Pinterest Recipe Queen

Since I have gotten to Tennessee I have become a regular on Pinterest, searching for recipes to make every meal super delicious. So far I have made sweet potato fries, raspberry cheesecake cups, toast cups, and I am taking on doughnuts today - since it's national doughnut day. The sweet potato fries turned out delicious. They were not as crispy as what I had expected but I believe thats due to the amount of oil I mixed them in. Crispy or not they were the perfect amount of soft sweet potato. I don't know about anyone else but my biggest sweet potato fry complaint has to be when I take a bite and all I get is pure crunch, sans sweet potato. I want a good hunk of sweet potato in my fry. I made these only two days ago. I paired them with the dip that the recipe recommends. We didn't have siracha so I used Franks Red Hot and everyone said it was perfect with the sweetness of the sweet potato. Yesterday one of the kids stayed home with me while the other went with Sandy. We decided to surprise them with a dessert for after dinner. We chose raspberry cheesecake - yummmmm!!! During the process we had to improvise a little because I thirded the recipe to only make 12 instead of 38. This meant we had to do math - school time anyone? Looking through the pantry we realized we didn't have graham crackers for the crust, so we improvised and used Animal Crackers - which works just as well!! Once the crusts were done we moved onto the filling, only to find out that we were short one package of cream cheese! Luckily I had a cream cheese mixture from a dessert I made for memorial day. After making the cheesecakes we hid them in the fridge and waited for dinner to pull them out. Success - I thought 12 would be enough but after dinner only 2 remained! I guess we'll have to claw eachothers eyes out for them - just kidding :) This morning for breakfast I made toast cups but substituted sausage for bacon. When I took them out of the oven I was nervous they werent going to be good but after taking them out of the cupcake tins and devouring all but one we all concluded they were also a success. My only complaint would be the fact that the toast on the outside didn't go all the way up the sides so the egg covered the bread, resulting in soft, not crispy, bread. I almost forgot - for Memorial Day we created strawberry bites, fruit kabobs, and fruit cups all in theme for the holiday.  Below I have posted a link to all of these recipes - I went onto my pinterest board and went directly to the link. I highly recommend doing each of them - I will post an update later concerning the doughnuts!! :)


Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake
Sweet Potato Fries/Dip
Bacon [Sausage[, Egg, Toast Cups
Patriotic Fruit Kabobs
Patriotic Fruit Cups


Strawberry bites: I cannot find the recipe - of course - but it consists of halving the strawberrys and cutting out the hull. Filling the strawberry with some sort of cream mixture [I used a creamcheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla mixture] then placing a blueberry on top. :) Enjoy!



UPDATE::

Doughnuts turned out amazing!! At first I had the oil too high so a few burned and at the end I had the oil too low so they got really greasy but 75% of them turned out perfect. I made a chocolate glaze, a lemon vanilla glaze, powdered sugar covering, and cinnamon and sugar coating. I also added cinnamon instead of nutmeag and a little vanilla to the original mixture :) Yumm!!

Doughnut Holes :)