marshmallow Frosting!

This is such a fun, different and easy frosting recipe! I made them for dessert on mother's day and they were a hit!

Ingredients:
-4 Large Egg Whites
-1 Cup Ordinary Sugar
-1 pinch salt
-1 tsp. Vanilla essence


Put all of the ingredients, except for the vanilla, in a bowl or pot that you can put in a pot of simmering water.
Whisk the sugar mixture until the sugar has melted and it is hot to the touch.
Put the mixture into your kitchen aid or an equivalent and mix for 3 minutes, during those three minutes slowly add in the vanilla. At first the mixture is going to be very liquidy so make sure you wait the three minutes or a little longer until it puffs up and it will believe me I didn't think it was going to but it did!

The Frosting should be done so add to a bag, piping or regular plastic bag, and pipe on cupcakes with any size tip that you want or you could even do it without a tip!

Now enjoy! I added chocolate chips because it gave it a little bit more flavor and everyone else liked it better that way too!!

Let me know what your favorite kind of frosting is!

http://veronicahurly.blogspot.com/2010/09/marshmallow-frosting.html

Thinly Sliced Potatoes

This is my new favorite way of making potatoes. Each part of it has both soft and crunchy parts on it. It is genius and delicious.

Ingredients:
Potato
Olive Oil
Salt

Preheat the oven to 425.

 Thinly slice your potato. This is fairly easy but it is also pretty easy to mess up if you are not paying attention so make sure you don't cut all the way through or that you cut at a slant because than you will cut a wedge out of your potato.

Now put in the oven for about 40 minutes, I think mine was in around an hour or a little longer but we picked out big potatoes so it all depends on the size.

Finally take out and enjoy! I really liked this because I always waste a lot of the potato is I eat it baked because I don't like the skin when it is soft but on this the skin is crunchy and so delicious. It is really good if you pull each slice off and dip them in ketchup!

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What is your favorite way of eating a potato?

Mother's Day

I know that Mother's Day was last week so I am a little late on this but I left my camera at my parents all week so I couldn't get the picture I wanted for this post until now.

My first Mother's day was perfect! I got hot breakfast, lots of presents and spent the afternoon at the beach! What could be better than that?

It was Savannah's very first time to the beach! She had an ok time but it was very windy so there was a lot of sand blowing around but she was happy once she was able to fall asleep. 

This is my peanut butter M&M pancake! I highly recommend trying this out at least once in your life! Peanut butter M&Ms are my favorite candy so I obviously loved this but you will need a glass of milk on the side!

I love being a mom so much and I wouldn't trade it for anything!

Crock Pot Teriyaki Chicken

Ingredients:

-2 or 3 chicken breasts
-1 C. chicken broth
-1/2 C. teriyaki sauce
-1/3 C. brown sugar
-3 TBS. minced garlic
-2 TBS. cornstarch

Step one, put Savannah down for a nap....CHECK!

Cut up the chicken and then put into the bottom of the crock pot.

Mix all of the ingredients, except for the chicken and cornstarch (although I think I did the recipe wrong because I put the cornstarch in now but it still tasted fine) and add to the crock pot.

Put crock pot on high for 4-6 hours or low for 6-8 hours. If the sauce turns out too runny you can mix 2 TBS. of water with 2 TBS. of cornstarch and then add to the sauce to thicken it up a little bit.

Serve over rice and broccoli.

I thought the flavor was really good but the chicken was really dry so I don't think I would make it on the longest setting again,next time I think I will try it on the low setting and see if that makes a difference.

What is your favorite meal to make over rice? Comment your answer below!

http://247moms.com/2013/01/simple-5-ingredient-crock-pot-chicken-teriyaki/

"Football" Plastic Bags

Do you have a huge stash of plastic grocery bags stashed somewhere in a huge pile? I did until I found this helpful hint of how to make those bags into small easy to store triangles or "footballs".

 First flatten your bag out.

Now fold in half.

 Fold in half again.

Now start your triangle at the bottom and work your way up to the handle.

Stop when you get to the handle.

Fold the handle in half.

Tuck the handle into the triangle.

Now do it again and again and again until you have done them all!

This is super easy and saves up a lot of space!
Where are you going to put your new plastic "footballs"? Let me know in a comment below!

http://mousechirpy-polkadotpineapple.blogspot.com/2009/03/grandmothers-apron-carryall.html