7 Quick Takes (2) (Pinterest Days 42-48)

I enjoyed participating in the quick takes linkup over at Conversion Diary with Jennifer.  Be sure to make your way over there and perhaps participate in this linkup as well.

This week, I just want to share seven recipes from Pinterest that I've tried and haven't changed the recipe.  Food is always good, and hey, this adds another seven days to my pinterest challenge.  In unrelated news, my new camera arrived today!  Hopefully I can finally go back to taking my own pictures and sharing them again.   Perhaps lighting can get better around here too, though Germany isn't exactly popular for its sunshine.

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I thought chocolate cream pie would be the perfect start off.  Who doesn't love pie?  Or making pie?  Perhaps this simple recipe will stick on you like it did me.  So simple yet so delicious!  Also, I lied.  I added a layer of chocolate chips between the cream and chocolate in the actual pie.

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This slow cooker roast recipe turned out AMAZING.  I changed nothing, and didn't even  have to make a side dish, as the veggies worked great for that.

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This creamy tomato pasta has become a family favorite for all parties in my house.  Simple, yet delicious, though I haven't found a good green veggie I like to throw into it yet.  Any suggestions?  Also, I must say that the blog in which I found this recipe has an amusing title!  Go check it out.

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Another slow cooker recipe!  This one is slow cooker shredded beef tacos.  I used it as a shredded beef hamburger, burritos, and even just by itself.  Also, I loved how many meals I actually created out of one roast of sorts.  That definitely made one week of grocery shopping cheaper and required a whole lot less cooking.

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Raspberry chipotle BBQ chicken!  This recipe the husband didn't seem to like too much, and I found it a touch too spicy, but regardless, I still thoroughly enjoyed it.  Next time, though, I'll not add as much chipotle pepper.  By the way, this blog has a ton of other great looking recipes.  I just haven't gotten around to trying the others yet.

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Pizza monkey bread.  Ok, I changed this recipe too, but only by a little.  instead of making it monkey bread style, I left it in individual bites.  Big hit, though it took a good minute or sixty to prep all the bites for cooking.  Next time, if I feel really motivated, I might make the bites meat lovers or supreme style.  As for the blog, I'm not sure how anyone can be healthy and sane, but it seems being so makes for a great blog.  I should ask her what the secret is.

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Lastly, I figured we might as well leave off with a dessert since we started with one.  Enjoy these cookie dough truffles!  This particular recipe I found a long time ago and made them with my mother in law.  We landed into a fluffy bed of chocolate cookie dough heaven after the first bite.  Fast forward three years.  I could not find the same recipe, that is, until pinterest came along and brought me to where I needed to be.

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Note:  the photo credit links will take you directly to the recipe on the blog.

7 Quick Takes (1)

Since Tuesday's Top Ten Linkup turned out to be quite fun, I decided to join another one my seemingly popular friend at Momma in Progress likes to do.  This one is fairly simple; just talk about seven things too short for their own post.  The linkup is hosted over at Conversion Diary, so feel free to join too if you wish! Here's the link up link.

I've just had a few little things on my mind lately, but none if it really seems to be able to create an entire blog post.  I guess that's why this link up was created, huh.


1.  I only have two more quiet book pages and a million little pieces to go!  Almost done with one of them anyway.  Those little barn puppets aren't turning out like I'd hoped for though.  Off to find a template!

2.  My children decided we absolutely positively NEEDED to grow corn this year.  I have no clue about where to even start with that one.  This should be interesting.   Any tips?

3.  Showers are amazing.  'Nuff said.  Though, I'm having trouble finding a good shampoo/conditioner combo that helps my hair in this hard hard water.  Do you guys have any suggestions?

4.  Today is "frantically catch up on all the housework" day because the husband comes home and I was lazy for two whole days.  Yep, there's a carpet of dog hair that requires my attention.   Good news!  My dog brush vacuum attachment came in yesterday, so hopefully that might help a little with the whole situation.

5.  Snacking is seriously helping my morning sickness.  And by snacking, I mean just eating fruits, veggies, and nuts through out the day.  Next week, I'll have to go back to having actual meals with the family because the husband isn't exactly the biggest fan of cereal for dinner, but that's alright.  I need to try to eat something meaty anyway, as I'm not exactly a very good protein matcher.

6.  My poor poor camera has gone MIA.   I seriously have no idea where to even look.

7.  Lastly, my roses got a bit of frost bite last night because I forgot to bring them inside in time.  Most are still a pretty red though.  In other news, my tiny tiny onion sprout decided it needed to bold and produce a seed.  I didn't realize it was a seed until I pinched it off the plant.  I'm pretty sure it won't grow anything, as they aren't supposed to seed -that- fast, or really until the onion bulb has atleast started to form.  Oh the joys of gardening.