Weekly Post Roundup 8

I can't believe another week has passed and it's Sunday.  Happy Sunday Everyone!!!  It's time for this weeks Weekly Post Roundup 8.

Marriage 2 - Bible Verses

Decorations for a Baby Shower

Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 55

Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake GF/Sf

Pineapple Juice Cocktail

Bacon Wrapped Scallops For Father's Day 

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Bacon Wrapped Scallop for Father's Day

These Bacon Wrapped Scallop for Father's Day are a simple, delicious meal.  They are so great and pretty to serve to guests or for a romantic evening at home with your significant other, but they will make a Father's Day Dinner really special.  I know these will be a big hit with all of those Dads out there.  How can they not be, they are wrapped in bacon.

Bacon Wrapped Scallops

Ingredients:

16 thick hickory smoked slices of bacon

1 1/2 lb large scallops (16 pieces)

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with foil and spray with non stick cooking spray.

Lay you bacon on a baking sheet.

Partially precook the bacon in the oven for 10 minutes, then check them and turn them and cook for another 10 to 15 minutes depending on how thick your bacon is.  You don't want it totally cooked, it will finish cooking once it is wrapped around the scallop.

Let the bacon cool down enough to be able to handle it with your hands.

Wrap a slice of bacon around each scallop.

Put a toothpick through the bacon and scallop to hold the bacon to the scallop.

Bake in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes.  I turned mine after 10 minutes and then cooked them for another 5 minutes.

Remove from oven and place on a serving platter and serve.

Makes 4 servings of 4 pieces

I hope you enjoy these Bacon Wrapped Scallops.  We really loved them.  I always love hearing from you.

Enjoy!!!

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Pineapple Juice Cocktail from The Settlement Cookbook

Today's Happy Hour Recipe is a Pineapple Juice Cocktail from The Way to a Man's Heart The Settlement Cookbook (copyright 1947).  I am a little early on the Retro Recipe for this week, but I thought that this looked like a good drink for the week.  

Pineapple Juice Cocktail

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup water

2 cups moscato or 1 cup sprite (for alcohol free version)

1 1/2 pineapple juice

1/2 cup orange juice

Directions:

Mix sugar and water in a sauce pan.

Bring to a boil and boil gently for 5 minutes.

let cool, once cool add moscato or sprite, pineapple juice, and orange juice.

Stir and pour over ice.

Makes 3 to 4 servings

I hope that you like this weeks Pineapple Juice Cocktail.  David and I thought it was delicious.  I can't wait to hear what you think.  I always love hearing from you.

Enjoy!!!

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Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake Gluten Free / Sugar Free

I made this Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake Gluten Free / Sugar Free so that I would be able to have a special treat.  I got the recipe from the book The Joy of Gluten Free, Sugar Free Baking by Peter Reinhart and Denene Wallace.  I am trying to make more grain free baked goods, so that I can have delicious snacks like the rest of the world.  Sometimes I feel so deprived, not being able to eat grains or sugar.  These did ease the feelings of deprivation a little.  I will say that the cake was a little dry, so in the recipe I have given you I have it cooking for less time.  I also need people to know that since this is being cooked with stevia or Splenda, there is a little bit of an aftertaste.  I just want to be very honest.  I would make this again, because I can't eat regular cake, but this would not be a recipe for everyone.

Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes Gluten Free/ Sugar Free

Ingredients:

2 cups hazelnut flour

2 cups almond flour

2 1/2 cups Splenda or Stevia in the Raw

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

5 eggs

8 oz cream cheese at room temperature

3/4 cup unsalted butter

2 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 tsp liquid stevia

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees and rub butter all over the inside of a bundt pan and place in freezer

Mix hazelnut flour, almond flour, splenda or stevia, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in a medium sized bowl until well blended.

In a large bowl mix eggs, cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and liquid stevia until for 1 minute.

Next add the flour and mix low to start, to incorporate with the egg mixture.  Then turn mixer to medium high for 1 minute.  The batter  will be very thick.

Remove the bundt pan from freezer and coat the pan with almond, hazelnut, or coconut flour.  Make sure that it is well coated to that the cake does not stick.  Spoon the batter into the pan.

  Jiggle pan to get rid of air pockets and even out the batter.

Bake for 30 minutes and then turn the pan in the oven.  Cook for another 15 to 20 minutes.  I cooked mine for 20 and it was a little too dry.

Let cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes in pan.  Turn onto a rack to finish cooling.

I hope that you like this cake.  I love that it is gluten free and sugar free, so that I also have something sweet.  I always love hearing from you.

Enjoy!!!

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Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 55

We want to thank everyone who shared with last week's Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 54.  We love seeing all of your posts.

Welcome to Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 55.  We will be doing a giveaway for a $50 Visa Gift Card once we reach 500 (GFC) Google Friends Connect Followers, so if you're not following on GFC, it would be great if you would follow us on GFC.  We are just 7 people away from doing this giveaway.

Now for this weeks featured bloggers.

Featured Bloggers from Blog Hop 54

1.  Soaked Zucchini Carrot Millet Muffins from Peeling Back The Onion Layers

2.  The Night(mare) Stand from Delusions of Ingenuity

3.  Cake Mix Rolls from The Busy Mom's Helper

4.  Homemade Natural Body Powder from Sudz n' Hunni

5.  How to Make Loose Sofa Covers from Sew Paint It

6.  For the Love of Coffee from The Moonlight Factory

7.  Almond Milk from The Salty Kitchen

8.  Dying Yarn With a Blank from Horrific Knits

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We hope you have fun at this week's party.  We all love hearing from you, so we love your comments.

Now let's party

Have a great week.

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Decorations for a Baby Shower

Today I'm showing you The Decorations for a Baby Shower.  We put all of these lanterns and pompoms above the food table and I love the way they looked over the table.  It just came out so cute.  I found all of the decorations that we used at Hobby Lobby, but I think that you would be able to find them at most party stores or places like JoAnn's or Michaels.

Decorations for a Baby Shower

Supplies:

1 package of 3 pink lanterns

1 package of 3 zebra lanterns

1 package of 3 paper pompoms

9 clear top tacks

27 feet of decorative ribbon cut to 2 to 3 food lengths (This is subjective.  Get what you need to hang the lanterns and pompoms at different heights above the table)

Directions:

Follow the directions on the packages to put the lanterns together.

Follow the directions on the package to make your pompoms puffy and full.  (You basically just start separating the different pieces of paper until they are in the shape of a pompom)

Tie ribbons to the tops of the lanterns and the pompoms.  We did have to tape the ribbons to the pompoms to make them more secure.

Then using your tacks, start tacking them to the ceiling above the table where you want them.  We tacked them at different lengths to the ceiling.

I love the way they looked over the food table.  It looked so festive and cute.  If you have any questions, send me a message.  I always love hearing from you.

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Marriage 2 Bible Verses

This week I am sharing verses about Marriage 2 - Bible Verses.  I love reading these verses.  I hope you enjoy them also.  

Genesis

Gen 2:24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Song of Solamon

Son 6:3  I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine:

Ephesians

Eph 4:2  Always be humble and gentle. Patiently put up with each other and love each other. 

Eph 4:3  Try your best to let God's Spirit keep your hearts united. Do this by living at peace.

Eph 5:31  As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother to get married, and he becomes like one person with his wife." 

1 Corinthians

1Co 13:4  Love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or 

1Co 13:5  rude. Love isn't selfish or quick tempered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others do. 

1Co 13:6  Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil. 

1Co 13:7  Love is always supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting. 

1 Peter

1Pe 3:1  If you are a wife, you must put your husband first. Even if he opposes our message, you will win him over by what you do. No one else will have to say anything to him, 

1Pe 3:7  If you are a husband, you should be thoughtful of your wife. Treat her with honor, because she isn't as strong as you are, and she shares with you in the gift of life. Then nothing will stand in the way of your prayers. 

Romans

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 

I hope that you enjoy today's verses.   There are so many beautiful ones to choose from.  I can't wait to share more with you next week.  I always love hearing from you.  

Have a Blesses Week.

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Weekly Post Roundup 7

Happy Sunday again everyone.  Today we are up to our Weekly Post Roundup 7.  Here are links to all of this weeks posts, if you haven't seen them yet. How easy it that.  You can get them all in one place. 

Weekly Roundup 7

Marriage - Bible Verses

Onsie's Baby Banner for a Baby Shower

Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 54

Fruit Skewers for a Baby Shower

Blue Pineapple Mango Martini

Mixed Greens Salad with Strawberries and Candied Pecans

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Fruit Skewers for a Baby Shower

Vince made these Fruit Skewers for a Baby Shower.  He is a really good big brother.  He came over early to help move furniture out of  my living room to make room for the tables, and ended up helping me finish getting the rest of the food ready.  They were very simple to make, and looked so pretty on the food table.  They would be great for any party, and look a little more festive then just a fruit bowl or fruit platter.

Fruit Skewers for a Baby Shower

Ingredients:

Strawberries

pineapple

cantaloupe

watermelon

grapes

bamboo skewers

Directions:

Cut the stems off of your strawberries, cut the rest of your fruit into bite size pieces, except for the grapes.

Thread the fruit onto the skewers, using one of each kind of fruit on the skewer.

Make enough fruit skewers so that you have 1 to 2 skewers per person.

Vince made about 30 skewers and we had 20 people at the shower.  We had about 6 skewers left at the end of the shower.   So these ended up being a big hit.  I think the only thing I would add would be a fruit dip next time, but that didn't seem to bother the people at the shower.

I hope this gives you another simple idea for a shower, luncheon, or barbeque this summer.  I always love hearing from you.

Have a great weekend.

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Blue Pineapple Mango Martinis

I a recipe for a Blue Pineapple Mango Martini for you today. I made this for Mom, Dad, and my friend Ian a few weeks ago, and Mom thought this would be a good a Friday's Happy Hour Recipe. They seemed to like the drink a lot.  I can't honestly tell you how it was, since I am 31 weeks pregnant and am not drinking.  Ian's first reaction was just so so, but then he said it grew on him, and he had two, so it must have been good. It's fun playing bartender I just start mixing different ingredients, that sound like they might be good together to make drinks. This is the first time I have ever used Blue Curacao, and I have never tasted it, but it looked pretty in the bottle. 

 Blue Pineapple Mango Martinis

 Ingredients:

4 oz pineapple vodka

2 oz blue curacao

3 oz mango nectar

Directions:

 Add ice to a martini shaker. 

 Add the pineapple vodka, blue curacao, and mango nectar. 

 Let sit for a minute to chill well, and then shake.  

Pour into 2 martini glasses and serve. 

 I hope you like my Blue Pineapple Mango Martinis as much as my parents and Ian did. We always love hearing from you. 

 Enjoy!!! 

Charly
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Mixed Greens Salad with Strawberries and Goat Cheese

I made a Mixed Greens Salad with Strawberries and Goat Cheese for Charly's Baby Shower.  It's a recipe that I came up with a long time ago, and I thought it would be beautiful on the table at the luncheon.  It is a simple recipe to make and looks elegant on the table.  The flavors of the goat cheese, strawberries, and candied pecans all go really well together.  I also use a poppy seed dressing which adds that extra bit of sweetness to the salad, and goes well with the chicken salad and saffron shrimp. 

Mixed Greens Salad with Strawberries and Goat Cheese

Ingredients:

1 large box of mixed greens from Costco or your grocery store 1lb

1 lb sliced strawberries

1 1/2 bags candied pecans or walnuts

6 oz goat cheese (crumbled)

1 1/2 bottles Brianna's Poppy Seed Dressing

Directions:

Put your mixed greens in a large bowl.

Add your sliced strawberries, candied pecans, and goat cheese.

Start with one bottle of the poppy seed dressing and start tossing your salad.  Add more dressing if necessary.

Serves 20

You can cut all of the ingredients in half for a smaller crowd.  Also, if this had been the only salad,  It would not have served as many people, but we also had a ceasar salad, so people were taking a little of both.  We did not have much of this left, so it went over pretty well.  I hope that you like this recipe.  I always love hearing from you.

Enjoy!!!

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Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 54

We want to thank everyone who shared with last week's Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 53.  We love seeing all of your posts.

Welcome to Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 54.  We will be doing a giveaway for a $50 Visa Gift Card once we reach 500 (GFC) Google Friends Connect Followers, so if you're not following on GFC, it would be great if you would follow us on GFC.  We are just 7 people away from doing this giveaway.

This week my Co-Host is Linda from With A Blast.

 I would love it if you would follow Linda, she is one of my favorite bloggers.  Linda was actually one of the first bloggy friends, and I love her dearly.  She is from Johannesburg, South Africa and has some of the greatest recipes and crafts on her blog.  So head over and take a look around.  I know you will love her blog as much as I do.

This week we are featuring bloggers from the last two parties, Blog Hops 52 and 53.  Congratulations to all of you.  You can grab my featured blogger button in my sidebar.

Featured Bloggers from Blog Hop 52

1.  Puppy Inspired Embroidery from Sylvia's Stitches

2.  How to Make Super Hero Cake Pop's for Dad from Sugar Kissed.net

3.  Cauliflower My Husband Will Eat from Exceptionalist

4.  Painted Berry Boxes from While Wearing Heals

5.  Baked Penne Rigate From Memories By The Mile by Wanda Ann

6.  Remembering Baba - A Proverbs 31 Grandmother

7.  Strawberry Honey Butter from Crafts A La Mode by Two Succulent Sisters

8.  The Barn - Big Reveal by Pudel Design


Featured Bloggers from Blog Hop 53

1.  Living Room Inspiration from Snippets of Inspiration

2.  Lovely Lunaria as a Cut Flower from An Extraordinary Day

3.  Denim Repurposed from Family Home and Life

4.  A Chemical Free Toilet is a Happy Toilet from My Lamp is Full

5.  Fruit Trifle from Picture Perfect Cooking

6.  How to Show HTML Box in Text Box in Sidebar from Content in The Meantime

7.  Little Ladies of the Past from Southern Belles

8.  Birdbath Made From PVC Pipe from Crafts A La Mode by Two Succulent Sisters

So on to this weeks party.

We hope you have fun at this week's party.  We all love hearing from you, so we love your comments.

Now let's party

Have a great week.
Debi, Charly, and Linda

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Onsie Baby Banner for Baby Shower

Today, I am going to give directions for making this really cute Onsie Baby Banner for a Baby Shower.  It was pretty easy to do, and it came out so cute.  I got a lot of ideas from Pinterest, here is a link to my Baby Shower Board, with my pins and the pins that inspired me.  I had pinned a onsie that said, "So Glad to be Out, I was running out of womb." and Gabi and I decided that should be the centerpiece of the banner.  When I was on Amazon.com shopping for the onsie, I saw 2 others with tutus.  One said, "I'm a Daddy's Girl" and the other said, "Mommy's little Girl".  I thought they would be really cute on the banner also, along with the plain onsies.

Gabi and Laurie were so wonderful.  They took the pictures that I had pinned and the materials that I bought and brought what was in my head to life. They are wonderful friends and family.

Onsies Baby Banner for Baby Shower

Supplies:

4 plain onesie

3 cute fun onsies of your choice

 16 bamboo clothes pins

Twine or thin rope

9' 1 1/2 inch ribbon (of your choice) (or length that you need for your window)

9' 7/8 inch ribbon (of your choice) (or length that you need for your window)

4 tacks

Directions:

We laid the onsies out on a table to see what we were working with.

Then, Laurie and Gabi laid cute the twine so that it was long enough to hang over my window and drape down the sides about 1 1/2'.

They then cut the ribbon to the same length as the twine.  My ribbon had pink and white stripes and the other said It's a girl with a baby carriage on it.  The put the ribbon in front of the twine.

Next, they centered the black onsie in the center of the ribbon and twine and used the clothes pins to attach the onsie to the twine and ribbon.

They, added the other onsies to the twine anchoring them with the clothes pins.

Then we used a clothes pin to hold all of the ribbon and twine together about 1 1/2 feet from the end on each side.

We then used two tacks on each side of the clothes pins to anchor the banner above the window on each side of the window.

You now have a finished Onsie Baby Banner.

I think this banner came out so cute and it looked great above the desert table.  I always love hearing from you.

Have a great week.

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Marriage

Just a few simple verses today on Marriage.  There is so much wisdom to be found in The Bible.  God's word is so beautiful and informative.  He gives us a set of rules to follow about getting married and also on marriage itself, and what he expects of us.  Next week, I will share some verses about God's expectations of the husband / wife relationship (God's expectations of both men and women).

Marriage

Luk 20:34  And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: 

1Co 7:33  But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

1Ti 5:14  I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

I read a post from Simply Vintageous by Suzan that was about a Pat Robertson radio show.  I was appalled at Pat Robertson's comments to the women calling into his show.  I believe that God has set guidelines for marriage, but I believe the The Bible was never meant to give men the idea that men just stray, and women should just put up with it. I also do not believe that God wants women to feel like it's all their fault, because they didn't dress pretty enough or have enough makeup or just be perfect in general.  We are human beings with flaws, and God sees us how we are.  To use The Bible as a soap box to allow men to wander outside a marriage truly gives new meaning to perverting the word. 

Sorry, I did not mean for today's post to be a rant, but I love The Bible.  It is so beautiful, and I get really upset when people try to change the meaning to suit themselves. 

Have a blesses week.

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