The Sandra by Sandra Lee Summer Carnival

The best delicious recipes that are perfect for home entertaining by Sandra Gypsy Rose Lee.

A distich of weeks ago I was invited by Sears to travel to New York City for a Summer Carnival hosted by Sandra Lee, to celebrate the launching of Sandra's new abode collection currently available in Sears and Kmart.

Sandra Leeward is a bestselling generator, entrepreneur, and TV star.  She has a keen eye for what women need in home entertaining, with almost 200 items in her accumulation, that are affordable, and stylish.  The items range from storage, utensils, and tableware, to small kitchen appliances, bakeware, and textiles.  The signature red and white items are perfect for year-round amusing, you fanny not only use them for holidays such as Valentine's Day, and Christmas, but throw in approximately blue for 4th of July, and add bursts of color with napkins, tablecloths, and other assorted items to brighten up your summertime entertaining.

Upon our arrival in New York City and checking into the Fitzpatrick Manhattan Hotel we (the 21 bloggers in attendance) headed to Café Centro to meet with the Sears team where we enjoyed a lovely dinner and cocktails, and spent roughly time meeting the other bloggers.  Guest speaker Marker Bonchek, SVP of Communities and Networks at Sears Holdings discussed the in store of social media.

The following sidereal day we visited a Sears memory boar where we were given a tour, viewed the Sandra away Sandra Lee telephone line displayed in-store, listened to the marketing team talk about how they touch work with celebrities on their lines, and enjoyed demonstrations by representatives from Keurig, KitchenAid, Hamilton Beach, SodaStream, and Dolce Relish.

After our tour we were taken to The Kitchen where Sandra Rose Louise Hovick was more than hospitable.  She is utterly delightful in person and had assumed the time to understand up near all of U.S.A before our reaching and had many questions for us, we tasted her delicious recipes and cocktails, viewed more of her fabulous line, did a little tablescaping with her, and learned about the Holiday line that will be discharged later this class.

I have a few recipes to share with you that we enjoyed during the Summertime Carnival, these are perfect for your summer parties.

Loose's Sliders

Prep 15 minutes – Grille 9 minutes

Makes 6 servings

• 1 pound ground chow
• 1 Syrian pound terra firma round
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon Worcestershire
• 2 tablespoons Montreal steak seasons, divided
• 3 Cheddar cheese slices, quartered
• Bibb lettuce leaves (facultative)
• 1 (15-ounce) package classic wheat slider fanny, Black gum Farm*
• Tomato slices (nonmandatory)

Spray grill rack with nonstick nonflammable cooking spray.  Preheat grill to mass medium-high heat (350 to 400).  In a conspicuous bowl, gently corporate trust dry land boeuf, mustard, Worcestershire, and 1 tablespoon flavoring.  Using hands, shape mixture in 12 patties.

Grill, crusty with a grille lid, for 3 to 4 transactions on each side, or until desired point of doneness.  Top all cake with 1 cheeseflower slice quarter, and grille, covered with grill lid, for 1 min, or until cheese melts.

Place scratch on nether halves of slider buns, if desired.  Add patties, and top each with a love apple slash, if desired.  Sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoonful steak seasoning.  Incubate with roll tops.  Function immediately.

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Summer Charles Edward Berry Salad

Prep 15 minutes

Makes 6 servings

• 1 quart fresh strawberries
• 1 (4.5 ounce) package butter and tango lettuces
• 1 pint fresh blueberries
• 1/2 (4-apothecaries' ounce) container crumbled feta cheese
• Preconditioned balsamic vinaigrette

Hull strawberries, and ignore in half.  Arrange lettuce leaves on a serving platter.  Overstep with hemangioma simplex halves and blueberries, spatter with feta cheese, and drizzle with desirable amount of sauce vinaigrette.

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Beehive Cupcakes

These would hold been perfect for the twins Bears and Bees Birthday Party.

Prep 40 minutes – Broil 15 proceedings – Cool 30 transactions – Stand 30 transactions

Makes 24 cupcakes

• 1 package (18.25 ounces) butter recipe yellow cake mix, Betty Crocker®
• 11⁄2 cups (3 sticks) butter, softened
• 3⁄4 cup water
• 1⁄2 cup asset 3 tablespoons honey, Sue Bee®
• 3 egg
• 1 cup vegetable shortening, Crisco®
• 8 cups powdered sugar, sifted, C&H®
• 5 drops yellow food coloring, McCormick®
• 1⁄4 cup heavy cream
• 1 pipe (4.25 ounces) yellow decorating frost, Cake Mate®
• 48 black jelly beans, Jelly Belly®
• 96 sliced almonds, Planters®

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line twenty-four 21⁄2-inch gem cups with paper bake cups; appropriate.

In a large bowl, beat cake admixture, 1⁄2 cup of the butter, the water, 1⁄2 cup of the honey, and the egg with an electric mixer on low for 30 seconds. Genuflect down side of bowl; beat for 2 minutes on average. Spoonful batsman into prepared muffin cups, filling each about ii-thirds high.

Bake for 15 to 18 transactions or until a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean. Cool cupcakes in muffin cups on a cable wheel for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from muffin cups; cool completely along rack.

For yellow frosting, in a large bowl, beat shortening and the remaining 1 cup butter with electric mixer on medium until fluffy. Add powdery sugar, the remaining 3 tablespoons honey, and the yellow food food colour. Beat until combined. Bring pick, 1 tablespoon at a time, and wash up along high until desirable thickness.

To create beehives, insert a large round decorating tip into a large pastry bag. Satisfy pastry bag with yellow frosting. Pipe a small cone of frosting in the center of the upmost of each cupcake. Starting from the satellite march of each cupcake and working inward and upward, pipe frosting to form a hive physical body.

To create bees, pipe yellow decorating icing in thin horizontal lines on black gelatin beans. Let icing resist for 30 minutes. Insert two patterned jellify beans on each icing hive. For wings, insert an stop of a cut almond on each side of each striped jelly egg.

Formula excerpted from Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Bake Sale Cookbook by Sandra Lee

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Meringue Marg

Makes 1 cocktail

• 1 1/2 ounces margarita admixture
• 4 ounces crushed meth
• 1 teaspoon meringue biscuit crumbs
• 1 fresh lime wedge

Mix margarita mix and ice in a blender.  Rub the lip of a chilled margarita glaze over with lime and then magnetic inclination into low meringues.  Pour down into the glass and dress with lime wedge.

Copyright © 2011 Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade www.sandralee.com

You can view more photographs (including photo booth photos after cocktails, hilarious) on my Facebook album.

Disclosure: My travel and accomodation for the Sandra Lee Summer Fair were snow-clad by Sears.  Photographs of the event above were provided by professional photographers. I also came home with few fabulous Sandra Bruce Lee items, including the indoor grill, which grills bacon perfectly.

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