Homegrown Beanes

Saturday, March 31, 2012

S'Mores Bars

I have mentioned before about how I have never camped, but I love camping food.

The only thing that I do not love about camping food, is trying to cook the food and keep three children out of the fire at the same time.

Stressful.

String Beane keeps wanting to throw more pine straw in the fire so it can be ''really big".

Butter Beane would be the one to jump in to prove that it is not hot like I said it was.

Jelly Beane is so busy trying to grab my marshmallow stick that I am afraid that she will fall in the fire.

So this past weekend, I decided to make things easy on myself and make some camp food inside.

Here are the S'Mores Bars. They were so good. The marshmallow squirted out and the chocolate was melted and gooey. Go on and make you some. In the oven where things are safe. Then go outside and eat some around the campfire all relaxed.

Ingredients
1/2 C butter, softened (Flieshmann's unsalted margarine is milk free)

3/4 C brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/3 C flour

3/4 C graham cracker crumbs

1 tsp. baking powder

1/8 tsp. salt

1 (7 ounce) container marshmallow fluff

1 C chocolate chips (Gharidelli Semi Sweet is milk free)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Cream the butter and sugar together until creamy. Add the egg and vanilla and mix. Add the flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt and stir until a dough forms.

Line an 8x8 baking dish with plastic wrap.

Take half of the dough and press into the 8x8 dish. (This will be the top of the S'mores bars) Lift the dough out of the dish using the plastic wrap and set aside.

Spray the 8x8 pan with cooking spray and press the other half of the dough into the pan.

Microwave the Marshmallow fluff for 30 seconds. Pour over the cookie dough. Spread to the edges.

Sprinkle with chocolate chips.

Take the dough you set aside and flip it onto the chocolate chips.

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.

Let her cool down a little and then slice it up and eat all relaxed by the fire.

Here is another look at the beautiful things.

I adapted this recipe to make these milk free.

I am linking up at Metamorphosis Monday , Allergy Free Wednesday, and these other awesome parties. Go check them out!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Friday Favorites

It is finally Friday, Homes!

Time to start the weekend. I have been searching Pinterest to find some fun new things to make.

I have found some. Here are my top 5 on my list of things to covet.

I clearly have Easter Treats on the brain.

What have you pinned?

Bunny Shaped Pretzels

Carrot Pineapple Cake

Blue Bird Jordan Almonds

Rice Krispie Pizza

Chinese Chicken Salad with Sesame Dressing

This salad should balance out all the Easter treats I will surly eat!

Good plan, No?

I am linking up with Finding Joy in My Kitchen. Go check out all the yummy pins.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Menu Plan Monday March 26

Last week, we ate good! Everything turned out so yummy.

The little Beanes ate well, without too much fussing.

We even squeezed in having some friends over to roast hot dogs over the fire pit. I made some delicious S'Mores bars that I will share with you this week.

I am feeling the need to try some new recipes again. Here is the line up for this week:

Monday

Breakfast for Supper

Sausage

Grits

Toast

Bananas

Tuesday

Pizza with Beer Battered Pizza Crust

Salad

Corn

Wednesday

Easy Egg Rolls

Peanut Butter Noodles

Thursday

Fish Tacos with Pineapple Salsa

Rice

Friday

Grilled Butterflied Brown Sugar Chicken

Salad

Carrot and Celery Sticks with

No Milk Ranch Dressing

Weekend

Shepard's Pie

That's our week. What do you have on your menu?

I am linking up with Menu Plan Monday. Go check out all of the meal plans.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Kick the Can Homemade Ice cream - Allergy options

This is all that was left of our ice cream experiment.

We made Kick the Can Ice Cream. It was so simple and so delicious. And we made it with coconut milk so my String Beane could eat it.

It started with a trip to Lowe's to get some new paint cans. I bought one gallon size paint can and one quart size paint can. I washed the quart size can and dried it.

I mixed up my ice cream ingredients and put it in the quart sized can. I put the paint can lid on and made sure it was good and sealed. I then put the quart sized can in the gallon can and alternated ice and rock salt until it was full. I sealed up the gallon sized can and outside we went.

Here is String Beane kicking the can. It froze up so much that the whole outside of the can was covered with ice. String Beane and Mr. Homegrown kicked the can back and forth for about 10 minutes.

It made the most delicious ice cream. We ate it up quickly.

Butter Beane was very happy about it. Who couldn't love a face like that?

This was such a fun activity to do with the little Beanes. Go ahead and make you some.

You totally burn off the calories by kicking the can around. It is a dessert and an exercise plan in one!

Ingredients

1 pint milk (We used the coconut milk found in the refrigerator section of the grocery store.)

1/3 cup sugar

4 tablespoons of your favorite pudding mix (We used Vanilla)

Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl until the sugar dissolves.

Pour into the quart sized paint can.

Put quart sized paint can in the gallon sized can.

Layer with ice and then rock salt. I probably used about two cups of ice and 1/4 cup of rock salt for each layer. Seal the gallon sized can. And now kick it! Kick the can or roll the can back and forth for at 10 minutes.

At the end of 10 minutes, open the can up and give the ice cream a stir and serve.

I was really happy with how quickly and solid this ice cream froze. I have struggled with getting the ice cream to freeze when I could not use half and half or some sort of cow milk. This coconut did the trick.

If you want to change the flavor up, just change the flavor of pudding mix. I am sure they would all be yummy!

I am linking up with Metamorphosis Monday and these other Awesome Parties! Go check them out.