Whole Wheat Goldfish Crackers

A couple months ago, I had a stinking major computer crash and lost mucho.  Among the forever-lost data, I thought I had lost these pictures!!  Guess not.  :)  Now you can enjoy one of my favorite snack recipes I've ever tasted...

Back in March, my friend Courtney and I were chatting about one of our favorite food bloggers and, in particular, about one of her posts - whole wheat goldfish crackers.  We had identical initial reactions..."Who in the world has tiny fish cookie cutters?!"

A few weeks later I had to buy some ingredients online for a "hired cake pop job" and decided to get them from the same website as SK's goldfish cookie cutter!  I ordered my sprinkles and my fishie and couldn't wait to show Courtney what I had done. haha.

Well, us being us, our schedules clashed until the very end of the summer.  Alas, we were able to meet and make cute little fishies!  She bought another cutter of a slightly different shape so we had two breeds.

I won't tell you what's so funny about this picture, but I had to put it
on here to give Courtney a laugh...plus she's cute!

Seriously, you have to make these.  They really taste like goldfish crackers!

apparently my wedding ring was still safely tucked away in my
pocket from messy dough rolling...

Here is the recipe.  Better print it now just in case.

Pie for Dinner

What do you do when you are a first-time gardener and it's too much of a success?

Make pie!

There are some steps to it, but it's really quite simple and surprisingly delicious - as TOH already dubbed it...

Start out by baking your pastry shell.  Let it cool.  Put an even first layer of tomatoes down.  I used cherry tomatoes because I have an abundance of them in my garden.  It calls for plum tomatoes, but personally I love the bite-sizes....

Evenly sprinkle the green onions next.

Next, layer the rest of the tomatoes on top.

Sprinkle with the basil, salt and pepper.  Spread the mayo/cheese mixture next.

Lastly, sprinkle the bacon and Parmesan.

Even though it says it serves 8, if you're serving it as an entree, it's closer to 4 or 5...  However, it'd be a great side to something and THEN, yes, it would serve closer to 8 people!

Print the recipe here.

Happy Summer Cooking!

Chili & Cornbread

I renamed this to be called Marvelous Beef Chili.  I'm a chili lover and am absolutely saving this recipe forever.  That's all.

This cornbread was very moist.  Surprisingly.  It was the first recipe I cooked out of the A Taste of Oregon cookbook we I received for our wedding and, in Mike's words, "didn't taste like any cornbread we'd ever had before."  It's sweeter than most but the most refreshing part of it was that it didn't taste like you were putting a spoonful of dry bread crumbs into your mouth.  Yes, I'm saving this one, too.  Taste of Oregon, you are 1 and 0!

Print the Chili recipe here.
Print the Cornbread recipe here.