Well, the weather outside was frightful but, the lunch inside was delightful. We had snow! We had snow! We had snow! With all the snow and ice we had in South Carolina I went with a snow and ice theme for the muffin tin.
I started a simple turkey and cheese sandwich cut it out with a snowman cookie cutter. The scraps from the sandwich were placed in the adjacent muffin cup. The second row contains snowman parts. The carrots could be used for a snowman’s nose and olives that could be used for a snowman’s eyes or smile. The third row contains popcorn puffs of snow and lemon ice chunks.
The lemon ice contains juice from the last of the lemons I received from Mrs. Matlock. It was sour and sweet rolled into one.
Here is the recipe for the lemon ice:
Ingredients:
2 cups of water
1 cup of sugar
Pinch of salt
2/3 cup of lemon juice (from about 4 lemons)
Directions:
- Bring the water, sugar, and salt to a simmer over high heat and stir until you no longer see the sugar. Take off heat and stir in lemon juice.
- Pour into a 9×13 pan and cool from 15 minutes.
- Cover the pan with plastic and place in the freezer for one hour.
- Take the pan out of the freezer and scrape lemon ice from edges to the center of the pan.
- Return the pan to the freezer and freeze one more hour.
This post is linked to Muffin Tin Monday.
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Looks yummy! My girl loves olives too. Lucky you having snow!! (I’ve seen snow exactly once, on holiday when I was 9. And it was slush, really. So snow is a bit magical to us here in Western Australia…)
broxton loves olives too..
doesn’t get that from me!
i want lemon ice now! ha ha
How fun! Its like a melted snowman tin! lol 🙂
Yum yum yum. I would love lemon ice, even in January!
Yummy.
Will have to try the lemon ice recipe
I love that lemon ice idea! Kind of like a melting snowman!!! Very cute!
A great muffin tin. We have had rain all day today.
I love the muffin tin! I want to try this for my non eater Emilie
Snow in South Carolina is a rare thing! (My daughter went to college in Columbia and she says if there’s a single flake the whole city shuts down.)
fun muffin tin!
Perfectly timed and yummy too!
So cute!
Fun tin! Happy Muffin Tin Monday!
What a fun theme, I especially like the snowman parts, so cleaver!
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Enjoy your snow! I love your muffin tin theme. Similar to ours this week. If you are interested I have a list of books we are reading this week related to snow and snowmen.
Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Super cute! My daughter would love the flavored snow! When we had snow, she ran outside and yelled “Look at all the snow for eating!”
I always look at these in amazement!
How creative! Your muffin tin meals always look so appetizing
Lunch looks delightful even if your weather is frightful. We got snow and rain here today! Thanks for posting and as always, Happy Muffin Tin Monday!
I give you tons of credit for making lemon ice when it’s soooo cold out!
In response to your comment on my post: I wouldn’t have thought of ears either except for the fact that the girls were upset that we didn’t have any ears on the craft snowman we made earlier this morning.
I can’t find anywhere to comment on your sled post. Weird! Anyhow, I was going to tell you that the best time I remember sledding my friends and I were using an old suitcase lid. One of those hard suitcases from the 80s. We had the best time!
My dear you really just blow me away each time with these! I love the parts for the snowman!
Oh I think my girls would love that lemon ice. Going to have to surprise them with that one!
What a cute idea!
Oh how yummy, I think we will have to try the lemon ice! We have the same muffin tin I was so excited when I found them :0)