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How to Feng Shui Your Bedroom: 24 steps (with pictures) Reader Approved Four Parts:Applying Feng Shui to Your BedAvoiding Negative EnergyCreating Balance Through ColorsMaking Other ConsiderationsCommunity Q&A The ancient Chinese method of Feng Shui helps us to balance our homes and create happier, more successful lives, room by room.

How to Feng Shui Your Bedroom: 24 steps (with pictures)

We often turn our attention to the bedroom, the sanctuary where we can rest and recharge. Having the proper Feng Shui in the bedroom can help your romantic life as well as your ability to rest and to feel in control. You have to know how to keep the chi flowing, and how to deflect any negative energy that may enter your room -- and your life. Mocha Frappuccino. Salted Chocolate “Twix” Bars. We’re watching our friend’s cat right now, and it’s a lot of fun.

Salted Chocolate “Twix” Bars

Kramer and I want to get a pet so badly, but I just don’t think that I have the time, energy, or, frankly, money, to take care of an animal the way I would like to. Homemade Twix Candy Bar Recipe. The Perfect Cookie Dough Truffles Recipe. The perfect cookie dough truffles are so easy to make and perfect for entertaining or enjoying as a treat.

The Perfect Cookie Dough Truffles Recipe

Cookies hold a definite place of distinction around my house – from our chewy chocolate chip cookies to out of this world peanut butter cookies and let’s not even think about forgetting my absolute favorite cookie dough dip. They all are our favorites. So, I decided I’d combine some flavors from our chewy chocolate chip cookies and my chocolate chip cookie dough dip to make the perfect cookie dough truffles recipe.

Let me just go ahead and tell you now, when you pop one of these babies in your mouth, you immediately feel like a kid again sneaking a little bite of the cookie dough. Err… well… I at least did. The best part? Vampire Cookies. Every year I see lots of Halloween cupcakes and cakes that are rather boring in their decorations.

Vampire Cookies

They may have faces of ghosts or vampires painted on top with colored icing, but that really doesn’t do much to set them apart from non-holiday cupcakes. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and I think it’s fun to go over-the-top where ever possible and really take decorations as far as they can go. I did this last Halloween by creating Vampire Cupcakes – cupcakes filled with a blood-red cherry pie filling that “bled” when you bit into them. Rainbow Cheesecake Recipe. Sour Cream Coffee Cake III Recipe. Cupcake23recipesmall.jpg (JPEG Image, 800 × 400 pixels) Cinnamon French Toast Bake. Alan W. Pollack's Notes on ... Series. Broccoli Cheese Soup: Panera Bread Copycat Recipe. On Wednesday my sister and I volunteered to make the soup supper to go with the Advent service at church. Before you go thinking I'm some kind of charitable, goodhearted soul, I must tell you that the only reason that I do it is because I LOVE COOKING.

In case you hadn't figured that out yet. Okay, so I was like, "Whadaya think, Nemo? Will two huge pots of soup, a crockpot full of barbequed meatballs, five trillion chicken salad sandwiches, fifty thousand and two loaves of bread, and a couple bazillion desserts cover it? " Well, it would have, except everybody had to try a huge bowl of BOTH kinds of soup AND meatballs. Barbequed meatballs in broccoli soup. I had to leave the room. Anyways, we ran out of soup after about ten minutes of serving.

So during church I had a sudden inspiration (um, Pastor, if you're reading this, that was a typo. The best taco seasoning recipe ever. Sriracha: 10 Ways To Cook With It. Balsamic BBQ Glazed Chicken. A homemade balsamic bbq sauce is used to glaze chicken as it’s grilling.

Balsamic BBQ Glazed Chicken

The result is tender chicken with a slightly sweet, and tangy taste. Summer is one of my favorite seasons for one simple reason: grilling. How to Make Proper Barbecue Chicken. There's a lot of misconception when it comes to "barbecue.

How to Make Proper Barbecue Chicken

" The problem is the word itself. It's used as a synonym for grilling, refers to the grill itself, or to the meat being grilled; it also has a sauce named after it; and sometimes it's just the word for the party itself held outdoors in somebody's backyard. What, actually, is "barbecue"? American purists see things a little differently. Egg and Cheese Hash Brown Nests. Confession: sometimes I’m a brat.

Egg and Cheese Hash Brown Nests

This is totally true. Sometimes I’m sleepy, my eyelids are heavy and I just want my way, like, right now. Ad Hoc Buttermilk Fried Chicken Recipe. March 2, 2010 nothing beats fried chicken and waffles!

Ad Hoc Buttermilk Fried Chicken Recipe

My love for fried chicken, much like my love for noodles, is not very discerning. Curtis Stone: Pesto Glazed Chicken. Curtis demonstrates his easy method for pounding up perfect pesto to use as a glaze for a moist chicken breast.

Curtis Stone: Pesto Glazed Chicken

Lightly herbed spaghetti rounds out the meal. Ray Kachatorian total prep. Red Chili and Peanut Butter-Glazed Salmon. Fresh Ricotta in Five Minutes or Less. Recipe: sweet & sour chicken. I was ridiculously excited when I came across this recipe for homemade sweet and sour chicken.

recipe: sweet & sour chicken

You guys, it is SO GOOD. Magic Sauce Recipe. I call this the magic sauce recipe. In part, because it makes everything it touches shimmer with deliciousness. It's magic like that. Technically, it's a riff on a chimichurri sauce - one that veered off the rails in a big way. Much tweaking has rendered it a distant second cousin. If that.

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