A halloween hello to friends on this Pink Saturday

Beverly mentioned in her weekly email, that we could post something orange too, so I thought I would share with all of you a picture of my 3 Witches! This is just not a holiday decoration, no much more. Back home in Pontiac Illinois, I have two friends from high school days that I have kept in touch with since I left Illinois(21 years ago). When I do make it back to Pontiac, the three of us always go out for margaritas at the local mexican place. Stories are told, jokes are laughed at and good times remembered. Lisa and Kathy are always try to make as much time for me as possible and help out when they can. The "3 witches" was a gift from Lisa-representing the three of us! So, every Halloween Season I display "the girls" where I am sure to see them everyday--where else but the kitchen window sill.

3 Cheers for our girlfriends-where ever they may be!

Grab that second cup of coffee and visit some other wonderful blogs this pink saturday!
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/10/pink-saturday-october-16-2010.html
http://marieardenpinkliving.blogspot.com/2010/10/rubba-dub-dub.html
http://decolady-randommusings.blogspot.com/2010/10/pink-saturday-macarons.html

Hold on to your spoon-the best is yet to come!

Hold on to your spoon, the best is yet to come!

Michele, a friend of mine told me about that saying and I love it! It is soo true-desert is always the best. As some of you know, last night I had my first in home catering event. Thanks to everyone for the good thoughts and votes of confindence-the eveing was 99.99999% a success! In the coming weeks I will be posting more about this event and to start you off I will be sharing with you desert! So grab a spoon and enjoy!

Nicki´s Lava Cake Supreme

Ingredients:

Chocolate Cupcakes--recipe of your choice(I used my sisters Devils Food Cake)

Hot Fudge Sauce--again your choice--either homemade as I did, or store bought)

Vanilla Ice Cream--homemade or store bought

Hard Shell

Game Plan:

A week in advance I baked the chocolate cupcakes in a jumbo muffin pan and made the hot fudge sauce. I found a great, simple recipe on allrecipes.com . Once the cupcakes cooled off, I turned them upside down, dug a well and filled with sauce. I froze them right up to desert time.

The fudge-filled, frozen cupcakes are "nuked" for 45 seconds in the microwave. Of course this time can vary depending on your microwave. Then I top it off with one scoop of vanilla ice cream and the Hard Shell. Add a side of fresh strawberries-and you have yourself a great desert.

I have served this desert to various groups, and it has always, always been a sucess. I wonder how it would taste if it was a cappaciouno cupcake with coffee ice cream?

Be sure to stop and visit other Foodies featureed at: www.designsbygollum.blogspot.com

tidymom.net has some great halloween cookies to share this week

redcouchrecipes has the coolest cupcakes for us to enjoy

Have a happy weekend everyone and if you are looking for that java pick me up, please check out my post from last week about turkisch coffee

Good Morning

Greetings Everyone!
yea---my catering job was a sucess!! SO HAPPY and so relieved. I have a few pictures and promise to post more about the whole expierence later today-now after only 5 hours of sleep, a dentist appointment, I am off to the kitchen to decorate a cake for a little boys birthday this weekend. See you all in a little while for FOODIE FRIDAY!!!

Happy 15th Birthday

Good Morning Everyone!

I hope your Thursday is turning out to be everything you hoped for. As I wrote yesterday my day is going to be just a touch nerve-wracking as I am doing my first catering job! I am nervous and excited all at the same time!!

Yesterday my son turned 15 and instead of cake(which is ironic as I decorate cakes!!!) he asked for an oreo cookie pie---for breakfast!







please forgive me the pictures are not in the order that I want and for some reason I am not able to change it...

I hope you get a chance to check out some of the other great tablescapes this week.

Here are some that I enjoyed!

http://sailingsimply.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-catch-witch.html

http://mid-atlanticmartha.blogspot.com/2010/10/tablescape-thursday-little-halloween.html

http://tableescapes.blogspot.com/2010/10/pumpkin-patch-fairies.html

I am still here

Hello Everyone----just a quick note to say I am still here! It has been a week of ups and downs and general craziness. The weekend is should relax just a bit and then I will have time to update the blog. Tomorrow Is a big day for me--my first catering event! Wish me luck. I am scared to death!!! Will tell you all about it on Friday!

happy wednesday!

Oh and today my son turned 15!!!!!!!!! You all know I keep asking where the time goes? Well, where did 15 years go?!

A cup of Java

This weeks entry for Foodie Friday comes with a story! Last year the embassy community said farewell to a wonderful family-who were being transfered to Turkey. The Caseys---all 4 of them wonderful people. A good friend and co-worker of Tim´s decided to give them a farewell party and enlisted my help. My answer-a send off-türkish style!!! We had all sorts of wonderful dishes from home made Hummus to Lamb. Throw in some decorations-open some bottles of good wine---invite a great group and you have everything you need for a great party. ANYWAY, as a thank you the Casey´s sent me a care package from Instanbul---which leads me to my entry--TÜRKISH COFFEE.

Although both my husband and I know how to brew a regular cup of java--we had never had türkish coffee-three cheers for the internet and the web site CoffeeGeek(http://coffeegeek.com/guides/turkishcoffee)-with the directions printed out-we embarked on a new adventure---and what do you know-minutes later we sat down and enjoyed our first cup of Java Joe-türkish style.

Thanks Casey Family for coming into our lives! The world is small and I have the faith that one day we will all meet again!










Wishing everyone a happy Friday! Please take a moment-enjoy a cup of Java and visit other Foodies!

My favorite time of the year---Halloween

Okay-when did it happen?---how can it be Thursday already AGAIN?----it was just last Thursday when I was posting pictures about my fall table and now here I am posting some pictures of my halloween themed breakfast!!!

Happy Thursday Everyone ---have a great day!