Saturday, June 30, 2018

Inexpensive and fun craft for all ages

It's Saturday afternoon and my kids found themselves with nothing to do.  My middle daughter found this fun craft on Crayola:  Dazzling Dot Painting   

I went upstairs grabbed some watercolors, q-tips, and white paper and we set to town!  My kids all had fun with it.  And I loved seeing the results!

Sunday, June 17, 2018

A Father's Day Treat: Shrimp Cocktail

Today we tried something that we haven't done in years.  I don't think I've ever actually fixed it for my kids before even though it's so simple.

Shrimp Cocktail

I usually buy raw shrimp for cooking at home.  But, today I decided to buy some cooked shrimp for Shrimp Cocktail.  I bought 16-20/lb size cooked shrimp.

Instead of buying cocktail sauce, I quickly looked up a recipe on my phone while we were in the store and discovered I'd be able to whip it up very quickly at home, but I needed some creamed horseradish.

Here's what I made...

Cocktail Sauce
1/2 cup ketchup
1/2 tsp. horseradish
1/2 tsp. worcestershire sauce
squeeze one wedge of lemon juice into the sauce (I squeezed 2-3 wedges).

For the spicy cocktail sauce person, modify the amount of horseradish.  I took about 1/3 of the mixture out and put it in a separate bowl and added an extra teaspoon of creamed horseradish.

The best thing about making cocktail sauce at home is that you can adjust the zinginess of the sauce.  I could make it non-zingy for my daughter and very zingy for my husband!