Pinterest Recipe Review - Baked Pork Chops

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We've given many a "pinned" recipe a try in our kitchens...some with rave reviews, some forever deleted from our food boards. Now, we share our thoughts with you, letting you decide, to pin or not to pin.

The Pin:

Baked Porkchops

Find Original Post here:

Pinned from TricksChefs

Misty's Review:

They were very tender!  Stan, actually like them which was a plus!  ( he's quite the picky eater and I wasn't so sure he'd go for the mushroom thing) 

Downside: this dish creates a lot of dirty dishes

Misty's Tips: 

The recipe said bake for an hour and then top with sauce and bake for another 30 min, but since my pork chops were on the thin side I baked them for 30 min then topped them with sauce and baked for another 5 min.

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Pinterest Recipe Review: Homemade Coffee Creamer

Pinterest is your personal, online pin board. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all thing you find while browsing the world wide web. You can browse other people's pin boards and follow boards and people who share your same interests. People are using Pinterest to plan their weddings, parties, weekly menus, and simply to find solutions and how to's... and new ideas!

You can follow our Pinterest boards here: Corey & Misty
just click the name to be taken to our individual boards

We've given many a "pinned" recipe a try in our kitchens...some with rave reviews, some forever deleted from our food boards. Now, we share our thoughts with you, letting you decide, to pin or not to pin.

The Pin:

Homemade Coffee Creamer

Find Recipe here:

French Vanilla Coffee Creamer
original post from Mrs. Happy Homemaker

Corey's Review:

Taste: This is pretty close to the store bought stuff!
Ease: Oh so easy, so easy that I got up before 6 AM and made more one morning because we'd run out of the first batch.

Corey's Tips: 
Use PURE vanilla, not imitation
Recipe calls for Mason jar, but I reused a coffee creamer bottle from the store. 
You can peel the label off and the bottle is clear.
Shake well before each use. 

I'm pretty sold on making this from here on out...however, there are some flavors I may still have to purchase.... Carmel, Creme Brulee.....

Dryer Sheets, so many uses!

I've always saved dryer sheets for dusting.  I keep a basket in my laundry room and as I take clothes out of the dryer, I deposit the used dryer sheet into the basket.  Every now and then I will use it to wipe down the lint and dust of the washer and dryer.  When I dry dust furniture around the house, I use a dryer sheet.  They pick up dust and it sticks to the sheet. 

 Real Simple is one of my favorite magazines, but I stopped buying it so often when their website took off. (It's a pricey mag). They always have a section called "New Uses for Old Things" that I believe may have sent me in the dryer sheets as dusting agents direction. I honestly can't remember why I started doing it, I've been doing it too long to remember! 

I've seen some Pinterest pins floating around about using dryer sheets to clean in other areas.  I've tries two and wanted to see what you may use dryer sheets for....

Dryer sheets really do get soap scum off shower doors!!
If you have a favorite shower cleaner, use it with your used dryer sheets. 

source: Real Simple

I myself have tried many bathroom cleaners, and never really had a favorite.  I'm a fan of Vinegar.  And when I saw this pin about vinegar, dish soap, and cornstarch being a scum remover, I went at my shower!  I added dryer sheets as my scrubbing agent and skipped the cornstarch.  Here's my recipe:

Soap Scum Remover

2 cups white vinegar

2 tbsp dish soap

used dryer sheets

In clean spray bottle, mix vinegar and dish soap together.  (Shake well)

Spray shower walls and doors with mixture.  Wait. (I wash my hair, shave my legs, whatever needs done while I wait)

Use dryer sheets to scrub walls and doors.  Rinse. 

Dryer sheets are great for washing the car!

So, the other day the little one and I were washing the car.  It's love bug season and they were not coming off!  I needed some scrubbing power but couldn't find anything that would scratch the paint.  After a quick look through pinterest I saw a recommendation for using dryer sheets to wash the car.  Thank goodness I keep them!  I grabbed a handful and took to the bug scrubbing! 

IT WORKED GREAT!!!  Most of the stuck on bugs just wiped right off and the rest just required a little oopmh behind the dryer sheet (meaning I had to scrub hard).  I used plain ol' dish soap and dryer sheets and cleaned my entire car. 

I'll never use a rag again for the car!  I love that I can reuse dryer sheets and I can throw them away after they do their bug duty!

Tell me, do you reuse dryer sheets?



Pinterest Recipe Review

Pinterest is your personal, online pin board. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all thing you find while browsing the world wide web. You can browse other people's pin boards and follow boards and people who share your same interests.  People are using Pinterest to plan their weddings, parties, weekly menus, and simply to find solutions and how to's... and new ideas!

You can follow our Pinterest boards here:  Corey  & Misty
just click the name to be taken to our individual boards

We've given many a "pinned" recipe a try in our kitchens...some with rave reviews, some forever deleted from our food boards.  Now, we share our thoughts with you, letting you decide, to pin or not to pin.

The Pin(s):

Smashed Potatoes AKA Crash Hot Potatoes
Man Pleasing Chicken

Find Recipe here:

Potatoes 

Chicken

Corey's Review:

Taste: Yum! Two Thumbs up!

Prep: 

 Chicken is EASY

I used leg quarters instead of just the thighs, and added green onions just because we like green onions...and I have them growing on the counter. 

Potatoes require a lil bit o work, but easy work.

I recommend using smaller red potatoes that I used.  The smashing wasn't as pretty with my large taters. But they were oh so yum. 

Happy Pinning!