My Delicious Idea!

While I was camping I came up with this great treat!

Ingredients: Milano cookies & Nutella.

Directions: Apply Nutella liberally to Milano cookie!

It's just too good!

Best Ever Kool-Aid Play Dough

My boys are way beyond the play dough age, but I miss making this for them & playing with them.

Kool Aid makes each flavor smell great, especially the grape, lime & cherry.

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
2 (1/4 ounce) package Kool-Aid
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 cups boiling water
3 tablespoons oil

Directions
1.  Mix dry ingredients, add wet.
2.  Knead until smooth (careful - it's hot!)
3.  Grab your cutters and rollers and play away.

Store in a sealed container, freezes well if you want to make ahead for holiday gifts.

Real Simple Cookbook Giveaway!

I have a copy of Real Simple Best Recipes cookbook that I will be giving away to one lucky winner. This is a stunning hard cover book with 90 of Real Simple's most easy & delicious meals. Each recipe has its own picture in stunning Real Simple style. (This is not a sponsored review.)

I need your help. I used to adore cooking, but since my gastroparesis has brought with it an apparantly permanent loss of all appetite, cooking is much harder for me now. I have 2 teenage boys, a husband and often my sons girlfriend here for dinner.

I need some new recipes to put together a bunch that are easy to prepare and family friendly. I need some inspiration.

Here's what you have to do to enter:

1. Give me your favorite easy, family friendly recipe. You can either leave it in the comments, or you can e-mail it to me at Screaming_Mimi@comcast.net. If you e-mail it, please leave a comment telling me that you are doing so. You must complete this step to be entered in the contest.

2. For an extra entry follow this blog. Please leave a seperate comment telling me that you are following me.

3. For an additional extra entry follow Oskar's Blog. Leave me a comment, on this post only, telling me you follow Oskar's Blog.

4. You can earn one last entry by blogging about this giveaway. Leave me a link to your post in a seperate comment.

This contest will be closed Tuesday, March 16th at midnight & the winner will be announced on Wednesday. Please make sure I have a way to reach you if you win.

Thank you to Amy at Keeping Up With The Schultz Family for hosting this Round Robin!

Iron Chef ~ Mimi Style

OK, I guess technically this is Iron Chef, Heidi style, but hey it's my blog, right?

The awesome and beautiful queen of motherhood and sarcasm, Heidi of Sacred and Profane, hosts a monthly Iron Chef contest.

This month the category is Holiday Side Dishes. Well I have what I have been told is the best sweet potato recipe ever created and I, Mimi, am willing to share it with you, my faithful readers. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas I am required to make this recipe. My family doesn't even care if I show up, as long as I get the Sweet Potato Crisp to the dinner table on time.

Mimi's Famous Sweet Potato Crisp

1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 40 oz. can cut sweep potatoes, drained
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 cup chopped apples (I usually use granny smith)
2/3 cup chopped cranberries (I usually used the Ocean Spray cranberry Crasins)
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup old fashioned or quick oats, uncooked
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup margarine or butter
1/4 cup chopped pecans

Preheat over to 350 degrees.

Beat cream cheese, potatoes, 1/4 cup brown sugar and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl at medium speed until well blended.

Spoon into 1 1/2 quart casserole or 10 x 6 inch baking dish.

Top with apples and cranberries.

Stir together flour, oats and 1/2 cup brown sugar in medium bowl; cut in margarine or butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Stir in pecans. Sprinkle over fruit.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until thoroughly heated.

Makes 8 servings.

*I ususally double this recipe and use my Kitchen Aid mixer to mix the cream cheese & potato mixture, then bake it in 2 dishes.

This is really a nice change from the usual sweet potato, marshmallow side dish.

Iron Chef Mimi, signing off!