Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

National Egg Day: Baked Eggs Recipe

June 3, 2012 is National Egg Day! Aren't you Egg-cited? To celebrate, think outside the carton and make an egg dish that's a bit more egg-traordinary. Scrambled, fried, poached, omletts...those are for everyday. Today is special.  Here is a delicious, easy to prepare, and different egg dish to serve the family: Baked Eggs

Baked Eggs
Makes 3 servings

6 large eggs
6 tbsp low fat shredded cheese of choice
3 tbsp chopped chives
Salt
Pepper

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Take 3 10 oz casserole dishes, spray with a non-stick spray. Carefully crack two eggs in each dish. Sprinkle a tbsp of chives, salt & pepper on each dish. Put dishes in a large 13x9 baking pan. Pour hot water into the baking pan about 1" deep.

Place pan in oven, bake for 20 minutes. Add 2 tbsp shredded cheese on each casserole dish and place back in oven for 5 more minutes. Be very careful pulling the pan out, the water is hot and can splash out if you get all Speedy Gonzalez on it.

Serve warm with whole grain toast or a plate of fried hash-browns! Yum!


Free Holiday Pictures in Chicago



Just wanted to let you know about a cool thing going on at The Shops at North Bridge in Chicago this holiday season. Windows is offering free holiday photos for families, friends and even pets (on certain days). Guests can take a picture with Santa (or a winter back-drop), edit, and print their photo all for free. 

The set up is located in the guest lounge by Nordstrom and will be up and running through December 24. It’s a fun (and free) way to kick off the holidays with the kids. Plus for families traveling during the holidays, free holiday photos will also be available in 21 airports nationwide including Chicago Midway.

Be sure to check out www.freeholidayphotos.com for all the details.

How to make your holiday shopping a breeze

Here's how: If you are not in the Chicagoland area then get online and find yourself some hard working, making jobs for themselves, direct sales reps for awesome and unique gifts!

If you are in the Chi-town area then come to my vendor Halloween Open House on October 22 from 11-4.  Take a peak at what seasonal, limited time only products these awesome vendors have to offer as well as cash & carry products & gifts available. JR Watkins, Shortycake Creations, Tastefully Simple, and Gold Canyon Candles will be in the house!

Yes, it's a KimD party so there will be door prizes,decorations, laughter, and libations! Can't wait to see you!

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Ho, Ho, Ho-w Annoying!

Yippee the holidays are here.
They also bring with them a bubbling over of pet peeves.
Here are a few of mine.
What are yours?

1. If you're hosting a holiday party, make your guests feel welcomed. Don't tell them to take their shoes off before they even step foot in the door. As a matter of fact, if you don't want shoes to dirty up your house, don't host a party! Let someone who believes that friends are more important than a little extra cleaning do it.

2. Gift bags. Oh they were great for a while but now they are ANNOYING! Wrap the darn gift in gift wrap so the receiver doesn't feel obligated to save the bag to someday reuse it. That stack of 300 Xmas bags in your basement is a fire hazard!

3. "Gifting" workers for doing their job. Seriously, mailman, I love you, thanks for doing your job but hey, I don't buy my own husband Xmas gifts so heads up, you're not getting one either. Sorry to disappoint.

4. All the freaking retail fliers delivered everyday! Enough already! You've supersaturated my brain to the point where no matter how big your font is, the savings are not worth me looking through your circular. Plus, my trash & recycling gets picked up only once a week. All this junk mail makes the bins runneth over.

5. Non-edible host/hostess gifts. Yes, bring a small token of appreciation to your host, but make it edible so after the party the host doesn't have to find a place to shove all the knick knack crap or figure out who to regift it to. Oh, and a side note: STOP BRINGING WINE!

I'm going to stop here (for now).  Tell me some of your pet peeves!

Greatest Gifts!

Gifts you'll want to buy for yourself! 

I recently ordered a box of Seasonal Favorites from Watkins to try and of course fell in love with the offerings. Sad thing about the Seasonal Favorites, they are only offered October-December!


Here are a few of the products that are great!

Article No. 20543
Enjoy natural essentials wherever life takes you with J.R. Watkins Home Away From Home Travel Kit. This pack includes everything you need for a weekend away this holiday season.



Article No. 05961

Our classic assortment of the three products that made Watkins a household name! Original Double-Strength Vanilla (2 fl. oz.), regular-sized Cinnamon and Black Pepper are boxed and ready to give to the teacher, babysitter or anyone else who would love a box of superior Watkins quality.All products certified Kosher.

 
Article No. 05707
OMG This is AWESOME!-KimD


Watkins has taken care of all the work for you in this instant soup base!This rich and creamy baked potato soup will make a delicious quick and easy first course for any gourmet meal.It will warm you up on those cold nights...and - no one has to know it's instant.

 
 
 
 
The Watkins Gift Certificate makes the perfect gift for everyone. The Gift Certificate is available in whole dollar amounts from $10.00 to $100.00.
 
 
 
 
 
Interested in saving 25% on all Watkins Products every time you order?
Ask me how!
Email me today at kgbdemetrio@gmail.com
 
 
 

Frugal Confession

Yes, we are getting more Frugal everyday. I'm enjoying everything about trying to cut costs. The elephant in the room though is starting to make some noise.


I must confess that I'd cut back on groceries, cable, phone, gas, clothing, whatever, in order to continue the following:

  • I cannot give up getting my hair cut & colored monthly. Nope, can't do it. This expense, which for many people would be seem quite lofty, $600+ a year has to be budgeted in to our Frugal Lifestyle. Even if no one sees me, I still must be well coifed.
  • Once a month Date Night. Me and the Hubs need some time to date each other. We plan on being wise with our date night choices but we still have to do it! So, this too must be budgeted into our Frugal plan.
  • Our annual weekend away in December. Each year we stay at a hotel in Chicago and go to the Christkindlmarket and some fine dining locale. This is also my Godson's Christmas gift from us...an annual experience. Fortunately for us, the Hilton offers Christmas in July specials so we book the hotel for dirt cheap in July and enjoy it in December.
There. The elephant has left the building and I feel repentant and ready to charge ahead..as in a battle cry to attack,  not charge as in charge card.

What things can't you give up for the sake of Frugality?

Becoming Italian: Festival of the Woman! Why is this not well known?...

I posted this on my other blog, Becoming Italian, but had to share it here!

Becoming Italian: Festival of the Woman! Why is this not well known?...:

Sunday my inlaws were over and while I sat outside with my FIL he began telling me about a festival that is starting in his hometown back in Italy. It's something to the effect of the Festival of the Madonna of the high seas (he's from a coastal town).

Anywho, I thought about trying to find some 411 on this festival...wait, back note-one of the highlights of this festival is when divers take a plastic Madonna (as in Mary, Jesus's mom-not the Material girl) and at dark they put lights in it and have it slowly rise up from the ocean while the entire town looks on with awe. I found that a bit creepy, thus my interest in finding out more about it. Ok, back to the subject.

While I was searching for this kinda creepy festival I came across one that I've never heard of and obviously neither has HallmarkFesta Della Donna: The festival of the woman! That's right, March 8 is International Women's Day and in Italy the men (and in recent times women) give their mamas, sisters, girlfriends, wives, etc. etc. a bundle of Mimosa flowers, get this--as a sign of respect for the women!

Here's my rant: We celebrate freakin Ground Hog's Day (my wedding aniversary btw) but NOT Festa Della Donna!

Come on, show a girl a little respect!

[To My Husband: Put March 8th in your iPhone Calendar to get me some Mimosa flowers!-Love You :-)]
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