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5 Ideas For Cardboard Tube Ornaments. One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes For Two. Let’s face it: sometimes we all need a dessert that only makes two servings.

One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes For Two

Sometimes we just can’t handle 12 servings. Sometimes we eat them all by ourselves. Sometimes we eat them all by ourselves in two hours. Sometimes we eat them all by ourselves in a matter of minutes. Sometimes it’s the best thing ever. FYI: I have no idea what that is like. Haven’t you always wished you could make just enough dessert for yourself? Or… just yourself? Facebook. Easy Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de Queijo) Recipe. Print Our tour of Brazil continues.

Easy Brazilian Cheese Bread (Pão de Queijo) Recipe

Kitchen, Cooking, Photo Tips and How-to's. Top 100 Tutorials of 2010. MADE: TUTORIAL: Easy Fabric DYEING. Fabric Dyeing does NOTneed to be: Hard, Messy, Scary, Done in your washing machine, Done on your stove.

MADE: TUTORIAL: Easy Fabric DYEING

Fabric Dying CAN be: Simple, Done in a bowl right in your sink, Fun, Experimental! ———————————————————————– Now, I’m not a professional or skilled fabric dyer (if that’s a real word). Most of my DYEING projects have been baby onesies and knits. The first time I attempted to dye fabric, I followed the instructions from the RIT website. Then I found a much simpler method HERE on This Mama Makes Stuff. So let’s get started! 5 Easy Steps for DYEING fabric: 1. 1. . * Plastic Bowl- large enough to hold 3-4 onesies or a couple T-shirts.* Mixing Spoon - use one you don’t care about. . * DYE Options: - RITdye, both liquid and powder forms, are the only ones I’ve used. In this tutorial, I used THE ENTIRE box of Dark Brown powder dye. Ginas Skinny Recipes: Vegetarian Recipes. I'm working on my manuscript edits this week for my upcoming cookbook, so I thought I would share this delicious soup from the archives!

Ginas Skinny Recipes: Vegetarian Recipes

This is one delicious bowl of soup! Warm and satisfying, with tortellini in every bite. Top this with some fresh shaved Parmigiano Reggiano and you'll experience a wonderful unami taste sensation. Soup is the perfect one pot meal. Vegetarians can swap out the chicken broth for vegetable broth (also perfect for Meatless Mondays). And a little nutritional tidbit about mushrooms, courtesy of registered dietician, Heather K Jones. Heather has generously offered to provide nutritional tidbits on lots of the fruits and vegetables I use in my future recipes. Cauliflower Fritters. This is a delicious way to prepare cauliflower.

Cauliflower Fritters

It's similar to the taste of a potato pancake and makes a fabulous side dish – your kids will love them! My Sicilian friend Julia is a wonderful cook. I remember the first meal I ate in her NYC apartment; lamb chops and fried cauliflower which she calls broccoli a pasteta. She joked that day you can fry a sponge and it would taste good – she's probably right. Recycled Cereal Box Sunburst Mirror.

Friendship Bracelets, Bands, make your own. Booze it Up! 13 Rad Recycled Bottle Crafts & Projects. Got a recycling bin full of glass bottles?

Booze it Up! 13 Rad Recycled Bottle Crafts & Projects

Kool-Aid Dyed Playsilks – Tried and True. A couple months ago I came upon a tutorial on The Artful Parent for Kool-Aid Dyed Playsilks.

Kool-Aid Dyed Playsilks – Tried and True

I hadn’t really heard about playsilks before that but upon further investigation found out that they’re awesome. They can be pretty much anything your child wants them to be: capes, dresses, blankets, scenery, tents and the list goes on and on. So, seven of us got together with our seven toddlers (all under 2 years) and dyed 42 playsilks in total. We started around 11 am and didn’t finish until about 5 pm. Culinary Arts College » 100 Famous Restaurant Recipes You Can Replicate at Home.

Eating out is becoming a more and more popular phenomenon. With fast food taking only minutes out of a day and costing a few dollars, it can be convenient. Likewise, fine dining is also on the rise and can put a considerably larger dent in your wallet. But unless you were a master chef with a keen sense of taste, these recipes were lost to you. Until the internet came along and provided those with the ability to reproduce recipes and post them for the world to see. Jamaican Banana Fritters - ThatsSoYummy.com. There’s a thing in my house that when you have ripe ol bananas either you make banana bread or banana fritters.

Jamaican Banana Fritters - ThatsSoYummy.com

These delicious tasty treats can be eaten morning, noon, or night, as a snack or as dessert. Do-it-Yourself DIY String Wedding Lanterns Yarn Chandeliers. Jessica of Wednesday Inc shows us how to make those gorgeous twine chandeliers from the inspiration shoot she shared with us this morning.

Do-it-Yourself DIY String Wedding Lanterns Yarn Chandeliers

Using balloons, glue and twine, you can also make these lanterns for your wedding – and then bring it home and use it as your very own mid century lampshade. What you will need are: balloons, glue, yarn, tray for glue, corn starch 1/2 cup of Corn starch, 1/4 cup of Warm water, clear fast drying spray paint, hanging lamp cord or fishing line (depending on your desired final product), and a lighting kit if you’re looking for a fully functional lantern.

Most favorited all-time - page 2. Many uses for baking soda. While doing research for this article, we were amazed at the number of uses for baking soda.

Many uses for baking soda.

When one looks back in history, before we had such a huge array of different cleaning products, baking soda was one of the items most frequently used. It worked great, it was economical and best of all it was safe to use. In fact, Grandma had hundreds of uses for baking soda,we have collected some of the most popular ones. They are time tested and they work.