Gross Halloween Recipes are Great Fun for kids
Kids of all ages really enjoy making creepy, gross, and disgusting foods to eat. I think it’s the nature of the grossness that kids just really love to see come alive and then get to gross out other people by eating it. Gross Halloween recipes are perfect to get kids excited about the holiday season and cooking in general. Kids just love to be in the kitchen and get their hands dirty, and these fun Halloween recipes make it even that much more fun for them.
One of the best kids Halloween recipes entails creating creepy and gross frozen eyeball treats. They are pretty simple and make a lasting impression on the kids any time- Halloween or not!
Start by taking some plastic easter eggs and opening them up. In each half of the egg, place a gummy lifesaver candy- the soft kind and then a small chocolate chip inside the lifesavers hole (these are the eyes). Take a spoon full of vanilla pudding and place in inside the egg right on top of the lifesaver eyeball. Then take the entire thing and place them into the freezer. To keep them from tipping over you can use an egg carton to keep them still. Once the eyes are frozen, take them out of the freezer and using the back of the spoon press the frozen mixture until the eye comes out of the plastic eye. Place the frozen eyeball upright on a place and serve quickly so they don’t melt! These make great treats for kids and you will enjoy watching them freak out over the look.
This recipe is easy enough for kids and parents to do it together so make sure they get to play a role in creating these frozen eyeball treats. You can be creative in making them as well- its fine to use different types of puddings, eyes, and more. Have fun and enjoy making gross, yet yummy Halloween kids dessert.
Sourdough Starter Made Simple
Filed under: Cooking, Easy Recipes, Healthy Eating, Save Money, Simplify Life
There is nothing to compare to the tangy taste and chewy texture of sourdough bread. Buying a loaf of it in the grocery store will set you back $3-$6 depending on the brand. You can make that some bread at home — it’s simple. Making sourdough bread from scratch takes time and some patience, but it is easy.
First, in case you don’t know, sourdough bread uses wild yeast instead of store bought yeast to make the bread rise. The sourdough starter captures and feeds the wild yeast. It takes longer to rise since the wild yeast isn’t as vigorous as store bought, on the other hand the long fermentation allows the bread to really develop that unique taste and texture.
We start with the starter. To make a good and strong sourdough starter, we start with two simple ingredients — flour and water. You put 4 ounces of each in a bowl. Here’s the catch — that’s ounces as in weight, not ounces as in volume. Water is heavier than flour so 4 ounces of water is like a half of cup, maybe and 4 ounces of flour is over a cup full. The sour (the sourdough starter) needs lots of food, so you need lots of flour. You mix the two ingredients, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit for two days. After that you’ll need a kitchen scale to help you with the feeding the sour. (Once you have the hang of the look and feel of the right amount of water and flour to sour, you can fore go the scale, but it is handy for all bread making, so spend the $25 if you don’t have one.) To feed the sour use 1 part sour (it will take over your kitchen if you don’t discard some of it), 2 parts water and 3 parts flour. So, for instance, you decide to use 4 ounces of sour. That means you need 8 ounces of water and 12 ounces of flour. That is a lot, by the way. You will find that you get tired of swirling sourdough starter down your drain and quickly shift to 1 ounce of sour to 2 ounces of water to 3 ounces of flour.
You have to feed it every day, or store it in the fridge for use on the weekends. You can easily store the sour in the fridge for three weeks without worry. To make bread on the weekend, take the sour out on Thursday night. Leave it to sit and warm to room temperature until Friday evening. Feed it like usual. Saturday evening you’ll be ready to bake!
What kind of sourdough bread to make is the next question. There are tons of recipes out there, so experiment and see which one you like and find easy. The best sourdough recipes call for overnight, in the refrigerator, fermentation. This allows the bread ample time to rise and ferment and develop the distinctive flavor and texture. There are some shortcut sourdough recipes out there that use yeast in addition to the sourdough starter. These are fine, but you will lose almost all of the sour taste. It still makes lovely bread that tastes good, but it is nowhere near real sourdough bread.
Healthy and delicious smoothie recipe
Filed under: Cooking, Easy Recipes, Healthy Eating, Lose Weight, Simplify Life
Smoothies makes great snacks – they are delicious and refreshing. The only problem is finding one that is both healthy and yummy. Most of the health smoothies these days tastes funny and almost fake with all the added healthy ingredients. And the smoothies that do taste great, are most of the times not that good for your figure.
The good news is that I will share with you one that is not only healthy and yummy, but it also good for your figure. It also contains lots of fat burning foods that may help you to lose some fat. Fat burning foods can also keep you fuller for longer and help you with cravings.
Here’s one of my favorite healthy, figure friendly smoothie recipes that may help you lose some weight. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do.
Banana smoothie
The frozen bananas make this smoothie extra creamy and satisfying. This smoothie is also a great way to use up extra bananas that may be going off any second. Just peel those bananas and place them in a container in your fridge to use for this smoothie later.
Info:
Serves: 2
Number of fat burning foods: 6 (all the ingredients except the orange juice)
Calories per serving:181
Fat per serving:1g
Ingredients:
- 2 bananas, frozen
- 120ml fat free banana yogurt
- 250ml fat free milk
- 2 teaspoons banana whey powder
- 5 ml vanilla essence
- 6 ice cubes, crushed
Instructions:
Blend everything together in a smoothie machine on high. Pour into a smoothie glass and enjoy!
Hopefully you also enjoyed my smoothie recipe as much as I do. It makes a great snack and you can even have it for breakfast if you like.
Just remember that if you want to lose a few centimeters or just get healthier, you also have to include regular exercise. The best combination for weight loss is cardio and weight training. One of my favorite cardio machine is the eliptical machine and my favorite weight training equipment is the adjustable dumbbell system.
Quick and Easy Chili
I love this recipe and the best part is from start to finish it takes about 30 minutes!
- 2 pounds ground beef*
- 2 cups chopped onion
- 2 cans beans, undrained (16 oz. ea.)*
- 2 cans condensed tomato soup, undiluted (10-3/4 oz ea.) **
- 4 tsp. chili powder
- 2 tsp. cumin
- 2 tsp. paprika
- 1 tsp minced garlic
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp. pepper
*Try using 1 pound pork sausage and 1 pound ground beef
** Mix a can of kidney beans with a can of zesty pinto beans.
*** If you don’t have condensed tomato soup, you can use tomato juice. Poor your juiced tomatoes into a saucepan and add a tsp flour per cup of juice . Bring to a boil and simmer until thickened. I’ve done this with our cherry tomatoes from our garden in a pinch and the chili came out great!
In a large saucepan, brown beef, garlic and onion, drain.
Add everything else and bring to a boil. Simmer for 15 minutes or until thick and bubbly.
Garnish with peppers and cheese.
Feeds our family of 5 easy!
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