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Matzoh Ball Cookin’

March 28, 2013 TechyDad Cooking, Food, Holidays, Photos, Recipe

Passover is rough on JSL. Most of the foods he likes eating aren’t allowed so he becomes even more restricted than normal. Given that one of the foods that he loves are matzoh balls, I figured we’d make some.

First you start off with your ingredients: 1 cup matzoh meal, 2 teaspoons of salt, 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 4 eggs, and 4 tablespoons of broth or water.

Combine the ingredients in a bowl.

Stir well.

Then refrigerate for 15 minutes.

Next, roll into balls and drop into boiling water (or broth).

Simmer for 30 to 40 minutes, drain, and your matzoh balls will be ready to eat.

Freshly made matzoh balls are delicious and really take minimal effort. Given that we have a lot of matzoh meal left over, I think we’ll be making many more batches in the future.

Enjoying a Slice of Pi Day

March 15, 2013 TechyDad Food, Geeky Pursuits

Yesterday was Pi Day, March 14th (aka 3/14). To celebrate, I went out with JSL and purchased an apple pie. We also got a carton of vanilla ice cream. Once we got home, the pie was sliced and served with the ice cream and generous helpings of whipped cream.

The boys might be too young to realize just what Pi means, but they enjoy any "holiday" where the celebrating takes the form of eating dessert. NHL even made me proud by realizing that we get "Ultimate Pi Day" (his terminology) in 2 years: 3/14/15.

What is your favorite kind of pie?

The Tastiest Decoration in Disney World

December 24, 2012 TechyDad Disney, Food, Holidays

Sure, you can go to Disney World and look at the decorations.

You can see the various trees.

Along with the wide array of ornaments on them.

But there’s one "decoration" that smells fantastic and is actually edible. I’m talking about the gingerbread house in Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort.

This is no ordinary gingerbread house, though. Check out their ingredients list.

I’m a big fan of any recipe that includes 700 pounds of chocolate.

There were, of course, little extra-Disney touches here and there like the scenes just above the windows.

The house smelled fantastic. And, just to make things better, they were selling pieces of it. Ok, maybe not actual pieces, but they were selling gingerbread cooked from the same recipe as the house.

Sadly, the line was too long for us to wait on it at the time. If it tasted half as good as it smelled, though, it must have been fantastic gingerbread.

This is a yearly event so if you ever find yourself in Disney World in December, make sure to head to the Grand Floridian to check out the giant gingerbread house.

Aloha Friday: Stuffed With Stuffing

November 16, 2012 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Food, Holidays

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Getting together with family. Remembering what you’re thankful for. And food. All of the food.

I love eating turkey with gravy, sweet potato pie (with melted marshmallows on top, of course), and stuffing. In fact, I like the latter two so much, I’ll often load my plate up with stuffing and sweet potatoes and skip the turkey. I’ll also often eat a little more of those wonderful dishes when I really should realize that I’m full.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: What Thanksgiving dishes do you stuff yourself with?

P.S. If you haven’t already, try out my Twitter applications: FollowerHQ and Rout.

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha #165

Aloha Friday: Breakfast Time

October 5, 2012 TechyDad Aloha Friday, Food, JSL

While I’ve written about my boys being fussy eaters before, lately it has gotten worse. JSL’s usual breakfast is Boost – a protein shake that gives him vitamins, protein and other healthful stuff hidden behind a chocolaty flavor. He calls it "chocolate drink." I’ll admit I’m not 100% happy with him thinking that chocolate = breakfast, but – between that and eating nothing – I’ll break out the Boost.

The past couple of weeks, however, he’s been refusing chocolate drink. So we offer waffles, bagels, chocolate chip cereal bars… Nope. All refused. He insists that he’s not hungry, but we know better. If he doesn’t eat breakfast, then he’ll be hungry long before lunchtime.

It’s not like we’re expecting him to eat a three egg omelette, stack of pancakes, hash browns, and a giant bowl of fruit salad. Just eat half of a bagel with cream cheese and we’ll be happy. Instead breakfast time has become "fight to get JSL to eat something before he goes to school" time.

My Aloha Friday question for today is: What do you usually eat for a quick breakfast?

P.S. If you haven’t already, try out my Twitter applications: FollowerHQ and Rout.

Disclaimer: The "Fast Food, Breakfast, Pancakes" image above is by Gerald_G and is available through OpenClipArt.org.

Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha #159

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