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Easy Meal Idea Monday
Bacon Wrapped Baked Chicken
Simply pound some boneless and skinless chicken breast flat. Fill with cream cheese and finely chopped chives or onions. Fold the breast over and then wrap with bacon. Secure with a toothpick. Bake in a 400 F oven for about 40 minutes or juices run clear.
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Valentine's Day board on pinterest has 33 fun things to do, make or print to give you some ideas for Valentine's day.
You can make Valentine S'mores, heart shaped cupcakes, John 3:16 Valentine's day acrostic and learn to shape bacon into a heart for a special breakfast.
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Using a little imagination, you can make your Valentine's day a little more fun and a lot less expensive. If you want to add a little personalized romance or if you don't have the time or money to buy all the pre-made things in the store, here are some ideas to help you make the day special.
For The Kids:
- My mom always made a great but inexpensive Valentine's Day treat for us. She would take construction paper and cut a big heart out of it. (About 8x10 inches). She would staple the edges together and write our names and an I love you on the outside. Then she would fill the heart with candy, purchased on clearance after Christmas. It was very inexpensive but we loved it!
- Have a Valentine's Day treasure hunt. Leave little notes around with the last one leading back to the kitchen table with a heart full of candy.
- Leave sticks of red gum in their Valentine's Day cards.
For The Lunches
- Make heart shaped Valentine's cookies. Cut the kids (or hubby's) sandwiches with a heart shaped cookie cutter. Add a few Valentine's chocolates and put a note in red with a big heart on their napkin.
- Serve anything red for the day. Serve red Jello, red pudding, red apples, toast with strawberry jelly, tomato soup, red applesauce, red Kool-aid, strawberry milk, or red frosted cookies. Use powered food coloring from the cake store to get the deepest shade of red. Serving all red things at a meal will really have wow factor even if it is something as inexpensive as red jello and tomato soup.
- Make red heart shaped cupcakes. Make cupcakes as usual but place a marble down the side of the muffin tin between the muffin tin and each cupcake cup. This will make heart shaped cupcakes.
- Make hearts out of chocolate chips in each of your pancakes.
Things To Do With Or For Your Honey
- Mail your pre-addressed and stamped Valentines to Loveland, Colorado and they will postmark them and mail them for you. Send them to: Postmaster, Valentine Re-mailing, 446 E. 29th St., Loveland, CO 80538
- Make a treasure hunt for your spouse. Start by mailing or e-mailing him the first clue. Then leave clues all over the house, yard, car or his office telling him where to find the next clue. End the hunt by making a picnic in the back yard or going to a park for a picnic. Use your imagination and have fun. The simple things are the ones people remember.
- Go to a bookstore together and enjoy the silence and browse. Get a cup of coffee and make a date of it.
- Celebrate Valentine's Day AFTER Valentine's day. Everything is half off.
- Mail a love letter to your hubby's work.
- Send your spouse a sexy email message.
- Leave "Why I love you" message all over the house. Buy a package of the cheap Valentines. Leave a message on each one and hide them all over the house for your honey. They will get to enjoy the gift for months!
- Use lipstick to make hearts and love notes on the rear view mirror, car windows, bathroom mirror or windows of the house. Leave a kiss on his napkin for lunch or dinner.
- Make a bunch of hearts out of construction paper. Put a love note on each one. Paste them all over the front door or car before your hubby or kids come home from work.
- If you don't have money to go out, have a picnic on the floor. Use some candles and lay a soft blanket on the floor. Put on some soft music and have a romantic Valentine's dinner on the floor. Use some white Christmas lights for additional romantic lighting!
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Creamy Crock Pot Roast
- 2 pound beef roast
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 onion (diced)
- 6 carrots (sliced)
- 6 potatoes (cubed into small pieces)
- Water
Place onion, carrots and potatoes at bottom of crock pot. Dredge roast in flour and placed
in lightly greased pan. Brown on both sides in hot oil over high heat. Place roast in crock
pot over vegetables. Pour soup and 1/2 can water over roast. Cover and cook on low for
approximately 10 hours, or 5 to 6 hours on high.
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Pepper Cabbage
- 2 cups shredded cabbage
- 1 large green pepper
- ½ cup hot salad dressing
- 1 tsp. salt
Mix the cabbage, pepper, chopped fine and salt. Let stand 1 hour in cool place. Drain off all liquid.
Make a hot dressing with:
- 1 tblsp. butter
- 1 tsp. flour
- ½ tsp. dry mustard
- salt and pepper
- yolk of 1 egg
- ½ cup vinegar
Melt the butter and blend in the flour. Add vinegar and stir until mixture thickens. Mix mustard, salt and pepper and add to the liquid. Cool for 4 minutes, pour over the beaten egg yolk and mix well. Cook for 1 minute more. Pour this over the pepper cabbage and mix well.
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Crock Pot Barbecue Beef
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless round steak (cubed)
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1 cup favorite barbecue sauce
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 package Lipton Onion Soup Mix
- 1 cup beef broth
In a large bowl mix all ingredients together. Transfer to crock pot. Cover and cook on
low for approximately 8 hours.
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A Good Pennsylvania Dutch Salad Dressing
- 2 hard boiled eggs, mashed
- a little grated onion
- 3 tablespoons salad oil
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- pinch of pepper
Mix well together, then put on lettuce and turn and stir until it is well covered with the dressing. Good with any green salad.
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