Flow of the day

Throw back to when I was working at FLYOGI's old location!

Taco Ring Fun Night

Im not sure what you do for fun, but when Tom goes out and its just me and my Mini, we like to GIRLS NIGHT!!! this normally involves eating really greasy foods, watching movies and doing our nails.
Last week during our girls night, we discovered a new way to make tacos thanks to my mama and I absolutely had to share it with you all. See in my family Taco Tuesday is a must, but having tacos every week can be boring, and isn't always healthy so we search for other fun and creative alternatives, such as tacos salads, chicken tacos, soft and heard shell tacos, fish tacos, and the list goes on.  Anyway, this week we discovered the Taco Ring! This my friend puts a whole new spin on Tacos!

Heres what you need:
1 lb ground beef
2 packs of pillsbury crescent rolls
1 packet of taco seasoning
2 cups cheese (or more if you are like us and really like your cheese)
Butter spray (pam)
1/2 cup taco sauce (optional)
8 oz sour cream (optional)

Preheat oven to 375
Cook your ground beef on skillet until brown. If there is excess fat, scoop out with spoon, before moving on.
Add and stir in taco seasoning and cook for about 5 more minutes.
Spray down a cookie sheet with some butter spray (or your favorite non sticker)
Take out crescent rolls and tear apart into triangles, laying them out on cookie sheet in a circle. So all the triangle bases are touching and points are facing out. Then press down around the center of your circle.
Add cheese to your ground beef taco mix, and stir together. Then scoop out your cheesy mixture and put it on crescent tolls where you just pressed down. Make sure you pat it down flat and even all around the circle.
Take each triangle tip from your rolls and fold over the taco meat. Then tuck it under the ring. (I like to sprinkle some more cheese on top at this point)
Now Bake for 20 min or until the rolls have turned a golden brown.

We served ours with taco sauce and sour cream  dipping sauces, and a salad.

The Pelvic Clock Bridge

This exercise (its really a game) can be done many different ways. My personal favorite is done in a bridge because you can get a lot of feed back from the ground. Use this to help you learn how to isolate pelvic movements.

Homemade Apple Pie Filling

Ingredients:

3x 600mls glass jars

6 large apples (if you only want some apples in the filling, then only use 4 apples)

1teaspoon cinnamon

5 cups water

¼ teaspoon nutmeg

1cup corn starch

3 tablespoons lemon juice

2½ cups sugar

1 pot

1 ladle

1 wide mouth funnel

Directions:

Sterilize your jars how you would like, with bigger jars, I like to use the dishwasher just to make sure I can sterilize the entire jar, because most of my pots are not big enough.

Cut out the core of your apples and slice thinly, then put aside until jars are sterilized.

In a large pot, mix sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cornstarch, and water on high heat stirring continuously until it boils. Then let it sit and boil for 1 minute, no more and remove it from the heat.

Add your lemon juice to the pot and stir it in.

Take your apple slices and stuff them down as much as you can into each jar. (I like a lot of apples so I try to stuff as many as I can in, but if you only used 4 apples, then just fill them about ½ way with apples.)

Use a ladle, and funnel to scoop out the contents from the pot (your sauce) into each jar. (Do not fill your jars up past ¼ inch from the top of the jar, or if you freeze them, they will explode!) You can use a smaller spoon to help push the sauce down more into the jars if you over stuffed them like me.

Wipe the edges of your jars and lids and seal them up.

You are all ready for pie making season!!!

Candy Corn Garland

A simple little treat for all my stay at home moms or nannies who have some craft loving kids on their hands and want a fun new idea to prepare for Halloween. 

10 paper plates

markers yellow and orange

scissors

hole puncher

string thick, and sturdy (rope like)

 

Start by making a circle in the middle of the plate very lightly in pencil about 2 ½-3 inches in diameter. 

Then  using orange, color from the edge of that circle out about 2 in thick. 

Finally from the outside of the orange all the way to the outside of the plate, color in yellow. Do this to every plate, before cutting the plates up in quadrants like a pizza. 

Then take your hole puncher and punch two holes in opposite corners of the yellow section, and use your string to string together your candy corn shapes into a garland.

Halloween Snacks

Its almost Halloween, so pumpkin carving season is upon us!!!

Ive always tried to limit the amount of pumpkins carved each year, because I thought it really a waste of pumpkin, however this year we have been going crazy with our pumpkin carving because we decided to use the entire pumpkin!

Pumpkin Seed Snacks:

After you gut your pumpkin, take the seeds and separate them from the pumpkin innards, in a colander and let them soak for about 30 minutes in cold water.
Preheat the oven to 350.
Remove the colander from the water (don't throw it away) and spread the seeds out on a cookie pan. Then sprinkle with whatever seasoning you like. We like to use a garlic-salt combination, simple salt and pepper works well too.
Then stick your pan in the oven for 45 minutes (or until seeds turn a brown color)and let cool for 5-10min  before enjoying a healthy yummy snack!!!

Hint of Pumpkin Coffee

Ok so I don't know who started pumpkin coffee, but I don't like a lot of cream in my coffee, so I found a different way to get the pumpkin taste without all the cream. (remember the water you soaked the seeds in, use this water now, and)

Use a colander to soak the pumpkin "guts" in for about 30 minutes.
Then remove the colander and use this water to brew your coffee.
PUMPKIN COFFEE PRESTO!!!

Jolly Rancher Candy Apple

I am so excited for Halloween, so aside from having my house decorated already, I have started making the candy apples. So I read somewhere that you can make candy apples with Jolly Ranchers and figured I had to give it a try.  Any ways for those of you who have followed other directions and not had much luck, neither did I, but I was determined to make these delicious sounding treats, and so I found a way.  Please try it out and let me know what you think.

          First you have to pick out the “good” colors right, so we picked out Blue Raspberry, Cherry, and Grape (watermelon, would have probably been mixed in if someone hadn’t eaten them all already, haha... I think 3 green apple flavors made it in as well) unwrap these, and put them into a pot, or bowl you can heat up. 

*To cut time on melting crush your candy up in ziplock baggies before putting them in pot or bowl

              Next take a larger pot, or pan and fill it about ½ way with water, and place your candy bowl inside, making sure that there is no chance of the water getting mixed in with your candy, then set this on high with a lid until the candy melts, which should only take about 15 minutes.

             While the candy is melting grab some wax paper and set it out on a flat surface like a cutting board, or a plate, as a place to set your apples when they are candy coated. The other option is to grease a plate.

Immediately as the candy is liquid enough to run a spoon through, dunk your apple in (personally I like to turn the heat of for this, but if you do so, you have to move quickly, because it will only take seconds for your candy to harden up again). Now if you are like me and only decided to get 2 bags of jolly ranchers, you wont have enough candy to dunk the apple all the way in, so use the spoon, to scoop the candy and coat the apple with it.

Then remove the apple and set it out to dry either on you wax paper or greased plate. The wait for this is about 20 minutes, 5 if you put the apples in the fridge.

These apples are super hard to eat so we slice them up and eat that way instead of whole.