Have a wonderful 24th birthday my lovely daughter!
Something Wicked This Way Comes…
So there we were at the grocery store, minding our own business…
when from out of nowhere, a whole busload of Easter candy jumped into our cart. Now, if it had been full priced Easter candy we would have said, “Back, foul vermin! Be gone!”
But upon closer inspection, we found it to be 50-75% off. Oh, and the Cadbury Eggs–8/$1. Yeah…8.
So instead, we said, “You poor little unwanted, homeless Easter candy. Come with us and live happily ever after.”
So they did.
Of course, we don’t intend to eat it all…you know…by ourselves, or anything.
No, no.
That would be silly.
We could easily share with anyone…if the mood strikes us. :]
Here’s a bonus too. As we were at the checkout–the cashier guy says, “Hey…ahhh…you can have one of those Easter Jello molds too. Take a couple, because you bought so much stuff. It’s free.”
I say, “Free? Why?”
The wise guy leans in closer like he’s sharing his locker combination, and says, “Cause…
Easter’s…
OV-ER.”
Joke’s on him.
I just smiled and said,
“Not at our place, Skippy.”
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Week 5 Food Storage Prompt:
4 cans tomato soup, 1 10 lb powdered milk
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Everything crafty right at your finger tips.
Happy Creating!
What the…
So, last week—we had…
this…
and this…
and this…
Warm and welcome and green and lovely.
But now we have…
this…
and this…
and this…
not to mention this.
Cold and wet and not quite as welcome…
but I must admit–
also lovely.
Perhaps we can change Friday’s gardening party to a sled day.
In the meantime,
it’s back to chanting…
…for Spring.
Hard Boiled Eggs
This is what’s left of the dyed egg fest of 2009. I’d hoped to get a picture of the piles of color that sat drying in the carton–but sadly, everyone pocketed their own and left the building before I could snap the shot. So, you’ll just have to believe me–they were cool.
So now what? I realize that you can–and probably have–eaten them out of the shell with a dab of salt and pepper–but the family can only take so much of that. So, if your looking for another solution–other than tossing them out the window of a high rise somewhere—here’s what we do with hard boiled eggs.
Peel and rinse them and set them in a large bowl.
Add salt and pepper and softened butter to taste. We use about a teaspoon of butter for each egg.
If you have a pastry blender–it works perfectly for the next step.
Mush up the eggs until they are the consistency that you’d like.
Now, you can just eat or serve them plain, or on toast, or you can add a few tablespoons of Salad Dressing and make lovely egg salad sandwiches. The butter is really the key ingredient that adds a better flavor and holds the mixture together.
Egg-straordinary!