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Volturi Dip
All you need for this lovely dip is:
1 cup salsa (medium or for more “bite” use hot)
8 oz. cream cheese
1 Tbsp sour cream
Blend ingredients together with an electric mixer. Spoon into serving bowl.
Serve with Batty Chips--of course!
Food storage prompt: 100 lbs. wheat
Volturi Dip
: Launi
Ingredients
- 1 cup salsa (medium or for more "bite" use hot)
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 1 Tbsp sour cream
Instructions
- Blend ingredients together with an electric mixer. Spoon into serving bowl.
Batty Chips
You could–of course, go ahead and buy tortilla chips OR you could make these cute little batty ones with tons of personality. This is an easy way to get people talking about–your chips. You know, that has never happened before.
Simply cut random bat shape out of regular flour tortillas.
Place them on a cookie sheet. Spray lightly with Pam so the spices will stick.
Sprinkle with a mixture of garlic salt, ground coriander and paprika (equal parts). I mixed the spices and put them in a shaker bottle. It worked beautifully.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 6-8 minutes or until golden brown. Allow them to cool.
Serve with Volturi Dip. You may hear a lot of, “No way! You made those?” from your guests. Just say, “Oh, yeah. I slaved allll day.”
Heh.
Old MacDonald’s Place
Now perhaps you don’t see us as particularly farm-y sort of folks—but let’s not be too hasty
It just so happens that a few of us would really love nothing better than to find a farm house with a few chickens, a couple of horses and a cow or two and live happily ever after…once we learn how it’s done, of course.
Picture this–only in farmer clothes
I personally will go one step further and say that I might even like the handsome farmer to go along with the deal–especially if he had a Scottish accent. Ohh–allow me my fantasy, would you?
But when we had the opportunity to spend a day at the Thanksgiving Point Farm Country–a very tame farm–we scooped up the babies and headed out.
First thing–we were amazed to find baby chicks and peacocks for sale.
I wanted to put a couple in my purse and take them home–but they were surprisingly noisy. I would never have gotten them past Beanie the Dog Slayer, back home.
Pretty new experience to be near so many creatures that aren’t saying, “Meow.”
This little guy looks innocent enough, but in real life, he was a very pushy, very naughty goat.
In real life, this is a very sweet baby girl.
These were some very fancy footed chickens.
Apparently, every creature on this farm eats corn EXCEPT the calves. It gives them a stomachache. So don’t try it. You’ll get arrested or something.
Llamas and goats–together? Who’d of known? Don’t be fooled by that goat trying to be as tall as the llama–he’s totally cheating.
The babies were much braver than I was poking corn kernals in the little guys mouths. Watch your fingers Beck.
Goats, sheep, llamas–didn’t matter…brave, brave. Watch your FINGERS, Beck…
and your toes, Chompy.
The perfect farmer’s wife–don’t you think?
She–on the other hand–would like this pony for Christmas. This one.
And thus we see that a pig really isn’t just someone who burps at the dinner table.
They are actual pink, curly tailed animals. Again–who knew?
The itty bitty farmers are just too tired to go on. Farming is hard business. Phew!
I ask myself this every darn day.
E. I. E. I. O…
y’all.
Halloween Luminaries
Kinda pretty—
wouldn’t you say? And you know me–I need it to be fun and easy and if you can repurpose something in the process–well, then…it’s perfect.
All you need is:
small jars–any size–we used baby food jars, tiny mustard jars and even a spaghetti sauce jar.
tissue paper or crepe paper–we used orange, peach and purple–cut or torn into small pieces
Mod Podge–my new love in life
small paint brushes
LED candles–you can use real tea lamp candles, but it makes the surface of the jars tacky while they are hot. LED are better.
Dab a tiny bit of Mod Podge onto the paintbrush…
and paint it on the jar.
Collect up a piece of tissue and stick it on the gluey spot.
Cover the entire piece with the glue–top and bottom.
Keep collecting and pasting and covering your tissue pieces until you have covered every inch of the bottle.
Set them somewhere upside down to allow them to dry. You may just be surprised at how really beautiful they look.
You could even sneak a face on one of them when no one is looking.
Fancy them up with ribbon or raffia…
Or leave them plain. Insert the LED lights in the bottom of the jars. Turn down the big lights and try dinner by… luminaries. I think you’ll like it!