No More Monkeys Jumpin on the Bread

I have caught my little monkeys making mischief on the top bunk several more times since my last post. We need to take some serious precautions to keep the littlest monkey out of that room! What do you do when you can't be cooking dinner AND watching kids at the same time?!!

Although, I have to take one teeny minute to brag on that little one, AVH. He put a pair of shorts on all by himself today for the first time! We have been working on dressing skills and he has understood the concept for a while now. (I haven't been up-tight about teaching this skill 'cause I'm sure he'll eventually get it - I mean I know he won't be twenty and still needing me to pull his shirt over his head, right?) Anytime he would find someone's clothes of ANY kind laying around he would pick up the item and wrap it around his neck. He knew it was to be worn and he did his best to put it on. But just in the last couple of weeks he has gotten much closer with the pants . . . sit down . . .one foot in at a time . . . stand up ... and then pull them up. Well, he walked into the family room tonight with AAH's soccer shorts mostly pulled up - that big padded bum in a diaper was the only hurdle getting it all up around his waist. It is sometimes silly the things we cheer about at our house.

Now, speaking of monkeys - I have a friend who asked me for my recipe for Monkey Bread recently. It had been about 9 years ago that she ate some with me in my little apartment in Tucson. She said she's always remembered it as being one of the best versions she's tasted and she mis-placed her copy of the recipe. She was having a craving and needed me to send it to her again. I was surprised that she remembered it from that long ago, but it is pretty tasty stuff.


Since it was on my mind I decided that Monkey Bread would make the perfect General Conference breakfast. Good home cookin' and Conference are two things that are inseparable in my book. My family would agree but they would also say it is like torture having to wait for something yummy to come out of the oven. I have to admit we devoured the whole thing before the first session of Conference was over. You just can't stop yourself from plucking off a little piece here and there - before you know it, you've eaten the whole thing!! Beware!!!!!


Monkey Bread

3 cans buttermilk biscuits
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
2/3 C white sugar
1 stick butter
1 C packed brown sugar

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a bundt pan well and set aside. Mix the white sugar and the cinnamon together in a plastic bag. Cut the biscuits into quarters and shake in the cinnamon and sugar mixture to coat. Put the dough evenly into the bundt pan. Melt the butter and the brown sugar together in a small pan on the stove and bring just to a boil. Drizzle the mixture over the biscuits. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until cooked through. Turn out onto a plate and enjoy!

Notes: Kitchen shears work perfectly for cutting the biscuits up. And I always kind of dig down a litle to check the dough in the middle and make sure it's cooked - don't worry about making it ugly, you're going to flip it over!