Oh pinterest

So I know you guys all follow pinterest or well most of you. I am in love with the ideas and recipes and crafts I have gotten from there. I decorated my house and got so many ideas from there. I also have tried many recipes too, but one that Thomas and Abigail love is Mozzarella Sticks. They are easy to make and I thing a little healthier then what you get at restaurants. I made them about a month ago and they came out good so yesterday morning I went grocery shopping and thought i would make them for lunch. (now thats because i went grocery shopping hungry) So I am going to tell you the recipe

Mozzarella Sticks 
A package of egg roll wraps (picture below)
package of string cheese (12 pack or 18pack will do)
a little bowl of water
frying pan with veg. oil or olive oil

Steps:
1. Get the package of string cheese and pre open every single cheese and set them on a plate or paper towel. Next get you bowl and set in next to the cheese.

2. Get the egg roll wraps out of the package and set them on a paper towel. Set the piece of cheese in the middle of the wrap. Wet each corner with just a tad of water.

3. Grab the corner at the bottom and fold it over the cheese then tuck in both sides. Then roll.

4. Keeping doing that with each roll till all the string cheese is gone.

5. Heat up your frying pan till is it hot and ready to fry. Start putting in the sticks with some tongs. Fry till the are golden brown. Be carful the cheese will ooze out on some of them.

                                   sorry picture not that great but some what the should look like

                                                           egg roll wraps I used

V - DAY

I was trying to figure out what to get Thomas for Valentines day but he keep telling me nothing I am fine. So then we decided not to exchange gifts anyways. I did ask him to make me some dinner, so if he is doing that I had to bake him something. Well last week Abi was eating chocolate covered pretzels and I'm pretty sure Thomas ate most of them. So thats when I was like oh I'll make that for him. Which i thought was going to be a lot more time consuming but it wasn't that bad.

All the stuff I needed was rod pretzels, chocolate chips semi sweet and white morsels, sprinkles

                          I melted the chocolates in bowls and started dipping and covering the pretzels.

                                                                   My little Helper

                              I laid them all on a cookie sheet that was cover with parchment paper

                      I took some of the white chocolate and dyed it pink and drizzled that on top.

The finish project

You know what I really like how nice the came out and so fast. I am going to do this more often. HA : ) Hope you guys enjoy and Happy cooking to you!

Grilling in 50 degree weather

So Thomas loves to grill, any kind of weather he is up for it. Yesterdays weather was cold like bone chilling cold with wind blowing. I kept telling Thomas have been wanting a good hamburger for about a week now. So ours friends had this really good recipe for a burger. It include bacon now calm on who doesn't like bacon with there burger. Well I am calling this burger the double bacon burger on sweet sourdough bread. I watched our friend and Thomas make this burger and I am going to share with you all because it by far was the best I have had. 


What you will need. 
2 pounds of ground meat. (this made 8 patties)
1 package of normal bacon (will need to be split in half)
1 egg
Lipton Onion mix (picture below)
salt and pepper to taste
Now we added other seasoning but you season to your liking.
toothpicks

Directions
1. Get a nice good medium sized bowl, Mix the ground meat, 1 egg, onion mix, and seasoning together. Get the bacon make sure you leave out enough slices for how many burgers you are making. I left 8 slices to the side. Take the rest of the bacon and chop it up into 1inch piece and mix that into your bowl of meat.
2. Start forming your patties good size. Get all your patties and put them on a cookie sheet spaced apart. Now take the extra bacon you set aside and start wrapping one piece of bacon around a patty and secure it with some toothpicks. Continue  doing that to each patty until all are wrapped in bacon.
3. Go ahead and put the on the grill. Grill them to your taste.
4. Now we used a sweet sourdough bread but any hamburger bread would work. We top it off with a little BBQ sauce. Enjoy!

                                                                 This is the secret to it

                                                             All of them on the grill 
                              (sorry about Thomas drink in the picture I swear we weren't grilling it)

                                                                        close up of it
I meant to take a picture of it all put together but i was so excited about them that I just ate it so fast. But promise you these are good. Enjoy and Happy Grilling to you.

2 o'clock

Seems like It never fails almost everyday around the same time, I get bored and want something to do. So i wonder to the kitchen to find something to bake and I always find something new. The other day i made Cinnamon Bun muffins with pink cream cheese frosting and red sprinkles. OH MAN were they good. So i had to share the recipe, now the recipe is a loaf but i did muffins to make it easier to grab n go. I have made this recipe many times and it always comes out great.
Cinnamon Bun Bread
 Filling
   1/4 cup sugar
   1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Bread
   1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
   1 1/2 tsp baking powder
    1/4 tsp baking soda
    1/4 tsp salt
    1 cup sugar
   1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
   1 egg
   1 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
   3/4 cup whole milk
Icing
  1 cup powdered sugar
  1/4 tsp vanilla extract
   1 to 2 tablespoons milk
1. Heat oven to 350 F' ... Spray 8x4-inch loaf pan with cooking spray. Combine all filling ingredients in small bowl.
2.Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl.
3. beat 1 cup sugar and butter in large bowl at medium speed 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and 1 1/4tsp vanilla until smooth and well-blended. at low speed, beat in flour mixture in 3 parts alternately with 3/4 cup milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. 
4.Spread half of the batter in pan sprinkle in the filling and then spread the remaning batter over. Then gently run thin knife through batter to swirl. 
5. Bake 50 to 55 minutes or until golden brown and skewer inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes remove from pan. 
6. Whisk powdered sugar, vanilla and milk (icing) in small bowl. Drizzle over top of bread allowing to drip down sides. 


I am going to be sharing a lot of my recipe on here, I am very excited to do this. So please feel free to take them and bake or cook. Happy cooking to you.