Snack Sunday :: Thanksgiving Edition ::

Gobble gobble! =) It's almost Thanksgiving time... A time for families to get together, have fun, and eat great food!

Here's a recipe to keep the kids at bay until the Thanksgiving dinner is ready.











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Fruit Gobbler:
Ingredients:
Bosc pear (head)
Melon (body)
Cheese (beak and tail feathers)
Red pepper (snood, feet and side feathers)
Raisins (eyes)
Grapes (tail feathers)
Bamboo skewers
Toothpicks

Instructions:
1. Stabilize the melon body by cutting a shallow slice off the rind to form a flat base. Using a section of bamboo skewer, attach a Bosc pear head to the melon, as shown.

2. Cut a cheese triangle beak and red pepper snood. Attach both, along with raisin eyes, to the head with sections of toothpick.

3. Cut red pepper feet and set them in place. For tail feathers, skewer cheese cubes and red grapes, then insert the skewers as shown. Pin pepper side feathers in place with toothpicks.

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Enjoy!!

-Jane Marie