Homemade Dulce De Leche

Merry Christmas y'all!! Ok, so I know it's been a while since my last post.. but tis the season!!

We sure have been busy around here prepping and getting ready for the Holiday season.

But I have a wonderful recipe today for y'all. From the lady who does 365 days of baking. YUM!

Homemade Dulce De Leche, this makes a wonderful syrup, or addition to your coffee or topping for your favorite dessert!

Homemade Dulce De Leche (original source)

• So, you take 2 cans of sweetened condensed milk and 3 clean pint size mason jars.
• Take and fill your mason jars with the sweetened condensed milk and fill your 3 jars as even as possible. Put the lids and rings on the mason jars.
• Place them in your crock pot and fill with water to just below the lids.
• Set your crock pot to low and let work for 10 hours.

I let mine sit over night and it was like MAGIC!

The milk caramelizes so gorgeously and it is DELICIOUS!! Yum Yum!!! Enjoy y'all!!

Chicken n' Broccoli

Hey ya'll!!! Busy busy thursday it's been. I'm actually just sittin down to watch a few episodes of my favorite show, Supernatural... Oh my wow.. isn't Dean just dreamy?

Oh... yea sorry... so after the long day we had here the last thing I wanted to was slave over a hot stove. My mother sure did teach me right.. being an island girl she sure knew some tips and tricks of her own, now this recipe can be modified for crock pot cooking as well.

Chicken or Beef n Broccoli

Ingredients:

1lb chicken or beef (if using crock pot you do not need to pre cook chicken or beef)

1tbs sesame oil

1 1/2 cup soy sauce

1 tsp ground ginger

1 tbs fresh minced garlic

1 tbs cornstarch

1/2 bag frozen broccoli

Directions:

Take your chicken or beef and dice into 1/2 inch chunks.
Cook that up with your garlic.
Once your chicken or beef is cooked through add in remaining ingredients and bring to a boil.
Cover and simmer over low heat for about 20 min. ( I usually wait and start my rice pot at this point)

Serve over a warm bed of rice. No need to add extra salt or pepper. As my kids would say ... its so ono mom!

Enjoy ya'll!!

The Sweet Smells of Home!

Afternoon ya'll!!! Ok so here is my do it yourself natural home fragrances!! Get rid of those expensive plug in air fresheners, talk about a waste of money!! Plus, what's in those things that make them smell so good? Ooooh, I dont know either, but I don't know if I really want to chance my children or myself breathing it in!! This recipe takes less then ten minutes to throw together, and its once again all natural!

Today I will be featuring my favorite! Orange Cinnamon or Apple Cinnamon.
 

I will be giving you the recipe I use for my mini crockpot that I use to heat this. 

2 Oranges, I quarter my oranges (if using apples I do the same.)

4 sticks of cinnamon

4-5 whole cloves

a dash of allspice

a dash of nutmeg


I toss all my ingredients into my mini crockpot

Cover your ingredients in water.

Place it in your crockpot and turn it on low. LID OFF! Your water will eventually evaporate yes.  Just keep an eye on it so it doesn't burn, I've left mine on low literally all day and never had a problem with it burning. 

Run it for a few hours, and if you like you can tranfer to a jar and save your scents for later use. Use up to 4-5 times. Store your leftover scent in a sealed jar in your fridge for up to 2 weeks. 

Its smart, its easy, its all natural!!