Deviled Ham Dip or Spread

for chips or 'Finger sandwiches', appetizers.

Recipe;
2 Cups of minced ham, spam or salmon
3 Tbsp minced onion
1 tsp parsely
1 package cream cheese.  Cut the crusts off th ebread slices, layer with spread as many (3) slices of bread as you like.

Here is the Finger sandwiches with relish and without cream cheese.

Serenades

The Irish nightingale

Is a sedge-warbler,

A little bird with a big voice

Kicking up a racket all night.

Not what you'd expect 

From the musical nation.

I haven't even heard one--

Nor an owl, for that matter.

My serenades have been 

The broken voice of a crow

In a draught or a dream,

The wheeze of bats

Or the ack-ack

Of the tramp corncrake

Lost in a no man's land

Between combines and chemicals.

So fill the bottles, love,

Leave them inside their cots.

And if they do wake us, well,

So would the sedge-warbler.

Seamus Heaney 

Tea & Scones (Moist & Delicious!)

PANDI-Scones

Recipe:

400- 15 to 20 min.

2 cups of Flour
1/4 cup of Sugar
1 Tbsp Baking powder
Opt* Zest of one Lemon (Chris uses 3 lemons)
1/4 tsp salt
4 Tbsp Butter
2 Large Eggs
1/2 Cup heavy cream
3 Tbsp Lemon Yogurt. (I used raspberry greek kind)

http://coffeeworks.blogs.com/coffee_and_tea/2007/01/lemon_cream_sco.html

Spritz Cookies for Saint Patricks Day

Here is the recipe I used, and also the one I suggest to use.
First one:
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour

Second Spritz cookie recipe:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp clear vanilla extract
1/2 tsp no-color Almond extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt.

Good Grips!

I even like the name!
Greenhouse (my apartment addiction)
Saint Patty's Day!

Applesauce Coffee Cake

Recipe:
1 1/3 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/3 cup cooking oil
1 egg
1 cup canned applesauce
1/2 cup chopped pitted dates
1/2 cup saisins
1/2 cup chopped nuts
pour into 12x8x2 in. MICROWAVEABLE dish which has been greased on bottom only.  Microwave at high 10 to 12 minutes. I  you don't have a microwaveable dish like me, bake at 350' for 10 to 15 min. then microwave till a toothpick comes out clean.  I used cream-cheese-butter frosting.

Tea and Shooters

Language, n.  The music with which we charm the serpents gaurding another's treasure.