tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-224630622024-03-18T11:06:41.883-07:00Clever, Crafty, Cookin' MamaA little place where I can share my crafts, recipe attempts, and funny kid stories with the world.Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.comBlogger302125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-297815722108712102020-07-17T21:28:00.004-07:002020-07-17T21:42:29.389-07:00Raspberry Cobbler Cake<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">Okay so, I've already posted about this recipe in years past, but we just made it this time with fresh raspberries from our garden - and it's still the bomb-diggity! It's based off a blueberry version I did a few years back, which is based on a blackberry version the Pioneer woman posted about a few years before that. It's so yummy though, and it has stood the test of time in this family and will become a favorite of yours too. All you need is about an hour and two cups of ANY summer fruit and you're in business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">So hey there, do you have a cup of berries lying about?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raspberries, fresh from the garden</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">How about 2 cups of raspberries?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite fruit!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">Well then you're all set. Grab the flour, sugar, butter, milk, and you're ready to make this little baby.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raspberry Cobbler Cake - these raspberries are about to dive to the bottom of the pan.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">The most magical part of this dessert is that you pour the batter into the bottom of the pan, and then sprinkle the fruit on the top, but while it bakes the cake rises to the top and the fruit sinks to the bottom.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raspberry cobbler cake... it's like magic.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">After that scoop it up and serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream. A delicious treat on a warm summer evening. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raspberry Cobbler Cake - The edges get all crisp and chewy</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">Here's the thing... if you've ever had a raspberry scone from the Puyallup Fair, this dessert served warm reminds me of that fantastic raspberry jam flavor!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good from all angles! Delicious from all angles!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">If you would like the play by play of the blueberry version, <font size="5"><a href="http://www.clevercraftycookinmama.com/2014/07/blueberry-cobbler-cake.html#.XxJrdOd7mUk" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></font> and then all you will need to change is 2 cups of raspberries for the 2 cups of blueberries (or blackberries, or cut up peaches). The best thing about this recipe is that you can whip it up in an hour for the family or guests alike and they will be impressed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">Here's the blueberry version from yesteryear! Still amazing! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;">Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-6234194668972722372020-07-06T14:43:00.001-07:002020-07-06T14:43:52.615-07:00Mini Cupcake Pies - (cake that looks like pie)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My daughter's birthday was last month, and while all the girls are getting older and their theme parties are a bit more chill, I always still try to make a fun cake for their birthday. She was just going to have some friends come over to play video games, and didn't have a particular theme in mind. Then I realized that she plays a game on the computer where they make virtual pies all day. I had this idea to make cupcakes look like miniature pies. We searched around on Pinterest and came up with a few ideas to base our cake/pies on. They turned out super cute!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mini Cupcake Pies are probably the cutest thing ever!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All you need are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">24 cooked, cooled cupcakes (from a box or from scratch)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1 large bag of mini MnM's, colors sorted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2 tubs of store bought frosting (or make your own butter cream)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unsweetened cocoa power</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yellow food dye </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wilton basket weave tips (47 for cupcakes or 1D for larger cake pies)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bake 24 cupcakes and let cool completely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the frosting you can make your own or a few cans of store bought vanilla, though in hindsight the homemade buttercream might set up firmer around the edges of the "pie". </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cake, that looks like tiny pies. Adorable!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To your white frosting, place a 1/2 teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powered and a few drops of yellow food dye into the frosting until you get a "pie crust" type color. Add small amounts of cocoa as needed.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unsweetened cocoa powder and yellow food dye will give you frosting a "pie crust" peachy color</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frost each cupcake with a bit of the crust colored frosting </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's sort of an odd shade, a light skin color, or peachy/brown</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then carefully place tiny MnM's in one color (red for "cherry", blue for "blueberry", etc.) My teen had fun doing this. Once you get the top fully covered in mini MnM's then you are going to pipe a lattice (we used Wilton basket weave tip 47) a few strips one way, </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It looks like little blueberries under a lattice crust</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then a few stripes the opposite way. Don't worry about the edges, you can cover that up with a little "ruffle" type edging to make it look like a real little pie crust.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next, go around the edges of the cupcake with the same tip in a ruffly "edge of the pie" type pattern, mostly a wave pattern.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blueberry pie! The first time we did this, we used store bought frosting and it got a little warm, but still did an okay effect</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next try a few more colors of "pie filling"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ooo cherry pie! We ended doing 4 mini pies of each color</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the orange and yellow MnM's (lemon and pumpkin) pie, we didn't do lattice work for those, and thought they would look nicer with a little blob of white "whipped cream" (white frosting pipped with a star tip).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These tiny pies started to look pretty good as we did the different flavors</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did someone order a chocolate mini pie cupcake?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We put a variety on a sheet pan and it turned out to be a great way to display them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My middle was turning 14. These number candles fit in one pie perfectly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had a little left over batter, so I decided to pour it into a full-sized pie pan and then we whipped up a pretend pumpkin pie, which was the birthday girl's favorite pie in the fall. It looked pretty realistic when we were done. (Note: We took the extra pie crust frosting, which already had that brown crust hue, separated it and put red and yellow food coloring in it until it resembled a pumpkin color). More white dollops of white frosting with the flower tip to give it some flair.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fake pumpkin pie cake... looks pretty realistic</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here it is all lit up with candlelight</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy pumpkin pie funfetti cake to you...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See, it really was cake all along.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great for any holiday, even April Fools!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you liked our little fake out fun food here. We had a blast making these together, and there's not a ton of activities you can do with your teen where they are chatting and enjoying themselves making tiny food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You only need of few common ingredients that you probably already have on hand. I found this recipe <a href="https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/236422/slow-cooker-pulled-pork-barbeque/?fbclid=IwAR05FSuVKc-ugTX23C6Fglk58t0jbpMAkskzAepML3azZ8jRke1oIj7nnNE" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 (4 lb) pork butt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 cups of chopped celery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 onion chopped (or half bag frozen onions) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 cup of Ketchup</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 cup of BBQ Sauce</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/2 cup water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 tsp garlic powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 tsp chili powder (optional - did not use) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 tsp of seasoned salt and pepper to taste </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Start dumping things into a crock pot: 2 cups of chopped celery and 1 chopped onion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next add in 1/2 cup of water, the garlic powder, chili powder, seasoned salt and black pepper to taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stir that around until you get an official looking "sauce"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey! That's looking promising</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Place the thawed pork butt in the crock pot and push some of the sauce over it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cook on low in the crock pot all day 7-8 hours until you can pull the meat apart with a fork.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I jabbed it with a fork there at the top and could see it was ready for shredding.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It should shred easily and this cut of meat has very little fat, but I pulled the pork out on the plate and skimmed off any undesirables from the sauce before putting the meat back into the pot and shredding it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smokey, tangy, juicy BBQ pork heaven.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It shreds very easily and the sauce gets incorporated throughout all of the meat as soon as you start stirring. Do a little taste test here. If it needs more seasoned salt, or a little extra straight BBQ sauce, this would be the time to do it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next, pile up some BBQ meat on a soft little slider bun. The beauty of sliders is that you can have more than one! Any party that has tiny sandwiches is a win win in my book.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BBQ pork sliders! Easy party food!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that the work is all done. Keep the crock pot on low to keep the meat warm, and let the guests serve themselves. This works great for a large gathering, and this recipe easily doubles if you are serving a bigger crowd.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BBQ pork sliders - makes a fun meal</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This also works great on a regular week night just feeding the family. Throw things in the crock pot in the morning, and return to deliciousness at dinner time.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like my meat to slider ratio - equal parts meat and soft bun</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everybody seems to love these little babies. It also makes great left overs (if you have any, that is). Store the meat in a plastic container and save a couple of extra slider buns and take it to work for a fun lunch. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chocolate souffle... the dessert of your dreams.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can proudly say I have now officially checked one of these culinary giants off my list... and YOU can too. Don't freak out, stay with me here. True there is some fluffing of eggs and folding in ingredients, but this is almost a foolproof recipe, and if I can do it, YOU can do it. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not only was it out of this world delicious, it was a lot easier than I ever thought or imagined!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will have to thank Tricia Yearwood for this <a href="https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/trisha-yearwood/individual-chocolate-souffles-3667949" target="_blank">recipe</a>. I happened to catch she and her sister making these with super simple ingredients (for the most part just butter, eggs, vanilla, and chocolate), oh hey, wait, <u>I have those</u> - and it looked so divine I just had to try it! <span style="font-size: x-small;">Special note: This recipe contains no flour so I believe it is gluten free as well.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you listen closely, it is whispering "maaaake meeee".</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here' the play by play:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will need six 6oz ramekins, baking sheet, and preheat oven to 400º</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u><b>Ingredients:</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4 Tablespoons of softened butter (plus extra to butter ramekins)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/2 cup sugar + 2 Tablespoons (plus extra to sugar the ramekins)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8 oz of bittersweet chocolate chopped (I used bittersweet chocolate chips 60%) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 tsp vanilla extract</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/4 tsp cream of tartar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3 large egg yolks (room temp)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6 egg whites (room temp)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Raspberry sauce (Tricia's or I made my own simple sauce below)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Raspberries, water, sugar, cornstarch) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Powdered sugar for dusting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First use some extra softened butter to coat each of the ramekins and then coat with sugar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The helpful hint here was to pour a bit of sugar in the first ramekin, then spin it around to coat, then dump the remaining sugar into the next ramekin and repeat. Worked like a charm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that you'll want to melt the chocolate. Use a double boiler (or make a quick one, - boil water in a pot on the stove (low boil) with a metal bowl placed over the top, but not touching the water below). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Place the 8oz of bittersweet chocolate and the 4 Tablespoons of butter in a heat safe bowl and place over the double boiler. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chocolate and butter. I think Paula Dean is smiling down from somewhere right now...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Mix slowly and make sure the chocolate is melting gently. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Activate smell-o-vision here</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Once smooth remove from heat and set aside.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful melty chocolate.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Combine three room temperature egg yokes and 2 Tablespoons of warm water into a stand mixer and beat until frothy. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gradually add 2 tablespoons of sugar and continue beating
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It will turn this lovely pale yellow color</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Very lightly fold the
yolk mixture into the cooling chocolate mixture. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fun.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fold gently until combined and set aside.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Folding just means to lightly lift the heavy chocolate from the bottom up into the fluffy egg yoke mixture.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, in a clean mixing bowl, add the 6 room temp egg whites plus the 1/4 tsp of cream of tartar.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How this tiny bit of liquid turns into a bowl full of fluff is one of those cooking miracles</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beat on medium speed until frothy and add in slowly the 1/2 cup of sugar until combined and not gritty. Beat for about 3 more minutes, until stiff peaks form.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you can master this by the way, you can also make Pavlova (coming soon to a blog near you)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Working quickly, start by folding 1/3 of the egg white mixture into the set-aside chocolate mixture until the color lightens.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More folding. It's fun to watch the colors combine</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">then fold in the remaining egg white mixture gently until blended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Spoon souffle mixture into the six waiting butter/sugared ramekins on a cookie sheet. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wow that fit perfectly. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Smooth out the tops.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Put into the preheated 400º oven immediately and bake for 18 minutes or until the souffles have risen over the tops of the ramekins. While these were cooking we started to be very quiet, whispering and paying reverence to that old wives tale not to make too much noise around a souffle or it will fall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't tell you how amazing it felt to peek in the oven (through the glass mind you, never with the door open) and see these little babies poofing up over the top of the ramekins like an honest-to-goodness souffle. I was beyond excited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Make a quick raspberry sauce. I did not use Tricia's but you are welcome to. I just threw a couple handfuls of frozen raspberries into the pot with a little water, a 1/4- cup of sugar (depends on sweetness of raspberries you have) and a little corn starch. Bring to a boil and then let simmer until the sauce has thickened. I did this while the souffles were baking - but I was so excited about the souffle's rising I didn't take any pictures of my sauce making.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seriously, I can't believe that actually worked!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the hardest part. You must, and I mean you MUST eat these immediately. If you don't eat them right away, they will get disgusted with you and collapse under protest. They must be hot, fluffy, and go in your mouth right away for you to be able to enjoy the highest possible souffle goodness.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's snowing!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We placed the still hot ramekins on cute little dessert plates.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Use oven mitts to move hot souffles. Thanks Pioneer Woman for the adorable plates)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Top with warm raspberry sauce and prepare to to be delighted!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot, steamy, fluffy, raspberry-sauced chocolate souffle</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like this might be the best thing that ever happened to eggs and chocolate!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oo-la-la</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can't get enough! The outside was a little crisp and lightly crunchy, but once you dove inside there was a warm gooey fluffy cake thing that was almost indescribable. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holy yum batman!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look at that sweet/tart raspberry sauce spilling over the sides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After a few bites you are looking into a chocolate, raspberry abyss.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my new. favorite. thing. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's my youngest enjoying her first souffle at the tender age of 12. I had to wait 40 years to try my first, she's a lucky little lady.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the BEST she kept saying</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So... this was SO worth it. Don't be intimidated. You can do this. You want to do this. You owe it to yourself to do this. Report back to me when you do. God Bless you Tricia Yearwood, I have now checked chocolate souffles off my bucket list.</span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-25617495742680941642019-09-29T16:02:00.002-07:002019-09-29T19:45:40.801-07:00Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We've been experimenting lately on our Rice Krispie treats folks! Besides dyeing the marshmallows fun colors, we've also tried adding chocolate chips, fruity pebbles, cake mix, you name it. My youngest loves anything peanut butter and chocolate together. She love Reese's peanut butter cups, Reese's Pieces, hey if it's got peanut butter and chocolate in it, she's all over it. Well I was thinking about making a Reese's Peanut butter flavored rice Krispie treat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now there are a ton of recipes out there, like Scotcheroos that have peanut butter and butterscotch in the treats and a thick layer of chocolate on the top, or peanut butter rice krispies with chocolate drizzled over the top, but BOTH of those are messy. What I wanted was the peanut butter and chocolate INSIDE the Rice Krispie treat together... living in harmony... sharing the marshmallow-y goodness and easy to transport if necessary. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chocolate Peanut butter Rice Krispie Treats!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will need the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 bag of Marshmallows (I used 21 oz campfire square marshmallows)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9 cups of Rice Krispie cereal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/2 stick of butter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3/4 cup peanut butter </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/2 bag of chocolate chips (about 1 cup)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9x13 pan (grease with butter or cooking spray) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Start by spraying your large bowl with a bit of cooking spray. Add in 9 cups of Rice Krispie cereal.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I use my biggest bowl to hold all the Krispie goodness.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the deal with the original Krispie recipe. If you do the recipe on the box (with the 6 cups of Krispies and a 9x13 pan) you get these thin, measly treats. I like a Krispie treat you can hold onto and keeps it shape in a big ol' square - hence the 9 cups of Krispies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In a pot on the stove, melt 1/2 stick of butter, 3/4 cup peanut butter, and the 1 cup of chocolate chips.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melt the good stuff with the butter!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Slowly while stirring until they are all combined.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If heaven had a smell, it might be this...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add in marshmallows and stir until melted together.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are the 21 oz square campfire marshmallows (minus a few my kids ate)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you are using a regular 12 0z bag of marshmallows I'd do a bag and a half of those. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bring the chocolate peanut butter mixture from the bottom and fold over the marshmallows.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ooo yum.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stir on medium heat until an ooey gooey mess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eventually you will get a pretty smooth chocolate lava concoction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add this molten mixture carefully in to waiting bowl of 9 cups of Krispies</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spraying this bowl with a little cooking spray before you add the Krispies will save you a ton of clean up time later</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stir quickly until combined.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Soon you will have a beautiful sticky mess of cereal and yummy-ness.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pour this mixture in to prepared (greased) 9x13 pan</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing is more satisfying the globing this big hunk of deliciousness and thunking it down in a pan.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used to get my hands greasy with a little butter on them to pat down the Krispie treats, but I've learned if you run your hand under cold water, shake them off, then press down the treats with your cool hands it works just the same, and you're less greasy afterwards (easier to clean up on you) </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chocolate Peanut butter Krispie Treats for dayz!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let cool (probably the toughest part of this recipe). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cut into thick squares and be prepared to be taken away to Peanut butter chocolate Krispie heaven!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delicious, chewy, peanut butter chocolate Reese's flavored Rice Krispie Treats</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These were so good the first time, we made them for a gathering of friends shortly after and they were gone within minutes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reach through the screen and grab this one for yourself!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> These travel great, and all also awesome for school lunches, pot lucks, you name it. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chewy, ooey, gooey... totally hits the spot!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This were a fabulous twist on a well-loved classic. Try them and let me know what you think.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes please!</td></tr>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-60644326423727249482019-09-08T11:42:00.000-07:002019-09-08T12:17:02.121-07:00Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Casserole - (5 ingredients)<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well it feels like everyone is heading back to school and getting adjusted to their new fall schedules. If you are anything like me, you are always on the lookout for a few new recipes you that can throw in the crock pot (last minute) in the morning and come back to a home-cooked meal at the end of a busy day. Well look no further because I found an easy, 5-ingredient winner! Behold the slow cooker (crock pot) Chicken Enchilada Casserole.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easy chicken enchiladas in the crock pot</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Printable recipe found on my site <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/clevercraftycookinmamarecipes/crock-pot-chicken-enchildas" target="_blank">here</a></span> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will only need 5 ingredients:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3-4 Chicken breasts (thawed, or frozen)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 large (28 oz) can of red enchilada sauce (we did mild)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3 cups of shredded cheese divided in half</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 can sliced olives or buy a regular can and cut up your own</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10 corn tortillas cut into strips </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(by the way I found this recipe <a href="https://www.themagicalslowcooker.com/chicken-enchilada-casserole/" target="_blank">here</a>) and will be testing more recipes for you very soon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Plop your chicken breasts into the crock pot sprayed with a little cooking spray. You can have them thawed, or like me plunk them in completely frozen.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You only need about 3 Costco breasts, because they are so big.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dump in the entire can of red enchilada sauce.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So nice and easy when you are in a rush in the morning getting out the door</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's it for now! The rest you will add an hour before serving. Set on slow cook for 4-8 hours (I would recommend closer to 8 hours for the frozen breasts). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now you're back home from a busy day of running around. Your house will smell amazing by the way, and you'll want to shred the chicken with two forks right in the sauce. Also I tend to scoop out each breast, remove any fat that bubbled up during the cooking process and sort of skim the sauce for any fat chunks.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This slow cooked chicken is super tender and shreds so easily</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You just want a nice sauce and lovely shredded chicken before proceeding.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yummy!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cut the 10 corn tortillas (we did white corn, but you can also do yellow corn). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add the strips to the pot with 1 1/2 cups of shredded cheese (we did a cheddar/jack mix) and half the sliced olives.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tortilla strips save you the time of rolling individual enchiladas the old fashioned way</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stir around gently until fully combined. Add a little seasoning salt here to taste if you wish, then pat the mixture down until it resembles an oval casserole in the bottom of the crock pot. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Press down slightly to make a casserole shape in the bottom of the pot</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Top with the remaining 1 1/2 cups of shredded cheese and the rest of the sliced olives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gratuitous close up shot of bubbling sauce through the cheese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All that's left to now is scoop it up on a plate! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cheesy, awesome, get in my belly!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Serve with chips, lettuce, olives, sour cream, salsa, and some fruit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Delicious, hot and gooey, and tons of flavor and a real crowd pleaser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I say crowd pleaser because i made three extra containers for the leftovers (they make great lunches for work or school the next day) but alas, I went back and they were arleady all gone! Apparently I need to make this again really soon.. and so should YOU!</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-49122751542894777812019-07-02T15:44:00.000-07:002019-07-02T17:46:13.890-07:00Spider Babies<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I was minding my own business, enjoying a regular Tuesday, when a sudden cry from my middle child came from somewhere upstairs. It was an urgent! "Mom... mom... MOM.. come HERE!" Each 'mom' getting progressively louder than the last, and so we all know that means - it's potentially super serious. So of course I go running up into her newly remodeled, grown-up teen bedroom. Under her loft bed we have hung up some pretty, sheer, pale blue drapes. And nestled in those drapes... up in a fold in the fabric, is a small lump of something black. Upon closer inspection as I take a few cautious steps forward.. I realized it was something much more terrifying... I felt my heart skip a beat.... it was this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What's this pray tell? Well it looks like a mama spider and her egg sac.. and what's worse than finding a mama spider and her egg sac?? Well how about finding a mama spider, her egg sac, AND that the egg sac has just burst open, and hundreds of tiny baby spiders are coming into the world, like right now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll just give you a moment to shudder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, I've got like, two hot seconds to figure out what to do next because I'VE GOT EXPLODING SPIDER babies ready to infiltrate my house. I'm the only grown up in the house (#adultingsucks). </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm trying to remember... where in the heck did I get these
curtains from? Amazon? Walmart? Did they come from Mexico? On slow boat from China?...
Great! Now I'm thinking this was a stowaway renegade deadly Mexican
spider, that had hidden away in the curtain lining until it was safe to
have her babies and today was that day. ARG!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My two older girls head for the hills (immediately run as fast as they can down stairs to safety - thanks for the support ladies). I'm pretty sure they left a cartoon-type cloud of dust they moved so fast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My youngest is at least brave enough to hang out in the doorway, and even grabbed the vacuum and plugged it in for me (my new favorite child, and hey remind me to update my will). My heart is beating out of my chest because they are HATCHING right now and moving away from the nest. I can't have a bunch of baby spiders living in my daughters room, because she will never EVER go in there again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How am I going to do this from the WRONG side of the curtain? I'd have to climb behind and be in there WITH the spiders to be on their side. No way Jose. I can take the long wand of the vacuum and slide it behind the curtain, and then I'm going to make tension on MY side of the curtain, and hopefully a miracle will happen. There's no way I can fail at this. If even ONE of them gets away, there's just no point of living in the house, right?!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Keeping this small for your safety</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I summon all of my courage and move the vacuum nozzle up towards the many, MANY spiders... and I am terrified to move in any closer. What if the mama spider runs down the nozzle onto my hand? What if they all fall to the floor? As the barrel of the vacuum gets close to the area, it suddenly sucked the whole curtain area into the hose with a tremendous WOOSH! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Holy CRAP what have I done!?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I just watch helplessly as the curtain is sucked further and further into the barrel of the vacuum wand. Can't I just leave it like this for the next 5 years? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ever so slowly... I pull out the curtain with my hand that's on this side of the curtain (keeping the tension) and.. everything is still there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The spider was pretty ticked off too. Hopping mad actually. Running around in that tiny slot of the curtain. Then, I almost fainted. I was literally shaking. In hindsight it's probably not good to faint in front of an angry spider and her hundreds of babies...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note to self, don't pass out in front of angry deadly multiple spiders.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How I summoned more courage at this point, I'll never know. I put the nozzle back up the back of the curtain, very close to the spider fortress, and I put more tension on my side of the curtain and the fold is the fabric is more open this time, and I'm going slowly because I want to make sure this is the LAST TIME I HAVE TO DO THIS... and POOF... it sucks in the whole area down into the barrel of the vacuum wand... and when I pull it back out I also kept applying tension and...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The whole damn thing was gone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama spider, baby spiders, egg sac. The whole nine yards!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure Jesus himself made the spiders vanish because I absolutely don't know how all of them could be gone.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thank you Jesus!!!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm doubting my success. I've still got the vacuum on and running. I planning on running it for a good 5 more minutes too, maybe until tomorrow. I'm scared they are stuck halfway down the hose... all the while, checking for spiders and baby spiders all up and down the curtains. Nothing. Not on the floor, not above the curtain rod... like got them all in one fell swoop?!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />I lock the vacuum rod back in place, hopefully sealing them to their doom. (And when I say HOPEFULLY I mean if there is any justice in the world they will stay in their little dust cavern for all of eternity)- or until my husband can dispose of the contents in a safe and responsible manner, probably out in the middle of the street, and shortly after that I can set the vacuum on fire.</span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-2833057283290249102019-06-15T12:29:00.000-07:002019-06-15T12:56:54.090-07:00Loaded Baked Potato Soup - Instant Pot<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who doesn't love loaded bake potato soup? All hot and creamy, topped with a dollop of sour cream, shredded cheese and bacon. Serve it with a crusty loaf of bread and you've got yourself a really hearty meal. I have made this soup in a crock pot several times and wondered if it could be done in the instant pot. After checking out a couple of recipes, and a few trial runs, this one turned out to be not only the easiest, but the best.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delicious, yummy loaded bake potato soup!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Note: I got this recipe from <a href="https://belleofthekitchen.com/2018/01/11/instant-pot-loaded-potato-soup/" target="_blank">www.belleofthekitchen.com</a></span></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: #666666;">She also has a video play by play on her site which is super helpful. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ingredients:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 Tablespoon butter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 medium onion diced (or half bag of frozen chopped onions)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3 cloves of garlic minced (or a spoon full of diced jarred minced garlic)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3 cups of chicken broth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 small can cream of chicken soup</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4 large russet potatoes or 7-8 smaller russet potatoes chopped into 1 in cubes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 1/2 teaspoons of seasoned salt </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> black pepper to taste</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 Tablespoon of flour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 cup of milk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 cups of shredded cheese (i used mild cheddar and a jack/cheddar mix)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Garnish:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cooked bacon chopped up, or real bacon bits</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sour cream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shredded cheddar cheese </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Put 2 Tablespoon of butter into the Instant Pot and turn on "Saute" function. Add in chopped onions and cook until soft (3-4 minutes). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You gotta love the saute function!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add in garlic and cook for an additional minute, making sure the garlic doesn't burn</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steamy garlic vision</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add in 3 cups of chicken broth, the small can of cream of chicken soup, stir</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's smelling pretty good right about now</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add in cubed potatoes, salt, pepper, to the pot. Stir until well combined. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey potatoes, are you really going to be fork-soft in 10 short minutes? Let's find out.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Place lid on the Instant Pot, turn the vent valve to "sealing" and cook on manual high pressure for 10 minutes. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My instant pot with it's new pretty cover</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quick release the pressure.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What it looks like when you open the lid</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, stir together the 1 tablespoon of flour and the 1 cup of milk with a whisk until it creates a slurry and set aside. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think it's easier to add the milk to the flour than the other way around</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once the steam is completely released and the pin has dropped, open the lid and add in the slurry. Turn to pot to saute and cook the soup for 4-5 minutes, until thickened. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey we're getting somewhere! I also used my Pampered Chef meat utensil to help mush up some of the poatoes.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stir in the two cups of shredded cheese and stir until melted.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everything is better with cheese.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Cook until thickened. Taste and season at the end.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seasoning is the key to non-bland soups.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Serve garnished with a dollop of sour cream, bacon chunks, and some extra cheddar cheese. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yummy loaded baked potato soup</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also a nice buttery crusty loaf of french break goes nicely as a "dipper" for the soup.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Activate smell-o-vision now.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also toppings are key here, don't skimp!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The more the merrier! </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My children are weird, well 2/3 of them are. They don't like mashed potatoes, but they love french fries. When my youngest said "What's for dinner" I told her it was "french fry soup with bacon"... and guess what? She bought it! She had a whole bowl and proclaimed it "yummy"! The middle child wasn't so fooled but I will still count this as a victory. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bread fell in, so sad we had to scoop it out - and devour it.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a very delicious and hearty week night dinner that the whole family enjoyed (minus one - there's always the one). I am always surprised how the instant pot cooks old school crock pot dishes in a flash. You don't need all day to get all day flavor these days! Hooray for science, and Instant Pots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Enjoy!!</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-83544202786291856972019-04-04T12:14:00.001-07:002019-04-05T21:19:15.510-07:00Kid's Table Makeover (Ikea Laat)<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What happens when your little girls grow up into tweens and teens? They want grown up rooms to match their new ages. My middle is turning 13 in a month and wanted her own room. We have a home office and we decided to turn most of it into her new room. I'll show the full room remodel in another post, but I wanted to do a quick little tutorial on how to update the Ikea Laat Table into a cute, modern version of itself.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easy Laat Table Makeover</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The table itself we bought three sets of when the girls were little (they are so cute and came with tiny matching chairs). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Picture from Ikea website)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We used them for art projects, in the kitchen for tiny seating, and even lined them up for birthday parties tons of times for additional seating options for a crowd.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seriously, we used these tables all. the. time!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Obviously 10 years later, our tables had seen better days. They had some crayon markings on them (got those out with a magic clean eraser) and they definitely had survived some bumps and bruises along the way (aka, they were very well loved).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laat tables - well loved and more than a little worn out.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wanted a quick makeover, and I knew the top was kind of shot, and decided that self-stick contact drawer paper (they come in a variety of cute styles and patterns) would be the easiest way to cover the top. I let my almost teen pick out the one she liked best and we cleaned off the top as best as we could.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The magic clean eraser did wonders on the crayon markings, but there were stills some dings and scratches along the top</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My husband had the brilliant idea of flipping the top over onto the contact paper and tracing the exact shape in pencil (there are little notches at each corner). </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It really helps when you marry a genius.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Using two sides of the contact paper to "square up" I only had to draw a few lines to complete the shape. I cut the paper out with scissors, and then I used an X-Acto knife to do some fine trimming.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used a sewing cutting mat to protect the kitchen table underneath.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that my hubby helped me (it's good to have 4 hands for this part), we took a little bit of the sticker backing off and slowly unrolled the contact paper as the other person made sure it was going down in the right spots.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey, that's fitting quite perfectly!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wow, that worked better than I anticipated. Now it looks like a marble top.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Somehow it looks like it weighs so much more now...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next step was to spray paint the wood bottom in a cute coordinating color for the room. She picked a light teal spray paint, and we took the pieces apart and laid them out in the back yard on some large cardboard pieces. <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Actual paint used was Krylon Color Master Paint + Primer in Gloss Blue Ocean Breeze</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was coat #1 - I tried to balance the pieces to maximize paint-able space.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started to spray paint, it was the weirdest thing. It was like the table had a force field impervious to spray paint. It would sort of stick, but patchy-like. I got a little worried, and my husband decided to sand one of the smaller pieces to see if that helped. It did a little, but not enough to make a big difference. We let that dry and by the time we started to add the 2nd coat, it started to go on a little better. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Doing light layers seemed to be the trick. I did end up using the whole can of spray paint to get the right coverage (thank you weird Swedish force field).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once we let it dry for a few hours, it really started to look nice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The only thing left was to put it back together.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The marble top slipped right back into the notches on the base no problem with the thin layer of contact paper</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ...and admire the results!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey, that's kind of pretty!</td></tr>
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In the new bedroom, we had decided on getting rid of our old, red, 30 year old love seat that had been donated to us years ago, and replacing it with this smart little love seat that also had a fold out twin bed for sleepover guests. I thought the new and improved Ikea table would make a nice "coffee" table for the love seat area. When not in use, I keep it over by my desk for an extra work surface.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love how it is matching elements in the rest of the room!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All in all, I am pleased how this little project turned out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We saved something from ending up in the dump, and now it has a brand new life in a "grown-up" teen room for many more years to come.</span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-78194968807189678472019-03-11T15:19:00.002-07:002019-03-12T16:54:11.702-07:00Llama Alpaca Birthday Cake<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What do you do when your tween loves, Llamas/Alpacas, Laser Tag, and Sleepovers? Well you have a Laser Llama Pajama party for her 12th birthday, of course! My middle really wanted a llama/alpaca cake for her big day, because her new favorite things (above all of the things) are llamas and alpacas. I went searching the interwebs for some cake inspiration, and what resulted was the cutest darn llama face cake in the history of tweendom.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is it a llama, or an alpaca? We'll let you decide. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's a couple tips on how to make one for yourself. I am in no way a professional baker by the way, just a regular mom that tries to obtain her kid's wishes through baked goods. You will need:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Round cake baked with 2 (or more layers)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Top (roundish) part of cake trimmed off (save that part for the raised llama nose) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Frosting in white and whatever other color you want to make your llama</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few easy gel frostings with easy tips in black and pink for the facial features</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The "grass tip" or Wilton tip (#233)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pale Laffy Taffy, or vanilla Tootsie rolls for the ears</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First, bake a two layer cake and stack the two layers. (Sometimes I will bake the cake the day before, let it cool, wrap them in plastic wrap and freeze until the following day when I'm ready to frost. Frozen cake is sometimes easier to frost with less of a crumb coat needed).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We used two 8-inch round cakes and layered them with strawberry jelly between the layers</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you pull the cake out of the oven, there is usually a "domed" up section in the middle of the pan. Use your knife to level off the top of the cake to make it flat, but take the "domed" top and cut out a small round circle to be the nose of your llama (this will make it looked raised and three dimensional). Place this little extra disc in the center of the cake for a visual on future placement. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Use the cut off top of the cake when you even it out to make an elevated llama nose</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Frost top of your cake with white frosting. Half of the llama's face will be white, with a "furry" blue layer around the frame of the face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take your little extra dome piece and frost that while on a separate plate.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's messy to frost the sides, but then pick the whole thing up with a fork or large spoon.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Move the domed "nose" to the center of the cake and using the grass tip (Wilton #233) start pipping little fur tufts all over the cake, being sure to leave an almost heart shaped white spot in the middle for the eyes, nose and mouth.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squeeze near the cake and pull up quickly to make little sections of "grass" or "fur" everywhere.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My original intention was to try and make the fluffy fur all over the cake, however, when I got close to the sides, I realized that the frosting was falling over too much (thanks to gravity) and so I opted last minute to use the blue frosting and frost around the sides. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can totally do the smooth sides in aqua right after you put the white frosting at the top near the beggning. I was sort of flying by the seat of my pants. I went back after the sides were on and put extra "grass" at the top and then went around the base and added grass there too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that you want to add the face. I used black pre-made frosting gel in a tube (with a decorative tip) to make the lines for the smile and the eyes with those most adorable eyelashes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The nose is a "U" shape with two mouth lines to make a smile, and then a large dot for the eye and three eye-lashes for fun</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Next came the cute little rosy cheek dots.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the pop of color in the cheeks</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next (and rather last minute) I wanted to add ears. We had a pineapple Laffy Taffy, but you could also use a vanilla Tootsie roll. You can either roll it around in a clean warm hand until you can shape it into a tear drop shape, or some people will microwave the candy for a few seconds to get it warm and pliable. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute, edible ears</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I sort of pinched the bottoms of the circles or teardrops to give it a more realistic look. I also put some extra frosting under where I wanted them to be to prop them up a bit. Isn't this the cutest stinkin' thing you've ever seen?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello, I'm adorable</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that, there was nothing left to do, but party!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bring on the party animals!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy 12th birthday Eva!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light da candles every-ting all right!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They had the best time. We got a lot of OOOoohs and Aaahhhhs when her friends saw the cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, if you have a llama lovin' tween in your life, a 4-H guru, need something for your Future Farmers of America party, or if you just want this cute face looking up at you at your next gathering, give this one a try. Let me know how it turns out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-88415577406181448682019-01-26T14:27:00.001-08:002019-01-26T14:39:08.319-08:00Corn Casserole - a new (old) side dish to try<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So my sister has been telling me about her new favorite side dish, she says it's like if corn and brownies had a baby. I was (of course) immediately intrigued! Think of it as a gooey, cornbread, with golden, crunchy edges, with a soft and fluffy center. You on board now too? Good, because you are going to want to make it for your next gathering, or tonight, or even possibly, right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After a bit of internet research it looks like this is a version of the classic Paula Dean recipe that's been around for ages, it's just new to me. You will need just a few ingredients:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 can corn (drained)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 can cream of corn (as is)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 cup sour cream</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 stick melted butter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 box of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 cup of shredded cheddar or combo shredded cheese</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Combine the drained corn and the creamed corn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that in 1 cup of sour cream, 1 stick of melted butter, and the box of Jiffy corn bread mix</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Place in a greased 8x8 pan and bake on 400º for 40 min or until golden brown</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bring it out of the oven when it's golden brown with crisp delectable edges.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who knew savory "corn brownies" would be a thing?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let this bad boy cool for 5-10 minutes to help set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that scoop some still warm onto your plate as a delicious side.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's corn bread... it's corn... it's a soufflé, it's a brownie... you decide!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I couldn't help but love the crispy golden edges... it was my favorite part!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is no bad angle on this thing, it's wall to wall scrumptious</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So if you want to try a new side (or revive an old classic) bring the hot, savory corn casserole to your next gathering. My sis wasn't sure it tastes as good the next day, I'll have to keep you posted. I was thinking about heating it up in a cast iron with a little butter tomorrow and let you know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-13262606945303612252019-01-07T13:24:00.001-08:002019-01-07T15:54:45.755-08:00Happy Happy Joy Joy - the story of how we got our kitty with the unusual markings<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello and Happy Happy Joy Joy to you in 2019!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wanted to share a cute, quick story of how we obtained Happy, our 4th kitty and his crazy unusual markings (and to wish you a happy new year)! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You might be thinking, now how does someone totally allergic to cats end up with four of them? Well we rescued a few, and one even adopted us. (I'm most likely just a saint, who's love for animals outweighs my pesky love of breathing... that's the ticket).<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> FYI - I'll post our four-kitty back story at the end of this post for those that are interested)</span>, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but now onto the mysterious little story how Happy became ours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So my middle child loves leopards. She loves cats. She loves animals! Two years in a row she had a cat-themed birthday party. One year was a leopard party, one year it was a kitty cat party.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the kids adopted stuffed kittens and dressed like kitties, and made collars for them</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What she really really wished for was a Bengal kitten, because they look just like a mini leopard. We already had what I thought was too many cats, and of course bangle kittens can be very pricey. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Bengal cat... adorable, very leopard like, and often pricey!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Plus we weren't going to spend a ton of money on a highly energetic and expensive cat, when most of our cats were rescues. I said almost sarcastically one day to her, look, if a Bengal kitten randomly shows up on our doorstep, we can totally keep it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As it got closer to her birthday, we though maybe we could find a kitty on Craigslist or somewhere local that needed a home, looked like a Bengal, but of course without the hefty price tag. After days of searching my husband found a very good candidate. </span><br />
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He was striped, with spots on his tummy, very unusual markings all over in leopard colors that were quite beautiful. He called the lady to get more information, and sadly she said sorry, someone was already coming that day to pick him up. Boo. We were pretty disappointed because he seemed so purrfect, but luckily we had not told the girls about any of this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The very next day, she called us back and said the other people never showed up, would we like to come see him. We said YES and she gave us her address.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Check this out, she lived IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, down the street, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">like SIX houses away! (practically on our doorstep). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We told the girls and took a short walk down the street to see the kitty. He was SO adorable. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Instant Happiness!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here he is looking so sweet and tiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> He had spots on his tummy, he looked like a mini leopard. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at that leopard tummy!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We fell in love. We took him home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My middle child named him "Happy" because she was so very happy! (Plus, our other cats all have 'H' names (Hemi, Haley, Henry - and now Happy)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So Happy became a part of our family. He lived up to his name and made everyone a little happier!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smiles all around!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As he got a little bigger, we noticed something a bit unusual. His stripes formed readable letters. We were totally SHOCKED when we realized what it spelled.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello world! Live, from the super soft blanket.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On one side of his body, the word spelled out "got" (like "got milk").</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See the "got"in the center of his body?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I will trace the letters so you can see it better:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His right side spells "got"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One the OTHER side of his body, the stripes spelled out "JOY"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"JOY"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Here's the traceable letters:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We actually couldn't believe it!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not. Kidding. His stripes spelled JOY! His name is HAPPY!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's
right, this random kitty who practically landed on our doorstep, who
looked like a little leopard, whom we named Happy because he brought my
Eva joy, has the words "Got Joy" on his body!</span> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy - meant to be a part of our family</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's one of those goose bump moments where you just know something was just meant to be!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I thought this would be the happiest of stories to start off the 2019 year with, and I wanted to wish a happy HAPPY new year to you and yours!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wishing this new year brings you happiness!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*Here's the four-kitty back story for those that are interested:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We lived in a town house when we were first married when a feral kitty showed up at our back door. I fed him tuna because that's all I had on hand, he was hungry, and of course (well I know now) after the tuna, he never left. He was mostly an outdoor kitty and so I didn't have to worry about my allergies (he didn't want to come in). After we moved to our new house, we took the kitty with us but sadly one summer night a few years later, he didn't come home. Heartbroken we searched for weeks around the neighborhood and all the shelters with no luck. While we were at the shelter, about a month later, we did look at some other cats that needed to be adopted. In box #2 was a little kitty that we took into a room and he instantly loved us. We decided to take him home. He purred like a little engine and so we named him Hemi. I also thought it was a sign that he was in box #2, he was cat #2 for us. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hemi and Vivian when she was a baby</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hemi also was an indoor/outdoor kitty, and that was ALL the cats we were going to have... because of my allergies... Ha. that's funny now.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hemi - all grown up and regal looking (we think he's part main coon)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So one day several years later, we were over at my father-in-law's house and they had a little female kitten, orange and white with blue eyes. She was the softest, fluffiest, kitty ever. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haley - fluffy and so so soft.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She was a Manx breed (without a tail), and she didn't have a home. I took one look at her and told my husband (much to his shock) that she was coming home with us. I surprised myself actually, but they didn't have a home for her, the last female of the litter, and something about her said she needed to come home with us. We named her Haley. She's a sweet but very shy kitty. She only likes quiet people and adores the girls. If you come to my house you might never see her. She stays in mostly one room upstairs. She adores me. She sleeps on my hip at night. She purrs like crazy. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haley two days ago, sleeping on my hip</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: I think I've built up a tolerance with my allergies. I am not bothered by the cats unless I touch them and then touch my eyes or face. I just wash my hands and vacuum a lot. Needless to say I went from a dog person to a cat person since being married, which rather shocked my whole family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So two kitties is way more than I ever planned to own. We were good. Then a few years later a very pale orange kitty followed the girls home. They kept calling him "orange kitty" but he was so pale, I joked he looked like the ghost of an orange kitty. He literally camped out on my doorstep, curled on our front mat like he owned the place. I'm not sure if there was an invisible sign outside our house that said "these people are suckers for cats" or "cats welcome" or what, but it was freezing outside and he stayed right on our front mat. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I
felt so bad, he was so skinny. I gave him some tuna, because I was
making some for lunch (see my pattern) and then bam. He was ours.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eva taking care of Henry when he first adopted us and came inside. He was very grateful.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Note: Well we took him to the vet first to make sure he wasn't tagged or chipped, put notices out in the neighborhood to make sure he wasn't someone's pet already. When no one responded after a good amount of time, we gave him his shots and chipped him). We also gave him his name, which is officially "The Ghost of King Henry VIII" or Henry for short (mostly due to my love of all things in the Tudor period, plus his super pale color).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry and Eva are still great pals to this day.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that is the story of how we have so many cats. Happy came along a few years back and completed our cat family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So make the most of this year ahead! Adopt a pet, add a friend to the family, love each other and treat each other with all kindness - all year through!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-9234923322379080722018-12-19T15:00:00.003-08:002018-12-19T15:23:36.646-08:00Adorable Snowmen - made from Dollar Store socks!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well there have been many recipes and crafts on the back burner that I need to share with you as the holidays approach at top speed, but I thought I'd start with some of the cutest little snow people that we made as gifts for teachers and family members over the holidays last year. They were so fun we made them this year as well. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No-sew snowmen made out of dollar store socks!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The best part about this craft is, that it's great for adults and kids alike. I had just as much fun making these (if not more) than the girls did. The other awesome aspect to this craft, is that it only requires a few simple items from the dollar tree, a few other craft supplies, and no sewing!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snowman made from socks, customize one for every style and taste.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look how cute these little guys are! I got this idea from pinterest a few months back, and not only were these the craft at my daughter's 12th birthday party, but many family members, teachers, and friends each received a custom snowman just for them. Here are the items you will need:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: You can also use "lost" socks at your house that you can't find the pair for.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Materials: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">White (long) men's socks (sold in packs of 2 at the Dollar tree)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fluffy socks (stripes work best, and also no ankle-length or grips on the feet)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Scissors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rubber bands</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rice (I bought a 20 lb bag of rice from Walmart)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pearl stickers (I could only fine white, so we colored them black with sharpies)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hot glue gun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tall narrow cup (to pour the rice in the sock) and funnel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Optional:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cotton balls or jingle bells</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Buttons </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Embellishments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9x13 pan to catch all the rice </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take out one men's sock. The part you are going to use is not the foot part, but the section that would go up the leg with the ribbing. With sharp scissors, cut about 1 inch past the end of the ribbing, close to the start of the heel. Place the toe part of the sock aside.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each two pack of men's socks will make 2 snowmen.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Turn the sock inside out and gather the thickest end into a tight "flower" pinching together the ends and put a rubber band around the top several times to secure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Turn the sock right side out again, with the rubber band end tucked inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fill a tall cup with uncooked rice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We found that this tall water bottle was narrow and the perfect size to slide a sock over. A thin, tall travel coffee mug would work as well. We used a funnel to help the rice go into the right place. Oh we also used a 9x13 pan under all the rice activity to help keep rice from flying all over the kitchen.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 9x13 pan saved us a lot of sweeping up time later</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Place the open end of the sock over the top of the cup and gently flip over. Carefully let the rice start filling up the sock. It will look like there is too much rice, but if you push the bottom of the sock down a few times as it is filling, it will stretch/widen out and more rice will fit. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You don't want to overfill the sock, because rice will start to come out the stretched out holes.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the very end, carefully remove the cup without letting the rice fly all over the place. There should be about an inch of sock material at the end. Leave enough to gather together.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Once the sock is full of rice, it is quite mold-able to the shape you want.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Push the sock down again until you can gather enough material at the top to cinch another rubber band in place. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Your snowman project will look a little fat and flabby at this point.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At first the shape should look like a pear, with a wide bottom, going up to a narrow top. Now you can shape the "head" of the snowman by squeezing in slightly above center to form two "balls". </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This will give your future snowman a "peanut" shape</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Place a rubber band around the head (this will be hidden by the "scarf" later on), and the Mohawk at the top will be covered up by the hat.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Make sure your head is a good proportional size. Readjust the rubber band if necessary</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now the fun part, to make the scarf and hat from the fluffy fuzzy socks. Pick out one you like and you are going to make a few cuts. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">fluffy socks from the dollar tree work great for this project. (no ankle length or grips on the bottom)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Start at the tip of the toe and measure up 4-5 inches, before the heel and cut across. This will be your little hat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will get four pieces out of one sock. The hat from the toe, the neck piece (part of the scarf) from the top of the sock, and then a scarf tie to make the scarf more realistic looking right below the neck section, and then there will be an extra piece you don't need made up of the heel area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take the toe part of your sock and flip over a bit of the bottom to form a brim (fuzzy socks have a lot of fluff, we pulled off a few fuzz balls as we went to make them look neater).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now you have a cute little hat for your snowperson.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Find the cutest "face-looking" side of your head and pull the hat down over the top to see how it fits. Adjust the width of the brim if necessary. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little guy is from the first year we made these.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now for the scarf. Take the end of the sock where the elastic is, and cut a strip at the top there about an inch wide.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "neck" part is at the very top of the sock.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This will be the scarf that goes around the neck and hides the rubber band. Place your scarf over the head of your snowman.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The elastic at the end of the sock will help keep the neck part of the scarf in place</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cut another strip right up to where the heel starts (see map above) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This will be in a ring, but cut the ring open and make one long strip for the scarf. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making this a longer strip will help make the scarf on the snowman look more realistic.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Run this up and over the elastic neck ring to make it look like the snow person has tied their scarf up and the tassels are hanging down.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So hat, elastic neck scarf, and longer scarf is tucked up and under the next area.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now you pretty much have a super cute snowman! If the scarf tassels are too long, you can trim them up a bit until they rest near the bottom of the snowman.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's our guy from last year looking all dapper.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can also choose to tie the loose long scarf piece to the neck scarf for a tied scarf look, or you can leave it flat and wide for a different look.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The snowman on the left has a tied knot for his scarf, the one on the right the material is just slipped through the neck one.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All we need are some eyes and a few embellishments. I found these pearl stickers in the craft section of Walmart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The only color they had was pale white, so we just used black sharpies to make them "coal" colored. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stick them on to your snowman's face. These are sort of a stick once and don't touch them again kind of sticker. You really can't move them around because they will lose their stick.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Too big of an eye makes them look a little wonky, so test a size out before you stick.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We picked a few coordinating buttons and hot glued them to the snowman's body.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My daughters teacher told her she loves blue and purple, so that's the color scheme here.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This last part for the hat is optional. The hat does tend to stick straight up, depending on how long it is, and so to make it look more like a floppy Santa/Elf hat, I took a little blob of hot glue and touched the tip of the hat to the side of the hat and held it a few seconds. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snowgirl fashionistas.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To cover up the little glue spot, we took some puff balls and/or jingle bells and hot glued them to the top of the hat. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a shorter hat with the pom pom straight up, and here's a hat where we glued a little part of the hat over, for another cute look.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It really gave them a finishing touch. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can also use jingle bells, pom poms, anything you want.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My daughter and friends had a blast making these little guys a few years back as the craft for her sleep over birthday. They loved picking their favorite colors and they all turned out really cute.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fun party craft for kids that are a little older, otherwise you will have rice EVERYWHERE.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also when the girls were making these for their teachers, they picked their teachers' favorite colors or sports team colors. I made a few for my mom in her favorite Seahawks colors and some for my Sis-in-law who's high school colors (she's a teacher) are purple and gold. So fun.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sports team colors for a customized gift... Here are Seahawks, and Sumner Spartan or WA Huskies school colors.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The teacher's this year just loved their personalized gifts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The girls had fun designing these little guys to the tastes of the people they were making them for. We even used them to decorate one side of our fireplace mantle, which had a snowman theme this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had a blast making these little guys, and it's not too late to make a few for some last minutes gifts for friends and family. Not to mention, if your kids are home on winter break and need something to keep them busy, this little craft could be right up your alley. Let me know if you make any of these and post pictures of how they turned out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have a great holiday season! </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-10305960219966343172018-11-27T13:32:00.000-08:002018-11-27T13:33:16.000-08:00Intant Pot - Chicken for Tacos<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Will the wonders of the Instant Pot never cease? So here's a scenario: You've been busy all day, and suddenly it's 5 o'clock! Did you plan something for dinner? Well of course you didn't, it's been a crazy day! Is there going to be other humans depending on you to whip something up regardless? Why yes, yes there is. Enter the Instant Pot. It will take FROZEN Costco chicken breasts and turn them into a meal in 15+minutes. That's right, you heard me. Once again defying the laws of cooking physics, the Instant Pot will save the day.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Instant pot: Cooking frozen chicken and saving one dinner at a time.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what you will need:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4-5 frozen Costco chicken breasts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 cup of your favorite salsa</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 cup of water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/2 cup taco seasoning (also from Costco)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Salt and pepper to taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's super easy. Plunk down the frozen breasts into the bottom of the pot.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "clang" the frozen chicken hits the pot is somewhat unsettling, but oh the payoff in a few short minutes!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dump over the salsa, water, taco seasoning, and salt and pepper.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chicken Taco meat, it's almost too easy</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seal the lid and plug in the machine. Hit the "Poultry" setting which will give you a default time of 15 min on high pressure. Let the pot do it's thang.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While the chicken is coming up to temperature, you can run around and chop some lettuce (for taco salads), grab some sides like chips, shredded cheese, olives, chips, and salsa, or taco shells for the kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the 15 minute timer goes off, let it sit for about 5 more minutes (wait time optional, if you're in a rush) then release the steam valve and pop that baby open as soon as you are ready.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take the chicken out of the pot and shred on a plate with two forks or a knife and a fork, depending on how you like your chicken chunks. I make sure at this time to also remove any fat or veins, or anything unappetizing so it's just chicken. I also take a peek a the liquid back in the pot and skim off any unmentionables. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Place the shredded chicken back in the sauce and stir. See if it needs anymore seasoning and then you are good to go! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I use a slotted spoon to scoop the meat out of the liquid and serve.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can also drain off most of the liquid while you are shredding if you want less moisture</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that, just scoop some into a taco shell, plop on some shredded lettuce for a taco salad, and stack your favorite toppings on top.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An easy meal and a tasty one too.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My kids used to only eat ground beef tacos, now we've expanded their horizons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's great the next day with left overs too, or bring some to work for lunch with a "taco salad kit" and make your co-workers jealous. My hubby loves doing that.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He'll send me pics profusely thanking me for "Taco Salad 2.0"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My daughter made chicken and cheese nachos for lunch the next day on her own, so that worked out well. It's the gift that keeps on giving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This quick journey from completely unplanned, sad, and frozen, to fast, tasty, and fabulous makes the whole family happy! While at the same time making YOU feel like a hero because you literally pulled this dinner out of thin air (making you seem far more reliable than you actually are and pretty much all around awesome). Thanks Instant Pot!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turkey bread rolls are beautiful... fun to make... AND delicious!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are these adorable or what? The best part is the the kids can help make them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The nice thing about these rolls, is that you can make them from frozen pre-made bread dough, which is great if you are busy with other Thanksgiving day prep. We bought the 5 pack of Rhodes frozen bread loaves and used them to make our turkeys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The original recipe from the Rhodes kids baking blog (not there now) wanted you to defrost the dough over night in the fridge in a greased covered container or some sprayed wax paper and then roll them out into a circle...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">then cut the circle into 6 wedges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, I found it <u>very difficult</u> to get the dough to WANT to be rolled from an oblong shape into a round shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">New solution! It's easier AND it makes more sense:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Expanding the already there "loaf" shape was much easier! And makes more turkey rolls per loaf.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now take your pizza cutter and cut zig-zag triangles until you have 9 wedges. Each dough loaf will make 9 turkeys!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One loaf = 9 turkey rolls. Those odd shapes at the end you can form into a wedge shape later, because it's dough.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once you have your wedges, take some kitchen scissors and snip some 1 inch cuts in the wide end of the triangle to make the tail feathers.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snip one inch down and about one inch wide strips. Four cuts makes 5 "feathers".</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next, in a greased muffin tin, place the triangle wedge down in the center of the muffin creator. The "tail feathers", or the wide part of the triangle you snipped cuts into should go up the side of the muffin tin and a little over the side. The "beak" or pointy end of the dough should go up the other side of the muffin cup and poke out of the top.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You kind of cram the dough down to the bottom of the muffin tin, then spread out the feathers and turkey head</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since these overflow out of the cup, we ended up placing them in every other cup, so they'd have a chance to rise and bake. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love my larger 24 muffin cup pan, it's great for a million birthday cupcakes, or these!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Place covered in a warm place and let them rise for an hour. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shhh - rising bread taking place</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once they are a little puffier, it's time to bake. Place in an oven at 350º for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute lil' turkey rolls</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">FYI - Since the original link isn't there (I called Rhodes today to let them know, so maybe they will re post it) but check them at 20 min see if they need more time.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up from our first batch</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brush with a bit of butter while they are still warm.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You've heard of ducks in a row... these are turkeys in a row</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They turned out really cute and the girls had a blast making them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh this is funny. The first loaf we did, where there was only six wedges from a circle, the turkeys were HUGE and blew up like fat little monsters. Ha. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These turkeys are here to PUMP... YOU UP!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(We put those guys at the very bottom of the bowl and left the prettiest ones on top).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Such a great little baking project. You can make these ahead of time and
heat them up on the big day wrapped in some foil while the other sides are
heating up and the turkey is resting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The kids will love to contribute to the holiday festivities. Not only do they get to help with the food prep BUT also impress their cousins on their baking prowess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let me know if you make this with your kids, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.</span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-72003155769795475752018-10-18T11:50:00.001-07:002018-10-18T11:50:11.484-07:00Wine Cork Pumpkins<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had a friend recently invite me over for lunch. Not only was there yummy food when I arrived, but a surprise craft she had been dying to try. I walked in and in front of me was a table full of autumn leaves, wine corks, hot glue guns, stamps, ink pads, and crafts supplies as far as the eye could see! I was in heaven! There could have easily been a heavenly autumn light shining down from above onto the table with crafty angel voices singing... does this lady know my love language or what? She wanted to make wine cork pumpkins!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wine cork pumpkins are a perfect little addition to your autumn/harvest decor</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My friend let me know she had been dutifully drinking wine (for several years I hope, as she had THREE gallon sized bags of corks) and tucking the corks away for just such an occasion.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaves, and corks, and glue guns, oh my!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were many to choose from. The red wine corks had nice shades of purple, some pink, some brown on the tips of the cork. The white wine corks had stayed their original light tan color. We separated the corks into two piles, the red wine and the white. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you love wine and crafts, this wine cork pumpkin is right up your alley!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were using some pictures off Pinterest for our inspiration, as some looked a bit pentagonal (angular instead of round edges) and we picked out one that had a more rounded look using the following pattern:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I picked out an array of corks with different colors. She had some stamp pads in plum and orange colors to help "enhance" any of the corks that needed an extra splash of a harvest color tint of our choosing. I lined up my first row of five and simply started using a line of hot glue to connect the corks to each other.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I tried to pick a good mix of reds, purples, natural, and then one "enhanced orange" using the stamp pad</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The glue gun makes fast work of the stacking. Now onto row two which has six corks. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mixing up the colors a bit so it makes a random pattern of different fall shades</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rows 3 & 4 are seven corks long. I sort of laid them out in front of the project to continue that "random" pattern where the same color isn't next to itself, but to mix and match all the shades throughout the same row, and not lined up with the color in the row below it. It's like wine cork Sudoku.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When gluing between two corks I ran two lines of hot glue, one on each cork below for better adhesion</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The interesting thing here is, the first three rows interlock with each other each time you add a new row, however the second row of seven is actually stacked directly on top of the row below it. This will give you a more rounded pumpkin in the end, but be sure to use corks around the same size so they don't throw off your row height.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love how the different shades are working out here, some light, some dark, some purple, some orange</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next row is back to six corks. I am not only gluing the new cork to the two corks below it, but a third line of glue to stick to the cork next to it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost done with our cork pumpkin!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The final row is the same as the first with five corks.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's turned out very cute!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, you get to gussy it up with some finishing touches. I chose an exceptionally cute cork without any blemishes to be the "stem" of my pumpkin. We also glued some realistic plastic fall leaves she had (branches from the dollar store). A few of the branches had little acorns on them, so I thought that made a nice little touch.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wine cork pumpkins could become all the rage</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For a last little topper she surprised me by pulling out some raffia ribbon (looks like straw ribbon) that helped give it a rustic, yet finished the look.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The finished wine cork pumpkin!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here was her finished design:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So adorable! I love the yellow leaf here it looks very real, plus her stem has a top that looks great</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We decided to try them out on a shelf she already had. They went really well with her existing decor. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wine cork pumpkins in their natural habitat....</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was such a fun little project to do over a lunch visit! They would make a great little display for your entry table or fire place. Make a set in different sizes, and display together. It could also be a cute little gift for a friend or a thank you give for a hostess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I put mine right on the entry table as soon as I got home, and it fit right it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wine cork pumpkins rock.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So get some friends together, drink copious amounts of wine (or start saving up your corks from now on) and do a little craft project together. Bringing the world closer one craft at a time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-52342662201236177092018-10-09T23:34:00.001-07:002018-10-10T07:00:55.630-07:00Stakehouse Molasses Bread<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've finally found it! You know that tasty, craveable, slightly sweet, dark, molasses bread that comes with your meal at steakhouses around the country? Well, I've been trying to make it at home. I've tried multiple recipes online and haven't been satisfied with the results, until last night. I have finally found one that works great! The bread is beautiful, soft, and flavorful! It has a great texture and is best served warm from the oven and slathered with butter!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steakhouse Molasses bread! Soft, sweet, and hot from the oven.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's get started. This recipe by the way was found at <a href="https://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/steakhouse-sweet-brown-molasses-bread-recipe-just-like-outback.html" target="_blank">"It's always Autumn"</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ingredients:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 cup warm water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 Tablespoon active dry yeast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 Tablespoon of sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 3/4 cup of wheat flour</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 egg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 Tablespoons of butter, room temp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 Tablespoons of molasses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/4 cup of honey </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 cups of bread flour (can also use AP flour)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 Tablespoon natural baking cocoa</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 t<span id="goog_1013409476"></span><span id="goog_1013409477"></span>easpoon of salt </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Optional: 1 egg for an egg wash, and quick oats for a pretty topping </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Printable recipe found here: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/clevercraftycookinmamarecipes/steakhouse-molasses-bread" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click me!</span></a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First put 1 cup of warm water, 1 Tablespoon of dry active yeast, and 1 Tablespoon of sugar into your stand mixer. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'll admit, this looks a tad gross. Like I need a lab coat and a beaker to proceed.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let it "proof" for 10 minutes, (or sit around until bubbly and foamy).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ah that's better... I think</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add in 1 3/4 cup whole wheat flour, 1 egg, 2 Tablespoons of room temperature butter, 2 Tablespoons of molasses and 1/4 cup of honey. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finally found a "molasses bread" that actually uses real molasses!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once combined a little bit, add in 1 cup of the bread flour (we just used regular AP unbleached flour), 1 Tablespoon of baking cocoa power, and 1 teaspoon of salt. Turn the mixer on low (with the bread paddle).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's the unsweetened cocoa power that gives this bread it's darker hue, but luckily not a chocolate flavor at all.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mix the dough together a bit, then add in the last 1/2 cup to 1 cup of flour. I ended up using the whole remaining 1 cup. Kneed the dough for 10 min on low, until the dough ball pulls away from the sides. The dough should be soft and elastic. Pull the dough out and roll it into a ball, place in a bowl where it can rise for 60-90 min, covered and in a warm place.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty lil' dough ball</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After 90 minutes (we did the full time recommended) we peeked under the tea towel and found it had doubled in size.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hello big ol' bread lump!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We decided to split the dough in half, to make two long loaves, because my hubby gave me this handy dandy french bread loaf pan, that makes two loaves at the same time (and helps the loaves keep their shape instead of flattening out like they would on a regular cookie sheet).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just sort of stretched and gently pulled the dough into a long tubular shape</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then your bread needs to rise a 2nd time for an hour. In a non-drafty place.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You really have to be patient to make yummy bread.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After an hour the bread has started to fill out the loaf pan. Since I wanted this to look and taste like the bread you get at the Blank Angus Restaurant around these parts, I brushed the top of the loaves with an egg wash</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then sprinkle on some of those quick oats and they will stick to the egg wash.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look how pretty! Now it looks like a longer version of the round rolls you share at the restaurant </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bake the bread at 350º for 27-30 min. By the time these are ready to come out of the oven, your house will smell amazing!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Activate smell-o-vision here</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can let the bread cool all the way, or if you're like me and can't resist, cool it just a little and try to cut a slice while it's still warm so it will melt the butter.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our hopes were high at this point. It looked great... it smelled great... but would it taste great?</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My hubby surprised us with some fancy Kerry Gold Irish butter, he had been saving for just such an occasion. The bread was still warm enough to start slowly melting the butter... YUM.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steakhouse Molasses Bread, warm from the oven</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We served this with some slow cooker loaded baked potato soup and green salad with garlic butter croutons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have to thank Autumn for this recipe that turned out fantastic! It's soft, it's got a great texture, it smells fabulous... AND it tastes amazing. It's the closest I've ever come to that yummy restaurant bread at home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This would go great with a number of warm soups you make this fall and winter, but I will admit, it also tasted delicious toasted up in the morning for a hearty little breakfast treat. So look no further, I've done all the searching for you. Make this molassess bread and you won't regret it!</span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-38530437480954568342018-09-09T12:11:00.001-07:002018-09-09T12:23:38.109-07:00Gussying up a 2-inch binder<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well it's back to school time again. Time for those long school supply lists and new clothes, and backpacks, and science calculators... you get the drift. Anyway, now that I'm the proud owner of some teens and tweens, we have added 2-inch binders added to our lists of things we need. The required 2-inch binders the school requested are plain, boring, and usually only available in two colors (black or white), as opposed to the 1 1/2 in binders, which come in every pretty and/ or sparkly pattern in the known universe. Why the larger binders don't get the same fancy treatment? We may never know. The girls had the thought last year that we really needed to gussy up our binders by personalizing them. We ended up having so much fun doing it again this year, I thought we'd post about it. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">School Binders - all gussied up and personalized</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All you will need for this project is a plain, plastic sleeve binder (of any size), and then scrapbook paper, magazines, old calendars, print outs from the computer, stickers, anything your heart desires. This doesn't have to be just for school kids. I ended up using this same technique on some plain 3-ring binders for my work as well and they are so pretty to look at now!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I let the girls first pick a "theme" for the binder. We used scrapbook paper in pretty colors to use as a background. My middle loves leopards, so her was pretty easy to start with. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She LOOOOOVES leopards.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We ended up using some computer print-outs we had left over from her leopard party, and that strip in the middle binding area is a leopard paper sack lunch bag (we had used them as favor bags at the party). We had an extra one of lying around that we trimmed up and it was put to good use.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leopards on the inside too! She can put school papers behind the leopard print out, and fun drawings she did in front of it.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't forget the inside sleeves! More leopards and to top it off, we found a leopard pencil holder pouch, which finished off the look. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a few different pages of scrapbook paper in coordinating colors</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The other two girls originally just picked pretty scrapbook paper in coordinating colors the first year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My youngest wanted shades of pink on the inside (but of course), with sparkling folders and a pink pencil pouch to tie everything together.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These folders are a fun way to add some pizzazz and fun into your work or school day.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year we got a little more fancy! We still used the scrapbook paper as a background, but added pictures according to the new themes they picked this year. For my youngest, she loves all things having to do with husky dogs. Check our her folder this year:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Husky dogs make adorable binder covers</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We used an old calendar. Okay not even an old one, it was THIS YEAR's calendar, and we used all the months up to August. We also used the tiny thumbnails on the back of the calendar and used the tiny pictures as both the seam down the middle of the binder, and the pockets on the inside. To help keep the smaller pics from sliding around, we taped them to some scrapbook paper to keep them in place under the plastic sleeve. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The scrapbook paper keeps the little pictures in place</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not to mention the scrapbook paper makes it so much easier to slide the smaller pictures down into sleeve area, which can be a tight fit. It looks adorable now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And my oldest had immersed herself in all things K-pop (Korean pop music) culture, k-drama, etc. and wanted groups like BTS, NCT, Red Velvet, and Stray kids all over her binder.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm sure if your kids are in the BTS "army" right now they are probably gasping all the air out of the room.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, her binder edge she thought some of the band logos would fit nicely down the side.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She was so excited to find these vertical logos for the groups</td></tr>
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Even my somewhat boring work folders received a make over too and they are
quite enjoyable to look at now throughout the work week. It's a win win
for all. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Such a nice thing to look at during the work day!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>So all and all we had a great time, we used recycled materials or things we had on hand to personalize and gussy up the folders for school. If they change their mind or want to add to the folder throughout the year it totally up to them and easily adjustable! Happy creating to you and yours!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ham, cheese and egg cups, a quick easy breakfast or a super fast dinner!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ham</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shredded cheese</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Muffin pan (greased with cooking spray)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Salt/Pepper/Seasoned salt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Parsley (optional) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Place slices of ham (we had thin sliced lunch meat) in the bottom of a greased muffin tray. I only did one slice this first time out, Next time I will use bigger pieces or maybe 2 pieces of ham</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girls thought these looked like flowers. Next time I'll add two pieces to make a slightly larger holder for the egg</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sprinkle some shredded cheddar cheese in the bottom of the ham cups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then crack one egg in each muffin space</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The eggs filled the muffin cup all the way to the top, luckily they stayed in place</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wasn't sure if these would be well liked, so we just made a few to try out the first time</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bake for 12-15 minutes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> (Note the video stated 15 minutes,
which left us with almost solid yokes, while reading the printed recipe said 12-15 minutes). Next time I will back off the
time a few minutes to get a slightly runnier center. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add a sprinkle of parsley to make it loo fancy... and there you have it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pop these babies out of the muffin tin and plate up with some biscuits and fruit.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty and delicious! Not to mention low carb and keto friendly too if you eat them alone.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was surprised even my child that is not that crazy about eggs ate this and asked for a second one! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ham baked up nicely into a thin, crispy "shell" around the edge, and it tasted very much like prosciutto.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">15 minutes was a little too long for our liking but the flavors were great. Next time 12 or 13 minutes I'm thinking.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was so easy the kids want to make it by themselves next time, so that's a big win win for us. Besides being great for breakfast or a quick dinner, these would also be great if you are cooking for a crowd. Just pop in several muffin trays and you could be cooking a dozen breakfasts at once! Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I could have also easily titled this blog post "How to make your 10-year-old super happy on her summer break". I don't know if you have any small fry underfoot this summer, but my youngest has been asking me non stop to make "slime". Ah, slime. It sounds so appetizing, no? Not just any slime though mind you, she wanted to make the most super dee-duper fluffiest slime in the known universe! If your kids watch any YouTube videos at all, they will have most likely come across at least one form of a "slime" recipe or another, if not millions of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's pretty, it's colorful, it feels fun and funky - and sometimes makes fart noises...what's not to love? Plus when you whip some up, it feels a bit like a science experiment. Luckily my 10-year old had done some "extensive" online research before presenting me with the ultimate slime recipe (in her opinion) that was decidedly the fluffiest on the internet. We found our recipe <a href="https://youtu.be/s1IS20IWE8o" target="_blank">here on YouTube</a> and thanks to Gillian for the great how to video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Slime can be made with some things that you can find around your house, and then some things you might have to pick up at the store. These are the things we used for our first time recipe: </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ingredients for super fluffy slime</td></tr>
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ingredients:</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elmer's glue (1/2 cup)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shaving cream (1/2 cup)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Corn starch (1 tablespoon)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Food Coloring (few drops)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hand lotion (few squirts)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hand soap (original called for foaming hand soap we didn't have - two squirts)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Borax </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*Also it's good to note we used all glass containers so we could sanitize them properly after (as opposed to plastic that might absorb the soap residues) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First thing you want to do is get 1 cup of water in a glass measuring cup and add 1 teaspoon of Borax. Stir with a metal spoon until dissolved and set aside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next you want to get 1/2 cup of glue. I didn't want to use our measuring cups we cook with, so we measured out in this glass mini bowl what a 1/2 cup would be first, so we knew where to pour to make a 1/2 cup.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We started blogging on the 2nd batch of slime, hence the already used bowls</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next you want to add a 1/2 cup of shaving cream.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">shaving cream expands all fluffy-like and this was our second batch where we were making a bit more</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After that, add 1 tablespoon of cornstarch.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was okay using our measuring spoons because cornstarch is normally in the food category</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Mix together those three ingredients until blended well</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We used a metal spoon while mixing in the glass bowl</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now you want to add a few squirts of hand lotion. We were told on the YouTube video this would make the slime "stretchy"</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just two squirts of hand lotion</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next part of the recipe called for a few squirts of foaming hand soap, which we didn't have, so we just put in a couple squirts of regular hand soap, which made it smell very nice.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had soft soap on hand</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mix together until smooth</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RESIST the attempt to believe this is whipped cream. Do not lick the spoon. Do not lick the spoon!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now you can add whatever food coloring you want.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first time she did pink, the 2nd batch of slime she picked blue.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And blend until the color starts to come out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now here's the most "science-y" part of the experiment. You want to slowly add the borax/water mixture 1 tablespoon at a time into the bowl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as soon as your start to stir, the things in the bowl start to come together a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then you add a little more borax water... and a ball starts to form</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add a little more and it starts pulling away from the bowl and onto itself. At this point you can pick it up and start working it a bit like bread dough</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We added a little more of the borax liquid and she was stretching and forming it into a ball.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few more drops of the liquid and it started to get really shiny and come together pretty good!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wow an official ball of fluffy slime!!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Success! One of the fun things to do with slime is to poke your fingers in it like you are making some focaccia bread and it makes this marvelous "sucking" sound when you pull your fingers out of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had made a pink batch before we started blogging, and that one got the finger treatment as well!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It also looks fun as a perfect rounded ball, it can take on many shapes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also, when you tear it apart, there are supposed to be many fluffy bubbles in the middle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ooo and the most fun thing about fluffy slime is the way it can stretch "a million miles" according to most 10-year-olds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I mean, come on now, look how happy and proud she is that she made her own fluffy slime!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then, she wanted to know what would happen if she mixed a little of the pink and blue together, would it make purple??</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adding two colors together, at first they stayed in stripes, eventually they blended.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She wanted a brighter purple, so we added some food coloring right to the small ball and she worked it in until the color got a bit darker</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were also told to store these in an air tight container or a Ziploc plastic bag where you squish all the air out of it and store it in the fridge to make it last longer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's also a good idea to wash your hands before and after playing with the slime and definitely keep it off the ground or anywhere it could attract hair, dirt, or crumbs (see where my hate of all things play doh related in one of my first ever blog rants.. <a href="http://www.clevercraftycookinmama.com/2008/06/play-doh-clay-of-satan.html#.Wzr2YCAnaUk" target="_blank">here</a>) to keep it at it's fluffy, slimy best! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All and all this was a fun little craft and she loved every second of it. It has been two days since we created "the slime" and she is still playing with the stuff. Hooray for easy fun summer activities that keep the girls busy and hold their attention. Yay!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well the super wet rainy season for this La Nina year has finally ended, and the sun is out! Many Washingtonians wander outside, start squinting at that giant golden orb in the sky, and their thoughts immediately turn to planting flowers and gathering veggie starts for the gardens! I have always had in the back of my mind that when the girls were old enough, we would do fairy gardens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fairy gardens are surprisingly not cheap! You can buy cute adorable houses and tiny fairy accessories, but they add up quick, especially when you multiply them by three. We actually gathered some of our supplies over a year before we started, hit clearance sales, used coupons, and stashed away a nice little assembly of all things little fairies might need to make their spaces adorably cute. You can also make your own houses out of sticks, natural materials, buttons, thimbles, anything your imagination can come up with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First you have to decide what what kind of theme you want for your garden. You could do the seaside, camping, tea party... the options are endless. We opted for three little enchanted gardens with houses, rivers, bridges, flowers, and even had enough items left over to do a little camping garden. So stinking cute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The other thing you have to decide is what kind of container your fairies are going to live in. Pinterest has a great assortment of fabulous ideas you can use as a spring board for your own imagination. Big flower pots, bird baths, wheelbarrows, even broken flower pots. The other thing you have to decide is space. Where are your fairies going to live? Front porch? Front yard? Our little neighborhood is pretty tame crime wise, but I still didn't want any of our little fairies or homes or miniature items to wander off (mostly because our house is next to the school bus stop), so we choose to place them in the back yard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We started with three containers, large, medium, and small. To make it less heavy we filled the bottom half of the container with Styrofoam and then covered the rest in dirt.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Styrofoam makes the containers light and easy to move if needed.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had this idea to place a similar, smaller container on top of the biggest container. That way two fairy gardens could take up a small amount of space and at the same time be more visually appealing. I had a third medium sized container in front, giving it a stair step look, where you could see all the fairy lands at the same time. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got these "aged" bronze looking pots (though they are plastic) at home depot. They looked expensive though!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once we got the dirt in place, and we had purchased the flowers (we tried to buy small flowers that would make it look "to scale"), it's a good idea to place the items around your pot (plants still in their original pots) to make sure all the plants and fairy accessories will fit.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was so fun! We did quite a bit of rearranging to see which flowers should go with each fairyland.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So my oldest wanted the top floor (penthouse, it's the best). She opted for a cute little flower house, swing set, a mini white picket fence, and a wheelbarrow full of tiny flowers. She also wanted to do a rock path from the house to the edge of the fence (which we add later).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This turned out so charming. The picket fence was flexible and bent around the edge nicely.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My middle two wanted to "share" the bottom pot. We found a little house that said "Believe" on the door and planted flowers all around. We used little decorative marbles to make a "river" through the property and placed a flowery bridge over the "water". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We happened to find these super cute sister fairies holding a little kitty and a flowering bench to sit on.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They thought these two fairies were them with our cat Henry. Perfect!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The middle level was deemed the picnic, play ground, tea and cookies area for the fairy neighborhood. We found a little metal table that was black, and decided to spray paint it sparkly purple. Better!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The little gazebo, birdbath, flower lamp post and tiny hedgehog make things extra sweet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Later we got really creative and placed the tiniest tea services you've ever seen (we coated that with some sealer clear spray paint to help with weathering), complete with goodies. We also thought the seesaw and stepping stones were too bland, so we added some color and more sealant.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yay... color is good!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We also found some super tiny, mini terracotta pots and superglued tiny flowers (found at Hobby Lobby) into bouquets and then glued the bouquets into the pots. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We did a few pots, and even a wheel barrow of tiny plastic mini flowers</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now will all the little fairy gardens in a row up against our steps, you can see all the pops of color and the stacked pots let you see more of the fairy action all at once.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fairy Gardens are the best thing ever!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vivian also went back and added the stone path from the front door of her flower house.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We bought the small stones at a craft store in the vase section</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were having so much fun with these gardens (and we had a few items left over, like a 2nd bridge, that we decided we wanted to do a camping themed fairy garden.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm so in love with this little fairy campsite!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few more tiny plants, a blue marble "river" with canoe, a camp fire, and in case you didn't notice, three enchanted river mermaids that happen look like each of my daughters.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just so sweet!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not to be out done, they found two fairies to represent my husband and I. Of course I'm reading a book, and we were thrilled to find there was a boy fairy to be daddy. Since I knew my hubby would never just lay in the dirt on his stomach, I used my crochet skills to whip up a tiny picnic blanket for us to hang out on. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was night time when I finally had a chance to make the blanket, but I couldn't wait to see it.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Speaking of the fireplace. My youngest and I made it together. We gathered sticks, twigs, and small rocks from our own yard. We hot glued them to a mason jar lid one at a time. We also cut or broke tiny twigs in the "logs" for the fire.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a fun project with my youngest. Every campsite needs a fire!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the full campsite with fire pit, picnic blanket (doesn't the hubby fairy look more content?), leaf tent, and tiny apples for snacking!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really want to shrink down and go camping here.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I know you must be thinking to yourself... How could one make this little camp site any better? Well, I'll tell you. How about a tea light "flame" candle that makes it look like a real camp fire at night?!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's right! We went all out!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's the whole charming little scene by campfire light...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The little flicker of the battery operated teat light made it look like a real flickering camp fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the summer went on the flowers started to fill out</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love how they started draping over the sides of the pots</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The pink flowers on the 2nd tier started covering the gazebo and made it look like the roof was made of flowers.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How can you not love your own flower-roofed gazebo?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We even found some tiny white beads lying around and decided to make little marshmallow roasting sticks for the campfire area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All in all we had so much fun making fairy gardens. I am not ashamed to admit that I had just as much, if not MORE fun than my girls working on this project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So grab the closest kid (or willing participant) near you and go make one of these this spring. They are fun to plan, fun to implement, and exciting to see the changes through the season as the flowers bloom!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy Planting! </span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-50353667987388481972017-10-06T16:23:00.001-07:002017-10-06T16:23:04.215-07:00Baked Sloppy Joe Taquitos<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe one of the greatest talents a mom can posses (among the many thousands), is to make leftovers into a magical, glorious new meal. No one secretly digs eating the same thing two nights in the same week, so I'm always on the look out on how to take the same ingredients and make them into something that passes as "new and exciting" for the small fry to try. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what did I do when I had a bit of left over Sloppy Joe meat when there just wasn't enough for a full meal with buns the 2nd time around? I remember one time years back I rolled them in crescent dough for what we called a <a href="http://www.clevercraftycookinmama.com/2013/07/classy-joes.html#.WdgG-DBryUk" target="_blank">"Classy Joe"</a>, and was declared a local hero by some, but sadly the only carb I happened to have lying about this time around was flour tortillas. Then, the light bulb went off. Angels sang, and the taste buds rejoiced. Introducing Sloppy Joe Taquitos!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sloppy Joe Taquitos - They DO say necessity is the mother of invention!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slop-quitos? Sloppy-itos? Taquito-Joes? Hmmm. Once of those names should be clever enough to stick. All you need to make these bad boys is some left over Sloppy Joe meat, some flour tortillas, a little shredded cheese, cooking spray, a cooking sheet and salt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I started by covering a cookie sheet with tin foil and coating with cooking spray</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have small flour tortillas, just cut them in half, if you have the huge burrito sized tortillas, cut the edges off the tortillas and then in half to make a pile of rectangles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Place a little bit of Sloppy Joe meat in a line at one end. Add a tiny bit of shredded cheese and roll up the taquito while pushing down (to squish the meat to the ends of the roll) as you go ( I had the smaller tortillas this time so I just cut them in half).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good pressure while rolling will force the meat out to the ends of the tube.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Place seem side down on the cookie sheet covered in foil until you have a full pan of Taquito-Joes.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are rather haphazard - I was actually trying to get dinner on the table and blog pics were a quick afterthought</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lightly spray with cooking spray over the top of the taquitos (or melted butter if you prefer) and then crank some sea salt over the tops of the Slop-quitos. I might have to take a vote at the end, which name do you love best?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bake at 425º for 20 minutes until golden brown and crisp </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These crunch up so nicely when you bake at 425º! No frying needed.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't be freaked if some of the Sloppy Joe filling oozes out the end. It tends to bake to the pan and make these lovely ooey-gooey ends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After that, pop a few on the plate and sit back and wait for the "Ooos and Ahhs".</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taquito-Joes - You are welcome taste buds!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, not so much of the Ooos and aahhs... you'll probably get a few side eyes and a "hey mom what IS this" look from your youngest, but when you explain it's their beloved Sloppy Joes in their favorite Mexican form (two worlds uniting as one)... you might even get a THANK YOU!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You are welcome children - you are lucky mommy is a genius</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can pick them up and eat them with your fingers (always a plus with the youngins), although at least one of mine topped it with some extra cheese - and I have to ask myself, well why not!?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sloppy Joe Taquitos - hey the original at least rhymes. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All and all these were a big hit! If you are interested in our regular chicken taquitos, <a href="http://www.clevercraftycookinmama.com/2014/01/baked-creamy-chicken-taquitos.html#.WdgOzDBryUk" target="_blank">click here</a>, which are also well loved around here. So let me know what you think I should call these crazy things, other than that it's going on my very short list of "things my kids will eat and not complain about"! Yay for me. Enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the way, you can find the free pattern and tips for making this blanket by Susan Carlson on her blog <a href="http://www.feltedbutton.com/2014/03/spring-into-summer-with-free-crochet.html" target="_blank">"Felted Button" here</a>... and the yarn is called "candied" by Red Heart Boutique Unforgettable Yarn, which is pretty much gorgeous, and can be purchased at craft stores like Joann's, and also in multipaks at <a href="http://amzn.to/2wMYh5v" target="_blank">Amazon</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because of the increasing (or decreasing at the end of each row), I would consider this blanket at the intermediate level. Just as a personal tip, I also watched a number of YouTube videos to make sure I had started the pattern of increasing correctly before getting too far into the project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The thing about crocheting any blanket typically is... it's super boring. Seriously. You get the initial chain stitch down for as wide as the blanket needs to be, and then go back and forth, back and forth, same number of rows and columns, repeating the same crochet pattern over and over until a blanket starts to form. This is great if you are on a plane, or in a waiting room somewhere and don't want to count rows, but for me, after a day or two, the endless back and forth feels more like a drudgery to me than a fun crafty side project. Enter in corner to corner crochet!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first attempt at corner to corner. Hook used is a 5.0 mm (H) Crochet hook</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Corner to corner does just that, it starts in the corner. You need to add a row of increase at the end of every row, which is just enough to keep you interested and your mind sharp. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corner to corner, this got me really excited when I saw the rows change on their own.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The other awesome thing about corner to corner, is that if you pick a yarn that has a slow color change, you won't need to switch colors all the time (and tie off loose ends, my least favorite part of a complicated blanket). The yarn magically and gradually changes into one beautiful color after the next. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most beautiful pile of pastel rainbow yarn ever</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You just keep increasing rows as your triangle wedge grows...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's working, it's really working!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">until it gets wider and wider, and you need your tween daughter to hold it up for a picture. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanks for helping me Vivi!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will admit I did get a
bit persnickety in the middle of the blanket about not wanting two rows to be the same color. When I
saw the pattern might make two rows of the exact same pink shade near
the same part of the blanket, I would cut and tie off the yarn at one end, pull a few feet out of the working yarn, and start the new color so it wouldn't sync up
later in the pattern. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh and be it noted, no matter how warm it is outside, crochet will attract your kitties, they love to "help" by laying directly on your work.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haley, the softest kitty in the known universe (aka Fluffy butt) "helping" me crochet</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you get as wide as you think you want to go, now is the time to switch it up, and start decreasing each row. This keeps you mentally on your toes and helps minimizing boredom. I also went to YouTube to make sure I was doing this correctly. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Decreasing suddenly makes a square edge appear along the sides - neato!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's fun to see the rows shrink and shrink until all you have left to do is to put an edge on it, and tie off the loose ends (you'll still have some - just not as many as if you switched rows every color).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tying off loose ends... it's actually quite the task</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then you can sit back and admire your work. This was the first time I could lay it out on the floor and take a step back. It was awesome how the color change of the yarn made the most excellent stripes, and almost gave it an optical illusion effect.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainbow stripes o'plenty</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is it draped over a chair. I just love how it turned out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next day I took it outside to get some shots of the colors "in the wild".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unicorns would definitely approve of this blanket, so many colors!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From sea to shining sea it's color mania. Oh and the border on this pattern gave it a nice solid edge, and actually made two different variations, depending on which side of the blanket you are looking at.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This blanket is warm and soft, but not too heavy. It's perfect for family movie nights in our new chair. It was immediately claimed by my eldest, as you can see here... she's ready for a bowl of popcorn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a really fun, and really beautiful blanket to make. Red Heart Unforgettable yarn is not only super soft, but comes in a bunch of beautiful slow color change patterns. I was thinking about picking a new color scheme and making a second one actually. Feel free to post any projects you are working on, and... Winter is coming... so happy crochet everyone!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">All rights reserved. The content with clevercraftycookinmama.com is copyright-protected by its publisher, Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. No part of clevercraftycookinmama.com may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from Clever Crafty Cookin' Mama. Contents copyrighted © – All rights reserved</div>Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10684368198663574643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22463062.post-48820083202309048222017-09-04T11:17:00.001-07:002017-09-04T11:17:53.180-07:00Pineapple Teriyaki Chicken Skewers (2 ingredients)<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes you need to throw a quick dinner together, and using a pre-made glaze that cuts the time on your meal prep way down. On mother's day we made ribs in the pressure cooker with a Jack Daniel's honey brown sugar sauce (they were amazing, <a href="http://www.clevercraftycookinmama.com/2017/03/bbq-ribs-in-pressure-cooker.html#.Wa2Uf9GQyUl" target="_blank">recipe here</a>), while my dad tried his own pressure cooker ribs using a delicious pineapple teriyaki glaze/marinade. We liked the flavor so much that I thought it would work really well on grilled chicken skewers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These skewers are easy. You will need:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chicken breasts (cut into 1 inch cubes)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kona Hawaiian Pineapple Teriyaki Glaze (found at Fred Meyer and Walmart)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So much yum in one little jar</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will also need some wooden skewers that have been soaking it water for about 15 minutes (so they don't char). Optional would also be cut up fresh fruit/veggies to add to the skewers (bell peppers, onion, chunks of pineapple)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Chop your chicken breasts into cubes and marinate the meat in some of the Pineapple Teriyaki glaze for at least 30 minutes. I also added some seasoning (salt and pepper).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let the chicken marinate in the fridge until you are ready to put them on skewers</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next add the chicken chunks onto the wooden skewers that have been soaking in water</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We did just meat the first time around, but these would be awesome with chunks of bell pepper, onions, and pineapple</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is usually where I hand things off to my hubby to grill on the BBQ. He says he turns the grill on high to preheat, turns it down to medium, then puts the skewers on with the ends hanging off the grill (so the wood doesn't burn). Grill about 3 minutes per side while "keeping an eye on it" (his words) and brush on extra glaze on as they are cooking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While he's grilling the skewers I usually whip up a couple of sides. Rice and some slices of watermelon and we are ready to go.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pineapple Teriyaki goodness - love the grill marks</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> A quick, easy dinner that looked awesome and tasted great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Normally I'd do a printed link to the recipe, but with only two main ingredients, this one is self explanatory. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Recipe posted by a gal named Heidi Miller on the Instant Pot Facebook page)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5 egg yokes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1/2 cup sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 tablespoon vanilla extract</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2 cups of heavy cream </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will also need six 6 oz ramekins, and Instant Pot, the inner trivet, and water. Upon advice from the Facebook page, I purchase my ramekins in a set of eight at amazon <a href="http://amzn.to/2x3mQMW" target="_blank">here</a>. I was extra stoked they came in a beautiful light teal color that matched my new kitchen. They have other colors as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add 5 egg yokes to a bowl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Add 2 cups of heavy cream and 1 Tablespoon of vanilla </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And mix together until smooth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pour into six 6 oz ramekins a little above mid way</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This recipe will do exactly 6 ramekins, the most that will fit in the 6 qt pot</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cover ramekins tightly with foil. I cut out squares that just fit over the round surface and sealed each one as tightly as I could</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Make sure these are sealed around the edges as much as possible</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pour 2 cups of water into the bottom of the Instant Pot and cover with the trivet. Stack the first three ramekins on the bottom.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A perfect fit</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And then stack the next three ramekins balancing them on top of the first row.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All snug as a bug in a rug</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Set the Instant Pot for manual for 13 minutes. The most important part is to let the pot do a natural release. That means, DON'T touch it until it depressurizes by itself and the tab on the top pops down by itself. I made these twice, the first time I let it naturally release and they turned out great. The second time I was impatient and released a little early. What it made was a big mess as the brulee inside the ramekins came up under the foil and made a sticky mess. They were much uglier and very sticky. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We still ate them of course, (for science) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But all in all, the first batch following the rules turned out much better!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cool at room temperature for 30 minutes then chill for 4 hours minimum. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are great if you want to make them ahead the day before and chill overnight</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pull them out of the fridge and remove the foil.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hey that's lookin' pretty good!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dust the top of each ramekin with a coating of sugar. We used regular table sugar.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks like it snowed</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Use a mini cooking blow torch to brulee the tops, which will turn brown and form a hard candy-type shell. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you don't have a torch, you can broil these in the over for a few minutes until they turn golden</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My hubby gave me this blow torch almost 10 years ago in the hopes I would one day make creme brulee. I'm so glad his wishes have come true. I'm not gonna lie, firing this bad boy up was quite the thrill. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burn baby, burn!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Give each brulee it's final coat.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Man that was fun</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The only thing left after that is to admire your work... and EAT it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holy yum, Batman.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Tap the outer shell and scoop up some of that vanilla custard inside</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It makes a satisfying crunch sound as your break through to the creamy goodness below </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will say, that without tempering the eggs, the texture might not be as super-de-duper smooth as you would get in a fancy-dancy restaurant, however the flavor is still awesome. Very creamy and super tasty. I'd consider this a "rustic" brulee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will SO make this again...and it's nice I can do it now WHENEVER I want from the comforts of home! </span><br />
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