Earth Day

Happy Earth Day From Ellie 

A Summery Home Welcome

After Jessica had an Easter door hanging on her door after Easter, we decided that we needed to create something cute and fun for the spring/summer months. We were inspired by a super cute Pinterest post of an adorable wreath. It was colorful and whimsical, which is exactly what we were looking for to add spice to the door!

So we headed to Hancock Fabrics to pick up some summery fabrics, and then we headed to hobby lobby to get the wreaths. We used the green foam wreaths for simplicity. 

The first step to the project is to take the fabric and cut it into 2-inchish strips in width. This was a hard feat for the two of us because neither one of us can cut in a straight or even kind-of straight line. If you struggle with this feat in every day life, that is okay! 

Once all the fabric is cut take the already beautiful green foam wreath, that you just want to hang on the door plain, and tie the strips in any pattern you choose in a double knot. 

***DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED BECAUSE IT TAKES THE WHOLE WREATH BEING COMPLETE FOR IT TO LOOK GOOD***

Once completing the entire ring, you can add a letter in the middle of the wreath with some fishing line, or just tie some fishing line at the top and slap that puppy on the door with a command hook or an over the door hook. 

If you would like to know exactly how we get the "H" in the middle of the wreath, just comment below and we would be more than happy to do that for you! 

Get inspired and do something awesome today!!

Happy Blogging, 

Heather and Jessica (: 

Stuffed Shells

Ingredients

• Jumbo pasta shells
• 1 large egg, lightly beaten
• 2 cups (475 g) ricotta cheese
• 1 cup shredded parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup minced fresh chives
• 1 can of Prego Roasted Garlic and Herb sauce 

Another Pinterest inspired adventured led us to a delicious supper that was fast and easy! We began with boiling the shells until they were al dente or a little under cooked. In a separate mixing bowl combine ricotta, parmesan, chives, and egg till smooth and thick. Drain shells of course but be careful, steam burns are real ladies and gents.

Let the shells cool for a minute unless you have what I call "mom hands" and you can handle holding hot objects. Get an oven safe pan and put ¼ of the jar of pasta sauce in the pan. Spread sauce so the bottom is evenly covered.

Fill the individual shells with cheese mix and place in pan. Once all shells are in the pan cover with as much or as little pasta sauce as you wish. Place in oven for fifteen minutes. Remove and top with mozzarella if you would like and place back in the oven for about five minutes or until cheese is bubbly. 

Remove and serve. Pair with Garlic Bread from the grocery bakery because its usually a couple of dollars cheaper and just as good and takes less time to cook.          

*Prego has stepped up their saucy game and their sauce is delicious!     

            

            

                    

Let us know what you think of this recipe. Comment below and tell us how you stuff your shells!!

Happy Blogging,
Heather and Jessica (:

A New Saucy Extravaganza

We wanted to change it up in the kitchen a bit, but we didn't want to get to crazy. I have been looking at the McCormick sauces and after much debate with Heather we decided. We were interested in the fajita sauce in particular, so we decided to try this particular sauce. 

To prepare this meal, we cut chicken into strips and added onions just cut into strips. We browned the meat with a little olive oil so we don't over flavor it. Cook until you see beautiful brown. 

After the meat is just browned add the onions and sauce. We don't have a picture of this step but you get the picture. While we were preparing this meal, we only used one large chicken breast. Not thinking, I dumped most of the package into the skillet. This made the sauce very strong. We suggest using two chicken breastesis (haha) for the whole packet of sauce.

We pared this meal with tortillas to complete the fajitas. We also had chips and queso dip. The meal was a decent meal, but I believe the fajitas would have been better if we seasoned the chicken ourselves. 

Overall, the sauce was good. I would use it again, but it could have been better if I hadn't put to much of the sauce with the chicken. 

Let us know what you think about the sauce if you try it! 

Happy Blogging, 

Heather and Jessica (:

Chocolate Endeavors

Good Evening Bloggers! Or Good Whenever you read this Bloggers!

Alight, I know we post a lot of actual easy supper recipes, but occasionally the sweet tooth gets the best of you. Tonight, while we were cooking supper we were also cooking dessert. 

We called them Messy Cupcakes or Chocolate Mess Cupcakes because we are not pros in icing things. We like to pull out the cupcakes and put the icing right on so it gets all oozy and glazy. If this isn't for you thats fine but in this case, presentation is not everything.

We began with Duncan Hines Devil's Food Cupcake mix. Trust me these cupcakes are plenty blessed with delicious. Also, Jessica is picky about her eggs so we used Egg Lands Best.

We combined the mix, eggs, vegetable oil, and water in a bowl and mixed them all up.

Then, we put the batter in the muffin pan. We used a small size because we wanted the Cupcakes to be more bite size. Also we had to to three batches because there was more batter than room in the pan.

     

Because we did multiple batches, we added chocolate chips to a batch just see how they would turn out and trust me they are fantastic. Any chocolate chips will do, we aren't that picky.

They cupcake went in the oven for 8 minutes which was perfect. We tested them with a toothpick to see if they were done.

When they came out, we put them on a plate while they were still hot so the icing would glaze on the cupcakes. Like we said before, we aren't icing pros so they are not pretty but they are delicious.

To close our adventures for the night, we delighted ourselves to the wonders of chocolate... and boy it was worth every calorie.

Happy Blogging Friends!!!
Heather and Jessica (:

And Ellie says hello

Special Days!!!

Hello everyone!!!

We are so glad to be back into the swing of things with life. Sometimes it does get the best of you and your time. That is what happened to us the past two weeks. We are deeply sorry for being MIA for so long. Life has been so boring without Heather around to entertain me.

While I have been sitting bored out of my mind, Heather had some pretty eventful happenings. First, over our spring break she spent her time having surgery on her poor finger. SAD DAY *cue the tears and the whimpers from the audience* Lets just say she enjoyed some wonderful pampering and the oh so delicious "after surgery" ice cream. I mean, lets face it we love food!

So what better to do than to be in the presence of food when we are reunited. I mean it is so important. We decided to spend our precious time together at a local Mexican restaurant called "Pepitos." It is so delicious.


After being reunited, Heather shared her "finger aerobics," as I call them. We conversed over a lovely Mexican supper, and I treated myself to a drink. Now this drink is just a little gift from the Mexican high powers. I tried a mix of a banana margarita and a strawberry margarita. The banana was the best part! If you have never tried one, it is so worth it.

After a wonderful supper, we moseyed on over to TCBY. I had never tried TCBY, like ever. It was good, but when it is self serve it is better. Heather likes her froyo to be 45% froyo and 55% toppings, and self-serve is the only way she can have that ratio!

All in all it was a great afternoon, and we were so excited to be reunited! Great day, great people, great food!!!

Happy Blogging,
Heather and Jessica (:

Peach Geen Tea Lemonade: A Review

Hey Happy Bloggers!

I'm back! A big thanks to Jessica for keeping the blog going in my absence.

Anyways, Have you been to Starbucks lately? I haven't and swung by today on a whim to reward myself for being awesome (everyone should does this once in a while, its good for the soul).

I saw that under their Teavana menu they added a new one. Peach Green Tea Lemonade. I got a tall just to try and lets just say I'm impressed.

I LOVE peach. I can handle green tea. Although I've never been a fan of just lemonade, when they were all mixed together I just had to try.

At first taste you recognize the peach, then boom relaxed notes of green tea and then as it finishes you get a light kiss of lemon from the lemonade. Refreshing and happy (if drinks could have emotions).  It was just what I was looking for.

If you get a chance, swing by and get one of your own. Apologies in advance if you don't like it, but hey every pallet is different.

Have a blessed day and Happy Blogging
Heather (: