Trick or Treat

For Great Grandma and Meme.

Cheesy Garlic Bread

I found this on that website that shall 

remain nameless. 

Well, alright, 

Pintrest.

Basically you take an Italian loaf

cut it diagonally in both directions

so as to make diamonds across it. 

I think an extra pair of hands could be helpful

as the bread gets pretty wobbly

when you are making the second 

side of cuts.

Then you mix up 

6 T. of melted butter,

2T. olive oil, 

fresh minced garlic, 

dried minced onions, 

dijon mustard and

parsley 

and put it over top, getting down into

all those nooks and crannies you've created.

Then take a mix of shredded cheese and shove it all 

on, in, and over.

Wrap it all up in foil and bake for about 20 min. 

What's not to love?

Well, maybe not the dried minced onions and 

dijon mustard the recipe calls for

but that is easily remedied.

Next time.

Because there will be a next time. 

You hear me Christmas Eve?

Maddies' Room

And a gramar lesson. 

Shanna congratulated me for proper

 use of an apostrophe.

It was a mistake.

BUT NOT THIS ROOM!

WooHoo!

Someone's been having too much fun!

Turkey Onesie

 Did I mention  Pintrest isn't just for recipes?

The best thing about making this myself is

that I could match the feathers to

the pants I found.

Here's hoping Maddie doesn't outgrow 

this before 

Thanksgiving!

Pumpkin Spice Bites

Another entry in my

"Can I Call You Pumpkin"

board.

These were really good but I was very surprised at 

the steps that were troublesome.

One might think forming the cups of cookie

would be difficult but given the right tools, they were

a piece of cake. 

Or cookie.

Finding the pumpkin cookie mix was a problem.

After three stores I decided sugar cookie mix

with a healthy dose of pumpkin pie spice would 

suffice. 

And it did.

Mixing pumpkin pudding (not hard to find)

with a cup of heavy cream proved to be an issue.

It turned to cement.

Immediately.

The recipe called for you to whisk it till smooth.

Can you see the folly in that?

And then it said to put it in the fridge so it 

could set up enough to pipe.

Set up enough to pipe was NOT a problem.

Piping cement pumpkin pudding

was.

But I persevered.

24 times.

http://www.createdby-diane.com/2012/10/pumpkin-spice-bites.html

Donuts or Doughnuts

Either way, 

I baked them this morning.

It was wrong.

Donuts should be fried. 

In the evening. 

As a social event.

With wine.

And messy friends.

That is all.

Brisket Bowls

It's what Rachel Ray calls it but really, 

there should be a more descriptive name for it. 

But as I have already established, 

I don't have the recipe naming skill.

Apparently neither does Rachel.

But I digress. 

This was really good.

The recipe has you cook it in a dutch oven but

you really could do it in a slow cooker too. 

There is a little asian hint of flavor to it but

not overpowering.

You are supposed to serve it with a slice of 

lime that you drizzle over and believe it or not, 

it was really good.

I did change up one thing in the recipe.

You were supposed to line a bowl with rice

that you have added spinach and cilantro to, 

making it *green* and then spoon the meat and 

sauce into the middle of it. 

Hence the name. 

But we are on a rice moratorium at the moment.

Thank you Consumer's Reports. 

It seems there is arsenic in our rice.

The Chinese have found yet another way to

yank our chains. 

Remember the red dye/paint in kids toys?

Well, now it's arsenic. 

It's running off fields from the pesticides and 

into the rice patties.

Mike thinks we should get rice made in the 

USA.

Are there rice patties in the USA?

But I digress yet again.

I used mashed sweet potatoes. 

So far they are arsenic free. 

And maybe even grown in the USA.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/brisket-bowls-recipe/index.html