Cooking with Kate: Part ?? I lost count

Kate and I got a free Food Network Magazine. There is a special section for fun afterschool snacks. Pretzels dipped in peanut butter then dipped in granola, pitted olive with string cheese through the hole and various recipes for hummus. Another one was crescent rolls with cream cheese and jam. Kate and I made some with PBJ, cream cheese and jam and PB and Nutella. Then we sprinkled them with sugar or cinnamon.

They came out fairly decent. Most of all, we had fun on a Monday night.

PBJ

 

 

 

 

Cream Cheese and Jam

Stars, Rolled, and Crescent shapes

Sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar

Kate also helped me make dinner. A few years ago they dubbed this the Cartoon Dinner: 

Brown meat, Mashed potatoes with gravy, green veggie

Too funny. Gotta love it.

Not exactly a Food Network Meal but it works! 

Enjoy your week before Thanksgiving.

Sunny with a chance for Cooking!

Me and my friends at the Sunny Anderson benefit at Hidden Valley

I have not blogged in a while. Much has been going on at work and home....too much to get into. We did have a good weekend though. Yesterday we shopped and made 3 shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. We went to a friend's house and wrapped them. They don't give gifts with the family at Christmas, they have a party and make Christmas boxes instead. It was really wonderful and though Jack was the oldest kid there, both kids had a good time and it was nice doing something for others. We have so much to be thankful for.

Today Kate and I went to Hidden Valley, the local ski resort, and saw Sunny Anderson. Her dad is a radiologist at the local hospital and she came to do a food demo for the Hospital's foundation. She told some different stories than NYC when we saw her, but was still just as entertaining. She remembered us from last month, ( I read and follow her blog and comment on it as well) She is so friendly, kind and funny! Her story is inspirational. She got all her cool jobs from hard work, not who she knows.

Ina was always my favorite but Sunny has taken over as #1 for me. Here are some pictures from out afternoon.

Sunny with her Parents