Indoor marshmallow toaster

We all have our own guilty pleasures in life. Some people have chocolate; others watch bad movies; I have marshmallows (and yes I love bad movies - but who said I couldn’t have more than one guilty pleasure?)! My love affair with the sugary fluff is long-standing and even more intense when that fluff is [...]

Peeping Contest Winners

Since I mentioned the contests on a previous post, it would be completely remiss of me to not mention the winners. So here they are:
Pioneer Press: 1st Place - Honoring the Peep in All Things, Namaste. By Joel Homme, age 47, Saint Paul. See all entries here.
Washington Post: 1st Place - The Tomb [...]

s’more than that

The marshmallow is a humble, squishy confection that has lived within our hot cocoa’s for as long as we can remember. But now USA Today declares:
“The everyday marshmallow is toast.”
I am not sure whether my world has now come to an end or if this is the beginning of a wonderful revolution. We now have [...]

Too many peeps = Diorama

Easter is over, but what do you do with all those leftover peeps? Write a book? Make a movie? Take them to the library. Eat them?
Some people decided to create a diorama, and to enter it into a contest. The prizes for the contest were, appropriately, toothbrushes. The third annual Pioneer Press Marshmallow Peeps [...]