Miss Lovett's Meat Pies

One of my favorite things to do with a few of my friends every Halloween is to watch Sweeney Todd.  Its a gruesome musical that brings in the Halloween Spirit, without being to scary.  Every time we watch it we make these pies.

Meat Pies 

The Ingredients:

1 pkg. Cresent Big Flakey Rolls

1 pkg. Jimmy Deans Regular Sausage

1 Medium Onion

1 pkg. of Cheddar Cheese

First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  In a saute pan, take a little drizzle of olive oil and spread it on the pan, heat the pan and add your chopped onions to the pan, saute them until they are golden brown.

 Next, add the sausage and saute them until it is completely cooked with the onions. Set aside when done.

 For the pies, take a cupcake pan, and peel apart all the crescent rolls.  Place one crescent roll per cupcake tin and push down into the tin.  You can do this two ways, you can either push it down and make it into a pie with extra on the side, or you can leave some left over with the extra strip hanging off the side.

 Next, fill each pie with the meat mixture.

Next, add a slice of cheese to each meat pie.  Then take the extra end piece and wrap it over the top, pinch it with the side to seal the top.

 If you decide to use one crescent roll for the whole piece, then tear off a third of an extra piece of crescent roll and play it on the top.  Pinch together the sides making it a complete pie.

This is what it should look like when its done, once finished place in the oven for suggested time and let cool for 2 minutes in the pan.  Take out of pan and serve!

October in Europe

This may come as a surprise to many of you, but I happen to love England, its probably my favorite place on earth!  So you cant image my excitement when my parents invited me to go with them on a trip back to England and the Netherlands.

 I have so many pictures and fun events from this trip, that I cant wait to share with all of you, but it wont be until November when I post all of it.  During October, I need to focus on some fun Halloween events! However, I did put together a little sneak peak of some fun pictures of places we went, that I feel relate very well to the month of October.

(Fun Halloween idea from Harrods. Alien Dust with a sucker, and Color changing popping candy rocks magic potion)

(Oxford University)

 Cotswolds in England, a few different towns that I will do full post about later!

An old Roman church in Siren Sisters, England.

 I must note, that my blogging has slowed down considerably because I moved, started a new job, and have been traveling a lot.  However, I set a goal to blog every Sunday night, so hopefully from now on, Mondays should have a brand new post. Thanks everyone for your support!

Under The Sea 3rd Birthday!

A friend of mine asked me if I would like to do her sons 3rd Birthday party!  I was so excited when she asked me, and even more so when I heard the theme "Sharks and Mermaids." So I went with a Under the Sea birthday party theme!  The mermaid cake was done by Dippidee's. The sign was made by my dear friend Andrea, who did a beautiful Shark Party that I stole a lot of ideas from, with her permission, of course.  Check out her party on her blog "It's the Life" here!

 For the tablescape I used a canvas table cloth, and real fishing nets from Hawaii. I used fun bright orange vases, dried up star fish and sea shells, and a beautiful antique treasure chest for presents.  Because it was a kids party, I livened it up by using different blue streamers to create an ocean look, with clear ballons for bubbles, and school of fish ballons to make them feel like they were under the sea!

We had a lot of wind that day, which made the sea look very realistic and also very difficult to photograph.  We used colorful sea foam green, orange, and blue ballons to decorate the outside of the tent!

Candy skewers with gum balls, gummy sharks, and gummy fish were used for "special favors" for family.  Wrapped in cellophane on wood skewers with colorful ribbons tied at the bottom, and placed in bright orange vases and a clear vase with beach sand on the bottom.  I also tossed chocolate "treasure" all over the table. 

For all the guest they recieved a gift bag with swedish fish and gummy sharks, held by the Birthday Boy himself!

 They had dessert cups with vanilla pudding died blue, with Vanilla oreos crushed up for sand, and gummy fish and sharks for the kids to enjoy, with little umbrellas on top!

Little mermaid coconut cake made by Dippidee's and mini vanilla cupcakes with sixlet bubbles on top and some mini fondant fish!

 Large vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting rainbow sprinkles and rainbow fondant fish on top, with colorful buttercream frosting inside for a surprise!

 Shark fin root-beer cupcakes with vanilla frosting and fondant shark fins.

 S'more beach cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting and grahm cracker sand on top with beach umbrellas.

 The party guest had fun sitting around talking around the BBQ with some excellent food, and the kids had fun, with pool time, water fights, water slides, swings, and so much more!

 (Love the pink shoes!)

 Mom and birthday boy, get his birthday kisses!

 Birthday boy with Dad, enjoying his candy and helping him open his gifts!

 Mom watching son excited about his new shark toy!

Birthday boy giving hugs to everyone to thank them for there gifts!