Zizzie Happenings

I was looking through all these delicious recipes from My Wooden Spoon and I decided to make her flour tortillas. I only made a half batch and that gave me 10 tortillas. They were delicious. Better than any store tortilla I have ever had. What I also really enjoyed was that they didn't crumble. So often the store ones end up cracking and falling apart when you try to use them. I will definitely make these again. Lori does a great job showing step by step with pictures. Check out her blog and try some of her recipes. Flour Tortillas - Thanks Lori for sharing your recipe 4 c. flour 1 1/2 tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. baking powder 3/4 c. shortening 1-2 cups of HOT water 1. Get the griddle going before you start this part so it will be nice and hot. Sift all dry ingredients together and add shortening. Mix thoroughly. (just like you were making a pie crust.) 2. Add hot water. Obviously you don’t want to burn yourself but the hotter you can stand it, the easier your tortilla dough will be to wo...

This recipe comes from Taste of Home magazine . My Dad and Mom got me a magazine subscription for Christmas last year and I just love this magazine. Talk about some good recipes! This meal tastes great, is easy to make and is very colorful. I changed the recipe slightly according to what I had on hand. I also didn't make as much as it called for since it was just for me and Mike. 12 ounces uncooked bow tie pasta 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms 2 cups cut fresh asparagus (about 1/2 pound) 2 medium sweet onions, finely chopped 2 medium carrots, sliced 2 medium zucchini, halved and sliced 1 medium sweet yellow pepper, julienned 1/3 cup butter, cubed 2/3 cup chicken broth 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream 1/2 cup prepared ranch dip 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley 2 Tablespoons minced fresh basil 1/2 teaspoon salt Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute vegetables in butter for 5 minutes. Stir in broth; cook for 3 minutes ...

Although things didn't go exactly as planned, I can officially say the bathroom is painted. We had a hard time selecting a color. I didn't want to pick a color that wouldn't match the decorations or would turn out too dark. So after many, many samples we finally picked Nature's Bounty. So we bought the supplies and I taped the bathroom up on Tuesday and painted on Wednesday. Thursday I brought the shower curtain back into the bathroom and I realized it didn't match at all. The paint sample looks more like a brown with a tint of "berry" color but as you can see in the picture above it doesn't look like brown at all. The shower curtain in our master bathroom matched very nicely with the new wall color so I just moved the decorations from the master bathroom to the spare bathroom and it looks great. Although I would have loved all brand new things for the bathroom, I am glad we didn't have to go out and buy anything and spend money we weren't ...

These flowers came from my rose bush out front. Aren't they beautiful? I heard the question "What is God teaching you?" being asked to someone the other day and it made me stop and think...how would I respond to such a question? I did some meditating on the subject and right now in my life the Lord is teaching me to be content in everything ...content in the car we have, content in not having children at this time, content in all He has given us. I am so blessed and yet I choose to focus on the things I don't have, that I think I need, instead of focusing on all He has already given me. If I don't find contentment in how my life is now, I will never be content. There will always be something I think I need to make me happy and the cycle will never end. Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. What is God teaching you?

What a great way to save money. Thanks to Christie from Divine Calling for sharing this recipe on how to refill a foam soap dispenser . It couldn't be any easier. 3 Tablespoons liquid soap (hand or dishwasher soap) 2/3 cup warm water Pour water and soap into foam dispenser and that's it. You have refilled your foam soap dispenser.

I received an Amish Friendship Bread starter and today was the day to bake it. I had 2 starters because I was doing one for my Mom since she is out of town. Yesterday I was reading through some blogs and came across some recipes I really wanted to try. I made Peanut Butter Granola (big red bowl) Big Breakfast Cookie (square pan) - breakfast this morning 2 loaves of lemon poppy seed bread* - to take to church tonight 1 loaf of chocolate bread* Chocolate peanut butter muffins* (green bowl) Biscuits - for breakfast tomorrow morning, I am making sausage gravy to go with it *Note: These *starred* items are from the Amish Friendship mix. I just made them with different pudding flavors. ------------------------------------------------------------ Peanut Butter Granola - Thanks to Crystal Miller for sharing her recipe on her blog 6 ½ cups oats ½ t salt 1/3 cup olive oil ¼ cup honey 1 t vanilla 2/3 cup all natural peanut butter 1 cup raisins Combine oats and salt in a large bowl. In a small...

I was reading through Money Saving Mom blog the other day and I came across her Swap-A-DVD post. I thought "What an excellent idea." I guess this isn't a new concept though since they have one for paperback books and CDs; however, I never heard of it before, so for me this was all new. To get started all you need to do is find 10 DVDs around your house that you no longer watch. Go to swapadvd.com , join for free and list your 10 DVDs. Once you list 10 DVDs you receive one credit, so now you can go and select a DVD from the list of many DVDs that other members are looking to swap out. As other members select your DVD, you mail it, they receive it and you get a credit for that DVD so you can find another DVD to get for yourself. You pay for postage when mailing out but you don't have to pay when you receive your DVDs. Hope this all makes sense. I wanted to try this before I blogged about it. So I posted my 10 DVDs and right away I started getting emails that people wan...