Showing posts with label Pasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pasta. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Our 3rd Anniversary Time for a Friends Get Together


Our 3rd Anniversary Time for a Friends Get Together

March is when we celebrate our 3rd anniversary of writing our blog, “Advice from Rose and Lyssa Marie.” We hope you have enjoyed reading the blog as we have had writing it. Thank you for sharing our journey with us.

This month we thought would be a good time for you to have a friends get together.  Catch up and relax.  Have  them over for a movie night a nice comfort food dinner.  An easy dinner would be  Pasta, Beef, Tomatoes and Green Beans.  If you are a vegetarian you can use a either Gardein Beefless Ground, Lighlife Smart Ground Original or Yves Veggie Original Veggie Ground Round instead of ground beef.  This is so easy and quick to make.  For dessert another easy dish would be a Homemade Pazooki or Cookie Sundae

The movie we thought would be good to watch with friends is the movie Beaches.  Either the 1988 version with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey or the current 2017 Lifetime remake of Beaches with Idina Menzel and Nia Long.  You can watch both and compare the two movies.  Whichever one you want to watch or choose a movie of your own.


1988 




2017



What ever you do we hope you have a good time.




Here is the recipe for the Pasta, Beef, Tomatoes and Green Beans:


INGREDIENTS
1 Box Medium Pasta Shells
1 Pound Ground Beef or 1 Bag Beefless Ground
1 Can of Diced Tomatoes (No Salt Added)
1 Can of Green Beans Cuts (No Salt Added)
Garlic Powder
Onion Powder
Lemon Juice
Lime Juice
1 tablespoon Margarine (Unsalted)
Pam Cooking Spray

DIRECTIONS
(1.) Make the pasta in a pasta pot according to the directions on the package.

(2.) Spray a skillet with Pam.

(3.) In a skillet brown Ground Beef then drain the extra fat.  

(4.) If using the Beefless Ground use 1 tablespoon of unsalted margarine.  This is also a substitute for the fat of the beef and make a thicker sauce. You place the margarine in the skillet before you place the beefless ground.

(5.) Place diced tomatoes in the skillet on top of the beef or beefless ground and mix it together.

(6.) Place Green Beans in skillet and mix it with the beef or beefless ground.

(7.) Add the Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Lemon and Lime Juice to taste and stir that to the tomatoes, green beans and beef or beefless ground.

(8.) Now add pasta to everything in the skillet and mix all together.

(9.) Cook until warmed then serve.

BRANDS
Barilla Medium Pasta Shells

Gardein Beefless Ground

Lighlife Smart Ground Original

Yves Veggie Original Veggie Ground Round

Hunts can of Diced Tomatoes (No Salt Added)

Del Monte can of Green Beans Cuts (No Salt Added)

Garlic Powder

Onion Powder

Lemon Juice

Lime Juice

Fleischmanns

Pam




Here is the recipe for the Homemade Pazookie or Cookie Sundae:

INGREDIENTS
1 package of refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Pam Cookie Spray
Mini Cake Tins (one for each guest)
Vanilla Ice Cream
Chocolate Syrup
Caramel Syrup

DIRECTIONS
(1.) Preheat oven to the temperature on the package.

(2.) Spray each tin with Pam.

(3.) Place at least 3 slices of cookie dough in each tin or enough of dough till it fills up the tin.

(4.) Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or  until firm in the center and slightly golden brown.  Test center with a toothpick to see if it done.

(5.) Cool for at least 15 minutes before serving.

(6.) Place one scoop of ice cream and syrup on top.

(7.) If you do not want to make this then you can order a Pizookie at BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse to go.

BRANDS
Pillsbury™ Ready to Bake!™ Chocolate Chunk & Chip Cookies from Pillsbury.com

Pillsbury™ Refrigerated Cookies from Pillsbury.com

Mini Round Cake Pan Set | Wilton

Pam Cooking Spray

Breyer’s Vanilla Ice Cream

Smuckers Syrup

BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse

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Friday, July 22, 2016

Pool Party, Sleepover and Two Movies


We are in the middle of summer, and if you have children who are home from school we have an activity that could keep them busy and be fun for them.  For those of you that have pool you could have some of their friends over for summer party, a movie and a sleepover. We suggest you invite to this party at least 4 of your children’s friends or at most 8 friends.  This is the one time it is okay to keep it the guest list small so you can keep an eye on every in the pool.  Now if you don’t have a pool you can take them to the beach or a local lake.  Maybe you have a public pool in the area.  If not then how about at water park.  Anything that will cool off everyone from the summer heat.

For lunch you can make a simple BBQ with just hot dogs and hamburgers.  Dinner that night you can serve spaghetti and tomato sauce. You will want to inquire with each parent if their child has any food allergies and what would be best to serve them. You can also have on hand some chicken for those children who do not like hot dogs or hamburgers. If you do this you won’t have any awkward moments when the food is served. Always have fresh summer fruit for snacks.  At dinner you can have an ice cream sundae bar.

Make a whole day of it and have the children sleepover.  At the sleepover you can all watch Finding Nemo.  The next day you can take everyone out to breakfast. Then to go see the new movie Finding Dory. Go to the first showing of the movie.  Other reasons you should keep the invite list small, so this party is more affordable for you.  You will be providing transportation to breakfast and the movie and if you only have one car then you will not be able to have to many children participate in this activity.  If you want to involve more then you can always ask another parent to help you transport the children.  If you do that you should pay for that parent’s meal and movie tickets.

Here is the link so you can find out what Finding Nemo is all about.


Here is the link so you can find out what Finding Dory is all about and where to get tickets.



Here is a shopping list we put together for your party.
http://advicefromroseandlyssamarie.blogspot.com/p/shopping-list-for-bbq-pasta-party-and.html

Go out there and have a good time this summer.

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