Recipes

Salted Caramel Sauce and Salted Caramel Chocolate Cupcakes

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I am a salty sweet kind of girl, I love chocolate with pretzels and salty peanuts on my ice cream. So it isn’t a big surprise I’m in love with salted caramel! I like the sauce to be just drizzled over ice cream, or a piece of chocolate cake, or over cheesecake. I like it in cookies, or yummy fall coffee drinks, or in frosting on cupcakes. Yes, I love the combination so much I just had to learn to make salted caramel sauce and then used it in my cream cheese butter cream icing! I took some chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel icing to a pot luck and they were a hit 🙂 I even got the sweet compliment of being called the “cupcake queen.”
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Apple Pie In A Jar

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With a surplus of apples recently, My family has been enjoying many comfort foods such as apple pie. Wanting to save some for later pies I made some apple pie filling in my crock pot and canned it. Oh, and I made one to enjoy now as well with the filling.

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homeschool, Kids

Van Gogh’s Starry Night… Microwaved

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Yesterday for my Tuesday art class at our CC group, I taught the kids about Van Gogh. We discussed his life, art, impressionist style and my favorite painting of his, Starry Night. I explained that he used oil paint on canvas and how the oils give the painting a really neat texture. Since I’m NOT giving 4-8 year olds oil paints to work with, I came up with a fun way to let them recreate Starry Night with texture.

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Fall, Recipes

Broccoli Cheese Soup In Bread Bowls

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Now that fall is here I have been craving some yummy soup! One of my very favorites is broccoli cheese. Only made better by being served inside a fresh bread bowl with chunks of bread from the inside sitting around the plate to dip in my cheesy soup.

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Recipes

Homemade Oreos

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My homemade oreos are my little sister’s favorite thing I bake. She recently started a new job, is moving in her first house and many exciting new things are happening for her! I wanted to congratulate her and encourage her in all of her new endeavors. So I spent my Saturday night baking her favorite treat 🙂 homemade oreo cookies. Continue reading “Homemade Oreos” →

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Naked Eggs!

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A few weeks ago (yes my blogging is behind) we used an egg for our science time learning. We made “naked eggs” or eggs with the shell removed just in the delicate membrane. I’ve seen it done before and decided it would be a great experiment for my girls to do.

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