Latest Ladies Formal Skirt Fashion Design!

 Here is my latest ladies formal fashion skirt design!  Very happy with it!  I was blessed with amazing fabric for $1.00 a yard...made two neckties from it (reversable fabric!) and still had fabric leftover and the idea light came on in my head to make a ladies design w/leftover fabric!  Here it is!  Buttons at the waist.

FINISHED!...New Mens Necktie Designs!

 Here is an update to the neckties that I begin making 2 weeks back.  I have finished these four and still working on the other two!  I'm happy with them and they will go for sale in my shop.

With the swanky orange reversible fabric; used both sides to make a tie...the light side and the brighter orange side...though I personally favor the lighter side for the tie.

 My fav of the bunch!  Love this blessing fabric...got it for $1.00 a yard!

 My second tie with this fabric.  If this tie design looks familiar it's b/c I made Conner Brown one last year and he's worn it before singing special music on the AA stage.  Here is tie number two of this type going for sale in my shop.

Felt like posting a behind the scenes shot of my very zebra-e sweet sewing machine!  This thing is sooo helpful!

My Cooking Blooper of the Month!

Looks like a pretty flower from a distance right!  WRONG!....it is a VERY BURNT potholder that I had to throw out of my house.  Don't ask me how, but a potholder somehow stuck to the bottom of a large pot, and when I put the pot on the stove top, I started smelling that awful burnt smell....couldn't figure it out until I finally moved the pot over and saw the potholder burning on the eye of the stove!  I scraped it off the stovetop and tossed it outside....(don't try this at home kids...could have started fire outside the house!)  Wasn't thinking!

Made From Scratch Southwest Salsa

 After making homemade tomato paste, homemade spaghetti sauce, AND homemade tomatoes and green chiles I still had tomatoes left thanks to the Sunflower Farmers Market who had a sale on fresh tomatoes for .77cents a lb!  SO...I decided to finish using up the tomatoes by making fresh homemade salsa using my long time friend Kim Bacon's recipe which has become a lot of peoples favorite salsa once they taste it!  What blessing all from just tomatoes!  :-)  Used one cup  of the done tomatoes and green chiles

 Cut up one bundle of fresh green onion

 chopped one bundle of organic fresh cilantro

 put garlic salt in to taste

Put everything in my very cool kitchen aid mega horsepower blender!  Love this blender!

Blended on chop, mix, and finally puree settings, and vahlah!....all natural made from scratch absolutely yummy salsa!  Ate it with brown rice crisps to keep it healthy.

Made From Scratch Tomatoes & Green Chiles

 Using the blessing of an abundance of fresh tomatoes from Sunflower Farmers Market....  .77 cents a lb!, I made from scratch tomato paste and made from scratch spaghetti sauce(recipes for those in last posts), and STILL HAD TOMATOES LEFT!, so I decided to make homemade tomatoes and green chiles!  It came out tasting identical to the store bought kind in the cans, so I must have accidentally put just the right ingredients in, but difference is, it's all natural w/no additives!

 skinned and chopped about 4-5 cups of fresh tomatoes.

 Chopped up three serrano peppers!  Beware, serrano peppers are HOTTER than jalepenos though!  I love spice! 

 Chopped one white onion

 Put in about 3 tsp minced garlic (I think!)

 Added sea salt to taste and mixed everything all together

 Transferred to stovetop sauce pan and brought to a boil over medium heat.  Once at boiling point, covered, reduced heat to low, and let simmer on stovetop for 2 or 3 hours.  I honestly can't remember if mine simmered for 2 or 3 hours!

Finished made from scratch Tomatoes and Green Chiles.  Delicious, Hot, & so Spicy!

Made From Scratch Tomato Paste Recipe

 Sunflower Farmers Market had a .77cent a lb sale, so I stocked up on tomatoes!  I made tomato paste from scratch...took SIX HOURS to get it to paste consistency.....here goes

 Skinned 5 lbs of tomatoes...(a little over ripe tomatoes work best as it's easier to skin them)   Put them in sauce pan w/ 1 tsp sea salt, 1/2 cup olive oil on stove top until they came to boiling point, then remove them from heat.

 Grease bottom of oven baking dish with olive oil.  Put boiled tomatoes into the oven safe baking dish....and bake in oven for 6 hours stirring every 30 minutes.  (NOTE:  bake at 300 F for 4 hours, and the last two hours reduce oven temp to 250 F.)

Vahlah, homemade tomato paste...Healthy and all Natural, oh and so much yummier than that stuff you buy in a can.

Made from Scratch Spaghetti Sauce!

 Using the abundance of fresh tomatoes from the Sunflower Farmers Market, I decided to make Homemade Spaghetti Sauce from scratch made from the Homemade Tomato Paste(recipe for paste on last post) I had made.  First sauteed a half of a white onion sprinkled a little basil in to add flavor.

 Cooked all natural grass fed super lean ground beef and set aside.

 Then mixed 1 3/4 cups of skinned and cut tomatoes with 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, 2 tbsp parsley, 1 1/2 tsp minced garlic, 1 tsp dried basil, 2 tsp tomato paste, and sea salt to taste in a large bowl.

 photo of the fresh parsley used in the sauce.

 Ingredients used to flavor sauce

 Sauce simmering in pan over medium heat until it came to a boil

Added cooked ground beef and vahlah, yummy homemade all natural Spaghetti Sauce...Pasta Night!

Tiramisu Cheesecake!

 I've been in a "baking mood" & decided to bake a tiramisu flavored cheesecake.  Nope, that's not on the healthy diet list, but if you eat healthy on a regular basis you can afford to enjoy a little unhealthy treat every now and then, so I baked my cheesecake!...felt guilty breaking my diet, so I cut it up into cute little cheesecake squares and brought it into work with me to share w/everyone.  I will put the squares out here at Hall of Ad this afternoon.  I don't believe in putting sweets out in the morning...bad way to kick start the metabolism!  :-)  Hope they will like!

 Vahlah...cake ready!....loving my new spring form pop off pan...best one I've ever had!

 Used my veggie peeler to shred chocolate!  BIG NERD I AM could have just melted it but oh well!

 Yeah right, says all natural on the label....candy is candy folks! :-)

 for cheesecake added the pan of water under the baking cake in the oven to keep the humidity level right while baking at 350 F.

 Cheesecake cake filling all ready for the oven...8 oz mascarpone cheese, 24 oz cream cheese, 2.5 tbsp coffee mixed w/dry red wine, 1 cup sugar, 4 eggs, 4 tbsp flour, 2 tbsp olive oil...I think that's all!

 Crumbled the ladyfinger dough once it was baked....and soaked it in 4 tbsp of the coffee and wine mixture, and then added a few tbsp of olive oil, mixed all together and marinated.

 Made the ladyfinger dough for the crust.  4 egg yolks beaten with 1/2 cup sugar, 4 egg whites (beat separately), pinch of sea salt, 2 tbsp olive oil to grease baking sheet.....bake for 14 min......Umm...as you can see I nearly burnt the edges it but caught it in time!

 My new springform set!  BLESSING board...got all three for under $7 bucks!!!  The plan is to make a three layer cheesecake sometime this year!

 The coffee to flavor the cheesecake mixed w/a little dry red wine!

The ladyfinger dough mixture before baked