Tea-rrific Tapas Party #TrueTeaTaste #ad

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Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea and Tapas

Ah, summer. Time for fun with family and friends. I love throwing easy, relaxing themed get-togethers. Tea Parties are one of my favorites. Of course, for summer that means refreshing, ice cold tea.

Tea parties can be a lot of fun! You can hold a tea party anytime of day. Stage one for the perfect brunch, dinner or warm summer night fun.

Tapas or appetizers are often my go-to choice for food. Everyone can pick and choose what they want to try.

Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea and tapas

Offering a variety of tea adds to the excitement.

I love to give my guests a selection. Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea comes in five delicious varieties made from black, green and rooibos tea.

  • Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea Unsweetened
  • Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea Sorta Sweet
  • Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea Sweet
  • Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea Sorta Sweet Honey Green Tea
  • Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea Rooibos

You can feel confident serving your guests Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea. Every Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea brings you true tea taste from all-natural ingredients. I love that Snapple® makes several levels of sweetness, too. No worries, there will be something for everyone to enjoy!

Tapas platter and Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea

I also love the new, sleek bottle design! Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea bottles are easy to grip and have a sturdy base that’s perfect for parties.

tapas and Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea bottles

Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea Sorta Sweet Honey Green Tea with a touch of honey and Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea Sorta Sweet Rooibos, blended with refreshing South African rooibos are now here for your enjoyment.

Learn more about all the Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea varieties here.

I chose to mix it up for this tapas party.

Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea tapa plate

I’m offering something a little spicy with Spicy Crab Spread. This spread blends juicy crab meat, cream cheese, jalapeño peppers, horseradish and more served on garlic crostini.

A light canapé of cucumber topped with velvety Avocado Mousse is a great summer combo.

Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea Avocado Mousse

Mini Quiche are easy to make and you can personalize quiche with a number of add-ins. I mixed it these up with herbs, mushrooms and several kinds of cheese. You can add meat like ham or bacon or even seafood! Combine your choices any way you like.

Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea quiche trio

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Yield: 12 to 15

Serving Size: 1 each

Ingredients

    Mini Quiche
  • 1 9-inch Pie crust
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup Swiss
  • 1/2 cup cheddar
  • 1/2 cup mushrooms diced
  • 1/2 cup mixed herbs
  • 1/4 cup diced onions
  • 1/2 cup chopped baby spinach
  • Spicy Crab Spread
  • 1/2 cup backfin crab meat
  • 4 ounces cream cheese
  • 1 tsp horseradish
  • 1/2 tsp hot sauce
  • 1 tsp minced jalapeño pepper plus garnish
  • 1/2 tsp fresh chopped dill plus sprigs for garnish
  • 1/2 tsp seafood seasoning
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 loaf French bread cut into 1/2-inch slices
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • Avocado Mousse
  • 1 ripe avocado
  • 2 ounces cream cheese
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice, fresh squeezed
  • 1 tsp chopped cilantro
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/2 cup whipped heavy cream
  • Lime zest for garnish
  • Sea salt for garnish
  • 1 English cucumber

Instructions

    Mini Quiche
  • Place thawed pie dough on a lightly floured board. Cut into 2 to 2 1/2-inch rounds. Gently press rounds into mini muffin tins lightly sprayed with cooking spray. Bake at 350 for 12 minutes. Set pre-baked shells aside.
  • Whisk together egg and cream. Pour into pre-baked shells and top with add-on of your choice.
  • Bake an additional 12 to 15 minutes until egg mixture is set. Cool slightly before removing. Serve warm.
  • Spicy Crab Spread.
  • Mix together oil and garlic. Brush both sides of bread slices with the oil mixture. Broil turning once until golden brown.
  • Mix together crab, horseradish, jalapeño, hot sauce and seasonings. Blend in cream cheese. Spread mixture on toasted crostini.
  • Avocado Mousse
  • Mash avocado together with cilantro, lime juice in a food processor. Add cream cheese, blend.
  • Place avocado mixture in a bowl. Fold in whipped cream. Refrigerate for several minutes while you prepare the cucumber.
  • Cut cucumber into 1/2-inch slices. Gently hollow out a bit from the center to create a hole. Pat slices dry on a paper towel.
  • Fill piping bag or spoon mixture into cucumbers. Chill before serving.

Notes

Recipes make 12 to 15 of each kind of tapa.

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I found everything I needed to throw a great tapas party at Giant. All the delicious varieties of Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea are easy to find in this beverage aisle.

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Let’s get this party started!
Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea and tapas

I’d love to hear your ideas for a Tea-rrific Tapas Tea Party in the comments below! Snapple® Straight Up™ Tea pairs so well with sandwiches, salads, barbeques and even desserts!

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Foodie Friends Friday Linky Party #203

Welcome to another fun Foodie Friends Friday Linky Party!

Please share your recipes, crafts and DIY projects with our friends!

Before we get started let’s say, “Congratulations” to last week’s winners!

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You can find the links to our Host Favorite Picks here at Daily Dish Magazine!

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On to the Party!

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Celebrate National Dairy Month with Minerva #contest #ad @churnitup

Minerva Dairy Hosts “Get Buttered Up” Campaign, Delivers Weekly Affirmations and Serves Local Food Pantry

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I wanted to pass along this cool contest going on at the Minerva Dairy website. I received no compensation for posting this information.

MINERVA, OH (May 31, 2016) – Minerva Dairy, America’s oldest family-owned cheese and butter dairy, is celebrating National Dairy Month with a “Get Buttered Up” campaign that aims to inspire and enlighten. With a full year of weekly affirmations meant to “butter you up,” Minerva Dairy will share positive and inspirational messages with consumers who sign up via email. Upon signing up, they will also have the opportunity to win a Minerva Dairy prize pack complete with a robust supply of product, cookware courtesy of Swiss Diamond and a cash prize of $250. Minerva Dairy will also “butter up” the company’s local food pantry with a generous contribution. Participants can receive weekly affirmations and enter to win by visiting Minerva Dairy online during the month of June.
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The “Get Buttered Up” campaign, hosted during National Dairy Month in June, is the ideal opportunity to celebrate Minerva Dairy as a fifth generation-owned dairy while offering consumers 52 weeks of positive affirmations and a friendly competition that ultimately benefits the Minerva community. Once they sign up for the weekly affirmations, consumers will be entered to win the grand prize. Awarded to one consumer chosen at random at the conclusion of National Dairy Month on June 30, it will include one $250 gift card and a robust supply of Minerva Dairy’s signature Amish Roll Butter plus a collection of premium Swiss Diamond cookware.

Five additional gift packages, featuring Minerva Dairy product and Minerva Dairy swag, will be distributed among the runner-ups. To further support the community, Minerva Dairy will also donate their Amish Roll Butter to Minerva’s local food bank.

“National Dairy Month reminds us to celebrate the dairy industry and the part we play in it as a sustainable, responsibly sourced dairy,” shares Adam Mueller, CEO at Minerva Dairy and fifth generation family member.

“Minerva Dairy has always been invested in the communities we serve. By hosting this year’s “Get Buttered Up” campaign in honor of National Dairy Month, we are proud to be able to give back to consumers in a small way through our weekly affirmations but also in a large way by supporting our local food pantry at the completion of the campaign in the best way we know how: donating our authentic 84% butterfat Amish Roll Butter in the hopes that it will nourish local families as much as it has our own.”

Each product produced at Minerva Dairy is defined by attention to detail. From the ingredients to the production process and from the taste to the texture, supreme quality sets the fifth generation-run company apart. Honoring the time-tested process that gives Amish Roll Butter its rich flavor and supreme quality, each product boasts qualities that define excellence for Minerva Dairy. The company features small-batch churned, rBST free, antibiotic-free, vegetarian and gluten free butter with 84% butterfat, a standard that set its Amish Roll Butter apart from commodity butter. The Amish Roll Butter reflects the company’s passion for bringing consumers the very best dairy available from healthy, grass-fed, pasture-raised cows.

About Minerva Dairy

Minerva Dairy is America’s oldest family-owned dairy, producing traditionally made cheese and butter from pasture-raised cows. Five generations strong, the Minerva Dairy family continues to use farm-fresh milk, old fashion churns and wholesome ingredients. It takes consumers back to an era when lifestyles were simpler, invites them to slow down and enjoy each product with their families just as the Minerva Dairy family has since 1894.

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Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts #TheRecipeReDux ReDuxer Inspired Recipe

Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts

Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts dazzle your tastebuds and leave you wanting more! Easy, baked and oh yes, bacon!

Cinnamon Bacon Doughnut tray

This month Recipe ReDux turns our attention inward!

June Theme: Celebrate a ReDuxer!

For ReDux’s birthday month, let’s celebrate each other! Pick a fellow ReDuxer, go to their blog and either make one of their recipes or create one of your own inspired by theirs. In your post, give your readers a little intro to this blogger, what you like about this blogger/their blog and either link to their recipe you made or share your brand new “inspired” creation.

I’ve been a member of The Recipe ReDux for almost 3 years! Each month we focus our recipes around a theme.

I met a lot of great, supportive bloggers though the group.

More about the Recipe ReDux.

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As the first and only recipe challenge founded by registered dietitians, The Recipe ReDux is focused on taking delicious dishes, keeping them delicious, but making them better for you. Dietitians Regan Jones (ofReganMillerJones, Inc.), Serena Ball and Deanna Segrave-Daly (both of Teaspoon Communications) founded the group on the belief that healthier eating should always taste delicious. As the Latin term “redux” means to revisit or reinvent, we are reinventing the idea of healthy eating with a taste-first approach. We aim to inspire the food lover in every healthy eater and inspire the healthy eater in every food lover.

My inspiration for this post is Shashi  and her blog,  Runnin Srilankan .

I love her motto: Always Happy. Mostly Healthy. Never Hungry. In every post Shashi takes us into her world through stories of family, food, career, friends and running.

Shashi also always has a nice thing to say about other bloggers and their recipes. I love her fun comments on my posts.

If you are looking for a new spin on curry, a healthy remake on an old favorite like Shepherd’s Pie or something entirely new you won’t be disappointed. Many of her recipes are gluten-free.
I chose to remake her Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts. What a delicious sounding combo, right? I thought you would agree.

Cinnamon Bacon Doughnut

Shashi’s original Cinnamon Bacon Doughnuts version is gluten-free and milk-free. I used brown sugar, 2 percent milk and all-purpose flour in mine. You can find her recipe HERE.

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Food For Thought… Who inspires you to create new recipes? Maybe it’s your spouse or your kids. Is it a parent, friend or blogger? Please leave your comment below!

 

Enjoy all these delicious ReDuxer tribute recipes from The Recipe ReDux!


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