Back yard chicken coop

This year for Christmas I got spoiled!! My parents, my sister and brother in law surprised me with this chicken coop. I have been wanting one for a few years now and now I finally have the best one ever, and they made it them selves. Spring can't come soon enough so I can get my chicks.

My cooking adventures ~ Blueberry Cobbler

Yesterday was my Husbands birthday and we aren't a big cake eating family, so instead of cake I made one of our families fave blueberry cobbler. Yummy!! This last summer I also made it to take camping in jars and it was a big hit. I will share my recipe and how I made it in the jars as well.

Blueberry filling Ingredients:

1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp. cornstarch
1/4 cup water
4 cups blueberries.

Instructions:
In a sauce pan combine sugar, cornstarch and water. Stir in 4 cups of fresh or frozen blueberries. Cook and stir until thick and bubbly.

Topping Ingredients;

1 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
3 tbsp. butter
1 beaten egg
3 tbsp. milk

Instructions:

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder. Cut in butter till mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine egg and milk. Add to flour mixture, stirring just until moisten.

Transfer filling into a 8x8x2 inch baking dish. drop filling into 6 mounds atop hot filling. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 20 -25 minutes.

Jar instructions:

I made exactly the same recipe. Then instead of a baking dish I split the filling into 8 oz jars and then put a scoop of the topping on top of the filling. Put the jars on a cookie sheet and then bake.

My cooking adventures ~ Baked Chicken

My family and I eat a lot of chicken, I'm always looking for different  new recipes because some times we just get burned out on chicken. Yesterday I tried a new recipe and it didn't disappoint me, it was very yummy and kept the chicken moist. I will defiantly be making it again so I wanted to share the recipe.

Ingredients:

4 boneless, skinless chicken breast
1/4 cup melted butter
1 oz packet ranch seasoning mix
1 cup crushed corn flakes
1/2 cup parmesan cheese

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray 9x13 glass baking dish with cooking spray.

Combine the ranch seasoning mix, the crushed corn flakes, and the parmesan cheese into a large freezer bag. Shake well to mix all together.

Dip each chicken breast into the melted butter, and then drop into the bag. Seal the bag shut and then shake well to coat with the seasoning mix. Lay Chicken into the baking dish and repeat with all the chicken.

Bake chicken for 40-45 minutes.

I paired it with a salad and it was very good!!

My crafty side ~ Garden herd marker

I'm in love with my mint marker, so much that this spring I'm going to be making more for all my different herbs that I grow! I love growing herbs they are so pretty in my flower beds and of course I use them for all sorts of things in the kitchen.

These DIY wooden spoon herb markers are so easy. I don't even think I need to give directions, it's kinda self explanatory.

You will need:
wooden spoon
paint
paint brush
stencil

Yummy to my tummy~ Cinnabon clones

Every one LOVES my cinnamon rolls and I'm always getting asked for the recipe,so here it is! They are sooo good and addicting! 

Cinnabon Clone

Ingredients:

I cup of warm milk (110 degrees)

2 eggs, room temperature

1/3 cup butter melted

4 ½ cups bread flour

½ cups sugar

2 ½ tsps. Fast rising yeast

 Cinnamon

Brown sugar

½ cup butter

Note: This recipe is used with a bread machine

Directions:

Place ingredients in bread machine. Select dough cycle; press start.

After the dough has doubled in size turn it out onto a lightly floured surface, cover and let rest for 10 min.

Roll dough out into a long rectangle. Spread the ½ cup butter, sprinkle about a cup of brown sugar evenly over dough, sprinkle cinnamon to your liking evenly over dough. Roll up dough and cut into rolls. Place rolls onto a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake rolls in oven till golden brown about 15 min.

Frosting

3 oz cream cheese, softened

¼ cup butter, softened

1 ½ cups powdered sugar

½ tsp vanilla

Spread frosting on warm rolls.

Saving cents!!

I just wanted to share a couple great buys that I got today! I love,love, love saving money!

Ok, the first deal is a money maker but you need to have the safeway app and the ibotta app. This week on my Safeway app under personalized deals you can get 1 free Green Giant frozen vegetable steamers, and then with your Ibotta app if you buy any brand of frozen vegetables you get 25 cents! You don't have to spend any money and you make a quarter! Awesome!!

This week Fred Meyers has All Laundry detergent on sale with  in store coupon 2/ $5.00,

if you have the Fred Meyers app you can load a $1.00 off All coupon to your rewards card, Making it only $1.50 For a bottle of All laundry detergent.

My Crafty side~ Vintage chalk board

If you know me I love vintage and I decorate my home with a vintage rustic feel. I had been wanting a unique vintage chalkboard and now I have the perfect one and I LOVE it!!! Best of all it was free! I made it with things I already had laying around and it was so easy!

1 vintage cabinet door
paint
chalkboard paint
sandpaper


I wasn't exactly sure what color I wanted it so I just played around with the colors. I painted it three different colors, first white,then black and the final coat of paint is the rustic red. After the paint was dry I took some sandpaper to it to give it the old rustic look with all the layers of paint. Finally I painted the chalkboard part and that was all it took! Super easy!!