Iced Coffee Recipe

I love coffee.

It's something I drink daily. 

Despite the heat of Florida I typically stick with regular coffee for quite awhile. 

However, as soon as school ends it's time for iced coffee.

I've been using The Pioneer Women's recipe for years now and love it!

It's perfect for summer and I love not having to make coffee every morning. 

She makes a huge batch, but I only do about half. 

Ingredients:

8oz Ground Coffee

1 Gallon Water

Bowl

Strainer

Paper towels or Cheese Cloth

1. Dump a bag of ground coffee into a bowl. I typically use 8oz.

2. Add a gallon of cold water, mixing to make sure all the grounds touch water. 

3. Cover and allow to sit at least 8 hours. I normally leave it overnight. 

4. Use a fine mesh strainer with paper towels or cheese cloth inside to catch the granules. Place over pitcher or other bowl.

5. Slowly pour coffee mixture into the strainer. 

6. Refrigerate until chilled, I normally wait till the next morning. 

7. Serve with ice and whatever you typically put in your coffee!

 

Peasant Bread

I found this bread, where else but pinterest. 

Of all the bread's I've tried this one is not only the easiest, but my favorite. 

I've made it multiple times since finding it in December.

The original recipe makes two loaves. 

I typically only make one at a time so the ingredients and directions below are what I do. 

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup lukewarm water

1/2 tablespoon sugar

1 teaspoon active-dry yeast

1 tablespoon butter. 

Directions:

1. In a large bowl mix flour and salt. 

2. In a smaller mixing bowl, dissolve sugar into the water. 

Sprinkle yeast on top and allow to sit for a few minutes till foamy. This ensures that the yeast is active.

Stir it up and mix it in with the dry ingredients.

 This is what your dough should look like. 

3. Cover with a tea towel and set in a warm place to rise for 1.5 - 2 hours, until the dough has doubled.

4. Using the butter, grease an over safe bowl. I use a 2L pyrex bowl. 

Using two forks, scrape the dough out of the bowl making sure to flip the dough in on itself. 

Place the dough in the grease bowl. 

Allow to rise for 30 minutes. It should be about to the top of the bowl.

In the greased bowl before rising.

5. Pre-heat oven to 425F.

Once the dough has risen, bake for 10 minutes. 

Reduce the heat to 375F and allow to cook for 22-25 more minutes.

Remove from over and turn out onto cooling rack. 

The bread should fall right out!

 Finished bread!

2 Ingredient Fudge

I don't think it's a surprise that I like simple recipes. 

This is the easiest fudge recipe ever and it still tastes just like fudge!

Last year a friend of mine made a strawberry fudge and said she found the recipe on Pinterest,

so of course I had to try!

Original Recipe

I'm not a fan of strawberry, but the recipe said you can mix and match with any flavors. 

It's so simple, 

take any flavor chocolate chips(12oz) and any flavor icing(12oz).

 

I chose semi-sweet chips and cream cheese icing. 

Make sure the icing isn't whipped.   

Dump them both into a bowl and microwave for 30 second intervals.

Stirring until smooth.

Pour into a greased 9x9 pan and allow to sit till hardened.
  This is my favorite combination because it tastes exactly like regular fudge. 

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Fields of Strawberries

One thing I always thought would be cool to do is pick fruit.

Not just from a backyard, but to go to some kind of farm.

Last week, we had off for MLK.

When my mother-in-law mentioned that she was taking my niece strawberry picking I knew I wanted to come!

Kyle and I drove up to a farm not too far from our house. 

They not only sold fresh produce, but there were places to pick both strawberries and tomatoes.

It was a really cute place with hay rides, water pump races, and "milking" cows. 

We got black buckets and were able to walk through the rows and get strawberries!
Kyle taught our niece that "mutant" berries are best.

We had a great time and were able to come home with lots of yummy strawberries!

 I had seen an interesting chocolate strawberry recipe on pinterest that I decided to try.

When you bite into chocolate covered strawberries the chocolate breaks. 

This recipe calls for the strawberry to be filled with chocolate.

You hollow out the center of the strawberry.

Then you fill the hollow with chocolate.

They weren't bad in anyway, but you're left with a hard piece of chocolate to bite through.

  Any good strawberry recipes?

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Copycat Wendy's Frosty

Kyle and I love getting ice cream.

In fact, we've even joked that we need to start an ice cream fund to support our habit. 

I was thrilled when we got our ice cream maker. 

I was certain that I would use it all the time.

While I love homemade ice cream, it's actually decently expensive to make. 

When I found this simple recipe for frosty's I decided to try it!

It's only three ingredients.

1/2 gallon of chocolate milk

1 can condensed milk

8oz cool whip

Blend together 1/2 the chocolate milk, the cool whip, and the condensed milk. 
Pour into the ice cream maker and add chocolate milk to the fill line.
Mine didn't even take half the chocolate milk.


Follow the ice cream maker's directions and enjoy!

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2 Ingredient Pumpkin Cookies!

Now that I'm working I don't have much time for crafts, but I still try to squeeze in some new recipes!

This past weekend I found a super easy pumpkin cookie recipe.

I absolutely love all things pumpkin and can't believe I made it so far through October without making something yet!

As soon as I saw the recipe I went out and bought the things to make them that day!

The ingredients!
Seriously one box of Spice Cake and one can of pumpkin!
Pre-heat oven to 350

Mix the two together until combined.

Drop on sprayed cookie sheet (I put mine on parchment paper) and place in oven.

Bake about 15 minutes. They are a very cakey cookie, so don't expect them to get hard!

Allow to cool and ice if desired!
I used Cream Cheese frosting.

We may or may not have eaten half of these in one day....

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Caramel Cheesecake Dip

Not only is this dip one of the easiest things I've ever made, it also tastes amazing.

This is all you need for the whole recipe.

Two things of cream cheese.

1 jar of chilled caramel sauce. 

 

Beat the cream cheese together until smooth.

Mix in the chilled jar of caramel sauce. 

  Refrigerate and enjoy!

I like to serve it with cinnamon sugar pita chips.

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Skittles Vodka Tutorial

When we first started talking about Kyle's birthday party, he really wanted to try some kind of fun drink.

Since neither of us really had any idea of what we would like we started looking.

I had heard of skittles vodka before, but didn't think much of it until then.

We decided to go ahead and try it. 

After the party...

Let me just preface this by saying it was a pain in the butt!

Ingredients:

60 skittles per color. Buy the regular size bag of skittles!

The recipe I found said a 1.75ml bottle of vodka. (You only need half that)

Some kind of glass jar.

Water bottles.

First, put 60 skittles of each color in a bottle. So 60 red skittles in bottle #1, 60 green skittles in bottle #2, etc.
Pour 6 oz. of vodka over the skittles. This will yield approximately 8oz.
Put the lid on and shake.
Allow bottles to sit until all the skittles have dissolved, shaking whenever you think about it.
We did a double batch of each color and it took around 2 days.

Now for the fun part.
Take one of your glass jars.
Put a funnel in it, and place a coffee filter inside the funnel.
Slowly pour one color of the vodka through the filter.
You want to get out all the white gunk floating on top.
The vodka literally never filtered through. I ended up having to squeeze it through the filter.
Not only that, but I strained it completely through twice and it could have used more.
Continue this till all the vodka has been strained.
It took me multiple hours for this part, and a few multi-colored fingers.
The colors do turn out pretty awesome though!

Once done freeze overnight and serve. We mixed them with Ginger Ale, Sprite, and Mountain Dew.

Homemade Reese's Cups

When I first started stalking pinterest I pinned this pin.

I knew it would be the perfect thing for hubs since he loves chocolate and peanut butter. 

Of course, I never did get around to actually making them. 

For hubs birthday I knew that I wanted to make him these homemade Reese Cups.
And they were surprisingly simple.

Makes approximately 3 dozen.
 In a pot over medium heat mix 1 cup creamy peanut butter, 1/4 cup butter, and 1/4 cup light brown sugar.
Stir continually until slightly bubbling.
Remove from heat. 
Add powdered sugar in 1/4 cup at a time mixing each time.
I would followed the recipe and used the full 1 1/4cups, however it became really crumbly.
I should have stopped at 1 cup because it had much better texture.
Let mixture cool.

Line mini-muffin pan with muffin liners.
Mix 4 cups chocolate chips and 1/4 cup vegetable shortening.
Microwave on low for 30 seconds stirring each time.


Using a spoon, fill the bottom of each muffin liner with chocolate.

Place parchment paper on top of a cookie sheet.
Roll peanut butter mixture into balls.
Then flatten slightly to make discs.
I made mine the same size as the ones in the recipe, however, they were too big.
Make sure they only fit in the center of the muffin liner.
Otherwise the chocolate will not be able to get around them.
Refrigerate both the chocolate and peanut butter for 30 minutes. 

 

Once done, place the peanut butter disk on top of the chocolate. 

Cover completely with more chocolate. 

Microwave again if needed.

Make sure that the chocolate gets all the way down on the sides or the bottom wont connect!

Refrigerate again for 30 minutes. 

Keep in the fridge until ready to serve. 

They tend to get soft if left out too long.

These really do taste exactly like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

 

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Why I'll Never be a Photographer

When I first got a digital camera at 16 I was thrilled!

I mean, it was still something that most people didn't have and I was one of the first of my friends.

Of course, I decided that meant I needed to document all of our amazing memories. 

One problem: I never took pictures. 

So the smart girl I am made sure to always have my camera and leave it out places. 

This way, I always ensured that I took pictures, or at least others did. 

Then I went to college and joined a sorority, and wouldn't you know, everyone had a camera!

 No matter what event we were at you'd have at least 20 girls wanting a picture of the same thing.

So I figured, why bother forcing some poor unsuspecting person to take just one more picture. 

I could easy steal them from facebook later right?

But then I never actually had the pictures that I wanted and vowed I'd be better at it.

So my camera permanently went with me. 

Then everyone else started getting even nicer cameras and my 7px camera just wouldn't do.

Now college is over and I don't even have sorority sisters to steal my pictures from anymore. 

I try to tell myself that getting a new, nicer camera will make me take pictures more often. 

But who am I kidding?

And so without further ado, 

Kyle's 25th Birthday in which I took no pictures of any of the guests.

I didn't even take a picture of the birthday boy. 

But I did take pictures of my pinterest inspired decorations!

Happy Birthday Banner!

Table backdrop!

  We had a wonderful weekend celebrating hubs birthday!
On Friday we relaxed, went to Tijuana Flats for lunch, and met up with his cousin for dinner at Chili's

Saturday was spent getting ready for the party!
I made a huge batch of pulled pork and there is still a ton left.
I also made baked macaroni and cheese.
Others brought some yummy queso and buffalo dips with tortillas!

For desserts we went all out!
I made an amazing Carmel Cheesecake dip that is so easy!
I also made Homemade Reese Cups, tutorial here.
There was of course ice cream and cookies as well.

We had a great time hanging out with friends, playing games, and watching The Avengers.

On Sunday, J came with us to church and we met up with another couple that goes there as well.
Everyone came over afterwards for leftovers.
We spent the entire rest of the day building settlements and cutting off each others chances of expansion.

Best game ever!