What could be more fun and festive than a Halloween pumpkin patch of your own, right on your dinner plate? These little cuties are made from sweet potatoes, baked to crispy perfection! Fun, delicious, and the perfect comfort food on a chilly Autumn day! These little cuties are made from sweet potatoes, baked to crispy perfection! I don’t like to share a recipe that I have not yet tweaked to near perfection, but I’m sharing this one early because it’s a Halloween recipe. At the end of the article, I will talk about how I will be changing and hopefully…
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Happy “Bird” Day Celebration – our Evie Bird’s Birthday Celebration. You may have noticed that we love giving each other nicknames (Evie, Feather, Peggo, etc.). We also love personalizing every celebration and playing with words. When we needed a theme for our little Evie Bird’s birthday, it just seemed natural that we would have a bird-day party instead of a birthday party! As soon as we saw these beautiful plates covered in birds, lace, tea-cups and flowers we knew they would be perfect for her Springtime bird-day party, as well as Mother’s Day! The bird plates and napkins are…
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This amazing Pecan Mini-Pie recipe is a family favorite that we have been making for at least 25 years. Our traditional recipe uses Walnuts, but to celebrate the Kentucky Derby, we wanted to make mini pecan pies — so we swapped the walnuts for pecans. Some folks call these Tassies, others call them Tartlets but today we are calling them Mini Derby Pies because they are part of our Kentucky Derby Soiree! This amazing Pecan Mini-Pie recipe is a family favorite that we have been making for at least 25 years. Read more about that here – where you’ll find lots…
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Benedictine Spread Recipe This Kentucky Derby staple was brand new to us, and it received rave reviews from all in attendance at our Kentucky Derby Soiree! I didn’t take any pictures of the process of making the spread or the canapes, but I’ll do my best to describe it all! The ingredients were just the basics: 1 block of Cream Cheese 1/4 cup of Sour Cream 1 whole Cucumber, finely grated 1/4 of a White Onion, finely minced The key to this recipe was the draining of the excess moisture from the Cucumber and the onion. The way we accomplished this was by…
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Kentucky Derby Hot Brown Bake Recipe In our home, when we find a new event to celebrate we are always very excited. We love all the research and exploration of the traditions or customs behind any event we are about to celebrate for the first time. We love the decorating and all of the creative challenges that come along with it, but one of our family’s favorite parts of a new celebration is trying new foods. It feels so adventurous to try new things, even if it is from the safety of your very own dining room! At the same…
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Kentucky Derby Festivities underway! Here in the Hickey home, we have never attended the Kentucky Derby, or a Kentucky Derby soiree, but with a little bit of research and creativity we have cobbled together our own little version of the festivities here at home. My fear was that it would end up looking too much like a Christmas party in May, but I think we actually pulled off a festive Derby look! The only things we knew would definitely be part of the table design would be lots of plaid, silver, horses and red roses. We used some dollar tree…
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Are you a Easter Feaster? Did you have an Easter Feast? We did! It is my sincerest hope that nothing I ever post on this blog ever comes across as bragging in any way. It is my wish that that the only thing this blog does is spread joy and serve as a reminder to celebrate every moment. I can clearly recall past Easters where life had not been so kind and we could not fit an Easter Feast into the budget or I had simply lost the ability to celebrate or appreciate much of anything — we just skipped…
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Welcome Springtime!I am always up for a cupcake party, and the First Day of Spring is a perfect excuse for one!We had intended to make these cupcakes as a St Patrick’s Day treat — sort of an end-of -the-rainbow pot-of-gold Leprechaun thing — but the time got away from us and we didn’t make that deadline.Instead these cupcakes are in celebration of the first day of Spring (even if it does look like Springtime on the North Pole right now outside).They are Key Lime cake with a cloud of Vanilla frosting swirled high and a candy rainbow on top.The taste is light and…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Top ‘O the mornin’ to ya!Here’s hoping that you don’t get pinched, and that you find your pot of gold!This year we pulled it all together for a St. Patrick’s Day feast! We kicked around lots of ideas for St. Patrick’s dinner that would be outside the box of the traditional corned beef and cabbage, but the old standard came back by popular demand.I had a hard time convincing Peggo that we should try corned beef one more time before giving up on this St. Patrick’s day staple. A sale on corned beef and the fact that…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! With an Irish name like Hickey, people kind of expect us to celebrate good ole St. Patty’s Day. After discovering that the ‘traditional’ St. Patrick’s Day dinner of Corned Beef and Cabbage may NOT even be a traditional Irish dish, we decided to explore the alternatives.