Webb Halloween Boos!

Sending out neighborhood boos is one of our family's favorite Halloween traditions! Have you ever heard of it?! Have you ever done it? Here's the idea! You give out two gifts to two neighbors annonomysly, then they give out two, and so on...until the whole block is bustling with Halloween cheer! :) Here are the boo papers I made this year! :)

Download them here...

Boo Poem

Boo Sign

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Pb&j Juice Recipe

I had this brilliant idea to make a juice 

that tastes like a peanut butter and jelly! This juice is a healthy and tasty version of everyone's fav classic! It tastes JUST like one! 

4 Leaf stalks of rainbow chard

1 Carrot 

1 cup Purple grapes

1/2 cup Blueberries

2 tbs Peanut butter powder

Chia seeds to your taste (I used 2 pinches) 

2 tbs Wheat germ 

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Easy cucumber salad!

This is the easiest salad to make, and you can put pretty much anything in it! I love to toss beans or dill in normally! My neighbors gave me some fresh garden veggies so with this hot July weather my first instinct was to make a cucumber salad! 

So for this one I used: Cucumber, tomato, onion, and bell pepper..

•Thinly slice your veggies and toss them all in a large bowl. 

•Generously drizzle vinegar on top. 

•Lightly drizzle olive oil. 

•Salt, pepper, and garlic, to taste. 

•Toss. 

•Then cover and let set in the fridge! Give it an hour or two to marinade and it's ready! 

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Amazing Dairy Free Strawberry Ice Cream

If you're lactose intolerant like I am, or EVERY member of my household, then you've probably experienced the same torturous Russian roulette of tying to find a yummy dairy free ice cream! Every summer we make homemade ice cream. Its usually one of those, "Everyone don't forget to take your lactaid pills!", type days. So finally it dawned on me, why don't I make a DAIRY FREE ice cream?! SO SO simple, I have no idea why I didn't think to do it way sooner! So here's my first recipe, its absolutely to die for! Totally not something you will find in your local grocery store! I plan to post another of these soon, so please try this one and let me know what you think!

You'll need....

Ingredients:

4 oz Dairy free cream cheese (I buy the tofutti brand)
16-24 oz Tub of sweetened strawberries (frozen aisle) (undrained)
1 cup Lactaid milk (I wasn't sure about almond or soy milk for this recipe, if you try it and it works let me know!)
1 3/4 cup Cream of coconut (Buy two cans)
1 cup Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla

If you've never used cream of coconut, its very easy. Let the cans settle for about 30 minutes, the coconut will separate. When you are ready to use it... carefully, without shaking the can, open the can. On top will be a beautiful white cream you can spoon out until you get down to the clear coconut. For this recipe you'll only need the white part. **And don't worry your ice cream won't taste like coconut!

Finally, Just mix together all of your ingredients and toss them into your ice cream maker!

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Mad Hatter Hat

So last Halloween I knew I wanted Caden and Brayten to be the Mad Hatter and Alice in Wonderland. My biggest obstacle was finding a top hat that was actually Mad Hatter-esque the way I wanted. I searched high and low for weeks without finding anything that worked so I decided I'd craft one!

Here's how I did it:


I started with a foam hat like this..

I picked it up from the local Hobby Lobby, I can't remember how much I paid but it was under $5.

So the first thing I did was carefully cut the brim, and the very top off.
Save the brim but go ahead and toss the top piece you removed. You should be left with a column and a brim. From there I inverted the column (and reattached it with tape) to give it that dramatic Hatter look.. like this.. and then used a piece of sheet foam for the new top of the hat.

There's a little extra on the brim you need to trim off (length wise). Next I bought some cheap acrylic paint in the shade of green I wanted and painted the whole thing (about two coats). Last. I added a ribbon, and a piece of card stock that I wrote 10/6 on, and added a piece of elastic to hold it to bubbas head because it was too small (the hat that is). lol 

Here's the outfit before it was finished...

..and here's the end result! 

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On Organic Steaks and Roasted Carrot Recipe

Made this super simple yet delish meal, grass fed organic steak and roasted carrots..this post is partly about both! Now we all know the benefits of buying organic meat but with organic grass fed steaks there's some extra differences, they taste, and smell different too! Yes honestly they do! The first time I bought some for Britt and I, I tossed them because I thought they were bad! Now it's not a bad or "rotten" smell I just knew they smelt distinctly different and I was concerned! I've been cooking and baking since before I can remember but I started on my own when I was about 10, so I know my way around a kitchen better than a great many so yes I know beef isn't some crazy hazardous meat but I'm also not into eating bad meat so in the trash it went! Lol anyway so the next time I purchased I thought OK I bought this yesterday and there is just no way I purchased bad steaks! So I took to the Google! Sure enough its super documented yes, organic steaks taste and smell different! So if this is your first time, don't throw away a perfectly good steak!

 So I don't do anything fancy with mine, and when we aren't "grilling" I cook it on the stove top. 

I start with a pretty little steak like this , I can say organic steaks are more filling so keep that in mind when purchasing! I'm super obsessed with the McCormicks Montreal steak seasoning so that's all I used with a bit of olive oil on a flat pan, I set my heat to about a 6-7 to get a nice char like you would from a grill and I use a meat thermometer so that I can take it off at exactly medium rare while I'm wrangling kids and everything else I usually have going at dinnertime! 

So the carrots are equally hands off, fast, and easy! Wash them down and put them on a cookie sheet, set your oven to 450 degrees. Drizzle some olive oil or grape seed oil on top, sea salt, cracked black pepper, garlic powder, and a bit of dried rosemary. Take them out when they look "roasted" and are soft when fork tested, I wish I could say how long exactly I cook mine, maybe ten minutes? Super great meal, if you need another side add rice :)

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Faking fresh cut peaches

So I made this cake for a friend last year and I thought I'd share how I made the peach look freshly cut as well as just share a pic of the cake, because well it's adorable ;)

So it was easy enough, I sliced a peach in half (the fuzziest one I could find), removed the pit, then used the smaller side and added a large basil leaf! Voila! Perfect "fresh picked" peach ;)

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