Showing posts with label buzzfeed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buzzfeed. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Pioneer Woman is My Spirit Animal and Other Things I Actually Made from Pinterest

I feel like I always say it, but it really has been a long while since I did one of these posts... over 9 months, actually.  I did post about Pinterest a couple months ago, but not too many successes there.  As you can probably guess from the title, I've been loving me some Mrs. Drummond recently.  Her show is my favorite on weekend mornings, and you have to follow her on Pinterest and IG!  You can follow me on Pinterest, too :) and see all the recipes I've actually made here.

Soul Sweet Taters: Way back over Thanksgiving I made these beauties, and even though I didn't get to eat a whole bunch of them, they were AMAZING.  This time, we only added 1/2 cup sugar, and next time we might try taking the sugar completely out of the potatoes themselves - they really don't need it!

Aunt Trish's Salad Dressing: This recipe is so easy and delicious.  I've been all about salads since the new year and this is a nice way to switch it up from my normal olive oil/balsamic vinegar mixture.

Apple Peanut Butter Delights: On Friday night, after I made BBQ Chicken French Bread Pizza (more below), I decided to make these for dessert.  Yeah... don't broil them for 3 minutes.  They burned.  There was also too much peanut butter (gasp!) and it was all just a little too thick.

And my non-Pioneer Woman finds...

Salted Caramel Bark: Over Christmas vacation, we did a Make, Bake, and Buy Secret Santa with my college friends.  I used Pinterest to search for what to bake for my recipient.  Luckily, she has over 3,000 food pins, so I had a lot from which to choose.  Oh, and I also had to find a recipe that wouldn't crush on a plane since we were getting in at 12:30 am Saturday morning and the party was 2 hours away at 2:00 Saturday afternoon.  I found this bark that looked fairly portable and delicious.  I've now learned I'm not great at making caramel and it ended up tasting more like praline than caramel, and I added pecans instead of pretzels, just because, and it was really good!

BBQ Chicken French Bread Pizza: On Friday, Jillian posted a few recipes that she wants to add to her rotation, and I found myself buying French bread on my way home from work, and the finished product was on IG a few hours after that.  We love anything BBQ chicken: quesadillas, nachos, dip, even just pulled from the CrockPot (I need to post recipes for the rest, soon.).

Mike always sends me the best Buzzfeed articles!  To be honest, he's awesome at finding us great recipes to make, too.  This one was the perfect combination of the two.  Rachel lived completely according to Pinterest for a week.  We tried two of the recipes she suggested:

The Best Chewy Cafe-Style Chocolate Chip Cookies: They lived up to their name, for sure: AMAZING.

Easy Beef and Broccoli: Mike used flank steak, and the beef was a little tough, but we LOVED the sauce!  We actually used all the leftover sauce (there was a lot) to marinate chicken and it was delicious, too.
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Linking up for Kate and Emily's Tuesday Recipe Swap!

Anyone else been cooking from Pinterest lately?  Any favorites?

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

thoughts on my day off...

Running in the morning [and I mean like 10 am - not at 6 am before work] is seriously awesome - perfect weather.

Are pansies perennials or annuals?  I had NO IDEA they were going to come up again this year. Bonus flowers!

I cannot wait to eat my Olive Garden leftovers from last night's date for lunch.


I think I'll go for a second run this afternoon and keep working on our backyard.  It will have grass this summer if it's the last thing I do! 


Mike just told me Jay Z produced the soundtrack for The Great Gatsby ...and I thought that movie couldn't sound better!


The new UConn logo is just atrocious.  Check out the progression of Jonathan here.  It kind of reminds me of the progression of the Oregon State logo Megan shared a couple months back.  

old and new

Oh yeah, I forgot to share how Mike and I went to UConn this weekend to buy up some of the old logo'd merch before the new stuff comes in.  And it was the spring football game, too.


The brick building on the right is where Mike took all of his engineering classes.  



I'm loving Demi Lovato right now.  Her new song is way too catchy and her tattoos are amazing.  

Posts I'm looking forward to writing: swap reveals, spring photography, and new healthy habits.

My current state: UConn hoodie, fleece blanket, recliner, laptop, Roxy, HIMYM. 

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine's Day - Buzzfeed Style

Alright, I know not everyone loves this holiday, but here are a few Buzzfeed articles that HAVE to make you smile today [in addition to the hopefully pounds and pounds of chocolate you will consume]!

Oh, and if you're looking for something fun to make your special someone, check out these yummy homemade samoa cookies.














Saturday, January 5, 2013

Your Buzzfeed Fix

I hope you all have heard of Buzzfeed
because it is an awesome website [especially the rewind section].

I've written a little about it before, but new things are popping up everyday.

Alright, here we go.  You just have to promise to click on at least one link because THEY ARE SO FUNNY.  

All photos are from the link above them, none of them are my own.  I tried to choose my personal favorites, but many of the times, you need the text to get the full effect.






 
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