As we all know Pinterest has an abundance of recipes!
Typically I don’t pin the recipes I find, I just go to the original site and save it in Plan to Eat recipe book. Lately I have felt in a cooking rut and needed some new recipes so I, of course, turned to Pinterest.
I thought about planning this weeks menu with nothing but new Pinterest recipes but it was too much chicken. So there are four out of the six cooking days that are recipes from Pinterest.
I don’t have that many recipes on there yet, in my defense it takes a long time to filter through all the dessert recipes.
I wasn’t able to eat Buffalo Sauce while I was pregnant, I got really bad heartburn, but then again I got heartburn from water….
I had something with Buffalo Sauce the other day and realized how much I missed it. No reason I can’t eat it now! So, yes there are two recipes that calls for Frank’s Red Hot Sauce!
Happy Cooking
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Ian LOVES stuffed animals. Always has and, I hope, always will.
This love of fluffy, furry, cuddly little friends has led to an abundance of them. My sister loved to pawn my nieces old ones off on us. We would be over there and he would be carrying one around and asked “I take dis home?” and Tante would say “of course you can!”
At first they all lived on his big bed, then when he moved to it they moved to his crib. They would come out periodically for him to play with, but they were hard to get to.
I wanted somewhere they could live, to which he had access, but that would get them off the bed and out of the crib. Baby Sid is going to need the crib soon and it is too hard to change the sheets with 50 stuffed animals living there.
I remember I had a stuffed animal hammock when I was a kid, so I went and got one for Ian’s room. My husband had to put it up because of the need to drill holes in the wall. The drill is his and he uses it for work, so it is usually not at home.
I told him I wanted it above the bed at a height where Ian could reach. So I putt all the stuffed animals in it and showed Ian. Later I came back and this was how I found him….
After my husband put it up, I didn’t like where it was because I thought it looked bad, not because I thought Ian would use it as a hammock!
Now I put them all away and he comes in to take them all out and then take the hammock down too….
If I had my own drill I would have been able to move it after realizing the location was bad.
This boy is going to give me a heart attack one day!
On the first Tuesday of every month I will post about something I found on Pinterest that I actually did! Sometimes it will be about a craft project, sometimes about food and sometimes about a ‘miracle’ cleaning product.
So this months Pinterest Post is actually something I didn’t make, but enlisted my to do so for me. While I probably could have fumbled my way through this project, it was much quicker to ask my mom.
One of the things I hated about nursing was the exposed stomach and/or back. I have a few nursing tops that fix that problem, but they are expensive.
I also have a few of these nursing tank tops from Target. Which I love, but let’s be honest, there is no support for anyone larger than a B cup. Plus they are thick and so not very good for wearing under shirts. But I do live in them at home.
I have a nursing cover, so that takes care of the front, but I still hated thinking my back was exposed. Not to mention when I am pumping, while no one can really see my torso, it gets uncomfortable and cold. I thought this was a great solution.
I am not going to post a tutorial because I want you to visit her site to get it. It is really easy to do, you don’t really even need to know how to sew.
Basically you start with a tank top/cami, I got mine at Forever 21 and only paid about $3 a piece. I guess everyone knew about their cheap cami prices, but it was news to me!
I then printed the tutorial out for my mom and gave her the camis.
This is what she gave back to me:
My finished cami
I had her add a little bit of elastic to the back to help hold it up. They actually stay up just fine as long as the tank is not too big, but it makes me feel better to have the elastic.
How my cami hooks to my bra
I just attach to my bra and go! They are not really good for layering if you have a low-cut top because they do sit kind of low on your bust line.
The tutorial is really easy to follow and these are so easy to make!
My mom is so handy with a sewing machine! I also had my mom make me one of these when I had my first son:
She just used whatever fabric and bra clasp she had around. It fits more like a bikini top then the ones you can buy. If you are handy with a sewing machine it is fairly easy to make. Sorry, I wish I had directions on how to do it, but my mom was the one who put it together. If I have her make me another one I will post it. She really made me more than one, but I ended up giving them away!
This is another great tutorial for us nursing mamas:
It is hard to find a good bra, let alone a good nursing one. So it is great that you can take a normal bra that fist the way it should and turn it in to a nursing one. I haven’t made this one yet, but the tutorial makes it look easy.
So the other week I was supposed to make Philly Cheese Steak Sloppy Joes, which are fantastic by the way! I don’t remember why, but I never did. I was looking on-line for some new recipes and came across this one for Bacon Cheeseburger Buns, and I thought it would be great to combine these two recipes! And I did last week.
Except to make it a little easier I thought about using the premade refrigerated pizza dough, you know the kind that comes in the tubes that pop when you open it. I got the idea from this recipe for Cheeseburger Flatbread Melts, which could be another version.
Philly Cheese Sloppy Joe Rolls
Ingredients:
1 medium onion chopped
1 medium bell pepper seeded and chopped; any color or combination
1/4 cup steak sauce
1 cup beef broth
salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup milk
1 cup provolone cheese shredded
11 oz thin crust pizza dough (or other refrigerated dough)
1 lb ground beef
Directions:
Cook ground beef while breaking it up into chunks with a spatula or spoon until browned, over med-high heat. Add the bell pepper and onion and cook for 3-4 minutes, until the onions start to become tender. Drain an excess liquid. Stir in steak sauce and beef broth, season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and cook until the mixture is thickened and bubbly.
Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute. Whisk in milk and cook until the mixture is thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in the cheese until it is melted and incorporated into the sauce.
Roll dough into an 12-in. x 8-in. rectangle; cut into 6-8 squares. I actually used biscuits because that is what I had in the fridge.
Place 1/4 cup meat mixture in the center of each square add cheese sauce. Bring corners together in the center and pinch to seal.
Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 400° for 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned. Brush with butter. Serve with extra cheese sauce spooned over and enjoy.
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