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)
- Place onion in food processor fitted with the chopping
(metal) blade. Pulse until onion is finely minced.
- 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.
- 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.
- Remove mixture from food processor and place in a mixing bowl. Chill until it it partially firm.
- Form the cheese ball into an "owl" shape (a rounded triangle), smoothing the surface as you shape.
- Cut lengthwise slices from the end of the carrot and cut out
V-shapes to create the owl feet; insert under owl body.
- Cut off the pointed end of carrot and slice out a V-shape to
create a beak. Insert.
- Insert a cashew nose above the beak.
- 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.
- Add triangle shaped tortilla chips for ears.
- Insert sliced almond on the lower front, sides and back of
the owl.
The owl was a hit and the party was a HOOT!
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| Melodie OTT Friedbach & Shelly BERGERHOUSE Merriam. |
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| Oh look, Melodie made an owl cheese ball, just like mine! |
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| Cheers! Marcia DIEKMAN Corey & Libby Dyke Randall. |
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| Here I am talking to my pledge mom, Marcia DIEKMAN Corey. |
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| Barry with Marcia. |
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)
- Place onion in food processor fitted with the chopping (metal) blade. Pulse until onion is finely minced.
- 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.
- 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.
- Remove mixture from food processor and place in a mixing bowl. Chill until it it partially firm.
- Form the cheese ball into an "owl" shape (a rounded triangle), smoothing the surface as you shape.
- Cut lengthwise slices from the end of the carrot and cut out V-shapes to create the owl feet; insert under owl body.
- Cut off the pointed end of carrot and slice out a V-shape to create a beak. Insert.
- Insert a cashew nose above the beak.
- 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.
- Add triangle shaped tortilla chips for ears.
- Insert sliced almond on the lower front, sides and back of the owl.
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