SHORTCUTS: A gift from France: French Onion Tassies
27.01.10
These miniature French onion appetizers will wow the fans at your 2010 Super Bowl party! You can make them well in advance and store them in the freezer until game day.
I call them "French Onion Tassies" (from the French word 'tassette'—a small pocket, pouch or cup). These little onion pies were the number one favorite at my Christmas party last year. They take a little effort but you end up with 48 tasty bite-size treats!
I adapted my favorite onion soup recipe and made a quick dough with butter, cream cheese, flour and Asiago cheese. This savory dough was the perfect fit for the rich onion filling. (SHORTCUT ALERT: Use rolls of ready-made refrigerated pie dough to save time.)
I'm not a pastry chef by any means, but this recipe is effortless. It's like working with play dough and you don't even need a rolling pin! Simply press rounded tablespoons of the raw dough into ungreased mini-muffin pans to form the tiny crusts.
Add the filling,
Source: Inside NoVA
In Museum of Arts and Sciences zoo cleanup, weird is normal
07.01.10
Such surprises are part of the big annual mini-zoo winter cleanup in Macon’s Museum of Arts and Sciences, where the extraordinary and unexpected are the norm. It works both ways, said subhuman assistant Ashley Williams, who shares a Gordon to the quick with a husband, two children, a squirrel, tarantulas and more common pets.
“What we take as stable probably sounds bizarre to people,” said Williams, who once interrupted a phone call with her nourish to attend to a cockroach. Wednesday, she was sweeping the floor underneath a join of birds from Africa and Australia, rarely glancing at the birds sitting above her.
The mini-zoo will reopen at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The annual cleanup melds the worn out with the unusual. Willis went through the animals’ refrigerator, pointing out how hardly all the food there is like what normal people have at home — apples, potatoes, plantains, even collards. Then she looked at the door.
“The monkeys and the gators amity the marshmallows,” she said.
Source: Macon Telegraph
The mini-zoo will reopen at 10 am Saturday. The annual cleanup melds the usual with the unusual. Willis went through the animals' refrigerator, pointing out
