Fourth of July FEAST?!
Fourth of July FEAST?
what some things I can make for 4th of July celbration?
especially..Desserts?
Answers: FLAG CAKE
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Make this festive Flag Cake this Memorial Day or Fourth of July and be the talk of the party.
Ingredients
Margarine
Flour
1 package (2-layer size) white cake mix (plus ingredients to make cake-listed on box)
1 package (4-serving size) JELL-O brand gelatin, any red flavor
1 cup boiling water
1/2 cup cold water
3 1/2 cups (8-ounce container) Cool Whip brand whipped topping, thawed
1 pint strawberries, washed and sliced
1 cup blueberries, washed
1 cup Kraft miniature marshmallows
Tools
13 x 9 baking pan
Large fork (two-pronged type)
Medium mixing bowls
Mixer
Measuring cup
Rubber scraper or large spoon
Large tray or cutting board (must be larger than 13 x 9 pan)
Table knife
Aluminum foil
Directions
Grease 13 x 9 pan with margarine and dust lightly with flour. Prepare, mix and bake cake mix according to package directions. Cool cake for 15 minutes.
With large fork, make holes in cake about every 1/2 inch.
Pour gelatin into mixing bowl. Add cup of boiling water and use scraper to mix thoroughly until gelatin is completely dissolved. Use measuring cup to pour gelatin over cake. (It will run down into holes, making sliced cake have red stripes.)
Chill cake in refrigerator 3 to 4 hours.
Cover tray with aluminum foil.
Put about one inch of warm water in kitchen sink. Take pan out of refrigerator and dip bottom (don't let water come up over sides) into water for about 10 seconds. Put large tray on top of cake, and invert.
Frost sides and top with whipped topping. Arrange strawberries and marshmallows in alternating rows for stripes, leaving upper left for field of blueberries. Chill again until time to serve.
Best Ever Saucy Beef Kabobs
INGREDIENTS
2 cups tomato juice
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/3 cup ketchup
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 dash hot sauce
2 pounds beef sirloin, cut into 1 inch cubes
1/2 pound fresh mushrooms, stems removed
1 pint cherry tomatoes
1 large onion, quartered
1 large green bell pepper, cut into 1 inch pieces
skewers
DIRECTIONS
In a saucepan over low heat, mix the tomato juice, butter, onion, ketchup, mustard, salt, paprika, pepper, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce. Simmer for 30 minutes, remove from heat, and allow to cool.
Preheat grill for medium heat.
Thread the sirloin cubes, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, onion quarters, and green pepper pieces onto skewers, alternating as desired. Drizzle some of the sauce over the kabobs.
Oil the grill grate. Arrange kabobs on the grill. Grill 10 minutes, or until meat is cooked through, occasionally turning kabobs. Baste with sauce during the last 5 minutes.
And you'll love it! White cake with red jello mix, drizzled onto it. Cheesecake with bleuberries. You have to have watermelon, of course. A good dessert is to take a pie crust and fill it with frozen strawberries and blueberries or blackberries then put a little cool whip or whipped cream on there and you've got a quick and easy red white and blue pie! If you want to get really creatiove with it you can get a rectangular baking dish and line it with graham crakers or Nilla wafers for the crust then arrange the fruit and whipped cream to look like the flag. The blueberries or blackberries in the upper left corner and then the strawberries and whipped cream for the stripes. You could use star shaped sprinklesas well if you wanted. Things you can make for dessert is cake and pies.For instance choco;ate or lemon cake and apple or sweet patoatoe pie. But other foods you can do is barbecue, greens, spaghetti etc. try this
4 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 stick melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
mix and press in bottom of glass cake pan
1 large tub whip cream
2 8oz bars cream cheese soft
1 cup powdered sugar
mix well and spread over crust then take fresh blue berries and fresh strawberry half's and make the design of the flag{use blueberries for stripes and strawberries for the square with the stars Kraft foods has a great site for recipes. Go there and you can find just about anything you want. Soy dogs Grilled
Veggies Grilled
Veggi Burgers Grilled
Pasta Salas with Vegan Cheese
Veggi Baked Beans!!!
This meal is VERY GOOD!!!!