Dark chocolate drizzled popcorn

Dark Chocolate Drizzled Popcorn

Instead of bringing chips and dip to the next game night, potluck, or book club considering surprising the guests with this Dark Chocolate Drizzled Popcorn snack.

They will enjoy the perfect combination of fresh popped popcorn, candied pecans, and rich deep dark chocolate. It looks rich, expensive, and hard to make, but it will be our little secret as to how cheap and easy it is to create.

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Tuscan chicken pasta

Tuscan Chicken Pasta

Looking for an easy but tasty dinner for two? Try this Tuscan Chicken Pasta recipe from Prevention Magazine.

Bring the savory aroma of Tuscany to your kitchen when you prepare this meal. The rich flavors of olive oil, rosemary, and garlic combined with fresh spinach, roasted red peppers, chicken, and cannellini beans, adding up to a delicious low-fat dinner rich in fiber, calcium, protein.

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1-2-3 cake

1-2-3 Cake

My 8 year old niece loves to be in the kitchen baking. Catie’s favorite cooking show is Cake Boss and you can often find her mixing batter, licking the beaters, and decorating anything she can find with frosting.

While visiting her grandma over Thanksgiving, Catie was delighted to learn how to make Aunt Betty's 1-2-3 Cake. This recipe only takes 3 ingredients, is made in the microwave, and is an easy item for kids to make.

This recipe is called 1-2-3 Cake because all you need to remember is 3 tablespoons mix, 2 tablespoons water, and 1 minute in the microwave.

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Easy potato vegetable soup

Easy Potato Vegetable Soup

Looking for an easy to make, warm your belly, fill your tummy soup? Then look no further as this easy potato vegetable soup fits the bill.

This soup is the perfect combination of basic pantry and refrigerator items including chicken broth, cream of celery soup, canned or frozen vegetables, potatoes, onions, carrots, and seasoning.

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Dark chocolate and your health

Dark Chocolate and Your Health

Dark chocolate in contrast to its counterparts, milk and white chocolate, contains high levels of heart-healthy nutrients. These nutrients are called flavonoids.

Flavonoids are compounds that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects on your cells and blood vessels, respectively.  Antioxidants help protect our cells from damage and, subsequently, a variety of chronic diseases. Anti-inflammatories help remove cholesterol from our blood vessels, increasing blood flow, an important aspect of maintaining a strong, healthy heart.

Research shows that these heart-healthy nutrients are found in the cocoa content of chocolate, and dark chocolate contains the highest amount of cocoa when compared to other forms. The higher the cocoa content, the more flavonoids it contains.  

Click here more information on the benefits of dark chocolate and the recipe for Dark Chocolate Brownies.

Not just stickers: Scrapbook consignment resale and craft show

Not Just Stickers

Not Just Stickers presents its Scrapbook Consignment Resale & Craft/Vendor Show.

What you will find at this sale

The scrapbook/stamping section has everything  from scrapbook albums and accessories to stickers, stamps/ink pads & accessories, card-making supplies, totes/storage, cardstock/paper, kits galore, ribbons/fibers, eyelets/brads, embellishments, chipboard, diecuts/laser cuts, tools & accessories, punches, trimmers, cutting systems, idea books/magazines.

Scrapbook/Stamping brands include:  Stampin' Up, Creative Memories, CTMH, Sizzix, Cuttlebug, Bazzill, Deluxe Designs, BoBunny, Marvy, Coluzzle, Spellbinders, CK Kits, Club Scrap, Cricut, Foamies, Rusty Pickle, Lisa Bearnson, Prima, z becky brown, Fiskars, Yudu, Bazzill, EK Success, Martha Stewart, Chatterbox, Xyron, Jolee’s, Paper Shapers, Hero Arts, PaperTrey, Quickutz, and so many more! 

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Chocolate peanut butter cheesecake

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

There is nothing like the taste of chocolate and peanut butter. The sweetness of chocolate with the nutty salty taste of peanut is a perfect combination in my book.  Whenever a bag of Reese’s peanut butter cups are left in the candy dish, they disappear almost instantly.

If you like chocolate and peanut butter as much as I do, then you are going to love this recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake.

Everyone will rave about this luscious, rich cheesecake made with a chocolate graham cracker crust and packed with peanut buttery goodness.

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