Monday, January 27, 2014

Swag Window Treatment

Swag window treatments makes a room so sweet and beautiful...Picking out the right one really do matters

Here some plans to help you to find the best for you.

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Basic Swags

These are pulling valances

Empire / Pole Swag / Kingston / Murphy / Murphy Tails / Victory / Cris Cross Swags / Kingston Pole Swag / Basic Pleated Swag / Basic Pole Swag / Vienna / Squire / Manhattan / Soft Swag & Cascades / Medallion / Elaborate Empire / Basic Pleated Swag over panels

More Swags Flags

Cascading Triple point / Drapery Swag Long Jabot / Drapery Swag Pointed / Drapery Swag Double Return / Drapery Swag Simple / Fold Over Single Point / Single Point Tails / Pencil Pleat

Take your time and find your best because the cost is very costly and you will be happy to get what you like.

Kiawah... Beautiful City Of Charleston Southern Charm

http://www.henhurstblog.com

Kiawah is not far from the beautiful city of Charleston . visited the website of the Historic Charleston Foundation booked tickets for a guided walking tour in the morning and an afternoon garden tour.

Charlestonians are clearly has the most wonderful house- and garden-proud and every home, whether large or small, is graced with greenery.

No possible detail is overlooked. Here the front steps are decorated with creeping fig vine (ficus pumila) that, according to our guide, needs to be trimmed weekly during the summer on account of its rapid growth.

The scent of Confederate jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) is inescapable in Charleston during the Spring. Its vines flow over walls and around front doors.

Not even garages are neglected when it comes to enhancing the exteriors with flowering vines.

beautiful garage really too lovely even to be called a garage.

photographs were not permitted inside the private gardens.

Charleston gardens well the plantings on and around the exteriors of the houses, English cottage garden! My kind of garden employs a lot of boxwood, neatly trimmed hedges corralling tidy plants, trellis, tuteurs and strategically placed topiary. Whatever the medium, I love topiary.

Fortunately, you got to see to believe it.

Country Living Is The Best

Yep! A fireplace or a stove. Yep, there is nothing better than a real wonderful fire, warming up the place in the cold winter and I mean cold cold months. In this photos, a large brick fireplace with a smaller and cute wood-burning stove within is quite popular. Great Ideal!

Welcome Guests

Welcome Guests With holiday spirit at the front entry,small spruce trees in white urns and embellishes them with magnolia clippings and red berries. Placing an urn on either side of the porch creates a welcoming and well-defined space with a seasonal touch year round. Draw visitors to the door with a boxwood wreath framed by a garland of spruce, scent of cedar, and small boxwood ....Happy Holiday Days From The South.

Southern Dryer

Have you tried hanging clothes outside instead of using a dryer?

Drying clothing outside on a line in the south is always the right thing to do. when the sun is shinning and you just feel so good. Why ? Not? the wind in the air being that fresh smell. Uses hanger it makes it super easy to put the laundry away once it’s done. That the south for you.I call it southern living.

How To Kill Roaches

The most beautiful homes can have a roach problem.....Cockroaches are among the most undesirable insect intruders in the home. They are associated with filth and unsanitary conditions, although they occasionally invade the best keep home.

Here is a easy way to get them out....! Thank you ehow.

What Is the Best Product to Kill Roaches? -- powered by ehow

"If You Did Not Know"

How many babies would there be in one cockroach egg?

The amount of offspring in a cockroach egg depends greatly upon the species.

German Cockroach: This species has the highest reproductive potential of all the common pest cockroaches. Females produce about 30 to 50 eggs at a time. The female carries the egg case until the eggs are ready to hatch.

Brown banded cockroach: The female often glues its egg case on furniture or in appliances. Eggs take about 70 days to hatch and about 160 days for the young to reach maturity.

Oriental cockroach: A female deposits an average of eight egg cases during its lifetime; each capsule produces about 16 young. It takes 300 to 800 days, depending on conditions, for Oriental cockroaches to hatch from eggs and develop into adults

American cockroach: A female typically produces 9 to 10 egg cases which are deposited carefully in a crack or crevice. Eggs hatch in about 45 days with each case producing about 14 young.

Other species of cockroach, however, can produce an extremely high number of eggs in a lifetime, but only needs to be impregnated once to be able to lay eggs for the rest of its life.

Source(s):

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect…

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distributio…

4 years ago

Pineapple And Coconut Cake

Three rich layers of coconut cake are held together by homemade coconut pudding and crushed pineapple, and topped with a light, fluffy coconut frosting. This cake takes some time, but is well worth the effort. You can easily spread out the various steps across an afternoon while preparing any other dishes. Prepare one to two days in advance. That's the southern way....

Prep: 2 hour 30 min
Chill: 2 hours
Cook: 45 min
Total: About 5 hours 15 min
Serves 16

Two Hours Before Starting
8 large eggs, room temperature
1 cup whole milk, room temperature
Two hours before you plan on making the cake, remove eggs and milk from fridge and let come to room temperature.
1 pound (4 sticks) butter
Place butter on a plate and let rise to room temperature to soften.
Cake Pan and Oven Prep
vegetable shortening
flour
parchment or wax paper
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350°F. Generously grease three 9 inch cake pans with vegetable shortening and cover pan bottoms with rounds of parchment paper or wax paper. Grease parchment rounds, dust cake pans with flour, and tap out excess.
Batter
½ cup pineapple juice (from can of crushed pineapple)
Drain a can of crushed pineapple. Reserve crushed pineapple for cake assembly. Put juice in a small saucepan and cook over medium-high heat until reduced in half, about 6 minutes.
½ cup shredded coconut
Pour reduced pineapple juice into a small bowl or measuring cup and add coconut. Mix until coconut is evenly coated. Set aside.
reserved eggs
reserved milk
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons coconut extract
In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, vanilla, and coconut. Set aside.
21 ounces (3 cups) sugar
14 ounces (3 ½ cups) cake flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons salt
In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, cake flour, baking powder, and salt.
reserved butter
Add butter and use a pastry blender to cut the butter into small, pea-sized pieces with the flour.
1 ½ cups of reversed egg-milk-vanilla mixture
Add 1 ½ cups of reserved egg-milk-vanilla mixture and mix at lowest speed with a hand mixer until incorporated, 5 to 10 seconds.
remaining egg-milk-vanilla-mixture
Increase speed to high, add remaining egg mixture, and beat until light and fluffy, about 1 minute.
Stop mixer and thoroughly scrape sides and bottom of bowl. Beat on medium-high until thoroughly combined and batter looks slightly curdled, about 15 seconds longer.
reserved coconut-pineapple mixture
Add reserved coconut-pineapple mixture and mix with a spatula to combine.
Baking
Pour equal amounts of batter (about 2 cups) into three prepared cake pans. Spread batter to sides of pan and smooth with rubber spatula.
Bake until top of cakes turn golden brown and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cakes may rise in center slightly but will level when cooled.
Remove pan from oven and cool on rack for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the perimeter of the pan to loosen. Invert cake onto large plate, peel off parchment, and reinvert onto lightly greased rack. Cool completely before decorating.
Coconut Pudding (for Filling)
1 ½ cups heavy cream
½ cup milk
⅔ cup sugar
pinch of salt
In a medium saucepan, whisk heavy cream, milk, sugar and salt. Cook over medium-low heat, whisking occasionally, until mixture just begins to steam, about 10 mins.
½ cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons cornstarch
In a separate bowl or measuring cup, combine cornstarch and heavy cream. Whisk until smooth and there are no lumps.
Add cornstarch mixture to saucepan and cook, stirring occasionally, until pudding starts to thicken and barely reaches a boil, about 5 minutes.
Immediately reduce heat to very low and stir for 5 minutes or so until thickened.
½ tablespoon coconut extract
Remove from heat and stir in coconut extract
Pour pudding into a 1-quart dish. Cover tightly with plastic wrap directly on the surface to prevent skin from forming.
Refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
Coconut Frosting
5 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
In a small saucepan, whisk flour and milk.
Cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until it it is as thick as brownie batter, about 3 to 5 minutes. (Once it gets hot enough, mixture will thicken in about 30 seconds so be sure to keep stirring and remain by the stove.)
1 teaspoon coconut extract
Stir in coconut extract once mixture has thickened.
Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. The thickened milk mixture must be cooled completely before you continue.
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
1 cup granulated sugar (not powdered sugar!)
While the mixture is cooling, use an electric hand mixer to cream the butter and sugar together in a medium bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Add cooled milk mixture to creamed sugar mixture. Using an electric hand mixer, beat the frosting until it is very light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Stop periodically and scrap down the sides of the bowl.
Assembly and Decorating
reserved coconut pudding
½ cup crushed pineapple
Once completely cool, place one layer of cake a plate or serving platter. Top cake with about half of the coconut pudding. Sprinkle and spread ½ cup of crushed pineapple on top of the pudding.
reserved coconut pudding
½ cup crushed pineapple
Place another layer of cake on top of the pudding and top with most of the remaining pudding and an additional ½ cup of pineapple. Depending on how much filling you want, you may have leftover pudding that someone will have to eat (oh the horror).
reserved coconut frosting
½ cup shredded coconut, or more as desired
Place final layer of cake on top and decorate cake with frosting. Sprinkle top of cake with shredded coconut as desired..
Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve. Leftover cake will keep for up to a week in the fridge.

MakeBetterFood.com

From MakeBetterFood.com. Apr 27, 2012. (http://makebetterfood.com/recipes/coconut-pineapple-cake/).

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes go back a long way in my family history.When we had too many tomatoes turning ripe red we will start picking the green ones and place them in the refrigerator until we got ready to fried them up. Keeping green tomatoes in the refrigerator will help keep them from turning red fast.

I like my Fried Green tomatoes half green and half red with a little batter on them. The batter gives the tomatoes a little more body. So when I eat them with other food on my plate, the fried green tomatoes can hold up and want tear a part.

A great tip: season the tomatoes and set a side. this will bring out a great taste!!

Recipe

1 c flour
1/2 c yellow cornmeal
1 t salt
1/4 t pepper
1/4 t garlic powder
1/4 t onion powder
1/4 t paprika
1/4 t curry powder
1/4 t thyme
3 medium green tomatoes, cut into 1/4 inch slices
1/4 c oil
Dip in dry ingredients

Add tomato 1 or 2 at a time place a little water in a bowl and dip the coated tomatoes once both sizes

Dip back in dry bowl ingredients and place in heated oil in a large skillet on medium heat. brown lightly on both sides. Drain on paper towel. Serve hot.
Makes 6 servings

The kountry Biscuits

Not too thick and very fluffy and soft inside...The kountry Biscuits everyone welcome to the country table on that nice morning rising.

Recipes

2 cups Good Self rising flour ( Make a well inside the mixing bowl)

1 egg                                  ( add the egg)

stick very cold butter          ( Chop the cold butter)

3 tablespoonful sour cream   ( add the sour cream)

About 1/2 cup sweet milk   ( Pour the cold milk little at time)

Blend well very lightly. place on an flour board and pat very lightly spreading out 1 inch.cut the size biscuits you want. grease a pan with cooking oil and place biscuits. in a per heated oven at 450 bake until 10 mins or until golden brown.

Antiques offer an extra touch of class to a space that something brand new just can’t offer. But that’s only one reason to consider incorporating antiques into your home.Sharing the old things that means something to you from the pass and being in with the new of things. it could be an old doll you just put in a corner and it will bring warmth to the room.

Always being color to the decorating of antiques this with being out life. like today colors are so bright now with cool greens walls and pillows to match.