Cooking for the Super Bowl Snacks

 

Pumpkin Pie and Crust

I played around with some ideas I had for snacking. I found a recipe on Google and decided to try it. It’s a recipe for a pie pastry without having to roll it. LOVE that! It’s called PAT-In-The-Pan PIE CRUST

It was VERY easy to make and felt so nice and soft. LOVED the feel of it and did I say it was EASY to make? How cool is that?

This is what I wanted to do with it. These are little mini muffin tins. I wanted to make some individual pumpkin pies. I’m a diabetic so I used Splenda as my sweetener. The main reason I did this is because I had taken out a pack of my pumpkin puree the other day and sit it in the fridge and it NEEDED cooking. I had planned on putting it in a yellow cake mix which is ALSO good. But decided to just do this with it. Oh, if you’re interested in doing the cake mix one…… all you have to do is use the large can of pumpkin in the cake mix. That’s ALL you add to the cake mix. It’s very yummy. Found that one online to but don’t remember where, sorry.

Then here’s the two extra ones for the freezer. This is a tiny bowl, but  you can’t tell from the pic. I LOVE these old bowls! LOVE LOVE LOVE em!

And here’s the pumpkin pie filling. I also googled that one and found it on Simply Recipes.com. It is called, Suzanne's Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie. I didn’t add cardamon, nor lemon zest and I just used non fat evaporated milk for my milk. I also didn’t add but 2 eggs to it and no brown sugar. I used Splenda and I really added a little too much. I think it said 1/3 cup sugar if I am remembering right and I added that in Splenda but then went back and added another 1/2 cup and I shouldn’t added that extra half cup.  

I almost forgot to take a pic of one of the pans. I had put it into the oven and had to get it out. It had already started to swell up. I think I added too much filling to my crust though. Live and learn huh?

 

 

Then I also… Baked Tators

It’s all Lydia’s fault. I was watching Lydia on PBS this morning and she was baking some french fries in the oven. I caught the end of it but I think she had added olive oil to the pan. Anyway I got the idea to bake some tator rounds. This is what I did.

I washed my potatoes real well and then I sliced them into circles, I didn’t peel them. I poured about 3 tablespoons of olive oil in my large cookie sheet that I have, and smeared it around the pan. I put the tator circles in and then I sprinkled some no salt seasonings on them.  I get the no salt seasonings at Big Lots. Then I added garlic powder and then sharp cheddar cheese sprinkled all over the tops of them. Baked them on like 275 degrees until they got tender then I turned the oven up to 350 degrees to brown them. They are really good. Hubby had to steal one early before the game started. lol And here’s a pic of the tators.

Some I put some string cheese that I had on them because I ran out of the sharp cheddar cheese. They’re the ones on the left side.

 

And as Jacques Pupin says, Happy Cooking! And Happy SUPER BOWL! lol

Rose

Sewing Room Wall Shelves

We have finally got the shelves made for the sewing room. I want to show you the before pic first.

And here is the process of making it. Hubby and I painted it before they put it together so we wouldn’t have the paint smell inside.

Then we stood it up and started putting in the horizontal shelves.

Got a couple more rows of them in.

Now got the rod for hanging things on. Then asked him to do one more shelf above the rod so I would have one more shelf to put things on. You can NEVER have too many storage areas!

Close up of the hanging rod and the shelf. I’ve got to prime and paint the 1x4 boards the color of the siding so they wont be noticeable. See the black screw heads on the boards? I filled in all of them last night with the wood putty. Then tonight I did the touch ups with the paint. Now ALL I lack is these little 1x4 boards and it will be finished!

Here’s a pic with things in it so you can see the details better. It wasn’t finished when I added all this stuff to it. I just did that to show the details better. There will be milk crates along the bottom of it to store things in. They will all be covered in fabric so you wont know what’s inside and you wont be able to see the milk crate at all.

I finished the painting tonight. See no more screw heads peaking out.

It looks much better doesn’t it? Hopefully tomorrow I can start putting the things in there. Got to get some paint for those 1x4 boards in almond, the color of the vinyl siding. I can at least get started putting my things in this side of it for right now. I’m hoping with day time gets here I wont find any places I need to touch up. You know how it is, you get your paint brush all cleaned up and then you find something you missed. lol
I have the heater on in there now so the paint will get nice and dry since it’s raining outside today. Sure is nice to have one more project done and behind me. Maybe now I can organize my things. Also I have got to get all this fabric of mine folded on their foam boards so I can stick it in the shelves with the other fabric I already have folded up.
When I get the things in there I will come back and post a couple more pix for you. I also want to get the covers made for the milk crates to. Hang in there with me and I will get it done and post more pix.
UPDATE: Added some things yesterday to the shelf after it was all finished……



These fabric boxes would be neat in the cubes. See link below. FABRIC BOX

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Rose

Washing Powders- Dishwasher Detergent- Body Wash Recipes

Figured you all might be interested in something I just found online recently. I’ve not made any of it yet, but my plans are to make some real shortly. I do make my own washing soap and washing machine soap, but it’s liquid and it has to be melted and takes a little while to make. (the washing machine soap is liquid that is, the body soap are bars of soap) SO I want to try this recipe.

From what I understand the soap in the washing powders even melts in cold water. I know my Ivory didn’t but this is Fels Napha so I’m going to try it since I wash my clothes in cold water.

DISCLAIMER: Try at your own risk I can’t be responsible for you making any of this.

Here is the BODY WASH LINK

Here is the WASHING POWDERS LINK

Here is the DISHWASHER DETERGENT

 

There are loads and loads of comments toward the bottom on each of those links if you’d be interested in reading them to see if you’d want to try any of these.  I’ve been using my liquid washing soap for my dishwasher as well since it doesn’t foam up or anything and it’s been doing a good job to. I like the convenience of this other one though since mine takes longer to make. Going to try this one anyway.

Let me know if you try any of it and what you think about it.

Rose

Wall of Shelves

Well I think we have gotten everything we need to get started on the shelves for the sewing room.

We called the guy that closed in the front porch for us to talk to him about building them for us. He told me we needed 5 more boards. I thought we had them all. We didn’t think about the vertical ones. lol I just figured the horizontal  ones.  DUH anyway we needed 5 boards 1x12x10’ for the vertical.  Below is about how we’re going to do them. In cube like boxes. They will go all the way to the ceiling which are 9’4” and then to the floor to. I wanted the whole wall to be full of cabinets like this so I will have plenty of space to store all the sewing things and the fabrics. I am going to paint the boards the color of the wall, which is green.

The pile of boards. The little 1x2’s are sandwiched in the 1x12’s.

I’m so excited I can’t wait to get it finished!!! LOL

This next pic is the wall the shelves will go on. I’ve got to move the cabinet and filing cabinet AND all that paint!

 

Got plans for that milk crate sitting on the table to. Found a blog where a lady shows how to make a cover for them and you don’t see the milk crate at all, not even on the bottom! I have a few of them and sure hope I have enough to do what I want to do with them. I got my cloth today to cover them with and I will cover them and am going to sit them on the floor under the bottom shelf on the wall the whole width of the shelves. I’m going to store things that I don’t want to store on the shelves in them. Since my accent color is going to be black in here….. I am going to put a black tassel on the lid for them that I am going to make. I want the lid to come to a point like table runners so with the black tassel on the end to hold it shut so dust wont get inside the crates.

I want to leave an area about a foot or so on one end of the wall of shelves to put a hanging rod for hanging clothes I am working on. I have a few in there now that I don’t have a place to hang. So I figured that would come in handy. Then above the hanging rod we will put some more shelves so the space wont be wasted up there.

From what Mr. Robert figured the cubes will be like 15” square and the top shelf will be much wider than the others because we’d only have like 4 or so inches from the roof if we add another shelf up there. That would be wayyy too close to the roof to use it for anything. So that shelf will be wider and I’m sure it will get used for something! I might even put some covered milk crates up there!  When I get all that stuff moved that’s in the way of the building the shelves I will start on my milk crate covers.

I have some tassels I am going to try and dye black because I have these and I’m not going to use them for anything else. So I figured I would try dying them to use for this project. First I have to find them! lol I have moved all my sewing things around so much trying to figure out WHERE I want everything until I can’t remember where everything is now. That’s about right huh? I bought a drop cloth today to use for my milk crate covers. I hope I will have enough of the fabric to make them all. Although I can go back and get another one IF I need it I guess.

Wanted to post a couple links to the milk crate cover in case some of you want to make one.

http://everydaybeautiful.typepad.com/everyday_beautiful/2008/11/handmade-fabric-milk-crate-covers.html

and

http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/2012/01/tool-time-tuesdaymilk-crate-cover.html

OK stay with me while we get this project finished. I will post pix of the process. I think he might try and get started on it like the 27th if he can. We’re going to get the boards sanded and painted in the meantime and then all we will have to do is do some touch ups. I don’t need those fumes here inside with all the breathing problems I’ve been having this winter. So we will do that outside.

Rose