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Italian Meatballs

April 10, 2013 by Admin Leave a Comment

This is a quick meal to prepare that will fill the family up. They load the cheese on and I like to add fresh basil to it but no matter what there are never any left overs with it. Makes the messy production of making the meal worth the empty plates after dinner.

Ingredients for meatballs

1 egg beaten

1 / 4 cup fat free milk

1/ 2 cup dry bread crumbs

2 tbsp. freshly grated Parmesan cheese

1 / 2 tsp. salt

1/ 4 teaspoons pepper

1 / 8 teaspoon garlic powder

3 /4 lb lean ground beef

1 /2 lb pork sausage

Ingredients for Sauce

150z tomato sauce

6 oz tomato paste

1 onion chopped [Read more…]

Filed Under: food, recipes Tagged With: beef, home made meals, pasta

Rice Broccoli Pot Pie

March 20, 2013 by Admin Leave a Comment

I adapted this recipe from my all time favorite dish my Grandmother has always made. Lately with spring rainy weather and some colds in the house I needed , hearty, warm comfort foods. This Rice broccoli casserole usually is topped with crackers, but I topped it off with a pie pastry to make a “pot pie” version and added in chicken pieces. My kids loved it!

Ingredients

2 packages frozen broccoli ( each 10 ounces each)

2 cups shredded cooked chicken

1 stick of butter

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 large onion

1 cup mushrooms

1 /2 cup milk
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Filed Under: cooking, food, recipes Tagged With: chicken, chicken recipes, easy dinners, food, quick and easy recipes, quick dinners, recipes, Rice Broccoli Pot Pie

Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

March 15, 2013 by Admin 7 Comments

For those really busy days or when you just can’t decide on what to make barbecued chicken in the slow cooker should hit the spot! Easy, and little fuss all you have to do is come up with a few side dishes and dinner is complete. I didn’t use a broiler chicken, so it doesn’t matter what kind you have on hand, just adjust your slow cooker to the size. Smaller sizes obviously cook quicker. You can also do this in the oven , again adjust the cooking time it will be anywhere from 40 minutes to an [Read more…]

Filed Under: food, recipes Tagged With: barbeque, barbeque chicken, BBQ, BBQ chicken, easy dinners, food, recipes, slow cooker, Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken, slow cooker recipes

Dessert Designer- Creations You Can Make and Eat!

March 3, 2013 by Admin 4 Comments

Desserts, we all love them and what’s even better than to be able to get creative and have fun with desserts? Besides eating them of course!

I recently was able to review Dessert Designer– Creations you can make and Eat by Dana Meachen Rau. I had fun with this book as I love to get creative with my food not just desserts. The beautifully illustrated book is full of FUN as well as easy creative designs to brighten up any party or even just a sweet treat you want to share with the family. I was really surprised at how easy most things looked in here. They do require time and patience as well as tools, but all is listed for what you need to create a fun sweet piece of art.

I attempted to to the Tipsy Flower Tower but my kids had other ideas and literally pushed their way in around me to watch which created a very bright tipsy flower tower falling on the floor! I used the idea to make flowers out of what I had left.

Not towers, not tipsy [Read more…]

Filed Under: book review, food, review Tagged With: book review, creative cakes, creative cupcakes, creative desserts, Dessert Designer, Dessert Designer Creations You Can Make and Eat, fun cakes, fun desserts, make and eat

Jeepers Peepers Game – Super Duper Educational Learning Toy

March 2, 2013 by Admin 1 Comment

What Am I?

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That’s the question that goes around the game Jeepers Peppers, an Ask and Answer Question will get the kids laughing and enjoying themselves. The game, by Super Duper Publications is aimed at kids ages 5 years old and older

The game comes with 101 Photo cards, six glasses, six clue cards, bingo chips and a spinner. How the game works is simple, each player gets a pair of glasses and picked a card (face down!) without looking at them of course and place it in the glasses. Each one has a little card holder, place the glasses on your head and make sure your all in a circle to see each other. Each player gets a clue card which covered categories you use to guess what your card is. Going around the circle you ask the yes or no questions to [Read more…]

Filed Under: kids, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: educational toys, games, kids, review

Yogarilla Review

February 28, 2013 by Admin Leave a Comment

Yogarilla!

I have practiced yoga for some time, my four kids sometimes join in with me but I have never really found a super yoga book for kids. Yogarilla is wonderful! Bright colorful cards, 55 of them of them fully illustrated front and back. You can find Yogarilla at Super Duper Publications, which I highly recommend you doing.

There is nothing I don’t like about Yogarilla it’s an all around win here is my take-

You have 55 cards, front and back illustrating a certain pose with OTis. On one side you have the playful OTis posing with the name of the pose. On the other side is the entire break down of the pose, directions to move into it, a challenging variety and some activities you may want to add into the pose. There’s also some facts and game like things to do with your children as you go through the deck.

Teaching kids to exercise is important, but it should also be very fun and enjoyable. [Read more…]

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ToughHound All Sports Dog Collar

February 26, 2013 by Admin 5 Comments

Having a pet part of the family there are certain things you must keep in mind, one of them being what happens if they get lost? Animals of course can not speak for themselves, so you as the owner must do the next best thing and keep proper ID for each of your pets, you can find a great one at the dogbark collar store.

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We have two Dogs, Baby and Spot. They are medium sized beagles who just love to run around and chase things. The male was a hunter so you can imagine he likes to get out in those woods and get down to nature. The only problem is, he likes to do is so much, he gets away from us too often. We end up going on a longer walk trying to hunt him down! He has been lost once, for a full day, even with a collar on his tag fell off, which left the person who found both dogs wondering who they belonged too. It was not pleasant to go through that, it isn’t fun for anyone at all. Their tags fall off all the time it seems and it’s a fear I have that we will end up not being able to find them for this very reason. This brings me to tell you about a wonderful ID collar that can help in this situation.

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I like how tough the collar is, firm buckle stays where you put it!

The ToughHound All Sports Dog collar is the perfect [Read more…]

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Happy Valentine’s Day- Chocolate Chip Cake

February 13, 2013 by Admin 1 Comment

Need a last minute treat to make for Valentine’s Day? I have just the cake for you! This is so easy to make, quick and not to sweet while nice and chocolaty. My kids and their friends helped make this while they had a play date. It tastes like a soft cake brownie. I don’t frost it because the chocolate chips sweeten it up enough there’s no need. Add a cup a milk with a slice of cake you have a great Valentine’s Day treat for the family!