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I’ve shown this little picture to you all about stella & dot hiring. I get inspired when I listen to how others are doing so well. It puts so much more passion into what I’m doing and thriving for. THE most common thing I’m told when I approach someone about hosting a Trunk Show or [...]
June has some pretty great specials for hostesses AND their guests. It’s called Dot Dollars. Dot Dollars – Jewelry Edition is a promotion where customers are rewarded for shopping with Stella & Dot! During the month of June, customers will earn $25 in Dot Dollars for every $50+ transaction with Stella & Dot. During July [...]
Who loves a give away??!! Well I know I do. Stella & Dot not only has fabulously stylish jewelry, but they also have totes and bags. And with those bags comes some pretty awesome accessories!! Have you ever heard or seen a Pouf? Well if you’re familiar with Stella & Dot then you sure are [...]
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As most of you know, I’m Patricia. I’m one of the two in Two Girls Cooking. I’ve recently become an Independent Stylist for stella & dot! Who is stella & dot? Well, let me tell you! Stella and Dot, an Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Company, is a San Francisco based social selling company that creates flexible [...]
This may seem like a pretty hearty meal for the end of April. But as I said in one of my last posts, it’s been fall/winter here still (with the exception of last weekend). So when you see something coming from the kitchen that would normally be made in fall or winter, well we’re still [...]
I work from home! I am very grateful that I get to work from home. One reason is that I get to make my lunch fresh each day! It also means that I tend to eat the same things over and over. I love salads. And I usually will have a lettuce salad [...]
We love this side dish. I made it for Easter this year. And that’s where you get the eggs and the basket in the pix. BUT, I’ve made this twice this week so far!! If you use fat free sour cream, you feel a little less guilty! In my thinking, if you find something a [...]
On April 2nd, Jodi and I went to the Macy’s Cooking Demonstration with Chef Nancy Silverton. We got there a bit early because we got the opportunity to interview the Chef before watching her cook for us! I had my notes all prepared that I wanted to ask her. I wasn’t sure how much time [...]
Thursday’s are taco night in our house. I decided to switch it up a bit. Found this recipe for a taco ring and ran to the store to get what I needed! The kids weren’t too sure on how this was considered a taco! But really the only difference is the breading for a shell. [...]
A couple of years ago, Jodi and I were invited by the Culinary Council at Macy’s to meet Cat Cora! We were so excited. We got to meet other fellow bloggers too! Today we got an invite from Everywhere Social to meet Nancy Silverton at Macy’s, Tuesday, April 2nd at noon. Nancy is a co-owner [...]
I know it’s that time of the year where most people are baking Easter goodies to put on display. I have a couple of those that I want to try too, but bread. Bread came to my mind yesterday when I was on Pinterest looking for Easter fun things and I saw a tomato basil [...]
Ok so the caption says Spring on the photo! Technically it’s Spring here in MN. However, someone forgot to tell Mother Nature that it included the state with 10,000 lakes. Today I think we may have hit 30 degrees, but it’s cold out. There’s a ton of snow on the ground. The kids actually had [...]
We love, love having breakfast for dinner. Brinner as I heard it called before!!! So I happened to find a baked pancake recipe. I always find recipes that use those heavy cast iron skillets that my grandma used to fry her chicken in, but I didn’t have one. Now I do thanks to this recipe. [...]
This past weekend I was in the mood to do baking. I had seen a picture online somewhere of pull apart cookies. I googled and searched all over for a recipe and could not find one. I thought I had saved the recipe to my bookmarks, but I did not. I went to the store [...]
I had chicken in the freezer and not a clue what to make for dinner. I needed to run to the store on my lunch break today so I decided to make some Lo Mein. Now I took a chance with the vegetable thing but they can also pick it out. I’m a fan of [...]
I found a new word that just made me giggle and love it at the same time! Maybe some of you have heard of it, maybe you’re like me and you haven’t. Brinner. I’ve said lets have breakfast for dinner, but never combined it like Brangelina (yeah had to go there)!! In case you aren’t [...]
Breakfast for dinner is always a hit at home! I’m always trying to find something new too that we haven’t had before. We can always have scrambled eggs with bacon. But a Frittata? Oh yeah, I had to try this. I am not a picky eater. I will try most things. There are some exceptions, [...]
One of my favorite candy bars is Twix. I love caramel and chocolate together. I love it. The only complaint I have is that I should have used a sweeter chocolate. Otherwise, I expect this pan of treats to be gone by mid week. I think I ate three of them in less than half [...]
This past weekend I went to my brother’s house to watch the Superbowl, but more importantly to celebrate my 22.5 birthday for the 2nd time with him!! My sister brought this salsa and I HAD to have the recipe for this. It was so good. I mean really good! I made this and ate it [...]
Usually I make tacos every single Thursday (and probably still will this week) but I needed to have something a bit outside of that this week. These little cups are a bundle of happiness once it hits your mouth! The only problem is that I ran out of tortilla shells and couldn’t make more! I [...]
I’m a huge chili fan. It’s a great meal to make during these crazy MN winter days. I love to try new varieties as well, so when I saw buffalo chicken chili I knew this was going to be good. I wasn’t sure if the family was going to like it, but I knew I [...]
The doesn’t look like an average cheeseburger, I know. And it doesn’t have a bun on the top and the bottom. But it does taste like a good cheeseburger!! I think you could add even more of the burger condiments but I chose not to. Maybe some onions and some mustard!! The pickle relish added [...]
We’re all ice cream lovers in our house. So it was a good thing when I finally decided to get the Cuisinart maker. I’ve used it several times so far. Strawberry was the next suggested flavor to make. I have been keeping my bowl in the freezer outside so that when I need it it’s [...]
Justice is the 3rd oldest grandchild of mine. His birthday is January st this week and will be 5 years old. He comes over some weekends to spend time with his dad and Nana! We got to bake a cake and home made Strawberry Ice Cream. When we’re in the kitchen we do our best [...]
I recently shared with you my trip to Indiana to see my friend, Carrie. During that trip I suggested that she try to make a nice home cooked meal. No frozen pot pies for dinner this time. She made the pot pies I had posted earlier and they were great. The other night I got [...]
Last week I made Brown Eyed Bakers Snickers Rice Krispies Bars and they were soooo good. I had gone out of town a couple of days after making these and I hoped that there would be at least one bar left for me (yay there was)!! Then I saw these Oreo Cheesecake Bars on Michelle’s site [...]
I was going through my weekly menu planning and hit a bump in the road as to what new I could make. So I went to Heidi (my friend/co-worker) and asked her to give me some good ideas. This reminded me of the Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls. I was trying to decide what to [...]
This isn’t a going to be a post about food (well some of it will be), but it is going to show the importance of friendship. What length will you go for someone that you call your “friend”? Are you willing to drop everything for that person or people in your life? I am. I [...]
I haven’t made any sweet treats (outside of the ice-cream) in such a long time. And since we’ve all lost a few pounds from out battle of the flu season, I figure it can’t hurt to have something sweet and fun to eat!!! These come from The Brown Eyed Baker. She makes some of the [...]
I had been wanting to get an ice cream maker for a while now and finally went and got one today. Jodi has made some pretty good ice cream and I love frozen yogurt, so I went for it. I have a KitchenAid blender, but I’m very impatient and couldn’t find the ice cream bowl [...]
I love finding recipes that are easy to make and even nicer on the wallet. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of $5 Dollar Dinners website, but they have so many recipes that are inexpensive and great tasting. That’s where I found this one for the Pot Roast. Here’s hoping with the flu that’s been [...]
Our house was over taken by the flu bug this week and food was not our friend. Today I was our 2nd day and we had to get some solid food in our bellies! So when I got this email from Just Get Off Your Butt and Bake, I had to try and see if [...]
This past October, Brooklyn turned 9! For the past years we’ve always struggled with what kind of party to have, where to have, who to invite. So this year I decided that we could have a party at a hotel, invite five of her friends and make have fun for more than just two hours. [...]
One of my favorite meals to eat and cook is Mexican. Every Thursday at our house we have tacos. Every Sunday after church we go to my favorite place, Zantigo. If you haven’t gone there (and you live in MN, you really should)! Even though we had tacos for dinner last night, it didn’t mean [...]
Wow! It’s been almost 3 long months since I’ve posted anything. The holiday’s have come and gone and nothing came from our kitchen. I’ve made new things and have them saved to post, but just haven’t found alone time to get it done. Or if I have alone time, I’m too tired to do anything [...]
I have been so busy with the kids and sports and work that I haven’t had time to even eat! Ok so I’m joking a bit. I have been really busy and life is taking some time to slow down so that I can get back into the swing of things with posting. I have [...]
I had said last week that I was doing my best to cut back on my sugar intake again. Well I’m still doing that, but not everyone in the house has to be! I did try it to make sure that it was good enough to have others eat it!! And let me say that [...]
My friend Heidi from work gave me another great dinner idea last week. Usually when I make pork, I’ll coat it with some egg and panko bread crumbs and it’s the thicker cut, I bake it in the oven. But when she showed me what she made I had to try this one as well. [...]
My mom makes THE best pumpkin bars. Every time our family gets together, it’s Craig’s hope that she will make them. His birthday was earlier this month and my mom came over to go to Brooklyn’s soccer game. Craig was at work and when he walked in the door my mom handed him a plate [...]
I go on my healthy kick of trying to eat low fat low sugar “diet” to saying I’ll just have it all in moderation to just eating what I want. And by that I mean 6-7 freezies each night that I’m sure are packed with tons of sugar!!! And I know that my body [...]
The recipe that I found was for Rosemary and Chicken but I’m not a huge fan of that particular herb so I traded places with tons of fresh minced garlic instead! Who doesn’t love the taste and smell of garlic?!! I do. Plus it’s good for you at the same time. I try to add [...]
Do you ever have those days where you’re gotten up before the sun comes up (on a weekend???), been to a football game and had soccer practice by 1pm and still have kids that are glued to your side? What can we do Nana? Well, we went for a walk. That’s what we did. It’s [...]
With fall weather come soup! Yay for soup. I made this soup for myself a week or so ago and planned on having it for lunch for the week. I made the soup during the day and left it sitting on the stove when I took one of the kids to their practice. I had [...]
I feel like I haven’t blogged for a long time. The kids have started their fall sports and we have been busy almost every day of the week with that and then the weekends are the weekends. My friend from work, Heidi, gave me another great chicken dinner to make. This was pretty good. Here’s [...]
Pizza and Pasta mixed together? Cooked in the crockpot? Yum written all over this one. I found this one on Pinterest. I’ll admit that I haven’t had the time to Pin/Cook and blog/bake much at all. But we do have to eat don’t we!! The house smells really good with the pizza smells going on [...]
This week is going to be a busy week for us. On some days we have more than 3 things going on for the night. Kids meeting their teacher for reading/math skills, soccer, and football. Of course the sports fall on the same day within at least 1/2 hour of each other at different locations. [...]
Breakfast for dinner in our house guarantees a clean plate! Figuring my meal plan for last week this one just came in to mind and could not pass on it. As I said, I was trying to cut my food budget by following my friend, Heidi’s meals for that week. She had french toast for [...]
I have a friend that I work with and we share recipes quite often. She shows me new blogs that she has found or sends me something that she’s made that she’s eaten since a child but made some changes to. This one is one that Heidi said she’s had since she was a little [...]
So we are all getting the kids ready for back to school (if they have’t already gone back). Who’s excited for that?? Hands up, mine is, mine is raised really, really high. I love school. My kids here, not so much. I love that the kids have structure, a solid routine for their day. They [...]
