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    Homemade Chocolate Chip Muffins

    I love chocolate and I love muffins, so why have I never made chocolate chip muffins? Well now I have and I found an excellent recipe on Allrecipes.com.  These turned out good, with some modifications.  My kids and husband gobbled them up. Here is the recipe in it’s original form, I improvised based on some reviews I read, I will post my changes in parenthesis. 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup sugar  (+ 1/4 cup brown sugar) 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 egg 3/4 cup milk  (1 cup of milk) 1/3 cup vegetable oil 3/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips (2 tbsps of cocoa powder to the…

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    A Fall Family Tradition

    In my family, the Fall means more than beautiful trees, colors, apples, pumpkins and cider. It also means it is time for green chiles to come up from Southern Colorado and New Mexico. My mom used to get to actually go pick em with her parents but we just venture down the street to a temporary produce stand.  The smell… AMAZING!  Have you ever had fresh roasted chiles in your car?  It is quite heavenly! This year we chose a mix of Pueblo Mosca Hot and a Hatch Medium, we had them fired and bagged together, it makes for a nice mix. The boys really enjoyed watching the process, we…

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    A Mini Candy Buffet for Yummy Fun

    As I mentioned in the previous post, my sister-in-law’s baby shower was today.  I made chocolate covered pretzels and then added store bought candy to the table and made what I call a mini candy buffet.  I have seen some amazing candy buffets on the web and was really wanting to try one.  It is not as grand as I would have liked but it seemed to be a hit. ALSO _ you must try to the recipe for the pretzels, sooooo many people loved them! Here are some pics of the spread (the fuzzy little things you see are supposed to be spiders): All in all, it was fun…

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    Salty Sweet – Chocolate Covered Pretzels

    My sister-in-law is due in December, tomorrow we celebrate with a baby shower.  Her sweet friends are putting the shower on and I asked if I could contribute with a “mini” candy buffet.  I will take pictures and blog about the buffet later.  Tonight I made chocolate covered pretzels.  I looked up some recipes but the first few I found called for a double-boiler, which I do not have. I finally came across this recipe ,it allows for microwave chocolate melting.  I used butter Crisco which gave the chocolate a smooth, buttery taste.  They are using the colors purple, lime green, orange and black for October so I added sprinkles I picked…

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    Fun with Lunch – Muffin Tin Inspiration

    Lunch.  Lunch can become boring for kids and they become uninterested and picky.  At least that is what has happened to my kiddies.  While browsing blogs I came across 2 really cute blogs FULL of ideas on making fun lunches.  They are: Muffin Tin Mom and Lunch in a Box; Building a Better Bento Inspired by other blog moms once again, I set out.  I had cutters so I didn’t need to get any.   I did pick up the muffin tins at the Dollar Tree and then some cupcake liners at my local grocery store.  I picked up 10 packs of fruit leather (.50/each), pretzels, crackers, cheese, almonds, turkey and…

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    Seriously, This May be the Best Dessert Snack Ever, Really!

    Share Who doesn’t love a good Heath bar or Skor? Yummy toffee-nutty-ness, covered with delicious chocolate and a hint of salt. I love chocolate and salt, ever since my mom introduced me to popcorn and M&M’s – wow! You are only 4 simple ingredients away from amazing scrumptious-ness. I found this recipe on a MOPS forum one time and let me just tell you – It is easy, cheap to make and sooooo, sooooo very good! Homemade Heath Bar 40 soda crackers (saltine) 1 c. brown sugar 1 c. butter 12 oz. chocolate chips Line cake pan with aluminum foil. Place crackers over entire bottom of pan. Boil brown sugar…

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    Strawberry Fever!

    Yum, yum, and yum. Oh yeah, my kids also say yum, yum, yum and YUM. They love em even more than me! Our grocery store has had mad deals on strawberries, sometimes only $1/pack. Currently $2, can’t beat it. They were just 4.99/pack a couple of months ago. These are bright red, shiny, juicy and sweet – so good! We had strawberry shortcake last night and this chocolate lover says it may be the best dessert ever! The pie shop down the street posted a sign that says they are making fresh, strawberry pie, that sounds amazing. I have never had one, look out Granny Scott’s Pie Shop, here I…

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    Braided Egg Bread

    Again being inspired by so many awesome foodie blogs I decided it was time I learned how to make homemade bread. We are a bread loving family. My husband was running to the store and I told him to get flour for some cookies I was going to bake (Lemon Spiral), on a whim I told him to grab some yeast. I thought that at least if I have it in the house I would be able to make it when inspiration struck. He brought home Fleishmanns Rapid Rise yeast. I went straight to the internet to find some recipes that specifically called for it. All of those called for…