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Merry Christmas ~ 2014

25 Thursday Dec 2014

Posted by AJ Rogers in Cooking, Holidays, Inspiration, Life, Personal, Pinterest, Style

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christmas, food, holidays, inspiration, recipes, style

Merry Christmas!

These last few weeks have been spent hustling and bustling throughout the holiday season. However, I managed to squeeze in some baking with a recipe that I got from Pinterest! I love My Pinterest! This time I made Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins and discovered the MASSIVE difference in baking when using a Kitchen-Aid mixer!

A few weeks ago I took the mixer out from storage to make Sweet Hawaiian Bread, but that didn’t work out because I did something wrong with the yeast. Hmm… maybe that’s why it was in storage in the first place.

Thankfully, I left the mixer on the counter and this baking escapade led me to making these Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins using the mixer and the difference was truly AMAZING. I could not believe the consistency the mixer mixed the batter compared to me doing it by hand. Now, I am so excited to try something else!

banana chocolate chip muffins

This recipe came from Princess Pinky Girl and it was delicious and a hit with my Christmas guests! Thank you for your scrumptious recipe because it is now a staple in my book!

Hoping everyone had a fabulous Christmas!


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Trunk or Treat

29 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by AJ Rogers in Art and Expression, DIY, Inspiration, Life, Personal, Pinterest

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art, DIY, Halloween, inspiration, Outside The Box, unique furniture

We had a Trunk or Treat at my little guy’s school last Sunday. Thanks to Pinterest I was able to get some ideas for what to do with our trunk – I love My Pinterest!

I decided upon the theme I wanted to use, something relatively easy, and found two pictures for my inspiration – These are the two pictures and the blogs they came from…

Pinterest Inspiration 1

A) Manda’s Mommy Mayhem B) The Dating Divas

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Here is what you are going to need for my version –

Trunk or Treat – Open Mouth with Tongue

3 large white poster boards
2 boxes of cereal
1 black trash bag
1 black vinyl table cover
1 red roll of wrapping paper
Supplies

I cut each poster board vertically making 6 pieces. Two pieces for each row of teeth and one piece cut in half for the eyes – leaving one extra. I cut the garbage bag in half and used each half to cover the cereal boxes. I taped the eye cutouts, which can be cut in any shape you want, to the covered cereal boxes. The red wrapping paper is rounded at the tip to make it look like a tongue. For the “throat” I used the black vinyl tablecloth, which you could always use more trash bags instead and clear box tape to adhere it all.

Trunk or Treat Picture

Another hit from Pinterest – I love it!

Pinterest Trunk or Treat

 

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Chickpea, Avocado & Feta Cheese

02 Wednesday Jul 2014

Posted by AJ Rogers in Cooking, Household, Inspiration, Life, Personal, Pinterest

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avocado, Cheese Salad, chickpea, feta cheese, food, Pinterest, recipe, recipes

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When I saw this recipe I heard the avocado calling me. I knew I would make this. It was just a matter of time. Enter summer and my new camera guy!

Camera Guy 2

This recipe was originally for a sandwich and the ingredients were mashed up and placed on whole wheat bread. I had it both ways and either way, it is yummy! I had to split the recipe from the Original Recipe by Two Peas & Their Pod because I am the only one in the house who will eat this. The first day I had it as a salad.

Here is what you are going to need –

Chickpea, Avocado & Feta Cheese Salad

1/2 Can of Chickpeas
1 Avocado
1 Green Onion
1 T Chopped Cilantro
1/4 Cup of Feta Cheese
1 Lime

*Salt and pepper to taste

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The next day I used the rest of the chickpeas and made my second batch. I had the first half in a sandwich and the rest in my salad last night for dinner.

Lunch sandwich

I can’t wait to make it again as an alternative to guacamole.

Thank you Pinterest Planning and Pinterest!

PS I am loving my new camera guy!


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No-Bake Watermelon Cake!

21 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by AJ Rogers in Art and Expression, Cooking, Design, Household, Inspiration, Life, Pinterest

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art, food color, Fruit Cake, inspiration, Pinterest, recipes, Watermelon Cake

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I need to get more fruits and vegetables in my little guy. When it comes to fruits there are very few he actually eats. Watermelon is one of them. So when I saw this Watermelon Cake I thought it might be a good shot that he would eat it. In addition, I could try some strawberries. Here’s what you need –

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Watermelon Cake

1 Watermelon
Strawberries, halved and quartered
Cool Whip
Sliced almonds

First, cut stems off strawberries, cut them in half and quarter them. Clean with soap and water. I enlisted my little guy and he was all for it, what a great help he has become! Next, cut a cylinder out of the watermelon (instead of using the whole watermelon I thought I would try a small one first and it was a good thing because the watermelon we picked was not very tasty).

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Once you have the watermelon into the shape of a cylinder frost it with the Cool Whip

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 We added strawberries and almonds

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 Ta-Da!!

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Not only did my little guy help with slicing and cleaning the strawberries as well as icing the watermelon he was also the camera guy – I think I found myself a new photographer!

Found this fun project on Pinterest!

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Valentine Baking

21 Friday Feb 2014

Posted by AJ Rogers in Cooking, Inspiration, Life, Personal, Pinterest

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Join me in my novice attempt to bake red heart-shaped cupcakes. Remember when I posted that I was going to make heart shaped cakes? Here they are!

First ~ tell me what it is about Pinterest that makes me feel like I want to be, and could be, the best baker, the best seamstress, the best make-up artist, and so forth and so on. Secondly, the cakes didn’t come out red they came out pink. Live and learn. I’ll know for next time. Remember, I said novice… although isn’t that what it’s all about? Mama always said, “You’ll never know until you try!”

First the cookies…
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I had this cookie ready for the little guy when I picked him up from school to which he promptly groaned and said, “Not another cookie.”

Heart cookie

– After that it was on to the cupcakes –

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– I made my own little piping bag out of a ziplock bag –
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My inspiration for heart-shaped cupcakes.

Visit me on Instagram to see the cool filter I used on this photo.

What shall I do from Pinterest next?


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