Guackus

Guacamole + Black Bean Dip + Hummus

= Guackus!

In a desperate attempt to find soft, nutritious foods that Jesse could eat after having his wisdom teeth removed, I found myself looking up recipes for things like Guacamole, Black Bean dip, and Hummus. I quickly discovered that they're pretty much all the same thing, just a different main ingredient. So I threw it all together and figured even if it wasn't good it would still be good for Jesse.
Turns out Jesse doesn't care for it, but I'm absolutely in love with it!

The Recipe

3/4 cup Chick Peas

3/4 cup Black Beans

1 ripe, med avocado

2 tbsp unhulled sesame seeds

1 tbsp grape seed oil

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp onion powder

1/4 tsp celery salt

1/8 tsp garlic powder

First, grind the sesame seeds in a coffee grinders. Then blend everything together. I use a hand blender, but I'm sure a food processor would work just as well. 

This recipe serves 2-4 people. It is best served with chips, but also quite good with a veggie tray.

Death By Chocolate

As a kid, this was the dessert I always looked for at the Church potlucks.

Now that I've finally found the perfect trifle bowl I decided to make it.

The Recipe

2 Devil's food cake mixes, baked & cooled

3 instant chocolate pudding mixes(+6 cups milk)

3 tubs cool whip(NOT whipped cream)

2 pkgs skor minis, chopped (or about 10 bars)

Layer the ingredients in your trifle bowl (cake, pudding, cool whip, skor bits). 

The pudding thickens pretty quickly, so it is best to mix each package 

just before you need it so that it is still pourable. 

This may very well be the only recipe where whipped cream is NOT better than cool whip. 

This is overall a very light, fluffy dessert, but if you use whipped cream it will be very heavy.

To make it cheaper you can only use skor on the top, but it does change the end product significantly. 

WARNING: This recipe is huge, I would say that it is suitable for a crowd of 20 or so.

Also, it only takes a 1/2 recipe to fill most trifle bowls.(some people use a punch bowl)

Lightning McQueen Birthday

"Can I have a Lightning McQueen Birthday Mom?"

"uhhh, ...sure...."

I really wasn't sure how to make a Lightning McQueen cake, 

and I almost resorted to buying one.

Thanks to my mom for the race track idea.

(one rectangle cake with 1/2 a round cake on either end)

This is what he does when he's shy.

Cake board? A piece of drywall of course!

Malachi's Blankie

When I was a kid, my siblings and I used to circle everything we wanted for Christmas in the Sears Wish Book. Now my kids do this with the ChristianBook.com kids catalogue.

While looking through the catalogue I noticed that Liam had marked a small pink lamb/blankie.

When I asked him about it he explained to me that it was for the baby. He explained that he wanted us to buy it for him for Christmas, so that it would be his, so that HE could give it to the baby.

I did not tell him that pink is usually for girls,

and that the baby might not be a girl. 

We did buy it for him and 

wrap it up for a Christmas gift,

and he did give it to Malachi 

the first chance he got.

Since then, any time Malachi fusses one of the boys will run and find his blankie for him.

They still don't know that pink is for girls.

Oh Baby!

Malachi Daniel Thiessen

January 13, 2013

9:36pm

10 lbs, 1 oz

21" long

So big,

 yet so small.