Today was my daughter’s last story time until summer is over. The theme was beaches. I made these cute little “Beach in a cup” treats for each of the kids! I told the kids that it was sand! They thought it was awesome! And perfect for the beginning of summer!
To make the “sand” all you need to do is take vanilla cookie sandwiches and put them in the food processor until they are finely crumbled. I only needed to make 10 serving so I used about 1 sleeve of cookies. For the water I used whipped cream with some blue food coloring. I put the “sand” in the cup and pushed it to one side. Then I put in a spoonful of whipped cream. That’s it! EASY! I added some gold fish crackers, but I think Swedish fish would be cute too!
You kids will love to welcome summer with this treat!
I’m pretty sure that any recipe that calls for cream cheese, bacon, or chocolate is going to be good! These cream cheese muffins are absolutely wonderful! Hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line your muffin tin with cupcake liners.
Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
In another bowl stir together milk, oil, and eggs. Combine with the dry ingredients. Stir until just moistened.
Combine cream cheese, vanilla and sugar. Mix half of this cream cheese mixture into the muffin batter.
Fill muffin tins about 1/2 full with batter. Spoon the remaining cream cheese mixture onto the muffins and then cover with more batter.
For the topping mix together with a fork 1/2 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup butter and 1 Tablespoon cinnamon. Sprinkle the crumbly mixture over the muffins.
My Aunt Susan always makes this wonderful broccoli salad and I finally managed to get the recipe from her. This would be great as a side dish or to eat by itself.
¾ cup granulated sugar (you can use splenda or ideal especially if you are diabetic)
¼ cup apple cider vinegar
Instructions
Chop broccoli florets and stems into bite-size pieces. You will want to use all but the bottom half of the stalk then discard the tough pieces.
Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
Dressing:
Whisk all ingredients together until well blended. Sugar should be dissolved.
Note: When adding dressing to salad, the dressing will liquefy after sitting for a few minutes, so add enough dressing to lightly coat, without drenching the salad.
I never knew that you could make your own almond milk! And all it takes is almonds and water! If you don’t believe me, try it for yourself. It’s easy, cheaper than buying store bought and probably better for you as well!
1 cup whole raw almonds (not toasted or roasted, etc)
3 – 4 cups water, more if desired
a pinch of salt
honey, to taste
Vanilla, to taste
Instructions
Soak the almonds overnight in enough water to cover them.
Drain from the water.
Put in blender with 3-4 cups of water.
Blend on high until smooth.
Line a colander with a linen cloth. Place a bowl under it. Pour the milk into the cloth. The cloth will catch all of the left over almond pieces.
Add a pinch of salt. You can sweeten it with some honey and vanilla if you want.
That's it! Pretty easy!
Don't just throw away the left over almond pieces. That's delicious almond meal. Put it on a baking tray and stick it in the oven at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes to dry it out. Almond meal is great for baking! Delicious and nutritious!
What are you serving for your Cinco de Mayo dinner? We’d love to hear all your yummy creative ideas.
Our dinner menu tonight is tacos with cilantro lime dressing, homemade salsa, and cilantro lime rice!
Don’t forget to include the kids! Make them a special Cinco de Mayo dinner with these fun taco bowls! My picky kids absolutly love them and they are so easy to make!
You may remember my last post about me getting my kitchen organized. My pantry was a HUGE mess and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with. I was thinking I was going to have to do a total remodel but after checking out my local Walmart I decided there were many items that would help me get organized without taking my budget off track.
I made this video a while back and since then I no longer use the Rubbermaid pull out drawers as they just wwere not a good fit for my pantry like I thought. However the show organizer has been a huge hit and I even added a 2nd one on the back of my closet door where I keep my stockpile.
With adding another adult to the family and now becoming a family of 5 you can collect a lot of shall we say “stuff”. In our home we love kitchen gadgets but our kitchen counter tops were starting to look like a new episode for the show “Lost”.
Cookbooks scattered everywhere, snack bowls over flowing and more. We also have a weird pantry. The shelves go really far back and you can’t find anything so basically it’s just wasted space that is unusable. You try to pull something out and everything falls on top of you.
I can’t stand clutter and I hate it when you can’t find anything. So much so that it stresses me out. One day while shopping at Walmart I found some really cute see through canisters for around $4 that would look so great sitting on my counter tops. I decided to pull out the things we use the most like sugar,flour,kosher salt as well as our dishwashing tabs to save space in our pantry and make these items more accessible.To keep a limit on how many times the kids were getting into the pantry we bought clear candy jars to organize candy and snacks. They are now accessible to the kids without mom worrying about a tornado going through the pantry and the lids are easy off an on. We also had a huge pile of cookbooks that we organized in the black magazine holders that we found in the office supply isle at Walmart.
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to organize your countertops and make them look good.They also have a lot of other items that would help keep your organize. here are a few of my favorites.
Here’s a little tip for those of you who are on a Gluten-Free, low-carb diet or just health conscious! Instead of wrapping your enchiladas in a tortilla, use a leaf of cabbage! It’s less calories, gluten-free, cheaper, and just all around healthier for you!
To do this carefully remove the outer, larger leaves of cabbage. Running the cabbage under hot water will help loosen the leaves. Then place them in a pot of hot water and let them boil for a few minutes. This will soften them up and make them easier to wrap. Just fill them with your favorite enchilada filling and enjoy! I even topped mine with cheese and baked them in the oven just like a tradition enchilada. The kids liked them because it was something different!
I love it when I find recipes that my kids love and that are healthy too…just don’t let them know! This recipe is so easy to make, just takes a little time to bake. Don’t worry about the plastic wrap melting in the oven. I was skeptical too, until I tried it. No problems! Give it a try and come back and let us know how your homemade fruit leather roll ups turned out!
Today was my daughter’s last story time until summer is over. The theme was beaches. I made these cute little “Beach in a cup” treats for each of the kids! I told the kids that it was sand! They thought it was awesome! And perfect for the beginning of summer!
