Day 10 — A favorite food & recipe

I LOVE THIS RECIPE - It is easy, and SO Yummy!


Brown Sugar Spiced Pork Tenderloin*Makes about 2 1/2 pounds of pork tenderloin, enough to serve 8 adults*

Rub Ingredients:

2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 pork tenderloins (2 1/2 lb. total), each tenderloin cut into two chunks
2 tablespoons olive oil

Glaze ingredients:

1 cup packed dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic (about 6-8 cloves)
1 tablespoon tabasco sauce

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, stir together salt, pepper, cumin, chili powder, and cinnamon, then coat the pork with the spice rub. Heat the oil in an ovenproof 12-inch heavy skillet that is ovenproof  over medium high heat until the oil is hot and rippling. Brown the pork, turning, about 4 minutes total. Leave pork in the skillet. If you don’t have an ovenproof skillet, brown the pork in a skillet and transfer it to a foil-lined baking pan (like a 9X13-inch).

Stir together the brown sugar, garlic, and Tabasco and pat on top of each tenderloin. Roast in the middle of the oven until a thermometer inserted diagonally in center of each tenderloin registers 140, about 25 minutes. Let pork stand in the skillet at room temperature for 10 minutes. The temperature will rise to about 155 while standing. Slice on the diagonal and serve, spooning the sauce from the skillet on top of the pork.

Day 09 — A favorite movie

i LOVE these movies

Day 08 — A favorite song

Again, sorry for the delay, but it has taken me some time to find a song I LOVE. I realized this was the one I wanted to post as I turned up for Henry and I to dance to. Its fun to listen to, and has a great message! 


LEE BRICE - LOVE LIKE CRAZY


They called him crazy when they started out
Said seventeen's too young to know what loves about
They've been together fifty-eight years now
That’s crazy

He brought home sixty-seven bucks a week
He bought a little 2 bedroom house on Maple Street
Where she blessed him with six more mouths to feed
Yeah that’s crazy

Just ask him how he did it; he'll say pull up a seat
It'll only take a minute, to tell you everything
Be your best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you
Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin' knees get lazy
And love like crazy

They called him crazy when he quit his job
Said them home computers, boy they'll never take off
He sold his one man shop to Microsoft
They paid like crazy

Just ask him how he made it
He'll tell you faith and sweat
And the heart of a faithful woman,
Who never let him forget

Be your best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you
Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin knees get lazy
And love like crazy

Always treat your woman like a lady
Never get too old to call her baby
Never let your prayin knees get lazy
And love like crazy

They called him crazy when they started out
They've been together fifty-eight years now

Ain't that crazy?oo young to know what loves about
They've been together fifty-eight years now
That’s crazy

He brought home sixty-seven bucks a week
He bought a little 2 bedroom house on Maple Street
Where she blessed him with six more mouths to feed
Yeah that’s crazy

Just ask him how he did it; he'll say pull up a seat
It'll only take a minute, to tell you everything
Be your best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you
Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin' knees get lazy
And love like crazy

They called him crazy when he quit his job
Said them home computers, boy they'll never take off
He sold his one man shop to Microsoft
They paid like crazy

Just ask him how he made it
He'll tell you faith and sweat
And the heart of a faithful woman,
Who never let him forget

Be your best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I love you
Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin knees get lazy
And love like crazy

Always treat your woman like a lady
Never get too old to call her baby
Never let your prayin knees get lazy
And love like crazy

They called him crazy when they started out
They've been together fifty-eight years now

Ain't that crazy?

Andes Mint Truffles...

These baking chips were .87 at Target this week. I am definitely going to have to try this recipe. 

Andes Mint Truffles:

(Return to Andes Creme de Menthe Recipes)

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons sweet butter cut into pieces and softened
1 tablespoon milk
2 egg yolks at room temperature
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup Andes® Crème de Menthe Baking Chips
1 tablespoon Brandy or Rum (optional)

Directions:

Place Andes chips in heavy gauge saucepan. Cover pan and place in a frypan containing about 1 inch of hot, not boiling water set over low heat. Water around saucepan should come up to the ingredients inside the saucepan.

Set timer for 10-15 minutes depending on the amount of ingredients in the saucepan. Allow Andes to melt undisturbed making sure the water bath does not bubble or boil.

When timer goes off, remove cover and stir with wire whisk until smooth. Cool 5 minutes.

Beat egg yolk lightly, add a spoonful of candy mixture to the yolks and stir. Add the yolks to the candy in the pan and whisk. Mixture may become grainy; don't be alarmed. Add milk and brandy and whisk until smooth.

With whisk or hand-held electric mixer, beat in the butter piece by piece until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap pressed gently against the truffles mixture and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight.

To form truffles, scoop out by teaspoons, shape into irregular balls, roll in cocoa powder and shake off excess cocoa.

Place on plate or jellyroll pan, cover with plastic wrap and store in refrigerator. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before serving. If desired, place each truffle in paper candy cup.

Yield:

24 Truffles

Favorite ways to save a little moola

Hip2save.com - Love her blog, love her deals, love her giveaways!
Dealpulp.com - I got a 10.00 credit just for signing up!
Mamapedia.com - 5.00 credit just for signing up!
Groupon - In case we are on the lookout for something new and fun in our area thats a great deal!
Coupons!
     coupon.com, smartsource.com, redplum.com, swagbucks.com, couponsuzy.com
SWAGBUCKS! - Currently my FAVORITE way to save a little moola. It's so easy, you simply use it as a search engine. Thats it! The more you use it as your main search engine the more 'swagbucks' you earn and you can cash them in. My good friend Heidi got me into this and I LOVE IT! Swagbucks.com also offers other ways to earn swagbucks. You can do 'tasks' or surveys, or codes, or contests! Well, I have been doing swagbucks for about 6 months and mostly only as a search engine and have earned about 45.00 worth of amazon gift cards.
Check it out!
AMAZON! - I also really love amazon right now. As a mommy I can join amazon mom and get prime (free) shipping on about a million things! My latest saves? Diapers! If you subscribe and save (sign up to have them shipped to you every 1-3 months -this can be cancelled right away-) they take 30% off your price and then you can use gift cards you earned on swagbucks! I get Henry all kinds of little goodies. His plates, and sippy cups, and so much fun stuff! Check it out!

Day 07 — Something I want to buy

Now this is one I can do.... Here's my little list....
I lost Henry's Camelbak and I want to get him this one! Its cute huh.
I love these.... I know. It's a little outside my box, and of course they would require a whole array of new clothes in my closet, but I found a blog of a girl who wears these some days, and with the right wardrobe they would be so fun to own. http://tandsdaybook.blogspot.com/ She just has some super fun style!

Day 06 — Something I bought recently

SORRY! I know I am late, but I havent known what to post today and then a friend reminded me of a great deal I snagged recently.
I have a hobby of finding really great deals! Actually, it's more like I seem to run into them fairly often... So here's one of my great finds.

I bought these pants at OLD NAVY for .49 Cheapest pair of jeans I will ever own. 

Day 05 — Top 10 pet peeves

1. Being Late -
2. Being Ignored
3. Being lied to
4. Cold water in the shower at 8pm because the rest of my apartment building is showering too!
5. Terrible drivers - No laughing Honey, Im a great driver.
6. ....
7. ....
8. ....
9. ....
10. ....
I already missed a day trying to come up with ten, so theres my 5. Maybe I'll come up with more later.....

Day 04 — Something I crave

Now I'm craving both....Thanks a lot Day 4