Category Archives: Recipes

Cheater Spinach & Artichoke Quesadilla

As much as we love to cook- we are just as excited to come up with something “semi-homemade”. But we call them cheaters. Because we felt like she cheated through this dinner. We made this dinner for Cinco de Mayo. Inspired by Tijuana Flats. Pack of 10 large flour tortillas Started off with our favorite…

Smart Cookie – Teacher Appreciation 2011

I found this great post for weddings– however I wanted to do another Smart Cookie for teacher appreciation week.  SEE OUR OTHER COOKIE POST. I loved how this looked like a cafe cookie. Very classy! I made the cookie recipe the wedding website suggested. I used a 1/4 cup measuring cup to make sure I…

Apple of our eye – Teacher Appreciation 2011

Isn’t that cute? We just got done making 101 of them!! That is ALOT. We volunteered to make one for the entire staff at our children’s school for the theme “apple” for that day. I can’t wait for them to get them tomorrow. You start off with the basic rice cereal treat recipe. 10 oz…

Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

  I don’t make a lot of cupcakes. However I got some new tips and wanted to try it out. I am super pleased. I been reading about cupcakes on my friends blog. ( From Failcakes to Cupcakes) She inspired me to try.. and I love how they turned out. I posted the other day…

How I made fondant Carrots

I have never made fondant before. So many recipes out there. This one I sorta just winged it. So there really isn’t a recipe for you but I can show you how it is done. Also homemade fondant taste SOOOO much better. I really don’t like the other stuff. This is the only marshmallows I…

Earth Day Cupcakes

HAPPY EARTH DAY!! Made cupcakes last night with my kidlets. Nothing major but thought they were cute.  Simply used a boxed cake mix. Divided it in 2 and dyed it blue and green. Then we used both silicone and paper cups. We were trying out the silicone for the 1st time. It was neat to…

Nutella Dessert Pockets

  Looked in my refrigerator and cabinet and found these items. (not pictured – powdered sugar) Decided we wanted to try a dessert with these items.  Everyone loves Nutella in our home, my husband loves raspberry and chocolate, and I love cream cheese and anything. Everyone couldn’t decide the combination they wanted so we made…

Goat Cheese & Spinach Stuffed Burgers

A week ago I posted about stuffed pork loin here. We had extra ingredients and LOVED the mixture so very much, we added to it to make a little bit more and stuffed it inside of burgers. We started with 2 lb of hamburger meat and made 16 evenly sized balls. We seasoned the meat…

Rice Treat Bunny Pops

We watch alot of TLC shows- and watching cake shows, they use rice treats all the time to form almost any shape. So we decided to take our rice treats today and make bunny heads. It was so easy. You need to do it when your rice treats are warm to the touch but not…

Kiss of Cherries Chocolate Cake by Kyle North

My son made this last week. He wanted to be featured on Mom & Dad’s blog. I promised him this week we would feature his amazing cake. It was SOOOO DELICIOUS! It is for the Chocolate lover! If you do not love Chocolate- this is not for you (And you are weird… just kidding) He…

Driving Miss Peeps – Easter Treat

Was playing in the kitchen with the kiddlets tonight and came up with this fun Peeps driving with the top down. 🙂 The rabbit Peeps are a lot of fun. I have notice they are harder to find than the birds. I am not sure. Maybe because the rabbits are so adorable!! We had lots…

Cheese & Spinach Stuffed Pork Loin

Chad is quit the chef. He has only gotten really into cooking about 2 1/2 years ago and he enjoys it. His palette is so sophisticated. I love that because my children get exposed to all different foods. I can’t think of very many 6 yr olds that know what goat cheese or shallots are….

Fushi – Fun Fake Sushi (aka candy sushi)

April Fool’s day came and went.  I love EVERY holiday. In this house if we can we celebrate. My kid’s were looking forward to the dinner. They were not sure what we had up our sleeves. They were very surprised!! Candy Sushi – or FUSHI as we call it.  Fun Fake Sushi. 🙂 My daughter…

Our April Fool’s Day Lunch 2011

I have been so excited for tonight to get here so I can start pranking my kids and setting up!! I made their lunch tonight. For many reasons, but mostly so I could blog and share with everyone. I made a change from my last post about the worm in the apple. I realized my…

April Fool’s Day – Lasagna for dessert

This is by far the funniest dish. It was quite delish I might add!! This prank dessert was pretty involved- I won’t lie. It took some time to prepare.  No cooking or baking — just many layers of yummy goodness to make it look legit. We loved this as a family. It makes quite a…

Both deaf since the age of 3, Chad and Mary Beth enjoy not only raising their little family but photographing together, cooking & crafting as well. Living in Central Florida with their ... Read More About Us »