Showing posts with label dino nuggets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dino nuggets. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2026

Volcanoes and Chocolate

May 17 was National Idaho Day. We had a baked potato bar.

May 18 was Mount St. Helens Day. I took the leftover baked potatoes and made them into mashed potatoes for mashed potato volcanoes. 
Jet had a lot of fun helping put together our volcanoes with dino nuggets and green foliage (broccoli trees and green pepper bushes) and "those poor people" raisins. I put mine on the mountain. He put his in the crater. We had fun with the gravy lava, too. 
I also told Jet to say, "This means something," referencing Close Encounters of the Third Kind
 
May 19 was the Anniversary of the Rubik's Cube. Lucky got points to spend in his classroom store. He saved them up to get a bunch of things at the end of the school year, including rubber duckies and a Rubik's Cube. 

May 20 was Eliza Doolittle Day. I ate too much chocolate. The kids didn't eat a much. The song says, "Lots of chocolate for me to eat." Me, not us. 
Nichole drew chocolate for the holiday.
Jeremy was very impressed with how she was able to do the foil.
 
Everybody did have some chocolate later on in the day. Jr. was asleep but Jet didn't want him to be left out so he kept putting round pieces of wrapped chocolate on his ear but they rolled off so finally a wrapped chocolate coin was put on his head and stayed there for a while. I don't know if Jet did it or someone else, but the next day, Jet made sure Jr. got that piece of candy to eat. 

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Shelf Cooking

Here's a little shelf cooking I did on August 19, National Potato Day.
I didn't have any fresh potatoes so I pulled out some potato gems to make mashed potato volcanoes with gravy lava, broccoli trees, "those poor people" raisins, and some dino nuggets because dinos and volcanoes just work.
And don't tell me people and dinosaurs wouldn't exist at the same time because I'm a Jurassic Park fan, remember?
I picked a zucchini from our garden that morning and sauteed it for the side because I wanted it but couldn't figure out how it would fit into my volcano scene. 

I asked friends on Instagram and Facebook if anyone had any ideas for next time to let me know. I got several responses from people on Facebook from a Zucchini Dune Sandworm to gravestones for lava covered dinos. I love it when people help me figure out how to celebrate.