Breaded Honey Mustard Chicken

This chicken is full of flavor and super easy to make.

You'll need:
6 Chicken Tenderloins
2 Slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 1/2 cup breadcrumbs, panko style
Garlic Powder
Onion Powder
1/2 cup prepared honey mustard
3 Tbsp melted butter

Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 F degrees.  Cover a baking sheet with foil and spray nonstick.  Place tenderloins on sheet and brush with honey mustard, just the tops.  Mix bacon, breadcrumbs, garlic and onion powder together.  Top with breadcrumb mixture, again just the tops of these. Drizzle with butter. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until cooked through.  Serve with additional honey mustard.  Enjoy!

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Roast Beef with Dijon Sauce

 

Some of the best recipes happen when your using up leftovers.  I made a roast in the crockpot and cut it in half, to save for another night.  I wanted to present it differently, and came up with this sauce.

Dijon sauce
1/2 Onion, diced
2 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
1 Cup of beef broth ( I used the juice from the roast)
3 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
2 Tbsp Butter

Start the onion in a pan on medium heat.  After a minute or two add the vinegar and start to deglaze the pan stirring up any browned bits.  Add the broth and simmer until slightly reduced, 2-3 minutes.  Reduce heat to low, and stir in mustard and butter.  Keep the sauce warm until serving.  Serve up beef and ladle sauce over top.  Delish

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T Shirt Ruffle

I had a couple of shirts and pieces that I don't really wear.  

I cut a strip off of the bottom of a skirt, ran a gathering stitch (Just a loose big stitch which on my machine is a 4 length) and leaving the beginning and end loose gathered up the piece.  

I cut my red t-shirt into a scoop neck.  

Then I stitched it on the shirt gathering as I went along.

Made for a nice change to a shirt I was never wearing. So many options.
(Please forgive the bad pics as these were taken on an old phone)

And I know, long time no post! In the meantime, I've worked a lot, sewed A LOT, had another baby!, and am enjoying raising the kids.  I have so many posts that I had been working on, but never completed.  I hope to get some of those finished, as well as some new ones.  Hope everyone is doing well!

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Chili Cheese Pasta - 4 Ingredient Dinner

This recipe is with what I had on hand.  You only use a portion of the chili so you can use the rest on hotdogs for a lunch. 

Ingredients:
2/3 Can of Chili,no beans
1 Box Velvetta Shells and Cheese
1 Roma tomato
Green onion, diced up

Directions:
Heat up the Chili while cooking the pasta.  Drain pasta and add heated chili, cheese sauce, and mix together.  Add diced tomato and green onion and stir.  Serve hot.

Christmas is coming so soon! I hope everyone is having a great December!

Baby Leggings in 5 Minutes or less


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Butterfly Mobile

Happy Last day of August!
For those going back to school, good luck!
I saw a mobile online similar to this on Prudent Baby.com.   I had leftover scrapbook paper and I found a twig when we went to the beach recently.  I've had the beads since I was a kid.  I grabbed a ribbon out of the scrap box.   A thread and needle and your there.  I really enjoyed making this, and the little one was ecstatic.  It's going in her room. 

She's really been enjoying her tea set that she got from her cousin.  I had to keep her busy while I made this. 

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 Butternut Squash Chicken Pasta

Cupcake Toddler Shirt

About two months ago, I bought this iron stud cupcake for a $1 at Michael's. 

It didn't take but a couple minutes to make this cute shirt.  It also turns out I had some cupcake printed shorts I had bought for 50 cents at a garage sale in early summer. 

Case in point, Never underestimate the power of iron on's.  I really love them! 

I have finally cleaned off my sewing table, so now maybe I can concentrate again.  Hopefully I'll have something good for you!~

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Toddler Skirt from my pajama pants

I was about to toss my pajama pants, when I realized they'd make an easy skirt for my little girl. 

I grabbed one of her other skirts, and traced that with an added 1/2 inch  seam allowance on each side making sure to use the elastic in the top of the pants to be the top of her skirt.  

I sewed it together, also keeping the tie for a bow later.

I then cut strips of material to make the ruffle.  I ran a baste stitch and then pulled them till they gathered.  I pinned and sewed that on. Then I hemmed it.

She looks adorable in it.  I'll definitely look at remnants differently for possible toddler clothes again. 

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Embellished T- Shirt with Cut Fabric Flowers

 I was already wearing this shirt today, and I couldn't think of any jewelry I had to wear to make it look better.
I stopped at Joann's and got a 1/4 yard of fabric. 

 I cut out a couple flowers.

 Got them situated and pinned and sewed with a baste stitch around all of it.  Then I went back with a zigzag stitch for the edges.  I'm hoping it frays a little after washing for a more vintage look.

 Finished!

What do you think??  Come by and leave me a comment!

 Embellished Shower Curtain

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Boneless Buffalo Chicken

 
Ingredients:
2 Boneless Chicken Breasts ( I just cut mine off the bone because they were .99cents a lb.)
 Flour, enough to coat chicken
2 Tbsp. Crisco
3 Tbsp. Margarine
  
Sauce:
8 Tbsp. Lousiana Hot sauce
8 Tbsp. Margarine
1 1/2 Tbsp. White Vinegar
1 Clove Garlic, Diced
1/2 Tsp. Worcestershire sauce

Directions:
Dice up Chicken into bite size cubes.  In a ziploc baggie, toss Flour in with chicken and coat.
Heat crisco and butter.  Add chicken and cook until done, turning pieces over halfway through.  In the meantime, saute garlic with the butter, then add the rest of the ingredients. Simmer for about 5 minutes.  Pour over chicken.  For added flavor, toss some crumbled bleu cheese over hot chicken and serve with ranch dressing.

 This recipe came to me in a pinch.  I didn't have any buffalo sauce of which I usually buy the .99 kind.  I also didn't have oil, so I went with criso and butter. This chicken is delicious, and I wish I had some waiting for me now.  Instead, I need to go start on our dinner now...


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Red, White & Bleu Potato Salad

 It's been, what feels like, a long time since I had time to post anything.  I hope everyone is doing well. 

Ingredients:
2 lbs Red potatoes Diced
1 Ripe Tomato Diced
1/2 Cup Olive Oil
3 Tbsp White Vinegar
Fresh Chives
1 1/2 oz or more of Crumbled Bleu Cheese
Salt and pepper

Directions:
Boil Red potaoes in salted water for about 10 minutes.  Cook until still a little firm.  Drain, and cool.
In a bowl, whisk together the vinegar, salt, pepper and olive oil.  Add tomatoes and bleu cheese to the potatoes.  Pour vinegar mixture over top and stir. Serve, yum!

What have you made lately?

Spicy Pasta de-la-creme

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Chicken Enchiladas Verdes

 These are soo good! Walmart had the Elpaso Green Chili sauce for $1.00 so I put this together.
 Try them if you can!  

Ingredients:
2 Chicken Breasts Cooked and diced small
1/2 Orange pepper, diced
1/2 Onion, diced
4oz or 1/2 brick of cream cheese softened
2 Tbsp. or more of Taco Seasoning
1 Can Green Enchilada Sauce
1 1/2 Cups of Mozzarella Cheese
7 Corn tortillas
 Green onions for garnish

Inside mixture for Enchiladas Verdes

Directions:
 Saute' the pepper and onion in a pan in olive oil until softened. In a bowl, add your cream cheese, onion and pepper.  Mix. 

Then add your chicken, taco seasoning, Mozzarella Cheese and a 1/3 of the can of green enchilada sauce and mix some more.

Heat your corn tortillas, and add filling.  Roll, and put in a sprayed non stick pyrex pan seam side down. 

Pour the rest of the green sauce on top and add more cheese.

Cover with foil and bake at 350 F for 30-35 Minutes. 

Add some green onions for garnish. Serve. Yum!

 Do you have your own recipe for this?  What do you do different?

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Embellished T- Shirt Super Fast!

 I took a walk through Joann's and found this absolutely matching flower to go with my t shirt.

I just pinned and sewed it on. 

 It really churched it up, as they say. I'm sure I could make one of these myself, but I just haven't put the time in.  Clean the bathroom?...or Change her diaper...oh! or I could make this awesome bow.  In my case, I  did the first two...

 Hope everyone has had a good week thus far.  I've been keeping myself busy, and haven't gotten to the computer much.  Also, blogger lost some of my saved posts and you may have had an error this last weekend if you tried to get to a blogger page.  Their whole site was down.



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Polish Kielbasa Sausage and Peppers

 Always looking for an easy recipe, I came across this.  My husband had grilled the onions, peppers and mushrooms in foil the day before, so these are the leftovers!

All you do is chop and add some olive oil.  Grill in a pouch of aluminum foil.  I think you could also try this in the oven...but I haven't done that yet. Make sure to close it up so it steams.

Saute up your precooked sausage and add your steamed onions, peppers and mushrooms. I really like the texture of these vegetables.

Coming this next week, I have recipes for a Thai Peanut pasta and some Creamed Spinach as well as some Shirt Refashions.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  Quite a weather change we've had lately.  Back to jackets. What are you doing?

Roasted Potato Salad..BEST EVER!


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Lemon Snowball Cookies

Ingredients: 
1 cup butter
½ cup sifted powered sugar
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons fresh lemon zest
2¼ cups sifted flour
⅛ teaspoon salt

Directions:

Beat butter and sugar until creamy.
Stir in lemon juice and zest. Add flour and salt.
Chill dough for 1 hour.
Form into 1 inch balls and place on baking sheet. Bake at 400° F for 10-12 minutes. While still warm, roll in powdered sugar. Cool and roll in sugar again.

I've got to work on my Whoopie Pie's now...We'll see how it goes!

Do'in Ballet in her sleep?..I wonder what she's dreamin about?

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Grilled Avocado Burger + Gift tutorial for Mother's Day

 So, has anyone ever heard of avocado actually grilled inside the burger? I hadn't.  My husband just came up with these. They are awesome. I didn't put the burger down the whole dinner. Bad manners, I know. But I didn't notice till the end! oops.

Ingredients:
1lb. Ground beef
1 Avocado half, diced
Small Orange Pepper, diced; red and yellow will do good as well.
Adobe Seasoning to taste
2 Tbsp. Bourbon
2 Slices Chipotle Cheese

Mix all except the cheese.  Grill and top with the cheese. yum!

Tomorrow is our 6th Wedding Anniversary! I'm very excited!  I'm going to make Whoopie Pie's for our dessert.  We'll see if I can bake these up right!

I'll post the recipe next week.  What are you doing this weekend?  Plans for Mother's Day?

 I hot glued a ribbon to a clip.  Then glued that onto this mason jar.  Added a card in the clasp and some flowers.  Turned out pretty cute!

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mom's out there! You deserve something really special!!  Thanks again to Beth S. who hooked me up with a bunch of these mason jars!  I'll post what I did to some of the others soon!

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BBQ Chicken Skewers

I loved these BBQ Chicken Skewers.  The sauce made them taste like I grilled them outside rather than sticking them under the broiler.

Sauce:
1/2 Cup of Ketchup
2 Tbsp. of Honey
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
2 dashes or so of Liquid Smoke (Hickory)

Brush over raw chicken that you've skewed onto pre-soaked skewers.  This amount of sauce covered 3 chicken breasts worth. I broiled mine for 10-12 Minutes.  So good!
I think I'll make some for lunch.
Hope everyone is doing well.

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Applique for My Baby Girl's Shirt

 My baby just celebrated her First Birthday! It's a celebration of her 1 year, and of 1 year of parenthood for me and my husband.  So many changes ...in just one year.

From feeding every two hours in the early morning hours to her now crawling around trying to find something else to get into and investigate. Standing, and attempting to walk without holding on.  I'll be the first to say...I was soo tired at the beginning.... so tired. And now I'm just tired all the time. Just kidding! 

Things are way better and I really enjoy seeing her change so much.  It's amazing the love you feel for your own child. I love her more than Iced Coffee in the morning. That's saying ALOT! She's absolutely a Daddy's girl already.  She just gets soo excited when she sees him. I love that.  I'd move mountins for my baby if I had to. She's the best. I love her.

Ok, on with this project. I just unburied my sewing machine after it had a week off. 

You need a plain shirt, some scrap fabric with a print on it, and pins. I cut this bunting upside down and couldn't use it, so I'm going to cut out the cat.

 I already loved this shirt because it goes with almost anything...but I need something for my cat.

 After cutting it out, I pinned and sewed around it. Then went back with a zigzag stitch a couple times because my edges were fraying more than I wanted.

 Done! Could this have been easier for such enjoyment? I love it. And as you can see the drool, she really loves it too!

 Fabric Pennant Banner



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Polenta with Sausage Marinara Rotini

 For those of you who haven't tried Polenta, go for it! It is a cheap filler and tastes great. My family knew it as Mush.  Cornmeal cooked.

This is EASY to make.  I used to cook it on the stove, but it takes more attention than I'm able to give with a One year old crawling around.  Even in this picture above,you can see, I practically burnt the Garlic bread under the broiler because I had too much going on.  Here we go:
Microwave Polenta

Ingredients:
3 Cups Water
1 Cup Cornmeal
1 Tsp Salt
 For Frying:
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
Directions:
Stir together and pour into a Pyrex bowl sprayed with cooking spray. Cook 7 minutes in the microwave on high, stirring every two minutes.  Take out of microwave and pour onto a baking sheet keeping it about 1 inch high.  Mine was just to one side of my baking pan. Flatten with a spatula. Cool for 20 min.  Using a cookie cutter, cut your desired shape.  I wish I had a circle one, but I had a scalloped edged square which of course works just fine.

Heat a frying pan with 2 tbsp of olive oil.  Fry them for 4-5 minutes on each side.  Your just looking for a little browning.

I cooked up some ground Italian sausage and added some canned marinara sauce.  Hunts is pretty good!  Cook up some noodles, add your sauce and serve with the polenta.  Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and sliced green onion!

I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend.  70's!!  What are you doing?

Flower Hair Clip Tutorial

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Roasted Broccoli

 

I think about roasted broccoli in the morning...in the afternoon, and at night. I LOVE it.  I'm not the broccoli lover I used to be, but after tasting it roasted on a pan, it's amazing.

Ingredients:
2 heads broccoli, separated into florets
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper

Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
 In a large bowl, toss broccoli florets with the extra virgin olive oil, sea salt.
Spread the broccoli out in an even layer on a baking sheet.
Bake in the preheated oven until florets, turning after 10 minutes. 
They are tender enough to pierce the stems with a fork at about 15 to 20 minutes.
Remove and transfer to a serving platter.

Enjoy!!

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