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Pop-Up Party Recipes
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It’s time to enjoy the power of being together. Plan a Pop-Up Party! These get-togethers are festive, fun, and a great way to celebrate with friends and family. There are so many reasons to gather together and share experiences, good food, and lots of laughs.
We are wired for being connected and tend to live longer and healthier lives when we build and nurture social connections. It’s time to reach out and enjoy the benefits of togetherness.
Planning a Pop-Up Party isn’t hard, and everyone loves them. Just think about a reason or theme, where to have one, and who to invite, Pop-up events are unexpected, unique, and exciting. The best part is to create an experience that can be shared with others.
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Fun Recipes for Family and Friends
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Apple Pie Dowdy
Bursting with sweet spicy apples and covered with easy-to-make sparkling sugar crust.
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About the Recipe: This is an updated version of a single crust fresh apple dessert. The haphazardly cut crust is shingled onto the filling before it’s baked. Precooked apple syrup blends the flavor throughout the dessert, adding multi-sweeteners which enhance the apple slices, and a ready-made refrigerated crust makes it so easy to prepare. It’s an old classic turned and twisted into a new favorite fall dessert.
A single serving in an elegant dish and a dab of whipped cream can upgrade the dessert to a more formal party level.
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French Dip Brioche Sandwiches
Try a French Dip sandwich made with French Baked Brioche and caramelized onions.
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About the Recipe: This recipe gives the sandwich a real French twist, serving it on a wedge of lightly sweet rich bread. Brioche is made from enriched dough and has a golden color, soft texture, and soaks up all the French Dip roast beef flavor. The recipe makes four large sandwiches and is perfect for a game day party. Make sure that extra napkins are available as there’s lots of dipping fun.
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Easiest Homemade Butter
Have some family fun – it’s easy to make real butter in your own kitchen.
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About the Recipe: What butter is best? The answer is easy – Homemade Butter has incomparable fresh flavor and it’s always surprising as it magically separates into butter and buttermilk. Making butter is like having a food chemistry class in your own kitchen. What a great family activity! The bonus is that it’s so delicious and a snap to make!
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Magical Butter Melts
Full of flavor butter pats in cookie cutter shapes to create “chef-up” flavors.
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About the Recipe: Flavored butter, also known as compound butter to chefs, usually is served in five-star restaurants. It is simply just butter mixed with herbs, spices, or other flavoring. Kids and even “young-at-heart” adults enjoy seeing heavy cream magically turn into what is usually only found in supermarkets. Just press into plastic lined cookie cutters or molds, chill to firm, remove the shapes, and enjoy with delicious foods like warm toast, yummy pancakes, sizzling grilled meats or other favorite foods. It’s a fun savory or sweet activity that lets everyone become creative.
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Tara Teaspoon Bench – Cookbook Author
Tara Teaspoon Bench has spent more than twenty years in the food publishing industry, creating recipes and articles, and food styling for various magazine, books, television, and advertising. She has been the food and entertaining director of Ladies Home Journal magazine and a food editor at Martha Stewart Living, Kids, and Weddings magazines. She
has appeared on the Martha Stewart television show, The Today Show, and on the Food Network as a show judge and contestant.
Photo by Ty Mecham – Photo Courtesy of Tara Teaspoon Bench
Her book, Delicious Gatherings, has so many attractive pictures and is so beautifully written, that she is right there in the kitchen with you. We connected with Tara and wanted to hear more about her tips about making getting-together fun and easy.
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Tara brings her comforting-but-elevated approach to recipes that cover “Main Events,” “Serious Sides,” “Breakfast and Brunch,” and “Baking and Sweets.” The book opens with “Gather-Around Dinners,” which takes the stress out of meal planning with full-course menus for memorable gatherings. See a few excerpts of Tara’s recipes following this section.
Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and fine bookstores across the country.
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Tara Teaspoon’s Celebrating Together Recipes
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Mamma Mia! Red Pepper and Burrata Burgers
Roasted red peppers, Italian sausage and Parmesan add awesome flavor.
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About the Recipe: The recipe was over-the-top delicious with a wonderful blend of Italian flavors. It was like taking a quick trip to Italy. The burgers were tender with a surprise spicy Italian sausage taste and placed on mayo covered crisp baby arugula and basil greens. Summer juicy tomato slices were shingled over the burger with a burst of creamy Burrata cheese swirled on the top. A buttery Brioche bun on top captured all that goodness inside. When you try these, you are in for a real treat but have lots of napkins available for all those creamy cheese drizzles. What fun!
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Apple Pudding Cake with Butter Sauce
Rich cake similar to dense steamed puddings
Photo by Ty Mecham – Photo Courtesy of Tara Teaspoon Bench
For the Recipe: This cake is subtly spiced and full of the tart and sweet taste of apples, plus crunchy pecans. For an extra special touch, top or serve the cake with Apple Crisps. The sauce is so delicious and makes each bite of the cake extra divine
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Walnut Salad with Radicchio and Buttermilk Dressing
Updated version of Waldorf salad, elegant and easy.
Photo by Ty Mecham – Photo Courtesy of Tara Teaspoon Bench
About the Recipe: The classic Waldorf salad originated in New York City, and featured lots of apples, celery, and grapes with its greens. Tara was inspired to add shaved apple, flavorful radicchio, and a light savory buttermilk dressing. She also added candied pecans rather than walnuts. The updated version is elegant and welcoming.
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Loaded Guacamole Dip
Mexicana layered appetizer makes an impressive looking party appetizer
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About the Recipe: It’s really a seven layered dip served flat on a platter. Tara Teaspoon composed the platter to look impressive, a real showstopper that is perfect for dipping and being the centerpiece on your table. She included a recipe for guacamole, but you can also use your favorite or purchased guac. This is a such a clever idea, and it’s her go-to recipe for a party.
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Pop-Up Party Recipes
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Autumn Goulash Stew
Instant Pot easy Swiss-German favorite with sautéed baby spinach
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About the Recipe: Goulash is a hearty dish that can be prepared with chunks of pork or beef. It’s a little like a soup and a stew. The broth is a little thicker, flavored with caraway seeds, a sweet apple, and uses a generous amount of paprika. Hungarian paprika has a vibrant red color and rich flavor. Some are hot while others are mild. We even like to sprinkle a little smoked paprika over the finished dish. It’s delicious served with some sautéed spinach and egg noodles.
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Chunky Chicken Chili Chowder
Cool weather inspires sharing a creamy chili chicken chowder
About the Recipe: When the weather gets colder, there is nothing more comforting than a warm bowl of chili flavored chicken chowder. It almost shouts out to take it to your favorite football game or outdoor picnic activity. This recipe uses cooked rotisserie chicken, lots of tummy warming spices, and crisp tortilla chips. It’s packed with flavor.
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Spanish Pepper Pot Tomato Soup with Orange Fig Melts
Gently stewed tomato soup with a Menorcan twist
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About the Recipe: This is a simple soup highlighting onions, peppers, and tomatoes. It’s served warm with a melting cheese and fig jam covered artisan bread slice. The saucy stew is perfect for slices of crusty bread that can be used for sopping.
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Pecan Cinnamon Roll Sweet Potato Muffins
Sweet potato muffins with cinnamon roll flavor and drizzled with cream cheese glaze.
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About the Recipe: These not-too-sweet potato muffins are rippled with pecan cinnamon roll flavor. They are wonderful to serve for breakfast or a quick snack with a cup of your favorite coffee or tea. For a sweeter touch, drizzle them with cream cheese yogurt glaze.
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French Brioche Toast Breakfast
Company’s coming for breakfast –Toast up some French Brioche Toast
About the Recipe: Just imagine starting the day with fresh-from-the oven toasted Brioche bread, covered with apples, sweetened with cinnamon sugar, and topped with a combo of walnuts, bacon pieces, and soft sweet cranberries. Perfect to serve with scrambled eggs or just drizzle with some maple syrup. Oh, what a wonderful fall day!
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Apple Pie a la Mode Cones
A cool way to serve apple pie with ice cream
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About the Recipe: This recipe for American Apple Pie, topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, is apple a la mode with a new serving idea. It’s lightly sweetened apple pie filling with a touch of cinnamon is nestled into a crisp ice cream cone, topped with creamy vanilla ice cream, drizzled with a touch of caramel, and covered with a sprinkle of crunchy nuts and toffee bits. As the ice cream melts, it swirls with the apple pie filling creating a supercool swirling apple pie.
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NYC Snickerdoodles – Autumn Style
Like NYC, these cookies are big and full of flavor
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About the Recipe: What a great idea! We loved the crisp, soft snickerdoodles as larger bakery-size cookies. Tara flavored her cookie with delicious cinnamon, but we added a fall twist by using pumpkin pie spice. No matter how you spice them up, everyone loves the super soft texture and crispy edges of snickerdoodle cookies.
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