Think Spring

I love this time of year and everything about it. Here's a little tasty treat that takes me back to my childhood as every time around Easter we'd stock up on the "peeps" and make these fun little treats. They're super easy and tasty so it's a great activity to do with the little ones. Enjoy!


4 cups chow mein noodles
3 cups miniature marshmallows
3 tbsp. margarine
jelly beans
peeps chicks

Grease cookie sheet. Melt butter and marshmallow in microwave for 1 min. (cooking time varies). Stir until a smooth consistency.
Add chow mein noodles and stir until evenly coated. Shape into nest and place on cookie sheet. Add the jelly beans and the peeps and you're done. Easy as can be!

(Note: These are pretty gooey at first but will harden up a bit after they cool.)

Tip: If you don't like chow mein noodles, we have also done these with rice krispy treats and they turned out really cute as well.

Makes 10-12 nests

Pantry Secrets

I'll admit I was skeptical of this new way of making bread. Homemade bread in one hour? Hmmm........no way it could be very good, right? Well, I've been proven wrong. I'm loving this new recipe and have made 4 loaves this week, including a BBQ Chicken Braid for dinner last week and homemade grilled pizzas tonight. One loaf worth of the dough made five perfect sized, personal pizzas.

Here they are right before grilling with a bit of olive oil and cornmeal for the bottoms.

The kids were boring and just wanted cheese pizzas. Mine was a salad pizza - a bit of mozzarella and feta cheese with a bunch of spinach, yellow and orange bell pepper, red onion and fresh garlic. Nothing beats vege pizzas. My husband had the same thing, but added jalapenos.  The crust was thin and crispy and soooo tasty! We did a 50/50 wheat/white flour blend.

Thanks Melony, for teaching us about this awesome way of making breads! Pantry Secrets dough recipe can be found here.

Not Your Ordinary Betty Crocker

This past Tuesday was our Monthly Girl's Craft Night. We made homemade bread and cinnamon rolls in less than 1 hour! We used soy lecithin from Pantry Secrets and it was so easy...minus some mechanical issues. So here are some of the products of that evening. Girls and I will be happy to say the bread is still soft, moist and fresh as of today. We made a loaf of white and whole wheat bread.

And a batch of white and wheat cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting: Yummy!

I have been slacking in the crafting department lately, but this is a ruffled apron that I made for a certain family member for easter. I fell in love with the retro pattern on the fabric and had to get it.