I'll show you how you can make homemade lollipops for a fun Halloween treat -- by using a mini muffin tin for your mold!
Celebrations & Holidays
Craft Tutorial: Candy Corn Halloween Garland
This craft tutorial will show you how to make a fun Halloween garland with M&M's Candy Corn candies.
Oh, how I LOVE this time of the year! Starting with Halloween, ending with New Years...I love it all. I get so excited when the stores start putting all their Halloween products on the shelves. One new product this year has been M&M’s Candy Corn White Chocolate. As soon as I heard about them, I knew I would have to get my hands on a few bags for recipes and crafting.
One thing I
Creative & Easy Food Gift Ideas
If you enjoy cooking, then you probably enjoy giving food gifts to friend and family. Christmas time is the main time I give food gifts. I bake ever year and have piles of goodies to give away to family and friends who live nearby. This wasn't a tradition that my family had, but rather something I learned from my grandmother-in-law and my mother-in-law.
Tutorial: Make Tile Coasters for Beverages
Making tile coasters for beverages has to be one of my most favorite craft projects. I'm really happy with how it turned out and I'm so happy to share it with all of you. It make a great gift and there is endless ways you can personalize these -- no two sets have to look alike.
My complete tutorial is available at Happy To Create: Craft Tutorial: How to Make Tile Coasters
Altered Craft Project: I Love You Puzzle
I love shopping at the Target One Spot area (the $1 section at the front of the store). I check it regularly for things that I can creatively alter. This tutorial shows you how to take a child's puzzle and make it into a sweet "I Love You" gift idea for someone with a few digital scrapbooking projects.
My complete tutorial is available at Happy To Create: Hybrid Craft: I Love You Puzzle
Gift Idea: Cookie Dough Log
Cookies are always a great gift idea, but here's a fun twist on the usual home-baked cookies give a cookie dough log. It's really easy to do -- you just mix up your favorite cookie dough, shape it into a log, wrap it, and add a label which can be handmade or digitally made.
The example above can be found here at Home Cooking Memories on this page: Creative & Easy Food Gift Ideas
I have another tutorial on making your own cookie dough log at Happy To Create: Homemade Gift Idea:
Ice Cream Sundae Party (with Tequila Caramel Sauce & Chocolate Bowls)
This summer has been very low-key for us. We will be taking a family trip to Comic-Con in a couple weeks so we've been saving our dollars and hanging out at home...A LOT. Our family fun has this summer has been having a BBQ and watching the latest movie that we pick up at the Redbox. Not real exciting stuff, but it suits us fine.
That was until we did the unexpected: we hosted an ice cream sundae party.
Thrift Store Find: Recipe Plaque (Daily Photo)
This evening, we took a trip over to my favorite thrift store. We went looking for gardening tools (shovel, Hula hoe, etc) and rugs. They didn't have what we were hoping to find, but no worries, I didn't leave empty handed. I found this weird plaque. It's wood on the base and someone got crafty with it by doing some distressing to the edges. The top of it is thick metal with the words "recipes" cut out of it near the bottom of the metal. This piece is screwed into the wood base.
It caught my
Autumn Apple Dinner Party
On Friday, I was absolutely thrilled to find out I was one of 200 contestants who made it to Round 3 of Project Food Blog.
WOW.
My husband says he knew that I would make it (he's awesome like that). I wasn't so sure. I know that I probably shouldn't say that. I should be super positive and be my own biggest cheerleader, but honestly, I was expecting to get a "thanks, but no thanks" letter.
I made it though. Oh. my. gosh. WOOHOO!!
Homemade Enchilada Sauce From Scratch (no cans)
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If you love enchiladas like our family does, then you must try making homemade enchilada sauce.
Until recently, I used only canned enchilada sauce. In California, I had several to choose from, but I would usually go with the least expensive one. I do remember finding the El Torito brand of enchilada sauce at