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Happy Birthday Elmo: Elmo’s Favorite Things DVD Release Party

Also posted in Media Events, Products . by jessica on February 13, 2012

Try to imagine a 2 ½ year old’s vision of a perfect day: a bunch of friends, music , arts and crafts, cookies, candy, cake and balloons are all pretty good ingredients, no?

At Elmo’s 3 ½ year old birthday party (Monsters count birthdays differently than humans, natch), we were even treated to a musical performance from the real Elmo himself with his pal Leela, from Sesame Street.

Throw in a meeting with Elmo and you’ve passed happy and into the realm of completely awestruck. The only catch? After seeing human sized Elmo impersonators for so long, try to convince the 2 ½ year old in question that the small red puppet with the man’s hand in his tush is the ‘real’ Elmo. Though a little thrown off, my little one truly enjoyed her hug I was just hugely starstruck to meet Kevin Clash!

A peek Into My Kitchen: Sweet & Salty Caramel Apples (nut-free)

Also posted in A Peek Into My Kitchen, Food and Drink, Products . by jessica on January 20, 2012

To be honest, it has never really occurred to me to cook with pretzels. Every once in a while, I’ve seen a recipe for Pretzel-crusted this or that and I’ve definitely watched an episode or two of Chopped in which pretzels were one of the mystery ingredients…but I don’t generally think of them as more than a snack food staple in my pantry.

That’s actually one of the reasons that I thought it would be fun to do this post–to stretch my culinary imagination a bit.

Trying to figure out what to make, I had a “eureka!” moment. My nut-allergic son rarely gets to eat fun, frivolous carnival food like Caramel Apples because they are generally coated with peanuts. I threw a handful of pretzels in my food processor, dipped some apples in melted caramel and then in the pulverized pretzels. Voila! Nut-free caramel apples which still have the salty-sweet element which is generally provided by roasted peanuts.

Stream of Consciousness Sunday: Take 2 ;)

Posted in Uncategorized by jessica on December 18, 2011

I live in a somewhat edited state of stream of consciousness–so this was fun. When I saw Wendy Bradford’s post on her mamaonetothree blog, I couldn’t resist. Funny thing was, that when I read the list of rules, it said not to correct typos, spelling etc…but my fingers are so connected to my thought process when I type that I found that I was already correcting my typos before I even knew that I had made them. I kind of decided that it would be less stream of consciousness to go back and put them in, no?

Thanks Fadra , for a really cool link-up that sent to me Wendy’s post and back to your blog

And here goes….
Take 1

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Catch The Flying Latke at the Flea Theater (review and discount code)

Posted in Uncategorized by jessica on December 13, 2011

“Uuuummmmm…..Mommy, Latkes don’t fly! Why would they do that?”

So started my subway ride downtown with my super-curious, constantly questioning 5 year old. As the train rumbled on, I must’ve heard 17 versions of that question (statement?)…

Well, it turns out that sometimes they do.

Adapted by Arthur Yorinks from his children’s book, “The Flying Latke” is the story of a chaotic family celebration of the first night of Hanukkah. After a disagreement between cousins, a food fight ensues and a latke (potato pancake traditionally made for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah) flies out the window and is mistaken for a UFO, sending the world into a panic and trapping the Silversteins in the house for 8 days with nothing but a never-ending supply of latkes to eat.