Muffin Tin Main Dish

                                                

Cheesy Ham and Apple Muffin Tin Bake Main Dish

(for breakfast or dinner)

  

1 can (12 oz) Pillsbury® Grands!® Jr. Golden Layers® refrigerated buttermilk biscuits (10 biscuits)

1/3 cup sour cream

1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard

1/4 cup Smucker's® Apricot Preserves

3/4 cup finely chopped cooked ham steak or cooked ham

3/4 cup finely chopped tart apple

3/4 cup shredded sharp white or yellow Cheddar cheese (3 oz)

2  tablespoons finely chopped green onions (2 medium)                                           

• 1 Heat oven to 375°F. Spray 10 regular-size muffin cups (2 3/4x1 1/4 inches) with Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray.
• 2 Separate biscuit dough into 10 biscuits. On waxed paper, press each biscuit into 3-inch round. Press each dough round in muffin cup.
• 3 In medium bowl, stir sour cream, mustard and preserves until well blended. Stir in ham, apple, cheese and onions until well blended. Divide ham mixture among muffin cups.
• 4 Bake 18 to 25 minutes or until edges of biscuits are golden brown. Cool in pan 5 minutes. Serve warm.

 

Veteran's Day

VETERAN'S DAY 2012

 

My two oldest Grandsons are in the military and I am SO PROUD of them.

My oldest served a year in Iraq and is now deployed to Afghanistan.

My next oldest Grandson, and brother to the oldest,

 is also being deployed to Afghanistan.

We will have two over there at once!

I sent this collage to my Grandson to show him how much we loved him!

Both of these young men are Daddy's, so please pray for their safety.

Salute to all our Military men and women serving our country

and a special salute to my Grandson's who are in the Army.

THANK YOU

FOR HELPING MAKE THE WORLD

A SAFER PLACE.

THANK YOU FOR SERVING

IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY!

 

 

Pinto Beans and Smoked Sausage

The other day the store had Bar S Smoked Sausage on sale and we love them. Oops, I grabbed the hot ones and my husband prefers the regular ones. I got up on the weekend and wanted to put on a pot of pinto beans in the slow cooker, but did not want to run to the store to get ham hocks or salt pork. I put the beans in the crock pot and let them start cooking. Then I had the idea to add the hot smoked sausages to the beans.

This is the beans cooking with the sausage and onions added.

This was a good change to ham and beans.

The hot sausage really added a spice flavor to the beans.

My husband made this yummy pan of cornbread to go with our beans.

American Idol Crew at Thunder Game

Check it out! The American Idol crew was at the Oklahoma Thunder game tonight!

Ryan Seacrest and Randy Jackson courtside.

Steven Tyler with the Thunder mascot Rumble having fun at the game.



Friday Foto

Some day I am going to have a camera that will take photos of the moon!

My point and shoot camera just does not have the ability to capture what I see.

This was a really awesome moon.

 

 

 

 

 

Western Oklahoma - Cooperton

I have yet to travel all the roads in Western Oklahoma!

On this day my friend Pat and I were headed south just siteseeing.

I whipped off the highway to snap photos of this old church building.

This is the Cooperton Baptist Church in Kiowa County Oklahoma.

Just a basic cemement block building.

Couldn't find the history...sorry.

This photo is the north edge of the Washita Mountians in SW Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is DIFFERENT...

we have more miles of shore line than the Altantic coast

we have prairie lands...we have mountains

and if you don't like our weather...

just wait a few minutes and it will change!

Don't mean to brag (much), but

Oklahoma has Something for Everyone!!!

This is a old church building in the heart of the

now Ghost Town of  Cooperton, Oklahoma.

I love these photos we took in Western Oklahoma.

Every time I look at this file it makes me smile,

remembering the fun we had just driving in Western Oklahoma.

Peanut Butter Cup Cake

 

 

 

Cake:
1 box devils food cake mix
1 small box chocolate instant pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup oil
4 beaten eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups chopped Reese’s peanut butter cups (mini)
Mix everything together well, except peanut butter cups.
Batter will be very thick.
Fold in peanut butter cups, then pour into (2) greased, 9-inch cake pans.
Bake at 350 for the amount of time called for on the box.
Cool completely on wire racks.

PB Buttercream Frosting:
1 cup salted butter, at room temp
3 tsp vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
5 TBSP heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup peanut butter
Whip the butter well.
Add in the sugar, then the cream and vanilla.
After well mixed, add in the peanut butter.

WE VOTED!

We voted with our Granddaughter Shelby!

This was her first presidential election...

 

Guess who we voted for...PRESIDENT OBAMA!

 

VOTE TODAY!

 

 

 

KEEP WOMEN'S RIGHTS

AND

 VOTE DEMOCRAT!

 

 

Our Future Depends on YOU!

Our future depends on you...

protect women's rights

protect medicare and medicaid

protect our preschool programs

protect our oldest citizens

help the middle class...not the rich!

Please get out and VOTE tomorrow to re-elect

President Barack Obama.

 

 

Set Your Clock Back NOT Our Country!

 

Daylight savings time ends at 2:00 am....set your clocks back one hour!

How many clocks do you have in your house that have to be set back?

We only set back 8 clocks in our house:)

Plus, my collection of watches!

While we are talking about FALLING BACK...

 

We do not want our country to FALL BACK

and

see Women's Rights taken away!

 

READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

BELIEVES WOMEN SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD

WOMEN SHOULD NOT HAVE CONTROL OF THEIR RIGHTS

 

PLEASE VOTE FOR OBAMA

HE HAS A PLAN

AND

HE SUPPORTS WOMEN'S RIGHTS

 

 

Forward Not Back

This political cartoon I found last week is more fact than fiction. Romney will turn Women's Rights back in time! I remembered back when Loretta Lynn came out with the song "The Pill" and how shocked people were that she was singing such a song. Even her record label held on to the song for a few years before they were brave enough to release the feisty tune. Do we want to go backward 40 or more years in the Women's Rights Movement? NO!

President Obama believes in women's rights and Romney does not! President Obama believes that women should have control of their bodies and their futures. Romney does not!

Remember that when you cast your vote in the election on Tuesday.

 

"The Pill" is a 1975 country music song recorded in 1972 by Loretta Lynn, but held back by her label. It is one of her best known songs as well as the most controversial record of her career.

You wined me and dined me when I was your girl
Promised if I`d be your wife you`d show me the world
But all I`ve seen of this old world is a bed and a doctor bill
I`m tearing down your brooder house `cause now I`ve got the pill

All these years I`ve stayed at home while you had all your fun
And every year that`s gone by another baby`s come
There`s gonna be some changes made right here on Nursery Hill
You`ve set this chicken your last time `cause now I`ve got the pill

This old maternity dress I`ve got is going in the garbage
The clothes I`m wearing from now on won`t take up so much yardage
Miniskirts hotpants and a few little fancy frills
Yeah I`m making up for all those years since I`ve got the pill

I`m tired of all your crowing how you and your hens play
While holding a couple in my arms another`s on the way
This chicken`s done tore up her nest and I`m ready to make a deal
And you can`t afford to turn it down `cause you know I`ve got the pill

This incubator is overused because you`ve kept it filled
The feeling good comes easy now since I`ve got the pill
It`s getting dark it`s roosting time tonight`s too good to be real
Aw but Daddy don`t you worry none `cause Mama`s got the pill
Oh Daddy don`t you worry none `cause Mama`s got the pill

"The Pill", written by Lorene Allen, Don McHan, and T. D. Bayless, is a comic-tinged song about birth control. The song tells a story of a wife who is upset about her husband getting her pregnant year after year, but is now happy because she can control her own reproductive choices because she has "the pill" (which had been introduced in 1960). The song, like many of Lynn's other hits suggested her personal life (she'd had six children, two of whom were born before she had turned 19).

The song's frank discussion of birth control, something that was considered risqué subject matter at the time, especially in country music, led to a number of country radio stations refusing to play it. The song received much publicity and airplay on the stations that would air it but its ban from a number of radio stations caused the record to stall at number five on the charts at a time when a Loretta Lynn record was almost guaranteed to be a top three hit, often a number one record.

Friday Foto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just the FACTS!

President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie toured the state's storm-ravaged coastline together. Obama cares about all those people who have lost so much.

Every now and again, the other side likes to claim President Obama doesn't have a record to run on. They're wrong. FACE THE FACTS here's a taste of why:

(Just a couple of) the Obama Administration's accomplishments:

The first bill President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to help women fight back when they don't get equal pay for equal work.

His Recovery Act supported millions of jobs and helped to stave off a second Great Depression.

He pushed for and won middle-class tax cuts that benefitted every American worker, and saved the typical family $3,600 in taxes over the last four years.

President Obama rescued the auto industry, and now GM and Chrysler are healthier than they've ever been. The American auto industry has added nearly a quarter of a million jobs since June 2009 -- and they most likely wouldn't exist right now without President Obama's leadership.

He doubled funding for Pell Grants, helping to make college more affordable for nearly 10 million families.

His student loan reform ended billions in subsidies to banks serving as middlemen and reinvested those savings directly into students.

The President established the American Opportunity Tax Credit, worth up to $10,000 over four years of college.

His Race to the Top Initiative helped spur nearly every state to raise academic standards.

His tax cuts, social-welfare programs, and economic policies lifted nearly 7 million Americans above the federal poverty line in 2010.

President Obama has signed 18 tax cuts for small businesses since taking office.

We've seen 5.2 million new private-sector jobs over the last 31 months.

The unemployment rate is at the lowest level since President Obama took office.

Health care reform -- passed after decades of failed attempts by every previous President -- provides affordable health coverage to every American and will lower premiums by an average of $2,000 per family by 2019.

Obamacare expanded access to lifesaving preventive care such as cancer screenings and immunizations with no out-of-pocket costs for 54 million Americans.

Obamacare ends insurance discrimination against the 129 million Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Because of Obamacare, over 3 million more young adults have health insurance today than would if the new law hadn't passed.

The parents of over 17 million children with pre-existing conditions no longer have to worry that their children will be denied coverage.

President Obama has ordered the overhaul of federal government regulations to make them smarter, practical, and more efficient. Just a fraction of these commonsense initiatives will help save businesses $10 billion in the next five years alone.

His historic investments in clean energy have helped more than double the amount of electricity we obtain from wind and solar sources and helped increase biofuel production to its highest level in history.

President Obama is doubling fuel efficiency standards, which will save drivers more than $8,000 at the gas pump, not to mention lessen the impact of automobiles on our environment.

President Obama has taken unprecedented action to address climate change, reaching historic international agreements to curb carbon emissions, and taking action here at home to reduce carbon pollution from our vehicles and promote clean energy production.

He has taken historic action to protect our environment -- signing one of the largest expansions of protected wilderness in a generation and putting in place standards to reduce toxic air pollution that will save thousands of lives.

President Obama fought for and won landmark Wall Street reform that reins in the abuses that led to the financial crisis and ends the era of taxpayer bailouts and "too big to fail."

Wall Street reform created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the nation's first federal agency focused solely on consumer financial protection -- and the Bureau is already protecting families from unfair and abusive financial practices from Wall Street banks and shadowy corners of the financial industry.

As part of President Obama's commitment to transparency, the White House has posted its visitor records online for the first time ever.

President Obama's all-of-the-above approach to energy has helped cut the United States' dependence on foreign oil to its lowest level in 20 years.

President Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq.

He announced a plan to end the war in Afghanistan and transition security responsibility to the Afghan people.

President Obama sent the largest security assistance package to Israel in history and funded the Iron Dome system, which is protecting Israeli homes and schools from rocket attacks.

President Obama rallied the international community to implement the toughest sanctions on Iran in history.

Through the President's historic increases in Veterans Affairs funding, he has expanded and improved healthcare and job training access for our returning veterans.

President Obama negotiated the New START Treaty with Russia to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in both countries. At the same time, he also secured commitments from dozens of other countries to lock down nuclear materials.

His administration naturalized 11,146 military service members as U.S. citizens in 2010; more than in any year since 1955.

President Obama set a bold new plan for the future of NASA space exploration, using the skill and ability of the private sector for short trips to the International Space Station, while building a new vehicle for exploration of distant space, and doing everything in his power to support the economy on Florida's Space Coast.

President Obama recognizes that tourism is one of America's largest economic engines; he's worked to encourage international visitors to come here, maintaining our security while keeping millions of Americans in good, paying jobs.

He has affirmed his personal support of marriage equality, directed the Justice Department to stop defending DOMA in federal courts, and took the practical and compassionate step of extending hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners.

He fought for and won the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, allowing gay and lesbian members of the military to serve openly for the first time in history.

When Congress failed to fix our broken immigration system, his administration did everything in its power to improve it, streamlining the legal immigration process and announcing a policy that lifts the shadow of deportation from hard working young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Oh, and he gave the order to send troops in after Osama Bin Laden -- and has decimated al-Qaeda's senior leadership.

Happy Halloween

 

This was the most fun...watching my sister and brother-in-law outfit their Grandson in his Spiderman costume. Mom and I had gone out to her flea market to meet them, and they had purchased this adorable costume on the way. We could not wait to try it on and it was the cutiest thing ever! He was so excited about being Spiderman and having muscles!

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN