Perfect Corn on the Cob

I tried this and we didn't taste a difference. The corn was yummy! But I'm not sure if the vinegar or sugar had anything to do with it.

Teacher gift

My boys gave these to their teachers on the last day of school.

I hope they liked them, I wanted to go with something useful. Thank you Pinterest!

Teacher appreciation

Seen here: http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2011/05/easy-smores-teacher-appreciation-gift-free-printable/ and here: http://darlingdoodles.blogspot.com/2011/10/put-some-pop-into-your-love-life.html Mine turned out like this:

My kids and I made 37 of each to hand out to all the teachers and administrators at their school. Thank you Pinterest!!!

Daily workout

Found here: http://pinterest.com/pin/167829523583481015/ or seen here:

I've done this twice, always on Monday. It's a nice workout, takes me about 30 minutes, maybe less. I split up the jumping jacks and crunches, doing 50 jumping jacks at the beginning and the other 50 at the end of the workout, then 25 crunches at teh beginning and end of the workout. I always get pretty sweaty, which means I'm working hard, right? I'd love to be consistent and do every day of the week, but I have a hard time doing Tuesday through Friday. I had to look up YouTube videos to learn how to do some of the moves. But I do love the workout. I feel like it's a good toning working. I usually feel pretty sore the next day. Here's the rest of the week:

Toothbrush & towel holder

Here is the website where I found the idea: http://www.etsy.com/transaction/73770366 We had leftover wood that I was able to use. I already had the Mason jars & the paint, so I just needed to buy the hooks and the metal band thing. Total cost at Home Depot was $14.00. The boys love them and so do I. I don't have to hear, "He used my towel!" or "he left the toothpaste in the other bathroom!" I didn't have to remind them to hang their towels up after their showers Saturday night, finding their towels on their bedroom floors gets under my skin.

Healthy Carbonara

http://www.recipe.com/healthy-carbonara/

Yuck, my family gave this a thumbs down.

It looked pretty though!

How to clean your glass cooktop

http://behindthestudio.com/2011/06/15/how-to-clean-your-glass-cooktop/#.T43pt9X_VBg

I didn't think to take a before picture, but it wasn't pretty. The solution didn't work. The gal who posted the info on her blog said that she repeated, but after doing it once, I saw no difference. And it left a white film on the surface, so I didn't repeat the steps. I guess I'll go back to buying the glass top cleaning solution from the store.

Creamy Grilled Chicken Piccata

Loved it! Easy to make, some ingredients came from food storage, a few I had to buy for the meal. The family loved it. They told me I could put it in the rotation.

http://www.plainchicken.com/2010/08/creamy-grilled-chicken-piccata.html

Instead of half and half, I used whipping cream and instead of minced garlic, I used garlic powder and I left the capers out. I doubled the recipe on the pasta, but didn't double the lemon or the garlic. I was glad I didn't double the lemon because it was very lemony already (I think next time I'll cut the lemon juice in half.) But I should've used more garlic.

I also cooked the chicken on the stovetop with oil instead of on the grill because Scott wasn't home and I don't know how to work our BBQ grill.

Sorry, I forgot to take a picture.

Baked Cream Cheese Spaghetti Casserole

Another successful recipe! All my boys gave it a thumbs up. I didn't take a picture, but here's the website where you can find the recipe: http://www.plainchicken.com/2011/11/baked-cream-cheese-spaghetti-casserole.html

This is a picture from the website, mine looked similar.

Slow Cooker Cream Cheese Chili

I used cream cheese that had been frozen and so it didn't melt quite right. It says right on the package "do not freeze," but I didn't notice that until today. Oops.

Here's the website where you can find the recipe: http://www.plainchicken.com/2012/01/slow-cooker-cream-cheese-chicken-chili.html

The verdict is in, another thumbs up from Scott. It was very yummy. We thought we should've had tortillas on hand to eat with it and I'm sure will taste better with non-frozen and non-expired cream cheese hehehe, I didn't mention it was expired did I? Oh well, live and learn.

Pizza casserole

I found this recipe on Pinterest, it originally came from this website: http://formamas.blogspot.com/2011/08/pizza-casserole.html

I made this for my family tonight and the verdict was: yummy! It was a success. I'll add it to the rotation of meals.

Here's what mine looked like:

Thank you Pinterest

My love of Pinterest

Like most of you, I love Pinterest! I could pin all day and when I should be doing other things, I find myself pinning til my heart's content. To help make this obsession with pinning a productive one, I've decided to create this blog to showcase the things I've tried from Pinterest. I'll let you know what was successful and what was not. Mostly this blog is to help me to do more than just pin that great idea I see.