Chopped Jr.: Home Version Mystery Basket 5

Entree Basket:  Lamb Chops, Butternut Squash, Graham Crackers and Milk I haven’t had much experience cooking lamb, but had fun cooking these lamb chops! My plan is to bread the lamb chops in milk, eggs, and graham cracker crumbs.Then, I get them cooking! Now I have to start on my butternut squash. What can I…

Chopped Jr.: Home Version Mystery Basket 3

Dessert Basket:  Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal, Canned Biscuits, Medjool Dates, and a red Tamarillo! I had never used red tamarillo before… so yea. Let's just taste it. Problem solved! Nope, definitely not problem solved!! That thing is so sour! So I cut them up and add some sugar and it helps a little but it…

Chopped Jr.: Home Version Mystery Basket 2

Entree Basket:  Dandelion Greens, Vanilla Cookies, Gummy Jolly Ranchers, Sirloin Tip Steaks Love this basket because it has my favorite ingredient:  BEEF! I need to get my steaks cooking so they have enough time to cook and rest. So I season them with garlic powder, a little bit of chili powder, salt, and pepper. Then,…

Chopped Jr Home Version: Mystery Basket 1

To say that I love the Food Network, would be an understatement!  One of my favorite shows is Chopped Jr.  Last year I got the opportunity to audition for the show and I got started practicing mystery baskets in preparation, just in case I got the call.  I’m going to share some of my mystery…

Chopped Jr. Home Version

I'm overwhelmed by all the nice comments, t-shirt purchases and support I have received since my Chopped Jr announcement. It's been a waiting game but is so worth it to be able to share all my experiences! On Monday's until air date I will be sharing my Mystery Basket Monday's! After my interview, I created…

4-H Talk Meet: Tips from My YouTube Journey

One of my favorite 4-H activities, is Talk Meet and Demonstrations!  This year for my speech I wrote about my YouTube Journey. When you think of YouTube what do you think of? DIY's, tutorials, gamers, music, or cooking? That's me too! When you are little you always have that one thing that you really want…

New Braces=New menu: Top 20 Things to Eat with Braces

I have known for a while that I would have to have braces and I was okay with that.  Until I read all the things I could not eat.  You can hardly eat anything! Or at least my favorites:  Cheetos, Doritos, Raw Vegetables, Oreos, Ribs, Corn on the Cob or Nuts…..AARGH!   It has certainly…

Blueberry Time

If you follow my Facebook page you know that my brother is a huge fan of blueberries and I must say that I love them too!  So when I saw that the SOKY Marketplace was hosting a Blueberry Festival that included a baking competition, I was so in!  The only problem was trying to decide…

Chocolate Chip Cookie 🍪💞💗

I have a big sweet tooth. My favorite dessert revolves around cookie dough… anything! On my channel I have made a lot of chocolate chip cookie dough recipes, such as cookie dough fudge, eggless chocolate chip cookie dough, but what I haven’t made a classic… chocolate chip cookies! We are going to fix that today…