Fejiao (brazillian black beans)

So were moving onto some food recipes that I'm testing and some of them actually came out pretty good!

Here is one we did last night and let me tell you, it was super yummy and it's definitely one that I will repeat.

Website:
http://relish.com/recipes/feijao-brazillian-black-beans/
Pin source:
http://pinterest.com/pin/335166397238594468/

Now I don't have a picture of it sadly because I didn't think about it until after I ate all of it :p
I did do some variation because the original recipe was for a slow cooker but i did mine on the stove top

Ingredients: (I used)
2 cans ( 15 oz each) black beans
garlic powder
bay leaves
olive oil
1 yellow chopped onion
salt and pepper to taste
cilantro

I didn't actually measure anything to be honest.  The original recipe says that you need about a pound of black beans which is about one can of beans.

Step 1:
Drain and rinse black beans
Step 2:
Cook black beans til finished
Step 3:
In a deep saute pan, put olive oil pan and cook chopped onions on medium heat SLOWLY. It's to ensure even cooking and you'll be mixing everything together so you don't want to overcook these.
Step 4:
Once onions are done, take the rest of the ingredients and put them in with the onions and cook for about a good 5 ish minutes or until the cilantro is dark green and the rest of the ingredients are well incorporated.

Voila! Your done!
I served this over a batch of rice and let me tell you, it was again very amazing!

Weaved bacon!

Sorry that I've epically sucked at posting lately. I've heen testing different ideas from pinterest.

So you all know the pictures you see of waved bacon? Well I looked and found several ideas on cooking time and things.
Here's what I did:
Ingredients:
Just bacon

Materials:
Pam cooking spray
Tinfoil
Cookie sheet

Preheat oven to 350ºf
Step 1. Put a layer on the pan. Simple.
Step 2. Spray pam on tinfoil. It's extra insurance that the beautiful bacon won't stick. Yes I love bacon enough to call it that.
Step 3. Basket weave your bacon
Step 4: put in oven and cook between
15-25 minutes. Honestly depends on the oven you have.
Finished!
I cut mine in half so I could put it on some english muffins. Now I have it in every bite!!

Sorry for delay

I'm really lagging on posting the last update I did.  I can't find my pictures I took of it so I"m going to just probably post the finished product so you can see what I did.  I am currently working on a shoe pattern right now and I just finished making a 2 recipes from pinterest that I know I have pictures of (somewhere)

See my phone had a major melt down and it was my camera so I had to get a new one so finding pictures is going to be tricky since I had to switch. But don't worry I'm still alive and doing projects!!!

Coming up next....2 Seperate tests....DIY NYLON HEADBAND and FREE CROCHET BIB TUTORIAL!!!!

So I decided to test 2 different ones because they are fairly simple.  One of them I've already completed but I had to do a few practice runs before I go and take pictures.  On the down side of things both of my hands (one worse than the other) are acting up and I might have tendinitis with my left hand so it's challenging to do repetitious work but I'll try!


The first test will be from a another blogger called: LittleMissMomma.com. She has a lot of wonderful crafts and other projects so I would suggest checking her out!

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Our other test I will be doing will be on a free pattern from: Favecrafts.com
This website has some cute tutorials that give you the instructions in the common crochet language.  If you need help with crocheting it, I have "how to crochet classes" on my pinterest account :)

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I"ll be posting the results soon!

Saving crumbled makeup

So I did this WEEKS ago and forgot to post it because it slipped my mind.  I remembered that I did this test already because I found the pictures on my IPOD.

Are you tired of throwing away makeup because it broke into pieces in the compact and don't know how to use it without making smaller pieces?
Well then this is for you because it'll help save you money and the frustration as I have found.  It works AMAZINGLY and I recommend using this trick to help salvage your makeup.

Here is the pin source for how to fix the makeup with rubbing alcohol.

Step 1: Get some rubbing alcohol and fill just the cap.  It'll help control how much you put in your makeup so that it doesn't swamp it.

 Step 2: Put just enough in the crumbled make up to were it becomes a paste.
Once done take a utensil of some kind ( I took the cotton off a q tip) and stir it.

This is what it should look like after you put the rubbing alcohol in it.

 Step 3: Now let dry for a good couple hours, I left mine in a warm place and away from things so that way it wouldn't get bumped while drying. 

And PRESTO!

The rubbing alcohol will dry out and you are now left with a perfectly smooth and not crumbly make up!

Bunny cake...FAIL

So my bunny cake didn't even turn out to be a bunny cake sadly :( It ended up turning into what I wanted and I got impatient and therefore, no bunny cake...

So here was to original idea that I wanted to do...

And this is what ended up happening as the end result....

 Yea...not even CLOSE to a bunny or anything..... Just a spiky weird design cake.........

So here is the pin source for the original idea
To begin:
I needed to have a buttercream frosting so that I could decorate the cake since I had no way to get to the store.
Here is the pin source for buttercream frosting.
So I began pipping in a very simple manor.  I took my time and was excited because I was thinking that after I had layered my cake that I didn't make it tall enough.  Well I figured that I could pipe the "fur" of the rabbit and that the entire cake would look like a rabbit instead of a stump with rabbit feet.

So to explain I did it in these steps:
*I forgot to post the cake I made but it was made from a store bought cake mix that I made in two round cake pans

step 1:

I followed the recipe from the buttercream recipe I found on pinterest and made it like so.  It makes A LOT of frosting so it would be good to make if you want to store some for later.  

Step 2: I took a zip lock bag and a pipping tip and put that in the corner of the bag.

 Step 3: I then filled the bag and then closed it off so looked like so.

As you can see here I began to do it in neat pipping and pretty consistent with the amount I was putting on as well.
I felt like a pro as I carefully placed each bit of frosting. (thanks cake boss for the visual aid!)

As you can see here, there are a DOZEN different types of designs on the cake because I did't realize how long it would take to pipe.  I have to hand it to decorators.  I am definitely not meant for a bakery job in the future.

So i couldn't change what I had put on the cake so I just smoothed the whole thing out.  Pretty much gave up on making the whole cake a bunny.  So i decided to go with plan b.
Which was to then make a bunny out of frosting.

I used marshmellows as a base for the bunny because I thought it would look cool once I put frosting on top of it.
I didn't take a picture because it just looked like one giant blob of chunky frosting.
I had gotten creative before and thought that green sprinkles would be the grass.....until that idea didn't work because there was no rabbit on the grass. So it got smoothed out into the frosting. Now giving the frosting a crunch.

So in the end.....
this is what my cake turned out to be.

I just took a metal spatula and flipped the frosting upwards to create the frosting this way.
So maybe I'll try this cake again in April and have better luck next time......

Coming up next.....EASTER BUNNY CAKE!!!!

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So I am going to try and take a crack at making a bunny cake!  

I have a fundraiser in my church coming up and I volunteered to make something for it.  I can promise you that it probably won't end up this fancy but wish me luck! I have to make this by tomorrow so hopefully it'll turn out okay!

If you have any suggestions for me let me know!