Skip to main content

Family food traditions

Today we did some baking and food making. Mom made a big pot of chili for lunch. She and I made cinnamon swirl and pumpkin bread (from box mixes). Then we moved on to the candies. Mom got this recipe for Oreo balls. Basically it's pulverized Oreos mixed with cream cheese. You freeze them and then tomorrow, we'll dip them in melted almond bark. We also made what I have just (as in 30 seconds ago) named "Christmas Rings of Deliciousness." We take those holiday circle pretzels and bake them for a few minutes with a Hershey's Hug set in the center, then when they're still melty you top them with an M&M. This year Mom bought some different hugs. She ended up with the Candy Cane kisses. We ended up topping these with broken candy cane pieces. They are fabulous!! During this expedition, Dad came out to help with his recipe, so we put him to work crushing the candy canes. He told us he was "going to make a nice candy cane carpaccio." It was at this point I realized we watch a little too much Food Network. :)

Tomorrow we'll dip the Oreos, and make the peanut butter candy. That is peanut butter in between Ritz crackers and then dipped in chocolate. Yum.

The only problem about blogging about food is that I'm now hungry. Oops. :)

Until tomorrow.

-B

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

April weekends

I just solidified plans for this weekend today when it hit me: my April weekends are all over the place, and well so very me. Keeping with my new reality of being around Dubuque much more often than I have in the past, I'll be here for 3 of the 4 weekends. Ok, and by here I mean mostly here. I'll explain below. April 6-7 Julien Dubuque International Film Festival --I went to the festival last year with Gretchen. We had so much fun! We ended up seeing a different set of films than we originally thought, but it was still a blast. I was lucky enough to attend the Beloit International Film Festival with Kyle and his family last month, and this year he's coming down to spend the weekend watching films with me. Plus Nicole will be around for the weekend so she's coming along too! April 13-14 Twins game with Amy--We've got tickets to the Twins-Mets game on Sunday so I'll be driving back up to The Cities (I was just there over St. Patrick's Day weekend). I have...

Tough day

I don't know what was different about today, but I really struggled. A headache sidelined me for part of the day. Then I got hit with an overwhelming wave of sadness. And there were tears today. Definitely a crying jag. At some point today I moved past the point of being able to be angry. I just feel sick to my stomach again. Something I haven't dealt with since being on anxiety meds. I'm ok. I think everything just caught up to me today. Hoping sleep grants me some stress-free down time for my brain at least. My heart and stomach are going to need a bit more time I think.

Booklist

I found this in my RSS feed this morning and thought it was a nice way to start the day. It is a list created by the National Endowment for the Arts, and a blogger writes that they claim most American adults have read only six of these hundred books. I've read 23, but about half have been for school; however, some of those I chose to read for a class assignment. :) Here’s what you do: 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. (Or in my case turn them green.) 4) Reprint this list on your own blog. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible (um, how many people have actually sat down to read the Bible? Like, straight through? I'm counting it because I read at least a chapter every night.) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (I own it, but haven't read ...