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The future Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, brace yourselfs, you have just a few more years until this little diva steals the show. ...

Meatloaf, baked mac n cheese, and curried broccoli

melissa

Meatloaf, baked mac n cheese, and curried broccoli

This was a new recipe for baked mac n cheese, on a scale of 1-10 Id rate it about a 7 Id have rated it higher if I hadn't overco...

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QVC easy pay review

Christmas shopping at QVC I recently discovered and LOVE QVC they allow you to buy now and make payments. I went online, and found them wh...

old dogs and children and watermelon wine

melissa

old dogs and children and watermelon wine

NO truer words have been spoken.. I love this song, It is one of those that will always be one of my favorites.. Back when music was mus...

Mariah Carey, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, brace yourselfs, you have just a few more years until this little diva steals the show. I'd like to present to you the future of the music industry singing her little heart out...

The futures so bright She gotta wear shades..

Meatloaf, baked mac n cheese, and curried broccoli

This was a new recipe for baked mac n cheese, on a scale of 1-10 Id rate it about a 7 Id have rated it higher if I hadn't overcooked it. It was actually a crockpot recipe where you dump in your uncooked pasta and all your other ingredients and let it cook in the crock for several hours. Well since I was using my slow cooker to soak the dried beans I plan to cook today, I decided to try it in the oven. I wasn't sure how to change the cook temp and time to be sure the noodles got done, but what I did worked out well.. I would add a little more liquid next time tho. Here is that recipe with the addition of more water.

Baked mac n cheese

1 box macaroni noodles

1 can campbells cheddar cheese soup

1 1/2 cups shredded chedder (reserve half of cheddar for topping)

1/3 block velveeta cheese cubed

1/3 cup cream cheese or sour cream

1/4 cup parmesian cheese

2 eggs beaten

1 stick butter melted

1 cup milk

1 cup water

salt and pepper to taste

in a large bowl mix together all ingredients except the cheddar reserved for topping, and the uncooked pasta.. Mix ingredients well then pour in your uncooked pasta and stir to coat. Transfer this to a greased oven dish and top with the remaining cheddar. Cover and cook for 1 hour at 200 degrees

remove cover turn oven up to 325 and cook about 30 more minutes until top is browned.. Its going to seem like alot of liquid but remember you need enough to cook your pasta.

Meatloaf

2 lb ground beef

half of a tube of jimmy dean ground sausage

1/4 cup each of onion, bell peppers finely chopped

1 egg

2 tbsp water

garlic finely chopped

3tbsp dijon mustard

1/4 cup very finely crushes cheetohs

(we like jalapeno flavored. This is in place of bread crumbs, doritos, and funyuns are also awesome as bread crumb alternatives)

for meatloaf glaze

1/4 cup dijon mustard

1/3 cup ketchup

2 tbsp vidalia onion jelly

mix all meatloaf ingredients well let set for 30 minutes before cooking

for the glaze in a saucepan mix all glaze ingredients and salt and pepper to taste simmer just until jelly has melted pour over your meatloaf and spread with the back of spoon to coat top and sides cover with foil and bake 30 minutes

remove foil after 30 minutes and bake an additional 30 minutes

Curried Broccoli

froze broccoli

half stick butter

3 tbsp apple juice concentrate (the stuff from the freezer section of the grocery store)

curry powder to taste

salt

in frying pan add all ingredients and cook over medium heat stirring frequently to coat broccoli with sauce until heated through. I like my broccoli a little crisp but some may not I think cooking time is all about that you prefer when it comes to broccoli

That is what was cookin' last night. I haven't forgotten to post our chopped desserts ive just been busy. I will try to get that up today. Christmas time tho... whew.. It's been busy.

QVC easy pay review

Christmas shopping at QVC

I recently discovered and LOVE QVC they allow you to buy now and make payments. I went online, and found them when I searched for online layaway. Well, I went there and I ordered my son the xbox one he wanted thinking that I would make the layaway payments and it would be sent when it was paid in full, but within a few days the xbox one was delivered to my door and payments will be automatically withdrawn from my bank account monthly until paid. True I will be paying a little more to do it this way. But all things considered there was no way I could swing 500.00 for agame system all at once. So I went back and also ordered my daughter a laptop from QVC. Whew, that has the two main gifts for those two covered, and wrapped and ready to go on christmas morning. I love the installment plan. What I don't love is its lack of flexibility. This month my mother decided that as her gift to me she wantedto make one of the payments for each of my children's gifts and that would serve as my christmas gift, which suited me fine, I was glad to have my load lightened. But I cant find an option to pay with a different card. I also don't like that I can't adjust my payment amount. I wanted to pay a little extra this week and get it paid off as soon as possible, but I have to pay the set amount. I can make multiple payments, but I cant adjust the amount, For instance if my payment is 34.00 a month, and I want to pay 44.00 this month I can't, I can pay 2, 3, 4, all of the payments for that amount but I cannot alter the amount I pay.

all things considered I will definately shop QVC again, after christmas I want to by myself a kitchen aid mixer.. The fancy kind that you can buy all the attachments for, and it has been a blessing this christmas. But it is not without flaw in my opinion. But then again few things are...

old dogs and children and watermelon wine

NO truer words have been spoken.. I love this song, It is one of those that will always be one of my favorites.. Back when music was music and not techno, soundboard, whoopin, spitting, edited stuff.. When people actually had to have talent to be in the music business... I like old dogs and children and coffee.... maybe watermelon vodka sometimes...