Smoothie pops rock! I found these popsicle molds at walfarts for about $2. Now little Z and J can eat a super healthy snack that will also help them stay cool by the pool as these Las Vegas days begin to heat up. All organic and all fresh whole food ingredients. You can’t beat that with a bat.
The playroom at the gym where I drop little Z has a couple of girls from Bulgaria Bosnia and Yugoslavia that call me the “cooker man” in a loud and thick accented voice when I walk in the door. That is almost always followed with “what are you cooking tonight cooker man?”. So I respond with my normal “I don’t know yet” but one time I returned the question and asked what they were cooking. The one said “Banica!” (pronounced Ba*ni*tsa). After making her spell it and write it out I googled it, I showed her an image and she said “yes, that’s it!”. Looking into it I noticed it was just like a tiropita and we love those around this house, but instead of being in a little triangle shape it was in this cool spiral tube, nice. This was as great! The ingredients are very flexible/forgiving/adaptable. Add spices, mixed cheeses, whatever. Key are the ones I mention below.
What can I say, this house loves Greek food. Every year we hit the Greek food festival devouring some of our favorite foods, spanakopita, tiropita, and baklava. I bought some phyllo dough the other day and was itching to use it and there could be no better way than some of our favorites. So I went to foodgawker as usual and found this recipe at closetcooking.com which sounded perfect. As I was reading the recipe I saw Kevin also had a recipe for baklava so I was like what the hell. Reading the two recipes I found that the baklava would need to sit for a few hours after it was made so I made it first and moved on to the spinach pie. WOW! This pie was amazing! I didn’t think it would come out this good but it did. Kid tested and mother approved. You can’t beat that.