Taco Ring

When you need a twist on taco night, try this easy recipe.

1 tube of crescent rolls

1 lb of ground beef

1 taco seasoning packet

shredded cheese

lettuce

sour cream 

Salsa

Prepare ground beef as you normally would for tacos. Unroll tube of crescent roll and arrange triangles in a in an overlapping circle as shown below.

Scoop seasoned ground beef onto crescent ring.

Sprinkle the shredded cheese over seasoned ground beef and fold tips of crescent over the meat and cheese. Tuck the tips of the crescent roll under.

Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until the crescent rolls turn golden brown.

Cut and serve with lettuce, salsa and sour cream.

Pinterest finds this week

I stumbled across this PBS site: http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/build/#
Kids can build things out of stuff that you have around the house.  They can build things like a door alarm, can car, and marble mazes.  Just to name a few.  They also have different science experiments to try.  There are ideas on how to construct objects out of different products like newspapers and paper towels. The Kazoo and Soap Powered boat looks interesting too.


I have found several recipes to try on this blog posting of 30 Yummy Weight Watcher Dinners from a spectacled owl.


I can't wait to try this experiment with my little scientist from buggy and buddy.


My Husband loves the wonton tacos from Applebees and these look like something he would love. These Won ton Tacos are made by Hungry Girl.


Homemade Crescent rolls from nomemade-recipes.blogspot.com


This looks like are really easy science experiment to show your heart beat. From: What the Teacher wants


An Earthworm Habitat from "We made that"


This is a cute game from Spoonful to play when you and your children are waiting for your food at a restaurant.


This recipe sounds really yummy from Six Sisters' Stuff. 

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Pineapple Angel Food Cake

I saw this posted on www.facebook.com/BakeByKim?fref=ts and we tried it tonight.
First, we poured 1 box of angel food cake mix into a mixing bowl. Next, we poured in 1 can of crushed pineapple and mixed it in.

It began to fizz and it was really fluffy when we mixed it. No, we did not need to use a mixer. 

 Next, we sprayed a 9x13 pan with pam cooking spray and poured the cake mix into the pan.

  We baked the cake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. The cake was yummy and I look forward to trying other fruit.

Walking Water - science experiment

This was a super easy experiment to do.
Materials needed:
water
food coloring
clear glasses
paper towels

We filled one glass with water tinted with food coloring. You don't need to tint the water, but it makes it easier to see the water move.

We took a 1" strip of paper towel and dropped one end into the cup filled with water and the other end into the empty cup. Then we watched the water move up the paper towel.

         

The paper towel absorbed the water and transferred it into the other cup.

A little at a time. My Husband said that it wouldn't equalize between the two glasses, but I thought that it would.

 We continued to observe the water transferring to the empty glass.

 24 hours later, The water did equalize between the two cups.

We also tried 3 glasses, 1 empty glass, 1 glass with blue water, and 1 glass with yellow water. The water also went up the paper towel and into the empty glass.

 When the two colors made it into the glass they turned the water green.

Non-Toxic Oven Cleaner that really works!

I use the cleaning cycle on our oven, but it seems like it can't remove the splatters on the oven glass. I also want to use something that won't cause any strong fumes.  I saw this idea on Pinterest.

This is what my oven door looked like before I cleaned it.

Sprinkle baking soda on area that needs to be cleaned. Add water to make a paste and let it sit for 15-20 minutes. After 20 minutes, rub the paste to remove the stuck on food.

 Wipe off the baking soda paste and enjoy your clean oven.

Strawberry Banana Bread

A few weeks ago, I made Strawberry Banana Bread.  I adapted it from the Banana Bread recipe.

3 bananas
2 cups of mashed strawberries
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 1/2 cup white sugar
3Tablespoons of vegetable shortening (butter flavored Crisco)
2 Eggs
2 Cups of flour
1 teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon of salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease and flour pans.  If you don't know how to do grease and flour a pan...It is really easy.  First, pick your grease...butter, margarine or Crisco.  I choose to use Crisco, since I was using it in the bread.  Next, take a paper towel with Crisco and spread it on the inside bottom and sides of the pan.

Next, sprinkle 1-2 Tablespoons of flour in the pan.

Turn pan on side to make flour fall to the side.  Tap on the side of the pan to spread the flour.  You want the pan to be lightly floured.  You don't want clumps of flour in the pan.

Continue to tap and turn the pan until the inside bottom and all 4 sides of the pan are floured.

Dump out excess flour and set pans to the side.

Mix together bananas, strawberries, sugar, shortening, and eggs.

Sift flour.  In a separate bowl, mix together flour, soda, baking powder and salt.  Pour the dry ingredients into the bowl with the bananas, strawberries, sugar, shortening and eggs.  Mix thoroughly.  Pour batter into 2 large pans or 4 small pans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes for 2 large pans or 35-40 minutes for 4 small pans.

Test doneness, by inserting a toothpick in center of bread. If the toothpick comes out clean, the bread is done.  If the toothpick comes out with batter on it, continue to bake the bread for 5 more minutes.  Test bread again with a new toothpick.

When bread is done, allow it to cool for 15 minutes.  Run a knife between the bread and pan.  Turn pan over and allow bread to fall out of the pan onto cooling rack.

It tastes especially good while it is still warm with a little bit of butter spread on it.  Enjoy!