We made this Sweet & Sticky Crispy Beef recipe from Pups with Chopsticks recently and it was AMAZING!! It is absolutely AMAZING. It is a bit of work, but it is totally worth it. The first time we made this we did not have potato starch so I used corn starch and it was plenty crispy that time. This time we used potato starch and it was even more AMAZING! I hope you give this a try! Edit: Funny Story…
A list of our family’s favorite board & card games. Many of which can easily be played with just 2 players.
Hey friends! My 12 Days of Cookies (and other goodies) Virtual Cookie Exchange 2019 is happening in my Facebook foodie group What’s Cookin’ Good Lookin’! Come join us! Xoxo,E
Hello again and Happy Halloween! We have been getting slammed with snow here in the Rockies this week. I think we got roughly 12″ of snow this week. Crazy for October, even at 6,300 ft! Ellie didn’t mind so much and the mister worked from home a couple of days. I baked and painted and spent a few days in my jammies. I love this spooky little haunted house scene! It took a couple of days to sketch out and…
Oh goodness.. another post! Can you believe it? I’m trying.. hehe! I started watercolor painting this late spring/summer on a whim. It looked fun so I figured why not.. so I pulled out the cheap-o Artist Loft brand paints from Michael’s that I used to use when I was with CTMH and started coloring stamped images again for cards. (Please bear with me as I re-learn formatting Blogger posts. They seem to have changed the way they do photos since…
It’s no secret that I don’t like pumpkin… and since it is officially fall now we can talk about it! Ha! But I DO like pumpkin spice. You know why? Because there’s no actual pumpkin in it! It’s Pumpkin Spices (sometimes also called Pumpkin Pie Spice) – a blend of delicious spices, not pumpkin flavored spices. So many folks can be confused. Say it with me now, “pumpkin spice is not pumpkin.” Haha! The pumpkin (pie) spice blend is a…
I know it has been an eternity since I last wrote anything on this blog. It’s been a crazy couple of years. I took a needed break after we lost our Sadie. I stopped creating and stopped writing. It was a hard time. I don’t even know where to start back up again but I feel the draw to blog again… I don’t want to skim over important things, but at the same time I don’t want to take forever…
Because I loved the Lemon Biscotti so much I had to follow up with my favorite flavor, Orange Amaretto… Original post from my virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange in my facebook foodie group can be found here. I drizzled some in an Amaretto flavored glaze and dark chocolate to go to a few neighbors and dipped a few in plain chocolate for Brent and I. They will be so yummy dunked in hot cocoa. The next time I make these I…
I made biscotti this morning as part of a challenge for another group I am in. These are fantastic and super easy! This is my first time baking biscotti at home. I don’t usually love them from the store because they are SO HARD, like crack your teeth hard. But these were crisp, yet tender and sooo good. Even the hubs, who really doesn’t like biscotti, actually enjoyed them… and then asked if they were easy enough to make to…