Swap N Share Sunday #6

Hi everyone! I hope you enjoyed your Mother's Day weekend last week and are rested up and ready for another great party.
My Mother's Day was good and bad. I received a new stainless steel deep frying pan from my mom and some whirly gigs for my garden. These help keep the moles out. My husband had his cousin make me a custom kitchen paring knife. Which I LOVE. I love it all. We spent the day with my mom, taking her to her favorite place for lunch and then to Lowe's to purchase flowers for her garden. Then we visited my dad at the nursing home (which was the bad part as he was not doing well at all) and then received word that my aunt was at the ER. She has been told she has lung cancer and it is inoperable. She has had several forms of cancer the last few years and has taken the full amount of chemo and radiation that one can. So now we love her, support her and pray.
If you would like to see one of our favorite desserts and one my mom made when I was growing up, you can read about it HERE.

Favorites from our last party:
Quiche from Feeding Big
Classic Chocolate malt from Just Dip It In Chocolate
Mexican Chocolate Buttermilk Pound Cake from Yesterfood

Cynthia, Liz and Joy be sure to grab your "featured" button

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Now who is ready to link up and party? ME!

Link up to 3 recipes, visit 2 blog post before yours and comment letting them know you found them here. Be sure to add a link back in the form of text or the button to your post. If you have a "link or party" page you can add the button or text link there. AND this week we will link up G+, Pinterest or Facebook links under the recipe link up. Mixing it up a little :)

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skillet chicken

Monday night I had to use my new frying pan. A super large deep stainless steel puppy from my mom! YAY me and Mother's Day gifts. Love it

This was a super easy throw together. It's what I do best.

Skillet chicken
3 large chicken breast, cubed
1 can petite diced tomatoes, salt free
1/3 cup Mt.Olive sweet n hot salad peppers, with juice
1/3 cup drained black olives
3 TBSP oil
2 tsp Italian seasoning
2 tsp parsley flakes
1 tsp garlic powder

Cook chicken in the oil until done, add the seasonings to the chicken. I covered the chicken with the tomatoes and cook covered. Allow to cook for 20 minutes. Then add the olives and peppers. Cover and simmer another 10 minutes. I served this over couscous with fresh green beans and a salad.

ENJOY

I apologize for the photos, my camera was dead and this was taken with my phone.

FFF #44 BBQ Recipes and Memorial Day

Last week's party brought us some fabulous recipes. My pinterest board is busting with all these delightful treats!! You can see it HERE
and you can see who we the host chose as our favorites, wanna see, follow the link HERE and see below

Our readers chose by views and votes, these recipes, see why right? YUM

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Smoothie - mixed fruit

Ever have one of those days when you are hungry, don't know what you want, don't feel like cooking and are too tired to go out?
That was today. So for breakfast I had some almond butter and a banana.
Lunch a large filling smoothie and a salad for supper.
I really wanted something cold, like ice cream or sherbet  We were out and the ingredients for ice cream where not in the house. Next best thing, smoothie!
My smoothies are different every time I make them. This was today's version.

1 lemon, juiced
1 cup almond milk
1/2 cup crushed pineapple with juice
1 cup frozen mixed fruit (peaches, strawberries)
1 frozen banana
2 TBSP organic ground golden flax seed
1 gala apple

Everything went into my Vita Mix and blitzed. YUM

What's your favorite version?

Honey Powder

In several recent recipes I have mentioned using honey powder. Some of you have asked about it.
This is what it looks like:

Honey powder is dehydrated honey. You can use it in recipes as a replacement for sugar and in this form, a powder, no adjustment is needed. If you are a baker and use honey, you know that sometimes you have to adjust your liquid or dry ingredient ratios for the product to turn out well. Not with the honey powder, plus you are getting the sweet without the processed white sugar, which we all love but know is bad for us.

How do I use it? In my hot tea, coffee and in cooking/baking. Here are a few recipes I have used it in:

Breakfast sweet bread

Honey Lemon Sorbet

KFC copycat cole slaw

I first came across the honey powder in my local Asian market but have also found it on Amazon.com the price varies depending on which one you buy. Mine cost less than $6 for the jar and you can see it is 1.32 lb.

Let me know if you have used this before or if you do in the future. I love trying new things and sharing them.

Custom Knife

How many of you have a favorite knife? I do, actually I have a few. I have a favorite paring knife, a favorite veggie knife and one for cutting frozen meats.

My husbands cousin is a custom knife maker. Not sure what the 'technical' term is but he is fabulous. Makes knives of all shapes and sizes and travels to the knife and gun shows across the U.S.

Check out his Facebook page: Pridgen Custom Knives

OR visit their website: HERE

I am not being paid to endorse his products. This is my opinion and I love my new knife. My husband got it for me as an Anniversary/Mother's Day gift. Mine is custom made, there is not another one but some similar.

It is the perfect size and shape for my hand and comfortable to use. THANK YOU Larry!

All the knives are hand made, the blades are Damascus steel and each one has a custom handle and knife sheath for the larger knives.

Be sure to check it out. His daughter also makes "mini" Pridgen Custom Knives. Tam's Mini's. See her page HERE

Be sure to tell him that Dawn and Darrell sent you. (no, we do not get paid for endorsing or referrals, just doing it because it is a product/person we believe in)

Here is Larry, hard at work:

My knife:

moco loco (Spam with bacon)

Several weeks ago at one of my link parties there was a spam recipe linked up. My husband loves Spam. So when I saw they now have...are you ready for this? Bacon Spam, yep, I knew I would have to buy some for him. You should check out the recipe because it is lovely.

We love to have breakfast for supper, so this is what I did.

Bacon Spam, sliced and fried served with (for hubby) runny egss, scrambled for me, grits (we are Southern ya know) and biscuits. I have to admit, it was pretty darn tasty.

Will I do it again? Probably not, the sodium content is high, but it was a nice treat for him.

A few recent favorites

Due to illness and travel, I have not done a lot of cooking the last several days...like 5.
Here are a few of the most popular recipes recently.

Everything Tropical Cake

Asparagus Chicken

Tropical Paradise Cake

Mother's Day post/ Banana Split Cake


KFC Copycat cole slaw recipe

I did cook tonight :) so there will be a new recipe up as soon as I edit the photos.

Dark Chocolate Fudgey Pecan Brownies

My poor husband, I have spoiled him and two days in a row we had no dessert. I swear he almost pouted. So to make up for it, I made him one of his favorite things. A fudgey brownie..but with a little extra something.

These turn out moist and chewing inside with a light krispie top and edges, the best!

Dark Chocolate Fudgey Pecan Brownies

3/4 cup dark chocolate chips

1 stick butter

3/4 cup flour

1/4 tsp baking soda

2 eggs, room temperature

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup chopped pecans

2 TBSP espresso coffee

mini chocolate chips (enough to sprinkle over the top)

In a medium sauce pan, melt the chocolate chips and butter. Stir in the sugar and remove from the heat. Allow to cool and stir in the eggs. Next add the remaining ingredients.

Pour into a greased 8 x 8 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

ENJOY

FFF #43 Mother's Day

Mother's Day is Sunday, so if you're not ready, better run out and get those flowers, candy, and gifts. Check out this week's link party and maybe you'll find a recipe or two that you can cook up to make her day extra special.
To read about my mom, grandmother and a great recipe, check out this earlier post: Mother's Day Post
My mom is a simple cook and not adventurous in her eating but here are a couple of my recipes that she does enjoy:
Banana Pudding
Pina Colada Cake
Fruit Salad

Host, co host and link party time

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