Brave Blu Ray Combo Out Now

Disney’s Brave is out now in a Blu Ray combo pack.

To celebrate this week’s release of the Brave Blu ray combo pack, Disney / Pixar teamed up with butter LONDON to create a custom nail bar with Scottish Tartan nail art designs inspired by and as seen in the movie, Brave. Katie Hughes, butter LONDON’s Global Color Ambassador designed the custom tartan-inspired nail design. Are you Brave enough to give this trend a try?

 

HOW TO: Paint two coats of butter LONDON’s Nail Foundation Flawless Basecoat for a beautiful, natural looking nail. Paint a brush-width strip of butter LONDON’s Queen Vic down the outside part of your nail. With a thin, long nail art brush, paint a thin line of butter LONDON’s Stag Do down each side of Queen Vic. With the same brush and colour, paint two small horizontal lines below the cuticle (try to keep the lines from going as low as the middle of the nail). Clean the brush in some acetone or nail lacquer remover and paint two horizontal lines of butter LONDON’s Sprog at the tip of the nail, as well as one vertical line down the right side of the nail. Apply butter LONDON’s Matte Finish Topcoat, and you’re good to go!

I probably won’t be getting the Tartan nails, but they sure are cute aren’t they. Let me know if you try them out OK?

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Homemade Cranberry Sauce

 

Do you make your own cranberry sauce or do you buy the canned stuff? I have a brother-in-law that swears he has to have the canned junk, but I always make us fresh cranberry sauce. I love the zesty zing of it, and I actually love preparing it. It is super easy to make, and only mildly time consuming. But the results are a beautiful jewel toned jelly that you can’t beat. We start making it early and have it all winter long. I buy huge bags of the cranberries from Costco. No, they aren’t organic, but they aren’t over processed either.

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Homemade Cranberry Sauce
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Recipe type: Side Dish
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Serves: 10
 
Easy Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
  • 6 cups washed, fresh cranberries
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups water
Instructions
  1. In a large pot bring the water and sugar to a boil.
  2. Add the cranberries and return to boil.
  3. Simmer the cranberries for 10 minutes.
  4. Pour into a bowl and allow to cool.
  5. Store in refrigerator to chill.
  6. Serve.
  7. You can also can the sauce while it is hot.

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Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie from a Pie Pumpkin

My CSA had pie pumpkins as an available fruit, and since I have never made a gluten free pumpkin pie from a pie pumpkin, I decided to get one. It was a beautiful, small pie pumpkin and the boys could not wait for me to turn it into their favorite Thanksgiving treat – gluten free pumpkin pie. So here is my gluten free pumpkin pie recipe.I hope you enjoy.

Recipe derived from Pick Your Own

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Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie from a Pie Pumpkin
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Serves: 8
 
Fragrant Thanksgiving dessert
Ingredients
  • 3 cups of pumpkin puree
  • 1 can coconut milk
  • 4 eggs
  • 1½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Using coconut oil, lightly grease two pie plates.
  3. Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until completely combined.
  4. Pour into prepared pie plates (this is a crustless pie).
  5. Bake for 15 minutes at 425 degrees.
  6. Turn oven heat down to 350 and bake for an additional 45 to 60 minutes.
  7. Check for doneness by inserting knife into pie and when it comes out clean it is done.

I am including instructions for how to roast the pie pumpkin to be used in the above recipe.

Roasting a Pie Pumpkin

1. Wash the pumpkin and cut open.

2. Clean out the pumpkin seeds and scrape clean. Keep the seeds for roasting.

3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. In a large baking dish lay the pumpkin cut sides down and add 1/4 inch of water.

5. Bake pumpkin for 30 minutes to 1 hour until fork is easily inserted into the pumpkin.

6. Allow pumpkin to cool.

7. Remove pumpkin flesh and puree until smooth.

8. Use in your favorite Pumpkin Pie recipes.

 

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Wordless Wednesday – Potato

I found this heart shaped potato from my CSA. We made it into mashed potatoes. Wordless Wednesday.

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