mini French Bread Chicken Alfredo Pizza's

This is what I made for my family the other night and they were a huge hit.

This is what you need:

Alfredo Sauce

Grilled chicken: seasoned anyway you like, diced

shredded mozzarella cheese

red onion: optional but highly recommended

fresh diced tomatoes: not from a can

small french bread rolls: these ones can be found at Sam's Club

Put the pizzas under the broiler on the middle rack and melt the cheese to your likeness.

Stuffed Green Peppers: Philly Cheese steak Style

Oh my. Oh my.

These little things were so so so good!

Both my husband and I lived near Philly Pennsylvania for a while and feel in love with Philly Cheese steak sandwiches.  We are back west again so when I saw this recipe I just new I had to give it a try.

It's one of our favorites now!  yum

Just simply saute some thin slices of roast beef, onions, garlic and mushrooms in a pan, then put that into your peppers and stick that into the oven to cook.  Add some cheese in the last few minutes to melt and enjoy!

easy from scratch Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

I am addicted to these little things. 

I have grown up eating them from scratch for over 30 years, so when I decided to try the Cake box recipe that is out there......my reaction was yuck!!  I hated every cookie.  It did not matter which brand of cake mix I used I did not like the taste.  So I went back to the good old from scratch recipe that my mom would always make us.

 I love this recipe for many reasons.  The first being the taste.  Second, one batch makes 100+ cookies so you really only have to go to the trouble once and you have an ample amount of cookies to put in the freezer to enjoy all fall long.  That is unless you eat them all up before that  :)

The Recipe from my mom's kitchen:

1 cup shortening

2 cups white sugar

2 eggs

2 cups canned pumpkin

2 tsp vanilla

5 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp course salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ground nutmeg

1 tsp ground cloves 

1 package of MINI chocolate chips - totally recommend using mini chips!

Use a small ice cream scoop for unified cookies.  Makes 100+ depending on size of scoop.

Bake at 400* for 10-12 minutes

Enjoy!

Edible Witch Pus Treats

Before you get all grossed out.........

it's pudding inside these witch cauldrons!!

Fun huh?  

Perfect little thing to take to a Witch Party!

Make up some Pistachio Pudding, pour it into the cauldrons and let them set up in the fridge.

Then add a cute little tag to each one and hand them out at a Halloween Party!

I was able to fill 4 mini cauldrons with 1 pkg of pudding mix.

I found the cauldrons at Zurchers Party Supply in town.

Now go eat some PUS!     *gross*

I am also handing out these little cuties at the same party.

They can be found in this post HERE

BBQ Pork Stuffed Biscuits

Make up these simple biscuits for dinner.  Serve with a favorite side dish or salad for a complete meal.

1 8pk of biscuits

some BBQ pulled pork that you have made ahead of time

mozzarella cheese

preheat oven to directions on pkg of biscuits.  Take each biscuits and flatten it out and then press inside a muffin tin up around the side.  Fill each biscuits with pork and top with cheese and simply cook in the oven for 13-17 minutes until golden brown.  Serve warm!

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Summertime Stir Fry Recipe

 I love taking my garden goods and turning them into yummy, easy summer dishes.  This is one of those.

Saute squash and zucchini, bell peppers and onions on your stove top in a little bit of olive oil.  Add diced sausage and a can of crushed pineapple (do not drain), season with salt and pepper and a little bit of grill seasoning and cook until veggies are as soft as you like them.

Top this on some rice and you are done.

so so yummy!

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Sesame Street Cupcakes

We were busy this weekend, playing Sesame Street!

We had a birthday party for my 2 year old.

 These cupcakes were simple and inexpensive to make.

1 box of cake mix, 1 jar of vanilla frosting, 1 box of the cheapo food coloring, Wilton Brand candy eyeballs found at Walmart and different toppings for each character.  Here is the breakdown:

Cookie Monster- 

1/2 chocolate chip cookie, candy eyes

Oscar-

brown cake sprinkles, 1/2 mint cookie, 1/2 fruit snack for the tongue, candy eyeballs

 Elmo-

1/2 Oreo cookie, orange Sixlet for the nose and candy eyeballs

Big Bird-

candy eyeballs dipped in blue frosting, a fruit snack cut in half and opened as a beak

 I'll share how I made the personalized Sesame Street Sign later on.

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Mother's day Lunch 2012 Recap

My Mother's Day Luncheon was a fantastic event.

I had such fun putting it all together.

Here are the photos of the flowers and food as promised from my 

original post of last week.  

I tutorial for the cute wooden picket fence is coming soon!

 TIN CAN Flowers:  I wrapped soup cans with cute brown paper and tied them with ribbon.  I planted flowers in each of them and used them not only for the table decor but each lady took one home along with there gift bag.

 More fresh flowers were used on the food table

I made flower corsages for each lady to wear.  I placed them on their plates at the start of lunch.

The Food Table:

 Chinese Chicken Oriental Salad was the main dish.

Homemade Cheese cake was for dessert. (forgot to take a picture.....it was delish!)

 After lunch I hand delivered each one their gift bag.  They were super excited and felt extra special.  

My favorite part about this wonderful afternoon was listening to the conversations about special memories about each one's mother or other important woman in their lives.

I am grateful to have had my mom, mother in law, a grandma, an aunt and a sister in law there.  Each one represented a special person in my life.  I am grateful to all of the woman in my life and so wish I could have had them all there.

I hope you had a great Mother's Day!

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Mother's Day Luncheon

I have invited some special guests to a Mother's Day lunch this weekend.  My mother, aunt, mother in law, grandma and a sister in law.  It's going to be a fun afternoon just to get together and have some yummy food.

Below are the little things that I have put together to make this a special lunch.....I will do a recap next week on the food and flowers that I also have planned.

First, I found this adorable set of free printables that truly helped pull this all together.

They were perfect for my red and turquoise theme.

Here are the invitations:

Place setting treat buckets:

dollar store buckets found in the wedding section filled with treats

Family Photos:

I gathered up a photo of each person taken with their mom.  

I went for older photos....take a look at them, they are so fun and add a personal touch.

Individual salad dressing cups:

I found these tiny shot cups at the dollar store

They will be perfect to go with the main dish

Chinese Chicken Salads

red CRUSH drinks and straws:

 Banner for the food table:

 Table settings:

I had fun pulling the table together.  I already had the polka dot table cloth that I had made several months ago, I used scrapbook paper for the place mats.  I found the free printable to place next to each plate, added the family photos to the table for everyone to see and enjoy.  Cute polka dot paper plates from walmart.  I will be planting flowers into cans that will be placed down the middle of the table.

 Guests Gift bags:

Each guest will be receiving one of these bags to take home.

 Each bag has a candy dish, homemade chocolate chip cookies and some other little items.

I made the candy dishes with Target bowls and dollar store candle sticks.

I hope this has helped you put together a fun lunch for the important women in your life.

Happy Mother's Day!

I'll post pictures next week of the food and guests next week!

You can view the complete RECAP by clicking HERE

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Cupcakes to go......party tip

My daughter had a birthday last week and for her birthday party with friends I made these fun cupcakes to go.  Since the invited guests were all age 5 and under these were the perfect take home party token. And I didn't have to clean up the mess :)

I made them using a cake mix, frosting the top and added sprinkles.

 And because we had both boy and girls at the party I topped them off with these fun accessories.

I found the Hello Kitty rings on Ebay and the skateboards at Walmart in the party section.

We did a fun photo booth at her party that I will be posting next week

so make sure to check back!

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