Typical Kindergarten Lunch

It's almost the end of Kindergarten and I wanted to show the typical lunch I am making for the girls now.  The meals are bigger, boxes are bigger, and there are less food "pictures" as they get pretty jumbled in the backpacks. 

Their lunches also include a snack - on the side: 1 Frozen Gogurt & 1 canister of water.

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These lunches included:

Pepperoni and provolone with lettuce and Miracle Whip on wheat bread - 1/2 Sandwich

1/2 Banana

Broccoli Crowns

Green Pepper Slices

Grapes

Cheddar Goldfish Crackers

Chewy Granola Bar

Raisins

White Chocolate Chunk Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

 

It has been a while since I posted, and I have been baking for the school bake sale for weeks now.  Yesterday was the last bake sale of the season and we did great. After, I was asked for the recipe for some cookies and I was going to just e-mail it, when I realized, hey I have a blog for that sort of thing.  Everyone can share this yummy recipe!

White Chocolate Chunk Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

1 stick (1/2 Cup) of Butter or Margarine
2/3 Cup of Brown Sugar
2 Large Eggs
1&1/2 Cup of Oats (Uncooked Plain Oatmeal)
1&1/2 Cup of Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
1&1/2 Cup of Dried Cranberries
1 Cup of White Chocolate Chunks or White Candy Melts

Preheat Oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
With a Kitchen Aid Mixer or electric mixer beat the butter or margarine and brown sugar until fluffy.
Add eggs and beat thoroughly.
In another bowl, combine oats, flour, baking soda, and salt.  Mix well.
Add this dry mixture to the butter/sugar/egg mix in portions, always mixing well after each addition.
Stir in Cranberries and White Chocolate Chunks at a high enough speed to break up some of the chocolate.
Drop by large overflowing rounded spoonfuls onto cookie sheets.  Press down cookie balls so they are more disk shaped.  Bake for 15-20 minutes or until some browning on the cookies. Makes about 24 cookies.

Variations:
For a richer cookie, add 2/3 cup of butter or margarine instead of 1/2 cup.
For a lower fat cookie, add a banana and only 1/3 cup of  butter instead of 1/2 cup.


For variety: Add 1/2 cup of walnuts or pecans, or milk chocolate chunks instead of the white chocolate.
For a moister cookie, refrigerate dough for 24 hours before baking.  This allows the fats to really distribute throughout the dough.

Faith and Begorah!

A Leprechaun named Seamus, left this lov-er-ly Green Shamrock Waffle on my plate!

 

I've found a four leaf clover at breakfast.

Faith and Begorah,

What a lucky lass am I!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Cricut Cake Frosting Cutter

This is a precision cake frosting cutter.

Ridiculous Right?

I don't know if this is food porn, or tech porn or what.

Now if only I can learn to do this with it...

Or This...

 

Or This...

 

 

Or This...

Or This...

 

 

A Cupcake ATM is coming to Beverly Hills

I don't forward stories too often, but this is just insane... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/sprinkles-ice-cream_n_1311300.html?ref=food&ir=Food

A Cupcake ATM?!

It's so beautiful and so evil all at the same time.

A Mosaic Review of Bento

1. bento, 2. bentoDay2, 3. FishtankBento, 4. RosesInTheGarden, 5. Flowerbox, 6. farmbox, 7. SpookyBatBento, 8. ClownsAreScary, 9. TheVeryHungryBento, 10. Thanksgiving Bento, 11. LoveBento, 12. TwinBento, 13. DinoBento, 14. BENTO 001, 15. BentoStars, 16. PacManBento, 17. bentoFlowers, 18. Bunnies, 19. SpringFlowers, 20. OwlFaceBentoPub, 21. SpongebobSingle, 22. SpongebobSquareLunch, 23. LoveBento, 24. BentoOtheIrish, 25. EagleBento, 26. LoveBugBento, 27. LoveBugBento, 28. TwoButterflies, 29. CatBento, 30. Butterfly Bento, 31. MonstoBox, 32. beegirlbento, 33. PrincessBoxes, 34. HeatWaveBento, 35. LastDayofDaycareRainbowStar, 36. Snail Bento

Today's Food As Art link

I like this.

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/the-sandwich-artist

Philly in Vegas

We're visiting Mother of Food in Vegas for The Holidays. We are going to be driving a lot this holiday and we wanted to replace our weak battery before we headed to more remote parts, Since we are away from home and any socket wrenches, we decided to pay to have the battery professionally installed. We ended up at a Pep Boys. It was in an unfamiliar area and we were looking for a good sandwich place for lunch. After installing the new battery, the guys at Pep Boys pointed us in the direction of Geri's Olde Philidelphia.

What we found was a sparse no nonsense kind of place with pictures of Rocky on the wall and all kinds of authentic Philly treats. I split the chicken cheese steak pizza style with Mother of Food and Husband of Food got a steak and mushroom cheese steak. I was very happy with my pizza chicken steak sandwich, it was like chicken parm in the form of cheesesteak. We all shared sides of fries and onion rings, but after ordering, I noticed that we could have had corn nuggets, tater tots, or sweet potato fries. Mom cherrily ordered an egg cream in a wave of nostolgia.   The staff were all regular folks, happy to have egg cream drinking types in the joint.

Mom shared her egg cream with the uninitiated.

Later that night, we went out to try and see the Christmas lights at the Ethel M Chocolate factory, but the car didn't start. Turns out that the Guys at Pep Boys didn't tighten down the terminals. With a bit of work, Husband of food got the car started and had to take it back to Pep Boys to finish the job. They admitted to doing a sloppy job, not doing it right the first time. We would have been really mad, but they did recommend Geri's. So, my advice is do not go to Pep Boys for work on your car, but do take their recommendations on sandwich places.

Geri's Olde Philadelphia    

3430 East Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas, NV

Tropicana Plaza

(702) 456-0864