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Spring Brunch

March 29, 2010 By Rachel 21 Comments

Scalloped Potatoes, Coffee Malts, Berry Lemonade, Macaroni and Cheese and Ham.

glazed ham table of food

All featured, devoured and LOVED at our Spring Brunch last weekend.

(full disclosure:  I hosted the Spring Brunch House Party as a part of my Kitchenista fabulousness)

I’m going to show y’all the video and then share the insanely delicious and easy recipes.

Now that you’re rockin’ to the tunes and drooling over the recipes.. I’m going to share a few recipes with you.

As part of my Kitchenista “ista-ness”  I got to host a Spring Brunch House Party and had friends over to eat, play, laugh and welcome Spring.

The biggest hit of our Spring Brunch had to be the Scalloped Potatoes.  They were kind of ridiculously easy to make and I must admit, that while I’ve always been a bit intimidated by scalloped potatoes… these potatoes were crazy easy to make and only could have been easier if I’d had a mandolin.   Still, slicing each potato by hand.. not really that big a deal.

With Easter this weekend and many other spring parties and summer bbq’s coming up.. this is a recipe that you need to bookmark, it’s delicious, simple and crowd pleasing.

Scalloped Potatoes

sliced potatoes

Recipe: New Look Scalloped Potatoes and Ham

Ingredients

  • 4 1/2 lb red potaotes (9 ish, cut into 1/4 inch thick slices)
  • 16 oz Fat free Sour Cream
  • 3/4 lb (12 oz) Velveeta, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
  • 1/2 lb Oscar Mayer Smoked Ham, chopped
  • 4 green onions
  • 1/4 C Kraft Grated Parmesan Cheese

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 350
  2. Cook potatoes in boiling water in large covered saucepan 10 to 12 minutes or until potatoes are JUST tender.
  3. Remove 3/4 of the potatoes; place in a large bowl. Add sour cream and mash until smooth. Stir in Velveeta, ham and onions. Gently mix in remaining potato slices.
  4. Spoon into a 9X13 baking dish that has been coated with baking spray; top with parmesan.
  5. Bake 30 minutes

Quick Notes

* I used 6 green onions stalks * I used the Kraft 3 Cheese Blend because it’s my favorite

Variations

* I added 2 tsp fresh ground pepper

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I wish that I’d gotten a good picture of this macaroni and cheese.  It was silly easy to make and everyone devoured it.  I actually caught Nathan eating it cold out of the serving bowl at the end of the day.
I used wheel shaped pasta because when I went shopping I had the 3 yo Monkey with me and that’s what he requested.
wheel pasta

Recipe: Easy Macaroni and Cheese

Ingredients

  • 2 cups (8 oz.) elbow macaroni, uncooked
  • 3/4 lb. (12 oz.) Velveeta cheese product, cut up
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1/8 tsp. pepper

Instructions

  1. Cook macaroni as directed on package; drain well. Return to pan.
  2. Add remaining ingredients; mix well. Cook on low heat until Velveeta is melted, stirring frequently.

Quick Notes

I added: * 1/4 C Cream Cheese * 1 extra Tbsp pepper * used the whole 16 oz of Velveeta Quite seriously y’all.. this was the EASIEST and most delicious Mac and Cheese I’ve ever made

Variations

* I used the wheel pasta because that’s what the 3 yo wanted when we were at the store.

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The Easter Ham Recipes can be found Here
The Berry Lemonade Recipe can be found Here
This party was hosted as a part of my Kitchenista “istaness” and while my time is compensated, the opinions are entirely my own.
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Cheesy Spinach and Bacon Dip

February 1, 2010 By Rachel 7 Comments

I teased y’all with this picture in the Mouthwatering Monday post.  Well, now that my internet is back and working properly again, I can share the recipe goodness with y’all.

Let’s talk about Velveeta and bacon and green chilies and spinach and tomatoes all melted together to form a mouthwateringly delicious dip that is perfect for football parties, birthday parties or just because.

Why should we talk about this? Well, because it’s awesome and everyone should be eating it and because it just happens to be the recipe that I made for my first Kitchenista Vlog ;-) and teased y’all about yesterday.

Since January is both Nathan’s birthday month and a BIG Football month here with Nathan’s favorite team of all time, The Colts, who have been tearin’ up the fields, kickin’ trash and takin’ names… we’ve been doing a lot more casual eating, with what we call “football food”. Lots of finger foods, appetizers and the like, so when my Velveeta recipes came in my e-mail it was a no brainer to choose a hearty dip chock full of bacon and spinach and zesty Ro*Tel tomatoes and green chilies!

This dip was super quick to make and the only alteration that I made to the original Velveeta recipe was to use the Mexican Velveeta because we love us a little it of heat!

Normally in my vlogs I’ll let you watch me cook and you’ll see more of me and my kitchen, this time however, we were in the middle of a little DIY re-working of our kitchen cabinets and EVERYTHING from inside my cabinets and drawers was on my counters; the drawers and doors were in the garage… and my kitchen was a disaster, which I think actually proves just how easy this dip is to make because I was able to make it in the midst of chaos.


Cheesy Spinach and Bacon Dip

click the title to go to the Velveeta site for the original recipe

A Southern Fairytale

Cheesy Spinach and Bacon Dip

  • 1 (10 oz) package frozen spinach, thawed and drained
  • 1 lb (16 oz) Mexican Velveeta, cubed
  • 4 oz (1/2 and 8 oz pkg) Philadelphia Cream Cheese, cubed
  • 1 (10 oz) can Ro*Tel Tomatoes and Green Chilies, NOT drained
  • 8 slices, Bacon.  Cooked and Crumbled (I might have used 10)
  1. Cook the bacon (if you place bacon in a cold skillet and heat from there, your bacon won’t curl up as much), set aside and crumble.
  2. Cube the Velveeta and the cream cheese; open the can of Ro*Tel
  3. Put all the ingredients in a microwave safe bowl and cook for about 2 minutes in the microwave.  Stir, cook for another 2 to 3 minutes.

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Serve with your favorite chips and veggies

I hope that y’all make this dip and that y’all get a kick out of my Vlog.

Y’all make sure that you visit the Velveeta It! Kitchenistas FB fan page and see what my fellow Kitchenistas are cooking up!!

Now for that transparency/disclosure part of the program: I have partnered with VELVEETA to serve as one of five VELVEETA it! Kitchenistas. I have been compensated for my time commitment to the program, which includes vlogging about my cooking experiences with VELVEETA and developing one original VELVEETA-based recipe. I have also been compensated for the food purchased for my VELVEETA vlogs. However, my opinions are entirely my own and I have not been paid to publish positive comments.

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