This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! I have a new attachment for my Kitchen Aid that I am loving! I discovered how much I wanted this thing when I was visiting Alicia at her new home in Georgia. It is an Ice Cream Maker Attachment! This thing is mind blowingly amazing and fun and easy to use and I could just go on and on!
I had given Alicia an Amazon gift card for her birthday last year and purchasing the Ice Cream Maker attachment is how she used it. I had never thought about getting it before, but when I was at her house and her husband made us ice cream a few times, I was hooked and knew that I had to have one for my Kitchen Aid. The problem was that it cost $100! I mentioned this to my new DIL and within a few days, she sent me a link showing that Amazon had the ice cream attachment on sale, 30% off! This deal is for a limited time so I didn't wait! I had my new ice cream maker within a couple of days! I just checked and the deal is still going, so you can get one, too!
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! I purchased a produce combination box from my local wholesale produce supplier and among other great items, it contained 4 eggplant! I am not a real expert on cooking eggplant, I've only tried my hand at it a little bit. (Here is an eggplant lasagna I did a few YEARS ago!) But, I knew that Ratatouille is an eggplant dish. Two of my grandchildren actually sent me a video of themselves making it! For some reason that post never made it up here on the blog, but they are adorable and real Foodies at a young age! Thinking of these cuties made me think that I should give Ratatouille a try, but with a twist! My husband and I do like beef. (We recently purchased 1/2 a beef with Lindsey and her family!) So, not only did I want to use my eggplant, I wanted to use some of that delicious Montana beef! Also, I need to put a disclaimer out there, I've never actually tasted Ratatouille besides never having made it before! So, if you are looking for something very authentic, you are looking in the wrong place. But, if you want to use your eggplant in a tasty ratatouille-ish dish, and incorporate beef, then this recipe is for you. I did do a lot of research and tried to incorporate the seasonings and flavors used in the recipes I found.
Now that we are empty nesters, I still have the problem of making too much food for just my husband and myself. This recipe should feed us for the next couple of days. We aren't mad about it. Let me know if you give it a try! Or give these recipes a try:
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! When I was in Georgia, a good friend of my SIL came over to visit. We discovered that we both have Danish heritage and are interested in recipes from that country. He told me about this Danish Dream Cake that he has learned to bake and he texted me the recipe so that I could try it for myself! I was finally able to bake it the other day and first of all, I was amazed at how simple it is to make! Secondly, that caramel, coconut topping is so good that I could have eaten the entire panful with a spoon immediately! (If I didn't have such wonderful self control, Ha Ha!) And one more thing is that the cake itself is very light and spongey. It is no wonder that this is such a popular cake in Denmark! I tweaked the recipe just a bit after researching it more, so today I am sharing the recipe that I used, adapted from Skylar's recipe. Thank you Skylar! The backstory of this cake is that in the 1960s, a young girl entered her grandmother's recipe into a national baking contest and she won! The cake has been popular in Denmark ever since. I can't help but wonder where her grandmother got the recipe, but I haven't found out that tidbit anywhere. I mean, coconut seems like an unusual ingredient for Denmark, doesn't it? Well, whatever the rest of the story is, this is one great tasting cake. Here are a few tips when baking this cake:
The topping is so good, I am tempted to make it all alone and use it as an ice cream topping. Or, just serve some ice cream with your slice of Dream Cake. You will love it! Other Danish Recipes:
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! As you already know, Alicia recently had a baby a number of weeks early. He is doing great! Just after he was born, I flew off to go and give her and her family a hand while the little guy was in the NICU getting stronger. (Lindsey gave some tips about how to help NICU parents on this post!) Before I left, my granddaughter pulled out her sewing machine and we worked together to create a special gift for the baby. Here is what we made! We got into my stash of flannel fabric and found an adorable elephant print and a chevron stripe that coordinated with it. We wanted to make a receiving blanket with a matching burp cloth. My granddaughter loves elephants, so it was the perfect choice. Here are some other choices you might love: ...And don't forget a solid or coordinating stripe or print for the back of the receiving blanket ! REMINDER: Be sure to prewash and preshrink your fabric before sewing your items. Flannel is notorious for shrinking and getting a little misshapen and you want that to happen before you cut it out and sew it together. Plus, you will want nice clean fabric to give as a gift to a baby! To Make The Blanket, we used a little over a yard to cut matching sized squares of the main color fabric, (the elephants) and the backing fabric, (the stripe).
The burp cloth was made much like the blanket only on a smaller scale. But, instead of tying the fabric together, we simply sewed them right sides together and flipped them right side out before finishing the edge the rest of the way and top stitching around. The burp cloth fabric measures about 8 inches wide and about 18 inches long. You can adjust these measurements according to how much fabric you have and the way it lays on your shoulder. Burp cloths are very forgiving and can be sized according to your personal preference. 6 inches by 12 inches could also work! I like to make the burp cloth with double flannel fabric to help it be nice an absorbent. It can't be simply cute, it has to be functional! I may have added, (I can't remember), and extra layer of flannel on the inside of the burp cloth just to give it more thickness and absorbency. The Stuffed Elephant: We used Simplicity Pattern 2613 to sew the elephant from gray fleece. The pattern was so simple to make that my granddaughter did most of the sewing by herself and she is an age 13 beginner! I was very proud of her. That girl has no fear of trying new things! We didn't want the eyes to be able to be pulled off and choked on by the baby, so we embroidered them on with embroidery floss. Then, we used some of the left over fabric from the blanket to make a bow for his neck. We loved how it turned out! As the baby gets older, I'm sure that he will love it as well! There is something especially special about handmade baby gifts, I think. These little works of art can become heirlooms one day, or a cherished blanket that the child adores. Not only are handmade gifts nice and helpful for mom and baby, I know that my granddaughter felt a lot of pride and happiness, a sense of accomplishment from making it for them. When I came home from my trip, she asked me if it was appreciated. I know it was and will continue to be loved by her aunt and cousin. I hope you will have reasons to give these special gift ideas a try. More baby gift ideas: |
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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