Brown Paper Packages #2

Since my last Brown Paper Packages post, a couple of events have occurred, but other than that, not much has happened for me to report. Therefore, this post is pretty much going to be pictures from those two events.

The first is that Nathan and I spent our first married Valentine's Day together. First, I made a late breakfast filled with heart-shaped food. What can I say, I go all out.

Later, we went to the Streets of Indian Lake in Hendersonville, TN to see Paddington the movie. We were the only people in the theatre that didn't bring small children, but hey, it was a great movie! I would recommend it. When we got home, Nathan fixed his annual Valentine's meal. Chicken from Walmart deli, kraft mac-n-cheese, and doritos.

We agreed to give each other a cheesy Valentine's Day gift. Here is a picture of me forcing Koba to cuddle with my gift. Koba + Gnash = Love

The next event was the snow week we had this week! We got 7-8 inches on Sunday night and another 2 inches on Tuesday night. 

Here are just a few pictures of some entertaining things that happened....

Day 1: Koba deciding the snow wasn't for him...

Day 2: Binge playing Roller Coaster Tycoon like I did in high school... It was nostalgic and great...

Day 3: Snow Shakes!... (click here for recipe)

Day 4: Running out of things to do.... so.... I made a ridiculous video.... (click here to watch video)

Day 5: Shoveling snow with these dudes. Thanks, Kevin, for helping us clear our driveway before it gets covered again.

Needless to say, its been a pretty relaxing week. Hope you enjoyed this edition's Brown Paper Packages.

Snow Day Snow Shake

I enjoy snow days. Especially when I don't have to enjoy them alone. Personally, I sort of like being trapped at home and preparing to have to survive only on what is in my house. I find myself subconsciously taking inventory... "oh yes this will be good to have in case we're snowed in for another 3 weeks."

Additionally, I enjoy playing in the snow: building snowmen, going for snow walks, and especially sledding. Sadly, there are no decent hills in our neighborhood and no sled in our possession. So, we have pretty much stayed snow-free during this season's snow day run. Until this afternoon. I decided to make snow shakes. Prepare yourself.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 cup sugar
• packed snow
• Something to flavor the shake. The recipe I found used vanilla extract. We used chocolate syrup for Nathan's, and strawberries for mine.
• Whipped cream (and other toppings)

Directions:

1. Mix milk and sugar together until sugar dissolves a bit.

2. Put milk/sugar mixture and packed snow into blender (I used about 4 cups of packed snow for this amount of milk). Mix.

3. Add flavor into the blender. Chocolate syrup works great. Strawberries work great. I'm sure bananas would be good. Oreos would be a good choice, I bet. And the obvious vanilla extract for the classic vanilla shake. Mix in blender until you get the consistency of a milkshake.

4. Pour. Add toppings. Serve.

Review:

Our snowshakes were AWESOME. They literally brought all the boys to the yard. DELICIOUS! One thing that I will note is that if you wait for a few minutes, the milk will start to separate from the snow to the bottom of your cup. All you have to do is just mix it back up with a spoon or straw. Other than that, they were perfect!

Nathan rated this recipe a 5 / 5
I rated this recipe a 5 / 5

Original Recipe is from macheesmo.com, but I changed it quite a bit, obviously