It has been a long time since I last made a food post and tonight I am going to put up 2 recipes. I was feeling a sweet tooth coming on this evening and I thought no you don't need it, then I remembered that tomorrow is my first aerobics class so I decided, maybe I could indulge after all. So I made these yummy cookies! I had never made them before, I actually don't know if I have ever made any type of Oatmeal cookies, beside no bakes, before. I did use the peanuts and I enjoyed them that way but I think next time I will leave them out since the others in my family were picking them out.
The second recipe I made for dinner tonight and I forgot to take a picture but I still thought I would include it since I could have eaten the whole pan before James even came home. I have been spending over on my grocery budget in the last few months so I decided it was time to start making some more budget friendly meals. Tonight's was a pasta bake and my big complaint about baked pasta is that sometime it can be very dry. But even though James ate it almost 1-1/2 hours after the kids and I had kept it in the warm over he said it was not dry at all. I used the Ragu Marinara sauce but just use the spaghetti sauce your family likes. Hope you get a chance to give it a try!!
For my card class this week I decided to not have us make Halloween cards but instead these cute little buckets. I will be honest to say that they were a bit of a challenge. Since the buckets are curved up and not straight up and down like a paint can you have to cut the paper into strips and slightly over lap them. The hardest part really is the ribbon. But we made them work. I had a few lady's make their buckets this last Wednesday and the rest will probably make them after the Chinese holidays. I am most excited though because Jouette's teacher saw them and liked them so much that she asked me to come to the class and help them make them. So on the 28th of October I will be going to do that!!!
