Garlic Biscuits

Garlic Biscuits

In our home we love biscuits and gravy. My husband will not eat the kind out of the can he has to have homemade from scratch biscuits. I have tried so many different recipes to try and find the best biscuits. Needless to say all of them did not turn out. One day we were at my husbands aunts house and she made these with dinner and they were amazing. So of course I asked her for her recipe and just prayed that mine would taste as good as hers. Does that ever happen you, use the exact same recipe as someone and it doesn't taste the same? Well it happens to me all the time. But these turned out great! I have made them for a few different dinner parties and get togethers I have been to and they are a hit everyone asks for my recipe. So here it is. Very simple

Ingredients



 4 C. Flour (I use 2 all purpose and 2 wheat)

3 T baking powder

1 t. cream of tartar

1 t. salt

4 T sugar

1 C. shortening

2 eggs

1 1/3 milk.

 

Directions:

-Preheat oven 425

- Combine all dry ingredients

-Cut in shortening

-add eggs and milk

- mix well and evenly put into muffin pan.

 

* Once they are in the muffin pan melt 1/4 cup butter and chop garlic. You can add as little or as much garlic as you want. We eat a lot of garlic around here. mix the garlic and melted butter and brush tops of muffins with the butter/garlic mixture and bake.

-bake at 425 for 15 minutes.

 

I hope you enjoy these! 

thanksgiving banner

I just wanted to share my thanksgiving banner. I made this one out of paper. My back paper is 4.5 by 3.25 then my light paper is 4x3. I just cut my letters out with my cricut. This was a super simple and fast craft. Then I just punched holes at the top and weaved the lace in and out of it.

halloween banner

Happy Halloween Banner

I just had to share my new banner. Sorry i hvent posted for a few weeks we have been gone visiting family or a few weeks. everyone keeps asking if its paper or fabric. It is fabric. They had a pattern at  small quilt shop in st. George. I can't remember the name.  Then I just cut it all out and sewe it together. I am pleased with how it turned out. Anyway I hope you have a great Halloween.

DIY Wreath

DIY Wreath

 

So I had made a wreath last winter for this fall and was so excited to put it up. I put it up a few weeks ago..yes I know that is a little early... anyway it fell off my door when someone came to visit and kind of slammed the door as they left and it fell off and broke ;(. So I made another one. Quite different from the first but I think I like this one better. I wish I would have taken more pictures of the process but I didn't. 

Supplies:

Burlap

Wreath

Hot glue gun

Different kinds of material

Ribbon (i got the ribbon from here)

Ok so i cut a 3 inch strip of burlap and just wrapped it around the wreath all the way around. Then hot glued it in place.

 

 

 

Next I took the different kinds of fabric and cut strips. I cut different lengths and widths to whatever i wanted. I also cut some smaller strips of burlap to make the smaller rosettes.

 

Then I made a bunch of rosettes. I am sorry i didn't post  pictures of that process. I will do a post on how to make them another time i suppose.

 

Anyway i made all the rosettes and then started placing them where i wanted them and then hot glued them on. I then took some ribbon and tied bows to add a little different textures to the wreath. Then i hot glued them on.

 

 

And thats it! If you make a wreath similar to this please leave a comment with a link to yours i would love to see your ideas!

If you have a big hook on your door that you hang wreaths by you could just hang it on or if you have a smaller hook you could hot glue a small piece of ribbon on the back to hang it on. Either way would work great i am sure!

color game

So my little guy just turned 2 last month. Crazy I know!! Anyway those of you who have kids know it is hard to entertain a 2 year old for very long!  Winter is coming fast around here and I have been stressed about what to do with him because he wont be able to go outside and play and I dont want him to just sit in front of the TV all day. So I decided I would make games and things so he will learn his colors, ABCs, and counting.  

So today we made this! Just a simple matching type game of his colors.. I make him repeat the color before he puts the clothes pin on. He actually likes it a lot so that is great! 

It is super simple to make.. I saw something like this on Pinterest and thought "hey i have all the stuff to make that i will try it out". I traced a circle onto a box and cut it out. Then i attempted to make even sections and color them. Don't judge i couldnt get the sections perfect but i figured he is 2 he wont care. 

Then i painted each color and he helped by painting the newspaper I put under it. And i panted the clothes pins and let it dry and then gave it to him. So i will let him play with it today then maybe put it away for a couple weeks and trade out other activities so he doesn't get bored with it. 

Anyway I will try to post all my ideas for the winter as i make them so keep checking back :)

diy hairties

DIY Hair Ties

So apparently these are the new thing! I have seen them everywhere! They are super fun and easy to make. 

So lets get started.. 

Get some fold over elastic I got all mine from Here she has so many different kinds of elastic and they are all super cute! she has solids, prints, polka dots, chevron everything so go check it out! I know chevron is the "new thing" but honestly I like my polka dot hair ties more than the chevron. I am not sure why i just like how they look in my hair more. 

I am sorry for the pictures i couldn't quite figure out how to show all the different types of elastic. 

Anyways lets get started on the hairties. Super complicated so pay attention. 

Cut a strip of elastic. I did mine 7 and 1/2 inches long. You can do 7-8 inches if you go smaller it is harder to tie. It really depends on how thick your hair is and how tight you want the elastic or how many times you want to wrap it around your hair. 

Fold in half and tie a knot in the end. I burn the ends so they dont fray but you don't have to. 

And your done! Super complicated I know!! haha. 

The elastic in this post was provided by Hairbow Supplies Ect. But the opinions are my own!

zucchini boats

Zucchini Boats

 

I dont know about any of you but I have had zucchini coming out my ears this year. We have had so much I was running out of things to do with it! I went to pinterest to see if I could find new recipes for it and i came across one like this but I took the idea and did my own thing with it.

Ingredients;
Sausage
yellow squash
zucchini
mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese
rice
onion
seasonings (i used basil and parsley and celery salt)
garlic salt
salt and pepper

Directions:
Cook sausage.
Add yellow squash, rice, onion and seasonings to it. ( we had some rice left over from the night before so i just added some of that. It was about 1 cup.)
Scrape out the insides of the zucchini.
Put the sausage filling in the zucchini and top with cheeses.

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until the zucchini is the tenderness you would like.