What I'm Loving Wednesday...
I'm loving lots of fun things this week! The first one is a trick from this awesome video. It shows this little secret to do when frosting cookies or cupcakes with multiple colors. It saves you a huge mess and is much quicker! LOVE it... The basis of it, is that you lay out a big piece of saran wrap and put your frosting in the middle (however much of whatever color you are using). Fold the saran wrap over the frosting and continue to fold/roll it up. Hold onto the two ends and twist the middle multiple times in a circle. (Might need to see the video to understand.) It creates like a tight pocket. The ends are thin and tight and you tie one end and stick the other through your tip/coupler. When you are finished with that color, you can just pull the bag out and rinse out the tip. It's amazing! She uses it with pastry bags, so you could use whatever you want.
I'm loving that we hosted a Mexican Food & Game Night the other night with our friends. It gave me a reason to play around with some cookies. I wish I could have ran to Walmart to pick up real cookie cutters, but this worked for now!
My taco dip that is super easy and super delicious! Always a hit... If you want to give it a try, here is the recipe:
Bottom Layer: Blend together about a 1/2 cup sour cream and 1/2 cup cream cheese and spread it on a pan...any will work.
Next: Pour some taco sauce on top and try and shake the pan around to cover the first white layer.
Then: Cook 1lb of taco meat and sprinkle it around next
Chop: Lettuce and then tomatoes and layer on top of the meat
After: Cheese is next...the more the better I think :)
Finally: Pour more taco sauce on the top. I always do it in lines up and back but you can do it however you like! Serve with nacho chips! Yummy!
Loving Scattergories... except when someone ALWAYS picks the same words as me!! :)
Something that I've always gotten extremely frustrated with is the driving in Malta. It annoys the poop out of me! Even after a year, I still get lost. Well, the other day I was riding with my friend Cyd and we were leaving a home store and heading to lunch. She punched the restaurant in her GPS and we started following the hectic directions. All the sudden we were on this small dirt cart path out in the country a little bit. We thought it might be a shortcut or something but the road eventually ended with this grassy picture. I laughed so hard and loved the fact that for once I wasn't driving and that we could just laugh at the situation and enjoy the scenery.
I looooove celebrating. Anything and everything! One of the marine's had a birthday yesterday so we got to celebrate with a little dinner! He picked lasagna which I was thrilled about because it's my favorite!
I always make my momma's recipe. We loved it growing up and I still love it now!
I'm loving this recipe I found on Pinterest. for these Pepperoni Crescent Roll-Ups. It's so incredibly easy and actually really really good!! I made them for an appetizer last night and they were gone in like 30 seconds. It also could have been because there were a bunch of guys around... but still :)
1 can refrigerated crescent rolls
40 slices turkey pepperoni (I used regular)
4 pieces of mozzarella string cheese, cut in half
garlic powder
pizza sauce
Preheat oven to 375.
Unroll crescent rolls and separate into 8 triangles. Place 5 slices of turkey pepperoni on each crescent roll. Top pepperoni with string cheese half and roll up. Sprinkle crescent rolls with garlic powder. Place rolls on baking sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve with a side of warm pizza sauce.
I'm also really loving this week how God always shows that He is near, and that He cares. For example... I've been missing my nieces and nephews like crazy. Like going insane miss them so much. Well one of my great friends in Malta just happens to have two adorable kids. Her little boy was born 2 days before my sister's little boy. Here is a picture of me holding her son...
And a picture of my precious nephew that I can't wait to meet!!
Here is a picture of their daughter who is turning 3 and makes me smile and laugh every time I am around her...
And my niece Carrie who is also a little blonde headed 3 year old that lights up my life...
So even though I miss them more than words can ever express... I'm so grateful that God has placed two children in my life here in Malta that are so similar to my family that I can love on and spend time with. I adore my friend's kids to pieces and they really are so amazing... but it makes me smile thinking that even sometimes in unfortunate circumstances... God still has a way if you are open to receiving it.
Happy Leap Year Day!! (still is so weird to me :) xoxo