Welcome my friends to a new year of adventure and great food!
July are highlighting great sandwiches of any kind. Do you make a great meat sandwich? A great meatless sandwich? A great dessert sandwich? Highlight it with recipes and costs for our monthly Shopping Around the World. Remember to ping back your blog to mine here so everyone can check your blog out as well.
Shopping Around the World is scheduled for
Tuesday, July 31, 2018.
This month for Shopping Around the World, we are going to focus on go to desserts/treats.
You know for those days when you need a pick me up or you are feeling down, what is the one thing you go to for comfort?
I know we shouldn’t but we do. We can all admit that from time to time, right?
Well this month is an easy one for mom. Wait until you see! Take it away mom –
When I think of go to comfort food as in dessert, I think of one thing. Pepperidge Farm cakes. I was introduced to Pepperidge Farm cakes when I was a young child. It was something that we always kept in the freezer. You know back in the day when you wanted people to drop in for visits and they did unexpectedly – LOL. These days, we don’t want anyone coming by unless you call weeks in advance and make an appointment. Times have changed, right? Well in the day, when unexpected friends dropped by my mom would get out the Pepperidge Farm cake, make a pot of coffee and visit.
These days, I still try to keep these in the freezer if not for just the memories they once brought to me. Anytime you need some sugar comfort, cut you a slice off of the cake and enjoy a little time just being. These Pepperidge Farm cakes come in a different variety – vanilla layer cake, red velvet cake, lemon layer cake, key lime cake, coconut layer cake, chocolate fudge layer cake and this one – rich golden layer cake. And personally, the golden layer and key lime cakes are my all time favorites – LOL.
And the best thing about these cakes – they are cheap. Really on average they are about $4.00 a cake. BUT you can find them on sale two for $5.00! Now can you make two cakes that cheap? So pardon me my friends, this cake in the picture was opened last weekend. It’s calling my name to be finished. The next time you are in your local market, see if you can find one of these and try them. You won’t regret it.
Did you have fun last month my friends? Well this month for Shopping Around the World, we are going to focus on go to desserts/treats. You know for those days when you need a pick me up or you are feeling down, what is the one thing you go to for comfort? I know we shouldn’t but we do. We can all admit that from time to time, right?
Shopping Around the World will be on Friday, April 27th. Be sure to write down your ingredients, costs and link back to my blog so we can all drool over your go to dessert/treats.
Hello Friends!! ❤ It’s that time to get ready for Shopping Around the World for March. For March, what is your ‘go to’ meal that you always prepare when you have nothing else to do. A meal that you can always pull out because you always have the ingredients and know how to fix it from memory. Do tell – we want to know all about it.
Shopping Around the World will be hosted on Friday, March 30, 2018. Remember to link back to my blog so everyone can read your awesome recipes. Remember to include prices from your area. We can’t wait to read all about it my friends!!
Hello Friends!! ❤ It’s that time to get ready for Shopping Around the World for March. For March, what is your ‘go to’ meal that you always prepare when you have nothing else to do. A meal that you can always pull out because you always have the ingredients and know how to fix it from memory. Do tell – we want to know all about it.
Shopping Around the World will be hosted on Friday, March 30, 2018. Remember to link back to my blog so everyone can read your awesome recipes. Remember to include prices from your area. We can’t wait to read all about it my friends!!
Hello friends!! Wasn’t all of the sandwiches from last month mouth watering? We got so many ideas here at the Hotel Thompson. What a blast! This month we are going to throw a little twist to the Shopping Around the World.
We always concentrate on food but here’s the twist. For February’s Shopping Around the World, we want a drink and snack food that you love. Recipes, pictures are awesome and prices to be posted on:
Friday, February 23, 2018.
So mark your calendars and put on your thinking hats. Is there a nightly ritual that you partake in before bedtime? Maybe it’s something that you only do on the weekends. Share with us in February ❤
Welcome my friends to a new year of adventure and great food!
January we are highlighting great sandwiches of any kind. Do you make a great meat sandwich? A great meatless sandwich? A great dessert sandwich? Highlight it with recipes and costs for our monthly Shopping Around the World. Remember to ping back your blog to mine here so everyone can check your blog out as well.
Shopping Around the World is scheduled for
Friday, January 26, 2018.
This month we are focusing on desserts/cookies or other yummy treats that you create or love to eat this time of the year. This holiday season has been a little challenged here at the Hotel Thompson – with mom’s surgery, recuperation and other trying things that showed their ugly head. Usually mom fixes this dessert, boxes them up in little Chinese containers that are decorated with pictures of us anipals and hands them out. This year, she just didn’t get a chance to play around and have fun. BUT she wanted to share this recipe because it’s fun and the treats are delicious!
So here is mom –
What you will need: bag of shelled pecan halves ($7.00); bag of Rolo candies ($4.00); and a bag of square pretzels ($3.00) = total cost $14.00
The most time consuming part of this recipe is unwrapping all of the Rolo’s. Usually I will sit in front of the television with a two bowls – one for wrappers and one for the unwrapped Rolo’s. Watch some television and start unwrapping. It makes it go faster. Trust me, this is the annoying part.
After you are done, get out a cookie sheet and wrap it with aluminum wrap. Put your square pretzels on it and put one Rolo on top of all of the pretzels. Your oven needs to be set at like 200 degrees. Place the pan in the oven for about 2-3 minutes, until you see the Rolo’s getting soft. Take them out and immediately push a pecan half on top of the pretzel. We call these Reindeer noses. Cute huh?
Now make a mental note. Don’t put so many pretzels on the tray with Rolo’s that when you take them out of the oven they soften before you can put the pecan half on them. I can usually do about three trays with the ingredients above. Happy eats!
Sorry for the delay dear friends. December is always a challenge for finding time to do anything, isn’t it? Well this month for Shopping Around the World, we are going to focus on desserts/cookies or other yummy treats that you create or love to eat this time of the year. What snack desserts do you give out or put out for guests that come over? It can be something simple or something elaborate.
Shopping Around the World will be on Friday, December 29th. Be sure to write down your ingredients, costs and link back to my blog so we can all drool over your dessert ❤
This month and next month Shopping Around the World is being hosted by my brother Phenny (thanks bro).
This month brother Phenny is asking for:
or squashes or gourd…anything from the cucurbita furmily goes…you can make a cake, soup, snack… whatever you like…
and the day for shopping around the world hop is: FRIDAY OCTOBER 27th
grab your shoppingcart, buy a pumpkin and share the prices of the things you used and the recipe of your pumpkin-dish
Piglove 