Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The Creative Connection

The Creative Connection is having a fantastic give-away!!!
Amy Barrickman, owner of Indygo Junction is donating a fat quarter bundle (18 different coordinates) by Red Rooster Fabrics which is gorgeous, along with a signed copy of The Sew-It Book. 
Oh, I would love to win this beautiful collection!

We are working diligently to finish school for the year and move on to more exciting summer activities like gardening and reading some fun books!


Today I planted oregano, thyme, and lavender to my little collection of herbs. I've only planted a few here in the house and look forward to planting some in the garden.

Working on cleaning my house today, laundry and dinner plans. Whew, that's enough for one day!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Monkey Bread

 Monkey Bread

This is one of our favorite snacks, especially when we go camping.
So fast and easy to make!
Ingredients:
3 cans refrigerated biscuits
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar

Using kitchen scissors, cut each biscuit piece into 4 pieces
 


Drop pieces into 1 cup sugar and teaspoons cinnamon. Drop sugar coated
pieces into buttered bundt or tube pan.
Put 1/2 cup of the left-over sugar/cinnamon mix and 1/2 cup packed brown sugar and 1 cup
butter into a small saucepan.
Bring to a boil, remove from heat immediately and drizzle over
sugar coated biscuit pieces.
Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Cool slightly in an upright position, then tip pan onto a plate and
remove monkey pull-apart bread.
YUMMY!!! ENJOY!




My finished Day Tripper Bag
The colors are gorgeous, the picture doesn't do 
it justice. Lighting in the house was terrible when I took 
the picture.



Last but not least, I wanted to share my latest purchase for my quilting/sewing stash.
I found these wonderful little needles which is supposed to be wonderful for
stippling on my machine. I thought the packaging was so cute!!

Friday, April 9, 2010

My Favorite Soup

Easy Cheesy Potato Soup

With the weather a bit rainy and cool I thought today would be a good 
day for my easy cheesy potato soup. We love this soup with 
those easy freezer rolls you can pop out of the freezer and bake while
still frozen. How easy is that?!!!

Ingredients :
1 Box Augratin Potatoes
1 lb. Velveeta Cheese
1 can corn or 1 cup freezer corn
3 cups water and cheese mix from box
1 can Ro-Tel tomatoes
1 onion chopped
2 to 3 cups milk

1. Bring 3 cups water to boil, cook potatoes until tender.
2. When potatoes are cooked place in crock-pot adding cheese mixture, stir
3. Cut the Velveeta cheese in cubes and add to potatoes
4. Add corn, onions, and 2-3 cups milk, 
Cook 2 to 3 hours, STIRRING OCCASSIONALLY. 
I add the tomatoes last, about 5-10 minutes before serving. In the past when I added it with the rest of the ingredients my soup came out kinda lumpy and curdled.  This has helped and the soup is thick and creamy.


 

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Recipe Blog

This morning I was browsing the internet for a recipe and came across Cooking During Stolen Moments, an awesome blog with wonderful recipes and more!
I remembered making some type of muffin egg biscuits and found the perfect recipe here on this blog called, Bacon Cheese and Egg Biscuit Cups. They are delicious and very easy to make! Wow, I could spend all day looking at these amazing recipes. Hope you enjoy.