Family Fun Food

by Mandi and Cami

This was our Macey's class recipe we had on June 29th.

Enjoy because we sure did and loved them all.

 

Perfect Picnic Sandwich

 Step 1: The Filling.

5 seeded & chopped plum tomatoes

1 cup chopped red, orange or yellow peppers

1/4 cup chopped red onion

2 garlic cloves, minced

1/2 cup chopped fresh basil. Do not skip this ingredient!

2 tsp. balsamic or red wine vinegar

Drizzle of olive oil

Mix all together.

Step 2: Scoop Out the Round Loaf

Scoop out the loaf of Shepherd’s bread so that you have about 1 inch of bread all around. Keep the 'hat' of the loaf for the finished sandwich.  Brush the inside of the loaf with olive oil. This step prevents the bread from going soggy. 

Step 3: Fill the Round Loaf

Now spoon half of the filling into the bottom of the bread and press down with spoon.  Then layer in half of the sliced meats.  You can use different salami, ham, turkey or even eggplant if you want to keep it vegetarian.   In this sandwich, I used sliced turkey & ham.  Then layer in cheese slices. I used havarti slices. Again, any favorite cheese can be used.   After the cheese layer, layer the remaining meat and spoon in the other half of the filling.  Place the 'hat' back on the loaf. Press firmly.

Step 4:Wrap the Sandwich for The Picnic

Wrap sandwich tightly in saran wrap.  Then I also wrap in tin foil.  Place sandwich in large bowl with some soup cans on top for weight to help "press" the sandwich.  (This step can be skipped, especially if you don't have room in your fridge for the big bowl).  Place the sandwich in the fridge overnight.

This Sandwich was so good and the dressing is also good for chip dip.

German Potato Salad

4 potatoes

4 slices bacon

1 tablespoon all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons white sugar

1/3 cup water

1/4 cup white wine vinegar

1/2 cup chopped green onions

salt and pepper to taste

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes; cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool and chop.  Place bacon in a large, deep skillet, cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, crumble and set aside. Reserve bacon fat.  Add the flour, sugar, water and vinegar to skillet and cook in reserved bacon fat over medium heat until dressing is thick.  Add bacon, potatoes and green onions to skillet and stir until coated. Cook until heated and season with salt and pepper. Serve warm.

Caramel Brownies

2 boxes - Betty Crocker German Chocolate Cake Mix

2/3cup Evaporated milk

2/3cup Melted butter

Apple caramel dip

Milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven 350 degrees.  Grease cookie sheet.

Mix 1 pkg. cake mix with 1/3cup evaporated milk and 1/3 cup melted butter.  Spread mix into pan and press out. Bake for 10-15 min. in oven.  Repeat mixing process and set aside.  When cook time is up spread on caramel and sprinkle with chocolate chips.  Pat out other mix and put on top of caramel and chocolate chips.  Bake another 10 -15 min.  Let cool and serve.

Stuffed Strawberries

Strawberries

Blueberries

Marshmallow Crème

Cream Cheese (softened)

Mix cream cheese and marshmallow crème together.  Wash and slit strawberries at ends then pipe marshmallow filling and place a blueberry on top.

4th of July Banners

 Fourth of July was around the corner and I think we all get caught up in June and forget that the 4th is right there.  So I made these banners to go along with the holiday.  I am not very good and doing tutorials step by step instructions but I can sure tell you have I made it.

 I started out with some denim I had bought on clearance a while ago probably for skirts or something.  But it was perfect for my banner.  I cut a flag from an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper.  Then cut out 7 pendents sewed around them and frayed the edges.  I then cut burlap the size I wanted and frayed the edges.  Then cut a pieces for the bunting a strip of red and accordion folded it and stapled one side.  The white sun shape I cut from chipboard and covered them with white fabric.  Cut out letter on glitter fun foam on my Cricut and glued everything together.  I sewed all the pendants on to ribbon and tied extra fabric pieces and ribbons in between.  It turned out awesome and I can keep it for every year.

The next banner I made was out of paper.  I cut a whole bunch of triangles out of patterned or solid red, white and blue paper.  Then took ribbon and just sewed them all together.  I was really easy and you could make it as long as you want or needed to.

Have a Great 4th of July everyone!!

Father's Day Tie Banner and Gift

Father's day was around the corner and I have really been getting off on banners lately.  So I made one for of course Father's day.  It was simple and turned out darling.  When I saw this on a blog it was made out of paper and I wanted to be able to keep using it so I made it out of fabric.

 I first cut out a template of a tie from a piece of paper.  Then pinned it to my fabric and cut out 15 ties.  What made it the easiest for the letters was to iron the fabric to iron-on paper.  Then I cut them out on my Cricut and ironed them on to the ties.  Simple right.  After they were all made I used a heavier jute rope and zig-zagged the ties on to the jute.

 I loved how this turned out and now I will have one every year for Father's Day.

I then made a Candy Bow-K and decided to make one for my hubby.  I took a piece of floral foam and glued the box candy around it.  Then glue all your candy bars onto skewers with hot glue.  Stick them into the foam where you want them and tuck tissue paper around the edges.  Cut pieces of tulle and stick in between the candy bars and VOILA you are done.

To make it more personalized I wrote a little note that went with most of the candy bars that I used. 

Happy Father's Day to my hubby.

Love him and always will.

Studio 5 with i-rock

Our segment on Studio 5 is all about the i-rock tool by Imaginsce.

I had fun using this tool and learning how it works.

You can see here that we made many project with this tool. It is very versatile and can be used on multiple mediums. Will explain more of some of the projects below.

Father's Day Gift

Wouldn't any Dad love this gift. I was fun to make and was pretty easy also.

You can download the kiss coupon here:

Print it out on any paper that you would like and sign it. The paper we used was from Adorn it. Also print out the tag and sign.  Father's Day

This banner was made from SEI paper. I loved how this turned out. I also made a Spring one and have used it but needed a Summer one also. The paper fans are made out of old book pagesaccordion folded and stapled together.

These are refurbished pillows that were purchased for really cheap and recovered. I then i-rocked them and added bling that it needed.

The lamp was also redone. I spray painted it white and then covered the shade in pink and add the bling with the i-rock.

I had this star and it was metallic blue a little overwhelming so I deco-podged paper on to it and add of course the needed bling for the 4th of July.

This baby set onesie and burp clothe are a perfect gift and easy to make. Get a onesie and find a template you like and then i-rock away. The burp cloth is made out of a cloth diaper and added material to the center and added the sparkle.

We hope you enjoyed this segment and would love to see you in the store. We have the products there at the Book Table and are ready to assist you with any questions.

i-rock to your hearts desire.