Yum, yummy yum! and only 4 pts if you do Weight Watchers!
PINEAPPLE ROSEMARY UPSIDE DOWN CAKE
1T butter (melted)
1/3C brown sugar
1t rosemary, chopped
6 pineapple rounds (or pineapple nibblets to cover)
spread/sprinkle over bottom of 9" baking pan
heat oven to 350
mix:
1 1/4C flour
2/3C sugar
1 1/2t baking powder
1t vanilla
1 egg
1/2C fat free milk
1/3 C softened butter or margarine
spoon over the pineapple-sugar-rosemary level and pop pan in oven
bake 35 minutes
cool 5 minutes then decant (flip!)
serve within 2 hours
yummy with a bit of cool whip or just plain
great the next morning, heated with a little bit of butter on top :o)
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
i want......
to be my kids.
Some days, it would be great to be Christian. School with friends. Home to play on the internet or dig in the back yard. No bad-hair days. No worries of what to wear in the morning (camo or camo?). Breakfast and lunch made for me when i come downstairs. Chauffeured to school most every day. No worries of being to fat/thin, tall/short, ugly/pretty. Easy.
Lately, though, i've come to appreciate that being Alessandra is the way to go.
Time in the morning to do hair/make-up to be the gorgeous girl. Breakfast/lunch made for me when i come downstairs. Chauffeured to school nearly every day (and can whine if running a bit close to time). My own truck at age 16 to drive myself and my friends (and occasionally my brother) here, there and everywhere. Great classes at school in which i can get college credit without having to leave my high school and my friends. Freedom to go out with friends just about any time that i want. No need to work for $$-- paid to go to school over the summer. Laundry that arrives folded in my room so that i don't even have to take the clothes out of the basket (actually, both kids have this benefit).
But, the best of all, someone else to blame when things do not go exactly as i want.
For example, this morning, after waking at 0545 to do her hair and make-up, get dressed and get cute, Alessandra descended to the kitchen to say that she was going to wake Christian so that i could then drive them to school. I reminded her that i was NOT driving today but instead cleaning and.......it's my fault that she doesn't have time to eat breakfast because she has to catch the bus. My fault that she has time to do her hair/make-up/clothes and listen to music but not enough time to eat breakfast. My fault.
She barely had time to grab the hummus roll-up/Hershey bar/sliced carrot-and-dip and animal crax lunch that i'd already prepared and a chocolate granola bar (her favorite) for breakfast.
The pain! The agony! The grumpy slamming of the door on the way out! The drama!!
Off to do that cleaning. Woo hoo.
Some days, it would be great to be Christian. School with friends. Home to play on the internet or dig in the back yard. No bad-hair days. No worries of what to wear in the morning (camo or camo?). Breakfast and lunch made for me when i come downstairs. Chauffeured to school most every day. No worries of being to fat/thin, tall/short, ugly/pretty. Easy.
Lately, though, i've come to appreciate that being Alessandra is the way to go.
Time in the morning to do hair/make-up to be the gorgeous girl. Breakfast/lunch made for me when i come downstairs. Chauffeured to school nearly every day (and can whine if running a bit close to time). My own truck at age 16 to drive myself and my friends (and occasionally my brother) here, there and everywhere. Great classes at school in which i can get college credit without having to leave my high school and my friends. Freedom to go out with friends just about any time that i want. No need to work for $$-- paid to go to school over the summer. Laundry that arrives folded in my room so that i don't even have to take the clothes out of the basket (actually, both kids have this benefit).
But, the best of all, someone else to blame when things do not go exactly as i want.
For example, this morning, after waking at 0545 to do her hair and make-up, get dressed and get cute, Alessandra descended to the kitchen to say that she was going to wake Christian so that i could then drive them to school. I reminded her that i was NOT driving today but instead cleaning and.......it's my fault that she doesn't have time to eat breakfast because she has to catch the bus. My fault that she has time to do her hair/make-up/clothes and listen to music but not enough time to eat breakfast. My fault.
She barely had time to grab the hummus roll-up/Hershey bar/sliced carrot-and-dip and animal crax lunch that i'd already prepared and a chocolate granola bar (her favorite) for breakfast.
The pain! The agony! The grumpy slamming of the door on the way out! The drama!!
Off to do that cleaning. Woo hoo.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
cowboy cheeseburger pie
A "real recipe" (ie with ingredients, although one _is_ pre-packaged...) that my family love, love, loves! They fight over the left-overs, hiding them behind the milk and a big bunch of lettuce so that they can keep them all for themselves. :o) I made two this time to make sure that the bloodshed over the left-overs would be minimal.
COWBOY CHEESEBURGER PIE
1pkg crescent rolls
unroll in pie pan, push together seams to make crust, bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes
meanwhile, saute:
1# ground beef
1/2C (i use more...) diced/sliced onion
drain off fat, add:
2T ketchup and milk and flour
1/3C diced dill pickles
2T pickle juice
1t mustard
mix all and dump in cooked (not completely) crust, top with:
1C shredded cheese
bake at 350 for 14 more minutes
serve to your soon-to-be happy, happy family!
serves 4 normal servings (fewer if one is for Christian, more if one is for lisa...)
so good that Alessandra forgets that she's a vegetarian!
COWBOY CHEESEBURGER PIE
1pkg crescent rolls
unroll in pie pan, push together seams to make crust, bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes
meanwhile, saute:
1# ground beef
1/2C (i use more...) diced/sliced onion
drain off fat, add:
2T ketchup and milk and flour
1/3C diced dill pickles
2T pickle juice
1t mustard
mix all and dump in cooked (not completely) crust, top with:
1C shredded cheese
bake at 350 for 14 more minutes
serve to your soon-to-be happy, happy family!
serves 4 normal servings (fewer if one is for Christian, more if one is for lisa...)
so good that Alessandra forgets that she's a vegetarian!
Yummy SD Cake
1 box white/yellow cake mix (white is better, yellow works)
1C water
2 eggs
1/2C banana (use instead of oil, can use sour cream. yogurt or baby food)
(secret ingredient)
mix well for 4 minutes with KitchenAid.
pour into pammed 13x9 pan and bake 350 for 35 minutes
let cool
drizzle melted prepared frosting(put in coffee cup, nuke for ~30 seconds, stir well) over the top
let cool and serve to much acclaim
(secret ingredient? unsweetened kool aid mix-- any flavor. blue raspberry ice makes a pretty light blue cake, kiwi-strawberry is a very light pink and really good, grape is too weird)
enjoy!!
also good with cool whip frosting or just dusted with confectioner's sugar.
1C water
2 eggs
1/2C banana (use instead of oil, can use sour cream. yogurt or baby food)
(secret ingredient)
mix well for 4 minutes with KitchenAid.
pour into pammed 13x9 pan and bake 350 for 35 minutes
let cool
drizzle melted prepared frosting(put in coffee cup, nuke for ~30 seconds, stir well) over the top
let cool and serve to much acclaim
(secret ingredient? unsweetened kool aid mix-- any flavor. blue raspberry ice makes a pretty light blue cake, kiwi-strawberry is a very light pink and really good, grape is too weird)
enjoy!!
also good with cool whip frosting or just dusted with confectioner's sugar.
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