Delicious Dishes by Debbie: January 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Delicious Dishes By Debbie Has Been Voted The Sauciest Blogger of 2011

Right before Christmas The Saucy Mama Cafe ran a big contest to have Facebook voters vote for their favorite Food Blog. Thanks to my great friends and fans of Delicious Dishes By Debbie we were fortunate enough to win this prestigious title. What an honor and privilege to be voted The Sauciest Blog of 20ll. The prize was this HUGE gift basket of some of the Saucy Mama's favorite things. It had so many really amazing things in the basket. Saucy Mama represents Barhyte Products.
A HUGE thanks goes out to Shannon Imlay for being the push behind voting for this blog. You can visit her blog Shannon's Shanonigins.

Shannon has a wonderful entertaining and food blog. It is beautiful. Shannon also has a Facebook page you can like.

These products include so many different varieties of mustard, cooking sauces, stuffed olives and so many wonderful products. In my basked were some jalapeno Stuffed Olives that were to DIE for. I haven't had the chance to try each and every thing yet, but I am working on it.

Not only did I receive some delicious food products, but I also received a beautiful dish towel, bright red colander and a Saucy Mama red stripped apron.

Thanks so much to all who voted for me and support Delicious Dishes By Debbie. I encourage you to become a friend of The Saucy Mama on FB and to follow them on Twitter. Go and check out The Saucy Mama website too. You can order these great items and try them for yourself. I have set up the links here on my blog and if you click on them you will go directly to their Facebook or Twitter pages and you can follow. They are running different contests throughout the year and you could be a winner of their products also.
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Here is one of my recipes using their Pacific Rim Ginger Dressing.

Pacific Rim Ginger Bruschetta

Ingredients:

3 T. olive oil
1 green bell pepper
1 onion
1can diced tomatoes (I used Hunts diced roasted garlic tomatoes)
1/8 t. salt
1/2 cup of Saucy Mama
Pacific Rim Ginger Dressing

Chop bell pepper and onion into small chunks.

Heat skillet and add olive oil. When oil is hot, add peppers and onions.

Saute peppers and onions until soft.

Drain extra water off of the tomatoes and add tomatoes to peppers and onions.

Simmer for 5 minutes and add Saucy Mama Pacific Rim Ginger Dressing.

Simmer for 5 - 10 minutes until chutney is slightly thick.

Spoon over slices of baguette and bake for 5 - 6 minutes at 350 degrees.

It is also great to serve over a baked potato...

Give as a gift and make several....

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Saucy Mama's 6 newest creations:

Apricot Ginger Mustard
Tarragon Lemon Mustard
Dijon Mustard
Sweet Heat Marinade
Pacific Rim Ginger Dressing
Chipotle Ranch Dressing

Thanks Saucy Mama!!Your products are awesome!!!

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Shannon's Shanonigins: Freshwater Pearl Give-Away

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

My Gluten Freedom: UPDATED Sneak Peek at the Big Launch Party

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Strawberry Heaven

“The “Debbie” recipe – the recipe that is authentically me.
My absolute favorite dessert recipe.”
All I ever talk about loving is strawberries. I am to strawberries as Paula Deen is to potatoes and butter.
When thinking about my absolute favorite dessert, it had to combine cheesecake, strawberries, and chocolate. Chocolate covered strawberries to be exact!!! So I developed a pie that features all my weaknesses. I love a regular pie crust instead of graham cracker so I have used pie crust, topped with a luscious layer of Kraft Philadelphia Ready-to-Eat Cheesecake Filling, followed by 1 pound of ripe, juicy strawberries enveloped in strawberry glaze topped with creamy, dreamy Cool Whip, and followed by 6 GIANT chocolate covered strawberries. This pie would be a strawberry lovers’ most decadent dream. It is mine…now you know what I dream about.

Strawberry Heaven
Prep time: 50 minutes Cook time: 9 minutes
Serves 6 - 8
1 refrigerated pie crust
1 ½ c. Kraft Philadelphia Ready-to-Eat Cheesecake Filling
2 lbs. of strawberries
14 oz. strawberry pie glaze
8 oz Cool Whip
¾ c. semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2. Place pie crust in pie pan and flute edges. Bake at 450 degrees for 9 minutes.
3. Cool pie crust at room temperature for 10 minutes and follow in freezer for 10 minutes to cool quickly.
4. While pie crust is cooking and cooling, prepare other ingredients beginning with strawberries. Wash strawberries, core, and slice in half. Save 6 LARGE strawberries for top of pie. Eat a few and enjoy them while you are working so hard. Save enough for the pie.
5. Melt chocolate chips in microwave for approximately 1 minute stirring every 20 seconds. Dip 6 large strawberries in chocolate about ¾ of the way up the strawberry. Place a piece of parchment paper on a plate and cool the strawberries on the paper in the freezer.
6. After the pie crust comes out of the freezer, spread the cheesecake filling directly on top of crust.
7. Place strawberries directly on top of cheesecake and pour strawberry glaze over strawberries.
8. Pipe Cool Whip over strawberries and glaze and top with chocolate covered strawberries. Place in freezer for approximately 15 minutes and serve. Refrigerate any leftovers.