Crock-Pot or Oven Chart

CROCKPOT OR OVEN CHART

CROCK POT OR OVEN chart.  Crock pots are great for summer and Fall so you can enjoy your beautiful day and have dinner waiting when the day is over.
It's fairly easy to convert your favorite recipes for crockpot use.

     Stovetop                                             Crockpot
                                            High Temp                     Low Temp
15-30 minutes:               1 1/2 - 2 1/2 hrs              4 - 8 hours
35-45 minutes:               3 - 4 hours                      6 - 10 hours
50 minutes - 3 hours:     4 - 6 hours                      8 - 16 hours

I found this chart over on facebook and thought I would share it will all of you.
Link HERE

Have a great week-end.   Mary

Fun Activity for Children and Parents

Are you hearing "Mom, I'm bored there's nothing to do" at your house this summer?  Well, I found this post on my Facebook page and click on the link, it shows all over the world where you can go and pick your own fruits and vegetables!  I've done this in the past with my girls and they always seemed to enjoy picking a little but also being able to run in the fields too!  The link to a field or picking site is HERE.  Not only do you find where to go, but at the bottom of the page they have links on how to preserve the fruits and vegetables you've picked!  Good way to get the kids to try new food too!

Have fun,      Mary

Skor Bars

Hi everyone, how have you been?  Well summer has finally made it here in our part of the world!  Now if it just doesn't get too hot!

I saw a picture of these bars on Pinterest last week and they just looked to yummy not to try, but when I  went to the site, there was not recipe!  So I had to do a google search and found a recipe that I wanted to try.  Can you believe that these bars are made with Ritz cracker crumbs and sweetened condensed milk?  You won't once you try one.  Some of the recipes said to bake and others said no baking required, but I went with the baked version for the ones I wanted to try.  I found my recipe HERE.  Let me tell you, these are good!  I used my mini food processor to make my crumbs and it doesn't take long to put these bars together either!

Skor Bars

INGREDIENTS

• 1 (11.3 oz) box Ritz crackers, my box was bigger, so I used three sleeves of crackers
• 1 (8 oz) bag toffee bits (Heath is what I used)
• 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 350F. Spray an 8x8-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Place all of the Ritz crackers in a food processor and process until they are fine crumbs. Pour them into a bowl.
3. To the bowl of crackers, add 1 cup of the toffee bits and the can of sweetened condensed milk. Stir until combined. Press into the prepared baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes, then remove from oven.
4. Immediately pour the chocolate chips evenly over the top of the bars. Allow them to sit for a few minutes to melt, then spread evenly over the top. (If they aren't melting, stick the pan back into the oven for a minute or two.) Sprinkle on the remaining toffee bits. Allow to cool completely before cutting into squares.

Well, there you have it, a fairly quick recipe, total time around one hour, from start to finish.

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Have a great day!    Mary

Biscoff Rice Krispie Bars

Hi everyone!!  I hope you had a great week-end.  Our Sunday was a day for just laying around and doing nothing!  Besides, it was over cast and cool too, good day to be in the kitchen making some goodies!

I found this recipe for these Rice Krispie Bars over on Pinterest.  When I saw this pin I knew exactly who I had to make some of these for.  My friend, whom I use to work for, loves Biscoff, and I will be seeing her on Tuesday, so I will give her a big ol' plate of these to enjoy.  She will have some help, as her sons and she will going on a road trip, nice snack for them to take with them!  You can see step by step pictures on the original posters blog HERE.  Of course I had to try one and so did hubby.  He thought they would be good with a cup of coffee in the morning and I thought they were good at anytime of the day!

Biscoff Rice Krispie Bars

1 cup sugar

1 cup light corn syrup

1 cup Biscoff Spread

6 cups Rice Krispies cereal

Put Rice Krispies in a very large bowl and set aside.  In a small to medium sauce pan, combine sugar and corn syrup and cook over low heat until sugar is completely dissolved.  Remove from the heat and stir in Biscoff Spread until well combined.  Pour Biscoff mixture over the Rice Krispies and toss and mix together until the cereal is completely coated.  With buttered hands, spread and gently press mixture into a well-greased (foil-lined) 9 X 13 inch pan.  Allow mixture to cool and then remove foil from pan and cut into squares.  Store in an air-tight container at room temperature for 3-5 days.

If you enjoy Biscoff, then you really need to try these bars!  Very good.

I hope you enjoy this post and this recipe, see you soon!      Mary

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Memorial Day

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Free Hershey's School Bus Wraps

While surfing the internet this morning I came across this website for a free template for wrappers for Hershey's Nuggets, they are so cute!  You can find the free template HERE.  

If you would like to purchase a template for the school bus that you can put the wrapped nuggets in, you can find it HERE.  Sorry I don't have a picture to share, but you can hop on over to Lorri's blog and see how cute they look together!

Have a great Sunday!!   Mary

Sion Fruit Salad

Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a great week-end with your love ones, I did, but I'm ever so glad to sit yesterday and not do a darn thing too!  Landscaping is hard, hot, dirty work!  But we got it done and the outside of her house looks just a cute as the inside now.  Below are some of things we planted in her yard.  

As you all know I rode the train down on Friday morning, so I told my daughter to leave some things, cooking wise, for me to do.  So when I got there, I made some deviled eggs, cupcakes and Sion Fruit Salad.  Now when my daughters were in high school (school name was Notre Dame de Sion, hence the name), I was on the cookbook committee for salads.  We had to make each recipe and rate them so they could decided if they wanted them to be in the cookbook.  Well this is a recipe I tried and the kids just fell in love with it and when we had an open house for one of the girls when they graduated from high school, I served this recipe and again the kids went crazy for it, so when I made recipe books for my daughters to take with them when they left home, I made sure and included this recipe.  Everyone at the Pampered Chef party liked it too, oh and my daughter had a wonderful turn out and did very well with her party too!!

Sorry I don't have step-by-step pictures, but I don't think you will really need any either, it's that simple!

Sion Fruit Salad

1 -21 ounce can peach pie filling, dump it all in

1- 20 ounce can pineapple chunks, drained

1- 16 ounce box frozen sliced strawberries, thawed

3 large bananas, sliced

Mix all together in a bowl to hold mixture.  Cover and refrigerate overnight.  Now sometimes I will cut the peach slices in half and my daughter likes to add a large can of drained Mandarin oranges to her salad.

That's it, how simple and easy to make and so yummy too eat too!  It's a perfect salad for the upcoming party's that happen at this time of the year too because you can make it the night before.  The bananas will stay nice looking for at least two days too.

Well I hope you try this simple recipe too, you won't be disappointed either!   Mary

Ninja Blender Cover

Hi everyone, I hope your week is off to a great start, it's nice and sunny here today, maybe Spring is here to stay!

I'm sharing with you today the blender cover that I made to cover my daughters' blender with.  I used the same material that I used to make her mixer cover with.  Now her small appliances will stay nice and clean while out on the countertops.  I have no pattern to send you too, I had to make my own.  I did take some packing paper and did a rough measurement and sewed it together, slipped it over the blender and adjusted the size before I cut out my strips of material.  Then I cut out muslin and quilt batting and sewed all three layers together, zig-zag the raw edges and sew it all together.  She is very pleased with how it came out too!  I'm going to her house this week-end and will give it to her then.  She is also having her first Pampered Chef party, if any of you need any PC items you can order them from her website HERE.

Well off to make a birthday card, hope you have a great day tomorrow!  Mary

Mixer Cover

Hi everyone!  I hope you are all doing well, we are plugging along here at my house!

Recently my daughter asked me if I could make a cover for her KitchenAid mixer and I told her that I would have to look around for a pattern.  Well, I found this pattern HERE.  It didn't look to hard but it was time consuming as I had to quilt the material before I could make it.  This one in the picture is actually one I made for my daughter's friend, so by the time I was working on this one, I was an old pro at it, NOT!!  No, really it's not hard to do at all.  After I bought this pattern, naturally I found a free one online, isn't that the way it seems to go.  My daughter took her cover with her before I got a chance to take a picture of it.  Now she wants a blender cover to match her mixer cover.  Oh, that little round thing on the from it suppose to be a rosette, but I'm not sure she will want it on there, I just have it pinned on, so she can easily remove it too.

Well, this is all I have to share for now, see you later!    Mary

Happy Easter

Hope you all have a wonderful day!  Mary