Rainbow Cookies

Yesterday afternoon Levi asked to make cookies. He kept asking to make gorilla or monkey cookies. While I can hold my own in the kitchen, I had zero idea how I was going to make a monkey cookie.

So, as any parent knows, distraction is one of many keys to success. I suggested we make "rainbow" cookies. Levi is majorly into rainbows right now, anytime we go anywhere, he searches out rainbow colors and arranges them in the proper order. "_ I wasn't sure how we were going to do it, but I knew I could use food coloring to my advantage. After perusing cookbooks, I decided on a basic snickerdoodle cookie recipe.. We mixed it up, separated the dough into bowls and colored the cookies in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

It was a success, and Levi loved it!! :)

tradition

because sometimes the crazy mess is worth it.

go-to quick-fix dessert

Fruit Filled Oatmeal Bars.

These are seriously so easy, I can throw them together with no time flat, and they always turn out great. Easy to put together for surprise company or that potluck you're heading out the door to attend. I cannot take credit, the recipe comes from my trusty red and white checked better homes and garden cookbook....

1 C flour
1 C quick oats
2\3 brown sugar
1\4 tsp baking powder.

mix well

add 1\2 C butter, mix with pastry blender....

reserve 1\2 C of mix, press the rest into a 9x9 pan...

meanwhile.. come up with a fruit sauce of some kind...
i've cooked down strawberries and made a compote...
threw in some jelly...
applesauce with some raisins or cranberries mixed in..

anything you can think of, really!

put it on top of the pressed mix, sprinkle the remainder of the flour mixture on top..

bake at 350 for 30 minutes...

ENJOY!

pie crust

I finally found a pie crust recipe I was willing to try, and oh my friends....
Thank you Pioneer Woman It has changed my life.

Pie Crust
3 C flour
1 1\2 C crisco.
mix with your lovely pastry cutter

add
1 beaten egg
5 TB cold water
1 TB white vinegar
1 tsp salt

mix together gently

separate into 2 dough balls, put in freezer bag.
roll out slightly and throw it in your freezer for a while.
(I let it sit for an hour)

Roll it out.
Make your pie... I made an apple pie... yum!

enjoy the worlds best pie crust!
seriously, friends. i've been converted, and that's saying something... :)

a "home-y" day

today has been susie homemaker day i suppose...

the morning started with making homemade cinnamon applesauce...

then i made beef stew and biscuits for dinner....

then topped it off with a homemade apple pie...

oh and just for kicks... this is an (almost) 27 week photo....

maybe I'm nesting a little???