M...R...E...?

     How many of you have heard about an MRE?  The M stands for 'meal', R stands for 'ready', there is no t but if there were T would stand for 'to', and E stands for 'eat'.  All together that makes Meal Ready to Eat.  


     For my 11th birthday I got an MRE from a friend.  The main course was spaghetti and meat balls, the snack was bread (which was gross), the dessert was cherry blueberry cobbler.  There were also potato sticks and some sort of cheese spread (which looked so disgusting I couldn't bring myself to eat it.)  The MRE also had coffee, creamer, sugar, salt, two gum chicklets,  handi-wipe, toilet paper, Tobasco sauce, fruit punch, and a plastic spoon.  I brought my MRE to school for lunch two months after  I got it. Every one asked what it was and if they could try some.  Most thought the potato sticks were good.  My teacher ask if I was ready to go back to home cooked meals.  The spaghetti and meat balls tasted like a weight loss meal and the meat balls were the size of the top of my pinky (so basically very small meat balls).  The cobbler was good and didn't taste like a weight loss meal.  One friend asked if he could take the MRE packet home.  I said yes.  When I got home I made the fruit punch and then I fizzed it up.  The fruit punch dyed my top lip red!  


     I told my friend who gave it to me how much I liked it and he gave my another one.   He gave Aidan one too.  This time I got beef enchilada and Aidan got chicken and dumplings.  Aidan ate his MRE that night.  I'm going to bring my MRE for lunch when I go back to school after April vacation is over. 

This is what is in an MRE.

This is an MRE( not mine)     

Happy St. Patrick's Day

     So when most people hear happy St. Patrick Day they think of shamrocks, leprechauns, and green. Well, when I heard St. Patrick's Day I though of cookies.   Now I know that has nothing to do with St. Patrick's Day but I thought maybe I should make shamrock cookies for my class.  I did this because I thought my class would like a treat.  So on 15 March I made 54 shamrock cookies and brought them to class the next day. Turns out they LOVED them.  Some people asked if I would put the recipe on my blog.  So without further ado here is the recipe:


SPRITZ COOKIES (You need a cookie press to make the cookies)

1 1/2 cup (3 sticks) butter or margarine, softened

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 1/2 (14 ounces) cup all-purpose flour

colored sugar or sprinkles (optional)

1.     Preheat oven 200∘C . Beat  butter on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy.  Add sugar, egg, and vanilla; beat well.  Add flour, 1 cup at a time; mix well. Dough will be soft; do not refrigerate.

2.    Using a medium sized spoon, fill a cookie press - fitted with disk of your choice - with dough.  Press dough onto flat baking stone or wax paper covered cookie sheet, 1 inch apart.  Decorate cookie with sugar or sprinkles, if you want.

3.    Bake 10-12 minutes or until firm but not brown. Cool 2 minutes on baking stone or cookie sheet; remove to nonstick cooling rack. Repeat with remaining dough.

Enjoy!