Million Dollar Spaghetti

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When all else fails -- make spaghetti. Isn't that the truth?  When your day doesn't go as planned, but you still need dinner, you can always make spaghetti. When you have carved out enough time out of your day to prepare a meal for your family, but then a friend calls and took up that time, you can always make spaghetti. Lucky for you, today's post is about spaghetti. Oh. But not ordinary spaghetti. Million. Dollar. Spaghetti. What if you didn't have to make just spaghetti … [Read more...]

Layered Patriotic Drink

Layered Patriotic Drink for Memorial Day Weekend.  However you can use different colors too!  madefrompinterest.net

Have you ever traveled outside of your home country? When I graduated from high school, I was accepted as an ambassador for the People to People Organization.  The goal of People to People is to provide a global awareness experience for teenagers and also to give the youth in other countries an opportunity to interact with the youth from America. During this trip, I visited 7 countries in six weeks and had the amazing experience of going to Czechoslavakia when it was still behind the Iron … [Read more...]

Fruit Pizza

Fruit Pizza - Now this is my kinda pizza! madefrompinterest.net

Do you love pizza?  Do you even eat cold pizza for breakfast?  If you do then, you are definitely a diehard pizza fan and this pin is for you! I pinned this beautiful Fruit Pizza from Weddings Illustrated  to share on this blog but was a little leary about making it because I already have a fabulous Fruit Pizza recipe.  You know how there are maybe 3-4 things in your recipe arsenal that whenever you bring it to a function that you will be asked for the recipe?   One of the recipes that I … [Read more...]

Easy Home Remedies for Common Household Problems

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Have you ever heard of Hometalk?  Well, if you haven't yet, you need to pop on over and take a look at their website!  It is a great resource for everything about your home.  Gardening, remodeling, DIY, crafts, landscaping, decorating etc.  Kinda like one stop shopping for your house! While there you can create a clipboard and clip things that you might be interested in.   And another great feature that Hometalk has  is that you can ask questions and get responses from experts in that … [Read more...]

Miracle Wand for Cleaning Glass Shower Doors

Miracle wand for cleaning glass shower doors. MadeFromPinterest.net

Why do we often get our best ideas while in the shower? Maybe because we are relaxed, uninterrupted and alone. Recently I had a great idea in the shower, about my shower. I have been so pleased with the results I have had with my Super Simple Shower and Tub Cleaner and Tracy has had such great results with her post about cleaning windows I thought, why not marry the two? It made me think of a commercial from my childhood. Do you remember the one about Reese's Peanut Butter Cups? It starts with … [Read more...]

Lemonade Tycoon Freshly Squeezed Lemonade

This recipe is the perfect blend of sweet and tart. I haven't been able to get the right ratio until now. MadeFromPinterest.net

Have you played Lemonade Tycoon yet? It is a game on the iPad that I love, love, love to play with Tracy's youngest son. Her son is so smart, so fun, and it is so wonderful to be his Aunt. In the game you have a lemonade stand where you set up your own recipe, price, location, order supplies, and advertise. My nephew always knows the perfect recipe. We totally agree on that. What we totally don't agree on are prices and advertising. As soon as we start doing well, I always want to increase the … [Read more...]

Clean Your Iron the Magic Way

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Have you ever been working on a project under deadline and made a huge mistake because you were hurrying? Haven't we all!?! I was doing some sewing recently and let my iron get too hot. On top of that, I accidentally had my fusible interfacing sticky side up. Not only did I melt the interfacing on to my iron, I managed to melt the fabric too.  It shriveled up like burning plastic in a campfire. Luckily, I had plenty of extra fabric and interfacing, but what to do about my iron? I love my iron. … [Read more...]

Best Pot Roast Recipe

8 hours on low, 4 hours on high in the crockpot. Only 5 ingredients, great dinner. MadeFromPinterest.net

There is an old story about a father who asks his three daughters how much they love him. There are several versions, but it goes something like this: One answers, "As I love my life.". The next answers, "Better than anything in the world.". The third answers (I really like this girl), "as meat loves salt.". He doesn't like the answer of the third daughter, and throws her out. After a series of events, she serves her father a meal in disguise. She makes sure none of the meat has any salt. He … [Read more...]

Soy Sauce and Brown Sugar Salmon Marinade

This marinated Salmon baked in a foil packet stayed tender, and caramelized beautifully on the bottom. Makes an easy, elegant meal. MadeFromPinterest.net

Growing up I did not like any seafood of any kind. After living in Maryland for a year and a half, I learned to love crab. But I still don't like shrimp. And I know some of you are going to give it to me good over this, but I don't like lobster. I branched out to other types of fish and recently fell in love with Salmon. Deeply in love with salmon. Head over heels in love with salmon. I am enjoying trying out methods preparing and cooking this wonderful fish. So when I came upon this pin, it … [Read more...]

Slow Cooker Beef and Broccoli

Slow Cooker Beef and Brocp;;o

We are absolutely thrilled to introduce you to Mandy from Mandy's Recipe Box who will be a regular monthly contributor at Made From Pinterest. We met Mandy when we started participating in her weekly link party. We quickly fell in love with her beautiful photography and amazing recipes. Debbie, Sherri and I are all city girls, so we really enjoy  hearing about Mandy's life out in the country! We knew she would be a perfect fit as one of our monthly contributors. So, no more introductions from … [Read more...]