Try This: TownHouse Bistro Cornbread

 

We had some family coming over to watch Little Guy watch basketball a few weekends ago.   I decided to make up several different salads to put in the refrigerator so that everyone could come to the house and have lunch.      I always like to have a variety of crackers and I picked up a box of these TownHouse Bistro cornbread crackers.

They were a HIT!     Hubs and I really loved them.   In fact, we have bought two boxes since then to eat with soup as well as with the rest of the salad.    

The downside is that there are not many crackers in the box and unless you catch them on sale they can be on the pricey side.

Have you tried these?   What did you think?

TMTT: Chocolate Rolo Cookies

Note:   We have been doing a lot of baking for sick friends lately.      Lots of friends hurting and going through so much right now.      It is tough when it feels like the only thing you can do is make a plate of cookies.    Well, that is not the only thing.    We are praying and that is no small thing.     In God's hands it will be much.

Chocolate Rolo Cookies

Ingredients
1 pkg devils food cake mix
1 egg
1/4 cup water
3 Tbsp. vegetable oil
Rolo candies, unwrapped
pecans, finely chopped

Directions
In a bowl, mix cake mix, egg, water and vegetable.    Scoop mix by teaspoonful and roll into balls.    Press one Rolo into the center of a cake ball and reshape the ball around the Rolo.    Press top of ball into pecan pieces.   Place uncoated side down on cookie sheet.    Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.


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Cookbook: The Math Chef

The Math Chef

Joan D'Amico and Karen Eich Drummond

 John Wiley & Sons / 1997 / Paperback

Note:    I knew mixing Little Guy's math lessons with his natural love of cooking would be a home run.     This cookbook includes a little bit of it all:  measuring, multiplying, dividing, fractions, percents, geometry, and more!     Plus, good grief this math tastes good!!

Here is a sample lesson:    

 

 

 

 

Recipe Swap with Simply Modern Mom

Simply Modern Mom is trying to collect 365 recipes as part of her "Over-Used Recipe Swap".   What is an over-used recipe?   Something you just keep making over and over again in your kitchen.

Here are the recipes that I linked up to her recipe swap:

Easy Praline Cake 

Jiffy Corn 

Crockpot Tortilla Chicken

What recipes will you link up?

Easy Praline Pecan Cake

Note:     The hardest part about this cake is waiting the time it takes for it to bake.    That is why I try to keep the ingredients on hand so I can bake one when I need one for a new neighbor, someone in the hospital or a potluck.      I would think these freeze well, but to be honest I have never kept one to know.  

Easy Praline Pecan Cake

Ingredients
1 package butter pecan cake mix
1 container coconut pecan frosting
4 eggs
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup water
1 cup chopped pecans

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.   Prepare a bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.     Combine the cake mix with frosting (no, I am not kidding!), eggs, oil, and water.     Mix well until combined.    Mix in half of the pecans.     Pour half of the cake mixture in the bundt pan.    Sprinkle the rest of the pecans over the cake mix and top with the remaining cake mix.      Bake for about 50 minutes or until tester comes out clean.

Still No "Ace"

Little Guy and I finished our cake decorating class.    We had a blast despite the pounds of icing that I had to make in that  month long period.       Decorating the cakes was nothing compared to trying to keep up with making all the types of icing we had to have for each class.     For that reason alone I am kind of glad that we are finished.

We had to make a cake for our "final".     Little Guy and I were allowed to make our cake together.     We had to make a cake that was two layers, iced in the middle.   Flat on the top (some people really struggled with this).      It had to have at least four icing colors and use at least four techniques.      

Our cake looks simple, but it took us almost two hours to complete.    Both Little Guy and I loved our bumble bee and hated our butterfly.    Live and learn.    

For now we are celebrating the end of our class.... with CAKE!

Skor Cake

Note:     I made this for the final night of basketball.    Get it?   Skor --- Score.     I know.    It is a stretch, but I didn't want to make basketball cookies again.    *smile*   Anyway, chocolate is always a winner whether Mom is being corny or not!

Skor Cake

Ingredients
chocolate cake mix
sweetened condensed milk
1 large Cool Whip
2 Skor bars

Directions
Prepare the chocolate cake according to the box directions.      Let your cake cool completely.     Take the end of a wooden spoon and poke rows of holes along the cake about 1 inch apart from each other.     Pour the entire can of sweetened condensed milk over the cake.      Cover with foil and let sit for 2 hours.

When ready to serve, top with Cool Whip and crushed Skor bars.

Store in the refrigerator.