Spicy Balls...

Did I get your attention with the title? Haha! Anyway, I made some spicy marinara meatballs and thought I'd share the recipe. They were spicy and delicious! I did substitute the crushed red chilli peppers for cheyenne pepper instead for more kick!! If you don't have a convection oven, I'd recommend turning the meatballs half way through.

Ingredients

1 pound extra lean ground beef

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

1 small onion, diced

1/2 teaspoon garlic salt

1 1/2 teaspoons Italian seasoning

3/4 teaspoon dried oregano

3/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

1 dash hot pepper sauce (such as Frank's RedHot®), or to taste

1 1/2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1/3 cup skim milk

1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs

Directions

Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

Place the beef into a mixing bowl, and season with salt, onion, garlic salt, Italian seasoning, oregano, red pepper flakes, hot pepper sauce, and Worcestershire sauce; mix well. Add the milk, Parmesan cheese, and bread crumbs. Mix until evenly blended, then form into 1 1/2-inch meatballs, and place onto a baking sheet.

 

Bake in the preheated oven until no longer pink in the center, 20 to 25 minutes.

Enjoy!

Nutritional Information

Amount Per Serving Calories: 343

Total Fat: 16.8g

Cholesterol: 95mg

 

Until next time, keep wondering...

NEW NEW NEW!

So as of lately, my life has been filled with new things! I am so grateful for the life I live and will never take that for granted. Every day is beautiful and such an adventure. I'm so in love with my life!

So, I got a new hair cut! I know I know! I'm getting married, but I just wanted a new summer do so badly! I am in 3 wedding before my own, so I'm gonna need to research some cute do's for short hair. Up-do's are kinda out anyway! ;-)

New Car!!

I finally got an SUV. Jared and I have looked for quite some time now at SUV's we were interested in and this Saturn Vue was NOT one of them! We came to this dealership to test drive a couple others, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Compass, etc...and we saw this. So we thought, why not? We drove it and fell in love. It has all the bells and whistles (auto start and bluetooth being my favorite) and it had the right, low low miles, fabulous warranty and the rigth price (okay a lil more than planned, but hey, what do ya do?)

I wasn't fond of the color at first, but it's now grown on me and I love it. You can see the white cherokee we were looking at in the back. It was a 2010 and ours is a 2009, but ours had much more to offer! I love driving my new toy everyday.

New Decos!!

I love me some Ikea!

So my previous blog showed you how I made my wall canvases, now you can see how I decorated with them. Well, kinda. This isn't done yet, but you get the idea!! We are so close to having our family room finished. Stay tuned for more pics! We got some great buys from Ikea, the worlds best store!!

That's all for now. Until next time, keep wondering...

My Homemade "Wall Art"

So my cousin, Raelynn, taught me how to make my own "wall art". I thought I'd pass on the fun to you!!

What you will need:

Canvases

Paint

Paintable wallpaper (I found mine at Lowes)

Staples/Staple Gun

And if you want it two toned like mine (I know you can't tell in these pics really well) you can get a colored glaze and cheese cloth to apply it.

First cut your wallpaper to fit your canvases (as you can see I chose to do all differnt sizes, you can do all the same).

Next, you will follow the instructions for applying the wallpaper on your canvas. It's pretty easy, just fill your tub and place the paper glue side down for about 20 seconds. It's okay if the top part (non-glue part) gets wet. Next fold the wallpaper in half for about 15 minutes until the glue is tacky.

After about 15 minutes, apply the paper to the canvas and smooth it out. Keep checking for airbubbles as they will arise. Once you have it smoothed on, it's time to fold up the edges and staple the paper down.

Let the canvases dry over night. Again, make sure to keep smoothing the front to avoid air bubbles. Pull the paper tight before you staple to help prevent the air bubbles.

Next just use a regular brush and paint!! I also found these nice, little, pyramid things that the corners of the canvases can sit on while you paint so it doesn't sit on the ground to dry and you can get the sides easier too.

Let dry overnight...

If you want to make it two tones, you can't quite tell here, but mine have an orange glaze over top the chocolate paint. Again, use your cheese cloth and just blot and smear however you'd like. I covered the whole canvas.

We decided to hang ours kinda funky like this. We are going to put a nice little table in the center here and have a lamp under each of the horizontal ones. I think it'll turn out pretty darn cute. And the best part is, I can say I made them!! :-)

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We're Engaged!!!!

Well the biggest news in my life right now is I get to marry the man of my dreams!!! We became engaged tonight and here's the story...

Jared and I have decided to have a destination wedding in Rivera Maya, Mexico in February 2011. Well, we are going through Destinationweddings.com and you get your own personal planner...for free!! However, just so that they know you are serious, the require a small deposit of $50 to get the ball rolling (the money ends up going towards the wedding, kinda nice). Anyway, every since we picked our resort (details to come) I have been bugging Jared to just let me pay the $50 to "get the ball rolling" and he insisted we just wait. So tonight, he came home with Mexican food from my favorite place, which I thought nothing of, cuz we have it often. He wasn't acting strange or anything (he had been this weekend) so I thought nothing out of the ordinary. Well most of you know, today was a cold and windy day, so we were freezing!! We decided to fill up the jacuzzi and warm up! As it was filling, Jared and I were complaining about how cold we were. We are doggie sitting for the neighbors right now because they are in Mexico and Jared said, "those lucky bastards are in Mexico right now." I said, "I know honey, but just think soon we will be there and I can marry you." and he said, "you can?" and I said, "Of course I will" and he said, "you will" and I said, "well duh! Why, are you asking". I was honestly kidding, but I looked at him and he had a smirk on his face. All of the sudden he pulled out a $50 bill from his pocket and said, "oh I need to give this to you." I was like, "for what?" He said, "well don't you need it for our Mexician Vacation?" It took me a minute to get what he was getting at and finally I realized it. I looked at him and he was all teary eyed and nervous and then he pulled the ring out of his pocket and I freaked out! We couldn't stop hugging and crying, so he asked me mid-hug and I said "Yes!" Then once we settled down, he looked me in my eyes and asked me properly, "Will you marry me?" and I said "Yes!" Again!! Best night ever! I sure love this man.