Guacamole

This recipe is my dad's guacamole. A lot of people don't like chunky. I like both, and have served both at parties. This one is less chopping, more dumping things into a bowl and mixing. If you have kids, this is a good recipe for them to help with because you have to squash the avocados!

Ingredients:
3-4 large avocados, or 5-6 small avocados
favorite salsa (we use Pace)
Lawry's season salt
1/2 lime

Directions:
1. Cut avocados in half, taking out the seed, and scoop into a bowl. With the bottom of a cup mash the avocados until they're semi smooth.
2. Add salsa to your taste, usually about 1/3-1/2 a cup. Sprinkle with season salt and the juice from the lime. Mix together and serve with your favorite chips.

*To remove avocado seeds, you can gently work it out with a knife. Or, you can stick it with the knife, and turn it while removing.

Avocado and Mango Salsa

This is my dad's recipe. I make this a lot when we have people over. The taste is just so...yum. I don't know any other word to describe it. It's sweet, salty, hot, savory, everything in one dip.

Ingredients:
3-4 large avocados, or 5-6 small
1-2 mango (depending on how much you want)
1 lime
1-2 serrano peppers (also depending on how much heat you want)
Lawry's Season salt

Directions:
1. Dice avocados, and mango mixing in a medium size bowl.
2. Slice the serrano pepper if you like a kick in each bite, or dice it into smaller pieces so it's not a huge attack. Mix in with the avocados.
3. Cut lime in half, squirt 1/2 into the mixture.
4. Season with the season salt, around 1/2 a teaspoon. You may want more, depending on your taste.
5. Serve with your favorite chips. Like the Chunky Guacamole, we like to serve this with the black bean chips or the fiery chipotle chips.

Artichoke Dip

This dip can be made ahead of time, and put into the refrigerator until ready to bake.

Ingredients:
2 14oz cans whole artichoke hearts in water
1 1/2-2 cups grated Parmesan
1 cup mayonnaise
salt pepper

Directions:
1. Drain the artichokes well. Coarsely chop.
2. Combine the artichoke hearts, mayo and Parmesan into an oven safe container, mix.
3. Preheat oven to 350F, and bake for 30 minutes, or until the top starts to brown.
4. Serve this dip with toasted, thinly sliced French baguettes, bagel chips, or your favorite cracker.

Chunky Guacamole

This is my recipe of guacamole. I never measure, just taste, but I will try to put fairly close measurements to what I actually do for you. If it's not salty, or limey enough, just add a little bit more. It's really simple, and takes no time at all to do.

Ingredients:
4-5 small avocados, or 3 large, diced
1 lime
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 medium yellow onion, diced
1-2 roma tomatoes, diced

Directions:
1. Dice onion, tomatoes and avocados and put them all in a medium size bowl.
2. Slice lime in half, squirting half into avocado mixture. Add salt, mix.
3. Do a taste test, and if you like more salt or lime, add more!
4. Serve with your favorite chip. We like the Tostitos Black bean or fire chipotle.

Super Bowl Recipes

This is the final list of Super Bowl Party appetizers, dips, finger foods, desserts, and drinks. I hope you enjoy and try some of these recipes. Please leave feedback, I love getting comments!

Chicken and Bacon Wraps

Jalapeno Poppers

Chunky Guacamole

Colorado Bulldog

Mozzarella Sticks

Artichoke Dip

Chocolate Almond Shot

Avocado and Mango Salsa

Kristen's Margaritas

Cake Balls

Guacamole

Fudgy Oatmeal Bars

Boneless Chicken Wings

BJ's Irish Root Beer

*I will update this post every time I add a new Super Bowl recipe. I want them all to be together, so just keep checking back. I'll also post the link to this post on facebook!

Super Bowl!

Super bowl is this coming Sunday! Are you having a party, or going to one? I have some good dips, appetizers, drinks, and desserts that are good to make or take with you!
I will be posting recipes until Friday dedicated to the Super Bowl, so you can make sure and get everything before the big game.
Some of these I already have posted, so I will link them in the post instead of writing it all out again. I'm crossing off as I go, and I may add a few more on as I go too. If you have a recipe you'd like to see on here, let me know!

Here's a preview of the recipes I'm posting:
Avocado and mango salsa
Guacamole two ways
Artichoke dip
Chicken wraps
Jalapeño poppers
Mozzarella Sticks
Wings/sauces
Cake balls
Fudgy oatmeal bars
Kristen's margaritas
Colorado bulldog
Chocolate Almond Shot
BJs Irish Root Beer

I will post a couple of these later today during nap time, get excited! :)

Mozzarella Sticks

This is my version of some home made mozzarella sticks. They are a hit with my family! I don't make them often, but when I do, they are gone quick. Really simple recipe, quick to make, quick to eat. Hope you enjoy!

Ingredients:
Mozzarella sticks (6)
3/4 cup bread crumbs
1/2 cup flour
2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
2 eggs
oil for frying
2 plates
1 bowl

Directions:
1. Mix eggs in the bowl, set aside. Put 1/2 cup flour on one plate. Put bread crumbs and seasonings on the other.
2. Roll the cheese in the flour, then eggs, and then the bread crumbs. Roll in eggs and bread crumbs once more, then set aside.
3. Follow step 2 for remaining cheese sticks.
4. Heat oil to 365F. Gently place the cheese sticks in the oil until the outside is browned.
5. Serve with ranch or marinara, they will be stringy!

Chicken and Bacon Wraps

This are so simple and delicious. The perfect appetizer for BBQing! I figure it's so cold everywhere (but where I live SE Texas), that it would be nice to put something up that's for warmer weather. We make these one days we're just lazing around by the grandparents pool, or days on the water.

Ingredients
1 pkg of sliced chicken breasts
1 pkg of thick sliced bacon
1 can of pickled jalapenos
toothpicks
Charcoal
Grill

Directions
1. Open chicken package and wash and peel off skin lining.
2. Cut chicken into bite size pieces, around 3 to 4 per sliced breast.
3. Wash hands, cut open bacon package and cut all in half.
4. Open jalapeno can.
5. Wrap bacon around chicken and one slice of jalapeno. Stick a toothpick in to hold it in place.
6. Continue until all chicken is wrapped.
7. Put all chicken on grill and cook until bacon is done.
8. Let cool, and enjoy!

Jalapeno poppers

These are excellent for any cookout. We make them any time we spend time outside with my family and everyone loves them. I use a pastry bag to put the cream cheese in the jalapenos.

Ingredients


Jalapenos (decide how many poppers you want and divide that number by 2. We usually do about 60, so that's 30 Jalapenos)
2-3 Cream cheese packages, room temperature
Thick bacon
Pastry bag or ziploc bag
Tooth picks
Grill
Charcoal
Gloves

Directions


1. Put gloves on. The oils will hurt later if you don't. Cut jalapenos in half, remove all seeds.
2. Plop cream cheese into pastry bag. Squeeze cream cheese into jalapeno halves. Don't over fill, but place enough in that the center is full. If you put too much in, it falls out onto the grill.
3. Wrap bacon around the jalapeno and cream cheese and stick a tooth pick in to hold it together.
4. Stick jalapenos on the grill. They are done when the bacon is cooked.
5. Serve and enjoy!