Friday we had a couple friends over that we hadn’t seen since early December in a chance meeting in New Orleans!!
They brought with them a “Decorate your own pirate ship” kit for us to enjoy after din din!!
Here is my creation:
Hubby’s creation!
Archive for category Crafts
Popcorn!
Dec 27
Popcorn!
So quickly we forget!
Prior to Christmas I found an awesome caramel corn recipe and made it the first time with a microwave bag of popcorn.
After that first time and how yummy it was I determined I needed to find a different way to pop popcorn.
Then i went back in my memory banks and recalled a time when there was no microwave and we have a big metal contraption to pop the popcorn and corn came in a bag… Oh yeah.
I did some research and to my joy I found one could pop popcorn in the microwave without a brown paper bag nor oil! Woohoo!
Basically you get 2 soup bowls, shift then just a tiny bit so the steam can escape, pop it in the microwave for 3 minutes and 45 second for 2 tablespoons of kernels and whala – you have a bowl almost fully popped! Sweet!
It was just a sad state that we had come so far as to forget how to pop popcorn… Didn’t the pilgrims and native americans do it ages ago, over an open fire even…
Technology just might kill us!
Cayenne Beer Brittle
Dec 24
This is a conglomerate of 2 or 3 different recipes!
I like how it turned out. Up or remove the heat to your taste!
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
1 cup beer
1 tbl butter
1 tbl Cayenne peppter
1 1/2 cup coarsely chopped peanuts
1 tsp Sea Salt
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
Preparation:
Line a jelly roll pan with a silpat
Combine sugar, corn syrup, beer , cayenne and butter in a heavy sauce pan.
Cook over medium heat, stirring until sugar disssolves.
Cook 30 minutes or until a candy thermometer registers 275. (use the thermometer)
Stir in the peanuts.
Remove from heat, stir in baking soda and salt. Mixture will thicken, bubble and turn opaque
Quickly pour mixture onto prepared pan. Spread to a 1/4 inch thickness using a wooden spoon coated with cooking spray (or just use the one you used to stir everything with!).
Cool completely.
Break brittle into bite sized peices.
(while still setting the brittle can be scored for more even breakage once hard)
Other options:
Chardonnay Brittle – replace beer with wine, remove cayenne, add 1 tsp vanilla
Poinsettia Wrapping!
Dec 20
I had some containers that I was putting my home made yummies for christmas, but they were not so pretty. Sour cream and yogurt is not so attractive under the tree.
So I found a pattern for poinsettia here, made some strips of green and put them through the sticker maker and created a “plant” pretty enough for giving!
Pattern:
