I tried a new food, and I’m going to pass it on to you. Consider this a belated Christmas gift.
Here it is:
Rice Krispy Treats made with Fruity Pebbles
Just make rice krispy treats like you normally would, but use Fruity Pebbles instead of plain Rice Krispies.
I would say they are about twice as good as the standard recipe.
It’s like rice krispy treats with flavor, not just sugar.
This variation is good, but my all-time favorite is still the rice krispy treats made with butterscotch and with a chocolate topping.
Therefore, when I have finished this, and have put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
Romans 15:28
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It’s good to have friends.
We have friends who have a pool. We get to enjoy swimming, and we don’t have to worry about maintenance.
And we have friends who have chickens. We have a few friends who have chickens. We get to enjoy fresh eggs, and we don’t have to worry about feeding them or cleaning the coop. All we have to do is give them empty egg cartons, and we get them back full.
Here’s a photo of part of our fridge:
That’s right – 7.5 dozen eggs. It seems all our friends had extra eggs all at once. Or rather, their chickens did.
We’re down to about 2 or 3 dozen now.
Anything you have a surplus of? That you’d like to send our way?
Raspberries?
Salmon?
Homemade bread?
And my hand reached to the riches of the peoples like a nest, And as one gathers abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth; And there was not one that flapped its wing or opened its beak or chirped.
Isaiah 10:14
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- Peaches from a grocery store are much better if they’re packaged in glass instead of metal cans. I never knew that canned peaches could taste like peaches are supposed to taste. The tin cans remove all flavor. But the glass jars are awesome.
- Conversely, salsa is much better in plastic than in glass. But that’s because the salsa in plastic containers is fresh and will spoil quickly because it is not preserved, whereas the salsa in glass containers is meant to sit unspoiled for a long time. I have become used to fresh salsa and now I skip any glass jar salsa.
- If chicken salad is made without grapes and runs on the plain side in terms of both flavor and texture, throw some bread and butter pickles in the mix. Big improvement.
- If you’re eating at a Bob Evans restaurant, don’t let the little children get the Bunny Hop Cakes. Yes, they look fun, but that meal is essentially just frosting. We like the rest of Bob Evans’ offerings, but skip that one.
- I used to like going to Logan’s Roadhouse because they had good peach tea. They changed their recipe in the last year or two, and now they have great peach tea. I don’t know what they did, and I don’t want to know. It could be 100% high-fructose corn syrup for all I care – it just tastes great.
What’s your vote? Who has the best peach tea?
For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
Job 34:3
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I got this smoked salmon recipe from a guy at work. It has worked well for me.
First, photos from my attempt. Scroll to the end for just the recipe.
You need:
salmon
To make your life easier, choose the center-cut fillets. Do this because they are about the same thickness, so they will all cook for the same time. If you get a standard fish, the sides and end are much thinner than the center. Grilling that piece of fish will cause the thin parts to be overdone or you’ll have to cut the thin pieces separate and take them off earlier than the thicker parts, which is more work for you.
brown sugar, salt, and pepper
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You may have a habitually picky eater – the child who does not like most of what is presented to him for consumption.
Or you may have a child who is going through a phase and refuses anything but mac and cheese.
If you ever find yourself in that situation, I have a solution for you. This should not be your primary plan, but it is guaranteed to work.
You are going to need three main items:
- A few women over retirement age, to be helpers. They don’t have to be actual grandmothers, but it wouldn’t hurt.
- Some cafetria trays – one per helper
- A bunch of small paper cups
When mealtime comes, station the helpers around the dining room, each with a cafeteria tray full of paper cups containing samples of each item from the meal.
The kids will walk around the room, helping themselves to the cups and eating.
If that does not work, your only hope is to obtain some shopping carts and push the kids around the room (while they are sitting in the carts).
No matter what the states of the kids’ stomachs before we enter Costco, our children are always interested in the food samples. I figure that in order to entice them to eat at home, all you need to do is recreate the experience of the food-sample carts in the store.
Or just let them not eat much, and they should be hungry at the next meal.
So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread or drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 34:28
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Mandarin oranges are underrated.
They are popular in the canned-fruit section of the supermarket, but nowhere else.
Why is nothing else mandarin orange flavored?
No popsicles.
No yogurt.
No candy.
No drinks.
I suppose they don’t need to sell juice with the flavor of mandarin oranges, because everyone drinks the syrup that comes with the fruit. The syrup was great, and the new stuff – the fruit juice that they use instead of sugary syrup – tastes just as great. But it’s inconvenient and dangerous to drink from a tin can.
If I were ever to start selling energy drinks – or any sort of drink at all – my first flavor would be mandarin orange.
My second flavor would be cantonese orange.
Moab has been at ease since his youth; He has also been undisturbed, like wine on its dregs, And he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, And his aroma has not changed.
Jeremiah 48:11
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This is what the grocery store sells as American cheese:
But it’s not, really. It’s ORANGE. When you think of things that are American, how far down the list does anything orange appear?
Still thinking?
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This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
