Recipe Request
Posted by Sherry McGregor on 08 Jul 2009 | Posted in: Inspiration and Motivation, Life After School, Relationships and Team Building
A few weeks ago, we had a potluck here at work. I made one of my favorite go-to snacks, green chile pinwheels. It was also the last week of school, so I made an extra batch of pinwheels and sent them with my husband, Mark, to school. (Mark teaches seventh-grade math.) At the end of the day, he brought home the empty plate and two requests for the recipe. The pinwheels are simple to make. That’s probably why they’re among my favorites, and I was thrilled to share the recipe. As I was writing, I wondered about you and your favorite go-to snacks and potluck dishes. Care to share?
Green Chile Pinwheels
8 oz. softened cream cheese
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/2 cup chopped green chiles (or good New Mexican salsa!)
4 flour tortillas
Mix the cream cheese, garlic salt, and chiles. Divide the cream cheese mixture into fourths and spread each fourth onto a flour tortilla. Roll up each tortilla. Cover the rolled tortillas with plastic wrap, and stick them in the refrigerator until just before time to serve. Then cut the rolled tortillas into one-inch slices and enjoy.
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Thanks for the great snack ideas. I will use the idea for a 100 day treat. Hope I am chosen to win the Big Book… bye for now
I teach Kindergarten and during the first day of school I like to bring a snack. I like to have teddy bears and pillows…it is teddy grahams and mini marshmallows. When we have the snack I play some relaxing music. It is a great way to relax during the first day when they are so worn out.
A snack idea that I love to use on one of the first days of school is to put a graham cracker in a snack size baggie and with the baggie closed have the students pound the graham cracker into fine crumbs. Then give each student half a banana and a plastic knife and let them slice it. Put the banana slices in the baggie with graham cracker crumbs, close the bag and shake. Kids love this and helps with the excess energy they seem to have when school begins.
No Bake cookies
1/2 cup milk
3 Tablespoons cocoa
1 stick butter/margerine
1 1/2 - 2 cups white sugar
Place these four items togather in a medium saucepan over medium high heat. Bring to a boil, boil 1 minute. Remove from heat and cool for 1 minute. Stir in 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal, 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Drop onto aluminum foil or waxed paper.
Makes 2 - 3 dozen.
Great quick recipe:
1 package of cream horns sliced into about 5 discs
1 package of fresh strawberries or peaches sliced
Place a piece of strawberry on top of each cream horn disc Dust with powdered sugar. Keep in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
These are delicious and everywhere I take them people beg for the instructions.
I really like these no-bake recipes for my students. I plan to try the twinkie school bus idea and the green chile pinwheels. I am thinking of including the pinwheels with a lesson on fractions. Thanks for the ideas!
Resses Cookies
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
Mini Resses Peanut Butter Cups
Mix ingredients and roll dough into balls. Roll each dough ball into sugar then cook for 7-10 minutes at 375 degrees.
When you take them out of the oven you can press a Resses mini in the middle of each cookie. Then eat!
I also like making Tortilla Soup for our teacher soup luncheons!
6 corn tortillas cut into strips
6 cups of chicken broth
2 14 ½ oz. cans of diced tomatoes
1/3 lb. deli pepperoni cut into wedges
2 cups cooked corn
2-4 jalapenos
¼ cup chopped cilantro
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Bake tortillas in shallow baking dish for 8 minutes at 250 degrees.
Combine all other ingredients except for the cheese in a large saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
Top with cheese and tortillas or you could just use bagged tortilla chips to make it easier!
Does anyone know where you can buy yogurt chips to make your own yogurt covered snacks?
sounds good. we will try these. about an idea for “all about me” take an english muffin (HEAD), sheaded cheese (hair)
vegies ( to make eyes, mouth, nose) use cream cheese to stick everything on the muffin
You can also add sliced or chopped black olives in the cream cheese mixture for the pinwheels.
An easy recipe to do with the students is the twinkie buses. Pre-cut twinkies in half long ways and place on plate. Have students attach wheels (rolos), windows (hersey chocolate bar), and a stop sign (red skittle) with white icing. I then have students tell me what bus number they ride!
A great and easy snack to make as a class is pretzel goobers. Students arrange mini pretzels on baking sheet lined with nonstick aluminum foil. Top each pretzel with an unwrapped chocolate kiss. Bake on 325 about 3-5 minutes. Top with sprinkles, chopped nuts, coconut, etc.