I love ginger ale so I often try to find ways to include it in my drinks.
Jack and Ginger:
- 3 ice cubes
- 4oz oz ginger ale
- 1oz Jack Daniels
- 1 lemon wedge or 1/2oz lemon juice
- Mix them all together and garnish with lime.
- Enjoy!
I love ginger ale so I often try to find ways to include it in my drinks.
Jack and Ginger:
It’s no secret by now that I LOVE grilled cheese sandwiches. I probably should have a category just for all the grilled cheeses I have made. I made a bacon, tomato grilled cheese and ate with tomato soup and it was delicious. But how can you go wrong with melted cheese and bacon?
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Directions:
I decided to make slip stitch knit belts for nieces because I loved mine so much! But the problem was the pattern is for an adult and too wide for 4 and 6-year-old girls. I needed to come up with a new knit belt pattern. You can find the adult version in Chick with Sticks. I decided to use the leftover yarn from when I knitted wash cloths. It’s 100% cotton and I think worsted weight? Actually, I’m making the weight of the yarn up because I no longer have the labels for them. I’ll have to remember to keep them from now on.
Using US size 4 needles (3.50mm), I cast on 6 stitches.
Knit stitch the first 4 stitches
Bring the yarn forward
Slip stitch the last 2 stitches
Repeat until desired length, I usually go about 4-6 inches longer than waist size
Cast off.
I hope my nieces love them!
My husband needed his shorts hemmed. They were about an inch too long and it’s almost summer, well it’s May we just aren’t having summer weather yet, his shorts needed to be completed. The measuring and pressing part of hemming them is the most important part of this process. It is with most but usually I don’t pay too close attention but with it I needed to be precise.
Step 1. I needed to figure out what the desired length was and then turn the shorts right side in.
Step 3. Press the bottom of the shorts and measure and mark desired length.
Step 4. Measure about an inch and a half below your desired finished length and cut off excess fabric.
Step 5. Fold over about 1/4 of an inch and press
Step 8. Press again, flip right side out and press again.
Step 9. Repeat for the other leg.
Happy Cinco De Mayo!
I hope everyone is having a great Sunday. Enjoy a cucumber margarita or if you prefer a regular one try this margarita recipe, it’s for an individual drink:
Ingredients:
Frozen:
1. Combine all ingredients plus around 4 ice cubes and blend.
2. Pour into salted rim cup and garnish with lime wedge
On the rocks:
1. Pour all ingredients over 3 ice cubes in a salted rim glass
2. Stir to mixture
3. Enjoy!
Twice baked potatoes are amazing. Enough said, here’s how I make mine.
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As a kid I use to hate all types of fish. I’m still not a huge fan of it but I do like oven baked salmon. Here’s how I do it:
Ingredients:
Directions:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 450°
2. Lightly coat the bottom of the baking dish in olive oil, I like to use my Misto
3. Place the salmon in the dish, scale side down
4. Squirt a couple of lemon wedges or pour a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice over the salmon
5. Salt and pepper the salmon to taste
6. Put a heavy coating of dill on the salmon
7. Place in oven and bake for 9-15 minutes. You always want to make sure it’s cooked all the way, should flake easily, but at around 9 minutes it’s done and tastes more like fish but at around 13-15 minutes it’s more of a steak consistency for me which I prefer.
8. Enjoy!
– If using a convection oven, it will cook a little faster.
– If using a regular oven, the salmon should be baked on the top rack! Otherwise, it will take a lot longer to bake.
Oh yes, this is another fried recipe and another caprese salad recipe combined into one, fried caprese salad. I wanted something fried and greasy but I also wanted to feel like I was attempting to be healthy. :/ So I made caprese salad and fried it. It was pretty good and satisfied my cravings but it’s not something I would make very often, just when I’m feeling the need for healthy and fattening at the same time. Does that make sense to anyone but me?
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I needed something lightweight and easy to carry on my long walks with Rusty. I decided to go with a drawstring backpack. It’s big enough to hold everything I need and keeps my hands free. I am using leftover material from my tree skirt and had dyed awhile ago.
Materials:
Instructions:
1. After you have measured and cut your fabric, I think mine is a cotton/polyester blend, figure out which end of each piece you want to be the top or opening of your bag. Fold over and press a tiny bit of fabric, ~¼”, and sew. Repeat with the other piece. This is to take care of the raw edge at the opening of your bag.
2. Next, take what you have just sewn and fold over about an 1½” and press. Then sew on top of the stitch line in Step 1. This will create a tube for your ribbon to go through.
3. With right sides together, pin the rectangles and stitch with a 5/8″ seam all along the three unstitched sides, starting and stopping where the tube begins. Back stitch at the beginning and end.
4. Attach a safety-pin to an end of your ribbon, and thread the ribbon through the tube on one side of the bag. Repeat for the other side. The safety-pin just makes this process easier.
5. Make sure that both pieces of ribbon are of equal length on each side of the bag. With right sides still together, seam rip up the bottom corners of the bag about an inch. Place the ribbon, inside the bag and through the hole you just ripped open. Stitch the hole closed, securing the ribbon to the bag.
6. Next to take care of the raw edges, zigzag stitch all along the three stitched sides to the bag as close the stitch line as possible. This also double secures your ribbon at the bottom of the bag. Trim the excess fabric close to the zigzag stitch.
Now I have the perfect and unique bag for our walks to work! So excited to use it.
A party favorite of mine is 7 Layer Dip. Granted mine has eight layers, sometimes nine but 7 layer dip sounds better than nine layer dip to me.
Here is what is needed, but amount depends upon how big of a plate you’re putting it on.
On a plate spread and layer each ingredient in order as it is listed above. Serve with a bag of tortilla chips.
Enjoy!