What a Busy Weekend!

So we had quite a busy weekend. It all started Saturday with my daughter representing her school in the Downeast North Carolina Regional Spelling Bee. I am so proud of my daughter. There were a total of 40 spellers. Kaitlyn made it to the fifth round where the word "jeremiad" stumped her. She ended up in the top 13 out of the 40. Way to go, Kaitlyn!!

After the spelling bee, we came back home to get everything ready for Sunday. My husband had his second drift event since getting the racecar running again. One of the drift series my hubby participates in is the Myrtle Beach Drift Series. MB Drift holds events monthly, with every other month being practice-only events. The practice events are great because the drivers get to go out there and just have fun and sort of do whatever. Here's my husband, Cody doing what he loves best:

Here are a few other pics I snapped at the event:

Oh yeah, I also finished a blanket for a customer over the weekend.

And lastly, my 8-month-old is cutting 4 teeth at once. You can't really see all of them here but you can see one of the front ones:

Funyun Chicken

I'm always trying new recipes and here lately, my husband and I keep seeing the commercials on T.V. with the french fried onion chicken. The other night my husband says, "We should try that, only with Funyuns". So Saturday when we did our grocery shopping we bought a bag of Funyuns for our new creation-to-be.
The first thing I did was cut the chicken breasts in half and pound them out to flatten them a bit. I also crushed the Funyuns, then added some different seasonings to them.

Next I dipped the chicken in ranch. Normally I would dip the pieces in a lightly beaten egg, but we are out of eggs at the moment so my husband suggested the ranch.

I then coated the chicken in the Funyun crumbs on both sides, making sure I covered all of the bare spots.

Then I placed the pieces in a baking dish and baked it in a preheated 375° oven for 25 minutes or until chicken is done.

Just a quick update!

I had every intention of a blog update over the weekend but we got just a bit busy. Well here it is Tuesday and I am just getting to this. Not a whole lot to share except a quick alternative to the way you might cook your salmon patties or crab cakes, a little something we did over the weekend, and some recently finished crochet projects.

So first, the cooking tip. Do you like salmon patties or crab cakes? I love them!! No one else in the house eats them but every so often I will make up a batch of salmon patties to have as a snack. When my mother taught me how to make them, she showed me frying as the cooking method. I don't do much frying, mainly because I hate cleaning up after frying...LOL!! Here's an alternative...baking! I just mix up my ingredients like I normally would. I scoop out portions and put them in my muffin tin and broil for about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes I take them out and flip them over in the cups then broil for another 5 minutes. It's so simple, it's healthier, and is way easier to clean up.

As for our weekend, I have mentioned before that my husband does a type of racing called drifting. Well last May the engine blew up in the car so it has been down all of this time. Well I am happy to say that he has gotten the racecar running again and was able to get back on the track this past weekend. I know he's extremely happy and I am happy for him since I love drifting, too. Here he is doing what he loves.

Here are some pictures of my 8-year-old son and my 7-month-old this weekend. As you can see, the baby is sporting another hat made by mommy and it's quite appropriate for the upcoming holiday this weekend.

As far as my crochet projects, I finished these hats for a customer. I never thought the "boob" beanies would be SO popular, but I have about 6 of them I am going to be working on this week.

Most of my crochet time is being taken up by a blanket for a friend of our family who is going to have a new grandbaby soon, so I have been working hard to finish that up and will post up here as soon as it's done.
Have a great week everyone and thanks for stopping by!

Have you missed me?

Agghhh!! I have NOT been keeping up with my blog as promised. Shame on me! Haha! I have been crazy busy with customer orders for Kristin's Kreations.

Here's some of the projects I finished up (definitely not as much as I wanted to finish due to me feeling a little under the weather)...
First is the "boob" beanie I made for my son. I am going to make a bunch of these to sell for both breastfeeding awareness and breast cancer awareness as well as make some for my breastfeeding mother's group I attend monthly.

I also made this really cute mermaid tail photo prop for a customer...

...some headbands for one of my Etsy customers...

...and a hat for my 6-year-old son who had a birthday this past week (he LOVES Cars!).

I even managed to fit in a neat little breakfast idea that I got from Pinterest. They are just canned cinnamon rolls that I put right in my waffle maker.

I just won 5 points on the SuperLucky Button!

I just won 5 points on the SuperLucky Button!: Superpoints is a members-only club where you earn great rewards for doing things online like taking surveys, watching videos or shopping.

Happy Hearts Day!!

Nothing much to post today. I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!

Who here is on Pinterest? I haven't quite figured out how to add a "Pin It" button to my blog yet but I will work on that. I did do something today that I found on Pinterest. I made heart-shaped cinnamon rolls for my family for breakfast.

You just simply use your normal canned cinnamon rolls and shape them like hearts. Bake as directed on the can, and there ya have it!!

I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with lots of love!!

A little bit of everything

I was sitting here today thinking, "I haven't been keeping up with my blog very well." Today's post isn't about anything in particular. I will start with some more homemade baby food. You remember the post on the sweet potatoes right? Well since then I have done avocados and carrots.

The avocado was easy. I just let it ripen, cut it in half, yanked the pit out, and scooped out the meat. With the carrots you just boil them...lots and lots until they fall apart pretty much. I then drained the water from them and mashed them with the tater masher. After portioning everything out on a cookie sheet, I froze it and just like the sweet potatoes, bagged them up and put them in the freezer until my little man is ready to eat them.

Have I mentioned that I crochet? well, in case I didn't (LOL), here's a cute pic of my 6-month-old wearing a hat I made him. The heart-shaped mat in the picture is one that is for sale in my Etsy shop. There's a link to my shop at the top of this page for anyone interested in my crocheted goodies.

I will leave you on this Monday with a sweet picture of my son nursing. I hope you all have a great week!!

Makin' baby food...sweet potatoes for my Bentley

Bentley is my youngest of five children. For my older four I always just took the easy way and bought them baby food in the jar. Just a little FYI about jarred baby food...it is mostly water. Yes it's more convenient, but you are only paying for half of what the label says. In these tough economic times I need to make sure I get ALL of my money's worth. Bentley just turned six months old today, which means my little man will be starting solids. Today I decided to try making my own baby food and sweet potatoes were on the menu today.

you'll have to forgive the low quality of the pictures as my camera's flash decided to call it quits today.

So the first thing I did after giving me sweet potato a good rinse was to boil it for about 20 minutes. It may take a little longer depending on how big the potato is. A good test is to stick a fork in it to see if it's tender.

A great little tip I learned from my mother-in-law is to take the sweet potato directly from the boil in water and stick it in cold water. Let it sit for a bit and the skin will slide right off.

Once you've peeled the potato and made sure to remove any buds that may be on the potato, all yu have to do is mash it up. It would probably be easier to use a food processor, but really the potato was so soft that all I needed was a potato masher.

I then scooped out, by tablespoonfuls, the potatoes onto a wax paper-lined cookie sheet. Each tablespoon holds about 1/2 ounce.

Place the cookie sheet in the freezer until the portions are solid. Then you can pop them off of the wax paper and stick them in a plastic freezer bag.

Now whenever it's time to feed my little man, I just take a portion out, warm it for a bit, add some breastmilk, and baby is ready to eat!

Of course, you can do this with other fruits and vegetables, too. The best part is that you know EXACTLY what your baby is getting!