Donuts - The Easy Way

Donuts from home.

Things you'll need:
  Stove top
  Pan
  Vegetable oil
  Pilsbury Buttermilk Biscuits
  Powdered Sugar
  Warm Water
  Mapleine 
  2 Bowls
  Cooling Racks 
  Spoons/Wisk

 

 Pour vegetable oil in the pan.  About 3/4 in.

Put oil on the back burner and turn it to medium heat.

While oil is warming, make your glaze.  Powdered sugar and water.

Add one tablespoon of warm water at a time.

Until it looks something like this. Don't be afraid to make it thin, it covers much easier.

 

It's time to prep your biscuits.

Obviously, you must open the can first. :)

Put a hole in the middle of each biscuit.  Use your index fingers and thumbs for this task.

 They should look like this when you're done.

 

Check your oil by placing the handle of a wooden spoon on the bottom of the pan.  If it bubbles all around, it's ready!  You should NEVER flick water into hot oil.

Place holed biscuits into oil and watch closely.  The brown will rise up the side, when you see it, flip it.  Tongs work well, my favorite thing to use are chop sticks.  They just make it easy. Make sure you leave room for them to grow and flip. 

Here's the other side.

Now you choose your topping.  If you want powdered donuts, they have to be tossed RIGHT AWAY.

Glazed need to drain a little so I suggest a cookie sheet beneath your cooling rack. 

We rather fancy maple donuts around here.  When you are done with glazed, add Mapleine.  Again, HIGHLY recommended. 

There you have it, two racks full of morning goodness. 

Listening

  It amazes me how my children don't ever seem to be listening when I talk but they can recite jingles, tag lines, and benefits from nearly every commercial.  Today the "Pack It" commercial was on and Michael proceed to tell me all the different ways that it was good for us to buy.  "Did you know that the Pack it is SO much better than our lunch boxes because it keeps food cold for up to TEN HOURS?!?  Plus you don't have to think about what to pack us because it comes with a menu.  See?  You get that for free when you order the Pack it.  Did you hear that FREE word?"  I said to him, "We don't need the Pack It, you guys already have brand new lunch boxes."  He said, "But they aren't good for our lunch.  They'll let our food go bad and turn brown.  The Pack It comes with freezer packs on all sides."

  I sure as heck hope he listens this well in first grade.

Carter found a spider web on my folding chair. He asked, "Where is the spider?" I told him it was probably sleeping. He said, "He's probably awake! Cause we're talking." I simply looked at him with a curious face and he replied,"Yeah! For real! And my long mower is so loud it could wake up spiders." I said "Yeah?" he replied once more with, "Yeah! For real!"
Hee hee hee.

Iron Man 2

  We are having our normal Friday night movie night and the boys decided Iron Man 2 was an appropriate choice.  One of the opening scenes involves Iron Man revealing himself surrounded by about 20 girls in little red Iron Man-like bikinis.  Michael said, "Look!  All those girls are Iron Mans too."  I said, "They aren't Iron Man, they just have Iron Man bikinis on with lights on them."  A few minutes passed and he said, "Mommy, would you ever think about wearing an Iron Man Bikini?"  I said, "NO WAY!!!"  Hahahaha  He said, "But why not?"  HAHAHAHA  I didn't want to tell him that his mama has no business wearing a bikini so I just said that I don't want to. 

  I don't know where he comes up with this stuff.  :)

Carter Bolcano

Mama, I'm hot lava.  If I blow, there will be hot lava everywhere!!!

You're hot lava?

Yeah!  HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!(This is the sound of carter exhaling slowly and loudly.)  Mama, see?  There's hot lava everywhere!  There's hot lava on your fan!

Michael!  See My bolcano?

I love watching them play.  The imagination in this room is AWESOME!  

Mustache Michael-Man

 

Apparently, having a mustache makes you serious.  Serious as Chief Swan.   Both boys put these sticky little misters on their faces and solemn expressions took them both over.  Hee hee hee.  

Realization

Today Michael came across a couple realizations.  While I was making lunch he said, "All moms are shorter than dads."  I said, "Well, that's not really true."  He immediately questioned me.  "What do you mean?  Who's mom isn't shorter than their dad."  I said, "My mom is taller than my dad."  He proceeded to eat his lunch. 
After he was finished, he said, "Well, I know what the rule is."  I had NO idea where he was going with this.  So I asked him about this unforeseen rule..."When a mom is taller than a dad, then the mom is a preacher and when the DAD is taller than the mom then the dad is the preacher."  Hee hee hee.  I naturally called my mom to tell her about this rule.  Brian was at a meeting for camp so...he'll find out soon enough.  :º)