Valentine Food and Snack ideas for you and your loved ones.

Valentines Day is a day for love. Food is a great way to show how much you love someone. These are some ideas that you can use when making your Valentine food or snacks. Most of these can be made by you, with your children’s help, if you choose.

Breakfast is going to be the first meal on Valentines day, so make it special.

Eggs-Cook the eggs in large heart shaped cookie cutters. You may need to put a non stick spray on the cutter to prevent the egg from sticking.

Breads-Mix red food coloring in cream cheese until you reach your preferred color, and spread on half a bagel. Use the cookie cutter to shape toast, pancakes, or waffles. Serve with strawberry jelly or whipped cream.

Meats-Use a smaller heart shaped cookie cutter to cut sausage. If your preferred meat is bacon you can break the bacon up and create shapes around the plate.

Oatmeal-Make your preferred oatmeal then slice strawberries in the bowl, or add food coloring.

Main Meals Items:

Sliders-Shape your meat patties into hearts. Serve open faced so people can see your work. You can make shapes with condiments to make it even more creative.

Pizzas-You can make mini heart pizzas by shaping an English muffin with a cookie cutter. Simply top the pizza with sauce and your favorite toppings, then toast. You can also make larger heart shaped pizzas by shaping home made dough, or even the frozen dough. Use the cheese to make special letters or words on the pizza.

This is just a couple of creative main dishes. You can always add your own touch. Make use of red food coloring, red vegetables, and even cookie cutters.

Desserts and Snacks:

Graham Cracker Valentine Cards-These are very simple, and great for kids. You simply use red and white icing to write names or notes on a large graham cracker. You can also add bright sprinkles to the icing.

Chocolate Covered-You can cover a lot of items with chocolate. Some of my favorites are strawberries, marshmallows, pretzels, and other fruit. To make them suitable for Valentines Day you can add red or white icing over the chocolate. You can make stripes, hearts, or other decorations. Another option would be to use white chocolate. You can use food coloring to give it bright valentine’s colors.

Valentine Rice Crispy Cupid Hearts-Mix the rice crispy treats as directed. Before shaping take about a third of the mixture out. Mix red food coloring into the larger bowl of the mixture. Shape the red batch into hearts on small plates. You can use the remainder of the mixture to make arrow shapes to attach to the hearts with toothpicks.

Fruit-You can shape a lot of fruit into hearts with cookie cutters. The ones that you can’t shape, you can place nicely on a plate. Serve your fruit with red whip cream.

Valentine Rice Crispy Cupid Hearts-Mix the rice crispy treats as directed. Before shaping take about a third of the mixture out. Mix red food coloring into the larger bowl of the mixture. Shape the red batch into hearts on small plates. You can use the remainder of the mixture to make arrow shapes to attach to the hearts with toothpicks.

Fruit-You can shape a lot of fruit into hearts with cookie cutters. The ones that you can’t shape, you can place nicely on a plate. Serve your fruit with red whip cream.

This is just a few creative Valentine food ideas. You can be creative with just about any foods you serve. All you will need is red food coloring, a couple of heart shaped cookie cutters, some colorful sprinkles, and a little creativity. If you have children they will love helping.
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INGREDIENTS

• cup APF
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1/4 cup powdered confectioners sugar
• 1/2 tablespoon green tea (matcha) powder
• 1 Teaspoon Green Tea leaves (finely ground)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 3-4 teaspoons water
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter (molten in microwave for 30 secs on high)
• 2 Tsp extra sugar for coating

PREPARATIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
2. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
3. Add vanilla, water, and butter.
4. Blend together using a blender until a dough forms.
5. Roll the dough into a sheet approx 1/3 inch thick.
6. Cover with parchment paper/cookie sheet & refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
7. Cut into 1 inch x1 inch squares using your pizza cutter.
8. Sprinkle the top with sugar.
9. Now place on baking
10. sheets and bake until the edges are just brown, about 15-18 minutes.
11. Let cool on sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire racks.

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Cheese and Bacon Twists are an easy party snack. Delicious puff pastry is combined with egg, bacon, cheese and parsley to create a flakey, crisp snack food that everyone will love – Give it a go! MY SECOND CHANNEL: www.youtube.com PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! au.youtube.com FOLLOW ME! www.twitter.com BECOME A FAN ON FACEBOOK! www.facebook.com =================RECIPE FACT SHEET ================= INGREDIENTS IN THIS DISH: 2 Sheets of Frozen Puff Pastry 1 Egg (Lightly Beaten) 250g Diced Bacon (Fried and Crispy) 50g Freshly Grated Parmesan Cheese (or your favourite cheese) 2 Teaspoons of Chopped Parsley Preparation Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes MAKES 18 TWISTS ALL MEASUREMENTS GIVEN ARE AUSTRALIAN STANDARD METRIC (Look up Google for a conversion chart if using Imperial) More cooking videos at: www.onepotchefshow.com Music by Kevin McLeod (Used with Permission)

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Oh-so-pretty and oh-so-easy to make party snacks ideas always make both the host and the guest smile. They just take 20 to 30 minutes to prepare, then served and disappear as soon the party starts. Party snacks ideas should follow the theme of the party as much of the glassware, Chinaware, silverware and crockery greatly depend on the formality of the party and so the drinks that will be served. Buffet is always a good choice unless it is a holiday or a weekend. Party snacking should not always mean fussy eating which may lead to nutrition deficiency. Rather they should complete at least some nutrition needs.

Party snacks ideas contains snacks recipes of variety to cater the mood of the party and gusto of the guests. Snacks are essentially used as starters and appetizers before going to main course and serves as the titbits, nibbled between the meals. Cheese dips, meatballs, chicken wing, fruit salad, cold pasta salad etc are some of the favourite continental snacks popular worldwide.  However, Indian snacks are becoming popular day in and day out, all over the world, especially for its unique spicy taste and variety.

Party Foods

Party snacks are classified according to different courses, which include appetizers, beverages, rotis, parathas, breads, rice, soups, desserts, snacks, salads, and sweets.The food served in a particular party can make the difference between a good or not-so- good ambience. Nonetheless, it is not an easy job to come up with tasty snack ideas, catering to diverse age group with varying health and taste. Chips, dips, fish finger, cutlets etc are our old favourites and people end up doing them over and over again. Do take a break from the usual party snacks recipes. In the next rendez vous and potluck, an array of sumptuous and delicious Indian snacks can be catered. Guests will love the difference and will be impressed by the change of flavour and colour.

They will be earnestly content at heart and full at stomach. The yummy easy-to-cook, easy-to-serve party snacks ideas can be kebabs, from reshmi kebab to shami kebab or a mixed platter; golden, crispy delicious prawn pakora served with Mint-Coriander Chutney; Chicken tiki; steamed momos, a fantastic appetizer from Sikkim, filled with any minced meat of choice; samosa, a specially designed crispy pastry filled with meat or mixed vegetables, goes best with tamarind chutney or mayonnaise, etc. Even one can make a fusion of chip and dip as an indianized concept – already proved by great chefs, to be a yummy idea.

Some Sizzling Appetizers

If you love good party and the host yourself, follow any one of the good and catchy party snack idea, which is good and plenty. Party snack ideas can make or break a party by spoiling the ambience and mood. Any cuisine, be it Indian, Chinese, Mexican or continental, must be amazing and there is just so much recipes to choose from. Just we have to make sure that we need to plan our menu well in advance, so that we can shop for all ingredients properly. Once everything that is needed is obtained, the recipes should be read thoroughly to figure out which foods can be prepared ahead of time. Depending on how far ahead one can prepare a dish, the schedule must be planned. This will ensure us that we should not have any last minute food disasters and that hosts will also enjoy the party evening just as much as the guests and cherish the unique party snacks ideas.

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Party snacks ideas should go with the party decoration and the party’s theme. The snacks and drinks should be age appropriate. Best if the theme and the food can be simple but nutritious, obviously depending on how many guests are attending the party. A festive feel and theme decoration tune in the party mood and good food serves as important appetizer before going to the main course. Great party not only consists of ambience, but also the good food to dine. Setting the table serves the party’s needs be it the buffet-style or the formal dinner setting. What you also need to keep in mind, when deciding, is the theme of the party and whether it’s going to be formal or casual and things you would need in any case are chinaware, glassware, silverware, tablecloths and fine crockery.

Snacks Recipes

Always lookout for new hors d’oeuvre party snacks ideas and recipes that will to keep both the host and the guest busy but chilled, filled but smiling. Party snacks ideas and recipes of delicious appetizers can be easily handpicked from World Wide Web. Some are easy, some are fussy, some are cheesy, some are healthy, and some are not. Beverages differ from being hot to cold and soft to hard. Once people start o partying regularly, they become confident on favourites like, dips, meatballs, chicken wing recipes, cheese dips and add on new dishes in the collection. However, though continental snacks are popular worldwide, spicy Indian snacks are being catered day out, all over the world, recently.
Let us take a break from the usual party snacks ideas and dish up a selection of opulent delicious Indian snacks at your next get-together. Party snacks ideas are classified according to different courses, e.g. appetizers, beverages, main course and desserts. Guests generally have gusto of something different and this is the best way and time to impress them. The first and the foremost in the list of party snacks ideas is the kebabs. Be it the reshmi kebabs or shami kebab or a mixed platter, it rocks. Even, golden, crispy delicious prawn or pakora or tiki served with Mint-Coriander Chutney can do wonder. Steamed momos is a fantastic appetizer from Sikkim, filled with any minced meat of choice. Samosa is already very popular as a party snacks, and it is a specially designed with a crispy pastry filled with meat or mixed vegetables with goes best with tamarind chutney or mayonnaise, etc. Even chip and dip have been indianized and already proved to be a yummy idea.

Various continental easy-to-cook, easy-to-serve foods enhance party snacks ideas. Almond drink, baby corn fry, tomato soup, avocado, bread, cheese dip, fish and chips, sandwich etc. Indo-western fusion recipes may include baby corn, which is a great way to drive away hunger between meals and yet not fill bloated. Bread snacks are the best way to beat hunger, because they are easy to make and are very popular as well. Cheese and potato snacks are the all time favorite tidbit inIndia, to munch between meals. However, having a Chaat menu also sounds interesting. Lassi, milk shake, ginger tea, coffee etc may cater to quench thirst.

Serving Idea – Use of banana leaves will make the after party washing disaster at bay. Cut leaves will be fitted on the serving platters and then lined up to place the food on them. Nonetheless, the key to throw a good party, no matter what the theme, is to plan ahead and plan well. It is the secret to have a great time along with the guests, and enjoy altogether.  Henceforth, party snacks ideas are not something one needs to work hard for, but the warmth and practical approach that matters.

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