Man, our family has been HIT with viral winter illesses! It's been over a month, and someone is always sick. As of today, I am getting better and it's back to Jeff...who started us off in January! Anyways, I was the one sickly on Valentine's Day. I felt bad for not wanting to do anything. But I did conjure up a few treats that day.
I remember making and cutting out these heart ham sandwiches while feeling super crappy. But I was determined to make a "special" lunch. Plain old ham sandwiches, huh. Thank you cookie cutters!
Then on a whim I did this artistic display of fruit. Thank goodness for allergy-free Hershey syrup. It was the only chocolate my boys got on Valentine's Day. Again, pathetic. Although, Miles absolutely loved this fruit plate. He's asked for it again since then. I remember crashing on the couch after I served this to the boys. Heart sandwiches, fruit plate, fever...exhausting!
Then a couple days later in the week, I started to feel better...and guilty that our Valentine's Day had been so pathetic. So out came the cookie cutters for a few more fun treats. It was officially Valentine's WEEK.
I decided to try our Auntie Anne's pretzels again...this time in my new KitchenAid, woohoo! As you can see in the recipe post, I got lazier and lazier with making actual pretzel shapes. It was much easier to just flatten the dough with my hand and cut it into heart shapes, ha, ha! I'm gonna have to remember that next time...even easier than rolling into bite size balls. I made kosher salt and cinnamon sugar versions. Here is one of each.
Note, both times I have made these the dough did NOT rise to double the size before baking. Both times I just gave up waiting and baked them anyways. And both times they puffed up nicely in the oven. So if you try these, don't be too discouraged with the rising process.
I was also inspired by Speedbumpkitchen's sugar cookie recipe so I made these too. I made her homemade icing, but still used the sprinkles from the lid of of the Pillsbury tub. We have always had good luck with those sprinkles, thank goodness. My boys love their sprinkles! The icing was yummo, but Pillsbury is a lot easier to spread, LOL.
And if you haven't already, please read the post earlier than this one. We need to encourage a fellow allergy mamma!
3 comments:
Yum! What brand of ham do you use? Also the link for the Auntie Ann pretzels is not working. They look so good. I made brown sugar based brownies for Valentine's day in heart shapes and my son said these are gross, they don't taste like real brownies.
Oh no! Camille, you are right the link the prezel recipe is not working. I hope it comes back. Lesson learned, I need to start copying and pasting the recipes on this blog just in case they disappear later! Man!
I do remember that recipe used powdered sugar instead of brown sugar and said that's how they got the sweetness like Auntie Anne's. Darn.
Well, we are guilty of buying ordinary lunch meats often so that was the ham at that time. There are a couple brands we use. Right now we have an Oscar Meyer Deli Fresh Turkey. I also like the ones that come in the reusable platic containers (red and green lids), can't remember brand. We use the containers for lunch in the car! Also we use Target Brand lunch meats (black lids).
But I do like to cook up whole hams and turkeys for good healthy lunch meat when I can. Did you see Speedbumpkitchen's brownie recipe? It works!
So I Googled it and there are lots of recipes out there.
We have been using Hormel (not exactly sure of the full name right now) lunch meats that come in a bag in a paper box. Their lactic acid says it is Not derived from milk. Glad to see you have a few other brands that are safe.
I'll check out that brownie recipe. My hubby and I loved the ones I made, the kids (ages 1 & 5) didn't....so there were just more for the two of us.
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