St. Patrick’s Day Printable

I hardly decorate for St. Patrick’s Day! I do like to pull a few pranks on the kiddos and we wear green. I created this little printable to display and be somewhat festive!

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Homemade Bread

One of my new year’s resolutions for 2012 is to perfect bread making. I stumbled upon this recipe on Pinterest. And I really enjoyed it so I wanted to share!

This recipe is great and doesn’t need to rise twice an extra bonus. I threw everything in  my bosch and in less than 2 hours I had 5 loafs of yummy bread!

Ingredients:

5 Cups Hot Tap water

2 Tablespoons Salt

2/3 Cup Canola Oil

2/3 Cup Honey

Mix in Mixer

then add 4 Tablespoons room temp. yeast

and 2  Eggs also at Room temp.

Once all of the above are mixed in together its time to start mixing in your flour.

It takes for me at my altitude about 12 cups of white flour. Until it was slowly incorporated and the dough started pulling the sides clean.

Once that step is done I set the timer for 10 minutes and let the Bosch do the rest of the work mixing and kneading!

Then you will want to pour about two tablespoons more oil on your counter and liberally on your clean hands to knead on the countertop and form your loaves. The original recipe said it makes 4 loaves. I ended up making 5 since my pans seemed smaller and I had so much dough.

Place formed dough in Pam Sprayed loaf pans and let rise 30-40 minutes. It should rise about 1.5” from the top of the pan.

Then Bake in your oven at 350 for 35 minutes to bake.

When done slightly cool to remove from pans and brush some butter across the top. These were so good. We could hardly wait for it to cool slice it up!

 

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Mason Jar Drinking Glasses

In the past 8 weeks I have hosted 5 different parties in my home. I was getting a little tired of purchasing all those paper products! Ugh! Wasteful and pricey. I haven’t really jumped on the Canning Jar Trend but decided to go for it!
I purchases a dozen 8 oz. jelly jars at Walmart for around $7. and gathered up a few others I had around the house from making Jam last year.  I then tied a very simple bow from embroidery thread. And dropped in my favorite Paper Straws!
I loved it. They are simple, sturdy, have a gazillion uses.
 

Banana Crumb Muffins…

I love all things Banana and have a go to banana bread, and my Favorite Cinnamon Banana Cake. But I found the recipe for these Banana Crumb Muffins on Allrecipes.com so I decided a 5 star recipe with almost 7,000 ratings had to be tried!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 bananas, mashed
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1/3 cup butter, melted
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon butter

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 12 muffin cups, or line with muffin papers.
2. In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
3. In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour and cinnamon. Cut in 1 tablespoon butter until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle topping over muffins.
4. Bake in preheated oven for16-18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

We all loved these, they were delicious!

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Happy Monday! and some little projects…

I hope you all had a lovely weekend! I am so glad to have January over with, I always seem to get the post holiday blues! I love December so much January is such a dreary month. It actually flew by for me, I hosted 3 different parties and we have had a very mild winter!  I also love Valentine’s Day it’s such a fun Holiday, so I’ve been busy with a few projects.

I picked up these spools of Crochet Thread at Walmart last week and am working on a very fun party this week! Details coming soon!

In my Husbands family we hold a quarterly GNO. I am hosting a “Favorite Things” night this week and am so excited to see all the fun things people love!  What are some of your favorite things? I’ll post all the party details later this week!

Diet Dr. Pepper Printable

When I created the Diet Coke Printable I didn’t know I would have such an overwhelming response.

It shocked me. It has been re-pinned over 1000 times! What? Who knew? 
Emails came in from some serious DDP fans for a Diet Dr. Pepper version. 
So without hesistation here you go…
I’m glad people are enjoying this little print as much as their  Diet Coke/ DDP Addictions!



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Ball Themed Birthday

My Little guy is turning two this week. He loves all things Ball! So we had a little party and celebrated!
The Kids Table all set to get destroyed!

From the looks of it, I think the evening was a complete success!