Enjoy Your Weekend

Happy Valentines Day if you are into that sort of thing! From my Facebook feed you would think it is Christmas morning. Shots of everyone's kids and all the stuff they got for valentines day and stuff they are taking to school that was thoughtfully picked out from the drug store or handmade from something they saw on Pinterest. I mean we all know this is a commercial holiday, heck they all are pretty much at this point. But you know the economy has picked up with they way everyone seems to have gone all out for the day.

Now let me not lie and make it seem like I have not given into the love fest, remember contradictions. Last year I was super on top of making the day special for the kids, starting with homemade pop tarts. But this year, not so much. I had no desire to even get out of bed today. Tired, over thinking stuff and well having a small pity party for myself lately. Thankfully though the hubs woke up bright and early went and worked out and his gift to me was waking the kids up and getting them breakfast. It was just a small act, but it made a huge difference in my morning. He even had the above flowers sent to my office yesterday. Lets see how fast I can kill them?

Happy stay home and fold the laundry day :)

Happy sneak into your brothers bed day!

Happy eat your eggs over lettuce, steak, red chili and pickled garlic day!

Link Time

Had Planned to make a ninja turtle version of these for the Bubbie, but his school decided not to allow treats this year, so lazy mom went with store bought boring ones 

What are schools feeding our kids?!

I really want to go to this bacon festival!

These parents obviously love their kids more than I do.

Quick reference list of non GMO foods.

And because we all want to eat heart shaped crap

Really Canada?! Free beer for Canadian's at the Olympics

Am I the only one that doesn't care that Barbie is on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

Here's to shaking off the bad mojo and having a great weekend!

Valentines Day: Pop tarts and pie crusts

Treated the kids this morning to some delicious strawberry pop tarts! Had to substitute blackberry jelly for strawberry, but all in all very good. As Pina says, "Nutella Tarts are a homerun mom!" Thanks babe

I also took the time to make my own pie crust instead of using store bought (since we are processed free over here). One, why did no one tell me it was so easy to make pie crust? Two, why did no one tell me that it tastes a hundred times better?!

Here is How I Made Pie Crust (enough for one crust):

• 1 cup all purpose flour (will try again with whole wheat next time)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1tsp sugar (no recipe called for this, but as Mary Poppings says "A spoonful of sugar...")
• 6 tbls cold cubed butter
• 1/4 cup cold water

Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl and add the butter. Now you could throw this all into a food processor and pulse into a yummy sand texture with rocks. Or, and I find this method easier, get your hands dirty and squeeze it all together. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze! Once you have mixed the butter and dry ingredients into a coarse sand and then gradually add the cold water. I would start with half the water and then see if you need anymore. You want the batter to hold together but not be too sticky. Now you are done and have a delicious croissant like crust! Just roll it out nice and thin. Using a dusting of flour to keep it from sticking.

Tricks to rolling: 

Use a sandwich of wax paper or parchment and keep flipping your dough over as you roll. Flip, remove paper from both sides, roll, flip, remove paper from both sides, repeat until you have your desired thickness. For a more circular shape roll outwards from the center; top, side, other side, bottom. 

Happy Valentines Day!



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