ODE to 24 and Peanut Butter Brownie Pie

One of my favorite TV shows, 24, ends tonight. So I thought I owed it a proper tribute. If you have not watched 24 and you plan on it then maybe don't read what I wrote below or you will be majorly spoiled. You probably won't understand it anyways. I wrote this before I watched the finale so hopefully 24 didn't do something terrible to me in the finale like kill Chloe or something.

Dear 24,

I'm sad that you left my television but I know its time for you to move on up to the Big Screen. I would just like to let you know how much you have meant to me over the years. While in regular life and usually in TV/Movie life, I hate violence, guns, axes, bombs, wars, torture, the chopping off of some one's head, hand, etc, it was somehow ok when you did it. Seriously I'm like totally a pacifist. Anyways. When I lived in Maryland you were my 2nd best friend. We spent many Friday nights together catching up. You were the first show my now husband ever convinced me to watch with him. Then we all became best friends, except of course for "The Great Is Tony Almeida Dead or Alive debacle of 2006"? Tony, I always knew you weren't dead. I didn't know you'd become kind of evil though. You did hurt my feelings a few times, mostly when you killed Michelle, Prez Palmer 1, Bill Buchanon, Edgar, even that dude who flew the plane that was carrying the nuclear bomb into the dessert (oh right his name was George Mason). I really didn't like it that time you had Jack kill his boss to thwart a giant terrorist plot or when you had Jack kill Curtis. And seriously what ever happened to the former first lady Jean Smart and her new lover Secret Service extraordinaire Aaron Peirce or Behrooz for that matter (ok I actually saw the deleted scene that showed him being escorted in to CTU). Plus there was that time that for 2 nights before the season 6 premiere where I couldn't sleep because I was so excited about the premiere and finding out what happened after Jack was kidnapped by the Chinese. But I forgive you. You did some good things too. Thanks for keeping Chloe alive (well you better, as I'm writing this I have not seen the finale). She's my fave. I also loved the season 3 twist of Jack and Tony and Gael all working together secretly. And of course I loved the Jack Pack from Season 5. I even like Audrey a lot. I hope she's doing ok. Someone who looks a lot like her appears to be a pretty good surgeon on Grey's Anatomy. And I really didn't mind Kim that much. I mean she was kind of annoying in season 1 and 2 but I love it when they bring back characters in the later seasons. Plus there was that one season where you had Desmond from Lost as a character and that other Season where you had Jin from Lost as a character and then there was that time Michelle Dessler came back to life to play that lady in the Dharma Initiative on Lost.  Weird.  So thanks for the good times. And thanks for giving my dad and I something to discuss on Tuesdays. So 24, I will miss you but I'll see you at the movies.

Love,

JMJE

PS-Secret note to B, "OOooodrey"

PPS-I made you this peanut butter pie to remember me by and because my Dad really likes Peanut Butter.

JMJE's Peanut Butter Brownie 24 Clock Dad's Bday Extravaganza Pie

Ingredients

brownie mix (plus the stuff that goes with it, egg, oil, etc)

1 8 oz container of cream cheese

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup powdered sugar

1 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk

1 8 oz thing of Cool Whip (cool hwhip-anyone watch Family guy?)

chocolate chips-optional for decoration

Instructions

1-Prepare brownie mix per package and cook in a glass pie pan. You might not need to use all the mix. You just want this to be the bottom layer of the pie. Cool Brownie.

2-Mix cream cheese, PB, and sugar together until blended.

3-Mix in the condensed milk

4-Stir in the Cool Whip

5-Spoon this mixture on top of the cooled brownie.

6-Chill for a couple hours and serve.

7-You can decorate with chocolate chips if you want to

LOST Finale Day = Lost Cookout

My Lost cookout featured....

Locke's Boar Sliders.....

Shanzie and I went Boar hunting on Saturday but came up empty handed so I went ahead and just bought some BBQ

Ingredients-

Pork BBQ purchased from your local BBQ establishment (this is pretty easy if you live in NC)

BBQ slaw purchased from the same establishment

Mini Buns (dinner rolls)

Put them together. Delish

Jin's Foil Fish

Jin was the resident island fisherman for the first few season on Lost. And although Beezus5 has become quite the fisher woman recently we went ahead and bought fish at the grocery store.  This is B's specialty.

Ingredients-

Fish
Vegetables (Onions, Peppers whatever you like)

Italian Salad Dressing
Butter
Slice of Lemon
Minced Garlic
Mix the food together and wrap it in a foil.  Seal foil at the top and grill on medium high heat for approximately 15 minutes or until fish is done and vegetables are a little tender.

I was gonna have Kate's Island Fruit Ice Cream but instead decided to go with ...

Sawyer's "You Taste Like Strawberries" Strawberry Shortcakes
Ingredients-
Strawberries
Sugar
Angel Food Cake
Cool Whip
You know how to make strawberry shortcake. 
Plus Shanzie made a Margarita dipping sauce out of whipping cream, cream cheese, sour cream, tequila, lime juice, orange juice, sugar.

I'm setting this to post tonight but I'll probably update later with my feelings on the Finale!  I'm getting very nervous.
**Update***SPOILERS
My favorite things about last night's Lost.....
-Rose and Bernard got Desmond out of the well
-Those awesome Target Commercials
-Richard "guyliner" Alpert's gray hair
-Juliette! doing the sonogram
-Jack's big leap to attack Flocke right before the commercial break
-When Jack and Kate declared their love on the cliff
-Hurley becoming the new Jacob and asking Ben to be his #2
-In my head Hurley and Ben got Desmond back to Penny so that better be true
-Juliette and Sawyer remembering each other at the Candy Machine
-Kate convincing Claire to get on the plane so she could raise Aaron
-Ben and Locke's convo before Lock walked in to the church
-Jack smiling as he saw the plane above him leaving the island
-Jack saving the island and dying
-The ending church scene where everyone looked so happy

I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting.  I am a little mad that Walt was not mentioned and that Walt and Michael were not at the church.  Overal I enjoyed the finale.  I'm still confused about some stuff but sort of excited that it wasn't cut and dry and that I can go on discussing it and rewatching episodes with B, Shanzie and Beezus5 for years to come.

Vegas Craftery and Bake-ery (by Mo Young)

Ok, I'm a little too tired from my trip for a full write up but here are some photos of the things we made for the bachelorette party.

We picked up the Bride-to-Be (Miss Acorn) at the airport in this nicely decorated car. (Thanks to Mo's Husband for letting us decorate/borrow his car.)

Mo picked up items for the Breakfast Spread featuring Miss ACorn's favorites; Entenmann's Raspberry Danishes, a cheese tray and Dr. Pepper.

Matching T-Shirts!

Mo Young also picked up these awesome cupcakes (after a red velvet cake making mishap) and then she made the cupcake topper!

Mo also made us each a personalized cup. Plus that's our hotel room view which was awesome.

We didn't wear matching T-shirts the whole time.

We had an awesome time and I'll share some more later on in the week.

Vegas Baby!-Corn T-shirts

If you are reading this on Monday, then I'm currently trekking cross country (ok via planes but still) back to NC from Las Vegas.  I probably had a wonderful trip.  I'm also probably tired as my flight this morning was at 6 am.

For this trip I decided to put myself in charge of making brightly colored matching t-shirts for myself and the 4 other ladies on this trip.  I used those brightly colored sorority t-shirts I used to see girls wearing to class all the time in college (or that I see L-Fab wearing sometimes now) as my inspiration.  Again the corn thing would make sense if you knew the bachelorette and fiance's real names.  I made Beezus5 wear this on the plane with me (ok well I'm planning on it, we'll see if she does it).

Essentially I made these t-shirts using transfer paper like I did the bridal shower apron.  I did not want to use transfer paper.  I wanted to use a stencil that I so lovingly made and fabric spray paint.  However, that did not really turn out so well.  So I went with my backup plan.

Craft Fail T-shirt #1...Paint splattered and bled through a little.  I'll figure it out at some point.

Craft Success T-shirts #2-7 (I messed up one of these too when I accidentally melted part of the transfer off)

Like my t-shirts?
Been to Vegas?
Does anyone want to buy me one of those $300 screen printer machines and ink so I can make really cool t-shirts?

Easy Delicious Amazing Cookie Pizza

For the Great Mother's Day Cook-out/in of this past Sunday, I was put in charge of desserts.  I was thinking of making something amazingly fancy but I opted out of that and decided to go with an old standby.  Last week I was reminded of my love for Cookie Pizza's by this post over at It All Started With Mac and Cheese.  I usually make one of these around the 4th of July and it is always a hit with my family.  My version is a little different so here's my recipe below.

Cookie Pizza

1 roll/pack of slice and bake/refrigerated sugar cookie dough

1 container (pint?) of fresh strawberries

1 container (smaller than the strawberries, half pint?) of fresh blueberries (or any other fruit you want to use)

1 8 oz container of cream cheese

1 small container of cool whip

2/3 cup of powdered sugar

a spoonful of regular sugar

1/2 lemon

1-Roll out the dough onto a pizza pan or whatever kind of pan you have.  I put foil down on mine so it wouldn't stick to the pan.

2-Cook the cookie until it starts turning brown.  I think I cooked mine  for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees.

3-Let the cookie cool.

4-Mix powdered sugar and cream cheese with a mixer.  Then mix in the cool whip.

5-Spread the cream cheese mix onto the cooled cookie.

6-Wash and cut the berries into bite sized pieces.  Mix the lemon juice and sugar together and toss with the fruit.  (this just keeps the fruit from browning)

7-Arrange your fruit in a beautiful pattern on top of the cookie.

8-Slice into wedges and enjoy!

Can you tell what my cookie says?

Did you make your mom anything for Mother's Day?