Slow Cooking Thursday - Ham and Scalloped Potatoes

This evening's recipe came from tastycrockpotrecipes.net and it was great. The simplest recipe, yet it tasted 'just like a bought one'. My only problem was that I sliced the potatoes too thickly, so some of them didn't cook. But it's ok, because I served this with broccoli and garlic bread, so there was plenty to eat, and I'm sure I can think of something to do with semi-cooked potatoes in awesomely cheesy, creamy sauce. Or you can. Can't you?

Sandra over at Diary of a Stay At Home Mom hosts Slow Cooking Thursdays, so go have a look for more slow cooked deliciousness!

Kids Cooking Thursday: Strawberry cupcakes

Sadly just a box mix today, as I wanted to try out the Strawberry Baby Cakes box mix to see if it would suit for Miss Two's third birthday cake. Some of you may remember that she asked for a "blue" party, and a "Strawberry cake with blue icing". Well, the party has now been upgraded to Pink and Blue, because her favourite colour is now pink lol. But the cake request remains the same. I'm a bit iffy on these. They tasted liked strawberry bubblegum when raw, and only slightly better cooked. I did like the tiny cupcake option, since most kids don't eat much (if any cake) after licking off the icing, but I'd need more than the 18 that this box yields. If anyone has a great strawberry cake recipe they'd like to share, we'd be happy to try it! (PLEASE!) I'd prefer a strawberry flavour in the mix itself, but more than likely will add in extra fruit pieces to that as well.

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Cannelloni

DP cooked tonight, so I got the night off. Here is the recipe he used, it's from San Remo Apparently it's the wrong recipe, but all he told me was "It's the one on the back of the box". How was I supposed to know he wanted the spinach and ricotta recipe but to switch the spinach and ricotta for mince? That doesn't exactly make it easy for me to make the shopping list up. But then, I wasn't a huge fan of the old recipe either. Must find a new meat and tomato based cannelloni recipe. Anyone got any ideas?

You got a recipe tonight, so it wasn't really a lazy dinner night post, but I'm feeling lazy, so you can have a link anyway.

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