Vanilla Pudding w/ Banana & Nilla Wafers

My mom bought a box of Nilla wafers for a camping trip, but we never ate them. So there was a recipe on the side for this vanilla pudding with bananas and Nilla wafers, so we decided to try it out. First, we made a pudding of vanilla, sugar, four, salt, and milk.

Then, we poured it into a glass dish, put Nilla wafers down, then sliced bananas, and repeated the process a few times.

For a finish, we put whipped cream and some wafers sticking out of the top. It was delicious!

Homemade APPLE Juice

I had a craving for some fresh apple juice last night, so my mom came back from the store today with a bag of apples. Then, she took out our mixer and put on the meat grinder attachment. There is a funnel sort of thing where you put the meat in and it comes out ground, so we put in the cut up apples. We got a 2 in 1 sort of deal; we got apple puree, and when we put it through a strainer, we got apple juice!

It was pretty messy!

3 lbs of apples = 2 1/2 cups of juice. That's not even a cup per pound of apple! Kinda pathetic, but also tasty.

We then strained the juice again, and we got some applesauce! But then we only got 2 cups of juice, but I bet the applesauce will be tasty once we add sugar and cinnamon. Later that day, my mom and I made popovers, and we made apple butter out of the apple puree. It was delish on the popovers!

Homemade Orange Juice

I have these odd food phases in my life, if you haven't noticed already. Just a while back, I was in a Green-Apple-Phase. A long while back, I was in a Bosch-Pear-Phase. Now, I'm in a Navel-Orange-Phase, except I don't just eat them, I make orange juice out of them. My mom just bought a lemon juicer, and so I use that instead of my hands. It might sound easy, as in, "Just put in a half of an orange and squeeze it," but that's not the best way. What would really work well is cutting it up in pretty much 10ths, but I do 8ths. I put an 8th in the squeezer, and a pretty good amount of juice comes out.

I like leaving the pulp in, because it's healthy for you.

Pistachio Pudding Dessert

I recently went to my mom and dad's friend's resort, one of the desserts was DELICIOUS. I asked the woman who made it for the recipe, but I guess I couldn't wait that long. When I got home, my mom and I looked up the recipe on Epicurious, and sure enough, it showed up. It's not the same exact recipe, but it tasted just as good. I mixed milk, pistachio pudding mix and cream cheese in a mixer, and then made some whipped cream. My mom made some sort of dough, spread it on the bottom of a pan and cooked it. Then, I plopped and spread the pudding mixture on, and then the whipped cream. We let it refrigerate for a while, and then I tried some. It was SO GOOD!!! Just as good as I remembered.

By the way, while I was at the resort, I tried kneeboarding and water skiing for the first time! Despite the look on my face, I got up on my first try and had a lot of fun!

M&Em Super Sale

If you didn't know already, my friend Morgan and I came up with something called "M&Em Babysitting," which had an M&M with M&Em on it for a logo.
So a little while back, we went a little further after realizing that we could make a good amount of cash, and made an "M&Em Super Sale." Our motto for the babysitting was "It's a TREAT to babysit!" Now, our motto for the Super Sale is "It's a TREAT to EAT!" We had "Morgan's Bakery Corner" and "Cooking Emma's Candy Shoppe." We printed up a bunch of flyers and order forms so our neighbors could order pies, cookies and candy. But, the only bad part was that we only got one order. But it was a huge order!!! Our neighbor Tom ordered 6 pkg. of peanut butter cups, 4 pkg. sugar cookies, and 2 apple pies.

I had a good time making the stuff, and Morgan ended up getting sick, so she couldn't make the cookies, but her mom filled in for her. We plan on making our delivery tomorrow!

Crab Benedict

After trying my poached egg, my mom suggested the we try making Crab Benedict. When I went on an Alaskan cruise with my family and grandparents, there was a different kind of Benedict every day, including lobster. I swear that if I would have known what Eggs Benedict was, I would have taken the opportunity to have it every day on the cruise.
We had Crab Benedict for dinner the other night, and I wanted to have more. I know Lobster Benedict will be really, really good!

Chocolate-Covered Pretzel Slims

I took what I had left of our Trader Joe's Pretzel Slims and melted a bar of Hershey's Milk Chocolate in a Ziploc bag. When it was melted, I cut a tiny hole in one of the bottom corners of the bag and laid the pretzels on a baking sheet. Then, I sort of traced the inside of the pretzels, flipped them over, and put them in the fridge for about 15 minutes. So they turned out like this:
They were SO GOOD!!! I would love to try them again with different kinds of chocolate.