Hot Glue on a Cold Day

A lot of people get very intimidated by craft projects that involve sewing so I have found a super cute idea! A co-worker is having her baby shower next weekend so I've been searching for something crafty to make for her gift. I don't know what it is about the cold but I can't resist finding something to make. Here's what you need:

1/4 yard of fabric
1 empty wipes case--travel size (Huggies is the one I used)
Coordinating ribbon
Hot glue gun
Felt
Scissors

Here's how it turned out!

Happy crafting!!!

Stuffed Jalapenos...YUMMY!

I found a recipe for these about a week ago and have been dying to give them a try! They could not have turned out any better! The recipe for Texas Style Stuffed Jalapenos calls for:

8 large jalapenos
1 pkg of cream cheese
1 cup cheddar cheese (I grated pepperjack cheese instead to add a little more spice)
Dash of garlic salt
Dash of salt
Hickory smoked bacon (I was out of bacon and used crumbled bacon usually found in the salad section at the store)

Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.

Split the jalapenos in half length wise and remove the seeds. Mix cream cheese and cheddar cheese together adding spices. The recipe calls for the bacon to be placed on top of the peppers. Since my bacon was already crumbled, I included a handful in the mixture.

Stuff peppers generously and place in baking dish. Bake until the cheese mixture bubbles.

Enjoy!

Baking on a snowed in day

After already having one day of not going outside because of the massive amounts of snow, I started getting antsy and got the urge to be productive (aka my DVR ran out of things I have recorded). Since the beginning of the year, Brandon and I have been doing our best to eat healthy and we really have done a decent job. However, there have been two bananas in our fruit basket that had gone at least a couple of weeks without being touched and were not exactly the color of something I would want to eat. I was about to throw them away until Brandon told me banana bread could be made from them. I didn't believe him until I found a recipe that called for the less the ripe bananas. The recipe seemed kind of bland so I tweaked it just a bit and the product turned out DELICIOUS! Here's what I did...

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup butter

1 1/4 cups brown sugar

2 eggs, beaten

2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas (I used two bananas and it was perfect)

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp cinnamon 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. In a separate bowl cream together butter, vanilla and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Pour batter into loaf pan that has been coated with cooking spray. Bake 60 - 65 minutes until toothpick or knife can be inserted and come out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack. Tada!