From Pizza Pie to Mud Pie!

Growing up on a farm there were always mud pies made after a good rain. There were also a lot of cow pies to watch out for!! So just like when I was a kid, we grabbed moms good pie pan, ran outside and found a pile of mud to dig around in. Filled up the pan, found a few pretty rocks and 'waahlaah', the best ever mud pie!

"The red rocks are strawberries, the yellow rocks are banana's and the ones with black spots are pepper!" 

Such imagination!!

Hours after a huge Thanksgiving dinner last year at my in laws house, my Mother-in-law pulled out two big chocolate pudding pies that my husbands Grandma made. They were so scrumptious and the best part was the CRUST!! So I asked Grandma the recipe and she rattled it off:

2 cups flour

1/2 cup oil

1/4 cup milk

1 tsp salt

That's it! She said she makes a few at a time and has them in the freezer for when unexpected guests come over, then she just whips up some pudding and 'waahlaaah', the best pudding pie ever!!

Pizza Inspirations

Not all pizza's are made in the kitchen! On those yucky rainy days we always find ourselves in the craft corner of the basement. This craft was inspired by last nights dinner with my parents. Thursdays are usually leftover night but instead we ordered pizza! What a treat!!

List of ingredients:
1 cardboard pizza board
18 rectangle cardboard cutouts for a thick hand-tossed crust
Red paint for sauce
1 sponge for painting
Handful of brown or black pom poms for sausage
Handful of shredded yellow, orange and white construction paper for cheese
10 red felt circles for pepperoni
10 pink felt squares for Canadian bacon
6 green foam circles for green olives
5 brown buttons for mushrooms
craft glue

Daniel is very orderly so he made his pizza half and half without even knowing it! All the mushrooms are together, all the peps, and the sausage....it was really hard to sit back and not scatter them!

Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

With a picky toddler at home, I make a lot of hard boiled eggs because it's one thing he will eat! He still wont eat the yolk but he will eat the rest of it. I received an egg timer as a gift few years ago and it has become one of the most popular kitchen tools I have.

It looks and feels like a paper-weight. I just put the timer in the water with the eggs and it begins to darken as the eggs cook indicating how hard they are boiled. No more kitchen timers or guessing games!