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QotD: Rinse... and Repeat?

How long do you take in the shower?
Submitted by Strive2Be.
As long as I feel like taking...

Magicwand

OMGosh! This picture is waaaay more interesting than I originally thought! How'd I miss this??

This is what I thought it looked like:

I took this while I was getting into the car. *yawn*

Click here THREE times to see what was there all along:

"I wonder if there's a Starbucks around here?"

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Texas Caviar ~another quick and easy recipe for the Fourth!~

Mah
5 hours ago
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Reminiscent of salsa but with a whole lot more "good stuff", Texas Caviar is a recipe which caught on in the south like wildfire. I serve mine with Scoop Corn Chips, but any tortilla chips will do. This is a super quick and easy side for the Fourth or any other family gathering!

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You need: Two cans whole kernel corn, one large can petite diced tomatoes, two cans black eyed peas (I used the ones with jalapeno but if you can't find those regular ones are just fine!), bunch of fresh parsley, two green onions, Small bottle of Zesty Italian dressing (I have large bottle pictured but I made a double batch).

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Drain each can well and dump into a large mixing bowl or dish pan. Chop half of the parsley (you want about 1/2 cup chopped) and both green onions, stir in. Pour the entire bottle of dressing over all. Stir well. YOU'RE DONE!
Refrigerate!

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When I got to this step, my son said "Ma, why are you putting plants on the food?" My first thought was "well thats what Lucy would do!

Happy Fourth Of July!

Mah
8 hours ago
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Chocolatecookie

Ever wonder how you can make the Great American Cookie Company big cookies at home? I have the formula!!! All it takes are some easy store bought ingredients, tweaked just a might to keep them soft and fresh like those mall cookies!

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Three rolls of Pilsbury Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, a can of Duncan Hines Classic Chocolate frosting, a can of your favorite vanilla, buttercream, or cream cheese frosting, and one bottle of light corn syrup. If you look at the recipes for cookies that stay soft and chewy, corn syrup is the key ingredient to keep them that way, so we're just gonna take some prebought cookie dough and add that secret ingredient ourselves.

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For every roll of cookie dough you use, add 1/4 cup of light corn syrup. Simple as that!

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Mix that all up really well with your stand or hand mixer and pour it into your pain. I used three rolls of cookie dough to fill an 11x17 jelly roll pan. I forgot to take a pic of this, but you need to spread the dough around in your pan. The SUPER EASY way to do this is wet your hand and just pat it out. Keep wetting your hand and patting until your dough is perfectly spread throughout your entire pan! Bake at 325 for 30-40 minutes, depending on what size cookie you are making.

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I used a regular star tip to decorate this. I usually make homemade buttercream icing, but had too much to do today!
EASY PEASY!!!
Voila, they will be wowed with your delicious "homemade" cookie!

Get off your butt Karen

Karen
8 hours ago
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I'm procrastinating again. I'm running out of time to do that though! We are leaving for Wisconsin Dells, our first camping trip this year, sometime this afternoon. I've got to make menu's, go grocery shopping, pack some clothes, dog leashes, and who knows what else, I've not been in the RV since last September!

So what am I doing? Just sitting here catching up with the hood... Well heck, I've got 3.5 hours till DH gets home! :))

Big Weekend

Mah
9 hours ago
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This is a big weekend for us. My son is having his birthday, family is coming in to stay for a spell, and our family's big fourth of July shindig.
      The good news is that tomorrow I'm making two apple pies for the fourth! My mother is making homemade ice cream to go along with them! Why is that such good news? TUTORIAL OF COURSE!! hehe
      I made this OMG IM GONNA DIE FROM CHOCOLATE cake yesterday and did a tutorial on it. I've been working on my domain blog. Gunderson bee had some WONDERFUL ideas for setting that up which I had hoped to follow, but in the end I opted for the dummed down version for my site until I have more time to delve into the wonderful world of dreamweaver and true web design.
      My other blog is going to focus entirely on southern food and southern food tutorials, whereas this will be a general blog for whatever cranks my tractor ~grins~.
      Soon as the house clears out I will post my chocolate cake and apple pie tutorials here but in the meantime you can view them (apple pie coming tomorrow!) at my other site: Southern Plate.
      So now I have a few hours until company arrives and the house is a wreck. ~sighs~

QotD: Tomorrow's Daydream is today's reality. Uh........?

Robbbiedobbbie
10 hours ago
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If you could do anything you want tomorrow, what would it be?
Submitted by Becca-Pink.
Same as today. It's not what you do, as much as how you do it. Mostly.
I'm pretty happy with the doing, so the it doesn't matter very much. Mostly.

Superbad Tourist Shot -- Later today I'll turn it into something special. I hope.

blogbeams
10 hours ago
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I took this while I was getting into the car. *yawn*

The sky is too big.
The car roof is in the way.
The horizon is too tiny.
The other cars are too prominent.
The light pole is tippy.
The electric/phone pole thing is centered.
Just pathetic.
Today I'm going to select a software at random and try to "fix" this. We'll see how it goes.
Right now I have no clue what to do with it, other than trashing the poor thing.

A little photo summary of yesterday, now that I understand layers better. happydance

Robbbiedobbbie
10 hours ago
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Layers

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we've set up the projector in the den, come on in!

emily sears
15 hours ago
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Here are two 5 minute 30 second slide shows of my trip, set to music to keep you from leaving your seat. The first is photos taken on the road to and from Kansas City, and the second is photos taken during our stay there. In converting them for the web, they were rendered slightly imperfect, but will just have to do. My slow little computer would cry if I made it do all this work in Garage Band instead of iPhoto and Quicktime.

I plan to write a lot of blather about our little adventure; be assured I'll happily indulge myself and share that here as well. And of course I'll catch up on all your messages and things. :-)

Ontheroad