Chicken Roll-ups

Ingredients:

• 2 pkg. Crescent rolls
• 3/4 cup Melted butter
• 2 cup Chicken shredded. (I will use chicken from a can from Costco a lot).
• 2/3 cup bread crumbs
• 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1 can mushrooms
• 2 (3 oz.) pkg. Cream cheese (1 plain and one chives).

Directions:

1. Mix cream cheese with 1/4 cup butter and 1/8 tsp pepper.
2. Fold in chicken meat and mushrooms.
   
3. Separate rolls and place some of the meat mixture in the center of each roll.
4. Fold into a roll or a ball.
   
5. Dip in melted butter and then into crumb mixture (mix bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese).
6. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet
7. Bake in oven at 325 for 30 minutes or until light brown.
8. Top with mushroom sauce.

For mushroom sauce:
Cream of mushroom soup, beef or chicken bouillon, and a little water. If I need to thicken the sauce I blend in a little flour.

City Deals Giveaway

I recently discovered City Deals and I just can't get enough of their good deals! City Deals offers us consumers a place to shop to get huge discounts at the places we love. They are the source for discounted gift cards, gift certificates, and coupons to restaurants, spas, entertainment, hotels, clothing, movie tickets, and much more. I recently purchased season passes to several entertainment venues in my area at a 70% discount...who can beat that!

City Deals is offering one lucky reader a $25 gift certificate good for anything on their site.

Here is how to enter:
Make sure to follow the link to City Deals.....click HERE! Send an email to gettogetherideas.com and answer the following questions in the email: "If you won, what would you spend the $25 gift certificate on?" You have until Saturday September 4th to enter...good luck!

We want to spread the word about Get Together Ideas...so if you refer someone to gettogetherideas.com and they enter the giveaway you will get an extra entry.

Peach Dessert

Every year I can't wait until peach season to pick some fresh peaches and make one of my favorite desserts. My aunt owns a peach orchard and she shared this recipe with me....you'll have to try it!

Fruit Mixture:

• 2 Cups Water
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 2 TBSP Corn Starch
• 1 Small pkg Peach Jell-o
• 5 Cups sliced peaches

Filling:

• 6 TBSP Powdered Sugar--(if your peaches are not very sweet you may want to add a little more powdered sugar)
  
• 1-8oz. pkg cream cheese softened
• 2 Cups Cool Whip

Crust:

• 1/2 Cup Powdered Sugar
• 2 & 1/2 Cups Graham Cracker Crumbs
• 1 Square Butter

Directions:

1. Boil water, corn starch and sugar until thick, then add Peach Jell-o.
2. Set until chilled and then add sliced peaches.
3. Mix cracker crumbs, powdered sugar and butter together.
   
4. Put 1/2 of crumb mixture in a 9 X 13 pan, save 1/2 of mixture for the top.
5. Fold together cream cheese, cool whip, and powdered sugar.
   
6. Layer cream cheese mixture on top of crust. Then put all the fruit mixture on top of the cream cheese layer and top with left over crumbs.
   

City Deals

I get so excited when I see a good deal, that I want to share it with everyone. I discovered City Deals today. Here is a great deal that they have in my area: They have a 4-pack pass that includes unlimited season passes to Trafalga in Orem, Trafalga in Lehi (aka Liberty Land), Seven Peaks, and one pass per ticket to an Owlz game and a Flash Game. The tickets are $130 for 4 (12 month) passes. For more information click...HERE!


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Too Tall Alice book review

I have been frustrated for years with pointless children books. I have read hundreds and hundreds of children books, most I'm not sure had a point. My goal is to find meaningful children books that I can add to our family book shelf.

I discovered Too Tall Alice and had to add it to my collection!

8 year old Alice suffers from low self esteem because she is four inches taller than all the other girls in her class. She's tall -- "not T-Rex, Empire State Building tall" -- just that extra four inches. Alice finds herself being teased about her height by both children and adults. Crying herself to sleep, she drifts away on her fluffy bed "to the place where the TALL girls lived." After the tall girls explain life's possibilities to her, "Alice watched and listened and like a movie on a screen her heart told her the story of all the wonderful things she was and all the wonderful things she could be." Alice awakens to a world full of possibilities and she can be grateful she is unique.

This book teaches us to celebrate your differences and the possibilities they bring. And that it's okay to embrace who we are and how God created us. This book is great for kids "all the too tall, too small, too skinny, too fat, too smart, too silly girls who deserve to see, really see, and love themselves" - that true beauty comes from within.

Wake Surfing

Most of my family was in town recently so we spent a lot of time together. One fun thing we did as a family was we rented out a boat for the day. We took the boat out on a local lake and tried wake surfing. It was such a blast! I hope we make it a family tradition every summer.

For more information on wake surfing click...HERE!

What are some fun things you do with your families?

Potato Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

• 8 medium potatoes
• 8 eggs, hard boiled, peeled and diced.
• 2 Tbsp sliced and diced (thin) purple onion, or green onion

Optional Items:

• 1/2 cup diced pickles
• 1/2 cup sliced olives
• 1/2 cup diced ham
  

Sauce Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup prepared mayonnaise
• 1 Tbsp prepared mustard
• 2 Tbsp pickle juice or you can use 1 tsp dill weed.
• 1 tsp garlic
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp season salt
• 1 tsp paprika

Directions:

1. Place the potatoes into a large pot, and fill with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil, and cook for about 20 minutes, or until easily pierced with a fork. Drain. Cool, peel and dice. Transfer to a large bowl and mix with other ingredients.
2. Mix all dressing ingredients together and pour over the top of bowl of ingredients, and stir. Refrigerate until serve.
   

What Knot Shop Giveaway

I just found What Knot Shop on ETSY and just loved their unique line of Turks Head Sailor knot bracelets. They create handmade braided rope bracelets in a variety of styles and colors. My favorite bracelet is the Beaded turquoise cotton soft Bangle bracelet. I love it's unique look and beautiful color combination.
What Knot Shop is offering one lucky reader a $10 gift certificate of towards a purchase of their product. Here's How to Enter: Make sure to follow the link to What Knot Shop. Send an email to gettogetherideas@gmail.com and answer the following question in the email: What is your favorite Bracelet that What Knot Shop sells?" You have until Saturday August 21st to enter...good luck! Make sure to leave your contact info in the email as well.

We want to spread the word about Get Together Ideas....so if you refer someone to gettogetherideas.com and they enter the giveaway you will get an extra entry.

How to get an extra entry:

• Refer a friend
• Subscribe to Get Together Ideas
• Link to Get Together Ideas on your blog...include your blog URL in the email.
• Tweet about the giveaway....make sure to link to your tweet in the email.
• Follow What Knot Shop on their blog....click here.
  

Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

These cookies are soooo good!!! One of my friends mom's would make these cookies growing up. I would secretly hope that she would make these cookies when I came over. I thought she was the greatest cook. These cookies are one of my favorite cookie recipes ever!!

Ingredients:

• 4 Cups Flour-then add 1-1 1/2 cups by hand later
  
• 2 Tsp Baking Soda
• 1 Tsp Salt
• 1 1/2 Cups Butter
• 1 TBSP Vanilla
• 2 Cups Brown Sugar
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 4 Eggs
• 1 Cup Coconut
• 1 pkg Milk Chocolate chips
• 1 pkg White Chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Cream the butter and sugar. Then add eggs and blend until cream.
2. Add vanilla, soda, salt
3. Add flour 1-2 cups at a time.
4. Add chocolate chips and coconut, and remaining flour by hand. Hand mix to stiff dough.
   
5. Refrigerate dough for 24 hours.
6. Bake at 350 for 8-13 minutes.

Print Your Blog

Do you have a blog? Would you like to turn your blog into a professionally printed book? There are several companies out there that can do this for you. All you have to do is select a cover, the images and posts you would like to print in your book and then they'll do the rest. You are also allowed to edit and make any desired changes before ordering.

Here are a few companies that give blog owners and authors the ability to print their blog:

• The Cutest Blog on the Block
• Blog 2 Print
• Everything 2 Print
• Blurb
  

Lemon Poppy Seed Zucchini Bread Recipe

Having my own garden I seem to have an endless supply of zucchini. I have been on a lookout for delicious zucchini recipes. I found this Lemon poppy seed zucchini bread recipe and it is sooo good!! I am one of those cooks whose banana bread always seems to sink in the middle so I was a little reluctant to try this recipe...but it turned out great!

Ingredients:

• 4 Cups Flour
• 1 1/2 Cups Sugar
• 1 Package (3.4 oz.) Instant Lemon Pudding
• 1 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 Tsp Baking Powder
  
• 1 Tsp Salt
• 4 Eggs
• 1 1/4 Cups Milk
• 1 Cup Oil
• 3 Tbsp Lemon Juice (fresh squeezed is best)
• 1 Tsp Lemon Extract
• 2 Cups Shredded Zucchini
• 1/4 Cup Poppy Seeds
• 2 Tsp Fresh Grated Lemon Zest

Directions:

1. Place eggs, milk, oil, lemon juice, and lemon extract in mixer and mix until blended.
   
2. Add Flour, sugar, pudding mix, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and mix just until moistened.
   
3. Fold in the zucchini, poppy seeds and lemon zest.
   
4. Pour batter into 2 prepared bread pans.
   
5. Bake at 350 for 50-55 minutes or until tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Makes 2 loaves.
   

Optional Glaze:

• 4T Fresh squeezed lemon juice
  
• 1/2 Cup powdered sugar

Mix well and pour over bread while warm

How to MakeOoze

Ingredients:

• 1 cup cornstarch
• 1-2 drops desired food coloring
• 1/2 cup water

Directions:

1. This recipe can get kind of messy. You may want to cover your work area with newspaper.
2. Put your water in a bowl and add your desired food coloring. Then add in the cornstarch and stir until the cornstarch is wet.
   
3. The ooze will be runny until you pick it up. You can add more water or cornstarch if it is too thick or too runny.
4. Pick the ooze up...it feel solid until you open your hand and then it will turn runny and slip through your fingers.
   

Subway Bread Rolls

I wanted to be able to make homemade subway sandwiches with homemade subway bread rolls. I'm trying to pinch pennies and I'm not a big fan of the store bought sub rolls anyway, so I set out to find the perfect recipe. I found a few that were good and tweaked the recipes until I got it just right. The result is absolutely delicious! Warm, soft, yummy, fresh baked subway rolls, just what I wanted.

Perfect sub sandwiches. I sliced this one in half, put ham and cheese on it, set my oven to broil and toasted it for a few minutes until the cheese was melted, then removed and added my favorite toppings. YUM!!!

Subway Bread Rolls

• 1 ½ C. warm water
• 1/3 C. honey
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. salt
• 1/3 C. butter, melted
• 5 ½ C. all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp. yeast

Directions:

1. Add ingredients to breadmaker and run dough cycle.
   
2. Divide dough into 8 even sections. Form into a subway roll shape, about 6-8 inches long.
   
3. Place on two greased cookie sheets and put 4 rolls on each.
   
4. Cover and allow to rise until double (about 30 minutes).
   
5. Bake at 375 for 10-15 minutes. Cool slightly and serve with your favorite Subway sandwich ingredients.

Tin Foil Dinner Recipes

One of my favorite things to do on a hot summer night is to head up the canyon and cook tin foil dinners and S'mores over a campfire. One great thing about them is you can cut everything up and have your kids make their own.

Here are some Tin Foil Dinner Recipe Ideas: ( These ideas also work in a conventional oven!)

Traditional Tin foil dinner: Make a thin hamburger patty in center of your foil. Then add sliced/diced carrots, potatoes, onion, and any other vegetable that you see fit (squash, zucchini, peppers, frozen corn, green beans) then add some spices (salt, pepper, garlic, Lipton Soup mix, etc...).

* Put a twist on the traditional by using meatballs, or meatloaf instead of just a hamburger patty and add 1/2 cup gravy to each dinner.

How to make gravy, mix:
1 can cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup
1 brown gravy packet
1 C. water

Foil Fajitas:
Take your marinated fajita meat (steak, chicken), onions, green peppers, and spices. Serve on tortillas with cheese, salsa, sour cream, etc...

Foil Breakfast: Add sausage, egg, hash brown potatoes, and spices. Place desired ingredients in foil. Wrap and seal your foil. Place on coals for 15 minutes.

Ranch Chicken:
Dip boneless, skinless chicken breast into melted butter then into mixture (ranch packet, 3/4 cup corn flake crumbs or bread crumbs, and 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese. Place dipped chicken on foil. Add sliced strips of summer squash, bell peppers, potatoes, zucchini, and wrap. (The dressing mix will coat about 6 chicken breasts).

Baked Salmon Dinner:
For further instructions click HERE!
Tips:

1. Use heavy duty aluminum foil, spray inside with non-stick spray to prevent sticking.
2. Add moisture to your dinner. Add butter, gravy, milk, soup or even water...this will also prevent sticking.
   
3. Place ingredients in the center of foil. Get a good seal!...make sure to wrap with foil a couple of times. Fold the sides up creasing foil at the edge of the food. Then fold in the corners...make sure to pinch the folds tight.

4. Most Tin foil dinners require about 30 minutes of cook time.
5. Experiment...you can throw just about anything in there and it will turn out tasty!

Pea Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

• 10 oz. Frozen Peas
• 1 Cup diced celery
• 1 cup chopped cauliflower
• 1/4 cup green onion
• 1 cup cashews
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 cup ranch dressing (best if you make it from the packet).
  
• Bacos

Directions:
Mix the first 7 ingredients together. After you have mixed the ingredients add the bacos when you are ready to serve. Refrigerate and serve. YUMMY!

A Bit of String Giveaway

The other day while searching on ETSY I discovered A Bit of String. They make handmade knit accessories and photo props. I love all their products! They put their own clever twist on a popular product. Each item is unique and so stinkin cute!!

These darling sandals are what first caught my eye. What a perfect little gift for a sweet new baby girl.
A bit of String is offering on lucky reader any product of choice $20 dollars or less.

Here's How to Enter:
Make sure to follow the link to A Bit of String. Send an email to gettogetherideas@gmail.com and answer the following question in the email: "What is your favorite item that A Bit of String sells?" You have until Saturday July 17th at midnight to enter....good luck!!

We want to spread the word about Get Together Ideas....so if you refer someone to gettogetherideas.com and they enter the giveaway you will get an extra entry.

How to get an extra entry:

• Refer a friend
• Subscribe to Get Together Ideas
• Link to Get Together Ideas on your blog...include your blog URL in the email.
• Tweet about the giveaway...make sure to link to your tweet in the email.
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Indoor S'mores

Ingredients:

• 8 cups graham cracker cereal
• 6 cups (10 oz bag) miniature marshmallows, divided.
• 1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips
• 5 Tbsp butter
• 1/4 cup corn syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla
  

Directions:

1. Grease a 9 X 13 pan.
   
2. Heat 5 of the 6 cups of marshmallows, chocolate chips, butter and corn syrup in a sauce pan over low heat, stirring until smooth.
   
3. Stir in vanilla
   
4. Pour in the cereal and last cup of marshmallows and stir until cereal is well coated. Press mixture into 9 X 13 pan.

Step 2...you can also microwave ingredients in a microwave safe bowl on high for 2-3 minutes, stirring every minute, until smooth.

Salmon Fantasia Recipe

This is my favorite fish recipe!

Ingredients:

• 1-2 lbs. Salmon Fillets
• 8 Tbsp. Honey
• 3 Tbsp. Soy Sauce
• 3 Tbsp. Ginger root grated
• 8 Tbsp. Olive oil
• 3 Tbsp. Mustard
• 3 Tbsp. Chopped Chives
• 3 Tbsp. Lemon juice
• 4 Tbsp. Butter

Directions:

1. Mix first 5 ingredients (reserve 1/2 for noodles).
   
2. Add salmon fillets, coat well. Transfer salmon and mixed ingredients into a ziplock bag. Make sure you squeeze the air out of the bag before sealing it.
   
3. Marinate for 1/2 hour.
4. Remove from bag and grill for about 3 minutes on each side. Remove to plate.
5. In a saucepan, melt butter, add lemon juice and chives. Pour over cooked salmon and serve.

Fried Noodles

Ingredients:

• 8 oz Angel hair pasta
• 1/2 tsp. onion powder
• 1/2 Cup. Honey mixture (reserved from instructions above).
• Soy Sauce
• 1 tsp. Sesame oil
• 1 tsp. Vegetable oil

Directions:

1. Cook 8 oz pasta, drain, rinse in cold water.
2. Spread sesame oil and vegetable oil on hot grill then spread mixture on grill, and onion powder.
   
3. Once heated, add noodles and mix until coated and hot. Add soy sauce as desired. Mix well and serve.
   

Tic-Tac Towel

I saw this idea over at Martha Stewart and thought it was a great idea to entertain the kids on our beach house vacation next month.

This towel is not just for drying off! This giant tic-tac-toe board is sure to entertain!

What you will need:

• Solid color towel
• Ribbon...choose a color that will stand out.
  
• Ruler
• Pins, thread and sewing machine.

Directions:

1. Cut ribbon into four 24-inch strips.
   
2. Center tic-tac-toe pattern on the towel..each square will be 8 inches.
3. Use ruler to make sure ribbon is centered and straight
4. Pin ribbon in place, turn the ribbon under on the ends, then sew down.

What you can use for your X's and O's:
Find two different kinds of Seashells, rocks, toys, etc...be creative!!

* Optional you can sew on a checker board using similar instructions on the other side of the towel.

Francoise Studio Giveaway

I can't believe how much time I can spend looking on ETSY! I just can't get enough of cute handmade items. While I was searching around one day I found Francoise Studio and instantly fell in love! You can check out her ETSY shop or to visit their website click HERE. Francoise Studio is a French boutique for parents and kids who love fashion. Every item is unique and hand sewn down to every tiny detail. Francoise Studio is offering one lucky reader a $20 dollar gift certificate. Here's How To Enter: Make sure to follow the link to Francoise Studio. Send an email to gettogetherideas@gmail.com and answer the following question: "What is your favorite item that Francoise Studio sells?" You have until Wednesday June 29th to enter...good luck!!!

We want to spread the word about Get Together Ideas...so if you refer someone to gettogetherideas.com and they enter you get an extra entry.

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• Link to Get Together Ideas on your blog....include your blog URL in the email.
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