Easter, Deviled Eggs, & myPhone

Happpppy Monday!

Hope y'all had a GREAT Easter weekend! I did.

I made the Boo and I a little Easter dinner just for the two of us. In between the 5 services he had to do at church yesterday, we had a couple hours to enjoy dinner.

Of course, I forgot to take pictures of everything.
Whoopies!

I managed to snap a few pictures from my iPhone--so that's what you get.

I don't think this recipe will be too useful to you now that Easter's done--but hey, there's always next year, right? And who knows, maybe you'll make deviled eggs a weekly staple for you?
No?

Deviled Eggs

What you need:
6 hard boiled eggs
1 green onion
1/3 cup mayonaise
1 tablespoon of dijon mustard (regular mustard will suffice if you don't have dijon)
2 dashes on hot sauce
1 teaspoon of white wine vinegar
salt & pepper, to taste
paprika, for sprinkling

It starts with hard boiled eggs. Here it is, the secret recipe. It's tricky, are you ready?

1. Put 6 eggs in a saucepan.
2. Cover the eggs with cold water--1 inch higher than the top of the eggs.
3. Put 1 tablespoon of vinegar in the water. (This keeps an egg from spreading if it breaks open. It helps it coagulate.)
4. Bring the eggs to a boil.
5. Let them boil for 1 minute.
6. Remove from heat and cover.
7. Let sit in water for 14 minutes.
8. Move eggs to a bowl of ice water--this will stop the cooking.

Tada! Perfect hard boiled eggs.

Okay. So, after the eggs have cooled, cut them in half lengthwise. Remove the yolks into a bowl, and put the eggs on a plate.

To the yolks, add the rest of the ingredients besides the paprika.

With a fork, mash up the yolks and mix all the ingredients together.

Put the filling into a piping bag, and pipe into the eggs. If you don't have a piping bag, cut the corner off a ziplock bag.... Or you can scoop it in with a spoon.

Sprinkle the eggies with paprika, and serve cold!

Yum yum.

I literally had 3 of these. Paul ate the rest. 

Not bad pics for a phone, eh?


Speaking of my iPhone. I got it 4 days ago. Immediately I ordered a phone cover off the internet.

The next day, I got insurance on it from Best Buy. (It's pretty sweet insurance, it's only $15 a month and you can break your phone as many times as you want and they just send it in and in like 3 days you get a new one. FANTASTIC, right? )

I've been doing realllllly well, trying to protect my phone.

Today--I dropped it. On the cement.
It shattered.

3 hours later, I got my case that I had ordered in the mail. Convenient.

ARG!

Well, tonight I went to the mall to send it into the Best Buy to get it fixed, and I decided to stop by The Apple Store quick, to see if there's anything they could do. (They did replace Paul's iPad (FOR FREE) when he left it on top of his car, and it fell into the middle of one of the busiest streets in town and got ran over several times before Paul went searching for it several hours later)

Welp, Apple is good. They fixed my phone. For free. No sending it in. No waiting. Fixed phone. No cracks. Free.

Yay Apple. Recommended, for sure.
(Nope, they didn't even pay me to say this to you.)

Pigs in a Blanket

Back to the dinners!

Yes, we have been eating dinner around here. Yes, I have been taking pictures of [most] everything. I just haven't gotten around to posting everything--I needed to take some time off for finals.

But now, finals are DONE! Break it here. Let the good times rolll.

I am sad, and slightly embarrassed to say that Pigs in a Blanket are quite the staple around the Yerrick household. They are pretty much our go-to dinner when I don't feel like cooking, but we don't feel like going out either, or if we're in need of a speedy dinner. The whole dealio, from start to finish, takes about 20 whole minutes.

You may be wondering, "Does she realllly need to share a recipe for Pigs in a Blanket? Doesn't everyone know how to make them?" My answer, my friends, is this: Yes. I need to share because, No, not everyone knows. Actually, most everyone makes them differently.

Now, for those few of you that are completely lost, wondering, WHAT THE HAY is a Pig in a Blanket? I mourn for you. I mourn for your childhood, lackless of little delicious piggies wrapped in crunchy, flaky blankets.

I present:

Pigs in a Blanket





What you'll need:
1 package of Lil'Smokies Cocktail Weenies (I got the cheese filled ones for extra deliciousness.)
1 package of crescent roll dough
salt & pepper
chili powder
garlic powder


Yep. That's really all you need. No, I'm not kidding.

Here's what you do, although you can probably figure it out from the picture...



Get your supplies ready.



Pop the can (I can never get the dang thing to pop...Just once I'd like it to pop normal without me having to bang it on the counter several times to dent it, UGH!) and roll out the dough on a sheet tray lined with foil.



Separate all the pre-cut triangles.

Now, those are too big for my Lil'Smokies, aren't they? Plus, there are about a million Lil'Smokies in a package and only 8 dough triangles. What to do, what to do?

I'll tell you:



Cut the dough triangles into 3 or 4 long-mini triangles with a pizza cutter. Tada! Now you have 8 times 3 or 4 (that's 24 or 32) pieces of dough for your million Lil'Smokies.

Let the rolling begin!




Put the Smokie on the fat side of the triangle and roll it towards the smaller end. It makes for a nicer presentation, and we all know, it's all about presentation on these suckers.



See? Gorgeous.
Keep on rollin' til you have a little weenie farm.




I just said weenie farm. Ha. I said it again.

Weenie farm, weenie farm, weenie farm. I need some coffee.

Well, now that that's done...This, folks, is where things are about to get craaazy.



Sprinkle them all with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and chili powder. Just for a little extra bit of flavor.

Bake in a preheated oven at 375˚ for 10-12 minutes, or until done.



This is what you get. Yum. Simple. Yummmm.





I'm guessing that most normal people don't eat these for dinner. We do. Don't judge. They are great for an appetizer or an after-school snack as well. For dinner, I usually pair them with Mac and Cheese and a vegetable of sorts, for  a well rounded meal.

I've also heard that Paula Dean has her own version of these. I'll have to look into that....

Apple Berry Salsa w/ Cinnamon Chips

I know I know, it's been a while. A long while. I have a lot to post, but no time to do it. Anywho, I have a quick, delicious recipe for you. This is a Pampered Chef recipe...I just tweaked it a bit.

(I doubled my recipe because I was bringing it to a party, you can half it and it will easily feed about 8 people.)

Apple Berry Salsa with Cinnamon Chips

Begin by peeling 4 Granny Smith Apples

Core them..

And give 'em a rough chop.

Next, peel and rough chop 2 kiwi's...Add them to the apples.

Next, chop 1 pint of strawberries, add them to the bowl. This salsa can be as chunky or a finely chopped as you like, I like it a little bigger so you can taste the flavors or the fruits.

Give everything a good toss, then add about 2 tablespoons of orange zest, and 2 tablespoons of orange juice.

Add 4 tablespoons of brown sugar, and 2 T of apple jelly (I actually used raspberry jelly...You can use whatever you want/have.)

Give everything a good toss and cover and refrigerate until chilled.

I made cinnamon chips to serve with the salsa.

1. Use 1 package of burrito sized flour tortillas and cut into chips. I used a pizza cutter and just stacked them up and sliced them into 8-10 slices.

2. Melt some butter and brush it on one side of the tortilla

3. Sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar

4. Bake on 350 until browned and crunchy, about 10 minutes. Watch carefully, it burns quickly.

(Make sure you only put butter and cinnamon sugar on ONE side, if you do both it melts and sticks to the pan and makes a great, big, ooey gooey, mess.)

Allow chips to cool and harden. Serve with salsa, yum :)