Cinco de Mayo Recipes

Good morning, today we have 14 Cinco de Mayo Recipes.  Are you ready for Cinco de Mayo?  If not here are a few recipes to help you get there. There should be something here for everyone, and most of these recipes are super easy.

Cocktails

1.  Margaritas

2.  Peach Sangria

3.  Blue Lagoon Margaritas

Appetizers and Salads

4.  Taco Salads

5.  Cilantro Lime Vinagrettte

6.  Jalepeno Cream Cheese Popper Dip

Dinners

7.  Mexican Rub

8.  Chorizo Empanadas

9.  Beef Empanadas

10.  Chicken Tamale Pie

11.  Low Carb Mexican Chicken Crepes

12.  Proscuitto and Brie Empanadas

Desserts

13.  Banana Dulce de Leche Empanadas

14.  Churros

I hope these recipes help you with your Cinco de Mayo celebrations.  I always love hearing from you. Have a fun Cinco de Mayo.

Enjoy!!!

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Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 50

We want to thank everyone who shared with last week's Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 49.  We love seeing all of your posts.

Welcome to Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 50.  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.

Now for this weeks Featured Bloggers.  Congratulations to all of you.  You can grab my featured blogger button in my sidebar.

1.  Paper Doily Decoupaged Bottle Tutorial from Kristin at Craftiments

2.  My Fashion Forward Blog From Leslie

3.  How to Sharpen a Whole Punch from Noreen at Crafty Journal

4.  Prairie Girl from Laurie at Heaven's Walk

5.  Cinnamon Pretzel Snack from Nancy at The Moonlight Factory

6.  What I Wish I Knew: How To Monetize Your Blog from Bonny at The Domesticated Princess

7.  Handbags, Purses, Pocketbooks, Oh My from Beverly at Welcome To Tea Cottage Pretties

8.  Cheddar Cheese Straws from Debbie at Dining With Debbie

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.

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Wire Ring Tutorial 2 Spiral Ring

Today I am doing a Wire Ring Tutorial 2 - Spiral Ring.  I have been having a lot of fun making rings  with silver wire, and it seems like the sky is the limit  Just use your imagination or head over to Pinterest to get ideas.  So far these are my own designs, but I was checking out Pinterest yesterday, and there are so many fun designs that you can make with very few special tools.  You can get silver wire and basic tools like needle nose pliers, wire cutters and a mandrel at Hobby Lobby or Michaels. On one blog I even saw someone using a chapstick tube instead of a mandrel.  I thought this was a great idea for someone starting out and not wanting to invest a lot of money.

Spiral Wire Ring Tutorial

Supplies:

Silver Wire 18 gauge (can be silver or any color, I used sterling silver but I also have some silver plated.)

wire cutters

needle nose pliers

Mandrel or chapstick container for sizing and shape
Emory board or metal file (you can use the one from your nail clippers even)

Directions:

1.  Cut a piece of silver wire about 2 1/2 inches long.

2.  Bend your wire around the back side of your mandrel to the size that you want your ring to be, leaving the two sides straight up over the top of the mandrel.

3.  Next twist the two parts of the wire in the opposite direction around each other using your needle nose pliers.

4.  Then start twisting the wire on the left in a spiral circle around the wire on the right.

5.  Before finishing wrapping your wire, take your file and file the end of the wire so that it is not so sharp

6.  Finish twisting the wire on the left all the way around, and make sure that the end of the wire is pushed in tight.

7.  Next, start wrapping the wire on the right to the left and wrapping in a spiral, on top of the first wire.

8.  Before that wire has been totally wrapped in your spiral, file the end of that wire also, so that it is not sharp.

9.  Push the edge of the wire in tight, so that it will not snag on your clothing.  You can do that with you needle nose pliers, by squeezing the top of the ring together.  (the end and the opposite side of the wire.)

I love the way this little Spiral Wire Ring came out.  It is so delicate and pretty.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me (make sure that you are not a no-comment blogger, other I can't respond by email and it becomes difficult for me to try to reply to your questions).  I always love hearing from you.

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Craftsy Beading with Wire, Chain & Leather Class

Psalm 24

I thought Psalm 24 was so beautiful and wanted to share it with all of you today.

(Psa 24:1)  A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

(Psa 24:2)  For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

(Psa 24:3)  Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

(Psa 24:4)  He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

(Psa 24:5)  He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

(Psa 24:6)  This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

(Psa 24:7)  Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

(Psa 24:8)  Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

(Psa 24:9)  Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

(Psa 24:10)  Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

I really hope that you enjoy today's reading of Psalm 24.  I always love hearing from you.

Have a blessed day.

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Weekly Post Roundup 2

Hey Everyone, Happy Sunday.  Here is my Weekly Post Roundup 2.  You will find all of this weeks posts in one place.  Have a wonderful Sunday.  Enjoy your families and your reading.

Humility - Matthew 3:13 - 3:17

Wire Heart Ring Tutorial

Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop 49

Peanut Butter Cookies Gluten Free Sugar Free

Dragon Fruit and Lychee Martini

Banana and Dulce de Leche Empanadas

I hope you like this weeks roundup.  I always love hearing from you. Have a wonderful and Blessed Day.

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Banana Dulce de Leche Empanadas

These Banana Dulce de Leche Empanadas came out so good and were so easy to make.  This is the last of the Empanada Series.  I think I'm going to miss making them.  I had so much fun sharing them with all of you, and eating them was pretty good too.   

Banana Dulce de Leche Empanadas

Ingredients:

4 bananas sliced

1 can Dulce de Leche (I used Le Lecheria)
2 TB butter

2 Pillsbury Thin Pizza Crust

Directions:

1.  Put 2 TB butter in a sauce pan, heat over medium heat until melted.

2.  Add the dulce de leche and stir until well mixed over low heat.

3.  Add the bananas and coat well with the dulce de leche.  Turn off heat.

4.  Preheat oven to 425 degrees and I lined pan the Reynolds non stick foil, but you could use non stick cooking spray.

5.  Unroll your pizza dough on a large cutting board.

6.  I used a small 5 1/2 to 6 inch saucepan lid to cut circles of dough for the empanadas   I got 4 circles of dough from each pizza crust.  (There is quite a bit of waste, you could probably rework the dough and get more circles)

8.  Start by putting a few tablespoons of your banana mixture on 1/2 of your dough.

 9.  Then fold the other half of dough over the bananas and roll the edges so that they are sealed. (Make sure they are sealed well so that nothing leaks out of the dough while cooking, mine did leak caramel.)

10.  Bake in the oven for 8 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

11.  Serve immediately or remove from pan and place on racks to cool

Makes 8 medium sized empanadas
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I hope that you like these delicious Banana Dulce de Leche Empanadas.  They are a great desert and really simple to make.  I always love hearing from you.  Have a great weekend.

Enjoy!!!

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Dragon Fruit and Lychee Martini and 1 Year Blogiversary

Happy Friday Everyone.  Today we have a Dragon Fruit and Lychee Martini and it is Adorned From Above's 1 Year Blogiversary.  Yay!!!  I can't believe I made it through 1 year.  I have made so many wonderful friends, and I have learned so much from all of you.  I simply can not tell all of you how much you mean to me, and because I love all of you so much I am giving away a $50 visa Gift Card. The giveaway will go through Sunday.  Have fun and good luck.
  This came out so delicious.  I decided to buy a dragonfruit infused vodka and it is really good in drinks.

Dragonfruit and Lychee Martini

Ingredients:

2 oz. SKYY Dragonfruit Infused Vodka

2 oz. Lychee Juice

Direction:

Pour the vodka and lychee juice over ice in a cocktail shaker.  Shake and let sit for a few minutes to get really cold.

Pour into a martini glass and serve.

Makes 1 martini
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I hope that you like this new martini.  I absolutely loved the flavor.  I always love hearing from you.  Have a great weekend.

Enjoy!!!

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