What Shall We Make Today: Christmas in July Party Foods

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How about some finger foods to start off? These Santa Hats are slices of banana, grapes and strawberries with a mini marshmallow to top off the skewer. Easy peasy!

Or maybe watermelon trees?

A gorgeous wreath couldn’t be simpler! Some crisp green pea pods with cherry tomatoes and a fresh dip!

Cheese balls are very versatile! They can be shaped into snowmen or ornaments!

But today’s recipe is for a Christmas Tree Pull-Apart Bread.

Christmas Pull Apart Bread

Ingredients

1 can pizza dough

4 ounces cream cheese

1 cup mozzarella cheese

7 ounces basil pesto

2 tablespoons butter

1 minced garlic clove

Fresh chopped parsley

1/2 cup red bell pepper

Mini pepperoni

Fresh rosemary sprigs

Marina sauce

Directions

Unroll a can of pizza dough out on a flat surface, and cut the dough into 36 squares with a pizza cutter.

In a bowl, add cream cheese, mozzarella cheese, and basil pesto and stir them together.

Add a spoonful of the cheese and pesto mixture to each pizza dough square, and pinch the corners together. Close up the seam on your dough square to form a ball around the mixture, and place the ball seam-side down on a parchment paper-covered sheet pan. As you place the mixture-filled dough on the sheet pan, place the dough balls in the formation of a Christmas tree.

Bake the completed Christmas tree for 15 minutes at 400˚. While the Christmas tree is baking, combine butter and minced garlic in a small bowl and melt the mixture in the microwave for about 20 seconds.

When the Christmas Tree Pull-Apart Bread comes out of the oven, brush it with your fresh garlic butter.

Top your bread with chopped fresh parsley, chopped red bell pepper, and mini pepperoni. Tuck sprigs of fresh rosemary under the edges of your Christmas tree for a final festive touch. Pair with a bowl of marinara sauce for dipping.

And lastly, what could be more fun than a snowball fight in July?

Water balloons, cold water, and a ton of fun!!!

Enjoy!

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155 thoughts on “What Shall We Make Today: Christmas in July Party Foods”

  1. Cactus
    July 22, 2023 4:51 pm

    More good state / local news about election integrity:

    Judicial Watch announced today it settled a federal election integrity lawsuit on behalf of the Illinois Conservative Union against the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Elections, and its director, which grants access to the current centralized statewide list of registered voters for the state for the past 15 elections.

    State officials had refused to allow the nonprofit Illinois Conservative Union and three lawfully registered Illinois voters to obtain a copy of the state’s voter registration list, despite their lawful request for those records under federal law. The State Board allowed access to the records but made any meaningful review impossible, requiring the plaintiffs to travel to Springfield, Illinois during limited working hours and review Illinois’ millions of voter records one at a time on a computer terminal, with no ability to sort or organize records

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  3. china is blanket fishing near Argentina and ruining its fishing capabilities. they are truly evil and want to dominate the world
    FTA
    One of communist China’s most devious schemes for world domination has come to fruition as the world’s largest dictatorship is now largely in control of the oceans and global seafood supply.

    Circulating satellite photos show a massive Chinese-owned “floating city” out in the water off the coast of Argentina. Said floating city is larger than the entirety of Washington, D.C. – and because it sits beyond the 200th nautical mile from Argentina’s coast, it is technically within the bounds of the law for international waters.

    The purpose of China’s floating city is to legally fish Argentina’s waters for fish and other seafood products that then get sent back to the motherland. And Argentina cannot do anything about it because the positioning of the floating city is technically legal.

    According to reports, ships will port at China’s floating city off Argentina’s coast and remain there for sometimes years at a time. Once they get loaded up with seafood products, these ships then return to China to offload the loot.

    “They don’t pay any taxes here, and they don’t buy any supplies or fuel,” one report out of Argentina states. “They don’t interact with us at all despite being right next to us. But they occupy all the fishing spots for years until the fish go extinct, then move on to the next one.”

    In a few years, the South Atlantic will be EXTINCT of fish due to communist China’s floating city presence

    The ruthless way that China is harvesting fish from Argentina’s waters means that in just a few short years, the entire area – and perhaps the entire South Atlantic – will be completely devoid of fish.

    “It’s not ‘our’ fish because it’s beyond the 200th mile,” sources in Argentina say. “But it’s where our fishermen go to try to make a living, and it’s getting harder every year.”

    Like in the United States, Argentina and other South American countries are moving in the direction of outlawing plastic straws and bags and the like in an effort to protect the oceans from waste. Meanwhile, communist China is fishing the ocean’s waters dry and nobody says a thing about it.

    According to Argentinian sources, communist China has already done “irreversible damage to oceanic ecology. This includes in the Pacific Ocean as well, which is currently in a “death spiral of missing links in the food chain.”

    In the next five years, it is expected that the Pacific Ocean will lose 80 percent of its biodiversity. In the Atlantic, upwards of 25 to 100 different ocean species are going extinct every single year.

    “Alaskan crab populations are gone,” Argentinian sources say. “We have maybe 2-3 more years of fishing those before they are gone forever.”

    There are also reports that communist China is using “disguised boats” in the North Atlantic to dredge lobsters instead of live-trapping them as is usually the format. What this means is that no breeding or egg-carrying lobsters are saved, as China is scooping them all up with no regard for their future subsistence.

    “In two years, China has undone more than 100 years of lobster fishing stewardship,” sources say. “Their fishing fleets should have been sunk five years ago. It’s already too late to do something about it. The oceans are dead unless we impose blanket fishing bans for the next 40 years.”

    We are told that the total destruction of our oceans is intentional, and that communist China is doing it on purpose to destroy other nations’ ability to feed themselves.

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-21-china-starve-world-destroy-fishing.html

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    1. I’ll let you know tomorrow. he’s drinking wine and relaxing on the sofa for now. he stained the entire deck–i only have to do railings.

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  5. “New York Post – British environmental activists demonstrating on the roads of west London Friday blocked a desperate mother who claimed she needed to cut through the crowd to take her child to the hospital. “I have got a baby in my car and we have to get to the hospital!” the frustrated mom shouts at a Just Stop Oil activist while pointing to her stalled car. Despite her pleas, the man continued to stand directly in front of her car while other stalled vehicles honked at the crowd to disperse.

    “Move now! Now!” the distressed mother yelled at one activist. She rushed back to her car as other stopped cars honk for the crowd to move, but the orange-vest-clad group maintains the line covering the entire width of the street as they slowly march in protest.”

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  7. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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  24. US women’s soccer stars at World Cup opener remain mostly silent during anthem as Vietnam players proudly sing theirs with hands over hearts
    One critic claimed the ‘ugly Americans’ were ‘showing their true colors’
    Six of 11 US players stayed silent and did not put their hands over their hearts

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12326747/US-womens-soccer-stars-World-Cup-opener-remain-silent-anthem-Vietnam-players-proudly-sing-theirs-hands-hearts.html

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