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Pulled Pork recipe

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A few months ago I received this recipe from a very dear friend and I have made it at least a four times since then. It is delicious and extremely easy.

I am officially naming this recipe the Maegan’s Amazing Pulled Pork

What you need:
Crock pot
1 white onion
Boneless Country style pork ribs 3-4lbs
Apple Juice
Brown Sugar
BBQ sauce

1. Spray the crock pot with cooking spray and then cover the bottom with chopped onion

2. Trim the fat from the pork and place on top of the onions

3. Sprinkle 1/2 cup of Brown sugar on top of the ribs and 1/2 cup of Apple juice  

I used an organic juice but any apple juice will work

4.Turn crock pot on low and set for at least 8 hours.

5.Drain the liquid and add 16oz of your chosen BBQ sauce.  I used a Trader Joes variety to avoid excess sugar and high fructose corn syrup.
6.Come back around when it only has one hour of cooking time left.

7.Add the sauce and let it cook for the remaining hour. Once it is finished shred the pork (forks do this great)

Add to bun and enjoy!




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Overnight Maple French Toast

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I rarely make a breakfast dish that requires being made the night before.  I am usually too tired by the time I think about it and I have never found one that sounds tasty.  Well, as I was rummaging through my cookbook cabinet I ran across a series of recipes that my amazing Sister-in-Law had sent me when I had my first child.  I decided to take a risk and make her Overnight Maple French Toast.

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
2/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 Tbls butter
10 (1″thick) slices of french bread
11/2 cups milk
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
1 1/4 cups sliced strawberries
powder sugar
1. Spray a 13 x 9 pan.  In a medium saucpan, combine brown sugar, syrup, and butter.  Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly.  Boil 1 min.
2. Pour syrup mixtrure evenly in the bottom of the pan
3. Arrange the bread slices in an even layer over the syrup mixture
4. In a large bowl, combine eggs, milk, vanilla and salt.  Beat with wire wisk until smooth. 
5. Pour evenly over the bread in pan and COVER.  Refrigerate at least 8hrs or overnight
6. Heat oven to 350.  Uncover and bake 30-35 minutes or until lightly browned
–To server- top each serving with strawberries and sprinkle powdered sugar. Makes 5 servings
I have no idea if this recipe came from a cookbook and she just sent me a few of her favorites and frankly I don’t care. She is one of those amazing people that probably churns her own butter when she is not busy finding a cure for cancer, feeding the poor or raising her four children.
Enjoy the recipe!  Super easy and delicious!
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Quick, Easy Smoothie

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We are fighting an ugly cold in this house.  My husband brought it home from work last week and I managed, in my “No WAY are we getting sick on the birthday weekend” madness, to keep us all from getting ill….or so I thought.  The youngest was struck down Sunday morning.  Yes, STRUCK DOWN.  This drippy, blotchy, coughy, clammy little munchkin has been in a horizontal position for over 24 hours.  It’s bad. In fact, earlier today I could of sworn I saw a representative from the Department of Health and Human Services drive by to get the address of the house that needs to be quarantined.

Anyways, I asked on my Facebook Fan page  for more homeopathic remidies to feed my kiddo and myself (just in case) and a good friend recommend some plain yogurt.  I took the plain yogurt idea and ran.  Well, not really RAN, because running with yogurt is never a good idea.  I used my plain yogurt for the good of the many!  I made smoothies for the family!!

Healthy smoothie that is also good for the HCG weight loss diet plan
The ingredients
Fresh blackberries
Frozen strawberries
Plain yogurt 
ice 
water (to thin it out)
Stevia 
I just blended them all together until the taste was what I was looking for! After the smoothie was finished I added Echinacea extract for an added punch for the immune system.
Here is another bonus with this smoothie. It is good for us HCG dieters.  You can actually have all these ingredients on the maintenance program.  Boo YA!  

Here is my smoothie!
Healthy smoothie that is also good for the HCG weight loss diet plan 
Notice the straw?!  I believe that no matter what age you are that a crazy straw should always be included in some part of your drinking repertoire. 
Hopefully, the amount of vitamins I have crammed down everyone’s throat in the last couple of days will keep us all safe from the cold.  If not, watch the evening news for a picture my house and a giant quarantine tape wrapped around it.


 
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Homemade Glass Magnets

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I am about to admit something to you…. I have never made homemade glass magnets.  I could never figure it out.  Seriously.  There would always be too much Mod Podge, I couldn’t find the right picture and it took me forever to find the glass bead things.  Well, today, finally, my kids and I made the magnets.  So for those of you that don’t know how to make them here is how we did it.

Items you will need

Glass bead things – AT THE DOLLAR STORE
Mod Podge Gloss
Scrapbook paper/ pictures/ anything that you are going to want
Paintbrush
Magnets – I got mine at Wal-Mart for 2 bucks
Hot glue

 Here is some of the things we were working with.  The boys wanted animals and eyeballs so I had to find those images on the computer

Trusty Mod Podge
Glass Things – Only 1 dollar!
Now I did a rough trace of the bottom of the glass so I would have an approximation of how much to cut out
After cutting out the circle (an Exacto would have been better but mine broke in the move) apply a thin layer of the Mod Podge.  After it has been applied to the back of the glass wait a bit and apply another layer to the back.
Wait until it is completely dry and hot glue magnets to the back. These are my kids work!
These are mine! So cute and Easy!
While I was hot gluing the magnets to the backs I glanced over at “work” station and noticed flowers that I  NEVER use because I love them too much.  I had a bright idea…
I hot glued magnets on the back and made myself some beautiful floral magnets!!
There ya go! An easy and fun craft that your kiddos can help with.  Maybe not the super young kids!  I do need to give a shout out to Amy over at Mod Podge Rocks.  She did a step by step tutorial and explained to me that I was applying too much Mod Podge on my images!
If you didn’t know how to make these magnets I hope this helps! If you already did – well- sorry.
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