Take some Pillsbury Ready Pie Crust, a 5-year-old, whatever is available in the fridge and a Mom who does not care if the pie actually gets eaten and you have No-Rules Pizza!

I made these for me, the savory side with parmesan cheese, cottage cheese base, seasoned with paprika and garlic salt, topped with an egg sunny side up (I saw this done from some cooking show and had always wanted to try it).  Then, a smaller strip, for the sweet side, I spread with peanut butter and pushed in some cocoa krispies.

Mary made her sweet side with peanut butter, cocoa krispies and crushed chocolate Mini-eggs.  Then. I convinced her to have a savory side and she chose to top it with cheddar cheese and an egg.

Mary ate the yolk off her pizza as well as the mini-eggs. I had some of my savory side and a couple of bites of the sweet side. The rest went into the trash.

We did not discover the next best thing in pizza…

Oh well.

We had fun TOGETHER doing this so it was all worth it. Next time, we would experiment with other toppings.

I told Mary I would make her pancakes for breakfast and surprise her by making it look like her most favorite thing in the world.  What would it be?  After some pondering, she said that her most favorite thing in the world is LOVE, so make them shaped like hearts.

Well, I thought I would get more creative than that.

My first thought was to make her a sun-shape with curlicue rays and a smiley face inside it.  So, I tried to incorporate the two ideas.

Not so impressive.

Next, I did hearts within heart.

A little better.

I tried a third one — hearts within a butterfly.

Looks good but I cheated a little bit on this- looks great on the plate but the whole thing is in pieces.

Still, all in all, not bad for a first try.

Mary was totally impressed. She loved them so much that she only ate around the edges of the second one (the big heart) and the bits and pieces of the butterfly.  She wants to preserve the rest.

The sign is supposed to keep me and her Daddy away from the pancakes (y’know, like “accidentally” throw them away)while they dry.  I told her that we need to do this first before we put the pancakes in a plastic bag.  Anyone have any ideas on preserving pancake art???

For St. Patrick’s Day.

Though, it is far removed from being a real green day here in Louisville today.  We woke up to about 4 inches of snow.

But, as you can see, roads look wet, not icy.  That is my only concern when we get snow— how are the roads?

Especially, this morning, I had planned to go early into Wally World (about 2 miles from our house) to get boxes, as well as pick up some green cookies for Mary’s Kindergarten class’ Green Day Buffet.

In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, Mary’s teacher had asked the parents to send in “edible green food to share.”  They had to bring 10 individually wrapped food items.  I saw some green sugar cookies last Friday but I felt they would be stale by Monday, so I went early this morning to get them.

Except the store no longer had them.  Instead, I was lucky enough to find 6 donuts with green icing.

Otherwise, it would have been 10 servings of pickles or 10 packets of cucumbers – both favorites of Mary’s, but, as she said, not everybody likes them.  So, we cut these up in half, put them in sandwich bags, with 2 pieces left over for Mary to snack on later.

Want one?