Red Hots Apple Cider

I have this need to smell cinnamon all the time around these months, lol. Also, I still have some more Red Hots in a secret stash (my aunt sends candy in bulk) that Marguerite doesn't know about. If I don't do something about them, they just might still be around when cockroaches take over the world. Anyway, had apple juice as well, so why not some apple cider?

I thought it was a nice ruby red, but it lacked embellishment, hence... topped with whipped cream:

That still wasn't enough, so I added twigs of cinnamon pretzels and sprinkles of chocolate shavings. You can see it here.

Strawberry Wine from Baguio

Lookit! My cousin Cheska gave this to me when she got back from Baguio. It's strawberry wine. It may look harmless, like wine cooler or something like shandy, but it did daze me, lol. Probably because I treated it like a bottle of soda. It did leave the impression of being part strawberry syrup, part wine and mostly pink food color. :)

Do Grasshopper Pies Have Real Grasshoppers?

Yesterday, Marguerite and I made a grasshopper pie. We were inspired by Teri Shuester in Glee gorging on grasshopper pie, pretending to be pregnant (yes, we - mother and daughter are both Gleeks - Marguerite's just all about the performances, of course). I didn't have marshmallow creme or peppermint extract, so I ended up just melting peppermint candy along with the milk and marshmallows.

Ingredients:

30 Oreos (pounded and crushed by a three-yr-old)

2 T melted butter

3/4 C milk

30 large marshmallows

4 pieces of peppermint candy

whipped cream

green food color (optional)

We mixed butter and Oreos, pressed the mess into the pie plate to make a crust. Heated milk, tossed in candy and marshmallows to make marshmallow cream (added green dye to make it look all minty). Poured that into the pie shell, and then covered that with whipped cream. We then crumbled another Oreo to garnish the thing. Voilà!

 that's supposed to look green

 you can see some of the green I meant peeking out

Okay, the thing is, we haven't tasted it yet. I'll just have to update you on that part. For now, we think it looks good. :)

Non-powdered Spiced Tea

Obviously, I couldn't get a good picture of this thing. A little girl kept on trying to snatch the glass. That's spiced tea, btw. It's my variation of the usual spiced tea mix. We don't have powdered drinks here (except for Husband's ever present Nestea), so I didn't have the Tang or the powdered lemonade. What I did basically was just to brew lemon tea. I then added natural orange juice, muscovado sugar (sorry, I didn't measure - just kept on adding until just right), ground cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Since my allergies were acting up yesterday, I heated a mug up so I could drink mine hot. And no, I didn't give Marguerite tea. She was able to sneak in a sip and seemed to like it, but I gave her plain orange juice and she accepted the trade without any fuss.

Flaming Red Applesauce

It's been a long time since I last made applesauce. This is not how I usually make it, but I was inspired by Supermommy's post. I had the red hots, the apples, and the water, so why not go for it? It smells wonderful. It's also great with dessert.

Tuna a la King

Tuna a la king. It's a modification of a recipe I found online. I used frozen mixed veggies instead of just peas, and I also added a cup of chicken stock and some grated cheese. Last night, we topped it on rice and today, we put them on buttered toast.

Experience with Kesong Puti

Hi, all! Look who's going to post an entry after months of absence! Anyway, still haven't concocted anything worth blogging about, but we did go to Laguna recently and went home with three bundles of kesong puti. We drove through at Jollibee (Pakil or thereabouts) and there was a young boy right beside the window selling them. We bought 3 bundles and waited a week before eating the things. They already smell spoiled, as a rule, and they supposedly do spoil easily, but to wait a week before consuming them was just plain, uh, adventurous. If you must know, we didn't suffer any ill effects. The spoiled smell wouldn't matter if you're a fan of stinky cheese, like I am (believe me, I've come across worse smelling cheese). Anyway, fried up the things and put them in between buttered slices of bread. They were good. But. That big bundle holding these puny blobs of cheese! The fridge was unnecessarily overcrowded.