Reese's Day!

May 18th is Reese's Day! 

There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's and here's a sampling of some ways you can make this candy even more delicious.  

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Mini Cheesecakes from Mom on Timeout 

Reese's Peanut Butter Mini Cup Martini from Daydreamer Desserts . Now that's a tasty way to enjoy those minis.

Now this is a Reese's cake. It looks so rich and decadent. Found on The Internet Chef

So grab yourself a bag of Reese's and send me a picture of how you eat your Reese's.  I'll post them here on Fizzy Party during the month of May.   Submissions should be sent to Tiffany.fizzyparty@gmail.com

Woo Hoo!! Wednesday

Woo Hoo!! Let's hear it for Chocolate Chip Day!

Now I'll let you in on a little secret... I don't like chocolate chip cookies. I like the cookie part, just not the chips.  See, when I was little and my mom made chocolate chip cookies, I would eat around the chips and throw them away. So my mom starting setting some dough aside and making a few chocolate chip cookie dough cookies, no chips just for me.  Ahhh :)  Thanks MOM!  Warms your heart doesn't it. 

For all the rest of you that I know LOVE chocolate chip cookies, Enjoy!

Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies. The mother of all chocolate chip cookie recipes. Or so I'm told. 

Picture from Nestle 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes from Une-Deux senses 

Picture from Une-Deux Senses 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake by The Bite Sized Baker. 

Picture from The Bite Sized Baker 

Now go make some chocolate chip cookie something and celebrate! I'll take mine without chips please :) 

Happy Mother's Day cupcakes

This post was suppose to be up much earlier today. But you know how it goes, work, come home and go for a run, eat some dinner, than this little cutie needed some lap time. This is Jasper. He's a Bombay, which are also known as lap fungus.  

On to the cupcakes!  For Mother's Day we grilled some chicken and I made homemade BBQ sauce. mmm mm tasty.  For dessert I made Chocolate Raspberry cupcakes from a recipe I found on Your Cup of Cake .
I followed the recipe exactly except I saved some of the raspberry puree and added it to the frosting. Made it extra raspberry-y.  Everyone thought they were delicious. Some even went back for seconds :)

They're even good naked!  

As raspberry season approaches, I highly recommend these Chocolate Raspberry cupcakes. 
If you make them, let me know how they turned out and if you thought they were delicious too. 

Cinco de Mayo- al fresco for two

Gorgeous weather here this weekend in Beaverton, Oregon. As some of you may know I've had the cold that won't die.  My boss has been taking one look at me and telling me to GO HOME.  She has to be pretty stern, I don't listen well. hee hee. I would have loved to have had friends over for a big Cinco de Mayo fest but with this cold I didn't want to risk passing it on to any of my friends. 

But it's CINCO de MAYO and I couldn't not  have a party.  So with the gorgeous weather and our great backyard my man and I had a party for two al fesco. 

Every Mexican meal at a restaurant starts out with some chips and salsa.  I picked up Arriba! Fire Roasted Chipotle salsa. I love the smokey spicy taste of chipotle. 

For dinner we had taco's. I decided to try Jenni-O lean taco seasoned ground turkey..  It was really tasty and no need  to buy taco mix. I'd use it again in taco's. I also made guacamole.  One late night my man and I were flipping through the channels and landed on Rick Bayless making Sun-Dried Tomato Guacamole.  It looked so fresh and easy I had to try it.  The sun-dried tomatoes in the guac adds a  burst of flavor. I'll never buy store bought guac again. 

Refreshing Jarritos for the warm summer day were perfect with our tacos. 

I hope the weather was fabulous for your Cinco de Mayo party. Tell me about it, I'd love to hear about your party :)

Birthday Luncheon:Take One

For my birthday this year I wanted to accomplish some of the Pins I've been Pinning over the years. So many fabulous ideas and foods to make. My mom totally helped me out by making me a lunch from pins from my Yummer board. 

From Chef Mommy: Pork Tenderloin with Pan sauce. The pork was tender, moist and tasty. The accompanying sauce added even more flavor.  All of us agreed that this recipe was a keeper. 

From The Virtuous Wife: Garlic Parmesan Pull-Apart Bread.  I love bread and I could have eaten this whole bowl. These are easy to make and quite good.  My brother snagged all the left-overs, that's how good they are.

For dessert, my mom deviated and didn't do a pin from my board but a recipe she saw on Pinterest. Orange Dreamsicle cake.  This cake was delicious. I took 3 pieces home and they didn't last long.

Luncheon Take One was delicious. I'm looking forward to Luncheon Take Two now. 

Happy Earth Day! 

Same work out. Two States

The Pinterest mini birthday projects continue. Remember, I celebrate ALL. Month. Long :) And you should too during your birth-month. I highly recommend it.

A friend of mine recently moved to Barrows, Alaska. This made it a little hard to bake, cook or do a project together for my birth-month. This didn't stop us from celebrating though. My friend picked a work out from my fitness board and a day during the month. On that day we both did this work out:

The link doesn't  seem to be working but I'll add it here just in case it seems to work for you.  http://gonnagiveallmysecretsaway.tumblr.com/page/6

We posted about our work outs on each others Facebook pages and as soon as she gets back from Anchorage, we're going to plan another work out day together. 

Thanks Dawn for celebrating my birthday with me, even though you're 2,102 (3,383 kilometers) away. 

Birthday Time!

It's my BIRTHDAY! On Saturday :) 

Unlike others I know, eh hem, my man, I love it when my birthday comes around.  I embrace it. It's a great time to connect with family and friends. You all know I'm not having a big party this year (click here). 

If I was I'd go Vegas style this year. 

Invitations

Party printables from PepCustomDesigns

Party favors 

I bet my friends are wishing I threw a party this year, ha ha

Stay tuned all month for more Pinterest birthday party projects.