruit is always good, and smoothies with lots of frozen fruit.

Lately we've found this great combination and these have become our favorite (our carnivores generally add some meat if we have any, but the rest of us keep it simple):
Ingredients:

  • Whole Wheat Tortillas
  • Cheese
  • Mozzarella cheese slices/shredded
  • Cucumber, sliced lengthwise
  • Tomato, sliced
  • Lettuce (We usually use Romain or Green Leaf


Start by spreading your whole wheat tortillas with Neufchatel Cheese.  Sprinkle on or layer your choice of cheese (we're using Mozzarella this time).  Layer with lettuce, a long slice of cucumber and some tomato slices. Roll them up and enjoy!





Roll and Viola! You can also cut them in slices for cute pinwheel sandwiches, but my kids devour these so fast, its not really worth the time.
Bonus!  SUPER SIMPLE Salmon Dip for Crackers:
Ingredients:
1 onion, finely diced
1 package of Neufchatel Cheese
1 can of Salmon

Mix ingredients together, refrigerate for an hour and serve with or on crackers.  Super easy, and super yummy protein snack.