Service Week/ School Picnic

     From the 3rd to the 14th of June we have been testing out recipes for our school picnic. We've been making spanakopita, black bean dip, white been dip, goat cheese crostini, Mexican hot chocolate cookies, and vanilla bean scones.

     Spanakopita is a triangle bread stuffed with feta cheese and spinach. It's simple to make and tasted just fantastic. Phyllo dough was the outside and it was a temperamental thing to work with but once you got the hang of it, everything worked out fine. Find the recipe at http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/18417/spanakopita-greek-spinach-pie

     Black bean dip tastes great and its fairly simple to make as well. It has onions and garlic and cilantro in it and it says to let the water evaporate while cooking the beans but don't because then you can't blend it well. It was easy to make bad tasted great. Recipe at http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/easy-black-bean-dip/

     White bean dip was not my favorite but it did taste good. It worked out well and cooked fairly fast. Recipe at http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/white-bean-dip-with-pita-chips-recipe/index.html

     Next was the goat cheese crostini but I can't find the recipe and I don't remember much about it so I'm very sorry.

     Mexican hot chocolate cookies. Absolutely delicious. It was a little spicy because of some chipotle that we included (chili may also work). It was sweet and spicy and just tasted good.

Recipe at http://m.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/spicy-mexican-hot-chocolate-cookies.html

     Vanilla bean scones are fantastic. It was great and sort of plain but that was good because we just covered them in vanilla bean sugar icing. It's amazing. It sweet and sugary but not too much so. Recipe at http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/mini-vanilla-scones-with-vanilla-bean-glaze-recipe/index.html