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My posts  will resume after the second week of the new year and my posts will be on  monday and Wednesday. Thank you for looking at my blog and I will see you in the new year.

A

Homemade snowflakes-holiday activity

Take different pieces of colored paper or plain white. Make random small cuts in the paper and open it up and you have a unique snowflake!



What you need for this activity:

colored paper or plain white paper

scissors
  

Chicken patties with rice and gravy

Preheat oven 400 degrees, then put however many chicken patties you want on a ungreased cookie sheet and bake them for 20 minutes. While the chicken patties are cooking... Start on the rice..... put three cups of hot water into a sauce pan and let it come to a boil and add two cups of jasmine rice and cook it for fifteen minutes. Then in another sauce pan bring three cups of water to a boil and add two packets of white pioneer gravy mix into a 2 cup glass measuring cup and add 1 cup of hot water and mix really well and add to the 3 cups of boiling water and cook until gravy is thick. So put two chicken patties on a plate and ladle of gravy on each patty and put some rice on your plate and put your favorite veggie on your plate!



What you need for this dinner

Tyson frozen chicken patties

2 packets of pioneer gravy

Water

2 cups of jasmine rice

Frozen vegetable

Mini English Muffin Pizzas

Preheat oven to 375 


Split apart english muffins and spread some pizza sauce on it and then add the cheese. Put whatever toppings you like on it. After the pizza"s are all made up put into oven for 10 to 15 minutes! Then take out and serve with breadsticks and or salad. 

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A

Favorite Candy

What is your favorite candy?

Hot Open Faced Turkey Sandwiches with Leftovers

Take two slices of regular bread and toast them and put a layer of turkey on each slice of toasted bread and a scoop of dressing on top of turkey and then put a layer of gravy over the top. Serve with leftovers from Thanksgiving. Or you can do this with Italian bread just don't toast it. 


What you will need for this recipe: 


2 slices of wheat bread or Italian bread

2 jars of gravy

Dressing 

Mashed Potatoes 

Other Leftovers

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A 

Sweet sour chicken with yakisobi noodles

Use frozen popcorn chicken for the sweet and sour chicken 

Preheat oven 425 degrees and put frozen popcorn chicken on medium sized cookie sheet and cook for seven minutes and then flip over and cook for another seven minutes.  Then in a medium-sized skillet add cooked chicken and pour the sweet and sour sauce over the  chicken with two tablespoons of water and mix into chicken really well add 1/2 tsp of ground ginger to chicken. 

Then for the yakisobi noodles, pierce bag four times and cook in the microwave for three minutes and then put some sweet and sour chicken beside the noodles and you have a quick, easy and delicious Chinese meal! 

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A

Favorite Season

What is your favorite season?

burrito casserole with talameles

Preheat oven 400, In medium skillet take a one pound of 93 /7 ground beef cook it until all brown along with one green bell pepper diced, one jalapeno diced and finally one small yellow onion diced. When the beef and veggie mixture is all cooked add 1/2 cup of water to meat mixture with one packet of taco seasoning and mix well into meat mixture. Then add a spoonful meat and spoonful refried beans and repeat with seven tortillas. Add medium-sized jar of mild salsa (or two half jars) and two cups of sharp shredded cheddar cheese. Then bake it for 25 minutes. Serve with canned talameles.

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A

What will you need for this recipe: 


8 count of flour tortillas

1 can of vegetarian refried beans 

1 pound of of lean ground beef (93/7) 

1 jalapeno 

1 small yellow onion

1 large green bell pepper 

 1 1/2 jars of mild salsa 

 1 bag of sharp shredded cheddar cheese

This week's posts

My posts this week will be on Friday and Sunday.

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A

Steak Fajitas with Spanish Rice and Pinto and Cheese

Get thin eye of round steak cut into thin strips and cook until no pink, then saute frozen bell peppers and onions for five minutes until all the water is gone then add steak back in and sprinkle in fajita seasoning packet and 1/4 cup of water and mix really well into meat and vegetables. 

Now for the Spanish rice (Knorr's) bring two cups of water to boil and add rice and cook for 7-9 minutes turn off heat and move to table with pot holder. 

Now pintos and cheese..... take re-fried beans and put into microwave safe dish with 1 1/2 tablespoons of water and cook for 2 1/2 minutes or longer (depending what brand you have). Now with potholders take off lid and set aside sprinkle with shredded sharp cheddar cheese and let it melt on top of the re-fried beans then squirt on red taco sauce on top.....then serve.

Cat Bed

Here is an inexpensive way to make a homemade cat bed for your cat.

Take a medium to large sized box (Got mine from Costco) take a mattress cover sheet (from the dollar store) if you don't have those then a plastic drop cloth (also from the dollar store. Then get two soft car towels or covers or two shirts from the dollar store as well. Put plastic drop cloth or mattress cover into box, first spread all over the box and tuck into holes (if box has them) then lay down shirts or towels. Put their favorite toys in their new bed. (May take them a few days to get used to.)

Steak with Cherry sauce

Get indoor grill out and preheat, while grill is preheating, season steaks with salt, pepper, and steak seasoning spices (McCormick Brand) make sure to season both sides. Put on preheated grill for seven minutes then flip them and cook for another six minutes take off let them rest. Then get a blender out put one cup of thawed frozen cherries along with 1/2 cup red cooking wine, with 1 tsp of honey and 1/4 cup of light brown sugar blend all together until smooth. Then pour mixture into sauce pan heat for ten minutes while adding 3 teaspoons of corn starch to thicken it. After ten minutes is up turn off and let cool and thicken. Can serve with roasted potatoes and your favorite veggie. 


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- A

Favorite Holiday Beverage

Favorite Holiday Beverage to have during the holidays?

 Can wait to see your answers! Thanks for looking at my blog and see you next time! 

-A 

breakfast burrito

This a breakfast dish that can be customized to the way you like, a Breakfast Burrito. Here's my take on a breakfast burrito: Crack two eggs into a bowl add a splash whole milk to the eggs and beat well, add egg to small skillet sprayed with cooking spray cook until egg is no longer runny and solid or you break it up into scrambled eggs for you breakfast burrito. Then in a separate skillet also sprayed with cooking spray, add 1/2 of large red bell pepper chopped up along with diced small yellow onion cook them for 15 minutes. Then add bell pepper and onion to eggs. Some other topping you can add to breakfast burritos: Already cooked breakfast sausages or bacon, or a fresh diced jalapeno or chopped fresh spinach.

Mystery Question

Favorite homemade cookie? 

Let me know and post your favorite cookie recipe! 

Thanks 

-A 

Jack-O-Lanterns Bell Peppers

Take 4 medium sized orange bell peppers wash in hot water then cold water, carefully chop off the tops of the bell peppers and remove the seeds and white membranes then using a tiny carving knife (from pumpkin carving kit) to make faces in each pepper (be creative as you want). Then large skillet saute one medium onion and minced garlic (2 cloves), chili powder cook for about 10 minutes. Add ground beef break up meat with metal spoon or wooden spoon and cook until it's dark brown. Meanwhile the meat is cooking, take one cup of water to small sauce pan let water came to a boil and then 1/2 cup of jasmine rice cook for 15 minutes. Then add fire roasted tomatoes, 1/2 cup chicken broth, 3/4 of cup of sharp shredded cheddar cheese to cooked ground beef then cooked rice to the cooked ground beef mixture. Divide it between the peppers and add 1 cup of chicken broth to large glass baking dish and then cover with aluminum foil and cook for thirty minutes at 350. Then remove foil and cook for another twenty minutes. Serve with biscuits or Texas toast and enjoy! 



 Mystery Question: What's your favorite homemade cookie? 
Let me know! 

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A

 

New Update

Update: The days of my posts are changing to Wednesday and sunday. I will still do special posts on holidays.  Also I'll do a mystery question every Wednesday, looking forward to all of your answers and feedback! Thanks for looking at my blog and see you next time. -A 

New Posts

Hey guys, 

Look out for new posts every monday and thursday. More good recipes to come and more tips to! I do special posts on holidays to. 

- A 

Mummy dogs with mac & cheese

This a dinner you can make in about thirty minutes. Take one can of crescent rolls and wrap around the hot dog, repeat for the seven dogs. Place them on cookie sheet and bake at 375 for fifteen minutes rotating cookie sheet at the 8 minute mark then cook for another 7 minutes. The total cooking time for mummy dogs will be fifteen minutes. Serve with mac and cheese (follow directions on the box) Serve with your favorite veggie if desired. 

Perfectly Chocolate Cupcakes

 Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper cupcakes liners. 



In a large bowl combine all of these dry ingredients together: 1 cup of all purpose flour with 1 cup of sugar. Then add 3- 1/4 tsps of baking powder & 3 1/4 tsps baking soda. Then add 1/2 tsp of salt. Stir dry ingredients then add one egg, then add 1/2 cup of 2% milk now add 1/4 cup vegetable oil, then add 1 tsp of vanilla extract. Last step add 1/2 cup of boiling water to the batter stirring as you add it. Now wait ten minutes, letting the batter sit for this time makes the cupcakes fluffier and more moist. Pour the batter in muffin tin's and bake at 350 degree oven for 22 minutes rotating the muffin tin once halfway through cooking time using oven mitts. Then once their done baking let them cool for twenty minutes. Then frost with store bought frosting.... to make them more festive for Halloween add 5 drops of red food coloring and five drop of yellow food coloring and mix well and frost them with orange frosting.

This is special post for halloween!

As always thanks for looking at blog and see you next time!

A 

Homemade Hot Chocolate

Here's a delicious easy homemade recipe that I make during fall and winter months.


Take 2 tablespoons of hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder,  mix with 2 tablespoons of regular granulated sugar and 2 tablespoons of original coffee creamer mix all together. Then divide hot cocoa mix between two mugs,  add 6-8 oz of hot water to each mug. Add two squirts of chocolate syrup and then top off with Reddi whip. Also if you want to make more of this recipe just double the ingredients above. Also tell me your variations of hot chocolate. As always thanks for looking at my blog. See you next time! Stay tuned for my Halloween cupcakes.

A  

Here's some variations:

Add a peppermint candy cane to it to make it peppermint hot chocolate

Or add a dash of cinnamon to make cinnamon hot cocoa

Or a handful of mini marsh mellows


Also you can take a ghost peep and stick it on a pretzel rod and you have spooky hot chocolate!

Or to make festive for December you can take a peppermint star peep or a Christmas tree peep, stick it on a candy cane and you have Christmas themed hot chocolate.

All Purpose product and more

Here's an all-purpose product that serves more than one purpose. Take a spray bottle and fill with original Listerine. One of the purposes is it will disinfect wooden surfaces, sinks and counters. Another purpose is to spray on your indoor plants to keep bugs off  of them and keep them healthy. If you spray the leaves of your indoor plant, it will have them looking clean and pretty.

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See you next time!

A

Cleaning tip # 1

Here's an easy cleaning tip to help clean those pans with stuck on food on them take 3 tablespoons of baking soda and 1/2 cup  white vinegar. Put on stove and turn up heat to medium-low for about 10-15 minutes. Also depending on the size of your pans you may have to add more or less of two ingredients above. But time on the stove stays the same. After time is up ....scrub with soap and rinse well.

Stay tuned for more recipes and more tips, as always thanks for looking at my blog and see you next time.

A

Meatball Sliders

In a large bowl combine 1 pound of 97/3 lean ground beef, add salt and pepper, and add 2 eggs beaten with 1/2 cup of Panko breadcrumbs and 1/2 cup of Italian style breadcrumbs. Then add 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese and 3 tablespoons minced garlic then add 1 tablespoon of dried parsley flakes to meat mixture. Then shape into 12 1 1/2 inch meatballs. Then on medium-high heat add 5 tablespoons of olive oil cook meatballs 3 minutes on each side. Pour in 4 cups of your favorite Mariana sauce over the meatballs, heat to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer uncovered for thirty minutes or no longer pink inside. Then get your favorite sliders buns add one meatball to a slider bun top with a slice of mozzarella cheese and a few leaf's of basil. Then add top bun.... serve with a side salad. 

 

Buttered Angel hair Smoked Sausage

Hi Everyone, this week's recipe is a new one my Mom came up with for something different to do with smoked sausage. It's delicious but also good for you to. So this is how you make it: Add 3 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of minced garlic, add 1 any colored bell pepper: cut into strips (red preferably) then add medium sized white onion chopped and saute them together until tender about 10-15 minutes. Then add 1 pkg of any flavored hill-shire farms smoked sausage sliced, then while that is cooking, bring a medium pot of water to a boil with 2 tablespoons oil olive in the water then break up pasta add to the boiling water for 6 minutes drain it. Then add 1 stick of room temperature unsalted butter to the pot of pasta let melt all over the pasta then add half of a 8 oz. package Italian cheese blend to the pasta. Then add remaining cheese to the smoked sausage mixture let it melt. You can serve seperate with the pasta or you put the smoked sausage mixture over the pasta and eat that way. Serve with your favorite veggie. 

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A   

Spiced Porkchops with Peach sauce

Hey guys, I have another recipe for you; it's a new twist on an old recipe. 


Start with 4 to 6  1/2 inch thick cut  boneless pork chops. Season with coriander and allspice on both sides. Preheat indoor grill and cook them 7 minutes on one side then turn them over and cook for another 6 minutes more or until all white inside.

 Now for the peach sauce: combine canned drained cling peaches (1 can- 15 oz) 4 ounces of tomato paste and 4 ounces of water, 2 tablespoons of white vinegar, 2 tablespoons of light brown sugar, 1/4 cup of red cooking wine, 3 tablespoons of honey. Blend all together until smooth then transfer to a sauce pan cook on low-medium heat stirring constantly for 20 minutes. Then add two tablespoon of butter when sauce is done cooking. Add two tablespoons sauce to the plate then put same amount on top of pork chop. Garnish with basil (optional)

Roasted potatoes goes well with this dish and your favorite vegetable as well. Thanks for looking at my blog see ya next time. 

A  

Citrus Chicken

Hi everyone, 

Here's another recipe that I came up with from scratch. I was trying to think a different way to do chicken, so anyway this recipe came to be. It can be baked or grilled.... so take one lime, zest it and juice it into a big zip-lock bag and zest whole lemon and juice it as well and then finally zest and juice one small orange along with the Chicken and add 1/2 cup mayo into bag as well. Close it up and shake and massage everything together. Then either bake at 400 degrees on foil covered cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray for 45 or 55 minutes depending on the size of the chicken breasts or on a preheated indoor grill for 15 minutes turning them after 8 minutes and letting cook for another 7 minutes, cook longer if not all white inside. Also add spices if desired. Thanks for looking at my blog and I will see you next time. 

A 

First Recipe by Ash/ Ham & Egg Casserole

Today I am sharing my first recipe with you all, it is one that I have made many times. Not only is it a healthy recipe but it is easy to make and really delicious. It is also budget friendly. I sincerely hope you all will try this great dish.
I got this recipe from Woman's World magazine many months ago and it has become one of my favorite dishes.

The good thing about this recipe is you can cook it for a dinner and have leftovers for Breakfast.