Happy Friday all! I am gearing up for the week end and hoping to get alot accomplished today. Laundry for starters....LOL! Well, I promised that I would have a Temptation Tuesday for ya and I do. Maybe even a couple of yummies coming your way.
For starters, Root beer BBQ Chicken. Sounds delicious, huh? It was. I will tell you though that I didn't get much/any root beer flavoring. None of us could taste the root beer. I will say this much though, the hubs has fallen in love with the BBQ sauce part of the recipe. You know what that means for me now? Right, I have to make it up from here on in. That's okay. I liked it alot too! This is what it looked like when I baked it the other night;
I had originally planned on cooking it on the grill but, due to the lovely rain, I opted for broiling it in the oven. Let me tell you, I have not cooked it like that before and I loved it. It only took 10 minutes and the chicken was done and juicy. I will be making it again very soon. If you are interested in where I found the original recipe from, it came from here: http://www.mynameissnickerdoodle.com/2010/08/fabulous-food-friday-60.html If you would rather use my shorthand version and go by that, here goes;
ROOT BEER BBQ CHICKEN
2 cans Root beer or 3 cups, divided
1/2c smoky barbecue sauce
1/2c Dijon mustard, plus 1/4c more for marinade
brown sugar if needed to sweeten the sauce
1# boneless, skinless chicken breast
salt and pepper
1 Tbsp paprika
1 Tbsp garlic powder
2 Tbsp olive oil
In a small saucepan, boil 1 can or 1 1/2c root beer until thick and syrupy, about 30 mins. (I boiled mine for over 30 mins and it never got thick and syrupy. I used it anyway.) Stir in 1/2c smoky BBQ sauce and 1/2c Dijon. Taste and see if it is sweet enough. If not, add some brown sugar.
Meanwhile, in a large Ziploc bag add in remaining Dijon, salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, and olive oil. Stir together. At this point the directions said to reserve about 1c. for dipping and basting. I did not, that is what I assumed the first part of the recipe was for. Add in chicken and toss to coat. Pour in remaining root beer and place bag in a bowl, to prevent accidents, and then refrigerate and let marinate for 1 hour to 24 hours. Flip chicken a few times while marinating to keep flavor evenly distributed. Set aside some sauce for basting and use the rest for dipping. I used the cooked sauce for this.
Remove chicken from bag and discard bag and all the marinade. Grill or broil chicken for about 5 minutes on each side, or until it is no longer pink. I bought the Purdue individually wrapped breasts in a bag. There were 5 in a pkg and they were the right thickness for the time recommended for cooking. It worked out perfectly. I put sauce on the top of the chicken when I put it in for the first five minutes and when I took it out to flip it over, I put another layer of sauce on the back side.
We enjoyed the chicken alot and I would definitely try it again. As I said before, we didn't taste the root beer in it but, we have found a new BBQ sauce to love. LOL!
For the next recipe, I have chosen COWBOY LASAGNA, and if you would like the recipe from where I originally found it, go here; http://peppermintmochamama.blogspot.com/2012/10/cowboy-lasagna.html
We really enjoyed this recipe as well. It was very tasty and filling. I would definitely say it was a hubby pleaser. Here is what mine looked like when I made it;
Yum, yum, yum!
COWBOY LASAGNA
1# ground beef
minced onion- I used a whole one
Worcestershire sauce, a generous sprinkling --I love this so I was
very generous
3Tbsp parsley, divided
1 10 3/4oz can of tomato soup
1 15.25 oz can of corn
3Tbsp dried ground mustard
1 32oz pkg. tater tots
salt and pepper
4c mozzarella
Brown ground beef with the spices- then drain. Add can of soup and can of corn and let simmer for 10 minutes.
In a greased 9X13 pan, arrange tater tots in a single layer. Cover with 2 cups of cheese. Pour ground beef over the top. Cover with remaining 2c of cheese and 1Tbsp of parsley.
Bake at 350* for 30 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes before serving.
If you want a quick and easy supper------ this is the recipe for ya. And with all the rain we have gotten recently, this will be just right for a night like tonight.
Well, I hope that you all have enjoyed these recipes today. Sorry again that I made you wait for them but, hopefully they are worth the wait.
As you can see, I tried both of them and they were both enjoyed by us immensely. I hope that you all get a chance to try them out so that your family can enjoy them too!
Have a great week end. I am hoping to get some crafting going on this afternoon. Yay! If I do, you will get to see the proof next week. Cross your fingers. LOL!
Warm and primitive blessings to you all!
prim_bug
Hello all. I know it has been a while. The story of my life, huh?! I know that it is hectic this time of the year for everyone. Us too. Well, the Fourth is right around the corner. I am trying to get planning on what we will be enjoying on that day. As like everything else I do, it will most likely be a last minute decision and it will be fine. I am thankful that we all just have a great time no matter what. That is the best. Looking forward to lots of great food and fun!
I have been busy also with a new project.... we bought a used camper and I am trying to decorate and clean it when ever I have the free time. Being on a budget and not having alot to spend I am making new curtains for it. Guess what I am making them out of? Kitchen towels! Cool idea and very affordable. My mom was telling me that when she and my dad were first married they had a small trailer and she desperately wanted curtains (she is/was an amazing decorator, with a love of curtains). Well she took some towels and made her some curtains and they were perfect she said. That got my wheels spinning for a while. And, then like all good things in my head, it was gone. I had decided that I wanted to do an Americana type of theme in the camper. It is a 1989 and everything is the same in it as it was in 89. The beautiful (ick) pink couch and the curtains are all ruffly and the same style. Don't get me wrong, they were pretty if you like that style (my mom loved it). I just prefer the more prim looking stuff. Anyway, on Saturday I had to run in to a Tractor Supply store for some dog food and of course the hubs heads down to all of the tool stuff. So, I go looking for him and in the center aisle I see a great display of Fourth of July stuff. I looked at it and saw these bundles of kitchen towels and.... Aaaahhhh, the light bulb went on. Thank God. They were in packages of 3 for $5.99. I got four packages and have over 3/4 of my curtains made. I need a couple more of them to finish the curtains in the bedroom and bath and I would like to make some throw pillows out of them as well to put on the couch. I will also need to buy a cover for the couch too. Unless I can figure out a way to make one myself for a lot less. Here are a few quick pics that I remembered to take as I was taking down the old ones;
See the beautiful pink couch? And the blue silky type of curtain on top. Not my thing. It would work if it had to. Thankfully it doesn't have to.
This pic is of the kitchen. It is the window on the left side. You can see the red checkered towels on the sideboard. Those are the ones that I will be making for that window.
This is one of the bedroom windows.
This is the living room window across from the couch. This one is going to just have a valance across the top because it has a nice blind underneath so, that is all I need for this one. The valance will be the blue checkered print.
Yep, you guessed it the bathroom.
I haven't had a chance to clean it out yet. It isn't bad but, definitely can use a good once over. I haven't hung the curtains I made yet because I want to clean everything first. But, I did take a couple of quick shots of them on the rod just so I can give you an idea of what they look like.
Alright, so don't you just love these? I, so do!!!! They came packaged in sets of red or blue. I thought that they would look great all mixed up so this is what I came up with.
This set of curtains will be over the couch. It has the blue and white with stars on both sides and the red and tan stripes in the middle. Both sides will be tied back and the middle section will also be tied and pulled in the center.
This set will be in the kitchen on the long window at the end. I didn't get a before picture of that one. This will have the red and white with stars on either end and the blue and tan stripes in the middle. And they will be tied back the same as the living room.
Kind of yucky pics cause they are not hung but, I hope to have some good pics of it all done by next week.
I have so much to share but, always short on time. I wanted to at least touch base with you all and let you know I haven't disappeared again. I hope to be back tomorrow with a Temptation Tuesday for you. I know, it's Friday but, I owe it to ya! LOL! So, I hope that you all have a good afternoon and evening and I will be back tomorrow.
Warm and Primitive blessings to you all.
prim_bug
Hello everyone. I just wanted to put on a quick little note to say "Happy Father's Day" to all of the Dad's out there. For those who have passed like my dad and the hub's dad as well. For the dad's that give their heart and soul, for the dad's that are over seas fighting for our Freedom, for all the dad's that are fill in dad's, for all the moms that are the dad's, and for the grampa's that are dad's, and anyone else that I may have not listed. You know who you are, if you are stepping up to the plate to do the job and you are filling those shoes:
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!
I hope that you all have a great day and celebrate your Dad the way that he should be celebrated.
Warm and primitive blessings to you all!
prim_bug
Good afternoon everyone. It has been such a long time. I have truly missed chatting on here about everything that goes on and sharing the recipes with you all. I realize that it is not an excuse but, I think that you all understand that sometimes life just gets really busy and you just need to let some things go. Unfortunately, in the last month and a half, I have had to let go of a few things that I really didn't want to but, had no control over them. I could go on and on and bore you all to death with my problems but, the reality of it all is that we all have problems every day and they get to all of us. And, at the end of the day you just want to relax and enjoy the blessings that surround us all. So, I am going to blog today about some of the blessings that have happened in my life that I haven't shared over the last month and a half.
First off, I hope that all the Veterans, all of the Moms, and all of the Graduates each of you, I hope that your day was special and blessed.
For Mother's Day my sister gave me a beautiful Morning glory plant, one that someone in her horticulture group had planted in the early spring. She bought it and brought it home and surprised me. What a sweetheart she is. I need to plant it outside still. But, when I first got it we were getting rain and I was waiting for good weather. When the good weather came I went to plant it outside and when I grabbed the plant it had started climbing and winding itself around everything over my kitchen sink and in the window. It was so pretty that I couldn't take it down. Since then, we have had almost nothing but rain. Anyway, I did not know what this was going to look like when it blossomed but I didn't have to wait long to find out. Here it is:
Isn't that just gorgeous? I have had non stop blossoms ever since. I just love it and it makes me happy every time I see it.
Ok, so on to the next exciting thing that I missed blogging about; Samantha went to prom! And, she and I decorated her mask for it. It was awesome and it was quite a transformation. Unfortunately, I only got one picture of it while it was in progress. Oops! I know, how unlike me! LOL! Here is the picture of it that I did remember to take, while we were working on it.
Alright, so we had a basic purple mask. Samantha and her mom had picked up some white lace, and the accessories to go on it. But, there was nothing white about her gown and all of her accessories were silver. Her shoes, jewelry, nail polish, everything. We had to make the lace silver. So, Samantha says "let's just spray paint it". I am thinking, I have never painted lace before but, ok. It is amazing how things work out. I had bought a can of a silver metallic spray paint in February. I was going to make some heart necklaces and use that paint. The dough sealed over the holes for the cord to go through so I never finished with them. I did not know then that my paint would have a greater purpose. Voila! It worked. And not just enough to get by with, It came out great! So we attached the lace over the entire mask with some spray adhesive. That was a messy job. Thank goodness we thought ahead enough to cover the ribbons on the side with aluminum foil. (No, they were not antenna)! The hubs couldn't figure out what the aluminum foil was about! LOL! After the adhesive dried we folded the edges all around and glued to the back of the mask. Cut the eye holes out and did the same for them. This was not so easy to do with lace, but so worth it. Then, it seemed like it needed a trim around the outside edges. I found some kitchen twine and back to the old can of paint. Yep, painted it up and then glued it around the edges and it looked great. At this point, Samantha took it home and finished attaching all of her glittery accessories. I think it came out fabulous and it was a great chance for us to bond. Loved it! Will miss her so much when she goes to college and starts moving on with her adult life. Anyway, thought I would share some photos of her in her gown and all ready for prom.
No, this is not her ready for the prom. This is her the afternoon she and her mom got back from shopping and found her dress. She was so excited and I couldn't wait to see it. Isn't she a cutie?!
I think that this is the best close up picture that I have of her in her mask. You can't see it the greatest but, it came out very nice. The best thing about it was that no one else had one like it.
Isn't her dress beautiful? I love it.
This is Samantha with my sister, and her Aunt Lori. This is one of my favorite pictures. Love them so much.
And, this one is of Samantha, the hubs, and myself. I don't normally take pictures but, for her, well anything. Love it though.
Ok, so some of you might be thinking enough already. But, if it were not for Samantha I would probably not be blogging right now or even at all. She bugs me and stays on my case until I finally blog. And I love her for it. She is also the one that changes the scenes on my blog and does any and all of the technical crap for me. So, if I go on and on about her..... it is with good reason. Love ya girl.
I have so much more to tell but, it is nearing supper time and I need to be going. I did want to let you all know that I got a Bliss cutter so that I can cut my own wool strips for rug hooking. Oh my gosh, I am some kind of excited. I can't wait to get started on a new rug. I will be taking pictures to share soon. As well as getting back to Temptation Tuesdays. I may have been gone for a bit but that doesn't mean that I haven't been on Pinterest and trying some yummy recipes. In fact tonight we are having a Reuben Casserole. YUM! And I can't wait.
Thanks to all of you who pop in and have been stopping by to check and see if I have been back. My apologies for not being here. I hope to be getting back to normal with everything and back on here to stay in touch with you all. Lots of love going out to each and every one of you.
Warm and primitive blessings to you all.
prim_bug
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