Whole Wheat Goldfish Crackers

A couple months ago, I had a stinking major computer crash and lost mucho.  Among the forever-lost data, I thought I had lost these pictures!!  Guess not.  :)  Now you can enjoy one of my favorite snack recipes I've ever tasted...

Back in March, my friend Courtney and I were chatting about one of our favorite food bloggers and, in particular, about one of her posts - whole wheat goldfish crackers.  We had identical initial reactions..."Who in the world has tiny fish cookie cutters?!"

A few weeks later I had to buy some ingredients online for a "hired cake pop job" and decided to get them from the same website as SK's goldfish cookie cutter!  I ordered my sprinkles and my fishie and couldn't wait to show Courtney what I had done. haha.

Well, us being us, our schedules clashed until the very end of the summer.  Alas, we were able to meet and make cute little fishies!  She bought another cutter of a slightly different shape so we had two breeds.

I won't tell you what's so funny about this picture, but I had to put it
on here to give Courtney a laugh...plus she's cute!

Seriously, you have to make these.  They really taste like goldfish crackers!

apparently my wedding ring was still safely tucked away in my
pocket from messy dough rolling...

Here is the recipe.  Better print it now just in case.

A Variation of Mike's Hobo Dinner

After visiting my mother-in-law and her husband, Jackie & Jack, a few days ago, we left their house with an armful of tasty veggies from their garden!  I had never prepared anything with acorn squash before, so that was going to be the first thing I used.  I received a good tip from Jackie to microwave each squash for about a minute before trying to cut it due to its extremely hard shell.  She was definitely right - it helped a lot!  Yet, due to my bad left wrist, my little sister helped me slice it up.  Thanks, Roxanne!

They also gave us a bunch of mouth-watering halibut that Jack had just caught in Alaska a few weeks ago.  We were almost set for dinner!  I emailed the rest of the ingredients to my husband at work and he came home with the rest of the veggies to complete a great meal.

 Mike created a variation of his famous "Hobo Dinner."  Chop up all the vegetables and place the ones that will need to cook the most on the bottom.  (He first coated the foil with a little bit of oil spray.)  After the veggies were in place, he drizzled a small amount of Worcestershire sauce over it and sprinkled some Lawry's and black pepper, too.

Meanwhile, I was preparing the squash. I lightly coated the foil with spray oil, placed the squash on it, put a few dollops of butter around and sprinkled some brown sugar over it all.  We then wrapped both his and mine up like this:

Step 1: Only place food on one half of foil.

Step 2: Fold foil in half over food.

Step 3: Completely fold up both sides and then the end.

Now they're ready for the grill!

For the halibut, we created a foil "boat" and laid it in there after spraying it.  Add some butter, Lawry's, and black pepper.

I forgot a picture of the final product - the fish, squash, and other vegetables were phenomenal. Mostly due to Mike's expert grilling. ;)

Grilled Mahi Mahi

And just when you were thinking that all I cook anymore are sweet goodies...
presenting my first fish dish!

Seriously, that's how beginner I am...Besides tuna sandwiches, I have always had this strange fear of preparing fish.  Mike helped with the grilling while I prepared the mojo sauce to go on the fish when cooked, a tomato & onion salad I learned from my dear friend Valerie after eating it at her house a few weeks ago, Jasmine rice (my favorite), and asparagus!  Thinking over the dish, I needed more of a contrast to the flavors so I luckily found some canned peaches in the cabinet.  And there you go!

(Thanks, Mike!)