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Son’s class is having a St. Patrick’s Day shindig tomorrow, so I stole my friend’s idea and decided to make green, shamrock-shaped Rice Krispies treats. This is a great recipe for little helpers. Son really did most of it himself.
The recipe is right off the Rice Krispies box, but you don’t have to use the name brands. I used real Rice Krispies (they were on sale) and Great Value marshmallows.
You start with 3 tablespoons of butter, which you melt in a large saucepan (next time I’m going to use my pasta pot).
The recipe calls for a 10 oz. package of large marshmallows (approximately 40) or 4 cups of mini-marshmallows. I had a 16 oz bag, so Son counted out exactly 40 large marshmallows (next time I’ll use more, as we barely had enough goo) and poured them into the melted butter.
I’m not a Rice Krispies treats fan, so Son has never had them before, either. He didn’t really understand what we were doing, and why we were going to “boil” the marshmallows. Still, he stirred…
When the marshmallows began melting we added plenty of green food coloring. Son didn’t have any idea what St. Patrick’s Day is, so he wanted to add red food coloring, too. Grabbed his hand Just. In. Time.
You keep stirring until the marshmallows are completely melted, then remove it from the heat and slowly add the Rice Krispies to the mixture.
When it’s completely mixed spread the mixture onto a large baking pan. Normal Rice Krispies treats are thicker than what I wanted to do for these, so instead of a 13×9 pan I used a larger one. The box says to use waxed paper or a buttered spatula to spread out the mixture, but I found it much easier to wet my clean hands and press without an implement.
We waited for it to cool (really only a few minutes), then started to cut out the shapes. It wasn’t easy – Son had to use his muscle to make the cutouts. And I had to help a little…
He kept pretending to lick them all. But he didn’t. Pinky swear.
We both had a fun time making them, and created another wonderful memory.
I hope you enjoy your St. Patrick’s Day, even if it’s just another Tuesday to you!
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We don’t get many trick-or-treaters, but I’d already decided to give out snack bags of pretzels this year. I bought them on clearance last month for less than 10 cents per bag, so they are a frugal and a healthier choice. I just didn’t realize how much healthier.
I’ve gotten several e-mails today warning me that Pirate’s Gold candy is dangerous and has been recalled. Like any e-mail, I take it with a grain of salt until I check out it’s veracity via snopes.com or another such truth-checking entity. Every now and again one of these forwarded e-mails is true, and this is one of those times.
There is a new warning put out by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that Sherwood brand Pirate’s Gold Milk Chocolate coins are being recalled due to the fact that they contain Melamine, the ingredient in milk product that has caused many infant deaths and illnesses in China.
Yikes!
These candies have been sold at Costco, as well as many bulk and dollar stores. There seems to be little real risk, but most of us will choose to be safe rather than sorry. A trend that has changed Halloween so very much from the Halloween of my youth, when candy apples and homemade cookies were greeted with Pavlovian spittle and not accusations of food-tampering. But I digress.
So, we will be tossing out all of the coin-shaped candy this year, I’m sure much to the chagrin of Son and any other company that happens to make coin-shaped candy that does NOT include melamine. Collateral damage, my friends.
And I’m relatively sure that the pretzels we’ll be giving out do not contain melamine.
Husband sent me an e-mail just now, and here’s what it said:
Maybe you or Deb (my sister) can find out exactly what school this was and get me an e-mail address so I can tell them what I really think of them.
I feel a real dickish moment coming on.
At the very least – maybe you can write about the absurdity of this whole thing.
Personally – I would like to ask them why they didn’t just shoot the kid onthe spot and then execute his whole family.
After reading the article, I wholeheartedly agree.
Michael Sheridan, a student at New Haven’s Sheridan Middle School, was suspended from school for one day, barred from attending an honors student dinner and stripped of his title as class vice president. His transgression?
He bought a bag of candy from another student.
The horror!
As part of it’s wellness policy, the New Haven school system banned candy sales as fundraisers in 2003. There is no candy allowed in the schools. Okay, a bit stringent, but I can support that.
The student who sold the candy also was suspended.
Nothing like killing an ant with an uzi, New Haven.
It makes a great deal of sense to obliterate a child’s sense of accomplishment for having worked hard to attain honors because of a relatively minor transgression. And why on earth wouldn’t we want to spit on children who have the character and gall to wade through the rampant apathy and self-absorption of the middle school biosphere, get involved in their community and learn about the democratic process by taking on the office of Student Government Vice President?
Why indeed.
It certainly wouldn’t have made sense to give him detention, or to have him, in his role as Vice-President, make a presentation to the student body about nutrition.
No, it’s much more important to teach them how to rebel against unfair and overdone punishment, to seethe with injustice.
And why did the nefarious candy dealer get less punishment than the user-addict? Perhaps he’s supplying the school board….?
(By the way honey, the name of the school was right in the article, babe. But I’m sure your ire made your eyes skip over that part. Love ya!)
Update March 15, 2008
Both students’ suspensions have been expunged and the buyer has been reinstated to the Student Council. Apparently the school administration failed to notify the parents of this rule in writing.
I don’t think the school needed to undo all of the punishment. I just thought the punishment should fit the crime.
Are You Going To Be This Way The Rest of The Time I Know You? 