We're actually all figments of our own imaginations. Welcome!No need to buy a pan to make scones.. basically it's a biscuit type dough and you cut it with knife for triangles or a biscuit cutter (or floured drinking glass/ jam jar) for a round biscuit style shape.
Take Alton Brown's advice and don't buy one use items.
I don't like one trick pony cookware or gadgets. I may splurge if I find it at a thrift store (like the uber cheap ebelskiver pan.. which my first try was good but way too fussy!) or heavily discounted. Otherwise it takes up my limited space in the cabinets and my limited dollars out of my pocket.
Invest in a good knife, professional quality bake ware, a few basic hand tools (whisk, can opener, spatula, rubber scraper, kitchen shears), good quality cookware (stainless fry pan or cast iron, small saucepan and large soup pot)... you are basically set to make anything. All the other stuff just makes it a little easier...but try to buy things that have multi- purpose. My rice cooker may seem like a one trick gadget, but with a little know-how (found via cooking sites) and creativity, I actually can make a whole meal in that little guy to earn a spot in my cabinet. Lots of other things have NOT and made their way into other people's homes or to the trash. Wasteful wasteful, now I know better.
But that doesn't stop me from drooling over all the goodies in the houseware dept.
I really would like a baking stone to do daily bread making in the fall/ winter months. Using the artisan bread recipes where you make a large batch of dough and leave in the fridge to pull off one loaf per day to bake. I can make traditional loaf bread by hand, but not sure if I would be up to the task of stirring, kneading, shaping on a frequent basis.
So at about 11:00am your time be sure to cheer me on crossing the finish line!
I have heard that there will be a way to sync cell phones up so they receive text messages everytime a runner crosses a mile marker. We have to wear something on our shoe that will keep our time.
What makes you think we actually pay attention to any of the posts on there?
Look everybody, another unsuspecting human has fallen into our trap (but you didn't see anything, especially this sentence)
Kelly- I have friends and relatives who have their b-days around Christmas time and they always tell me it sucks sometimes. They say that people combine their Xmas gift and b-day gift into one present and they don't like it.I don't blame them. lol.
Christina- the Matterhorn Macaroon is sold at Blue Ribbon Bakery on Main St. I was told by the CM's that they sell out pretty fast and they try to make several batches a day. I bought 4 of them to share with my family. My brother devoured it in less than 2 minutes!
I wish they sold Mickey ice cream bars in the markets. That would be awesomeI watched an episode of Unwrapped on the Food Network and they showed how they were made. Yummy!
And then I wonder why my butt won't fit in the chair hmmmmm.... Boggles the mind!
awesome!
The cell phone syncing sounds cool
A little tiny leprechaun with a stop watch perhaps?
I'll be cheering you on.
Sara I am in awe that you are attempting this marathon. I thought about going NEXT year and just doing the family fun run. Katy really likes to run and I thought I could amble along and let her actually run. Do they give anything out for the people who do that? I know the kids would love to earn something if they participated. I of course would be lucky to even WALK the whole way LOL. But I know you will do great and I am sure we will ALL be cheering you on while we are sleeping in, er I mean doing something productive at home like pilates or something
Yeah I have REALLY bad knees and can't run at all. In fact my doctor told me I am not even allowed to do squats because my cartiledge is pretty much gone in my knees BUT I CAN walk. That is why I was thinking about the 5K. And the girls are 9 and 10 but next year would be 10 and 11. So they would def have to do the 5K. But thanks SO much for the info. We are going back in June as a family but if we can manage it I would LOVE to do this. I talked to the girls about it and I know they would REALLY like to do it. So I am going to see if we can make it happen even if we have to drive down just for the race and go home the next day! I think it would be so fun for them!!
And major good luck to you!! I know you will do awesome!!
Hooray for being imaginary! Maybe should change my name to Tyler Durden.
Also...I see what you did there
All I can say is OMG that looks delicious!!!! I wasn't hungry before, but after reading about mickey ice cream, cookies and now seeing the picture of the matterhorn macaroon I am in the mood for something sweet!!! I love, love coconut and ohh this looks yummy
I know! I crave a Mickey ice cream bar! I don't eat them often but I do like them I was never a fan of coconut and I don't think I ever had a macaroon before. I just couldn't resist the snowy/sugary mountain top of the cookie. That's awesome that you got ressiesBUT I got all the ressies I wanted except the last day but the alternate I chose was just as good AND I got the bibbidy bobbidy boutique for the girls. We are not doing the drop dead package. Just getting their hair done and I am going to take some dresses and let them get their pics taken and just buy the CD ahead of time and do the pics myself. Then that night we are going to flying fish at Boardwalk for dinner. So I think they will have fun getting dolled up and they are too big for those dresses anyway.
They are going to be so excited when I tell them!!
I wanted dinner at T Rex but they were completley booked the entire day. We tried the day before and all they had was 10 at NIGHT! EEK! Uh that was a NO! But we can still go in their gift shop and look around so it's no biggy. I just hope that is not an indication of how nuts it is going to be there!!
But anyway at least the trip is getting more real so I am starting to get a bit more excited!!
When I was with my cousin's DD, she wanted to try bibbidi bobbity boutique at DL but it was too expensive and she had already spent money on souvies. I told her maybe next time she visits she can try that. She also was fascinated with Studio 365 in DTD. She was just like: "OMG!!!" and she was all wide-eyed and fascinated by everything in there. She's the sweetest kid and I think it's awesome to see the park and other things through her eyes. It's so cool to see a child's perspective on things 
No need to buy a pan to make scones.. basically it's a biscuit type dough and you cut it with knife for triangles or a biscuit cutter (or floured drinking glass/ jam jar) for a round biscuit style shape.
Take Alton Brown's advice and don't buy one use items.
I don't like one trick pony cookware or gadgets. I may splurge if I find it at a thrift store (like the uber cheap ebelskiver pan.. which my first try was good but way too fussy!) or heavily discounted. Otherwise it takes up my limited space in the cabinets and my limited dollars out of my pocket.
Invest in a good knife, professional quality bake ware, a few basic hand tools (whisk, can opener, spatula, rubber scraper, kitchen shears), good quality cookware (stainless fry pan or cast iron, small saucepan and large soup pot)... you are basically set to make anything. All the other stuff just makes it a little easier...but try to buy things that have multi- purpose. My rice cooker may seem like a one trick gadget, but with a little know-how (found via cooking sites) and creativity, I actually can make a whole meal in that little guy to earn a spot in my cabinet. Lots of other things have NOT and made their way into other people's homes or to the trash. Wasteful wasteful, now I know better.
But that doesn't stop me from drooling over all the goodies in the houseware dept.
I really would like a baking stone to do daily bread making in the fall/ winter months. Using the artisan bread recipes where you make a large batch of dough and leave in the fridge to pull off one loaf per day to bake. I can make traditional loaf bread by hand, but not sure if I would be up to the task of stirring, kneading, shaping on a frequent basis.
What makes you think we actually pay attention to any of the posts on there?
Look everybody, another unsuspecting human has fallen into our trap (but you didn't see anything, especially this sentence).
But if I ignore Alton's advice, then I wouldn't have a breadmaker and if I didn't have a breadmaker that also serves as a door stop for the laundry room door, then I wouldn't know that you can also use it to make any dough for any bread recipe, and I wouldn't know that you don't have to actually cook the bread in it...just dump the ingredients in and let it do the stirring, kneading and first rise (if you want) and that I could then remove the dough, wrap it in lightly Pam sprayed plastic wrap and put it in the fridge until I want to cook it, which would be the way I would tell you to make your bread much less labor intensive, and I wouldn't be able to tell you how many bread makers are at garage sales & thrift stores for a couple of bucks and that you will probably have to move the rice cooker over to make room for the bread maker now.
You are so funny! I was going to joke and say: "What? You mean I do not need to buy a special pan with a famous celebrity's face on the box?" Thanks for the info Bernice 
BTW Alison-I went over to my parents home recently and saw a large box of Neil Med Sinus Rinse on the counter. I said: "Hey! One of my friends highly recommended this for the longest time!" My older sister had it in her house too and said: "I use that too! It really works!"
Couldn't it??
This is just a wild suggestion I'm going to throw out there. But doesn't Nestle' make the Mickey Bars? If so, I would think you could probably go down to the local grocery store and buy a box of some kind of Nestle chocolate dipped ice cream bars and pretty much get the same thing.
Now I know that doesn't solve the problem of the shape. So you will just have to start at the bottom and turn the rectangular shape into a Mickey Head. It might look a little rough to start with, but if you lick the ice cream when done and then re-freeze for a few minutes surely it could pass for Mickey.
Then just sticking a popsicle stick into it and placing them on a baking sheet that would fit into the freezer to chill. Then melting chocolate and dipping it and freezing it? OR could we just hijack Albort's ODV and get some that way?
I could imagine using vanilla ice cream and using a Mickey shaped metal cookie cutter for the outline maybe?
