Hi y’all!! This is Sarah Bowmar and I am so excited to share some fun, yet relatively healthy Memorial Day treats with you guys!

Shirley Temple:

These are so fun, incredibly easy and relatively low in calories!

Ingredients–

Sprite zero

Grenadine

Blue sour punch straws

*This can also be made as a “dirty shirley”, just add 1 shot of vodka!

Directions–

Fill the glass with sprite zero, leaving about 2 cm of space at the top

Add grenadine (the more, the sweeter) so add as much as you’d like until the flavor is right. Less is more in my opinion!

Add two blue sour punch straws and have yourself a super quick and easy memorial day drink!

Strawberry Poppyseed Salad:

This salad is so incredible and screams summer!! Memorial Day weekend is such a great time to be with family and friends and remember all that we have to be thankful for!

Ingredients–

Lettuce

Feta cheese

Strawberries

Blueberries

Poppyseed dressing

Honey roasted almonds

Dried Cranberries

Directions–

Cut lettuce if needed and place in bowl

Cut strawberries and sprinkle on top of lettuce

Add blueberries, honey roasted almonds, dried cranberries, and feta cheese

Drizzle poppyseed dressing over top and enjoy!

American Flag Fruit Display:

I absolutely love how this display turned out and it took me all of about 10 minutes! This is something you could easily throw together the day of!

Ingredients–

Raspberries

Blueberries

White chocolate covered pretzels

Directions–

Place blueberries into a small square in top left corner of board

Starting with raspberries and then with white chocolate pretzels, place as many stripes as will fit on the board! I would have done more but this was the only board that I had!

I hope that these treats help you enjoy Memorial Day, but not feel like you just ate way too much. These are healthy options to bring to the family picnic or the hang out with friends and it could guarantee something fresh and semi-low calorie there!

Hi guys!! It is Sarah Bowmar here, just stopping in to share some fun recipes that I tried out for St. Patrick’s Day! I know that gatherings are more limited, but these ideas are so fun and perfect for the family to enjoy together or with friends, outside, socially distanced! There are a wide variety of recipes I made so please let me know what you think and which you tried!!

Rainbow fruit platter:

Ingredients–

Strawberries

Clementines

Bananas

Green Grapes

Blueberries

Mini marshmallows

Lindt white chocolate, gold covered chocolate truffles

Directions–

Cut strawberries and arrange in an arch formation as the top of the rainbow

Peel the clementines and place in line with the strawberries directly below

Cut the bananas and place below the clementines

Arrange the grapes below the bananas

Sprinkle the blueberries below the grapes

On one side of the rainbow, add marshmallows in a separate bowl or arrange in a cloud formation to the side of the rainbow

On the other side of the rainbow, add the gold truffles to be your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

Pot of Gold mimosas:

Ingredients–

2 oz Orange juice

Champagne

2 oz Blue curacao

Directions–

Pour orange juice into champagne flute

Pour champagne leaving space for the blue curacao to fill the remainder of the glass

Quickly pour the blue curacao into the glass. It will fall to the bottom creating a faded green and gold mimosa

Lucky Charm Sugar Cookies:

Ingredients–

1 cup of butter

1.25 cups of sugar

1 egg

2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp almond extract

2.5 cups of flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

Lucky charm marshmallows

Rainbow colored sprinkles

Directions–

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Get your baking sheet ready!

Mix the butter and sugar together and make it nice and fluffy

Add in the vanilla, egg and almond

Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt

Add sprinkles and lucky charm marshmallows

Mix well until everything is combined

Scoop small sized balls of cookie dough and add to the baking sheet

Place additional Lucky Charm marshmallows on top of the cookie dough before you place the baking sheet into the oven

Place baking sheet into oven and bake for 10-12 minutes

Allow to cool and enjoy!!

Luck of the Irish Chips and Dip:

Ingredients–

1-2 green bell peppers

French onion dip (pre-made, refrigerated kind)

Ridged, potato chips

Directions–

Cut off the top of the green bell pepper

Scrape out the inside of the bell pepper being careful to create the look of a 3-4 leafed clover

Repeat with a second green bell pepper depending on the size of the party

Fill bell peppers with french onion dip

Arrange on a platter with ridged chips and serve! You can always serve this with other vegetables to make this a healthier option!

Enjoy these delicious treats! Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the Bowmars!

Hi all!! It is Sarah Bowmar here and I am stopping in to share some of the Valentine’s Day recipes I tried out this year! I wanted to get this post up as soon as possible so that everyone could have time to get all of the ingredients they would need to make these tasty treats!! The ingredients and directions for each recipe can be found below!

Bourbon Cherry Crush

Ingredients: (per 1 drink)

1 shot of bourbon (the type of bourbon is totally up to you! If you aren’t super into bourbon, then try crown apple with this…it adds extra flavor and is a great flavored bourbon for those that wouldn’t pick bourbon as their first choice!)

3/4 shot of grenadine

3/4 shot of maraschino cherry juice

2 TBSP of lime juice

1/2 cup of club soda

Sugar, limes and cherries for garnish

Directions:

Fill a shaker cup with ice cubes, bourbon, grenadine, cherry juice, and lime juice. Shake to combine.

Prepare the glass with the sugar rim. For the sugar rim- get the top rim of the glass wet, place sugar on a plate, dip top rim of glass into the sugar to get a beautiful sugar rim! Add a slice of lime and a cherry for garnish!

Pour the drink mixture (without the ice cubes) into the glass.

Add a shaped ice cube for an extra fun touch! I linked the large cube and sphere ice trays that I use from amazon!

Watermelon & Raspberry Fruit Kabobs

Ingredients:

1 mini watermelon

1 package of raspberries

Kabobs

Heart shaped cookie cutter

Directions:

Slice water melon into flat circular shaped slices

Place cookie cutter into watermelon and press down

Each watermelon slice should make about 4-5 heart cut outs

Remove seeds

Place one water melon on the kabob, followed by 3 raspberries. Repeat until the kabob is full

Repeat this process until the fruit has all been used!

Red Velvet Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients:

For the dough- 1 package of red velvet cake mix, 1/4 oz active dry yeast, 2.5-3 cups of flour, 1.25 cups of warm water

For the filling- 1/4 cup butter melted, 1 TBSP ground cinnamon, 1/2 cup of brown sugar

For topping- 4 oz cream cheese (softened), 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1/4 cup butter softened, valentine’s sprinkles

Directions:

To make the dough-

In a large mixing bowl, combine red velvet cake mix, yeast, and 1 cup flour

Add warm water and beat on medium for 2-3 minutes

Add additional flour and knead with mixer or by hand to form a soft dough (hint…it will make your life a lot easier if you get a KitchenAid mixer!)

Spray a large bowl with non-stick cooking spray and place dough inside

Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let it rise in a warm place for an hour (it should double in size)

To make filling-

In a small bowl, mix brown sugar and cinnamon

After the dough rises-

Place dough on a surface (put flour down first!!) and roll out the dough into a rectangle. This should be about 1/4-1/2 inch thick

Spread the melted butter all over the inside of the dough and sprinkle with the filling mixture

Roll the dough into a log

Cut into 12 equal pieces

Place cinnamon rolls into a 9 x 13 baking pan (first spray plan with non stick cooking spray)

Cover with kitchen towel and let rise for another hour

Preheat oven to 350

Bake cinnamon rolls 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned

To make the topping-

While the cinnamon rolls are in the oven, add the cream cheese and butter into the bowl until it is fluffy

Add the powdered sugar and vanilla extract and mix until combined

Spread the icing over the warm rolls

Sprinkle the rolls with Valentine’s sprinkles to help stick to your theme!

I hope that you all enjoy these recipes as much as I did!! The cinnamon rolls take awhile but the taste is worth it! And it could be a fun activity to involve your kids in as well! Let me know what you think or if you have any questions!