Snack Recipes from Members of the Quilters' Book Club to Take to the Tangled Web Bee

Mary's Squares Quilt Block

 

 

Join Sarah McClure from The Quilter's Apprentice at her first get-together of the Tangled Web Quilters.  Here's what some of us are bringing!  Yum!

 

Angie's Chocolate Zucchini Bread

2-1/2 cups flour

3/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

4 tablespoons cocoa powder

1/2 cup chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts, or your favorite)

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup margarine, very soft

1-3/4 cup sugar

3 eggs

1/2 cup sour milk (regular milk with 1/2 teaspoon vinegar added)

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cup grated zucchini

 

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.  In a bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and cocoa powder.  Add nuts and chocolate chips.  Set aside.

3.  In another bowl, mix the margarine, sugar, eggs, sour milk, and vanilla.  After mixing well, stir in zucchini.

4.  Add the dry ingredients to the liquids, stirring just until mixed.  Don't overmix. 

5.  Pour into 2 greased loaf pans and bake 45 minutes or until it tests done with a toothpick. 

 

Angie says, "Enjoy - great with tea."  Angie's bringing her delicious Chocolate Zucchini Bread to the Tangled Web Quilters Bee, along with her new hexie project to work on.

 

Nann's Artichoke Squares

Filling:

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 cup chopped fresh mushrooms

1/4 cup thinly sliced celery

1 clove garlic, minced

1 (14 ounce) can artichoke hearts, drained and chopped

1/3 cup chopped green onion

1/2 teaspoon marjoram

1/4 teaspoon oregano

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1 cup shredded jack cheese

2 eggs, slightly beaten

 

Pastry:

1-1/2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/4 cup milk

 

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 9" x 13" pan.

2.  Filling:  Heat oil in skillet.  Add mushrooms, celery, and garlic.  Sauté until celery is tender.  Remove from heat.  Stir in artichokes, green onion, and herbs.  Add cheese and eggs.  Mix well.  Set aside.

3.  Pastry:  Combine flour and salt in mixing bowl.  Blend oil and milk; add to flour.  Stir with fork until mixture forms a ball.  Press dough in pan, covering the bottom and slightly up the sides.

4.  Spread filling on pastry. 

5.  Bake 30 minutes or until center is set.  Cool slightly before slicing into 24 squares.  Serve warm.

 

Along with her tasty Artichoke Squares, Nann is bringing her paper-pieced hexagons (made with necktie silk) to work on.   

 

Starwood Quilter's Chocolate Chip Bar Cookies

1 stick butter, melted

2 cups brown sugar, packed

2 eggs

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup chocolate chips

1/2 cup chopped nuts

 

1.  Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2.  Melt butter; pour into mixing bowl.  Add sugar and eggs and beat with mixer until light and fluffy.

3.  Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt.  Add to above mixture and stir just until mixed.  Stir in vanilla, chocolate chips, and nuts.

4.  Spread mixture in a greased 9" x 13" pan.  Bake for 22-25 minutes.  When cool, cut into 24 squares. 

 

I'll be working on my Redwork Birdie Stitches at the Tangled Web Bee, but I will be having so much fun visiting with all of you, I'm not sure how much stitching I'll get done!

 

Share the recipe of a snack you'd bring to the Tangled Web Bee.  Email your recipe to starwoodquilter@gmail.com.  Carefully check that you have copied your recipe accurately, and I'll do the same!

 

By submitting a recipe, you will also be entering your name for a chance to win Marie Bostwick's latest book, Between Heaven and Texas.  The winner will be announced on May 1.

 

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April Redwork Birdie Stitches

I have missed having a small handwork project. Another quilter recommended Birdie Stitches Block of the Month by Little Miss Shabby available free online:
http://www.littlemissshabby.com/2010/12/birdie-stitches-supply-list/ When I saw it, I knew it was the perfect project for me. The designs are fun and whimsical. There are twelve small projects - one for each month - that are 8" square when finished. Instead of using several colors of embroidery thread, I chose to use just No. 8 perle cotton in red. All I need is a needle, scissors, a ball of perle cotton, and my monthly project. Everything fits in a little bag, and I can take it anywhere.

I printed the twelve monthly designs from the Little Miss Shabby website. Next, I ironed freezer paper to a 12" square of the Kona cotton in Snow. I taped a paper pattern to a window, then taped the cotton backed with freezer paper over the paper. I traced the design with a pencil.

I have done redwork on a single layer of fabric, and the knots show through from the back. I've tried backing the fabric with very lightweight iron-on interfacing, but the interfacing wrinkled. This time I used a double layer of the Kona cotton. I ironed the layers together and used an embroidery hoop. I didn't baste the two layers together, but it has not been a problem. I've been very pleased with the results so far.

I did make one change to the design. I added the name of the month to each block by finding a script font on my computer and enlarging it to 72.

Smells
Through all the frozen winter
My nose has grown most lonely
For lovely, lovely, colored smells
That come in springtime only.

The purple smell of lilacs,
The yellow smell that blows
Across the air of meadows
Where bright forsythia grows.

The tall pink smell of peach trees,
The low white smell of clover,
And everywhere the great green smell
Of grass the whole world over.
                              Kathryn Worth

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