HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!The months of fun creative baking are upon us. Halloween starts us off, so I made these fun mini cupcakes to share with my Cub Scouts at pack meeting. They're carrot cake with a simple vanilla frosting and black, orange, and white sprinkles. They turned out so cute, and very yummy! I've definitely decided that I love using the duck eggs when I bake. They make the food more moist and flavorful, totally awesome. Here's to wishing everyone a fun and safe Halloween!

Yummy Moral Support

My husband wasn't looking forward to the extra long Sunday shift at work as they had two men on the crew absent. So not being able to fix that problem for him, I decided to help in the only way I could. Yummy food that makes you smile. I took the crew dinner, but this was the dessert I made them. It's a strawberry cake! Now one of my 3 little ducks has grown to maturity and started laying one egg a day. I've found that using duck eggs in baked goods causes them to be more flavorful, and moist. So not sure on allergies I warned the crew about the use of the duck eggs, not sure how they'd react. They all loved it! Barely any of the cake made it home, and only then because I'd requested they leave a piece or two for my boys. The lettering on the cake was done by cutting a corner off of a sandwich baggie, I did get a bit shaky though :( Just so you know, in case you can't tell, I've written "Do Your BEST!" and drew a hand holding up a "V" for "Victory" (it's a Japanese thing) as well as a few stars.

SHRIMP!!!

My husband brought home some of the Schwans Garlic and Herb Shrimp, so I thought since they've already got the flavor they'd make a nice stir fry. Making sure to cut in different shapes and colors of veggies I came up with a very colorful fun stir fry! There's carrots, red bell pepper, sweet onions, quartered mushrooms, and small pieces of broccoli florets.

Chicken-n-Rice
Simple meals happen more often the not. So here's another simple meal that we enjoy. This is Tori Misoyaki or Miso Chicken. The rice is a Thai Jasmine sticky rice, and we finally got ourselves the bamboo basket to cook it in! We generally make a hot dipping sauce for the rice with Thai chili peppers, green onions, cilantro and fish sauce. And will accompany this meal with what ever variety of fresh or steamed veggies we have in the house. The chicken marinates for about 30 minutes or more, so I usually make it up earlier in the day and put it in the fridge. This causes dinner to only take about 20 minutes to make.

Pierogie and Chicken Lasagna

Okay so for dinner my son wanted Chicken. *sigh* we've been eating so much chicken lately that I had to find a new way to prepare it. So I took the Pierogies and layered them with spaghetti sauce (sadly didn't have the time to make it, had to used canned *shrugs*) Cheddar and Mozzarella cheeses, and chicken breasts, I filleted and cut it into strips. Served it up with a simple lettuce with fresh tomato and dressing salad, peppered corn, and black olives. Was very delish!