Blueberries

My sweet grandparents have a green thumb and can grow just about anything! I am praying that I inherited some of that... but from the look of my ferns, it doesn't look promising. ;) They invited me over to pick some of their fresh blueberries from their backyard the other day.  I was able to fill a half gallon bucket full of the most beautiful ripe berries I have ever seen! After a great visit with my Nana, I took the blueberries home and starting hunting what I could make with them. Here's the cute pinterest idea I wanted to try:

The recipe said to put your blueberries on the wooden skewer, roll the berries in vanilla yogurt, then freeze. But when I did it, I couldn't even bite off a berry. They were frozen to the stick! I couldn't get them to slide off either. So this is a bust, but I did decide to dip more (individual) blueberries in yogurt and drop them on a sheet of wax paper, then freeze.  YUM!  Those popped right off the paper and worked out perfectly :) 


 I am so thankful for such wonderful, God- believing, prayerful grandparents. I pray that more than just their green thumb is passed down to my generation.  

Chicken and Toffee

Summer time!! Today was my first day on summer vacation! I am determined to be a productive wife, housekeeper, cook, and crafter while I'm off of school, so I am going to TRY something. I want to try and  make at least 2 things from Pinterest every week. I have been "pinning" all sorts of things, but have not actually done any of these! I'm a pinterest fraud, I guess. But not for long! :) Hope you join me on my journey! 


Tonight I made "Man pleasing chicken" from my recipe folder.

 It sounded super easy and different from the normal sauces I usually make, so I thought I'd give it a shot.  And the name suggested my sweet JB might like it too :). All in all, I'd give it 8 out of 10. Next time, I would do 1/4 cup syrup and 1/4 dijon, instead of the measurements the recipe suggested. 





I also made "Saltine Cracker Toffee" from my recipe folder.. but it did NOT turn out the way I wanted.. Here is a picture of what it was supposed to look like..

I never made it past the cracker step though. You are supposed to melt the butter and brown sugar, then pour it over your crackers, but when I did that, I failed to remember that my cookie sheet full of crackers did not have an edge to catch the excess syrup-y mixture... So it dripped to the bottom of my oven and burned/stuck :(. Thus stinking up the entire house and making a humongous mess. I'll reattempt this recipe again later. For now, I have an oven to clean.