Homemade Cookies Day

October 1
Homemade cookies day.

Chocolate chip. Peanut butter. Oatmeal. Sugar. Gingerbread.

What do these all have in common?
They are all types of COOKIES.

All types of cookies are good, but fresh, warm, homemade cookies are the best!

I decided to make a kind I havent tried before, but everyone loved them.

WHAT YOU NEED:
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk
40 mini chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Sift together flour, salt, and baking powder.

3. Cream together the butter, sugars, and peanut butter until fluffy.

4. Beat in the egg, vanilla, and milk.

5. Add flour mixture; mix well.

6. Shape into 40 balls and place each into an ungreased muffin pan. (Mine made 39.)

7. Bake at 375 for about 8 minutes. (Mine was around 10 minutes.)

8. Remove from oven and immediately press in a mini peanut butter cup. (I froze mine for a little bit before, but I dont think it matters either way.)

9. Cool and carefully remove from pan.

10. ENJOY!!



What kind of cookies would you like to see me make?

National Blueberry Popsicle Day

September 2
National Blueberry Popsicle Day!

How good are icy, cold popsicles on a hot summer day?

DELICIOUS.

All of the ingredients are basically good for you.

BLUEBERRY POPSICLES

1 pint fresh blueberries
1 cup vanilla yogurt (I used half a cup of vanilla and half a cup of blueberry because I forgot to go to the store :/)
1 cup milk
sugar, honey, or maple syrup to taste

1. Blend together all ingredients.

before

   after

 

2. Pour into a popsicle mold or eight 5oz cups and freeze.

 

 

WHAT I WILL DO DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME:

I will use all vanilla yogurt.

 

 

I think that this recipe can basically be used for any berry or maybe even to make peach popsicles :)

 

 

YUMMY

 

 

What is your favorite thing to eat on a hot summer day?

Better Breakfast Month

SEPTEMBER
Better Breakfast Month

The best way to start your day? A better breakfast.
(Better breakfast can mean better for you or better, like yummier)

Here are some ideas of a better breakfast than the average sugar-y cereal.

Ham and cheese omelet
Special K cereal
Waffles
Pancakes
Yogurt with granola and strawberries
Muffins for on the go mornings
Breakfast burrito
Bagel

Scrambled eggs and fruit

To make scrambles eggs: Whisk together eggs, a tiny bit of milk, salt, pepper, a little bit of diced onion.

Add to a pan over medium heat with melted butter.

Stir until no longer runny.

 

Tomorrow I will add a breakfast burrito or waffles. :)

 

 

I will post breakfast pictures as I get them.

 

A common breakfast food are eggs because they are packed with protein.



What is your favorite breakfast?

National Banana Split Day

August 25
National Banana Split Day

I am loving that all these summer months have cool, yummy treats for their crazy random holiday.

What is better than a banana split?

It has it all.
Bananas. Vanilla. Chocolate. Strawberries. Pineapple. Whipped cream. Nuts. Cherries. YUMMM


This is a variation of a banana split.

Banana Split Dessert
(Some call it banana split cheesecake)

WHAT YOU NEED:
2 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs                  
3/4 cup melted butter
4 cups confectioners' sugar                
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese

1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained

3 medium bananas, cut up

1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

8 maraschino cherries, halved

1/4 cup chocolate syrup

1/2 cup pecan pieces

 

 

1. Crush graham crackers.

Haha this took us forever because we crushed it by hand thinking it wouldn't take that long... We were wrong

 

2. Blend the melted butter with the graham cracker crumbs and press into the bottom of a 9x12 inch pan.

 

3. Blend the confectioner's sugar and the cream cheese together until smooth.

 

4. Spread over the graham cracker crumb layer.

 

 

5. Layer the crushed pineapple and the bananas over the cream cheese layer.

 

 

6. Spread the whipped topping on top.

 

7. Add the cherries, chocolate syrup, and pecans. (I just put the pecans on half)

 

 

8. Chill for at least 4 hours then serve.

 

This was really good. The crust was a little hard to get up. And as you may have noticed there were no strawberries so I will incorporate these in when I make it again.

 

Do you have any other variations of banana splits?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Dance Week

3rd week of august
National Dance Week

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

Air Conditioning Appreciation Week

3rd week of august
Air Conditioning Appreciation Week

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

Betty Boop's Birthday

August 9
Betty Boop's Birthday

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

National Smile Week

2nd week of august
National Smile Week

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

National Apple Week

2nd week of august
National Apple Week

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

Elvis Week

2nd week of august
Elvis Week

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

Dollar Day

august 8
Dollar Day

Today is the day in history that the dollar was created.

To celebrate today we are going to be finding a hidden dollar inside of blown up balloons and spending it on the ice cream man.

First I blew up some balloons. I had 9 left over from a party so I just used those.

Then I put 1 dollar in 2 balloons.

I got a push pin for my daughter to pop them.

I let her start popping them until she finds the dollars.

Next time I will put some confetti in some of the empty ones to keep the excitment up.

When she found the dollasr we waited for the ice cream man and got an ice cream. (We were going to get ice cream anyway and what else costs a dollar now a days hahaha)

 

 

A way to celebrate dollar day with older kids is to get a bunch of different coins and 1 dollar.

Try and make each coin group (quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies) equal a dollars. So 4 quarters, 10 dimes, 20 nickels, 100 pennies

Or if you have an older child that can do the math and the younger child learning how to count can help you count up to 4, 10, 20, 100


How else can we celebrate dollar day?

Sea Serpent Day

August 7
Sea Serpent Day

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

Odie's Birthday

August 6
Odie's Birthday
(Garfield the Cat's friend)

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

Wiggle Your Toes Day

August 6
Wiggle Your Toes Day

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

National Waffle Day

August 5
National Waffle Day

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

Friendship Day

August 5
Friendship Day

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

American Family Day

August 5
American Family Day

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

National Chocolate Chip Day

August 4
National Chocolate Chip Day

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

National Mustard Day

August 4
National Mustard Day

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)

National Watermelon Day

August 3
National Watermelon Day

I will update later, just putting this here so you know what to celebrate today. :)