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a NEW quick and easy treat

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Hi all!  Check out this NEW (to me), really quick and easy sweet treat!  Today is our work Christmas party and I’m taking these yummies.   I’m kind of nervous, because in the past, when someone would bring rice krispie treats to a get-together, I would hear comments like…‘Rice Krispie treats?  Really?  Couldn’t you go to at least A LITTLE effort????’  Just kidding!  I never heard comments like that….at least out loud :o)

I got the recipe from Stylish Cuisine…yet, as you can tell, I used the mint oreos instead of the regular.  Have you tried something NEW today? Happy Friday!  Make it a good one!

a NEW method for whipping cream

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You may already know this about me…but I LOVE efficiency! I have so many things I want to be doing and if I can do things quicker and more efficiently, it’ll totally make my day! A few weeks ago, my two youngest sons had their birthdays (same day…three years apart), so I was busy making a cake and an ice cream cake. The ice cream cake had whipped cream as ‘frosting’, and so I tried whipping the cream in my blender since I had just read this post on One Good Thing By Jillee blog. OH.MY.GOODNESS!!!!!….It was whipped within SECONDS! I’ll admit it wasn’t totally light and fluffy, but for the purpose of frosting an ice cream cake, it didn’t need to be. A few weeks later, I experimented, and timed myself as I whipped it my ‘old’ way, and the new way:

Old Way = 7 minutes, 11 seconds = light and fluffy, and my 1 cup of cream about doubled to 2 cups.  Tip:  Put a metal bowl and beaters in the refrigerator to chill before whipping your cream.  (They say it whips faster). The picture of this method is at the top of the post.

Quick Way – 18 seconds!!!! = not as fluffy, but it all tastes the same, right!?  Here’s a pic of the blender batch.  18 seconds!!!  I do have  a pretty powerful blender (Vita-Mix), so that probably helped.

If I need totally gorgeous, fluffy cream, I’ll take the time and beat the cream…but when it doesn’t matter….I’m totally going with my NEW method!  Have a great day y’all!  Try something NEW!

a NEW recipe from Pinterest

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I guess I’m not the only one with lots of ‘pins’ on my Pinterest boards with REALLY good intentions of making or baking or trying out whatever we pinned! But ya know…..there’s only so many hours in a day, right? However, I got just the kick in the pants I needed when I saw this post at Miss Marzipan.  She was trying out the same Blueberry Danish  that I had planned to.  The recipe was originally posted at Chef In Training  and I had already bought all the ingredients, so after reading that post, I commented on her site that she inspired me to get busy….right then!  It’s a good thing to get a kick in the pants now and again!

a NEW yummy recipe

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Hi all! A few weeks ago, my good friend brought me over the yummiest pumpkin bread! The texture was soooo perfect! I know I clicked a picture of it, because I thought to myself….I’ve got to share this on my blog! Well….it took a while to get the actually recipe out of my friend, and now….hmmmm…..ok, where is that picture I took???? No where to be found! So I googled pumpkin bread, and this pic looks pretty close. But believe me….this recipe is a GOOD one! Perfect consistency and texture. So yummy! {source for pic}

So, here is a PDF printout of my friends recipe!  Try it….or something else NEW today!

pumpkin bread recipe

Sweet & Sour Meatballs

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I wasn’t planning on posting a recipe today…but I was over at Just A Girl Blog, and she is hosting a slow cooker link party, and since I need to attend my first-ever link party, I thought I’d share a yummy recipe for Sweet & Sour Meatballs. I just happened to even have a picture of these yummy morsels on my phone from last week. My son texted me and asked me if I’d make homemade mac and cheese and sends me the recipe. I respond, ‘Not tonight…because this is what I’m eating right now’….and I send him a picture of my dinner….Sweet & Sour Meatballs with Rice. Who knew I’d use that pic for this post, right? Anyway…here you go:

Sweet & Sour Meatballs
1 lb ground beef
2 Tbsp dehydrated onion
1/4 tsp pepper
1 tsp kosher salt
1 egg, beaten
1/4 bread crumbs

Sauce:
3/4 cup brown sugar
3 Tbsp flour
1 1/2 cup water or pineapple juice
1/4 cup white vinegar
3 Tbsp soy sauce

Combine meatball ingredients and shape into 1 inch balls. Broil 5-7 minutes
Whisk sauce and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes.
Cook meatballs and sauce in slow cooker 3-4 hours

So…obviously I think I’ll link to Just A Girl’s Party (if I can figure out how :o)

How do you like them apples?

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Well, my goal is to make sugar cookies every week so I can get better at decorating them! Oh my poor family! They’ll be sick of frosted sugar cookies in no time. Although this week, my husband took some into his work….and he said they disappeared. This week I used my NEW leaf tip (#352 I believe).   I’m exploring newness!

I’ve noticed tons of yummy-looking apple recipes lately. Tis the season!

These Carmel Apple Scones from Recipe Girl  look especially delicious!  I’ve got to make some….soon!  What NEW thing did you do today?