Trapped in a hotel with no heat source?  You don’t need a campfire to enjoy silly songs and s’mores.

All you need is:

graham crackers
marshmallow fluff
chocolate frosting

Napkins… lots of napkins.

I’ve never baked pineapple upside down cake.  I don’t even remember reading a recipe.

But I had a can of pineapple, a box of jiffy corn bread mix and… a dream.

Ahhh and the results were delicious!

Here are some slightly obscure, rather vague instructions:

I drained a can of pineapple and put it in the pan. I simmered some butter, brown sugar and a little pineapple juice together then poured that over the pineapple. Next I followed the directions on the Jiffy box and poured that batter on top of the pineapple mixture. Cooked it for 24 minutes at 400. Let it cool, then turned it upside down.

No school today. That means it’s time to make a tutorial video…

How to make Ranchup. A tutorial by Jeremiah age 7. Video by Sarah age 6. Background noise by Mom age 31…

I don’t want to tempt you… I know it’s hard not to covet either my lunch or the man who cooked it… but I just have to tell the world:

For the first time in 15 months, Joel cooked his famous fried chicken! Mmmm… just one more reason why I missed him so much while he was deployed!

I just ate this.

I’m not quite sure why… but after watching Rachel Ray cook it, somehow I thought it seemed like a good idea. At least it was a better idea then the shirt she was wearing. Rachel, honey, please button your shirt. My son is watching! Jeremiah actually said, “Mom she’s showing her private parts!” Yes, son… she is. Jer thought maybe her shirt just didn’t have buttons. I think that’s no excuse to cook Mac and Cheese Dog Casserole partially nude.

Notice also that the recipe requires beer. Which means that not only has Rachel shown way too much of her self to my son, but she has convinced him that we need to go buy a beer. Which might be fine in your house. But in my house we don’t buy beer. Nothing against cooking with it, I guess… but I’m not buying it…

Anyway, the casserole sans-beer is surprisingly good… and since I’m the only Maxwell to agree, I ate three large servings.
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I got a lot of great stuff in the mail today. Holly sent me some inspirational/patriotic art and a Beth Moore book. I was really surprised. The card was great too. Despite everything I said about birthday cards… this one rocked.

I also received my Amazon order today. Thank you very much blog-friend who sent a gift certificate. I spent it on completely unnecessary coffee paraphernalia. Including a milk frother… Which is great for coffee and chocolate milk and … cold Postum.

Yes, I did it. I drank cold frothy Postum. Twice. Debbie, mock me if you must… but it is good. Really good. OK, not REALLY good… but good like Mac and Cheese Dog Casserole. Meaning… you’d be pleasantly surprised. Of course anything probably tastes good with an inch of frothy goodness on top. I’m going to make another glass as soon as I hit publish.
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Since this is a random post I’ll include this random image. Just because I can. Besides… it looks a little frothy on top.

Chef Sarah just served me a delightful dish created by mixing Teddy Grahams, gummy bears, pinenuts and chocolate frosting.

It’s actually not bad if you pick the old gummy bears out.