Christmas DIY stocking holder and card holder

I made a Christmas stocking holder and a Christmas card holder. My husband had some ply wood cut to the size I already needed so I painted the wood. and added two on each thumb tac hangers i found at the store to hang on them on the wall. On the stocking one I added some command strip hanging hooks for the stockings to hang from. On the Marry Mail one I used a hot glue gun to add some ribbon to the back of the board. I fond some mini clothes pins (in the baby shower section) to hold the cards to the ribbon. You could use paper clips would work here also.

My Chicken Cordon Blue

My Chicken Cordon Blue  

2-4 chicken breasts

Deli ham or turkey or both sliced thin

Sliced cheese provolone

1 cup mayo

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Panco bread crumbs

Cooking spray

Pre-heat oven to 350*. Spray pan with cooking spray. Pound chicken breast between plastic wrap till it is nice and thin.  On one end of chicken place a piece of cheese and meat on top of each other, then roll the chicken and place a tooth pic in it to help it stay in place. Mix together the Parmesan cheese and mayo together and then spoon it onto the top of the chicken, then sprinkle some panco bread crumbs on top. Spray again with cooking spray. Bake for 35 minutes. Remove tooth pic and enjoy.

Sometimes I satee spinach and put that in the middle. Be creative to your taste buds.

busy mom life

Its funny when you become a mother especial y when you have more than one child how caught up in everyday life one becomes. I tend to forget to call my good friends. I think of them often and by the time I have time to call something come up or even I tend to forget until a time that im busy and the cycle starts over. I need to take time to make sure to make contact with family and friends a lot more.  I get so caught up with the daily grind especially during the school year.

Gewy chocolate chip cookies

 

gewy Chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup butter, softened 1 cup white sugar 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons hot water 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add to batter along with salt. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, and nuts. Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.
3. Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.

Pumpkin pie crumb cake

I got my new mixer today, so of course I had to make something! I made a Better than pumpkin pie cake...
its along the lines of a pumpkin pie crumb cake.

Ingredients
1 (29) oz can of puree pumpkin
4 eggs
1 (12) oz can evaporated milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 pkg yellow cake mix
1 cup butter

Mix the pumpkin,  eggs, evaporated milk, sugar, and spices. Place in baking dish. Pore cake mix over top evenly spread out. Drizzle melted butter all over top.

 

Bake at 350* for 1 hr and then let cool. Enjoy!!

Chili tater tot casserole

We have left over chili and cheese sauce from chili pigs in a blanket night. So tonight im making the leftovers into a casserole.

Chili tater tot casserole

·       Tater tots

·        * Chili (homemade or canned) 

  * Cheese sauce

  *Shredded cheese

·        * Toppings  tomatoes, sour cream, shredded cheese, etc

I bake the tater tots for 20-25 min. at 400* before putting it together to help them get crisp.I spray the top with Pam spray to help it crisp.  In a cake pan, place chili on the bottom layer. Layer on top the cheese sauce and then the top layer tatter tots. Sprinkle with cheese  . Let bake at 400* for 15-20 min. and dish up with toppings.

 

Crock-pot pork chops with potato and carrot dinner

Today Im making one of my favorites. Crock-pot pork chops with carrots and potatoes. 

Ingredients:

Boneless pork Chops 3-4

 1can diced tomatoes

2cups water

3-5 potaotes

carrots diced

2tbs Italian seasoning packet or your favorite Italian seasoning

3 cloves garlic minced

salt and pepper 

olive oil

  

Rub olive oil all over crock-pot, place diced veggies and garlic in bottom layer of crock-pot and then season with salt and pepper. Place pork chops on top of veggies and  and sprinkle half the Italian seasoning over the pork chops.

 

Pore can of tomatoes and water over top, and then sprinkle rest of Italian seasoning over top. Cover.

Set Crock-pot to low for 8 hrs, or high for 4-6.

 

Goes great with corn bread!

Glue gun to the rescue!!!

          Mommy can fix anything with a hot glue gun! 

 Isn't it funny how we can find a way to fix something just by using glue. Glue guns, super glue, gorilla glue, wood glue, shoe glue, poxy glue, cement glue. Tonight I was fixing some of my Christmas decor. The steeple part of my church comes off every year. And the side garlin comes off, so I end up having to reattach them. What do you use most in your home to fix things, as your go to.