Category: Food

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Sweet Tooth Fairy

Ahhh yes…the rumors are true. I am in love.

April and I spent the evening with Dave at Sweet Tooth Fairy in Provo, to make the final arrangements for the Harry Potter Premiere party next week. Look what he gave us.

No, no. Sharing is not an option…sorry.

This Dave fellow is one smart cookie…or should I say cupcake? Perhaps guys don’t actually like being called cupcakes so sufficeth it to say, he knows his stuff. He’s working on some amazing wizard cupcakes for our party and took us in the back to show us how they are made.

We are in soooo much trouble.

Dude.

I’ll tell you, if I wasn’t already committed to finding a cute little farmer man with a Scottish accent, well, I’m quite certain that I could really fall for a guy who is up to his elbows in chocolate all day and has the Top Secret recipe for a Key Lime frosting that could bring world peace ALL. BY. ITSELF.

Alas, I’ll have to be satisfied with being madly in love with…

the cupcakes.

Somehow—it’s enough.

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The Pumpkinless Pie

My cute little daddy–in the middle, with the beard–had worked in a bakeshop of one kind or another, ever since he was about 8 years old. So, when he went into the Navy, it was only natural that he became a cook. To hear him talk, he must have loved it. One story that he told us when we were little, was of being on a battleship, somewhere out in the middle of the South Pacific on Thanksgiving Day.

He said the food was always as good as they could possibly make it, considering what they had to work with. But today, the guys were hoping for something more–anything that would make them feel just a little closer to those they loved back home.

Canned turkey was expected, along with some sort of dried bread stuffing and soggy vegetables, but what they all were missing the most, they said, was pumpkin pie. Of course there was no pumpkin–fresh or canned out in the middle of the ocean–during a war. But that wasn’t good enough for my smarty-pants dad.

He thought about it and thought about it and realized that cooked pumpkin, in many ways, is quite similar to…

carrots. Yesiree. Carrots.

So, while no one was looking, he cooked them up and added all the right spices, milk, and sugar. He said, that he found that if you treat a carrot like a pumpkin, it will act just like one. So when the “pumpkin” pie was served that day–it was perfect. Everyone thought it was a miracle or that pumpkins had just dropped out of the sky or something. They never knew. But they didn’t think too hard about it because they were way too busy being grateful for all their blessings…

and their amazing Superman cook–my cute little daddy….

who saved Thanksgiving Day.

And that’s the way he told it…

except for the Superman bit…that was all mine.

heh, heh.

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Happy Veterans Day!

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Friendly, Familiar Food

Not so much going on in this kitchen that’s brand new these days. In fact, we’ve been falling back on some good old standards lately. Normally, we have Egg Toast Cups on Easter–but it’s been so long since Daney boy has had them, that when he asked me to make them–how could I resist?

Any Fruit Smoothies are always a hit and since we had a full flat of autumn raspberries…well, some things are a given.

Ran out of corn flakes for the crumbly topping–but this time of year Cheesy Funeral Potatoes are always on the menu. Yummm.

While it’s true that we do eat a TON of apples around here, I’m only showing you these as a buffer for the decadence that is coming next. Oh, do forgive me…

but Tropical Krispy Treats just sort of popped up. I know, I know…enough color and sugar to light up Fargo, North Dakota. But…they didn’t last long, so it was just a very temporary lapse in judgment.

And the guys are lit up like Mack truck head lights…but they’re recovering and the glow is nearly gone.

All is well in Zion.  

How about you? What’s cooking in YOUR kitchen these days?

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Turkey Cookies

Note–I am purposely RE-posting today’s blog post. Forgive the previous submission. Moral of the story: Never attempt to write intelligently at 2 am. Sheesh

Don’t you just LOVE my sweet–and I mean SWEET–little Tom Turkey? Don’t you just want to gobble him up? Ha! Gobble.  Get it? That’s a good one.

These little guys would make a great neighbor treat or think how great they’d look on the Thanksgiving table.

Turkey Cookies

Ingredients

Fudge Mallows cookies

Iced Oatmeal cookies

Chocolate frosting

Swedish fish, candy corn and anything else you’d like to use.

You likely don’t need tons of instructions now–but just in case…

Cut the marshmallow cookies in half.

Glue it–with chocolate frosting–marshmallow side down, onto the oatmeal cookie.

Pipe a frosting “turkey body” straight up onto the marshmallow cookie.

Cut the Swedish fish up for feet, wings, beaks, eyes or whatever strikes you.

Give your little “Turkey-Lurkey” a face, beak, feet and a waddle from the decorettes and cut up Swedish Fish.

“Glue” tail feathers onto the back of the same cookies.

The little papooses will love this part…

and be quite proud of…

their little gobblers…

in the end. And rightly so.

Gallery of Turkey Creations

Sweet little turkeys nearly too cute to gobble.

I said, nearly.

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Turkey Cookies
 
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Ingredients
  • Fudge Mallows cookies
  • Iced Oatmeal cookies
  • Chocolate frosting
  • Swedish fish, candy corn and anything else you'd like to use.
Instructions
  1. Cut the marshmallow cookies in half.Glue it--with chocolate frosting--marshmallow side down, onto the oatmeal cookie.
  2. Pipe a frosting "turkey body" straight up onto the marshmallow cookie.
  3. Cut the Swedish fish up for feet, wings, beaks, eyes or whatever strikes you.
  4. Give your little "Turkey-Lurkey" a face, beak, feet and a waddle from the decorettes and cut up Swedish Fish.
  5. "Glue" tail feathers onto the back of the same cookies.

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Chili Freeto Pie

I first tasted something pretty close to this over at Sonic a million years ago. It was good–but I kept thinking, “How hard could this possibly be to make at home. Well, here’s your answer…

Not very darn. It was simple and quick—and you KNOW how I feel about recipes like that. Ummmm—good!

Chili Freeto Pie

Ingredients:

2 cans chili

1 can black beans, drained and rinsed

1 can corn, drained

1 can refried beans

1 bag chili Freetoes

2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Mix all the canned ingredients together in a bowl. Spread into a 9×13 Pyrex casserole dish. Sprinkle with cheese and about 4 cups of Freetoes. Cover with tin foil and bake at 350 until hot and bubbly clear through and cheese is melted

Tell your family you went out for fast food…

except this is better…so they won’t believe you.

Never mind.

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Chili Freeto Pie
 
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Ingredients
  • 2 cans chili
  • 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1 can corn, drained
  • 1 can refried beans
  • 1 bag chili Freetoes
  • 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
  1. Mix all the canned ingredients together in a bowl.
  2. Spread into a 9×13 Pyrex casserole dish.
  3. Sprinkle with cheese and about 4 cups of Freetoes.
  4. Cover with tin foil and bake at 350 until hot and bubbly clear through and cheese is melted.