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Pizza mac and cheese
Pepperoni pizza meets macaroni and cheese in this super easy dish the whole family will love. Two awesome comfort foods in one! Last week, I asked some friends on Facebook “What ingredients do you love so much, that if you see it used in a recipe, you’ll want to make it?” It was a really funny thread. Not surprising, so many of my friends said chocolate or caramel. A close second was cheese. Nothing specific, just cheese, in general. Many others including myself said pasta. So I’d say this recipe for pepperoni pizza macaroni and cheese is perfect. It’s two classic comfort foods in one. Bonus that it’s super easy, quick, and only requires one pan. I was surprised that my kids loved this dish. I have a two year old daughter that’s very picky about her food. My son is 7 and he loved it that he wanted thirds and fourths. So it wasn’t a bad idea to try.
By Lexus baskin5 years ago in Feast
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving will be different this year especially since the pandemic. My thanksgiving will still be celebrated even though we are quarantined. It’s still a lot to be thankful for and I have a lot to be thankful for. To the food talk I know everybody is probably ready to smash some good ole home cooking. I have my menu planned out and this year I will be celebrating my first thanksgiving as an engaged woman. My fiance and I are very excited and ready. My menu will be Honey baked ham, green beans, corn, 6 cheese baked macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, my famous baked beans, and rolls. I am still debating on doing Cornish hen or chicken wings as my other meat choice. My family and I don’t really eat turkey so our thanksgivings are different. For dessert there will be different flavors of pies, strawberry blueberry and New York style cheesecake, and of course my all time favorite banana pudding. No holiday that we celebrate doesn’t go without making banana pudding. My aunt always made the cheesecakes and banana puddings and now since I have got the recipes down pack now I have been trusted with making them this year. I’m 26 years old and I have three children and my kids are ready for mom’s cooking. My grandmother used to cook every year for thanksgiving except the years we went to Disney world. We lost my great aunt Barbara not too long ago and she was the one who planned the trips. So now we won’t be going on our Disney world trips unless we plan them ourselves. But this year I told my family that I’m cooking this year and now everybody is coming to my house for thanksgiving. I hope my brother and his family are able to attend. I miss my brother and my nieces. I can say that I’m thankful for my family. My children, my fiance, and my mom. Without her being my backbone this year I don’t think I would make it. My fiance has been here with me since day one and has never left my side especially since this pandemic. My children are the reason I live and keep going. They look up to me and I cherish every moment I have with them. I’m going to start a tradition where we say what we are thankful for. Yes I know most families do it already. But in my family we have never done that so now we will start as of this year. Everybody celebrates this holiday differently. Do you guys cook together or do you cook alone? I usually cook dinner by myself. I was raised to stay out of the kitchen when somebody was cooking. Now my fiance and I will be preparing this thanksgiving dinner together. My advice for thanksgiving this year since the corona virus is still follow guidelines if you are having family over like I am disinfect and have lots of sanitizer. Make sure everyone wash their hands because we all have some people in the family who don’t like to wash their hands. When everybody leaves of course clean up like you usually do. But clean it extra good, disinfect everything that anybody has touched. Yes their family but you’re not around them 24/7 and don’t know who they've been around. Not being negative at all just following safety guidelines. They say that you should limit how many people you should have in your house if you are having a get together. Please be safe everyone. I hope everyone has a very fun, safe, and blessed thanksgiving. Like my story feel free to leave a tip.
By Lexus baskin5 years ago in Feast
My review on The Avengers: Endgame
First I wanted to say Rip To Mr. Chadwick Boseman Our king of Wakanda. My review on this movie is that it was great especially with the time travel, of course Tony Stark is funny. Love my Guardian of the galaxy. Every Marvel movie that they have remade was synced into this movie very well. The only thing that gets to me about it is that Ironman Dies at the end but we all know that somehow they will bring him back. Which I would love cause I cried at the end of the movie. Now there is a thing going around about Mr. Chris Pratt. My opinion I love him especially in the Jurassic world movies. I love how fellow avenger co stars are coming to defend him. Now the tables have turned on Robert Downy Jr. For what I don’t know I wish somebody would explain it to me. To me regardless a person is a celebrity they are still human and they have feelings too. Also hear that a lot of people don’t like who's playing spiderman. Tom Holland is a cutie and he’s funny but to me I wish they would’ve kept Tobey Maguire. I always saw him as spiderman. Don’t shoot me, it's just my opinion. Scarlett Johansson to me she’s very beautiful and talented as the black widow. Again I cried through this movie. She sacrificed her life so that Clint Barton could be with his family. Now that’s true friendship. Ant-Man he’s a cool guy. I feel they don’t give him enough credit. He may not fly and do things like Ironman or Thor but his power is just as cool. Elizabeth Olsen did her thing in both avenger movies. People always gave her sisters Mary-kate and Ashley props but I never heard anything about her and that’s not fair. Feeling her pain of losing someone you love is painful. First she lost her brother and now she lost the love of her life and if you don’t know who that is it’s vision. He sacrificed his life so that Thanos couldn’t get the stone that was in the middle of his head. Words couldn’t explain the pain and she still kept on fighting. She’s underrated and she plays a big part in the avengers too.Some of the female characters in this movie I relate to in so many ways. Sacrificing for people you love, fighting for what you believe in, loving even when you don’t love yourself. Rocket raccoon was the funniest through this whole movie. Had me laughing every time. Poor Thor and him going back in time and seeing his mother before she dies. I love how they did the Hercules thing with Thor except Thor is a full God and Hercules is half man half God. But my question is why they made Thor let himself go like that but I had to think about it. It was because he was grieving from the loss of his mother. I learn a lot from movies especially that everybody grieves differently than others. I give this movie a 5 star rating. I just wish that some of our heroes didn’t have to die. I hope they make another Avengers movie soon. Do you think that they will bring Ironman back? Will they bring Gamora back? Will vision ever comeback? If they bring vision back how you think Olsen will react? How do you think Tony Stark’s wife will react if they bring him back? Hmmmm five questions that we will have to wait and find out the answers. I wish Chadwick would be there may he rest in peace. Last but not least Baby Groot is soooo adorable.
By Lexus baskin5 years ago in Geeks
My Best Friend
My Best Friend Amy and I have been best friends since we were 3 years old. We did everything together. We shared the same birthday, we shared secrets, and so much more. High school year put our friendship to the test. We fought over the stupidest things like boys, he said she said stuff, and who out dressed the other. But we still manage to keep our friendship alive. Our senior year of high school came and Amy started acting differently. She was more distant and very quiet and that’s never been her. We used to talk on the phone every day but now it’s every two or three days. Until one day she came over my house like something was wrong. She asked could she tell me a secret and of course I told her she could. She starts to cry and tells me that she thinks she’s gay. Shocked at what she said I told her that if she is I will always be her best friend. She told me that's why she’s been distant because she didn’t want me to be uncomfortable and she didn’t want to lose me as a friend. We have been friends since 3. I will never turn my back on her no matter what she does. 3 weeks go by and I haven’t heard from Amy or even seen her. I called her mom and heard her voice saying something was wrong. “Mrs. Grace what's wrong?” She started crying and told me that Amy is no longer with us. Tears coming down my face I just asked what happened. She couldn’t get the words out but told me to come by their house. I ran to Amy’s house which was 3 blocks from mine. Mrs. Grace hugged me and handed me a piece of paper with my name on it. “ Dear Jennifer, I hate that it had to end this way. But out of everybody you were the only one who never judged me and you still loved me after I came out. I couldn’t take this pain anymore. My parents wouldn’t accept me coming out. I wanted to tell you that I love you and I will miss you. Never let anyone change who you are. Wish I could follow my own advice. You will always be my best friend forever. Love Amy” I looked at her mom and yelled at her. “Because of you she’s dead.” I ran home and cried to my mom. Amy’s funeral was a wonderful service but life will never be the same without her. As I look at her one last time as they lower her coffin into the ground. I couldn’t do anything but remember all the good times we had. A tear comes down my face and I hear a whisper I love you and it sounded like Amy. All I could say was I love you too. I started an awareness group about supporting your children when they come out. Wishing Amy got the support she deserved. I was surprised that her mother came and showed her support. She even gave a speech on how she lost Amy for not showing her support. Ever since that day a lot more students at school came out and were happy. Graduation day Amy was honored, I even carried her cap with her name on so I could walk with my best friend one last time. Moral of this story is love your friends and family no matter who they are no matter what life they choose to live cause you never know when it will be the last time you see or hear them again.
By Lexus baskin5 years ago in Humans
