Adventures in Cooking

I have made significant efforts this past month or so in the kitchen. Here are some of the yummy things I've been able to make:

Graham Cracker Houses
I did these with the Cub Scouts and then my nephews
and Ang and Niko this week - so much fun
and they bring back so many memories. :)

This is me learning about roll dough rising in the fridge.
I thought I had killed it, but then... it's alive!!!

I call these "Stuffed Pastries" because you can
make them any way you'd like. It's just a store-
bought pie crust cut with cookie cutters, filled
with yummy combinations, then you use egg to
seal the top to the bottom, brush with egg again
and sprinkle raw sugar on top. They were the
perfect combination of sweet and salty.

Chocolate chip/coconut, cream cheese and jam...

...chocolate chip/marshmallow, peanut butter chips/choc chips

For an Enrichment activity, I hosted a cooking
class at my house. The sister teaching us how
to make "turtles" had me keep the caramel we
made. I thought it appropriate to take some finished
ones to our quarterly Enrichment the following
week. I didn't have pecans, so I used peanuts instead.
(Niko was helping, hence the one peanut per square here.)

Don't they look heavenly? :)

Cream puffs

Peppermint Bark

Roasted-red-pepper-and-pasta-stuffed Peppers
(finally not a dessert!)

Marzipan Mice

And tonight, I made a chocolate-dipped strawberry bouquet.
Thanks, Ashton, for the idea!

I used a head of iceberg lettuce to skewer the bamboo sticks into.
Next time, I might cut the sticks to be slightly shorter, since
I couldn't jam them in much farther. It was too tall for the fridge,
so I hope they last in the cool garage until tomorrow afternoon.

I hope there will be more to come. I chickened out on the apple tart I was going to make this week. Maybe next week...