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Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion; cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add 1/2 cup flour, the cayenne pepper and 1/2 teaspoon salt; cook, stirring with a wooden spoon to make a dry, stiff mixture, about 3 minutes. Gradually whisk in the milk to make a smooth paste. Stir until the batter forms a ball, about 3 more minutes.
Remove from the heat; stir in the ham, cheese and thyme. Spread the mixture evenly into a greased 8-inch square baking pan. Cool, then refrigerate until firm, at least 45 minutes and up to 1 day.
Meanwhile, make the pea sauce: Bring 3 cups water and the garlic to a boil in a saucepan. Add the peas; cook until thawed, 30 seconds. Drain, then transfer the peas and garlic to a blender. Add the broth and lemon zest; puree until smooth. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.
Heat about 3 inches of oil to 340 degrees in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Place the remaining 1/4 cup flour, the eggs and the saltine crumbs in 3 separate shallow dishes. Cut the chilled dough into 20 4-inch-long croquettes. Dredge each in flour, then dip in the eggs, letting the excess drip off, and roll in the saltines.
Fry the croquettes in the oil in batches until golden brown. Drain on a paper-towel-lined plate. Season with salt and serve with the pea sauce.
Photograph by Kate Sears
Recipe courtesy of Vince Camillo for Food Network Magazine
Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/vinces-ham-and-cheese-croquettes-recipe.html?oc=linkback
HAPPY5th BIRTHDAY TO THE DRACULAS HEART OF DARKNESS COVEN
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HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY TO OUR COVEN AND ALL OUR COVEN FAMILY! TODAY IS OUR 5th BIRTHDAY. OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS WE HAVE SHARED MANY JOYS SUCCESSES SOME SADNESS AND I AM SO HAPPY AND PROUD TO BE YOUR COVEN MISTRESS AND TO HAVE YOU ALL AS MY COVEN FAMILY . HERE IS TO THE NEXT 5 YEARS! MAY THE NEXT 5 YEARS BE HAPPIER MORE SUCCESSFUL AND MORE PRODUCTIVE FOR US ALL! MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL!
FRIEND OF MINE SENT ME THIS SO I JUST THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE , SHE GOT IT FROM HRE LOCAL NEWSPAPER!
FOR some, New Year’s Eve is a time to pop the champagne and search for a midnight kiss.
Others surround themselves with friends or have a quiet night in with their partner, believing the way they spend New Year’s Eve is representative of how they’ll spend the year ahead.
Some just think it’s a totally overrated celebration.
No matter how you celebrate, New Year’s Eve fireworks are a rite of passage in Australia, it’s basically mandatory for the city skies to sparkle with pinks, blues and every other colour imaginable.
And while Australia has its own New Year’s Eve customs, other countries have their own traditions — and they’re weird.
If you’re celebrating New Year’s Eve in Peru, prepare to set celebrities or the president on fire. This is not a joke, it’s really what they do — sort of.
The countries have a ritual where dolls representing national hate figures are thrown onto a bonfire at midnight. The celebrations also extend to burning tyres and plastics.
However, Peru’s health ministry senior environmental official is not feeling too festive this New Year’s and said the ritual put people at risk of lung damage because of the toxic smoke.
It’s not stopping shops in Lima from selling dolls though, with President Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia among the most popular. I wonder who their effigy is?
LUCKY LINGERIE
When Latin Americans ring in the new year, it’s all about their undies.
While we might be focused on buying a new outfit for a holiday party, those in Latin American countries are shopping for intimate apparel.
It is believed the colour of your underwear will bring you certain good fortune in the new year.
People wishing for love opt for red knickers but yellow is a popular choice as it is said to bring good luck and fortune.
White underwear supposedly brings peace while blue, good health, wellness and tranquillity.
But be warned — whatever you do, don’t wear black.
While they say the colour is flattering, it will bring you bad luck for the whole next year.
Funnily enough this isn’t the only odd New Year’s Eve tradition.
Many also grab a suitcase and walk with it around the block in the hope they will be granted with opportunities to travel.
UNIQUE HOUSE GUEST
Rather than New Year’s Eve, the Scots celebrate Hogmanay, which means the last day of the year.
It comes with its own set of bizarre traditions, but one of the weirdest is “first-footing”.
After midnight strikes, the first person to enter a house will determine the household’s fortune for the year ahead.
BBC reports a dark-haired man who carries a gift, usually coal or food, is who you want to come knocking.
A fair haired female is an unwanted house guest, she is considered to bring bad luck.
Apparently ringing in the new year with a clean house is also paramount and it is considered bad luck not to sweep the floors and dust the window sills before midnight.
POLAR BEAR PLUNGE
Fancy an ice cold swim in subzero temperatures? Surely only a mad man would think to do that. But, believe it or not, it’s exactly what people do in Canada. More than 2000 opted to take an ice cold dip in English Bay in 2000.
I don’t know about you, but this tradition makes me feel really fortunate to celebrate the New Year in summer.
BASH YOUR BREAD
There are probably better things you could do with a loaf of bread, but in Ireland, people like to bang it against the walls and doors of their home on New Year’s Eve.
It’s certainly a strange custom, but it is meant to chase out all the evil spirits.
At least we know what they’re scared of now, must be carbohydrates.
Single Irish people also like to sleep with a nip of mistletoe, holly or ivy under their pillow in the hope it will bring them the woman or man of their dreams in the new year.
I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A VERY SAFE HAPPY HEALTHY AND PROSPERUS NEW YEAR AND MAY THIS NEW YEAR BE MUCH HAPPIER THEN THE LAST YEAR WAS AND MAY EVERYONE'S DREAMS AND WISHES COME TRUE AND MAY 2016 SEE THE END TO TERRORISM AND WAR ALL OVER THE WORLD.
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