Make a wish and save your chicken bones

I saw this table setting idea on Martha Stewart and I love it! Start roasting chickens and saving the wishbones. Our family has always done the wishing bone game but never with such pretty and magical looking bones.

Wishbone Napkin Ring

To make "silver" napkin rings, save wishbones from roast chickens, wash and dry them thoroughly, and spray them with chrome paint. On each one, string silver cord from tip to tip; wrap it six times around the bone, and tie it off.

Breakfast Wraps

A Graham family favorite. My daughter says anything tastes good in a corn tortilla. My theory behind that is the kids like it because they can't see what they're eating + wraps are just fun to eat. They're not messy because the food is all wrapped up and they're easy to eat.

Breakfast Wrap

• corn tortillas


• eggs mixed with milk, salt, pepper to make scrambled


• turkey breakfast sausage


• diced onions


• shredded cheese


• already cooked potato from the night before


• already steamed veggies -optional- if you have from last nights dinner (Sweet potato, broccoli, carrots, corn)

break up the sausage in pan on high heat then add onions and potatoes

once cooked and golden add veggies then egg mixture

cook well then place in heated corn tortilla with a little cheese and catchup

-Tip-I heat my tortillas over an open flame on my gas stove

wrap and done nobody sees what's in there and it tastes great!

-Tip- everything should be proportionate to each other in really small pieces

Fun day Friday Finger Food

So it's fun day Friday at the Grahams. Translation Mom's tired from a long week at work.

Dinner is served:

• breakfast sauage


• bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon


• lettuce boats with crunchie sailors


• Quesadillas with plain yogurt dip and avocado

Scrappy Pumpkin Tee Shirt project

My friend designed this project for her daughter's girl scout troupe. I think it is such a great project.



 



• TAP® Transfer Artist Paper
• Plain tee shirt – white or light color
• Scraps of pretty patterned papers
• Black marker, pencil
• White paper, white card stock
• Glue stick, scissors, Exacto® blade
• All-in-one inkjet printer/copier
• Firm ironing surface and iron

1. Use a black marker to draw a thick outline of a pumpkin with 4 segments on white cardstock


2. Copy the pumpkin on to white paper to make a master copy


3. Use an Exacto blade to trim out the inside of each section of the pumpkin on cardstock to create a stencil


4. Use the stencil to mark and cut out scrap papers to fit inside each section – use a different patterned paper for each section to make it scrappy, and don’t forget the stem!


5. Glue each of your trimmed scraps onto your master copy


6. Load a sheet of TAP into your inkjet printer and copy your scrappy pumpkin on to the TAP, following package instructions


7. Trim your pumpkin out of the TAP sheet and place it image-side-down on to your tee shirt


8. Press the image on to your shirt with your iron, following the TAP package instructions


9. If desired, you can also print out some Halloween words on to TAP to go with your pumpkin – just be sure to reverse the words on your computer before printing them out

This post was originally posted on C&T Publishing's blog:

http://www.ctpubblog.com/2010/10/08/scrappy-pumpkin-tee-shirt/

enchilada casserole

Mom's Enchilada Casserole

All the yumminess of enchiladas in one casserole dish.

-TIP- freezes well so after you bake it put in meal size freezer containers.

what you'll need

• corn tortillas broken into 4s


• ground turkey


• enchilada sauce


• tomato sauce


• chopped onions


• chopped olives


• corn kernels


• grated cheese (Mozzarella and cheddar)


• plain yogurt

cook meat and onions in oil then stir in these these ingredients making sure that the meat mixture isn't too spicy for kids.

• ground turkey


• enchilada sauce (to taste)


• tomato sauce (to taste)


• chopped olives


• corn kernels

in casserole dish layer meat mixture then tortillas, you can add a layer of fresh tomatoes or cilantro and top with grated cheese

bake at 350

serve topped with plain yogurt or sourceam

GG's Sopa Rice

Serve with GG's sopa (mexican soup rice) everyone loves this rice and it is so easy.

1 1/2 can chicken broth

1/2 can tomato sauce

california garlic salt, onion powder

optional: celery stalk, onion, carrot in big chunks floating on top for flavor

cover and cook until done (Sorry, I can smell when it's done so I don not know times. My husband thinks this is crazy)

-TIP- do not uncover until done and you will have perfectly cooked rice.

String beans

For a vegetable side dish mom made string beans. Everyone loves her string beans.

steam until tender but not too mushy and still green. In serving bowl stir in butter, parmesan cheese and garlic salt

family style whole roasted chicken

A Graham family favorite because it doesn't take much effort and tastes great. We love to roast chicken and vegetables. The whole house smells delicious and we can help the kids with home work and do anything we need to do while the food cooks itself.

Roasted Whole Chicken with vegetables

Olive oil all over chicken

salt pepper

oregano, garlic/onion powder, marjoram

stuff with fresh herbs from garden (thyme, green onions, rosemary, lavender)

cover with foil and place in oven at 375

After about 30 minutes take foil off so chicken will be golden on top

Roasting Vegetables in the same pan or another pan

zucchini, sweet potato, fingerling potato, onion, celery, carrots, brussel sprouts are all great. Just use what ever you have.

olive oil, salt, pepper

I always put a butternut squash in too. My kids love it! I just cut it in half, scoop out seeds, olive oil, and place in pan skin side up. that's it!

In about 45 minutes to an hour when chicken is golden, veggies are roasted and butternut squash is soft enough to get a fork through it you have a really nice home cooked meal.

-TIP- if butternut squash is too hard to cut just put it whole in the oven then cut it in half when it is done cooking