Pear & Goat Cheese Tarts
How adorable are these little tarts – tree-shaped puff pastry topped with pears, goat cheese, Salty Sweet Pecans, and drizzled with a balsamic reduction? How is that not good? Pears, goat cheese, & pecans are one of those flavor combinations that just go together. You can put them in and on anything – a salad, crostini, in a panini, and because the flavors just work, it’s practically guaranteed to be a success. Give these tarts a try, they would be a welcome addition at your New Year’s Eve party!
Cranberry & Coconut Granola
I’ve always been a girl that loves sprinkles. Get me a vanilla ice cream cone with rainbow sprinkles and I was good to go. I spent my high school years working at our local Dairy Queen and we had a giant plastic container full of rainbow sprinkles. It was pretty great, if you like your sugar to come in several artificial colors.
I consider granola to be a more grown up substitute for rainbow sprinkles and while I put it on ice cream (No I’m not kidding. No, it doesn’t make ice cream healthy. Yes, it is very tasty.), I get much more mileage out of my granola than I ever could with my beloved rainbow sprinkles. A pretty firm exception here is sprinkles on top of cookies and cupcakes. Granola is not a good substitute there! A little bit tossed on top of my oatmeal or layered with fruit and yogurt are my favorite, but recently I even put some on top of my mom’s leftover sweet potatoes from Thanksgiving which was also delicious.
Turkey Apple Reuben Quesadilla
Please allow me to introduce you to my new favorite sandwich – the Turkey Apple Reuben Quesadilla. Truth be told, I have a thing with quesadillas – specifically, I make everything into quesadillas. Why? For starters, it’s a really tasty way to use up lots of miscellaneous bits of leftovers. You put in a little of this, a little of that, add some cheese, and dinner is done. Just about anything tastes good when it is wrapped up in a crispy tortilla and covered in melty cheese, am I right? Yes, of course I am, because a quesadilla maximizes the ratio of toasty shell to warm melty interior, and that’s just where it’s at friends.
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