Could something as simple as stuffed mushrooms make a difference? I think it can & here is why. Before Thanksgiving I was asked to participate & create awareness for Share Our Strength. We are having a virtual dinner party & we invite each of you to attend & join in if you wish.
This progressive dinner party was developed to increase awareness & alleviate childhood hunger in the USA. The goal this holiday season is to raise funds to feed these kids. Spreading the message as a community can bring the best results – so no child goes hungry.
Why stuffed mushrooms? Bloggers were assigned a date and we got to choose our course. I went with a family friendly appetizer. I believe these little mushrooms offered a lot of promise. They are simple, quick, easy & inexpensive to prepare. Even though a bit messy, little fingers can pick them up with ease. Most kids and adults love cheese & bacon.
These appetizers are filled with mushroom stems, fresh herbs your favorite cheese and little bits of smoky bacon. The bacon & cheese puts smiles on everyones faces over here. On a crisp cool day the smell of these baking is very comforting. Makes me feel warm & grateful for our blessings.
I wish I could share my cooking with all of the folks who cannot afford to feed themselves. In the mean time I can help create awareness.
This is the second event I have participated in for this wonderful charity. Last year I brought Gluten Free Maple Peanut Butter Cookies to the National Food Bloggers Bake Sale. You can follow updates and become involved in that event too. They hold bake sales in many locations around the US. You can also start your own.
Here is the link if you would like to donate to theNo Kid Hungry Share Our Strength campaign. Every donation counts, no matter how big or small.
What is your favorite holiday appetizer? Do you have a charity that you support this time of year? It is not too late for you to join the Virtual Holiday Table. Share your recipes & help raise funds to feed hungry children.
*If you have a moment please check out the interview I just did over at Dishin’ In the Kitchen
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Variations
- To make these for the Jewish holidays (Hanukkah) – simply omit the pork bacon and use turkey or vegetarian options.
- Instead of Thyme, fresh Rosemary would be an excellent choice.
- Cheese choices: Gorgonzola, Blue Cheese, Romano, Cheddar, Mozzarella, Gruyére, etc. The list can go on & on!
Stuffed Mushroom Recipe Links
- Classic Herbed Stuffed Mushrooms Babble.com
- Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms Ezra Poundcake
- Stuffed Mushrooms Easy French Food
- Stuffed Mushrooms Pham Fatale
- Stuffed Portabello Mushrooms Polwig
- Stuffed Mushrooms with Smoked Pancetta Lucullian and Delights
Food Blogger Virtual Dinner Party Links
Check out these bloggers who are also participating in Share Our Strength’s Virtual Progressive Dinner Party.
Appetizers
- Gourmet Neo-Homesteading Recipe Girl The Italian Dish
- Family Friendly MarlaMeridith.com right here Giving Up on Perfect
- Vegetarian Smith Bites Two Peas and Their Pod
- Gluten Free Wenderly
Drinks
- Gourmet Food Woolf Neo-Homesteading The Gringo Chapin Three Many Cooks
- Family Friendly Fat Wuz Here
- Vegetarian Lexies Kitchen Simply Sugar and Gluten Free
- Gluten Free Gluten Free Easily
Salads
- Gourmet The Bitten Word girlichef
- Family Friendly Food For My Family
- Vegetarian Glugle Gluten-Free
- Gluten Free Add a Pinch Gluten Free Diva
Soup
- Gourmet A Girl, A Market, A Meal edible cville The Runaway Spoon
- Family Friendly All About Alton Brown Cookie Central’s Great American Bake Sale Ladles and Jellyspoons Two Dollar Dinners
- Vegetarian Good Life Eats Feed Our Families
- Gluten Free Celiac Teen Celiacs in the House Gluten Free Life with Jen And Love it Too!
Entrees
- Gourmet Food Blogga What’s Gaby Cooking
- Family Friendly Bluebonnets & Brownies Foodie Tots Life in Recipes
- Vegetarian The Peche
- Gluten Free Nourishing Meals The Sensitive Pantry
Sides
- Gourmet The Urban Baker Heather Christo We Like to Cook, and Eat Plum Pie
- Family Friendly What’s Cooking Dine and Dish The Evolving Cook Katrina Runs for Food
- Vegetarian My Kitchen Addiction Taste as You Go Flamingo Musings
- Gluten Free The Whole Gang Jenn Cuisine Creative Cooking Gluten Free
83 Comments
What a wonderful charity!
These mushrooms look delicious! My favorite holiday appetizer is spanikopita 🙂
Beautiful pics, delicious appetizer and an awesome cause!! You are the best!
We usually serve brie en croute for an appetizer on Christmas eve. It’s a tradition. 🙂
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It’s definitely important to remember the ways in which bloggers can raise awareness about important topics, hunger of course being one of them. Stuffed mushrooms are always a favorite at my family functions. Love this stuffing!
If it has bacon, you know I’m in!
Lovely shots! That mushroom dish is fantastic and must be succulent.
Cheers,
Rosa
Fantastic appetizer for a fantastic event:)
Absolutely gorgeous! The red ribbon heart is both brilliant & beautiful!! Lovely post! Just lovely!
LOVING this girl! Such a great appetizer for any occasion! Really beautiful 🙂
bacon, cheese, and mushrooms are my favorite food groups.
those are food groups, right? 🙂
these look great, I love stuffed mushrooms. Adding bacon and cheese is just genius
Stuffed mushrooms are always a favorite around my family’s holiday table too…yours look fantastic, Marla! Thanks for helping to raise awareness for such an important cause.
Marla, I think I can feel the cozy just by looking at your beautiful pics. Great recipe, and a cause I support also. Lovely post!
Great work for Share Our Strength Marla… stuffed mushrooms happen to be one of my favorite appetizers especially those containing bacon! 😉
What an amazing post with all the gorgeous photos, reflections, and recipe! I know my husband will fall in love with me all over again when I make these stuffed mushrooms! No, I’m not kidding. The man loves some stuffed mushrooms. And, these are phenomenal!
I’m happy to be part of this event with you. I truly hope we make a huge difference via our fundraising efforts!
Shirley
Shirley: Yes, this is such a great way to promote a wonderful cause. Glad we are both a part of it. Cute that your hubs will fall in love all over again with these mushrooms. Nice to have a simple & satisfying way to make people love us.
Georgia: After preparing this recipe stuffed mushrooms have become one of my favorite little bites to eat too.
Josie: I know, anything containing bacon is a hit over here 🙂
Cathy: Glad I can make you feel the cozy thoughts.
This is such a wonderful recipe to compliment a wonderful foundation. Stuffed mushrooms are my absolute favorite little “bite” to eat, and these look marvelous. Saving this recipe to try for my next dinner party! Thanks, Marla!
Where have I been – thank you for the detailed information. I AM IN! This is what I do. What a beautiful (as always) post, Marla. Your opening photo and the other with they thyme and the ribbon had me wanting… the mushrooms look so tasty and your photos are so artful. Did I tell you I am headed to photography bootcamp in Feb. I cannot wait to get my money’s worth out of my DLS… like you do. Your children are so gorgeous, and that is what it is all about. YES! Feed the Children. I am now going to look up the links.
Big hug,
valerie
I wish, wish, wish that my little one would eat mushrooms. He’d like everything inside of these but the mushrooms he’d shove aside. I keep trying…
I’d eat all of them though. Delicious choice, Marla!
I love that first shot, Marla! These mushrooms have all of my favorite ingredients in one place – mushrooms, cheese (Brie!) and smoked paprika. Perfect!
Oh yeah – and bacon! How could I forget?
Your photos are gorgeous!!! And I just know my husband would love these mushrooms. He likes mushrooms a lot more than I do, and when you add cheese and bacon (two of his favorites)? Perfection. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this recipe. It’s great to work with you for Share our Strength!
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this is a great organization “Cooking Matters”- I will be partnering with them in 2011 to teach cooking classes to inner city families, I’m really looking forward to it.
C’est Si Bon,
Louise
Louise: You are awesome! “Cooking Matters” sounds like an excellent event & you will be the perfect teacher. You have so much culinary wisdom & talents. Those people will benefit greatly from your knowledge.
Dara: I know you and I have a thing for brie. We both use it often!
my favorite appetizer? this. absolutely these mushrooms – stuffed w/bacon and cheddar – seriously! and your kids are just the cutest things evah!!
and disregard those two obnoxious !! after Smith Bites – have NO idea where those came from . . . UGH . . . i must be tired tonight . . .
This is a worthy cause to share, especially at this time of year when people are reminded that we all have to participate to give.
Those mushrooms look terrific! A bite sized appetizer.
This is such a wonderful event idea.
The mushrooms look amazing. I know my boyfriend would love these!
What a beautiful post and gorgeous photos in support of such a needed and wonderful cause. It’s so apparent through your photos that you whole heartedly support Share Our Strength. Thank you for sharing this!
Mushrooms with bacon and cheese? Who could resist? And thanks for raising awareness of this very worthwhile cause. With all of the excesses in our country, no one should have to go hungry.
Wow I’m drooling! You had me at bacon. This is a great event and I’m excited to be participating with you. I hope we can inspire people to donate.
That is a beautiful start to the Share our Holiday Table dinner! I’m looking forward to posting a dessert next week.
marla, these are some of your best photogs! love this post. i am on tap for next week…be on the lookout! xxx
Oh Wow.., these mushroom shots look fabulous. Just what I feel like.., getting hungry reading these, might take a trip to the store and pick up some mushrooms and make these for dinner tonight.
Marla, this looks sooooo good. What I would do for one of those mushroom caps!
A great dish for an even greater cause.xoxoxox
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These look beyond good. Guests would swoon over these!
These are the best looking stuffed mushrooms I think I’ve ever seen. And they sound delicious.
Such a beautiful appetizer for a beautiful cause.
A worthy cause and a lovely looking appetizer! Caught my eye because I am right beside you on Foodgawker…in good company again!
Stuffed Mushrooms – this recipe sounds (and looks) wonderful as an appetizer. AND I bet you could serve this as a main course by filling the large portabello mushroom caps with the filling. Either way, little or big, it looks sensational. Love the pictures – especially the B&W ones (with the added coloration) of your kids. Beautiful post! I’m so honored to be contributing my salad recipe on Dec. 8th. This is an amazing way to bring attention to a topic that so desperately needs our attention.
Ellen: I completely agree with you – in larger portabello mushrooms these would make a great meal with a side salad or steamed veggies. The fact that there are no breadcrumbs in these makes them a good for gluten free meal plans.
Thanks for your sweet words. That is one of my fav photo of my kiddos.
Fooddreamer: Glad to see you gracing the pages of Foodgawker these days. Always fun to see you over there.
I love stuffed button mushrooms! they’re too cute. this recipe is my default one but i can’t wait to try yours http://www.fourgreensteps.com/community/recipes/52/1008
Great mushroom recipe (how can you go wrong with bacon, right?)
Loved being on Foodgawker with you today too!
What a great mushroom recipe and great charity. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve been seeing SOS all over lately and I must have been totally out of it last year because I think it’s been around for a while!
Great that you’re participating in this. I’ll check out the other peeps too.
I {heart} stuffed mushrooms. Especially these ones. I could eat them for dessert.
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stuffed shrooms are such a quality appetizer. very nice, marla.
Such a wonderful charity Marla! And these mushrooms look absolutely amazing. Your photos are breath taking too. Beautiful!!
These sound fantastic, Marla! Love the bowl of mushrooms. 😉
This is such a great cause, it’s nice to see attention brought to it! Great-looking appetizer too!
wow this is truly awesome, those mushroom looked fabulous!
the mushrooms look amazing, your kids look happy, and you’re doing this for a good cause. you’re my hero!
There aren’t too many things on earth that beat a bacon stuffed mushroom! Yum! Share Our Strength is such a terrific charity!
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The mushrooms look spectacular, but the cause makes them even more beautiful. *kisses* HH
What a fantastic mushroom dish!!
The mushrooms look delicious. I recognize the little baking dish we got at BlogHer. I need to pull mine out and use it. I helped Maria with the Bake Sale last year. Cute kids!
These look beyond amazing! I have bookmarked this one! You go girl!
Amazing charity, mushrooms and photos!!!! 🙂 You rock!
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OMG – those look SO good! Thanks for joining our awesome virtual progressive dinner party sistah! xoxoxoxoxo
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These look delicious! I love mushrooms, although my family doesn’t. I’m thinking that I’ll 1/2 the recipe and make them for an upcoming lunch with one of my mushroom-loving friends!
This sounds like it would be my boys fav,
thanks Marla another wonderful recipe you have shared with us.
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I adored each and every individual part of this post.
Thanks a lot -Cassie
These look delicious! I love mushrooms. Thanks Marla another wonderful recipe you have shared with us 🙂
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