Friday Favorite Articles

These are some great articles I read this week on homemaking, being a wife and mom and Christian living for women. I hope you enjoy them and find them helpful.

What If He Wishes for a Kind Wife?
What Does a Godly Mother Look Like?
ABC's of Motherhood
6 Tips to Keep Your Home Smelling Fresh
Wood Photo Block Craft - Gift for Grandparents
Mounted Photos on Boards
Free printable Cleaning Checklists for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly cleaning


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Cherry Cobbler Recipe

Today May 17, 2013 is National Cherry Cobbler Day, I can't wait until our cherries get ripe to make one. Here is the recipe I use.

1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 stick butter
1 cup of cherries, I cook these with enough water and sugar to taste

Melt the butter in your casserole dish in the oven at 350 F. Mix the flour, sugar and milk together and pour it into the melted butter. Pour the cherries on top and bake about 30 - 40 minutes.

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Simple Peanut Butter Pie

This is our favorite recipe for Peanut Butter Pie. I have included it in our Pie of the Month

2 cups cool whip
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 block cream cheese, softened

Mix all together and pour in pie crust. We use graham cracker but I have used just a normal pie crust and it tastes fine. Put in fridge or eat right away, I like mine room temperature.

Hawaiian Lava Flow Drink

Summer heat will be here soon and I am trying out cool drinks for the hot days to come and this one is outstanding (to me anyway). This is a non-alcoholic drink

3 1/2 cups of pineapple juice
2 cans cream of coconut
1 cup half and half
16 oz frozen strawberries, thawed a little bit
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup water

Blend strawberries, sugar and water together. I then added pineapple juice, cream of coconut, and half and half. It is too much for the blender so I poured it into a bowl and then mixed it well and served.

It is fantastic.


Tips:

• Some people add ice but I didn't want any in mine.
• This recipe is adapted from the one I found on pinterest and you can learn more about how she made it here. She blends it so you can see the lava flow but I am sorta lazy for that, I just wanted to drink it.

Easy Fruit Blend

This is a very easy fruit salad, salsa or blend to throw together. You can use cookies to dip with, cinnamon tortillas or do like I do and eat it by itself with a spoon.

2 kiwi, peeled and diced
2 bananas, peeled and diced
1 cup of strawberries, diced
1 Tablespoon of brown sugar
2 Tablespoons of sugar
3 Tablespoons of preserves, I used homemade blackberry preserves

Mix it all together and let set for about 1 hour in fridge to let the flavors blend together and then serve. I ate some as soon as I made it and it taste very good.


Tips

• You can use any type fruit that you like such as apples, grapes, peaches, etc.
• Use your favorite fruit preserves such as strawberry, raspberry, grape, etc.
• Make the diced fruit as large or big as you want.
• Adjust amounts of both sugars and preserves to your families liking.
• Eat by itself or with cookies or cinnamon sugar tortillas.

Creamsicle Punch

This recipe tastes like a Creamsicle.

2 cups vanilla ice cream, softened
2 cups orange sherbet
1/3 cup frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
4 cups 7 up (I used the store brand for this)

Mix ice cream, sherbet and orange juice together and then add 7 up and mix and serve.