This week's menu challenge? What to cook up for Skibo's birthday party on Saturday. We are having it as a late-ish afternoon event, so that people don't expect to be served a meal --- but at the same time, if their kids eat enough that they don't want to have dinner they are not going to be too upset about their kids being full way too early... Or something.
So we are obviously going to have cake, and icecream. It is a little kid's birthday, after all! But we are also going to try to figure out what he would like to have (we are even going so far as to ask him his opinion: this is of at most marginal help!) So far we have figured out which sorts of store-bought snacks he'd like (the staples of goldfish, cheesy puffs, pretzels) and that he'd like mini pizzas (home made, of course) and sausage rolls.
Yours in preparation,
N.
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One suggestion that's a big hit with kids is the little smokies wrapped up in premade crescent roll dough. It's one they like to help make. It cooks up fast. And kids eat them.
Add some fruit and cheese with what you have listed and I think that would be just perfect for both kids and adults hanging around.
This is similar to sausage rolls -- which I will be spending Friday making: roll out puff pastry instead of crescent rolls: make long sausage shapes from bulk sausage (a quarter pound of sausage rolls nicely into a 12-14 inch length of sausage-shape):
roll the meat up in the pastry, cut, and bake at 425 until golden. Let me tell you, after you've tried them, you'll never try smokeys in a blanket again!
I have one of our vegetarian friends coming over on Friday and she is going to be making veggie versions while I'm making the meat filled ones.
N.
You're probably right because I don't eat them myself, that's why the kids make them. :P
Oh, ~a~: try making the sausage rolls: there's a recipe written out in full in my post on May 30th (titled "Sausage rolls"!)
Try them. As long as you are a meat eater, and eat sausage, they are a transcendental snack-experience.
Any time we have a party, we make them, and any time we make them for a party, regardless of how many I make, they are the first thing to go.
Okay, I admit, I haven't tried making 100 pounds of sausage rolls for 10 people, but within limits...
N.
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