~ Making Chocolate Peanut Clusters ~

Last week my mom and I made some Chocolate Peanut Clusters. Some how we forgot to make them at Christmastime.

Here I am stirring up the melting chocolate and peanuts.

and here it is all mixed up.

Here they are all finished…

and they were SO GOOD!!!!!

Crockpot Lasagna

Today for supper we're having crockpot lasagna. It's really good. :o) It has lasagna noodles, spaghetti sauce, ground beef, italian seasoning, mushrooms, ricotta cheese, and mozzarella cheese. Mmmmmmmm!

Here is the recipe:

Crockpot Lasagna

1 lb. ground beef, browned and drained

1 t. italian seasoning

8 lasagna noodles, uncooked and broken into thirds

28 oz. jar spaghetti sauce

1/3 c. water

Optional: 4 oz. can sliced mushrooms, drained

15 oz. container ricotta cheese

8 oz. pkg. shredded mozzarella cheese

Combine ground beef and italian seasoning. Arrange half the lasagna noodles in a greased slow cooker. Spread half the ground beef mixture over noodles. Top with half each of remaining ingredients. Repeat layering process. Cover and cook for 5 hours on low setting. Serves 10.

~ Pictures I Took ~

Yesterday I went out and took some pictures of flowers in the yard.

I love taking pictures! Below is one of my favorites.

Isn't this one pretty?!

This is a picture of the woods near my house
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And....this afternoon I baked this cake. It is a chocolate bundt cake with chocolate frosting and black walnuts on top. Mmmmmmmmmm!

Hope EVERYBODY has a nice weekend!

Speedy Brownies

I like to make these brownies A LOT! They are SOOOOOOOOO GOOD!

Speedy Brownies

2 cups sugar

1-3/4 cup all purpose flour

1/2 cup baking cocoa

1 tsp. salt

5 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 cup (6 oz.) milk chocolate chips or peanut butter chips

In a mixing bowl, combine the first seven ingredients; beat until smooth. Pour into a greased 13 x 9 x 2 baking pan. Sprinkle with chocolate chips or peanut butter chips. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Yield: about 3 dozen.

I wish I had one now!

Brownies!!!

I made brownies for snack tonight! They have peanut butter chips sprinkled on top. Half of them are gone now! They were really good! :o)

I Made Pumpkin Pies!

I made pumpkin pies this evening. Here I am mixing them together, with my dad in the background. He and my brother was making ham dumplings for supper.

Here they are before going in the oven.

And here they are after being baked. They are cooling for later on tonight.

Don't they look deeelicious?! :o)