Make these for Easter!

It’s time for a Frivolous Friday post!  And because it’s almost that time of year, I’m sharing a fun recipe I found for homemade Easter Creme Eggs!  Yes, I know you’re just as egg-cited as I am!

There is a beautiful food blog called Not Without Salt, and the brilliant Ashley there has devised a “healthier” version of the Easter Creme Egg that you can make at home. Maybe a little trickier than popping to the store and picking up a single egg (or a bag full of the mini version, please!), but your friends and family will be amazed that you made these yourself!

You can read Ashley’s full recipe right here on the Food 52 blog. There are gorgeous photos and the instructions look simple enough to follow. I might even whip up a batch of these this weekend…you know, just to try in case they don’t turn out for Easter.  

Frivolous Friday Food!

This post isn’t about frivolous food, but rather, a fun post about food (and how to keep it fresh)…on Frivolous Friday!  In a workplace of five women, we talk about food quite a bit.  We talk about what we ate last night, what we’re making for a special occasion, and what great deal on food we just got at a particular store. So when I came across this great post called 27 Ways to make your Groceries last as long as Possible, I thought it was something I should share.

Some of the tips are genius, and some look a little wacky, but I might give them a try. (Storing onions in pantyhose might work, but I’m not thrilled about leaving them out where anyone could see them. You decide if you’d like to try it.) Anything to make our money stretch a little further is always appreciated.

Will you try any of these tips? Do you use any of these money-saving ideas already?

The Man with the Big Shoes!

Wednesday evening was so much fun!  A very special friend came to the library to read a story to plenty of small friends in pajamas!

We gathered in the back room and listened as Ronald McDonald® read us stories and then talked with all the children afterward. It was such a fun evening, we’d love to do it again sometime!

Thanks so much to our friends at McDonald’s® for sharing this wonderful reading program with us! We had a great time!

Eat Your Book!

With all the controversy around ghost writers  and cookbook authors, this is timely.  How about a cookbook you can eat!

Photo by Korefe

Gerstenberg Publishing House has come up with an edible cookbook. Each page is a sheet of pasta, embossed with the idea that using the book will make a delicious lasagna.  Since this is in German, people are saying it doesn’t actually include the instructions on how to make it, but the idea is fun. (The goodness really is baked right in!)

It’s really quite pretty, each page designed with art in mind (and hopefully, food), and you can see the entire group of photos right here.  Would you buy this book for yourself, or someone else?

Silly Sushi all the way!

Monday was Silly Sushi, the first big event during our Silly Week programs! We could have offered this three times over and STILL had waiting lists. With a little preparation, we had yummy goodies waiting for the kids who immediately got their hands sticky and dove right into the sushi!

With bowls full of gooey rice crispie treats, fruit roll ups, swedish fish,gummy worms, coconut and lots of sprinkles, we started rolling.  Not only did we make (and safely cut) “california rolls”, we invented our own candy sushi designs and even learned a few Japanese words.

The afternoon was a big success and everyone went home with Bento boxes full of their creations. Can’t wait until tomorrow’s Superhero Storytime!

Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook, or what not to buy Grandma for Christmas

With the excitement surrounding Suzanne Collins’  The Hunger Games coming to theaters in March, all sorts of book related items are turning up. One of the most interesting so far has to the the Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook, by Emily Ansara Baines.  It includes such mouth-watering items as Grilled Tree Rat with Peanut Butter Dipping Sauce, President Snow’s Sauteed Dove Breasts in Bacon Drippings and more. While it might not be something you’d want to purchase and cook your way through, it might be something that crazed Hunger Games fan would enjoy leafing through. You can find it on Amazon here.