Eggplant Parmesan

So here you have it. The famous Muskalino Family eggplant parmesan with the also famous tomato sauce, but that's on the hush hush. P.S, this is Cozmo's favorite meal in the whole entire world, so he'll be getting some tomorrow, what a lucky baby iguana.

Great Nana's Anisette Cookies

If your Italian then these cookies are right down your ally. Made these last night and didn't get a picture until this morning and the colorful nonpareils bled into the white icing so theyre not as pretty. But they're still moist and tasty.

4th Of July

Alrighty, time for some Boston style 4th of July cookout family traditions.

When I was a kid, the 4th was a pretty big deal for my family. The night before, my town would throw a giant block party with fireworks, live music (usually men dressed up as giant raisins, known as The California Raisins) dancing, tons of food and games. Then the actual 4th of july there would be a big parade. My family and I would walk from my Nana's house to the parade that was at the end of her street. After the parade we would have a cookout with the whole family (there are alot of us!) and family friends. We would swim for hours and after swimming we would play games like spud, dodgeball, volleyball and badminton. Sometimes we would have a huge water balloon fight. Then at the end of the day we would go watch fireworks and get bit by millions of misquitos. (Fireworks are both illegal to buy and to use in all of New England).

But anyways, on with the food. You can't beat my families ability to create amazing food on special occasions. These recipes have been passed on for generations. So this year I decided to try out my Great Nana's Boston Beans. These are the most amazing beans in the whole world and I didn't think I was going to be able to produce heaven on a plate, but I did! And they were fantastic!!

You can not have a 4th Of July without a little help from your local Friendlys!!! And their amazing watermelon roll and orange roll. (The Watermelon Roll is my favorite) Friendlys aren't too popular in Florida or anywhere that's not New England, but when we moved to Port Saint Lucie we found out that we had one just a few miles from us! So you better believe we had to pick up a Watermelon Roll for the 4th.

Mmmmmm cotton candy.....

So, because we had way too much food and not as many guests that we thought we were going to have haha. We decided to put off the smores for another day, but they were pretty good when we did get to have them!!!!

Ohhh and Russle The Love Mussle LOVES The 4th Of July!!!!

Chocolate chip cookies

Still to come.. pecan and brown sugar cream cheese filled french toast.

Mmmm baklava

Chocolate truffles

Why Bakers don't diet

Arrrrg. Ok... so it's day 5 of my Isagenix cleanse and things are going just fine. Last time I checked my weight was 3 days into my Isagenix cleanse and I lost 3 pounds, so that's good. And I haven't "cheated" once (which for me is a miracle). The only thing is... I'm a baker!!!!! All I watch are food shows and google cakes and chocolate recipes. Today I was on this awesome site CandyAddict.com for about 3 hours!!! I'm a foodie, it's my one weakness. I mean, don't get me wrong, It's not that the meal replacement shakes don't fill me up, It's just that, I like to snack and I love my chocolate. So I think after this month cleanse I'm either going to do another month cleanse and then start eating 3 low calorie meals a day again.. I can do that. I'm surprised I haven't cheated yet though, because I am the worst dieter in the whole entire universe. Even before I start a diet I'll think of ways to cheat.. I even write lists of stuff I want to eat when I get off of the diet! It's like my mouth has been in prison and it's writing it's wishlist. For some reason food tastes better when your on a diet and its illegal for you to eat!!!! Ok, so I was watching unwrapped on the food network today and they had the most amazing brownies, their website is http://www.americanbrownieco.com Hmmmm do I hear a birthday gift idea for your's truely?

I'm staying with my sister right now, so when I get back home I'm gonna make these awesome carmely chocolate rice crispy cookies things, so get that nice glass of cold milk ready.

P.S. What I wouldn't give for a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich right now.

Da Cubs.

Hey-o so today is my second day of Isagenix. I'm getting quite sick of those damn shakes lol. I think that I'd rather don't eat anything than have one of those bloody shakes. Ahhh!!!! Ok. So i had my morning shake around 8:30am and I was wicked full. When i went to run a few erans, I thought I was fine.. turns out I was wrong. 2 o'clock rolls around and I'm starving, but I'm not hungry, I'm just feeling wicked weak. So I get home and have my shake and I'm fine after that. I downed it lol, soooo sick of it already. So I get home around 3 and start making my step father a cake for Father's Day. I didn't get done with the cake until 8, so I'm pretty exhasuted right now. So here is the cake and I'm going to be posting some more Isagenix video's.. I'm doing a video everyday.

Elementary school cafeteria memories

Okay, so after an awesome weekend visiting Coral Springs, then coming back and having friend's over to enjoy the pool and Russle The Love Mussle! I had to end the weekend on a sweet note. So I decided to make these peanut butter bars. This recipe is the same recipe that was served in my elementary school cafeteria in New England. I'm pretty sure the recipe at my old school have milk chocolate as apose to semi-sweet chocolate though. But they're still fantasticly good and bring back only memories.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars II

No bake peanut butter bars.

Servings: 12

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups peanut butter

2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Melt butter or margarine over low heat. Add sugars, peanut butter andvanilla. Mix well.

2. Press into a 9 x 13 inch pan.

3. Melt chocolate chips and spread over the top. Cool.