Yummy, noshy, comfy foodz

OK, this one was pretty easy, and it got good reviews from my brother and my boyfriend.

THIS... Wonderful pot of comfort food.

VERY easy to make. Turned out pretty good. The link this Pin is from was broken, but I just went from the description at the bottom. I have no idea where to get ziti noodles from, so I just got some regular old rigatoni noodles.

Just follow the recipe, I eyed up the cheese, and you're done! I think I will add this one to my recipe list with some additions. Would have been nice with mushrooms, onion, garlic and maaaaaybe even some broccoli. Can use wholewheat pasta, extra lean ground beef, low fat cream cheese for a slightly healthier option, but if you're gonna go this far into comfort food territory, you might as well go all the way.

Here is a wonderfully lit picture of mine... half eaten of course.

Here is the recipe for those who don't "Pin" Gasp!!

-3/4 bag ziti noodles - rigatoni noodles work fine - and who really cares about exact proportions right?

-1 lb of ground beef 

-1 pkg taco seasoning nosh

-1cup water 

-1/2 pkg cream cheese, 

-1 1/2 cup shredded cheese - I think I actually added less than this. 

-- boil pasta until just cooked, brown ground beef & drain, mix taco seasoning & 1 cup water with ground beef for 5 min, add cream cheese to beef mixture, stir until melted & remove from heat, put pasta in casserole dish, mix in 1 cup cheese, top pasta/cheese with beef mixture & gently mix, top with remaining cheese, bake at 350* uncovered for 30 min

Molto bene!

Fast and preventing Furious!

Just another quick post about a pin that I had found previous and before I had a change to attempt and fail it, Threadbangers already tried it for me!

The Pin...


Hilarity ensues.


Enjoy!

Organizing Pretty

Well, I had better add some content or this will be a very short blogging experience. I would like to start on a good note and share one of my most successful pins!

Pinned 37 weeks ago - according to Pinterest of course, was a real neat way to hang your necklaces. The link goes onto a blogger's site WAY more experienced than I myself am. I browesed through these neat ideas, but seeing as I dont have a TON of space to have cute teacups everywhere, and I don't have pierced ears and have earrings to hang in a painted frame, I was stuck with the necklace options. Some I found to be quite ugly, but when I saw the weeping willow look, I knew I had to try it!
Since my walls are sadly not drywall, but horrid plaster that makes it impossible to tack anything into, I headed to the dollar store and found some kind of foam core board for 2$. Didn't really find the silver push pins there, but they did have some with neon coloured stickers on, so what the heck, I bought them too.

I'm gonna go on a tangent and express my undying love for the dollar store. Who needs Michael's when you have all of this meterial for so cheap?!! Every time I go in there I can spend a disgusting amount of time perusing the isles and trying VERY hard to not buy everything in the craft section. Sometimes I fail and come home with countless bits and bobs that I intend to turn into wonderful crafty things... Sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I'm not. Shhh...

Onto the willow tree!

Everything from this project I got at the dollar store and it was of course super cheap. So, here is a list of items I used:

• Pencil and eraser for drawing out the tree
• Sharpie for outlining the tree
• Black paint - paintbrushes is a given, as it would be even more tedious to finger paint this...
• Foam core
• Double sided tape
• 2 packs of thumb tacks

Once the tree was drawn and painted, I sat for a bit and pulled off the coloured stickers from the thumbtacks. I wanted a classy, black and silver tree with the neclaces, not much room for funky neon circles. BUT I had a neat idea and since the back was still sticky, I stuck them to the board in a vague flower shape :) No waste!
I was a bit worried that the tacks wouldn't be long enough to hold my necklaces, but everything went very smoothly.

Here is my final result! Granted, it would look WAY better painted on a wall and perhaps even extend the tree to turn it into it's own decor item. But ya gotta deal with whatcha got.

Sadly I don't have anywhere near the amount of necklaces that the girl in the original did... but this just gives me an excuse to go out and get more!

Guess who's back... Back again....

Here I am again! Going to give this another go. This time I have an idea! Something better than just a boring old journal/rant page. The idea came as I was attempting to re-arrange the mess that is my "Cooking and Baking" folder on Pinterest.
I have many a wonderful looking goodie on there. But how do you really know if it's going to turn out? Ya don't.
A while back I discovered a wonderful series of videos on Youtube from a group called ThreadBanger. The playlist was called Man Vs Pin. Hilarious idea. Gave me one myself. So, here it is. A revamped blog to display my attempts at re-creating Pinterest marvels to wonder and excite! And who knows, I might just throw in some blurbs about daily life, exciting right?!

Catchya soon with my first, albeit, old attempt!

-Lady J