Spaghetti Parmesan and Mexican Stuffed Peppers

 First up is the spaghetti parmesan. Brown some ground beef....

 Cook the noodles....

 Added in some sauce...

 Mix it all up...

 Then start layering...spaghetti, parmesan and mozzarella

 Layer twice while adding in extra sauce

 All done! This was really good and easy to do.

 I got 6 bell peppers...

 Boiled them....

 Cooked black beans, frozen corn and green onions with some taco seasoning...

 Ready to be stuffed

 Made some couscous...

 Mixing up all the ingredients with some diced tomatoes, mexican cheese and couscous

 Then stuffed

 Cover with more cheese and bake!  This was also really good and different from the usual stuffed peppers because there was no meat.

I got both of these recipes on Pinterest. I started a new board named "Done it" to post all the recipes and projects I have completed if you ever want to find any of these recipes.

King Cake and random art projects

Here are the pics of the King Cake I took to work for Mardi Gras.
Mixing up some dough. I used a coffee cake recipe instead of making actual bread.

Dough is all thick and ready to go.

Cinnamon-sugar mix.

Put cinnamon and sugar mix between layers of dough in the bundt pan.

And you can just barely see the baby sticking out towards the back...

All done. It smelled so amazing in my house when this was baking.

Ready to decorate.

Glaze mixture.

The glaze basically ran down the cake and pooled on the bottom. So that was aggrivating.

So without much glaze, the sugar didn't stick very well....

All decorated with beads and black and white baby Jesus's.... It took 2 days for anyone to find the baby inside. Everyone loved it, but the bread was a little thick and chewy for my liking.

My Peter Max picture all done.

One of the first drawings I did this last month.

Starting progress on a new picture...

I haven't done anything past this right now...I'm in the middle of lots of projects at the moment so stay tuned to see if it ever gets finished.

My Peter Max all framed and hung in my room.

Flowers and art in progress

When I went to the grocery store a couple of days after Valentine's Day, they had flowers on sale for like $2...but when I got to the register the manager decided to just start giving them away. So here are my free Valentine's flowers.
Up close daisy, my favorite.

I started getting back into doing artwork also. So here is the first drawing I made in charcoal. I love the look of charcoal, but hate that it smears...don't know how to fix that. The heart kinda looks like a turkey too.

One of my clients told me that I should start doing Peter Max drawings, so I looked him up. He is a psychedelic artist and is famous for doing the Beatles Yellow Submarine album. I took a lot of his techniques and put them all together to make my interpretation. Here are the first few shots of the progress...

The finished product and more artwork will be coming soon.

Strawberry Cupcakes and Beefy Jalapeno Bake

Here are the cupcakes I made for Valentine's Day. I got a bunch of strawberries on sale...although I only used one pint.
Mix strawberries, eggs, white cake mix, strawberry jello and oil...

And you get the batter.

Fill the cups...

All done!

Make buttercream and add mashed up strawberries...

Get the strawberry frosting.

The frosting was a little too liquidy even though I added more powdered sugar...so the recipe needs adjusting.

Garnish with half a strawberry..

These were really good and everyone loved them, but you do need to eat them within 24 hours or the strawberries dry out....plus the buttercream was too runny to last very long. This recipe was from Pinterest.

Here is a recipe that I got from my friend Mary. You mix up some corn meal to make a cornbread base....

Cut up some jalapenos...

Brown the beef...

Layer half the cornbread mix with cheddar cheese...

Top with beef and jalapenos...

And top with the rest of the cornbread mix and cheese.

I didn't really like this although Mary loves it. The cornbread was too oily or wet for me and it was kinda bland with not very much taste.