Best Summer Bubbles.....

This is a recipe that I HAVE to post every summer!

The Perfect Bubble Recipe

Best and Biggest Bubbles in the World
*This is a great item to keep in the refrigerator!!

Kids love them because they make really big bubbles that last forever floating through the sky!!

Hint – If you have a child that loves Mountain Dew, do not use an old Mountain Dew bottle to put your bubbles in. (Looks like the real Mountain Dew but, it doesn’t taste like it!!!!!!)
2 Cups Joy dishwashing detergent
6 Cups Water
¾ Cup White Karo Corn Syrup
Combine, shake, let settle 4 hours.

Store covered in refrigerator to extend suds shelf life.

Allow to warm before using.
Only Use Joy!!!!!!
A 2-liter bottle holds exactly one recipe!!

Non-Toxic – but not for human consumption

Taco Soup & McCoy Bean Pots to warm the body......

Girls & Boys, This is a VERY simple recipe that you basically dump into a large pot or crock pot and let cook all afternoon real slow!!!

It is easy to keep all of the ingredients in the cupboard (with the exception of the ground beef) until you are ready for that effortless meal!

If you are wondering... Yes, these are McCoy Bean Pots!!!

Taco Soup

2-lb. ground beef
1 package taco seasoning
1 package ranch dressing
2 cans diced tomatoes
1 can rotel tomatoes
1 can corn
2-4 cans kidney beans
2 cans pinto beans

Brown 2lb. ground beef and add 2 cup water with 1 pkg. taco seasoning and 1 pkg. ranch dressing. Simmer about 30 minutes.
Transfer to crock pot add all other ingredients and cook for 2 to 3 hours.
Serve with cheese, sour cream, and Frito's or taco chips

ENJOY!!

Mac N Cheese~ Looking for the perfect one....

Mac N Cheese

I have been in search for the perfect Mac N Cheese recipe... I have made recipe after recipe but until tonight I could not make one better than my Aunt Shirley's. I always wanted Aunt Shirley's recipe, but she was one of these cooks that she never knew what she put into anything. She just went to the fridge and started dumping ingredients into a bowl. Therefore... No recipe! I was blogging with a dear friend RR Mama and she told me that she had a great Mac N Cheese. Well, of course she sent it to me, I made a simple adjustment that I had found that was a special ingredient and here it is........

RR Mama and MamaE's

version of Mac N Cheese!!!!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni
• 8 ounces Cheddar Cheese, shredded (about 2 cups)
• 8 ounces Velvetta Cheese, shredded (about 2 cups)
• 4 slices American Cheese, cut into pieces for top
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 X 13 inch baking dish and set aside. In as saucepan, cook macaroni according to package directions, drain. Return macaroni to saucepan or other bowl.
  While macaroni is hot, add the Cheddar Cheese and the Velvetta Cheese to the bowl; stir well. Spread the macaroni mixture in the prepared baking dish.
  
  In a bowl whisk together the milk, sour cream, eggs, butter, and salt. If you drop a little salt as I did........... add a little more!!!!!
  
  Pour the milk mixture over the macaroni. Add the cut up American Cheese on top. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown and bubbling. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
  

  Makes 8 servings or at my house 4 servings!!!!! MEN
  I am trying this again next week with pepper jack cheese!ENJOY!!
  
  

Strawberry Cake and Old Recipe Cards......

Aunt Olie's famous Strawberry Cake recipe

Recipe card from my mother (My favorite cookie)

This recipe was given to me by my

husbands (Reid) mother at a recipe shower that

was given for me by his Aunt MaryLouise.
What is it about old worn out recipe cards that we love so much? I was cleaning my office/studio yesterday and stopped to go through my old recipe box. Oh, the memories!! I could actually smell Mama's Thumbprint Cookies and taste my Aunt Olie's Strawberry Cake! The recipe cards are worn around the edges, not only from my use, but theirs. I can just imagine Aunt Olie in the kitchen, watching us as we all played outside, just a fussing because it was to hot for her strawberry frosting to stay on the cake. She would say later to all of us, "Well, it won't be pretty, but it sure will be good" as we gathered around the table! I grew up with the best cooks, all good southern cooks, using fatback and real butter.

This is Aunt Olie's Strawberry Cake recipe~ I hope to publish a cookbook one day as I have been working on it for years. With many of my recipes, like this one, they have a story.

I hope you enjoy it!

Strawberry Cake
*Growing up we all have special people that show us love through feeding us. As a child, that person for me was my Aunt Olie. She really was not my Aunt, but she loved me unconditionally. She was there for my two cousins, my sister and I. Whenever we needed her (and our parents too) she was there. A trail ran through the woods from our backdoor to hers. We could actually smell when she was cooking something special and always being curious, our little feet scurried to her kitchen. Afternoons after school she kept us and soon as we were off the bus, she had cornbread, vanilla wafers and peanut butter, and to drink ~ buttermilk waiting for us. We grew up singing “Cornbread and Buttermilk makes us fat. Where in the world are the other girls at”. Never understood it, but it was part of Aunt Olie. This strawberry cake was also Aunt Olie. I loved her very much and I still have the original recipe she gave us written on the back of an old Christmas card.

1 Box White Cake Mix
1 Box Strawberry Jell-O Dissolved in ½ Cups Cold Water
1 Cup Wesson Oil
4 Eggs
½ Cup Frozen Strawberries, thawed and mashed

Mix all ingredients together. Pour into 2 well-greased cake pans and bake at 325 for 30 minutes.
Strawberry Frosting:
1 Box Powdered Sugar
½ Cup Margarine
½ Cup Frozen Strawberries, thawed

Mix powdered sugar and margarine well. Add strawberries. Spread frosting between layers and on sides and top of cake. Refrigerate.

Chocolate Marshmallow Punch...

Chocolate Marshmallow Punch
*This is one of my most requested recipes.

I have used this at youth functions and many different winter gatherings!!

This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled for large gatherings.

3 (13 oz.) Cans Evaporated Milk
2 Cups Chocolate Syrup
2 Cups Water
12 Large Marshmallows
1 Tablespoon Vanilla

Combine milk, chocolate syrup, water and marshmallows in large saucepan. Heat over medium heat, stirring until marshmallows are melted. Stir in vanilla. Pour into cups.

You can easily use a crock pot for this recipe!

Garnish with marshmallows, grated chocolate and candy canes.
12 cups

Scented Cinnamon Ornaments...

Many of you have ask for the cinnamon ornament recipe that I use to make the ornaments for my kitchen tree. Here it is.... Have fun, this is a great one! ~

Scented Cinnamon Ornaments
*Not to be consumed by tasting, only by looking!!

4 oz. can (approximately 1 cup) cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground cloves
1 tablespoon ground nutmeg
¾ cup applesauce
2 tablespoon white glue

In medium bowl, combine cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Add applesauce and glue. Stir to combine. Work mixture with your hands until the dough is thoroughly mixed and of a smooth consistency. Divide into 4 portions. Roll out each dough portion to ¼ inch thickness. Cut dough with cookie cutters into desired shapes. Using straw or toothpick, make a small hole in the top of ornament. Place cutouts on wire racks and allow to dry at room temperature for several days. To help dry, turn every day.

This will make about 30 ornaments.

Picture/Recipe Holder Tutorial....

Supplies Needed: Old Potato Masher, (2) wood #4 X 5/8" screws, screwdriver, dremel with drill attachment, (1) clothespin, small piece of scrapbook paper, decoupage glue, embellishments for front of clothespin and E6000 glue

To start project take the clothespin apart and put metal piece aside. Glue paper to wood pieces and allow to dry. After this dries, sand down all the sides really well. With an ink pad, run down the wooden unfinished sides (use any color you like). Varnish the clothespin next. Drill two holes in one side of your clothespin for the screw to go all the way through. Mark your holes on your the top handle of your potato masher and drill starter holes for your screws. Next take your screws and screw one side of the clothespin with the metal side attached to the potato masher. Now attach the other side of the clothespin to the other side of the clothespin. All you need to do now is embellish your clothespin using E6000 glue!

Have Fun!

Party Casserole...

Make a Smilebox postcard