Thanksgiving came and went so fast!  Actually planning was pretty darn easy now that Irene and Chris have it at their house in Tualatin.  I love of having adult children.  Irene is wonderful; she is a just great at putting a party together while handling being a Mom with ease.  Actually Irene and Chris are a great team and it is fun watching them work together.  All I had to bring was an opening act cocktail, along with an appetizer.  For the main course I made Cranberry Whiskey Mustard Sauce to go along with Irene’s turkey.  For desert I made Grandma Winkie’s Pumpkin Pies.  Grandma Winkie is Jan’s mother and got that name when the boys were very small and she read them a favorite children’s book whose main character just happened to be Grandma Winkie.   The name stuck.

I have a new favorite Whiskey “Snake River Stampede.”  It comes from the folks at Indio Spirits in Cottage Grove, Oregon.   www.indiospirits.com .  The taste is very smooth with notes of caramel.  I also have a favorite author of cocktail books and that is A.J. Rathbun.  A.J. has a new book out “Dark Spirits” and I decided to use a recipe from that book for a cocktail called WOW made from whiskey, orange juice and water.  It was perfect for our Thanksgiving, and I’m sure it’s going to be fantastic for Christmas.  Before I give you the recipe for WOW I want to highly recommend A.J.’s books, the cocktail recipes are terrific and the books are just plain fun to read.  A.J is a very entertaining fellow.  If you want to check out his blog it is www.ajrathbun.com .  You can order A.J.’s books from our website.

WOW

2 ounces Snake River Stampede Whiskey

1 ½ ounces freshly squeezed orange juice

1 ounce simple syrup (recipe follows)

2 ½ ounces hot water

Orange twist for garnish

Add the whiskey, orange juice and simple syrup to a large mug

Heat the water to almost boiling (this is where an instahot really comes in handy

Pour water into mug, and stir briefly.  Twist the orange twist over the top and drop it in.  As A.J. says, “WOW indeed.”

A variation for the young ones and non-imbibers in the group:  Take the whiskey out of the equation; up the orange juice by 1 ounce; the simple syrup by ½ ounce and the water by1/2 ounce; and add ¼ teaspoon ground cloves to the mug.

I am going to make a pitcher of the orange juice, whiskey, simple syrup mixture and have another insulated pitcher of hot water so that the guests can make their own drinks.

I am going to stop by my local grocery store deli for my appetizer.  Anyone who has read this blog knows that when in a rush the olive bar and cheese counter are my best friend.  I’ll pick up a nice crusty baguette, cut it into thin slices, arrange it on a platter with sliced hard salami and wedges of cheese, put out bowls of olives and marinated vegetables and I’m done.  Of course I will put out Saucy Mama Mustard to compliment everything.

I’ll make the cranberry sauce a couple of days before Thanksgiving and bring it to Portland with me.

Whiskey Mustard Cranberry Sauce

¾ cup Snake River Stampede Whiskey

¼ Harlequin Orange Liqueur (or whatever orange liqueur you happen to have laying around)

1 cup sugar

1 – 12 ounce package fresh cranberries

¼ cup Willamette Valley Sweet Hot Stone Ground Mustard

1 tablespoon grated orange peel

Bring whiskey, orange liqueur, and sugar to a boil in a heavy medium sized saucepan stirring to dissolve sugar.  Add cranberries and mustard, return to a boil.  Reduce heat and boil gently for 10 minutes stirring occasionally.  Remove from heat and stir in orange peel. Allow to cool to room temperature.  If not using immediately refrigerate until ready to use.  Makes about 2 ½ cups.

Happy Thanksgiving, Friends!

This was exciting stuff … We didn’t expect bonus write-ups about our Cocktail Onions.  But we’re so grateful to A.J. Rathbun, who shared this wonderful review of our cocktail onions on his blog.

Oh - and speaking of exciting stuff, we have to send a special thanks to those of you who left us a comment on our blog last week.  So we’re going to extend our thanks by sending a six-pack of treats to ALL of you who left us comments.  (Look in your email for a note from us!) Please make sure to stay tuned, because we’re going to host other giveaways soon and often!

In our small town of Pendleton there are so many get-togethers where everyone pitches in with food and even decorating, so  a great time can be had without host and/or hostess stress.  It also makes getting ready for a party as much fun as the party.  I have to bring an appetizer to one of those parties and leave for out of town early the next morning.  I am thinking really easy to make, really tasty, and really appetizing to look at.  Savory Smoked Salmon Spread fits the bill and I will still have lots of time to pack.

Savory Smoked Salmon Spread

2 - 8 ounce packages cream cheese
8 ounces smoked salmon, flaked (reserve about 2 tablespoons for garnish)
1-1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon Saucy Mama Horseradish
2 tablespoon minced chives (reserve 1 tablespoon for garnish)
1 teaspoon Saucy Mama Hot Wing Sauce

Beat cream cheese until smooth.  Add remaining ingredients except for garnish and blend thoroughly.  At this point you can place the spread in a serving bowl or form into ball and wrap with plastic wrap.  Either way chill for at least 1 hour up to 1 day.  Place on serving platter topped with the reserved flaked salmon and minced chives, and surrounded with a sliced baguette or crackers.

I love to have this left over smeared on my morning whole wheat bagel and topped with thinly sliced sweet onion.

Yippee!!  ‘Beyond the Bull’ The Round-Up Centennial Cookbook is finally finished and hot off the presses.  We got the books just in time for Round-up, our annual rodeo here in Pendleton www.pendletonroundup.com and the sales are going great.  We were even able to get Reba McEntire to do our forward.  I and my good friends and fellow cookbook planners Mary Alice and Raphael were able to present Reba with a cookbook at the Oregon State Fair.
We had so much fun meeting her.  She is very charming and just plain gorgeous in person.  If anyone out there would like to order a cookbook they can contact me and I will make sure they get one.  I do believe we really captured the flavor and personality of The Pendleton Round-up.  The price is
$28.95 plus $6.05 shipping and handling.  All the proceeds go to renovating the plaza and entrance to our historic rodeo in time for it’s 100th year.

We are almost jittery with excitement from the absolutely overwhelming creativity we’ve discovered, thanks to our first (and most definitely NOT our last) recipe contest.   We have been honored by the 25 fabulous bloggers who participated in this event, and are blown away by the beautiful, accessible, and obviously delicious recipes that have emerged from their kitchens.

The contest itself wraps up today; however, the next two weeks we’ll be in the enviable (yet challenging) position of testing, tasting, and selecting the winners.  While we’re at it, though, we’ll load up our blog with samples of these incredible recipes, and the talented chefs who submitted them.

Please let us know if you try out any of these Saucy Mama recipes, and let us know what you think! If you’re looking to buy some of your own Saucy Mama condiments, make sure to visit our website at www.barhyte.com, or look for us in specialty food and gourmet stores near you.

Make every meal extraordinary!

Summery Chicken Tostadas

submitted by:   Bella Eats (www.bellaeats.com)

serves 4 for a light dinner

Ingredients:

• 3 medium-sized boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• Saucy Mama Lime Chipotle Marinade, to marinate chicken in and also to drizzle on top of tostadas
• 1 red bell pepper, sliced into strips
• 1 poblano pepper, seeds removed and sliced into strips
• 1 medium onion, sliced into strips
• 2 ears of fresh corn, corn removed from husk
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• salt + pepper
• 4 oz chevre (goat cheese), crumbled
• 4 whole wheat pitas (8″), brushed with olive oil and toasted in oven

Method:

1. First, turn your oven on to 350*.  Coat chicken breasts with marinade and let sit in small glass dish for 10 minutes.
2. As the oven preheats and the chicken marinates, chop up your veggies and toss in a 9×13 glass dish.  Drizzle with olive oil and toss to coat.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.  Place in oven and set timer to 30 minutes.
3. When oven timer has 20 minutes remaining, pour excess marinade out of chicken dish.  Bake chicken for remaining 20 minutes at 350*.
4. Pull chicken from oven and bump oven temperature up to 400*.  Stir veggies and let roast for an additional 5 minutes, while chicken cools slightly.  Place pitas directly on rack to toast, turning halfway through 5 minutes.
5. After 5 minutes, shred chicken with a fork.  Pull pitas and veggies from oven.  Place one pita on each plate and top with shredded chicken, roasted veggies and crumbles of chevre.  Drizzle Lime Chipotle Marinade over top of tostada, to taste.

We have to admit that it’s always great to see a recipe in which the author says, “This is one of those recipes where it’s almost insulting how good it is when it was made with so little effort.”  Yet that is exactly the kind of quick, easy and delicious recipe we were looking for when we sent a call out for our Saucy Mama’s Extraordinary Condiment Contest. If you’re looking for a simple and quick side dish for supper tonight, this tangy offering is a fantastic solution.  Thanks to Coconut & Lime for offering up such a beautiful creation.

More to follow later this week!  Enjoy!

Parmesan-Caper Potato Salad

1 1/2 lb red skin potatoes, diced

for the dressing
1/3 cup Parmesan garlic marinade
1/3 cup diced green onion
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 tablespoons finely grated Parmesan
1 1/2 tablespoons nonpareil capers
salt
pepper

Directions:
In a large pot, boil the potatoes until fork-tender. Drain. Whisk together the dressing ingredients in a small bowl. Drizzle dressing over still slightly warm potatoes, toss to coat. порно смотреть регистрации без

Are you a food blogger looking for bragging rights or who just wants to win some great prizes?  Then you’re in the right place!   In celebration of launching our new Saucy Mama line of premium dressings, marinades, and mustards, we’re giving away some incredible prizes, including an Amazon Kindle, a $150 gift card to Amazon, plus three runners-up will receive an Audiovox Ultra-Slim 7” LCD Drop-Down Under-Count TV/DVD Player.

As for the bragging rights:  the winning recipe will be featured on Saucy Mama labels in stores nationwide!

Oh -  but there is a bit of a catch …

The first 25 food bloggers who register online at www.barhyte.com/contest will receive a case of our new Saucy Mama treats.  It’s our hope that once you receive these tasty condiments, you’ll start crafting a bounty of original, quick and easy meal recipes featuring Saucy Mama condiments – all of which are just begging to be shared with the world.

We’re looking for quick and easy meal solutions here; the kind of fare that any family can make in about 30 minutes, using basic ingredients found in a pantry, farmer’s market, or grocery store. As for flavor … well, that should be anything BUT basic!  Let your creativity soar as you and Saucy Mama add a hint of charm to your chicken; a little panache to your pork; or some triumph to your tofu.

We’ve already received a number of applications … Space is going fast.  So register today!!

Need something quick and pretty for an appetizer?  Try these quick and easy roll ups…  I took them to a party the other night and they were devoured right away.

I was thinking how good the roll-ups were while I was watering my basil this morning  and decided I wanted to try a roll-up made with the basil and sun-dried tomatoes.  As soon as I got to work I set to putting the roll-up together.  I used both spinach and sun-dried tomato tortillas, because they are pretty arranged together on a serving platter.  I put fresh mozzarella on some of the roll-ups and those were the big hit when I invited our crew up to my test kitchen for lunch.

Basil and Sun-Dried Tomato Roll-ups

2 - 8 oz. Cream Cheese
2 Tablespoons Saucy Mama Hot Wing Sauce
1 Tablespoon Pesto
1/3 Cup grated Parmesan Cheese
4 Green Onions coarsely chopped
1/2 - .4 oz package Ranch Dressing mix
10 large sun-dried tomato or spinach tortillas (or both)
5 Cups loosely packed fresh basil leaves, washed and dried
2 - 8.5 oz jars Julienne Cut Sun Dried Tomatoes
1 lb fresh mozzarella

Place cream cheese, wing sauce, pesto, parmesan, onions and ranch dressing mix in a food processor.  Process until well mixed.

With a spatula spread the cream cheese mixture onto each tortilla.  Arrange
1/2 cup basil and a few sun-dried tomato pieces on top of cream cheese mixture.

Roll each tortilla tightly and place on a large plate.  When all the tortillas are rolled up, cover with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for a least 1 hour.

With a sharp knife cut the rolled tortillas into 1/2 inch thick rounds.

Arrange on a serving platter.

Are you ready for some football?  If you’ve read the Saucy Mama blog, then you know I am!  My Oregon State Beavers kick off their season this weekend, so it seems the perfect time to spotlight this delicious recipe that came to us from Melissa of FromLapToptoStoveTop.com.   This Buffalo Wing Chicken Pizza was one of Melissa’s creative submissions to our Saucy Mama’s Extraordinary Condiment Contest - and just check out her inspired use of our new Saucy Mama Hot Wing Sauce!  I can’t wait to make this myself this weekend …

By the way, if you are indeed a football fan, make sure to check out our branded line of collegiate mustards and hot wing sauces, emblazoned with your school’s logo!

Go Beavs!

UPDATE: Leave a comment for us below, and we’ll select two people at random to receive a couple of bottles of our delicious Saucy Mama Hot Wing Sauce  - and we may just throw in an extra treat for fun.  We’ll announce winners next Tuesday!

Saucy Mama Cafe Buffalo Wing Chicken Pizza порно беспатный

1/2 cup Saucy Mama Cafe Buffalo Wing Sauce
1 refrigerated pizza Crust
2-3 cloved garlic, chopped
1 cup caramelized onions
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup blue cheese, crumbled (optional)
2 cups cooked chicken, rotisserie works best
Sprinkle of thyme

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Press out pizza crust on cookie sheet. Drizzle on the Saucy Mama Cafe Buffalo Wing Sauce. Sprinkle the garlic and top with the carmelized onions. Then sprinkle mozzerella cheese and the blue cheese crumbles (optional). Follow with the cooked chicken on the cheese. Add a sprinkle of dried thyme. Bake for about 15-20 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the cheese are melted.

We’re inspired.  How can we not be? As huge Oregon State Beaver fans, we’re still recovering from one of the greatest games in our football history.  OSU’s defeat over USC was headline news all weekend!

Needless to say, everyone at Barhyte is starting to warm up for the next game: OSU vs. Utah on Thursday, October 2.  So since we’ll be watching this game at home, we thought we’d put together a tailgate-at-home menu to keep the energy high.  Here’s what we’ve got in mind:

Rogue Dead Guy Ale (hey, it’s almost Halloween - seems like a good choice!)

Jalapeno Poppers

Mom Barhyte’s Hot Flash Chicken Wedge (see below)

Pineapple Coleslaw

Garlic Breadsticks

Mom Barhyte’s Hot Flash Chicken Wedge Recipe:

Prep Time: Approx. 15 minutes (plus time for marinating)

Ingredients:

1 lb. chicken breast, cut into chunks

1/3 bottle (approx. 4 oz) Barhyte Hot Wing Sauce

1/3 bottle (approx. 4 oz.) Barhyte Bacon Blue Cheese Dip

4 oz. crumbled Maytag Blue Cheese

1 head iceberg lettuce, cut into 4 wedges  (look for lettuce heads that are tight; if it is squishy, it will fall apart when it is cut into wedges).

Instructions:

Cut up chicken into small cubes; mix into zip-top bag with Barhyte Hot Wing Sauce. Shake well and marinate for as little as 20 minutes, or as long as overnight. Drizzle olive oil into frying pan heated to medium - enough to lightly coat the pan.  Add chicken and marinade mix, cooking until done and lightly caramelized (approx. 15 minutes).

On separate platter, drizzle Barhyte Bacon Blue Cheese Dip over lettuce wedges.  Spoon hot chicken over top of wedges.  Finish with crumbled Maytag Blue Cheese. Serve with ice-cold matchstick slices of carrots and celery.  Serves four.
Do you have any great taligating menus to share? Great recipes!  Post them as a comment (and ideally, a recipe or two), and I’ll select one name at random next week to receive a 12-bottle case of our favorite Barhyte Tailgate sauces and mustards!