Cakes, Cards and Crafts

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Something new...Today my kids picked the sides for dinner. Son wanted rice and daughter wanted Corn on the cob. This was great cause it let me try the rice cooker that we got over the weekend. We have never had a fancy rice cooker but this one was sooooo cool! It has a setting for White rice/ Brow rice. you can do a quick cook. Crazy really but they loved the rice and I was excited that the rice didn't stick together and yummy! :) I made extra rice because later this week I'm going to try to make fried rice (another first)!

Monday, January 9, 2012

Old Dawg!!!

One of our dear friends turned the big 40 and on the apple cup we had a party for him and his wife asked me to make a cake for him. This is what I came up with for the old Dawg ;)

Pinterest craft- Christmas centerpiece

My interpretation of an idea I found on Pinterest!!! it looked great on the Christmas dinner table with the family. :)

UW cake

During football season we I made one hubby's work. It went together quickly and was a big hit at his work! :)

Trying something new...

This year I feel like making a resolution… in the past my resolutions have consisted of fun things like to better accessorize or something lame like going to bed early. This year my resolution is to try something new everyday (or at least once a week!) This could be anything new food, something off Pinterest or just something new that breaks up everyday life.

While revisiting the new bath detox recipe that I got off Pinterest J I had the idea to blog the things that I do new. Mostly so that I will have a log to look back over at the end of the year and how knows it might inspire someone else! J

Today is Jan 9, 2012 …let’s do a little backtracking.

Jan 1- New Year!!

Jan 2- organized pantry ( I will post photos soon)- Ideas from Pinterest :)

Jan 3- I tried a new slow cooker- Italian Beef For Sandwiches that I got from this link: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Italian-Beef-for-Sandwiches/Detail.aspx

It was good just think that I need to figure out what to do with the left overs… One idea I had is making shredded beef tacos

Jan 4 - bath detox recipe off Pinterest.

Jan 5-Dinner at the Tandom with Friends (we had never been there). I also made homemade Chicken noodle soup for dinner

Jan 6- I went to see a new movie with family. hehe…I have been to the movies just not this one ;-) !!! also tried to make the shredded beef tacos with the leftover Italian Beef sandwiches. I would have been really good if I wouldn’t have put too much taco seasoning! One packet would have been good J

Jan 7-went downtown to a new bar for a dear friends birthday party and got to meet new friends. ( I love new and old friends!)

Jan 8- yesterday I made Butter Chicken… My daughter and I went to our local Indian grocery store and got a few things that we love and a few things that we needed. I loved the smell of all new spices! To my delight hubby and my son liked it!!! I however think that it needs work… one thing it needs is less salt.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/easy-indian-butter-chicken/detail.aspx

Jan 9- Finally we have made it to today! Maybe one of my new favorite thing! My daughter and I walked together, holding hands and talking. Walking isn’t something new but we did it even though it was pouring down rain! We got raincoats on and umbrella out and just walked, holding hands and talking. I loved how simple and how wonderful it was!!!