{whispers} mornin…how was your evening? Have a seat, grab a muffin, a cup a caffeine and let it soak up all of last night’s sins.
I wish I could say I made these but Perkins was having a buy 3 get 3 free and I was allllll over that.
{backs slowly out of the room and heads back to bed}
May your Christmas be filled with a little wonky and color.
And may it also be filled with a child whose pays extremely close attention to detail.
And blessed with a BIG, HUGGGEE guard dog who never ever hides under your bed. Merry Christmas to all, and to all, oh dear lord just let me pass out a good night.
Super simple recipe that makes a great presentation (if you use a nice pan, unlike my 10 year old well-used pan =).
All you need is:
Mix contents together and scoop on to crescent rolls:
Bake in oven at 375 for 20-25 minutes until brown.
Garnish with lettuce, peppers, black olives, carrots, sour cream & salsa.
Head on over to Blessed With Grace’s blog for more Tempt my Tummy Tuesday Recipes!
While I’m waiting on God to answer my question about the 40 below degree weather having a purpose in this life, I decided to make a new centerpiece. Soon this blog will be called “how I only decorate with pinecones and berries“.
Isabelle is doing quite well adjusting to us. She has us pretty much trained at this point. Well, except for that fact that I’ve never had an animal that needed CLOTHES, so it’s been quite the fashion show at our house.
She’s not quite sure about these booties and takes a lil offense to the hysterics that I can’t control when I watch her in them. Excuse the very dark picture, I was drunk on puppy.
See, now these booties are a GOOD idea right?? Especially when it’s 40 below. Well 43 below on Sunday, but God has not gotten back to me as to the purpose, so I am not at liberty to discuss this ridiculous weather. And no it wasn’t 40 below on the day I took THIS picture, no need to call human services for my child being outside in a sweatshirt only (I think it was a balmy 20 degrees that day).
And this coat? Oh yeah, heart melt. More fashion to come…stay tuned, I know you’re on the edge of your seat.
Bing Bars or Cherry fudge as some call it are my favorite Christmas time treat.
To start you will need:
2 cups sugar
2/3 cups evaporated skim milk
1/2 cup butter (unsalted)
1 cup small marshamallows (or 12 large ones)
dash salt
Over very low heat melt the evaporated skim milk, butter and sugar. The trick to this is to make sure the sugar is completely dissolved before heating it up to a boil. You may even have to taste test (ah darn) to be sure it’s dissolved. Just looking at it doesn’t always show that it’s not dissolved.
Then add the remaining ingredients and bring to a boil, once at a boil stir constantly and boil for 5 minutes.
Then add:
5 oz cherry chips (1/2 bag)
1 tsp vanilla
Pour into an ungreased 8 x 8 square pan (clearly I didn’t plan ahead cuz all my square pans were used so I had to use a round one - no problem - I personally took care of the round edges 
).
Place in fridge (or cool spot) until firm.
Once firm, take it out to warm up a little so the chocolate top will stick to it (otherwise it will just be two parts — yummy parts, but not stuck together parts).
Then in a microwave safe bowl (glass preferrably) melt the following ingredients:
1 cup peanuts, crushed (I used a baggie and a rolling pin- but honestly there’s gotta be an easier way)
3/4 cup peanut butter
12 oz chocolate chips (a full bag)
Pour over the cherry mixture and place in the refrigerator til firm. Cut into squares and ENJOY!
Head on over to Blessed With Grace’s blog for more Tempt my Tummy Tuesday Recipes!Lest we forget the little nooks and crannies not everyone sees, they are still berry important.
Shhhhhh don’t tell anyone I evicted the birds.
This normally has a cloche over it, but I took it off to get a better picture.
It wasn’t that long ago when I bought Lorraine home and she fit right in (god help her). Now that it’s the holidays I wanted to give her a new “do”.
The boyscout centerpiece arrived on our doorstep last weekend and I was pleasantly surprised how pretty all the greenery was! I decided to sass it up a little…
Here’s what it originally looked like:
So I got out my extra pinecones, berries, ribbon, etc (most of the things I had from other project. I did have to buy some new berries ~ cuz I couldn’t find mine and ribbon).
I didn’t hot glue anything in so it will all come off right after Christmas is over (or however long the greenery lasts). And after:
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