FOR A PRINCESS RECIPES about 1 quart of spread) ½ LB. BOLOGNA – 3 STALKS CELERY – 1 C
SWEET PICKLE RELISH 1 TSP PAPRIKA – 1 C MAYONNAISE Run everything but the mayo through a fine food grinder twice -or- process in food processor until fine but not liquid. Cut Whole Bologna into pieces before use.Put the fine mixture into a mixing bowl and add the mayo. Mix with a wooden spoon until all is a smooth, moist, spreading consistency.
Trim crusts from fresh bread (wheat and white are nice). Spread one slice of bread thickly with mix, top with another slice, and cut corner to corner into four small triangles. Cover and refrigerate up to three hours. You can use 2 slices white or wheat, or one slice of each per sandwich. A variety is pretty.
Peanut Butter at room temperature ( or 1 cup of each) ½ C Grape Jelly — ½ C Mint Jelly Mix Grape Jelly into one cup of the Peanut Butter, and the Mint Jelly into the other cup, blending well. Trim crusts from fresh bread (wheat and white are nice). Spread once slice of bread thickly with mix, top with another slice, and cut into three equal ‘fingers’. You can use 2 slices white or wheat, or one slice of each per sandwich. A variety is pretty. Cover and refrigerate up to two hours.
8 oz Whipped Cream Cheese 4 oz. Crushed Pineapple, drain well, reserve juice 2 T Mayonnaise — 2 T Reserved Juice 4 drops Yellow Food Coloring Cream together the Mayo, Pineapple Juice, and softened Cream Cheese, until well blended and creamy. Mix in the drained Crushed Pineapple. Add food coloring 1 drop at a time, until desired color. Mixture must be room temperature to be soft enough to spread easily on banana nut bread. If using your own nut bread, cut thin slices and then use a whiskey glass or other small cutter to cut round circles (small, shaped cookie cutters would also work well). When using cylindar can of bread, just remove the roll of bread from the can and slice thinly. Spread one circle thickly with filling, top with another circle. Continue until all is used up. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
You need to drain the pineapple very well before adding it to the gelatin, but the juice can be measured to replace half of the cold water in the original box recipe, and ginger ale or lemon soda for the rest of the cold water in original recipe. If you have a pretty jello-mold use it, if not a cake dish will do. Cool Whip makes a pretty topping for each serving. 2 Quarts of Ginger Ale 1 Orange Sliced — I Lemon Sliced Ice Cubes — Punch Bowl Prepare the Kool-Aid according to instructions—Chill overnight. Chill the unopened Ginger Ale overnight. To Serve: Put the Chilled Kool-Aid into a punch bowl. Stir in the Chilled Ginger Ale. Add the Ice Cubes. Float the fruit slices on the top.
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Tags: I Smell a Memory, Traditions
Celebrations are another essential component to successful family connections. Everybody has a need to be a queen or king for a day. Even when people say, “don’t make a fuss over me” – they secretly want to have others celebrate their occasions and accomplishments (big or small, it doesn’t matter). It doesn’t have to be an elaborate affair, but acknowledgment of those that you love means alot to one’s self-worth and helps to keep those DOTS CONNECTED.
I am very fortunate to come from a family with a legacy of celebrations. Dots started to connect way before I was born. I am sharing a story that my mother wrote about her 6th birthday party – a party that she remembered and cherished for decades. The story gives a nice outline for a super kids party – but more importantly, it reveals the underlying message of the “Celebrations” section of this blog: taking the time to honor and recognize those we love will build memories and bonds that last a lifetime. So, with tears in my eyes, I turn over the rest of today’s Celebrations blog to the “Six Party” (as told by my Mom).
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Somehow, my mother always made me feel I was the most important little girl in her
world. She never went out of her way to spoil me, yet she never missed doing the
loving “extras”. I can only hope that I have left the same feeling in my family that she left with me as I remember those early years. Like any youngster, the prime day of
the year for me was my birthday, which fell on April 2. No fool was I, but darn close!! Mom played right along with my feeling of being special and executed a big party for me every birthday for thirteen years. I’m sure there were family celebrations after that, but she produced the traditional ‘invitations/decorations’ type until I was in the seventh grade.
It came to pass that about two months before my sixth birthday, I went into the princess stage of my young life. I would dress up in one of Mom’s old dresses, put a They sent out invitations with a silver crown decoration, which For Princess Joanne On The Occasion of Her Sixth Birthday To Be Held on April 2, 1942 At The Royal Castle on 1010 Main Street” A fever of activity (theirs) and expectation (mine) took over for the next two weeks. I
was beside myself with anticipation! On the big day, silver and blue
streamers wove their way among what seemed like hundreds of balloons that decorated the rooms of the castle. I greeted my subjects in my lovely blue taffeta gown and ‘silver’ tiara (left over from New Years Eve), from my throne in the living room. It’s amazing what an armchair on an orange crate, all draped with a red quilt, can do for the regal bearing of a six-year-old! We played London Bridge, Catch the Prince, and Pin the Crown on the Princess–by this time I had descended from the throne to join the masses–until we were all hungry and thirsty. Aunt Helen magically appeared in front of the sliding doors to the dining room and blew three long toots on a toy horn she held in her hand. “The Royal Banquet is served!” she announced. Those were the days when a parent or two brought their child to the party and stayed for the fun, therefore many were the “ooohs and ahhhs” when we were ushered into the Royal Banquet Room for refreshments. That banquet table: Oh My! It wasn’t a bit ‘Italian’! Tiny triangle sandwiches on sliced “American” bread with special sandwich spread fillings; little circles of banana nut bread sandwiched a luscious cream cheese and pineapple spread; bowls of potato chips and pretzels; Royalty Gelatin Salad; and a sparkling bowl of Princess Party Punch surrounded a huge sheet cake that proclaimed: HAPPY SIXTH BIRTHDAY TO PRINCESS JOANNE! When it came time to blow out the candles, I knew that I already had my wish–
A Party For A Princess!
PARTY FOR A PRINCESS** MENU PEANUT AND JELLY FINGERS CREAMY BANANA NUTBREAD CIRCLES POTATO CHIPS ““ PRETZEL STICKS ROYALTY GELATIN SALAD BLOW OUT THE CANDLES BIRTHDAY CAKE PRINCESS PARTY PUNCH **With just a little bit of ingenuity, this
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