Flash Game Friday

SpongeBob Boat o Cross

I heard of this through Know Your Meme, who named it as possible the hardest game around...


You know you need to try it now.


Yep, that's what I said too.




My top score was 380 by the way.

Kids Cooking Thursday: Chocolate Cheesecake Truffles

Just in time for your NYE parties...

These were snaffled up too quickly for me to get a photo of the finished product, and of course, were too chocolatey in the making of, so you'll have to use your imagination for these. Or alternatively, look back at the time we made these in strawberry flavour or regular flavour. The only difference in these were that I bought Chocolate Creme Oreos instead of the other flavours. I have to try these with the peanut butter and chocolate flavoured ones next I think...

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Menu Plan Monday

Monday

Veg Overload Bolognese Penne

Tuesday
Party Pies (I'm not lazy, just had a craving, that's all!)

Wednesday

Hawaiian Pizza

Thursday

Sausages, Fried Potatoes and Veg

Friday
Freezer Suprise

Saturday
BBQ

Sunday
Fried BBQ leftovers :)


Check back during the week for the recipes, and as usual, check out I'm an Organizing Junkie for literally hundreds of other menu plan blog posts, and please come back here for Kids Cooking Thursday when we make Chocolate Cheesecake Truffles. (Last truffle post for a while I promise!)

Flash Game Friday

Merry Christmas

You're going to hate me for this one. I mean, it's Christmas Eve, and if you aren't organised like I am, you have presents left to wrap (or buy) and food to prepare... and here I am giving you another flash game.

Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news is this feverish clicking game comes from the 5 Minute (in a hurry) category on Miniclip, and requires only one action from you - a mouse click, over and over.

The bad news is that even though the game only lasts about 10 seconds, you'll be playing over and over to try and beat your score. Yes, I'm evil. I'm not bothered. With the way the economy is these days, coal is probably worth more than presents anyway. Take that Saint Nick!

Kids Cooking Thursday: Choc Mint Truffles

There's a friend in my Facebook feed who has a secret recipe for Choc Mint Balls. Every time she makes them my feed goes a flutter, with everyone talking about them, and making excuses to go visit her. I thought perhaps she made Cheesecake Truffles with Mint Slice biscuits instead of Oreos, but she told me she doesn't use cream cheese, she uses Sweetened Condensed Milk. That was all the information I needed to hit up Google. I came up with this site, where if you scroll down six recipes you'll find Aileen's Peppermint Xmas Roll. I don't know if this is the recipe my friend uses, but it sounded so good I had to give it a try. I messed around with it a little, to make it easier for KCT, so what follows is what we did.

As Good as Sai's (?) Choc Mint Balls
2 pk chocolate ripple biscuits
2 blocks peppermint chocolate (the flowing middle type)
can sweetened condensed milk
choc pareils

Blitz biscuits, chocolate and milk in a food processor to get coarse lumps. You may need to do this in two batches, unless your food processor is huge. Roll into balls and then coat with pareils or coconut and refrigerate on foil tray. That's it!

I started ours a few days before, and had trouble getting the pareils to stick because the biscuit crumbs had absorbed the sticky milk, so we coated ours in chocolate. (Hence the lateness of this post, sorry!) I had trouble restraining myself from eating the mix while it was sitting in the fridge waiting for us to roll into balls too. Like I said, I'm not sure if this is my friend's recipe, but it's soo good you won't care!


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Menu Plan Monday

Monday

Teriyaki Hamburgers on fresh home made Tarragon Rolls

Tuesday

Tuna Salad Wraps

Wednesday
Freezer Suprise

Thursday
Hot Dogs and Chips

Friday
Leftovers

Saturday
Sandwiches

Sunday

Burrito seasoned Chops, Spuds and Broccoli


Check back during the week for the recipes, and as usual, check out I'm an Organizing Junkie for literally hundreds of other menu plan blog posts, and please come back here for Kids Cooking Thursday when we make Choc Mint Truffles.

Flash Game Friday

Kettle

Trap those filthy protesters! Don't they have jobs to go to?
An cynical little puzzle game, where you control the fuzz with arrow keys, to box in pixelated protesters.

Kids Cooking Thursday: Aztec Truffles

Adapted from Allrecipes.

Aztec Truffles
200g Chilli Dark Chocolate (we used Lindt)
100g Maya Gold 55% solids chocolate (use regular semi dark if you can't get this exotic Green & Blacks flavour)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
good pinch Dutch cinnamon
cocoa (or pareils or coconut) to roll

Melt chocolate with sweetened condensed milk on lowest microwave setting in a heatproof bowl. Try 1 minute on LOW and then 30sec bursts. When melted and smooth, stir in cinnamon. Cover and chill 2 to 3 hours or until firm.
Shape mixture into small balls and roll in cocoa.
Refrigerate in a tightly covered dish.

Sorry for no in process pictures today again, but rolling sticky balls of chocolate goop between one's palms is not conductive to responsible camera handling. If your truffles are destined for the family cookie plate, or you have slightly older kids home from school already, you might want to pass that job to them. Master Two was quite adept at shaking the dish with the truffles and cocoa in it, and Miss Five was quick to point out any that weren't fully coated. Both had a good stir of the mixture, and enjoyed the tasty job of breaking the blocks of chocolate down into pieces. So even though our truffles were destined to be a gift, and needed to be adult rolled for the slightly improved shape and size uniformity, there was still lots to be done for little fingers.

It goes to show, never judge a recipe as too complex before giving it a try. Odds are, even the youngest child will find a step or two they can help with.


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Menu Plan Monday

Monday

Sausage and Broccoli Noodles

Tuesday

Penne Bolognese w/ Turkish Garlic Bread

Wednesday

Teriyaki Beef, Sugar Snap Peas & Chips

Thursday
Pizza

Friday
Pies

Saturday
BBQ

Sunday
Sandwiches


Check back during the week for the recipes, and as usual, check out I'm an Organizing Junkie for literally hundreds of other menu plan blog posts, and please come back here for Kids Cooking Thursday when we make truffles for Christmas presents.

Another Hidden Treasure

Because I'd started to forget about them, but I only had eleven left, so it's high time I finished this goal.

A little noisemaker from a party favour bag, 'planted' in the fork of a tree.

Status: 33/43

Flash Game Friday

via BoingBoing

It doesn't take long to get the hang of this politically incorrect, yet addictive, little flash game. On my second round I got a score of 220650. You play an escaped mental patient trying to avoid sadistic nurses and thug like interns (who you have to hit twice, but then they explode). All you need to do is left click to flail your straightjacket sleeves, either directly at the enemy, or into a laudry trolley for a distance attack.

So tell me, what was your high score?

Kids Cooking Thursday: The Rainbow Connection

Another birthday round up, this time for Miss Five. I can't believe she is going to school next year already!

Rainbow Cake

Rainbow Clouds (just add food dye)

Rainbow Butterflies

Rainbow Jellies

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Menu Plan Monday

Monday
Freezer Suprise

Tuesday

Sausages & Potatoes, with onion gravy

Wednesday

Tomato & Cheese Penne

Thursday

Onion Burgers

Friday
Homemade Pizza so good I didn't get a photo before it was all gone

Saturday
Takeaway (at the Birthday Girl's request)

Sunday
Sandwiches after lunch at the ILs


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Flash Game Friday

Gateway II

The sequel to last week's short but sweet game - this time a little harder. One from Master Six's repertoire.

Kids Cooking Thursday: Anzac Bars

Anzac Bars (not biscuits) from the Coles Recipe website - so simple a two year old can make them!

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My Monthly Reads - November

Bloodthirsty - Flynn Meaney
The Passage - Justin Cronin