Showing posts with label family gathering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family gathering. Show all posts

For this special day, I think it's wonderful if you can give your Mom all of her favorites. Mom loves yellow roses.

mom's mother's day roses courtesy CFP

Her favorite food is shish kabobs. She's very particular about the seasoning and in what order the ingredients should be on the skewers. Do NOT deviate from: meat, bell pepper (green only for her), bacon, onion.

shish kabobs

See? I promised there would be bacon! Notice that these kabobs are of the extra-crispy variety. If you're going to let your sister cook, then make sure you take her phone away so she doesn't get distracted. Of course, she'll point out that I didn't let the burned parts stop me from eating my fair share. I decided to try out another new dessert recipe today. From PioneerWoman I came across the Apple Dumplings of Doom! Or rather the Apple Dumplings of jiggly thighs and love handles.

apple dumpling

Mom was leary at first, especially seeing Mountain Dew on the list of ingredients, but she's a trooper and I promised her that if Pioneer Woman said it was great, then it most certainly would be. Mom described it as delicious and sinful and I think it's now her new favorite dessert! I accidentally used maple flavoring instead of vanilla extract but I think it made it better.

I believe there was a guarantee of redneck happenings. For your consideration, I present exhibit A:

redneck cookout

I love that there are two propane grills and the fact that CFP's tailgate is borked. We also played horseshoes, which I consider to be a bit redneck but by that time I forgot I was supposed to be taking pictures.

Today we celebrated Mother's Day with my in-laws. I decided to try out a new dessert recipe I saw on Paula Deen's show. Banoffee Recipe Here

Banoffee


(You'll just have to imagine the whipped cream on top. I plopped down a can of "Real Dairy Topping" and let them spray away to their heart's content.)

This really turned out delicious! And incidentally artery-clogging, but it was a special occasion and the bananas totally make it healthy, right? FYI I had to bake the condensed milk for about three hours to get it to darken/caramelize and it still wasn't the same color Paula Deen achieved in ninety minutes. Also, it was way too goopy to be served like a pie even after I chilled it overnight.

To show more thoughtfulness (and to save some $) I channelled my elementary school self and made some mother's day cards. I even made the envelopes!

Grade School Style Cards

I didn't take pictures of the inside, but I assure you the written greeting was beautiful. (C'mon, say it with me: "awww")

You know you're from Texas when for mother's day your Grandma gets this kind of present:

Grandma's New Mower

And you know that you have a hard headed Grandma(in-law) when she won't use a riding mower because it doesn't provide her enough exercise. Grandma would probably be ticked to know that she's on the "world wide web" but since I'm 95% sure she doesn't navigate the interwebs, I feel safe. But please don't tell her!

No family gathering is complete without torturing our nieces and/or nephews. Doesn't she look happy to be today's lucky winner of annoying attention? (that's Pookie doing duty as Captain Annoys-A-Lot)

mother's day 2009

and one more for good measure:

mother's day 2009

Tune in tomorrow for Mother's Day with my side of the family. It's guaranteed to be way more redneck and will probably involve bacon!