Note: When cooking with coconut - use REAL milk if called for in the recipe, do not substitute soy milk...but more on that later!Today started off with a trip out to the Orlando Arts Festival at Lake Eola. I love art festivals. I got hooked on them when we lived in Sarasota and I worked at the Ringling. I like seeing local and regional artists, and being able to see such talent, most of which will never wind up being recognized because the have not subscribed to the modern tortured artist I must be so deeply traumatized to create brilliant art that no one knows what it means but me movement, but I digress. Anyhow, it is one of the larger ones in the area, with craft vendors, a kids area, and even some activities for the poodles (they sat this one out though).
Everyone had a good time, the kids rock climbed (once again, SpiderJordan rocked it out!), threw baseballs with the Tampa Bay Rays squad, made sand art, took some great photos out by the lake - and I got matching FSU aprons for ShaSha and I. Quite a successful day!
On the way home, we stopped at the front of the neighborhood and grabbed Celena for a playdate. The girls were being very good, and we decided to finally make some "mystical cookies" that we had been given as a gift, one of those jars where you dump them out, add liquids and bake. Seems simple enough, right? Wrong. We do not have regular milk in our house, as Jordan is allergic, so we stock soy. Which, usually, you can substitute without any issue. However, after our "mystical bars" came out of the oven, and a call to Blondie wondering why they were, shall we just say, um, interesting, she explained that since they had coconut in them, it was vital to cook with real milk. Period. Okay - cookies gone horribly, horribly wrong (quickly fixed by replacing with Strawberry slushies for them, Margarita Slushies for Celena's mom, John and I), and lesson learned - sometimes, there just really are no substitutes, and it's always five o'clock here!
A nice day at the park, some cookies gone awry, but, especially winding down at the end of the day with the help of a margarita slushie,
Life is Good!
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