Grilled Chicken Bruschetta

I found this Grilled Chicken Bruschetta recipe on skinnytaste.com the other day.  We had it for supper tonight and it was wonderful.

Wordless Wednesday

Vacation Bible School

7 YEARS!!

It is hard to believe Keith and I have been together for 11years and married for 7years.   I am so lucky to be married to such a wonderful man.

My mom spent the night Thursday to watch the boys so Keith and I could go out to dinner for our anniversary.  We had a fun dinner at Little Village and then went to look at books at Barnes & Noble kid free :)

Our 7th Wedding Anniversary was Sunday.  We had a wonderful day hanging out at home.  

Lemon-Blueberry Muffins

We have been blueberry picking EVERY week since the blueberry farm near our house opened for the season.  So I have been trying recipes with blueberries.  This one was good, but I don't think I used enough lemon rind because I would have liked a stronger lemon flavor. 

Lemon-Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients

         2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, divided

         1/2 cup sugar

         2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

         1/2 teaspoon salt

         1 (8-ounce) container lemon yogurt

         1/2 cup vegetable oil

         2 large eggs

         1 teaspoon grated lemon rind

         1 1/4 cups fresh blueberries or 1 (6-ounce) package frozen blueberries unthawed*

         3 tablespoons sugar

         1 tablespoon cold butter or margarine

Preparation

Combine 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl; make a well in center of mixture.

Stir together yogurt and next 3 ingredients; add to dry ingredients, stirring just until moistened.

Toss together 2 tablespoons flour and raspberries; fold into batter. Spoon into lightly greased muffin pans, filling two-thirds full.

Combine remaining 2 tablespoons flour and 3 tablespoons sugar; cut butter into mixture with a pastry blender or fork until crumbly. Spoon evenly over batter in muffin pans.

Bake at 375° for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden. Remove muffins from pans immediately, and cool on wire racks.

* Raspberries may be substituted for blueberries.

Southern Living DECEMBER 2003

Chocolate White Chocolate Cupcakes

I LOVE to bake and make cupcakes.  

A couple months ago I won a facebook contest for 2 cupcakes at Sweet Wishes a gourmet cupcake shop in Baton Rouge.  I had there cupcakes once before when they gave away a free cupcake to anyone who said GEAUX TIGERS (or something like that) for an LSU football victory and was not that impressed.  The cupcakes were ok but not moist at all.  But this last time Keith and I split the Chocolate White Chocolate and it was GREAT.  

So I decided to make them for Keith's 32nd Birthday.  

I found the Chocolate cupcake recipe from Cupcake Project blog when looking for moist Chocolate cupcakes.  I added Godiva white chocolate chucks from 3 Godiva candy bars I cut up.  I just put my favorite cream cheese icing and they turned out AMAZING.

Chocolate White Chocolate

Makes 12 regular cupcakes.

Cupcakes

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature

1-1/4 cups sugar

2 large eggs, room temperature

3/4 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 cup milk

1 teaspoons vanilla

2/3 cup white chocolate chucks (I added almost a cup)

1.    Beat butter until softened. 

2.   Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.

3.   Add eggs, one at a time, beating until well combined. 

4.   Measure the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder into a small sized bowl and whisk to combine.

5.    Measure out the milk and vanilla and stir to combine.

6.   Add about a third of the dry ingredients to the butter/sugar and beat to combine. Add about a half of the milk/vanilla and beat to combine. 

7.   Continue adding, alternating between dry and wet and finishing with the dry. 

8.   Stir in white chocolate chucks.

9.   Scoop batter into cupcake cups about 2/3 full.

10.         Bake at 350 degrees for 22-25 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.

Cream Cheese Icing

6 oz. cream cheese, softened 



1 stick butter, softened

2 teaspoons vanilla

    Add powdered sugar until the right consistency

What Grady's been saying...

• Grady asks me one morning, "mom do you want a yellow baby?" "What is a yellow baby Grady?"  "Reece is a yellow baby and I am a brown baby, mom you were a yellow baby and dad was a brown baby."
• I was proud of Grady and asked him when he got so big... He says "March 27th" (his birthday)
• On the way to Keith's soccer game today Grady says "Dad can you PLEASE score a goal today."
• Grady was playing at the end the soccer field today near an BIG electrical box.  Grady yells over to me "Mom what is in this box?" "Just electrical stuff Grady"  "No Mom there is monster in there."  "Don't worry Grady there is not a monster in there."  "Yes there is mom they have a picture of it."   I walk over and see the picture... "Grady that is just showing you that the electricity can hurt you." "NO mom electricity does not have a face and this does. The monster is scary and is going to come out and grab your arm."

Need at Father's Day Card??

 

I just ordered 6 personalized photo father day cards from tinyprints.com and it only cost me $6.44.  That is cheaper then if I would have bought them at the store.  

They have a coupon code that makes all father's day cards 99¢ each and free shipping right now.       

Code: FDAY99 | Offer expires 6/7/11 

Wonderful Memorial Day Weekend

 Friday we went to the blueberry farm (it is 2 miles from our house)

 and swimming in backyard

 Saturday we made Blueberry pancakes.

 an had our housewarming party.

 Sunday we had a lazy morning

 then had dinner with Adam & Rachel. 

 the cousins played

and then we made S'Mores 

Monday Grady started his 2nd session of swimming lessons this year

End of 1st year of School

Grady's 1st day of School (Sept 3, 2010)

Grady's Last Day (May 24, 2011)

Grady comes home from school everyday sweaty, dirty and with rocks in his shoes.  

Grady has learned and grown so much this year.  He has calmed down and learned how to control his body.  He is still FULL of energy.  

proud