Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipe. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Hurricanes & Cupcakes

Tomorrow is Candy Corn Day in second grade and wouldn't you know it.... we have a hurricane coming. School has been canceled in the county below us but so far, we're still open for business.  I am kind of hoping for a rainy day at home though, so I can try out this recipe...




Don't they look YUMMY?!!  If not tomorrow, I'm definitely going to try these this weekend.  Minus those disgusting little candy corn pumpkins in the picture!  Does anyone really like candy corn?  As I said, we have candy corn day at school.  This is a yearly tradition for the second grade classes where we do math and literacy centers (plus some crafty things) with a candy corn theme. ICK!  It's good for me though because I'm not even a little bit tempted to eat any of their candy.  I'll just wait for my own kids to bring home their Halloween loot on Wednesday night!

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Fall Is Here

Ok, so it doesn't exactly feel like fall today. It's about 85 degrees, which isn't bad for Florida. But I just spoke to my parents in Pennsylvania where it's a downright frigid 39.  How can they stand it?!!  If I ever had to live somewhere that required closed-toe shoes half the year....well, I'd move. Loooove my flip-flops.

So this weekend I'm looking for things to use for Candy Corn Day with my class. We do this every year and the kids always LOVE it (i.e. lose their minds). I've made a few items myself and will post pics as soon as I figure out how. Anyone? Anyone?  In the meantime, let me share the latest super easy dinner idea I found...

Publix (my local grocery store chain) has this great little program called Aprons. You can go into the store any day of the week and sample whatever meal they're making and get the recipe. The fabulous thing is that they're almost always really easy things that kids actually like to eat! What?!! So the one we just tried is called Barbeque Baskets and it requires almost no cooking and my whole family immediately nominated me for Chef of the Year. Well, not really but...

(yeah, the kids didn't eat the beans)

Try them! I bet you'll get some unexpected (and possibly undeserved) accolades too.