The French Rooster: A Girls BFF...Chocolate & Peanut Butter!

The French Rooster: A Girls BFF...Chocolate & Peanut Butter!: "Peanut Butter & Chocolate Bars 1 cup butter (2 cubes), at room temperature 1 cup granulated sugar 1 cup brown sugar, packed 1 cup c..."

A Girls BFF...Chocolate & Peanut Butter!

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Bars


1 cup butter (2 cubes), at room temperature

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup brown sugar, packed

1 cup chunky peanut butter

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 cups flour

1 cup oats

2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Add butter, sugars, and peanut butter into a large mixing bowl and beat until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until fluffy. Add in flour, oats, baking soda, and salt and beat until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Spread dough evenly into a large rimmed baking sheet (also known as a jelly roll pan). Bake for 20-25 minutes or until lightly brown and puffed all over.

Remove from oven and cool until warm.

 Enjoy...with your fav Starbucks!! (No calorie counting allowed)

  Love & Blessings, Stephanie

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Easter Morning......

Waking up on Easter morning in our home isn't just all about finding the Easter baskets and heading
off to church service. One of our family traditions during a holiday, is to have breakfast together. The kids love waking up to the table set and seeing the decor. I always wait for them to be sound asleep before I set the table..
What are some of your family traditions? I would love to hear about them.

Here is the Easter morning menu at our home. Mom Byler loved having quiche and fresh fruit..the cinnamon rolls are only made on holidays....so that makes these a definite Family Tradition!

Easy and inexpensive Easter wreath!

As most of you know, one of my favorite places is Target...just like any other retailer, they always have the "dollar" isles right when you walk in...usually full of things you really do not need..but during the holidays, I find this area to be very useful. During my Easter basket shopping, I found some really cute easter decor in this area...and as usual, I thought I could make the items even cuter!  French Rooster style! So here is the wreath I purchased for just $2!!

 



Creating A Gift Basket

I love to create a theme basket! This year I am donating this basket to my children's school auction.

The theme I came up with is

 "Family Fun Night"

My children love when we have family night and its always fun!

This basket will be available to view on Friday, April 15th during Grandparents Day at

 Lake Center Christian.

There will be many others for viewing as well

 :-)

Lauren's Valentine Slumber- Party cupcakes!

SuperBowl Sunday

Country Living Mag-Glazed Country Ribs

2 medium yellow onions

3 pound(s) country-style pork ribs

2 clove(s) (large) garlic, crushed

3 tablespoon(s) canola oil

4 teaspoon(s) grated fresh ginger

1/4 cup(s) low-sodium soy sauce

4 teaspoon(s) sherry vinegar

1/2 teaspoon(s) salt

1/2 teaspoon(s) freshly ground pepper

1 1/2 cup(s) red-currant jelly

4 teaspoon(s) ketchup

Directions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Chop 1 onion into 1-inch pieces. Place ribs, chopped onion, and garlic in 9- by 13-inch roasting pan with 1 1/2 cups water. Cover tightly with foil and place in oven. Braise until ribs are very tender, about 3 1/2 hours.

Meanwhile, for red-currant glaze, finely chop remaining onion. Heat canola oil in a small pot over medium heat. Add onion and cook until soft, about 6 minutes. Add ginger and cook for 1 more minute. Stir in remaining ingredients and simmer for 5 minutes.

Remove ribs from pan, discard onion and garlic, and drain braising liquid. Increase oven to 350 degrees F. Return ribs to pan, brush with glaze, and place on middle rack in oven. Baste with glaze every 10 minutes for 30 minutes. Serve hot or warm alongside 1/2 cup reserved glaze.



French Rooster redo...

Redoing furniture is one way you can cut cost.

I love going into little antique shops and finding a piece of good quality furniture that just needs a redo. Although it can sometimes become time-consuming, the finished product is well worth it!

What I have found over the years through buying varioius furniure pieces through local or national comp. (Arhaus, PotteryBarn, Restoration Hardware, etc.) is that you can redo a piece that may just look like the one they are selling!

How do you show Gods love to others?

Showing Gods love to others can be such a blessing in not only our lives, but the lives around us.

 For example, if you are showing Gods love in acts of kindness, generosity, and forgiveness, patience... these are the many ways we can teach his love to our children.

My mother-in-law recently went to be with the Lord, and during her calling hours, our family got to witness some of the most pure examples of  "Gods love".  So many different walks of life came to pay their respects  and tell us a little about how she showed different acts of love towards them.

What a testimony to our God!

Three Chocolate Chip Cookies...Yumm!

Every Monday, I try to have a special treat for my little ones to come home to after a long day back to school.  They love to walk into the house, and see a pile of cookies in the cookie dish!

This recipie makes alot, so you can cut in half, or freeze the extra.

Happy Baking!

Three Chocolate-Chip Cookies

1 tsp salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
1 3/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate morsels
1 cup milk chocolate morsels
3 (1-ounce) squares bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1 cup almond brickle chips
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease baking sheets.
With an electric mixer, beat butter and shortening at medium speed until creamy; gradually add sugars, beating until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla, beating well.
In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until blended. Stir in chocolate morsels and almond brickle chips. Drop cookies by 1/4 cupfuls about 3-inches apart onto prepared baking sheets. Bake for 11 to 12 minutes, or until lightly browned. Let cool for 2 minutes on baking sheets. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Show: Paula's Home Cooking/Mar/Apr 2006 issue
Servings: 3 dozen
Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 12 min
Difficulty: Easy

Mom Byler's Famous Banana Bread Recipe

This recipe is so dear to my heart. It was the very first recipe of Mom Bylers' that I had made.

She always said that it was just a "basic recipe", but nothing that Mom Byler made was just "basic".

She was a wonderful cook! She added her only little touch to everything she made.

Try this recipe for your children! My children LOVE IT!

I have been making it for 11 years now, so it def will be going in the family tree cookbook!

Happy Baking!

Recipie for Mom Bylers Bannana Bread

3 - ripe bananas

2 - eggs

1 - cup sugar

1 - stick of butter ( I always use real salted butter)

2-c flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1tsp baking soda

2 tabelspoon of milk with 1 tsp of vinegar (mix together and set aside)

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Sift flour, salt, and baking soda

Mix softened butter with sugar and eggs, 

Gradually add dry ingred.

Add the mixture of milk and vinegar

Pour into muffin pan or loaf pan and bake @ 350' for one hour

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