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Ore Ida Just Crack an Egg

With Just Crack an Egg breakfast bowls, you’re less than two minutes from hot, fluffy scrambled eggs packed with all the fixings.

Simply crack a fresh egg over our chopped veggies, shredded cheese, hearty meats and Ore Ida Potatoes, then stir, microwave, and enjoy.

Explore all of the scrambled egg breakfast bowls and prepare for love at first bite.

 

 

Holiday Painted Cookies

Recipe & photos from McCormick

Make a quick and easy glaze for cookies by warming canned white frosting in the microwave. Then paint colorful designs on the cookie shapes using Flavor Paints – a fragrant mix of vanilla or lemon extract and food color.

Prep time: 45 min  •  Cook time: 10 min •  Calories: 313 •  Makes: 24 servings

INGREDIENTS

 

DIRECTIONS

  1. Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in medium bowl. Set aside. Beat sugar and butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; mix well. Gradually stir in flour mixture on low speed until well mixed. Refrigerate 2 hours or until firm.
  2. Preheat oven to 375°F. Roll dough on generously floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut out shapes with holiday cookie cutters. Place on ungreased baking sheets.
  3. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets 1 minute. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
  4. Spoon 1 container of the frosting into medium microwavable bowl. Microwave on HIGH 20 to 30 seconds, stirring every 10 seconds. (Frosting should be a pourable consistency.) Dip tops of cookies into frosting. Microwave remaining container of frosting as needed. Place frosted cookies on wire rack set over foil-covered baking sheet. (The baking sheet will catch drips.) Let stand 10 minutes or until frosting is dried.
  5. Prepare desired colors of Holiday Flavor Paints (see below). Using small clean paint brushes, paint designs on cookies.

Holiday Flavor Paints:

Winter Sky: 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Lemon Extract and 2 drops McCormick® Blue Food Color

Holly Berry: 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract and 1/4 teaspoon McCormick® Red Food Color

Rosy Cheeks: 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract and 5 drops McCormick® Red Food Color

Coal: 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract and 1/4 teaspoon McCormick® Black Food Color

Evergreen: 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Lemon Extract and 1/4 teaspoon McCormick® Green Food Color

Candle Light Yellow: 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Lemon Extract and 1/4 teaspoon McCormick® Yellow Food Color

Tinsel: 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract and 1 drop McCormick® Black Food Color

Instead of Flavor Paints, try decorating with Colorful Cookie Icing. Mix 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, 3 to 4 teaspoons milk and 1/2 teaspoon McCormick Pure Vanilla Extract in small bowl. (Stir in additional milk as needed to thin icing or more confectioners’ sugar to thicken, if needed.) Place small amount of icing into small shallow bowls, using one bowl for each color desired. Stir 3 to 4 drops McCormick Assorted Food Colors & Egg Dye into icing until desired shade is reached. To ice cookies, hold cookie by its edge and dip top of cookie into icing. (Or spoon the icing onto cookie using a teaspoon.) Place iced cookies on wire rack set over foil-covered baking sheet to dry. (The foil-covered baking sheet will catch drips.) To add decorative details to cookies, spoon tinted icing into resealable plastic bag. Snip off a tiny piece of the corner. Squeeze icing through hole in plastic bag to decorate cookies. If desired, Colored Sugar may be sprinkled onto freshly iced cookies.

Reproduced with permission. Copyright © 2018 McCormick & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Taste You Trust™

 

 

Edible Holiday Bouquets

We just love the uniqueness of edible fruit or vegetable bouquets. They’re healthy, vegan, decorative and suitable for all occasions. What’s more, they’re easy to make – you just need a variety of produce and herbs, wooden skewers, craft or decorative paper, and twine. You can embellish your design by adding colourful ribbon, burlap, dish towels, and a host of other items. Give as gifts or use for stunning, sculptural table centerpieces.

To make

  1. Insert wooden skewers into fruit or vegetables.
  2. Arrange and assemble skewered produce into a bouquet and tie securely with twine.
  3. Tuck in herbs, greenery, and other items.
  4. Wrap, and cover ends of wooden skewers with craft or decorative paper, a dish towel, burlap, or other fabric. Alternatively, you may even consider forgoing the wrap altogether and place your arrangement in a decorative container.

Make an edible flower. Use bean sprouts for the petals and fresh chive greens for the center of the flower (stamens).

Here’s a few suggestions for inspiration:

Christmas Vegetable Bouquet – cabbage, kale, red onion, cauliflower, mushrooms, garlic, purple grapes, sprigs of fir and pine cones.

Christmas Fruit Bouquet – apples, citrus, starfruit, kumquats, red chili peppers, fir sprigs, red rose hips and pine cones.

Guacamole Lovers – avocado, plum tomatoes, limes, garlic, onions, red chili peppers, and cilantro. If gifting, complete with tortilla chips.

A Taste of Italy – red potatoes, asparagus, red bell peppers, zucchini, onions, garlic, cremini mushrooms, fennel, and oregano.

Back to Your Roots – carrots, beets, parsnips, sweet potatoes, onions or shallots, ginger, garlic, thyme, oregano, and parsley.

Winter Whites – leeks, white onions, cauliflower, celery root, sunchoke, parsnip, daikon, bok choy, turnip, romanesco, and garlic – use any combination and accent with herbs such as rosemary, thyme, and sage. Tuck in sprays of Bermuda Cedar (Juniperus bermudiana) – the blue berries make a striking accent.

The combinations are endless, so unleash your creativity and surprise friends and family with a gift you can eat!

 

Avocado & Fried Shrimp Crisps

Potato crisps with avocado filling and fried shrimp flavored with herbs make an elegant and delicious appetizer for a cocktail party.

Makes: 24 appetizers

 

Ingredients

For the shrimp

  • 3 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
  • 3/4 cup fresh parsley leaves
  • 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves
  • 2 tablespoons chopped green onions
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 24 jumbo shrimp (about 1 1/2 pounds), peeled and deveined

For the Avocado Salsa

  • 2 large avocados
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 1 green chile pepper, seeds removed, finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh coriander leaves
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed

24 Lays Stax Crisps (or you can substitute with tortilla scoops)

 

Directions

  1. For the avocado filling, place all the ingredients in a bowl and gently combine. Set aside.
  2. Combine 2 tablespoons olive oil with parsley, basil, green onions, lemon juice, orange juice, mustard, salt, pepper, and garlic in a food processor. Process until smooth. Place mixture in a bowl; add shrimp and stir to coat. Marinate in refrigerator for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  3. Heat remaining oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Remove shrimp from marinade and add to skillet; sauté 3 minutes or until shrimp are thoroughly cooked (opaque).
  4. To assemble: Fill each potato crisp with avocado salsa. Nestle one shrimp into salsa filling. Repeat until all crisps are complete. Arrange on a platter and serve immediately.

 

Parade of Penguins Appetizer

We think these waddle of penguins are just the cutest appetizers for your holiday entertaining.

Makes: 12 penguin appetizers

Ingredients

12 Bite-size Mozzarella balls, patted dry with paper towel
2 Carrots
12 Sweet Red Banana Peppers
24 Pitted Black Olives, drained and dry
8 oz. Cream Cheese, room temperature
toothpicks

Directions

1. Wash and peel carrots; pat dry with a paper towel. Cut into 1/4-inch round slices. Cut a wedge/triangle out of each carrot slice, and set aside to use for beaks.

2. Cut 12 black olives in half.

3. Cut ends off red banana peppers for hats. Use a small paring knife to hollow out.

4. In a small bowl, mix cream cheese until soft and creamy. Fit a piping bag with a small round tip. Fill bag with cream cheese.

To assemble: Insert a toothpick into carrot slice. Thread on a mozzarella ball to sit on top of carrot slice. Follow with a whole black olive, making sure the hole in olive faces toward front. Next fill red pepper santa hat with cream cheese. Place on top of whole olive. Pipe a small amount of cream cheese into olive hole and then insert carrot beak.  For wings, fill each olive half with cream cheese and attach to each side of mozzarella ball. Finish by piping around santa hat and add a pom pom to top of hat.