Easy-Peasy Meatballs

I don’t know any kid that doesn’t go gaga over spaghetti and meatballs. My step-son does this little jump up and down dance when he finds out that’s what I’m making for supper. Some meatballs, although very tasty, end up overpowering the sauce. I like my meatballs to compliment my sauce and these ones do just that. They are made up of very simple ingredients and really don’t take very long to cook at all, which is wonderful for those nights when you just don’t have very much time or energy to make supper.

Cutesy Fingerprint Frame

I was inspired to create this cute little frame by a previous project that I just couldn’t bring myself to put in a plain old ordinary boring frame. That wonderful creation was this Scribbles=Art project that I did with my 21 month old little punkin. I was originally just going to paint it silver and then do some sponge painting over the top with these colors. That idea got smashed by my 10 year old step-son Ash who had a light bulb blind us with the brilliant thought of having Ari put her finger prints on it. What a little artistic genius he is even though he often tries to tell me he sucks; kids I tell ya.

Scribbles=Art

Wow I haven’t gotten to do anything artsy craftsy since Christmas time, that is far too long oh the torture. The project I tackled today I did with the help of my 21 month old. I forgot how therapeutic it can be to put my brain to that sort of use instead of school, kids, housework, and so on.

Ari has been doing a lot of coloring lately, it’s her favorite thing right now. So today we upcycled some toddler scribbles. I’ve seen a lot of ideas but I wanted to come up with something that was a little different than what I’ve seen. So I came up with this by gathering my scrap booking stuff and rifling through it while brain storming.

Bouillon Gravy

So I don’t know about you but I am not one of those people who tends to have broth of any sort in my house at all times. With as often as it’s used it would just go bad and be a waste of money. And when I want gravy I’m not always making something that has drippings so there I am at a loss again. Bouillon on the other hand is something I always keep in my house because of it’s wonderful shelf life. I had tried a few different recipes and just couldn’t find anything I liked; they were all lacking flavor. So with some playing around and tweaking I give you this recipe that I think is pretty flippen awesome and it really doesn’t take long at all 

Dish Cleaning Magic

Okay I’ve been mostly posting recipes lately so I thought I would mix it up and share something that I love. And no I’m not getting paid for this I really just love this product that much, it has been a life saver.

I’m sure there are a lot of people out there who can relate to me when it
comes to the struggle of getting our family to rinse their dishes. It’s a pain right? Try as we might its always going to be a losing battle. And I am one of the unlucky who still doesn’t have a dishwasher, oh the agony 😦

Ranch Chicken

What can I say about this chicken other then yum yum yum!!! This is yet again another one of those meals that my family begs me for. I think what makes it so delicious and moist is that I bake it in a cast iron skillet. You could start it in a normal skillet and then transfer it to a greased baking dish but it just may not be the same. Well I’m going to keep this one extra short and sweet and get right to the meat of things 😉

Sweet Tea

You know those cans and bottles of sweet tea you can buy in the store? You know the ones that cost and arm and a leg for such a small amount; it really is so easy to make at home for so cheap. My husband loves sweet tea and was one of those people who spent that ridiculous amount. That is why we went on the search for an easy and cheap way to make it ourselves (well for me to make it 🙂 ) I don’t remember where we ended up finding this but with some tweaking as we have gone it is perfection, well at least to us. What makes this like a southern sweet tea is the baking soda that makes it not as bitter by neutralizing what they call tannin’s. You learn something new every day 😀

Tuna Cheese Biscuits

Who doesn’t love tuna cheese melts? Okay well maybe some of you aren’t big fans like oh say my husband, but for those of us out there who do this is a must try. I was hanging out at my friend Heather’s (She is the amazing woman who helped me make this cake) and her girls have never had tuna cheese melts. She was a little leery on the whole idea because they can be picky eaters so we came up with this idea (mostly her 🙂 ) Really easy to throw together and it was just a spur of the moment type of thing. We thought it was a keeper (one little girl protested) but hey you’ll have that with just about anything right. The world has to have it’s critics.

Okay so we have this problem of sitting there and jabbing away (as many friends do when they’ve been friends for like 17 odd years) so I can’t tell you what temperature we baked these at or how long they were in for. I do believe we baked them at a lower temperature than what the biscuits called for and we just kept checking on them.

Meatballs in Mashed Potato Cups

Many many years ago when my Great Grandma passed away my Aunt took it upon herself to go through her recipes and compile a cookbook to give to everyone in the family. There are many different recipes that I have tried or that I remembered from my childhood in that book but this one is my second favorite. My favorite is one my family lovingly called dodgers which is just native american fry bread, that was my addiction growing up.The first time I made this though I fell in love because of how simple and delicious it is. I of course have changed some things over the years like substituting real milk for reconstituted milk powder, but I also don’t know anyone anymore who really keeps this in their house. This is a big hit with kids and husbands too, my family often begs for it.

So…I got interrupted

I wanted to stop in and say hello just to let everyone know I do still exist. I really did name my site appropriately since guess what I got interrupted 😀 . I had every intention of keeping up on this thing and hopefully turning it into a vast source of wonderful stuff that could really help people out. I will get there because that is truly what I want this to be.