Food, Family and Photos
I am so honored!
Today, I was named One of Babble’s Top 100 Mom Blogs
#58 out of 100 out of who knows how many????
I am so so honored! LOOK!
And they said the nicest things about me, too! I <3 Babble 
Seriously, thank y’all so much!
Y’all should go check out the whole list, I am among some amazing company.
Excuse me while I go call my husband and squeal and walk around grinning like a fool for the rest of the day.
I was trying to create a pretty slideshow for y’all filled with some of the highlights from the past two years worth of Handmade Holidays Posts.
There are SO many yummy treats!
Like these gorgeous Christmas Light Cookies from Bridget
and these Homemade Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows from Katie
and these delicious Sugar and Spice Candied Nuts by Karly
and these Homemade Peanut Butter Cups by Liz
Just to give y’all a few ideas of some delicious things that y’all can make and share for the holidays, however, I’m apparently not savvy enough to figure out the plug-in. Sorry!
You can find more ideas on my Recipe Page under Desserts, though! And trust me when I tell you, those ladies have more major deliciousness on their blogs, too!
What are your favorite treats to make and give? I’d love the hear about them!
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It’s that time of the month again, time for the Crazy Cooking Challenge.
This month’s challenge: Fudge
While searching the blogosphere for a recipe that piqued my interest and tempted my tastebuds, I came across this Nutty Fudge Day recipe on my friend Cindy’s blog – Skip To My Lou. If Cindy endorses it – I’m in. I, of course, tweaked the recipe a tad.
This fudge recipe is delicious, decadent, easy, rich and not overly sweet – which for me, is key, I don’t like super sweet fudge.
Butter – Dark Chocolate Chips – Sweetened Condensed Milk – Vanilla Bean Paste – Salt & Walnuts – that’s it.
In a large microwave safe bowl – I used my 8 C glass measuring cup – put the chocolate chips, butter, condensed milk, salt and vanilla bean paste
I love the pretty specks of vanilla bean in those vanilla bean paste drizzles
Microwave on half power about 2-5 minutes – I microwaved for 1 1/2 minutes on half power, stirred. Microwave another 1 1/2 minutes – stirred again. Just keep doing this until everything is melted – this is not a creamy smooth melted mixture – it’s thick.
Stir in the walnuts
Pour all of this into a foil lined and sprayed 8X8 glass dish – I cover my dish with foil going horizontally and vertically – that way when the fudge is done chilling, I just lift the foil out of the dish and peel it off the bottom of the fudge – easy peasy!
Refrigerate until the fudge is set, remove from the dish, slice and enjoy! This is perfect cut into bite size pieces with a cold glass of milk.
Decadent Dark Chocolate Fudge chock full of walnuts. Adapted from a recipe by Skip To My Lou
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