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Superbowl Recipe Contest

January 10, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 24 Comments

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL????

It’s coming!

I love this time of year,

Did you know that the Superbowl is the 2nd biggest food holiday in America?

Second only to Thanksgiving.

contests Superbowl Recipe Contest

It’s true.

So now it’s your turn.

Break out your best Superbowl recipes.

Post ‘em here….

Email them to me…

Make ‘em and ship ‘em to me!

Just get it here!

What do you win?

contests Superbowl Recipe Contest

No, you don’t win the Vince Lombardi trophy…

And yes, you know I was going to show my Pats…

What you do win is this Super Cool…

Bento Box Lunch Box

From those awesome folks over at Laptop Lunches

contests Superbowl Recipe Contest

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It’s super easy to put the fun back into your lunchmaking routine with lunch boxes that inspire you to pack wholesome foods your kids love and deserve. Your student will be the envy of the lunch room with our cool, bento boxes. Good for you. Good for the planet. Great for your kids.

It’s that simple.

Good. Simple. Fun.

Want it?

All you have to do is send in a recipe.

Yup, that’s it…just one recipe.

We’re looking for your very best Superbowl Recipe.

It can be a dip…

A soup…

Some wings…

Some skins…

Whatever it is get it to me and you can be the proud owner of this delightful lunch box.

And be featured right here on

Ma, What’s For Dinner?

As the winning recipe just before Superbowl.

Get on it!

Contest ends February 2nd!

Winner announced on February 4th.

contests Superbowl Recipe Contest

This contest is replacing our earlier contest for Valentines Day…seems you all have waaaaay more Superbowl Recipes than Valentines Day ones!

Pics courtesy of NFL.com and Wikipedia…Thanks!

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Once Bitten Twice Shy Cupcakes

October 29, 2010 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 15 Comments

Edward Cullen was here!

Ok, not quite, but aren’t these the perfect dessert to bring to your Halloween parties this weekend????
holidays Once Bitten Twice Shy Cupcakes

Vampire “kissed” Cupcakes

1 box store bought red velvet cupcakes

3 large eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 1/4 cup milk

1 container white cream cheese frosting

1/4 cup raspberry

6 drops red food coloring

1 T water

24 cup cake liners

holidays Once Bitten Twice Shy CupcakesPreheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Line your cupcake pan with your cupcake liners.  Set aside.

In a large bowl combine your cake mix, eggs, milk and oil.  Blend on low speed for 30 seconds.  Increase speed to medium and mix for 2 minutes.  Pour batter equally into cupcakes liners (makes 24 cupcakes) and bake for 19-22 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

While the cupcakes bake, mix your “blood.”  In a small bowl combine jelly, food coloring and water.  Mix until it is a blood like consistency.  I pour my mixture into a plastic squeeze bottle but you can just use a spoon if you don’t have one.

Once your cupcakes are cool, frost with cream cheese frosting.  Next take a stake like object (a candle, a kobob skewer, a sharp knife) and make two holes, like vampires teeth.  Then fill the holes with blood allowing it to drip down.  Voila…Your cupcakes have been bitten!

holidays Once Bitten Twice Shy Cupcakes

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Halloween Party Ideas

October 25, 2010 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 16 Comments

It’s coming!!!

It’s almost here!!!

It’s my favorite time of year!!!

It’s almost Halloween.

You know what that means…

It means that The Fitz Family Fright Fest is just around the corner!

And that’s when I get to strut my stuff and show you all the fun spooky recipes that I sit around thinking of all year.

Like…

holidays Halloween Party Ideas

Stake Bites with Bloody Mary Sauce and

holidays Halloween Party Ideas

Flayed Flesh on People Pancakes and

holidays Halloween Party Ideas

Dead Pigs in a Blanket and also

holidays Halloween Party Ideas

Eyeballs on a cracker…

Yes, we just love Halloween around here.  So stay tuned later in the week when I give you great recipes for your party.

Or just come by ours…

We’d love to have you.

holidays Halloween Party Ideas

If…You…Dare!

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Fitzpatrick Pizza Party

September 7, 2010 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 28 Comments

Oh I can feel, coming in the air tonight…

It feels like fall!

It’s coming!

This is my first fall back east in over 12 years. I’m sooooooo excited. So as the weather cools down we decided to heat up the kitchen.

You all know how we love our pizza.

Well, really, who doesn’t?

We do all kinds of pizza around here

We do BBQ Chicken Pizza

We do Grown Up Date Night Pizza

We do Pizza Puffs

We do Potato Pizza I mean we are Fitzpatricks after all

We do Muffin Man Pizzas

We even do Upside Down Pizza

For tonight I decided to use up the dough I had frozen from when I made the Date night pizza and slapped in on the pizza rock and we made pizza two ways…

Tomato

dinner Fitzpatrick Pizza Party

and Pesto

dinner Fitzpatrick Pizza Party

Both of which were great.  Why?  Because we topped them both with sauteed mushrooms, garlic, fresh mozzarella and wait for it…

PANCETTA!

Turns out I’m the only one who really likes the pesto.  Bummer, guess I’ll just have to eat it all myself.

They’re both delicious, here’s how you make them.

2 pizza dough (you can use store bought, from your local pizza joint, or try this recipe for homemade dough here)

1/4 cup prepared pesto sauce

1/4 cup pizza sauce (try the organic san marzano sauce from Whole Foods…YUM!!!)

2 large balls fresh mozzarella, sliced into thin discs

1/4 lb pancetta cut into large slices

8 oz sliced button mushrooms

8 oz sliced portobello mushrooms

3/4 cup shredded mozzarella

4 cloves garlic chopped fine

2 T olive oil

S&P

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees.  Heat a large skillet over medium high heat.  Heat up 1 T olive oil.  When it’s hot add in your pancetta.  Cook until crispy.  Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.  Add in an additional T of oil if needed.  Toss in your sliced mushrooms.  Saute until soft, about 8 minutes.  Add in your garlic and cook for an additional minute.  Turn off the heat and set aside.

dinner Fitzpatrick Pizza PartyNext stretch your dough to the desired size.  We went for small pizzas.  Slather one dough with your red pizza sauce, the pesto to the other.  Or you can mix your sauces and get a yummy basily good tomato sauce.  Sounds like another recipe brewin’… Top the sauce with mushrooms.  Top each with fresh mozzarella, then shredded mozzarella.  Top the cheese with the pancetta and bake each pizza for 15 minutes or until nice and bubbly.

Serve with a side salad.  Trust me, there’s no leftover pizza for the next morning on this one.  Yes I eat leftover pizza for breakfast.  Don’t judge, always have, always will.  Also eat leftover chinese for breakfast.

It’s my fave.  What’s yours?

dinner Fitzpatrick Pizza Party

dinner Fitzpatrick Pizza Party

dinner Fitzpatrick Pizza Party

dinner Fitzpatrick Pizza Party

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Doggies in a sleeping bag

August 5, 2010 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 16 Comments

Come on now, admit it, you love pigs in a blanket don’t you?  Every time I make the little version of these guys for the kiddos at a party or BBQ guess who eats them all?  Oh yeah, you know it, the parents.  EVERY.  SINGLE.  TIME.  I guess that shows that we’re all still kids at heart, and in my mind, that’s a good thing.

So I decided to whip up the big version of the party favorite for dinner as a special request.  My darlin’ (and sometimes downright wildman) Brady was looking at a beautiful scrapbook given to him by his best friend, Brody, in California when we moved earlier this year.  Ok, well Brody didn’t make the scrapbook but his mom, Corine, did.  It’s gorgeous and it’s a beautiful testament to Brady and Brody’s wonderful, though brief, friendship.  They met their first day of preschool at 2 years old and were instantly best buds.  Brady still reads it every night before he goes to bed.  Uh, yes, it’s the most adorable thing ever.  In the scrapbook there’s a picture of the boys at our Annual Fitzpatrick Family Halloween Haunt and Brady is eating a mini pig in a blanket.  For some reason yesterday Brady fixated on  that thing and begged ALL DAY LONG to have them for dinner.  So he climbed up on the counter and we made the big boy dinner version of mini pigs in a blanket…Doggies In A Sleeping Bag.

appetizers Doggies in a sleeping bag

Serves: 4                        Prep time: 10 minutes                        Cook time: 15 minutes

FOR THE DOGGIES:

8 hot dogs (can use reduced fat, turkey dogs, even tofu dogs)

½ c shredded cheese

½ c red pepper, diced

1 can crescent dinner rolls

FOR THE SAUCE:

½ c  ketchup

¼ c  mustard

2 T brown sugar

1 t garlic powder

3 T red wine vinegar

appetizers Doggies in a sleeping bagPreheat your oven to 375 degrees. Unroll your crescent rolls being careful to leave your squares intact, using 1 triangles for each doggie.  Set one square down on a cutting board.  Sprinkle with cheese and lay diced red pepper down on the right side of the square.  Place the doggie on top of the cheese and red pepper.  Pull the right side up over the doggie and roll toward the other side covering him up in his sleeping bag.  Repeat with other pieces.appetizers Doggies in a sleeping bag

Bake at 375 for 10-13 minutes until golden brown on top.  Serve with steamed veggies or salad and sauce for dipping.

What’s your favorite go to party food?

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Western Style Beef n’ Beans

April 1, 2010 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 1 Comment

dinner Western Style Beef n’ Beans

Serves: a big ol’ crowd Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time:  1 hour 25 minutes

3 lbs ground beef

2 medium onions, chopped

2 celery ribs, chopped

2 beef bouillion cubes

1 cup hot beef broth

2 (28 oz) cans baked beans with molasses

1 1/2 cups ketchup

1/4 cup prepared mustard

3 garlic cloves minced

S&P

1/2 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled

4 scallions diced

In a dutch oven over medium high heat cook your beef until browned.  Add in your onions and celery and cook until tender.  Drain off excess fat.  Dissolve your bouillon in warmed beef stock and add to meat mixture.  Stir in beans, ketchup, mustard, garlic, and S&P.  Mix well.  dinner Western Style Beef n’ Beans

Cover and bake at 375 degrees for 60-70 minutes.  Stir and top with bacon and scallions.  Serve alongside corn bread and honey butter.  Mmmm good.

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