Crab Rangoon Dip... NEED IT! WANT IT! Love it!!

Its fall/football season/holiday season... what is better than some great hot dips!!!


Crab Rangoon Dip

Ingredients:

-2 cups crab meat
... -16 oz. cream cheese (2 blocks)
-1/2 cup sour cream
-4 green onions, chopped
-1 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
-2 Tbsp powdered sugar
-1/2 tsp garlic powder
-1/2 tsp lemon juice

First, soften the cream cheese in the microwave for about a minute.
Chop your green onions. Add them and your two cups of crab meat .
Add the sour cream, Worcestershire sauce, powdered sugar, garlic powder and lemon juice.
Mix all the ingredients and bake for 30 mins at 350 degrees. Serve hot with chips or fried wontons or pork rinds.


Ooohy goowy and oooohhhh soooo yummy!!


Not My Picture... only because I ate it tooo fast :)

Bridal Shower Towel Cake

I made these for my Sister in Laws Bridal Shower but you could use them for house warmings, wedding gifts, bridal showers, bachelorette's, first apartments, high school grads moving out ect.

Its pretty simple
You need:
6 Dish towels
5 Kitchen Wash cloths
Utensils
Ribbon and any other decor you want (for decoration)
Safety Pins

Take your 6 dish towels fold them long way into fourths, then attach them with safety pins end to end. Then roll them fairly tightly and pin the roll together.
Do the same to the Wash Cloths but folded into thirds.
Now for the Utensils you want to have a spoon, whisk or something that will go through the centers of both the wash cloths and the towels to attach them together. Then decorate!

You can also do this with Bathroom stuff, and of course diapers, receiving blankets ect for a new baby!!

7 Layer Cookies.... ummmm yes please!

So for my Sister in Laws bridal shower we were asked to share a recipe so I asked my husband what I should  share... he suggested either my twice baked potatoes ( you have not had twice baked until you have had these) or my dads 7 layer cookies. Well since she already has the twice baked cookie recipe, I went with the cookies and decided to share the recipe here. I promise you they are heaven on earth, I have never gone anywhere with these and not been asked for the recipe by every person who has one!!

What you need
1 stick of melted butter
2 - 2 1/2 cups Graham cracker crumbs
1 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips
1 bag of butter scotch chips
1 bag of  shaved (flaked) coconut
1 package of sliced almonds
1 can of condensed milk

• Preheat oven to 350
• You want to take a 13 x 9 inch baking dish (I prefer glass), spray it with non stick spray.
• Add the stick of butter and then the graham cracker crumbs. I usually add the crumbs slowly (1/2 cup at a time and spread and press in the dish) you want to cover the entire bottom of the dish and still have them be hard pressed together with the butter, that is why I don't use measurements, it will come out to about 2 to 2 1/2 cups. 
• Add the entire bag of chocolate chips level out evenly
• Add the entire bag of butter scotch chips level out
• Add the entire bag of coconut
• Add the entire bag of almonds
• Pierce two holes in the condensed milk (one on each side of the top) then drizzle out of one of the holes the milk all over the almonds
• Cover with foil and bake at 350 for about 25 minutes

***The picture is a generic I found online because I didn't make them today but had to share the recipe, yours will be much thicker!!! I promise you will thank me!

Our Newest Man!! Yep No Pink here... EVER :)

Ok so its been a while since I have posted mainly its because I have been busy....

Yep.. Real Busy :) That is our newest Younghans.. Tyler he was born on May 2nd... and to say it was a complicated pregnancy is an understatement! We lost our Dylan in August (when I was 20 weeks pregnant) to potters syndrome. It was a very hard and tough loss, but even before I could blink I was pregnant again. We found out October 2nd... SHOCK! I was soo excited but extremely high risk. I was under a major microscope and at both maternal fetal medical offices and normal obgyns on almost a weekly basis. Then in March we moved to New York... BTW NEVER MOVE DURING A HIGH RISK PREGNANCY!! Because of my risk level (did I mention I had a complete Placenta Previa as well) no doctor would take me and I ended up going to the hospital weekly for appointments. Well after 2 one week stays in the hospital and multiple times on Magnesium Sulfate (which makes you feel like you are on fire) I had an emergency c-section on May 2nd and our little man came!  My c-section was traumatic to say the least, the spinal did not work so they put me on Ketamine which made me hallucinate, (my poor husband) I could not tell reality from my dreams, thought I was dying (and pretty ok with it in my little world), though my husband was a cartoon, baby was a teddy bear, forgot I was pregnant, had no clue where I was, thought I was in a comic book and my hubby had four eyes... fun stuff! My poor husband was completely freaking out, they brought him in for the section and I was completely whacked out of my head, then our little man came and he was whisked away before my husband could even see him. Then poor Will was rushed out of the room because I was loosing blood and needed a transfusion.... Our little Tyler was one tough cookie, he had Respiratory Distress Syndrome, was on BiPap, C-Pap, had a shunt in his lung, a blood transfusion, Jaundice and 6 weeks premature and still made it home after only 2 weeks. He was healed before I was ... after two natural births I can honestly say C-Sections SUCK I ended up needing a blood patch because of the botched spinal and was in a fair amount of pain for about 5 weeks. But our littlest man is here now and perfect and was worth every crazy minute of my pregnancy!  The big boys are amazing big brothers, very helpful and love him soo much (occasionally too much).. I forgot how wonderful babies are and if it weren't for the risk of another extremely high risk pregnancy I would have 4 more :)....