Jalapeno Poppers and Annie's Baked Brie

Yea it's the Golden Globes tonight! Deboard, Annie, and I are watching it at our house right now. Cameron is in town, but he sprinted to his friends house to watch the playoffs when he heard we were having a Golden Globes watch party... Hopefully he'll come back later when he hears all about the great snacks we're making!

Penelope Cruz looks absolutely beautiful, she probably doesn't eat baked brie or jalapeno poppers... But I'd rather just envy her and eat our snacks.

I made these jalapeno poppers for SAE this week, and some for Cameron when he got in town on Friday. We eat them ALL the time at the Ongena's lake house. I can't say the amount of ingredients for each one, because whenever I make it, I usually am making 140 for the SAEs... So just guesstimate!

Jalapeno Poppers:

Ingredients:

• Jalapenos (cut in half and devained)
• Cream Cheese
• Bacon! (If the bacon is really thick, it may take longer to cook, you can cut it in half and hold it with a toothpick)

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Cut the jalapenos in half and cut out the seeds and vains... This is a picture of most of the 70 jalapenos that I cut in half.

Ahh so many jalapenos! Ryan helped me cut them and at the end of all of it our hands were burning from the heat!

The next step could not have been completed without Lis, she helped me fill in all of the hollow jalapenos with cream cheese and wrap them in bacon. Stick them in the oven for 40 minutes and and make sure you line all of the cookie sheets with foil, because the bacon is super greasy and it makes clean up a breeze!

Side story: Since I was making 140 for SAE and I put so many in the oven that I set off the fire alarm about six times.

Baked Brie:

Annie makes this baked brie all the time, it is so delicious, and so I thought this night would be the perfect time to make it!

Ingredients:

• 2 Pillsbury Pie Crusts (I had some left over from SAE meetings)
• 1 circle package of Bree
• Apricot Jelly
• 6 Tbl Butter, melted

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with foil (again easy clean up and you can transfer the brie after its done without it breaking apart).

Lay one pie crust down and put the brie ontop.

Heavily coat the top of the brie with apricot jelly, you can never have enough!

Put the second pie crust on top and fold over second pie crust and pour the brie. Poke small holes into the sides of the brie.

Put in the oven for 30 minutes and serve with crackers.

Annie with the brie right after we took it out of the oven.

ENJOY and happy MLK Day!!