I LOVE IT!

Can you read this (click on the picture for a larger view)? It is the PERFECT solution for my "I don't mind going trick-or-treating but I don't want anyone to eat all of that candy" dilemma. A local dentist is paying kids for their candy. The candy gets sent to our troops and the dentist matches every dollar she pays out with a dollar given to the Ronald McDonald House. How wonderful is that?? My oldest will completely love the idea because she wants all the money she can get to buy books (she is her parent's child) but our middle daughter might not agree. She likes candy.

What I've Been Doing This Morning....

I made this Stormtrooper for a birthday party, 6 dozen cake truffles for the same party and a white cherry cake for a block party. Busy cake week! See more pictures HERE. Enjoy your weekend!

Kid Friendly Friday - Shell Necklaces

Hello! Welcome to Kid Friendly Friday where we share things other parents might like to do with their kids. Recipes....crafts....book reviews....giveaways....you name it! Join along by linking your post (old or new) below.

Last weekend I spent some time on Sanibel Island collecting shells. When I collect shells, I collect with a project in mind. HERE is what we did last time. This time I got the pretty thin, shiny ones so I could poke holes in them (with a large safety pin). Some of them broke in half while doing it. I tried to poke into a towel so the stress was equally distributed. The girls then picked out which ones they wanted to use, laid them out in the order they wanted, and I helped (lots of help) them string and tie them on embroidery floss. I also put clasps on them but the pictures don't show it. Easy, fun, almost free :)

What have you been up to this week? Enjoy your weekend!

FNCCC Assignment #7 - Bobby and Jaime Deen

Bobby and Jamie Deen, help their mom, Paula Deen, run the Savannah restaurant The Lady and Sons. If anyone has been there I would LOVE to hear about it :) They all have numerous cookbooks and are now hosts of their own Food Network food and travel show, Road Tasted. I have not seen it but if they anything like their mama, they are sure to be a hit. I have seen them on Paula's shows quite a bit.

This week is supposed to be featuring Bobby and Jamie, but they do not have recipes listed on their Food Network site. If you have a cookbook of theirs, feel free to use it. If you want to search "Lady and Sons" on Food Network, you will find a few. Otherwise, just do one of the hundreds of Paula Deen recipes. I must warn you that her stuff is not always too healthy (bacon wrapped, fried macaroni and cheese anyone?) so if you want to healthify one, have at it. We'll post on Oct. 14 - see you then!

Kids in the Kitchen - Pickle Rolls

Today over at Sacred and Profane a new Blogstyle Iron Chef ingredient was unveiled. Pickles. The recipe has to have pickles as a main ingredient. I hadn't picked out an after school snack or a Kids in the Kitchen recipe for this week yet so this was PERFECT. We used to make these all of the time in college. I haven't made them since then (that's a LONG time) but don't have any other recipes that use pickles. It's a stretch!

Cream Cheese Rolls

Ingredients: Pickles, cream cheese, and lunch meat (I like it with ham but all we had was turkey and it worked well).

Lay the lunch meat on a plate (double it if it's thin). Spread on cream cheese. Put a pickle in the center and roll it up. We would slice them for cute looking appetizers but for snack just eat the whole roll! I like to do them with the little pickles but pickle spears work as well. Simple and tasty. Bigs favorite part was fishing the pickle out of the jar. Mimi refused to use a pickle at all.

Go over to A Little Fun With Me and Lu to check out more Kids in the Kitchen posts! And if you have a good pickle recipe submit it for the Iron Chef competition at Sacred and Profane.

I googled pickle recipes and really want to try pickle bread, pickle soup, and pickle cheeseburgers.....but just not in time for the competition. There's only so much pickle my family will put up with :)