Cakes

So I have been making my kids cup cakes for there birthdays for a while. I thought I would just make a 2 layer cake for my youngest son's birthday cake since I didn't want a bunch of cup cakes at this time. 

My layers didn't turn out at all. They where lop sided and the edges where think with thick middles. I didn't trim it down. Oh well it was just for home but bought I'd share my epic cake with you!!! 

Have a great day! 

Cork reindeer

I found the idea for these awesome raindeer on pintrest. The blog is thehomelessfinch.blogspot.com. Mine look quite diffrent than the ones she did. I had to think about what to make the antlers and ears out of and I have not found any red beads for the nose like she had put on. I do fill like the are missing something with out the nose.  Thinking about Pom-poms maybe.

I made about 12 all togeather. They are so cute. I put O rings in the backs of them so I could use them on my tree. 

Cutting the corks in half was a chore it's pretty hard. I even tried a method of steaming them. It didn't work so well. I think I cut my self at least once making these. 

They are so cute and I love them. I have been working on making all my ornaments over the past few years for my tree exsept a few. Because I don't often find any that make me say I gotta have that one. 

I hope to get some salt ornaments made with my boys or cinammon. 

Hope you have a great day! 

"Baby it's cold out side!"

Baked Spaghetti Loaf

One night we were having spaghetti for supper and I didn't want to run to the store for garlic bread so I made some out of loaf bread. While we were eating my boys got to talking about spaghetti sandwhich. I had seen them on pintrest and on TV for a tail faint sandwhich. So I asked the kids if they wanted to have Speghtti sandwhich's for dinner one night. I got an instant YES! This seemed to expire them. 

I didn't remember how the bread was wraped around it so I did look up one of them just to find out how but did my own thing. 

What I used...

A Refgirafes pizza crust

2 cups shredded cheese

6 oz spaghetti

Spagetti sauce with hamburg I had frozen 

Italian mix spices

Garlic powder

Egg

I boiled my pasta til it was done. Once it was done I mixed my meat sauce in. 

I layers my pizza crust out on my cookie sheet. I had to stretch it out a bit. I pored the mixture of noodles and meat sauce down the middle making sure it stayed pilled towards the middle. I topped the noodles with the bag of cheese. Using kitchen shers I cut at a diagonal and made about 9 streps down each side. I alternated laying them over the top of the spaghetti. Bruised on the egg was and sprinkled the Italian spice mix and garlic and some Parmesan cheese over the too of the dough. 

I baked it at 400 for 25 minuets I think I should have done 20. It was a little darker than I wAnted.

The kids thought it was yummy! 

I took the left over half wraped it up and reheated it the next day for the boys. I put iron the over at 350 for 15 min. 

Thanksgiving 2013

OI thought that I would make things way simple on my self and put my potato's and carrots on crockpots to keep the house from getting over heated. We missed my time for putting them on and I  starting to think that it would take around 8 hours for them anyways. This was my set up!

How great this would have worked. I was going to do right around five hours on the crocks bit got to making simple syrup and squeezeong lemons for another gallon of lemonade. Opps! :( but I think it would have took near 8 hours took th now. 

My other miss happ was also trying something I think I seen on pintrest maybe face book not sure which one. 

I wanted to make my deviled egg mixture in a plastic bag. It was way to runny! I'll stick to a bowl the old fashion way!!! Thank you very much!!!! 

All in all it still turned out okay. Everything wound up on the stove it just got way hot in my kitchen.

Oh and our smoker turkey that the hubby did was awesome!!!!! Re omen you try this of you have a smoker. It was about a 10 pound bird smoked for 5 hours. Oh so tender and great.

 We had a great time with family this weekend. Hope that you did. 

Have a wounderful night!