Since We Love To Eat...

Since we love to eat at our meetings I am going to start posting our menus and some of our recipes. My aunt suggested this, and I think it is a great idea. I am hoping this may tempt more foodies to attend our meetings?! At the January meeting we had a Luau/Picnic theme. We ate hot dogs, hawaiian rice salad, fresh pineapple and strawberries with an amazing cream dip, hawaiian potato chips, fresh sauerkraut,macadamia nuts, and lemonade. For dessert we had pineapple upside-down cake. Everything was fabulous, as always, and there was more than enough food for a few extra mouths, as always.

The recipe I am posting here is a club favorite that Jennifer has brought many times. It is Berry Jello Pretzel Salad. Yummy!

3 Layer Pretzel Salad

2 cups broken pretzels (about the size of peanuts)
3/4 cup butter, melted
3 teaspoons sugar.
Mix together. Put in 9X12 glass pan. Pat down to make a single layer.Bake at 400 F. eight minutes. Don't overbake. Cool.

One 8 oz. package cream cheese (no/low fat), room temperature.
1 cup sugar
One 8 to 12 ounce package Cool Whip, frozen (I used 12 oz, but I didn't find low fat)
Mix cream cheese and sugar together, then add chunks of slightly thawed Cool Whip. Keep mixing until smooth. Pour over cooled pretzels (be sure to get Cool Whip to touch sides of pan, to seal pretzel layer below).

One large, or two small packages of Jello (to compliment type of berry chosen) (sugar free)2 cups boiling water (in a 4 cup, or larger container) (that pours!)Two 10 ounce packages frozen berries (any kind).
Mix Jello into 2 cups boiling water. Stir until fully dissolved. Let stand 10 minutes. Spread berries over Cool Whip in a single layer. Drizzle Jello over frozen berries.Chill until serving time. Enjoy!

We Have Completed Projects!

At last, we have pictures of some of the work completed at the crafty club meetings! If we had taken pictures of our unfinished projects the slide show would be about ten times this size. Our January meeting was a quaint one (seven people) so this is only a sampling of our work. For those of you who didn't make it in with your finished work in January, please bring it to the next meeting. We love to see what everyone is working on, and what fabulous things everyone is capable of making. Looking forward to seeing yo guys next month, and keep checking in for new pics.

Susan

Tonight's The Night

7 PM at the Argonne Meeting room! Remember to bring your craft creations so we can post the pictures on the blog tonight. See you guys soon!

January Crafty Club Meeting

Hi all,

Sorry it has been so long since anything was posted. Our next meeting will be Friday January 29th at 7 pm at the Argonne Library meeting room. The food theme is Hawaiian Luau/Picnic.
If you have any questions email Jennifer Foglesong, crafty club coordinator. We are hoping to bring a camera to that meeting to take pictures of our finished projects. Then we will have something to post on the blog. Yeah! Please bring projects that you have completed to this meeting so we can get our photos going.

thanks all, and see you soon :)!