Category: Kitchen

Scooter’s Spaghetti

scooters spaghetti post

Ingredients
  • 8 ounces uncooked spaghetti
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1 large can spaghetti sauce (26.5 ounces)
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1/2 cup chopped green peppers (I usually omit or substitute red peppers)
  • 1/3 cup chopped onions
  • 8 ounces cream cheese
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • Fresh grated Parmesan cheese
  • French Fried Onions (small can)
Directions
  1. Cook spaghetti according to directions on the package. Cook to al dente, drain and set aside.
  2. Brown ground beef. Drain excess grease. Add spaghetti sauce to skillet and heat.
  3. Combine onions, peppers and butter in small glass bowl. Cover and microwave 4 minutes on HIGH until soft.
  4. Add cream cheese and milk to vegetables and stir well. (If cream cheese is not soft, nuke it for 20-30 seconds to make it easy to spread.)
  5. Using a 10 x 6 dish, assemble in the following order:
  6. Thin layer of spaghetti sauce on the bottom of the casserole dish.
  7. Spaghetti
  8. Cream cheese/vegetable mixture
  9. Spaghetti sauce
  10. Parmesan Cheese (amount subject to your own taste)
  11. French Fried Onions (added during last 5 minutes of cooking)
  12. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Top with French Fried onion and continue baking 5 more minutes. (This is the secret ingredient–don’t let them burn.)
 Make this ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze without the French Fried onions. Don’t forget to add them 5 minutes before casserole is finished cooking. via salad-in-a-jar

Homemade Foot Soak and Detox

Reblogged from an apple a day wisdom: Within reason and limit, I try to do natural things that are naturally good for my body.  When I can find something really good for myself that I can do inexpensively from home, I get so excited.  This homemade foot detox bath is one of them.  The ions in the salt work as magnets to draw toxins through the skin of your feet out of your body into the foot soak water.

I love this recipe so much I have made up individual pouches and 3 time use jars of the mix to giveaway to

friends and family as gifts.

Here is what you do:

Ingredients:

1 Cup Sea Salt

1 Cup Epsom Salt

2 Cups Baking Soda

Click HERE for complete instructions at anappleadaywisdom

Inside Out S’mores

Jumbo marshmallows
Hershey’s milk chocolate bars (or any other brand)
Graham crackers
Skewers or sticks to roast marshmallows
 
Directions:
Skewer one jumbo marshmallow and roast evenly on an open fire until brown on all sides. Carefully slide off the outer layer of the marshmallow until you have a “hollow” jumbo marshmallow.
Sandwich two halves of the chocolate bar between half a graham cracker and gently stuff it inside the “hollow” marshmallow. Allow to rest for a few seconds so that the chocolate melts a bit and serve immediately! 

Easy Trainer Chopsticks

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You will need: chopsticks(in the paper sleeve) and a rubber band or a hair tie? Whatever you have available when you are eating. Take the chopsticks out of the sleeve.
 
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Fold your sleeve in half (long ways) 3 times.
 
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After you’ve folded 3 times, fold into thirds the other way. Put your folded paper in between the two chopsticks, close to the top.
 
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Take your rubber band and wrap it around the chopsticks, underneath the paper, one time. Wrap the rest of the rubber band around the chopsticks, above the paper. All of this should be towards the very end of the chopsticks. This will keep the chopsticks apart from each other and they are now fool-proof and ready to use!
 
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Waaaaalaaaa. “Training” chopsticks. Not JUST for children.

Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Brownies

via Adapted from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen

9×13 pan of brownies, baked and cooled
1/4 cup salted butter, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1 & 1/4 cups pretzel m&m’s

Directions:

1. With an electric mixer, cream the butter and peanut butter until smooth, about 1 minute. Add the sugars, and continue creaming until light and fluffy, about 1 minute more. Add the milk and vanilla, and mix until smooth. Add the flour, and continue to mix at low speed until fully combined. Stir in the m&m’s.

2. Spoon the cookie dough onto the cooled brownies and spread gently into an even layer. Slice into squares, and prepare for your life to change.