So, I started this blog a long time ago and then never did any meandering. Well, I need to start meandering. What is meandering? Meandering means to wander randomly or to proceed with no purpose or aim. That is what I plan to do. Except that meandering doesn't have a plan. . . Anyway, let's get meandering:
Today we will be meandering towards one of my biggest vices in life and that is good food. I'm going to post some of my cooking pictures. Photo credits: I took most of these pictures myself, and the rest were taken by my beautiful wife. One of my favorite things in life is food and sometimes we get creative with it. Let me know if you have creative ideas that you think we would enjoy.
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| Beautiful Butterfly Biscuits |
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Butterfly Biscuits: We mixed up some plain old homemade biscuits and rolled the dough out. Then, instead of using a round biscuit cutter (otherwise known as a drinking glass in our home) we cut them with a cookie cutter. Then while they were cooking we mixed some pink food coloring into some melted butter. When we took the biscuits out of the oven we painted the wings with the food colored butter. Very simple and the kids thought it was the coolest thing.
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| Chocolate Oatmeal Nobakes |
Chocolate Oatmeal Nobakes are my favorite cookie ever. You cook them in a sauce pan on the stove instead of baking them in the oven like most cookies, hence the name 'nobakes'. Tips for good nobakes: get everything ready before you start. I have a habit of starting the butter in the sauce pan to get it melting and then I try to get everything else ready before the butter melts. I always end up with burning butter while I'm frantically trying to get the other ingredients out. And then I remember that you should get everything ready before you start. Get the aluminum foil laid out and the measuring utensils ready. You can even measure out everything and have it ready to just through in. I can post my recipe if anyone needs it but it isn't anything fancy. It is out of an old school fundraiser cookbook.
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| Christmas French Toast |
Christmas French Toast: We woke up to find our eight year old cooking breakfast at Christmas time last year. I like to be creative with cookie cutters but she came up with this one on her own. I love that she was kneeling on the counter top working away to make these for the whole family. So she made French Toast like normal (again, no fancy recipe) and then cut shapes out of them with the cookie cutters. Then she filled the holes with syrup and whipped topping. You can make these any time of the year. You just need cookie cutters that are the right shape for the occasion.
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| Colorful Chocolate Chip Pancakes |
Colorful Chocolate Chip Pancakes: Another one that takes very little effort to get the kids involved. We make the pancake batter like normal. Chocolate chips are optional but I love them so I often put them in. Then I separate the batter into separate bowls and let the kids pick a color to add to the batter. On this particular day we had pink and green. Sometimes we don't put the chocolate chips in the batter but add them after the batter is on the griddle. Then you can carefully place them to make faces, shapes, or letters.
