How to Make a Buche De Noel
December 25, 2011 at 7:50 pm by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
How to make a Yule Log or Buche de Noel is the French name for a Christmas cake. This traditional Christmas cake is baked in a jelly roll pan, filled with chocolate butter-cream, then rolled to form a Swiss roll and garnished with confectioner’s sugar to resemble snow. There are many variations of this traditional Christmas [...]
Sweet Potatoes Topped with Marshmallows and Pecans
December 12, 2011 at 11:13 am by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
Here’s a great side dish to your to add to your holiday gatherings, candied sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows and pecans. Don’t forget the vanilla ice cream. This simple and quick recipe is also kid friendly. If you have a sweet tooth, this recipe will definitely fix that. Ingredients 4 [...]
Home-Made Chicken Noodle Soup
December 7, 2011 at 4:39 am by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
Chicken noodle soup is the first thing that comes to mind, when nuturing yourself back to health when you’re sick with a cold or flu. No matter your age or size you are more likely to get sick in the fall and winter. Chicken noodle soup is still a remedy for upper respiratory infections and [...]
Baking with Pumpkins Part 2
November 17, 2011 at 7:33 pm by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
Thanksgiving is just one week away. Looking for more pumpkin recipes? Here is Part 2 of Baking with Pumpkin recipes. I remember my mom slaving in the kitchen for hours, not days, but weeks before; buying supplies early to make sure she had everything for our turkey dinner and her homemade pumpkin pies. But, what I [...]
Butternut Squash
November 8, 2011 at 9:07 pm by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
Butternut squash is a long necked squash which has one of the top sources of vitamin A. It’s hard to resist this buttery, nutty taste squash. This squash is so good that it’s sure to tempt vegetable wary kids. One cup is all you need to give you almost a whole day worth of beta [...]
How to Make Hershey’s Hot Chocolate
November 6, 2011 at 12:41 pm by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
Satifsy your sweet tooth with a cup of Hershey’s hot chocolate. This is a quick and simple recipe. Enjoy! 4 ½ cups milk 4 bars Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars, broken into pieces ¼ cup sugar Optional: Whipped cream or mini marshmallows Combine milk, chocolate and sugar in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium-low [...]
Baking with Pumpkins
October 27, 2011 at 9:10 pm by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
Enjoy the Fall Harvest and make use of your pumpkins once you carved them. Share your joy of baking with pumpkins. Here are a few of my favorites. Pumpkin nut bread is all year round for me. =) Pumpkin Nut Bread Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour; or 1 cup whole wheat flour and [...]
How to Make Face Paint
October 25, 2011 at 4:44 pm by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
Howl bout making your own face paint for Halloween? All you need are some common household ingredients and you can make it yourself face paint. Keep this idea in mind for an added flare to your child’s birthday party, showing some school spirit or at your next sporting event. Clown Make-up 2 tablespoons shortening 5 [...]
Create Jar O’Lanterns
October 25, 2011 at 12:07 pm by SingleMommaRocks - Leave a Comment
Create your own Jar O’ Lanterns. Recycle and reuse your clean baby food jars, pasta jars, pickle jars, mason jars and even fish bowls. Use any kind of jars that will give this project a variety of shape and sizes for your goofy and ghoulish jar o’ lanterns. What you will need: masking tape paintbrushes [...]
