{"id":557,"date":"2011-04-18T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/roasted-peeps\/"},"modified":"2012-03-25T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T13:37:29","slug":"roasted-peeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/roasted-peeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Roasted Peeps!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/first-horseback-riding-misc-093.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"first horseback riding &amp; misc 093\" border=\"0\" alt=\"first horseback riding &amp; misc 093\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/first-horseback-riding-misc-093_thumb.jpg\" width=\"393\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#160; a surprise I received Saturday when I dropped by my Mother-in-laws house.&#160; She had invited a few of her great-grand children over&#160; for an Easter celebration and they were having a grand old time roasting PEEPS marshmallow candies over an open fire.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image_thumb6.png\" width=\"148\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> There\u2019s something unsettling about that for me- I mean WHO would roast those sweet little marshmallow chicks and bunnies over a FIRE?&#160; And why would Grandma, of all people, encourage such a dastardly thing? The thought of sweet, innocent children putting a skewer through a marshmallow chick or bunny and roasting it over an open flame makes me cringe.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s all this craziness about?&#160; Roasted PEEPS!&#160; According to Grandma- everyone is doing it.&#160; PEEPS are marshmallows with sugar on top! When you roast them, the sugar caramelizes to make a hard crunchy shell.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/image_thumb7.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> As Easter draws to a close and family reunion season quickly approaches and all the pastel candy starts crowding the supermarket and drugstore shelves, consider buying some extra Peeps now for a Peep Roast at your reunion.<\/p>\n<p>One thought- Peep S\u2019mores?&#160; Does that make them S\u2019meeps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#160; a surprise I received Saturday when I dropped by my Mother-in-laws house.&#160; She had invited a few of her great-grand children over&#160; for an Easter celebration and they were having a grand old time roasting PEEPS marshmallow candies over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/roasted-peeps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,100],"tags":[16,133,257,259,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}