Showing posts with label popsicles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popsicles. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

pineapple jalapeño pops!

the mister and I have become quite obsessed with Steel City Pops, our local popsicle shop.
they have many awesome flavors, but one of my faves is Pineapple Jalapeño.
so I attempted to recreate it.

freshly cut pineapple (it's cheaper to buy a pineapple than it is to buy it cut up)
about half of a jalapeño pepper
you also need about 1/2 c sugar and 1/2 c water (I heated the water and dissolved the sugar in it)

blend.

pour.

freeze.

bite.

sweet and spicy.  yeah.

Monday, July 2, 2012

popsicles + purple cake = my birthday!

Today is my birthday.  Mondays are not the best days to have a birthday so I'll share with you my birthday weekend...

my cute mister and me!  he's the best. can't wait to hang with him tonight.

it's always hot around my birthday, but holy crap.  110?  Really?  Thank goodness it's raining today.

Friday evening, my sweet friend Amanda made me some rosemary lavender salt scrub... the best part about this?  the yoga poses shrinky dinks!  Makes me want to time travel to 1986 for a few hours and play shrinky dinks with my 8 year old self.

after we had dinner with our favorite couple, we drove over to this new popsicle joint in town called Steel City Pops.  They have some pretty great flavors.  I got banana, which had cinnamon in it, which was amazing.

We went back on Sunday and I got pineapple jalapeño.  Equally amazing.

let's just skip over to Sunday.
I made my own cake (I always do... I like baking my own birthday cake)
My sister-in-law, her boyfriend and his roommate (formerly my husband's roommate) made dinner for us.  I bet you think we had Mexican... nope.  Pizza.

John and me.  Ready to do the birthday cake thing.

Ellen and me.  Let's blow out these candles.

Purple hombre cake?  yes!

and yes.
it's just boxed cake and food coloring.
no fancy instructions.

yay for happy birthdays!!
and feeling pudgy on Mondays!!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

nutella pops

uh oh.  someone bought a popsicle mold.  it was me.  and it cost $1.
one dollar.
one.

"but I could use Dixie cups and popsicle sticks."
you could.  but why not just spend a dollar and have this gem.
or two dollars and you just doubled your batch and you're less ghetto.

milk + nutella = nutella pops

the bottom was a little extra nutella-y.
We'll be making more soon.  very soon.