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Shamrock Quesadillas for St. Patricks Day

Shamrock Quesadillas

Quick to prepare and fun to eat,  Shamrock Quesadillas make a fun St. Patrick’s Day lunch for kids and adults alike. I love to make serve fun meals for my family on St. Patrick’s Day.  Everything is usually green or shamrock shaped.  So I was thrilled to discover spinach tortillas at the grocery store.  Cut with a large shamrock cookie cutter, they are easily transformed into Shamrock Quesadillas. Tip:  If your kids don’t like or can’t have cheese, no problem.  Just make them into Shamrock peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  Or use the same cookie cuttter to cut lunch meat for a Shamrock Sandwich. Shamrock Quesadillas Recipe You will need a large shamrock cookie cutter for this recipe.  Mine is 5 inches in size. Ingredients: Spinach Tortillas (mine were the large wrap size) Cheese of choice, shredded (we used co-jack, but muenster is good too.) Toppings of choice, optional (chicken, … Continue reading

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Raspberry Peach Real Fruit Homemade Snow Cone Syrup Recipe

real fruit snow cone syrup

It seems like every store I go into lately has a display of ice cream makers, ice shavers, and snow cone syrup.  My kids love snow cones during the summer.  However I don’t love the ingredients in the commercial syrups – tons of high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavorings, artificial coloring, and other chemicals.  No thank you!  Most homemade snow cone syrup recipes out there on the internet aren’t much better as they call for packets of Kool-Aid and tons of refined sugar. Fortunately it is quite easy to make your own snow cone syrup with real fruit.  Today I would like to share my Raspberry Peach Homemade Snow Cone Syrup Recipe.  (By the way, if you have seen this post before, I first published it over at Miss Organic’s Kitchen.  Running several blogs got to be too much so I am moving everything over here.) This homemade snow cone syrup recipe contains … Continue reading

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