A day left from summer

What a gorgeous day left over from summer, sun is shining, sky is clear blue, everything looks gorgeous.  After a long hiatus due to anane's health, I am back. It was a very challenging time for our family but thank God everything is great now. Anane is healthy, we are healthy and all is wonderful.

I am trying to compile little tips for life to help me, help my gorgeous son and everyone who may need an extra little help in life; whether its organizing- which happens to be my forte, cleaning- again I have trophies in that division, cooking- according to popular view I may modestly say I am good, traveling-which should be my profession, or anything else that is good that can be better.

So in that line of thought, today I want to include my bread pudding recipe which gained an avid following after this week's book club meeting. Here is the very simple recipe for that:

Homemade Bread Pudding:

8 slices of whole wheat or whole grain bread, toasted & cut in to small squares
1/2 cup of sugar or honey
1 cup of milk
2 eggs
2 tsp of vanilla
1/4 cup of butter
1/2 cup of raisins
Nuts optional

-Preheat oven to 350F
-Melt butter in a pie dish and grease the sides (so the bread does not stick while baking)
-Mix milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla, raisins (and nuts if you want) in a bowl
-Add bread to the bowl, coat it well, mix it up
-Pour all of the mix into the pie dish.
-Bake for 30 -45 minutes and eat it warm with whipped cream or icecream.

Lots of love, blessings & hugs...

Simple Tips for Food: Easy Chicken Satay

This blog is to offer helpful but simple tips on life, whether it is about making simple but delicious and fast meals, or using vinegar to clean sinks, or finding free or budget smart outings, or making the dollar stretch far, or anything that can be simplified; it is for my son to find all these tips in one place and discover how innovative (read strange) his mom can be and hopefully make his life simpler. If along the way, these tips may also help others, that would be grand too... With that little note, let's start shall we... First things first; food... yummy...


I don’t know about you but I have a lot of cookbooks, & subscribe to countless online cooking sites also watch an embarrasing amount of Food Network…

However, yet to find easy, inexpensive & fast recipes… I find easy but not fast, or vice versa...

So I decided to create this blog for people like me who are looking for great food, that is easy, & fast to make on a budget

Also, give craft & home decor ideas that are easy & fab; on a budget but look luxurious।

Fashion ideas that are cute & fab; on a budget… Well you get the idea…Fab, easy & luxurious looking (yet, secretly done on a budget).

I will post regularly craft, decor projects, fashion tips, recipes, travel ideas & experiences…
Would love to hear from you & come back often…

Today's Simple Tip:

Easy Chicken Satay
Ingredients

2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup lemon or lime juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons curry powder
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
6 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves – cubed

Directions

1. In a mixing bowl, combine peanut butter, soy sauce, lime juice, brown sugar, curry powder, garlic and hot pepper sauce. Place the chicken breasts in the marinade and refrigerate. Let the chicken marinate at least 2 hours, overnight is best.

2. Preheat a grill or broiler to high heat.

3. Weave the chicken onto skewers, grill about 5 minutes per side, (watch while broiling till it’s golden and remove), enjoy :)