Home Sweet Home

The end of a vacation is always bittersweet.  It's sad to see the fun come to a close, but boy is it good to be home.  We had a wonderful time in Denver, and now I have the pictures to prove it.

Vacations mean eating out, which we love.  However, this means eating very differently than we normally would.  For example, the kids ate chicken strips, french fries and pink lemonade at the hockey game yesterday; I seriously had to have Tyler feed them because I couldn't bear to watch.  Needless to say, they loved it.  Now that we are home, we've decided that we can't eat out for the next couple of weeks, both for our physical and financial health.  That plan lasted for about 2 hours, as fatigue won over, take-out beat cooking and Tyler chose Flying Pie Pizza for his birthday dinner.  The positive is that we ate veggie pizza with whole wheat crust and that it was free due to a prior not so positive experience there.  To follow it up, fatigue once again won, and Tyler and I had toasted marshmallow milkshakes for dessert instead of a birthday cake.  

image via A Cozy Kitchen

Toasted Marshmallow Shake (serves 4)

adapted from recipe by Spike Mendelsohn of Top Chef fame (Who else thinks hulu.com needs more Bravo shows?)

• 1 bag jumbo marshmallows
• 1-2 cups milk (less for thinner shakes, less for thicker)
• 1 Tbsp. sour cream
• 3 cups creamy vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt

Directions

Preheat broiler.

Place marshmallows on a cookie sheet and toast until charred (watch them closely!)

Remove from oven and set aside 4 to top the milkshakes.

Blend milk, sour cream, ice cream and charred marshmallows.  

Pour into a glass and top with toasted marshmallows.