Keep Calm and Cook On - August Features

Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying a great Labour Day long weekend! It's a busy but quiet one here at our house.  Our oldest is gone camping, so it's just my hubby, me and our toddler.  We're getting lots of odd projects done, and getting some one-on-one time with our little guy.  It's been nice, especially since the crazy times of school start again on Tuesday.

Thank you for sharing your BBQ and or Ice Cream recipes for the August edition of Keep Calm and Cook On!  Here are the top three recipes, as picked by you!

Skinny Frozen S'Mores from Skinny Kitchen

Asian BBQ Chicken from Rate the Plate Utah

Butterfingers Ice Cream Sandwich Cake from Baking in a Tornado

Come back tomorrow to see what the September ingredient will be for Keep Calm and Cook On!

Recipe Recap #30

Hello friends! Happy Tuesday to you!  My regular day for sharing my weekly Recipe Recap here at Addicted to Recipes.  Today I am looking back at the recipes I posted the week of August 25 - 31, 2012.  Here we go...

Italian Cream Soda

Banana Blueberry Muffins

Recipe Recap #29

Hello friends, welcome back to Recipe Recap at Addicted to Recipes!  Today I am featuring the recipes that I shared the week of August 18 - 24, 2012.  It was a slow recipe week as I was hosting a week long party with giveaways.  But the recipe I shared is a big favourite of ours!

Coconut Shrimp

Playdough Volcanoes

It's summer vacation!  I've been really lucky to have a bunch of vacation and overtime to use, so I have had a lot of time off so far this summer.  On the days that I have been working, my kids have been at daycare and day camps.  Our oldest came home one day all excited about the Playdough Volcanoes that he made at camp one day, so of course, we had to give it a try.  I know, I am straying from my usual recipes, but this was so fun, and our kids were just amazed by this.  And it's so easy!

Have your kids create a volcano out of playdough.  Let them have creative

reign, their little minds and what they create is always so awesome.  Be sure that they create the crater in the centre of the volcano, and if they want to "dress up" their volcanoes with trees and other fun, encourage it! (I am all about encouraging kids to be creative).  Also, make sure you use a spill proof base for the volcano, such as a paper plate or a cookie sheet.

Once the volcanoes are built, it's time for the adult to help out.  You'll need:

Baking Soda
1/2 to 1 cup of white vinegar
Food colouring

Pour the vinegar into a measuring cup, add in your selected colour of food colouring.  Mix well.

In the volcano, pour in some baking soda.  A couple teaspoons should do you.

When the kids are ready, pour the coloured vinegar into the volcano crater. 

HAVE FUN!!

PS, did you know that you can make you own playdough?

Recipe Recap #28

Almost there, almost caught up with the Recipe Recaps here at Addicted to Recipes!  Today I am remembering my posts from August 11 - 17, 2012!

Polka Dot Cake

Devil's Food Butterscotch Chip Cookies

(I'm having a bit of a sweet craving...)

Recipe Recap #27

Oh how I love Recipe Recaps here at Addicted to Recipes.  Always brings back memories for me, and hopefully inspires you to try some new recipes!  I'm in the middle of my blitz of catching up - here is the recap for August 4 - 10, 2012:

Creamy Cherry Popsicles 

(yes, we LOVE frozen treats in our house...you should see all the homemade ice cream recipes that I have coming soon!)

Foodsaver - Liquid Block Bags

Recently the Addicted to Recipes kitchen had the opportunity to try the new

Foodsaver Liquid Block Bags.  You may recall that we have a Foodsaver - I wrote about it in my post "How Do You Preserve Your Food?" - and given that it is fresh fruit season and we are stocked with such amazing produce, it is the perfect time to be freezing for the winter, using a system that will preserve our fruit well!

My husband particularly likes the Foodsaver system - he says it is so easy to use (dividing and freezing meat, the most common use for our Foodsaver - is his job).  He was pretty excited to try the new bags out with the fruit.

Our first fruit to freeze via Liquid Block bags were blueberries.  We froze tonnes of blueberries (I like to use them in my muffins) - and it was a super easy job.  The new bags were awesome...such a quick process!

I'm already thinking of new fruit that we can try freezing with the Foodsaver... love it!