Easy To Impress

Just HAD to share a tasty new recipe with you. These are so easy and sure to impress, plus I guarantee they will disappear and you won't have to eat the leftovers.



Toffee Bars

Recipe By: Betty Crocker

Ingredients:

- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup chocolate chips, or more
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350.

2. Mix butter, sugar, vanilla, and egg yolk. Stir in flour and salt. Press into ungreased 13x9 pan.

3. Bake 25 minutes.

4. Immediately sprinkle with chocolate chips. Let sit 5 minutes until melty. Spread evenly. Sprinkle with nuts. Cool 30 minutes on wire rack. Cut into 8x4 rows while still warm.

5. Refrigerate to set chocolate.


I didn't use any nuts and these were awesome! I think they would look amazing if you swirled white and dark chocolate chips for the top. I just used milk chocolate.

While I made these I also made some oatmeal cookies that I have been trying to perfect. I think I am close, and there is only 1/2 a cup of sugar in one batch! Which I think makes them almost healthy cookies... Especially since my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, which makes the same amount of cookies, has 2 cups.

What is your favourite and most impressive recipe that you make?

The Boys get Buzzed

Well, I cut Jacob's hair, and then it was Jeff's turn, and then we decided Daniel needed a cut too! His hair was turning into mad scientist hair.

I love his Wings.

Anyways, Daniel was SO BRAVE. He flinched a little, but he didn't cry. He looks super cute with his new 'do.

Before the haircut. 

Smile my Brave Baby! 

My Three Boys looking so GOOD.

Please Be Seated

So two winters ago our church got new-used pews. Ours were somewhere less than 100 years old, and many were splitting and cracking. Well, we took one of those pews home... My plan was to put it at the kitchen table. These pews are nearly 12 feet long and it turns out it wouldn't fit in any room. It sat outside for a while and ended up in the basement as our recycling/sorting station. Last weekend we brought it outside again, and here is the transformation:

Deciding where to make the cut.

Jeff's Dad did all the hard work.

Jacob says "It's like a pew."

3 coats of Royal Indigo

I left the original wood on the back.

One is The Loneliest Number (or maybe seven)

One ripe Roma tomato. Yum. My plant's growth got stunted so I think I might just get seven tomatoes total... Because that is how many grew before the plant got sick. The leaves are all black and the whole plant is barely bigger than when I actually bought it. But three of my Celebrity Tomato plants are looking good. Can't wait for those!