Win a Free Home Exterior Makeover

Everyone loves a pretty home.

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A nice, loving place to come home to…

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To gather the family during the holidays…

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Everyone wants a home they can be proud of.

But what if your house looks more like this…

memoirs from mommyville mas memoirs kid favorite recipes featured contests    Win a Free Home Exterior MakeoverOr this…

memoirs from mommyville mas memoirs kid favorite recipes featured contests    Win a Free Home Exterior MakeoverMaybe this…

memoirs from mommyville mas memoirs kid favorite recipes featured contests    Win a Free Home Exterior Makeover

Or heaven help you even this…

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Or maybe you’re one of the many who has been affected by the severe weather…

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Well fear not!

If you have the country’s Homliest Home then you could be in luck!

GAF Roofing is giving away 3 Exterior Home Makeovers to America’s Homliest Homes.

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GAF, North America’s largest roofing manufacturer, together with leading exterior building products manufacturer Ply Gem, has  announced the GAF Homliest Home Contest starting on June 4, 2012.  The contest is for all homeowners whose homes need repairs.  Please submit photos and a story describing your situation and why your house is the “Homeliest Home” at www.gaf.com by June 18, 2012.

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A total of three winners will be selected from the categories of

(a) if you or someone living with you suffers from an illness

(b) if you are or were recently in the military

or

(c) if you suffered a weather related event

So get your entries in ASAP and get yourself your own Home Makeover!

Princess for a day

Ladies and gentlemen…

We have a winner.

Well two winners.

Drum roll please…

The first winner in our Disney Princess contest

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And winner of the Cinderella Princess Doll is…

Joana Cooperman for her inspired Princess French Toast!

Check this out!

Cinderella’s Crème de Carriage Brulee French Toast
Ingredients
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons corn syrup
• Cinderella waffles (we have a Cinderella in her carriage waffle maker – we just use Bisquick to make it) I also like to use Challah
• 5 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups half-and-half cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon brandy-based orange liqueur (such as Grand Marnier®)
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions
1. Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Mix in brown sugar and corn syrup, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Pour into a 9×13 inch baking dish.
2. Remove crusts from bread, and arrange in the baking dish in a single layer. In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, half and half, vanilla extract, orange brandy, and salt. Pour over the bread. Cover, and chill at least 8 hours, or overnight.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Remove the dish from the refrigerator, and bring to room temperature.
4. Bake uncovered 35 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven, until puffed and lightly browned.

That’ll fetch many a Prince!

And the winner of the beautiful Baby Ariel doll is….

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F. Ehsaan for Smoked Red Velvet Fish Cakes

350 grams finely chopped skinless red snapper
4 tablespoons thai red curry paste
1 tin cherry tomatoes
1 teaspoon garlic paste
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
1 cup chopped cottage cheese
A pinch of cinammon powder
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons onion paste
4 -5 tablespoons plain flour
1 whole egg

Grill the tomatoes on a grill pan until grill marks are formed.

In a food processor,grind half of the tomatoes & fish.

Mince,2 tablespoons thai red curry paste,1 teaspoon garlic paste,egg,cottage cheese,plain flour and lemon zest and refrigerate until required.

Shape the mixture into ovals using 50g of mixture for each cake.

Melt butter in a wok.

Add remaining tomatoes,onion paste ,cinammon powder and remaining thai red curry paste.

Cook on low flame until the gravy thickens.

Now add fish cakes and cook for 15 to 20 minutes on low flame until it is fully cooked. You can even coat the prepared fish cakes in plain flour and shallow fry before adding them into the gravy.

Serve with boiled pasta or rice.

Congratulations!  Stay tuned on Monday when Rapunzel from Tangled lets down her hair!  You won’t want to miss it.

Cinderella’s Prince Charming’s Prime Rib Roast

This dish was originally called “Someday My Prince Will Come Prime Rib” but then I was told that Snow White sang that song, not Cinderella.

See what happens when you have all boys?

featured dinner contests    Cinderellas Prince Charmings Prime Rib RoastI’ve been busy thinking of a Cinderella inspired dish for our awesome Disney Princess Contest

So I decided to come up with a dish inspired by the boys in Cinderella…

Namely the Prince.

Prince Charming.

This got me thinking about my Prince Charmings

And their favorite dishes…

What do all boys like?

Meat!

Good meat!

Prime rib meat!

Voila!

This dish did the trick!

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In fact, they dove into it so fast that I didn’t get a good after shot.

I guess that’s the sign of a really really yummy dinner.

WHAT YOU NEED:

5-7 rib, bone in prime rib roast

S&P

3 cloves garlic

3 springs thyme

3 springs rosemary

olive oil

WHAT TO DO:

Let meat settle to room temp. Usually 2-3 hrs before cooking.

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Cover and I mean cover the whole outside of roast heavily with salt and pepper. Cut 3 slits in the meat and stick a garlic clove inside each slit. Drizzle with olive oil and toss your fresh herbs on top.

Cook for 20 minutes on 450°  to brown up the outside.

Reduce heat to 350° temp hits about 140° to 150°. About 2 hours or so.

Make sure your therometer is in the meat and not in the gap between ribs and meat.

Let sit for 1/2 hr temp will rise another 10° or so. Slice and enjoy.

That is for med-well. If you want it medium or medium rare cut back on the heating time.

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Now it’s your turn!

Send me your ideas for Cinderella recipes!

Post them here in the comments and you could win that gorgeous Cinderella doll for the princess in your life!

Contest ends Friday at midnight!

Noteworthy Nugget:  This is my brother in law, Matt’s, recipe.  My boys adore it!  I’ve never seen them eat so much at one sitting.  Matt, let me know what Disney Princess you’d like!

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