Please May I Have S’more?

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Administrator

Accomplice: Mom

Another theme night!  My Mom, the chef, has really gotten into these lately.  This time we did a theme dessert and made ourselves some s’mores.

For budgetary reasons we decided to go with s’mores with similar ingredients.  We went with the classic graham cracker/marshmallow base, but switched it up for the third ingredients.  Of course, we had to have the traditional Hershey bar.  It wouldn’t be S’mores Night without it.  But for the other two varieties we went with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (my bro’s fave) and York Pepperment Patties (my Dad’s fave).  Oh em gee.

I ate mine in ascending order of flavor intensity, starting with the Hershey bar and ending with the peppermint patty.  They were so, so good.  The only thing that would have made them better would have been eating them while watching The Sandlot.

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Scavenger Hunt Day

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Administrator

Today is Scavenger Hunt Day!

I think you know what to do….

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Lesson 17

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Administrator

This week’s lesson comes from the book of crazy, zany, and otherwise kooky adventures.  It is not for the faint of heart.

Assignment

Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to live like a celebrity.  I know what you’re thinking.  I don’t drive a BMW because it’s my Wednesday car, I don’t own a yacht, I don’t have a vacation home on Lake Cuomo.  That doesn’t matter!

Choose the celebrity you would most like to be (living or deceased) and try on their life for a day.  Would you like to be Elvis?  Pick up a guitar and learn a few hip shakers, whip up a PB and banana sandwich for lunch, wear those fun sideburn glasses.  Marilyn Monroe?  Throw on a drop-dead dress, do your make-up, and see how many men will hold open the door for you.

Have fun!

Post below who you decided to be.

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Peanut Butter

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Administrator

Accomplice: Mom

Every once in a while we like to have a theme night.  This time we chose peanut butter as our theme all thanks to this:

Heck yah!  We chose two recipes from the book – one was an African Beef Stew and the other was a frozen dessert.  Let me just say that both recipes were so good that we forgot to take pictures!

So instead of a photo, how about a recipe?

Frozen Peanutty Pops (serves 6)

1/2 c. Skippy peanut butter (we actually used almond butter)

2 cups milk (we used rice milk… we sound like a health food store)

1 package chocolate instant pudding (you can also use vanilla)

Whisk together ingredients in medium sized bowl.  Spoon into wax paper cups or popsicle molds (don’t forget the sticks!)

4 hours later you have the most delcious popsicle you have ever tasted in your whole entire life.

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The Freshmaker

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Administrator

Accomplices: Mom, Dad, Erik, Trixie

Have you seen the YouTube video of the guys in labcoats making Mentos/Diet Coke rockets?  If you have, that was awesome, right?  If you haven’t, it’s awesome!  Oh, and they’re also in Weezer’s “Pork and Beans” video.

So anyway, when I mentioned to my mom that you could make a Mentos/Diet Coke rocket she said, and I quote, “Oooh I wanna try that!”  I mean how can you say no to that.  My Mom is cool.

Erik, as part of the RBA research and development team, hopped on the internet to figure out how to do this experiment.  It was like an episode of Mythbusters except no one was wearing a safari hat.

We collected our tools: Diet Coke, Mentos.  We chose our location: grassy area behind parents’ house.  We followed the instructions: drop in Mentos, shake, POW!

Okay, so it was really more like a tiny pow, but we were all laughing so hysterically (and probably making the nieghbors wonder about us) that it didn’t really matter that our Diet Coke didn’t shoot straight to the moon.

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