Category Archives: Recipes

April Fool’s Day – Cupcakes for dinner

Can you imagine the look on my kiddlets faces when we served them cupcakes for dinner?!?!  They looked at us all cross eyed.  My kiddlets knew we were cooking dinner and dessert at the same time. So they figured April Fool’s we were going to have dessert 1st, dinner second. However- they are still wrong….

April Fool’s Day – Lemonade

This trick really got my kids all riled up! They were not expecting what we had in store for them. You will simply need 1 or 2 boxes of your favorite gelatin flavor. We chose to make ours lemon flavor. Also we only made 1 box of gelatin flavor and wished we had made 2…

Homemade Sushi

Making sushi at home is quite easy. Its just the preparation that takes up all the time. Also cooking the rice takes a bit of time. But once you have everything ready, putting it together is quite simple. We used a mat just like this. You can find it here – Bamboo Sushi Mat with…

Slow Cooker French Onion Soup

My family is a huge french onion soup fan! Almost every where we go- out to eat, we generally want to find out if they make this soup. We tease each other who is going to eat the cheese off the soup bowl if we are sharing. We decided enough is enough. We need to…

Ham Egg Cups

We have been watching alot of other blogs and food network talking about baking their eggs in ramekins and all different ways. We have tried this a few times and have perfected what we enjoy to eat in our family, and find this incredibly easy and insanely delicious for such little effort. My kind of…

Banana Nut Bread Baked in a Jar

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I did this back in 2002. I went to a few classes last night and one of them was amazing about Jars. All the things you can do in a jar. She was awesome and got my mind going again for the holiday. Very exciting because – I LOVE JARS!!!  So she asked me what…

Patriotic Fruit Tarts

Inspired from my latest copy of Food Network Magazine. I used the photo as the inspiration. I did not want to do a rich tart as they called for mascarpone cheese etc. I used a recipe that I previously posted for my eclairs but I also use it when I make Coconut Cream Pies. Ingredients-…

Family Pina Colada

Yup– one the whole family can enjoy!!!  A different twist- gets  all frothy and foamy and delicious. Cinco de Mayo– we enjoy this wonderful drink with our Mexican dinner. The kids enjoyed it. It is a RICH drink so — like real Pina Colada’s 1 (or 2 ) will do ya! Ingredients- (Makes 4) 1…

Garlic Shrimp Skewers

Another family favorite (I seem to say that alot lately but it is true) We have alot of favorites and Chad does a good job of coming up with them! Ingredients- 1 lb of peeled and de-veined shrimp 3-4 tablespoons of olive oil heaping pinch of coarse black pepper heaping pinch of coarse salt 4…

Grilling Oysters

1st of all if you are local- you have to check out www.supremeseafoodretail.com they have wonderful seafood- wholesale to the public. We got 1/2 bushel of oysters (fresh- harvested 2 days ago off the coast of Texas) In Orlando area!! 23.00 for 100 of them. That is 4 meals for us!! Anyways- Grilling Oysters in…

Dirt for Dessert – Earth Day Treat

For our dessert tonight- we had the infamous dirt and worms.  All kinds of ways to do this dessert, I just chose to put them in glass tumblers with some gummy worms. But in case you have never seen this– Ingredients- 1 bag of Oreo cookies Bag of candy worms Chocolate pudding prepared according to…

Happy Earth Day 2010

We went all out and had a Earth Day party with the kids. 🙂  Decorated the house with earth stuff etc. One of the fun things we did was boil eggs, and make them look like planet Earth. Then we stood them up using the top of a soda or water bottle cap. They stood…

Copy Cat – Coconut Yummies

When I see this and taste it I wanna break out into the song “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t!” Chad and I – we love coconut. Almost too much!! Easter coming and going and well- we already miss the “GOOD” Easter candy. So we set out to figure out how to…

Brooke’s Purple Shake

My 5 year old daughter knows that red and blue make purple. She will even request this purple shake over chocolate! Any way we can get more fruits in her diet– I say WHY NOT! She is on a shake kick. If she could- she would drink this every night for dessert. She asked us…

Chad’s Famously Fought Over Potatoes

YUP!! You read it right. It is famous. (Well in our family it is) Anyone that comes over for dinner- scarfs them up, or they request to have them when they come over to dinner with us. Roasted Garlic Potatoes at it’s best!! Ingredients- 5 red potatoes (medium/large) 2-3  tablespoons of Olive Oil 1 tablespoon…

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 »