HOOT OWL CHEESE BALL for Chi Omega Reunion


This week the Kappa Alpha chapter of Chi Omega sorority celebrates 100 years on the Kansas State University campus. Just to clarify – I was an initiate in the late 60s; I do not date back to the 1915 pledge class!
            In anticipation, Shelly Bergerhouse Merriam has reunited what she terms the “Sassy Sisters of the Sixties” — we’ve been exchanging pics and bios and it’s been a HOOT!
            The owl is one of the symbols of Chi Omega so for the Friday night 60s gathering in Manhattan, I made a HOOT OWL CHEESE BALL.

HOOT OWL CHEESE BALL
About ¼ to ½ of a yellow or white onion
8 oz. block of cheese (I used a combination of sharp Cheddar & Colby-Jack cheese)
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
3 to 4 drops hot sauce
Carrot
1 cashew, toasted
2 cloves
2 pointed tortilla chips or corn chips
Sliced almonds, toasted (Bake at 350° for 4 to 5 minutes until just golden brown)
  1. Place onion in food processor fitted with the chopping (metal) blade. Pulse until onion is finely minced.
  2. Remove metal blade from food processor and insert grating disk. Cut block of cheese into sizes that can be inserted into the feed tube of the food processor; grate.
  3. Remove grating disk and reinsert metal blade. Add cream cheese that has been divided into chunks, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce. Pulse until mixture is well blended.

  4. Remove mixture from food processor and place in a mixing bowl. Chill until it it partially firm.
  5. Form the cheese ball into an "owl" shape (a rounded triangle), smoothing the surface as you shape. 
  6. Cut lengthwise slices from the end of the carrot and cut out V-shapes to create the owl feet; insert under owl body.
  7. Cut off the pointed end of carrot and slice out a V-shape to create a beak. Insert.
  8. Insert a cashew nose above the beak.
  9. Cut to thin carrot circles for eyes. Using a knife, bore a tiny hole all the way through the center of both carrot circle; insert a clove into each and then press eyes into the owl body.
  10. Add triangle shaped tortilla chips for ears.
  11. Insert sliced almond on the lower front, sides and back of the owl.
The owl was a hit and the party was a HOOT! 
Melodie OTT Friedbach & Shelly
BERGERHOUSE Merriam.
Oh look, Melodie made an
owl cheese ball, just like mine! 
Cheers! 
Marcia DIEKMAN Corey & Libby Dyke Randall.
Here I am talking to my
pledge mom, Marcia
DIEKMAN Corey.
Barry with Marcia.
Here's another owl recipe— Kay Emil-Powell's  Chi Omega Hoot Owl Cookies .

Recipe without photos . . .
HOOT OWL CHEESE BALL
About ¼ to ½ of a yellow or white onion
8 oz. block of cheese (I used a combination of sharp Cheddar & Colby-Jack cheese)
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
3 to 4 drops hot sauce
Carrot
1 cashew, toasted
2 cloves
2 pointed tortilla chips or corn chips
Sliced almonds, toasted (Bake at 350° for 4 to 5 minutes until just golden brown)
  1. Place onion in food processor fitted with the chopping (metal) blade. Pulse until onion is finely minced.
  2. Remove metal blade from food processor and insert grating disk. Cut block of cheese into sizes that can be inserted into the feed tube of the food processor; grate.
  3. Remove grating disk and reinsert metal blade. Add cream cheese that has been divided into chunks, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce. Pulse until mixture is well blended.
  4. Remove mixture from food processor and place in a mixing bowl. Chill until it it partially firm.
  5. Form the cheese ball into an "owl" shape (a rounded triangle), smoothing the surface as you shape. 
  6. Cut lengthwise slices from the end of the carrot and cut out V-shapes to create the owl feet; insert under owl body.
  7. Cut off the pointed end of carrot and slice out a V-shape to create a beak. Insert.
  8. Insert a cashew nose above the beak.
  9. Cut to thin carrot circles for eyes. Using a knife, bore a tiny hole all the way through the center of both carrot circle; insert a clove into each and then press eyes into the owl body.
  10. Add triangle shaped tortilla chips for ears.
  11. Insert sliced almond on the lower front, sides and back of the owl.

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