How To Make Coconut Butter

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So, butter.

We have a history.

This weekend I was hanging out with my family, and these words were inevitably spoken to me:

“Hey, Gina! Remember how you used to sneak into the fridge and leave finger prints in the butter container?”

Yes. Yes I do. It went something like this…

I would wait until no one was in my grandparent’s kitchen. I would sneak over to the fridge and pray that the large tub of Country Crock was within my stubby-four-year-old-arm’s reach. If it was, I would sneakily remove it from its place in the fridge and bring it over to the kitchen table. Silently, I would remove the top off of the tub of butter. Eureka! I would dip my fat little fingers inside of the container and eat the butter off my hands. Carefully, I would put the top back on the container and make sure to place it back where I found it in the refrigerator. My four-year old self did not understand that I had left substantial evidence of my shenanigans behind. There were little finger divots and prints left in the butter tub. I was the only four-year-old that frequented that house. I was caught red-handed. Several times. I will also NEVER live this down.

I like butter. I like it in almost all forms. I am the weird kid that will hustle you for your buttered popcorn Jelly Bellies. True story.

Naturally, when I heard of something called “Coconut Butter”, I was all ears. Is it just me or can the coconut really do anything? It’s a crazy miracle food. We can use it as a milk substitute, or use the oil to make granola, add toasted flakes to our salad or shreds to our donuts. And now, butter. Glorious, wonderful butter.

You are probably wondering, “What the heck do I do with this stuff?” This is a fair question. It is different from coconut oil, since it is made from the flesh of the coconut. You aren’t going to be able to fry your eggs in it. You can however use it as follows:

You can eat it straight out of the jar. (I did this)

You can spread it on baked goods.

You can add it to a smoothie. (This is totally happening. Stay tuned!)

You can swap it out for other fats in baked goods.

Drizzle it over your fruit for a sweet and savory snack.

Add it to some freshly mashed sweet potatoes.

Dip a piece of dark chocolate into it. (I also did this)

Mix it with some nut butter for a super magical spread!

I could go on and on…

The awesome part about this recipe is how easy it is. There is one ingredient. That is pretty simple, no? The hardest part it going to be waiting for your food processor to finish breaking it down all the way. Once it’s in its smooth and  buttery form, who am I to tell you that you can’t eat it out of the jar with your fingers? Do what you gotta do. xo

Coconut Butter

Ingredients

  • 2 cups unsweetened shredded coconut flakes
  • A pinch of sea salt (optional)
  • 2 tsp coconut oil (optional, as needed)

Instructions

  1. Measure out your coconut flakes and put them into your food processor or into a high-powered blender such as a Vitamix. Add a dash of sea salt, if desired, and start blending.
  2. Process until your coconut starts to climb the sides of the machine. Stop and scrape the sides and continue to process. Repeat this process over and over until your mixture becomes smooth and almost liquid, much like peanut butter. This process can take upwards of 15 minutes depending on your machine. Just be patient and it will come together.
  3. If you are having a hard time having it all come together, even after a lot of blending, you can add a couple of teaspoons of coconut oil in order to help it come together easier.
  4. Your mixture is done when it is completely mixed together and the consistency of natural peanut butter. Store it in an airtight container. When your coconut butter cools off, it will become hard. You can heat it back up either by putting your container into a saucepan over a low heat, or by sticking it into a microwave for 30 seconds at a time. Make sure your container can withstand heat before heating it up with either of these methods.
  5. Enjoy!
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Cardamom & Honey Cashew Milk {Gluten Free, Vegan & Paleo Friendly}

Cardamom & Honey Cashew Milk | So...Let's Hang OutI’ve started and stopped writing this post more times than I would like to admit.

This is because I’ve written these sentences several times over and over with the utmost sincerity, and I am starting to feel like Tobias Funke:

How does one milk nuts?

I just love the taste of creamy nut milk!

It might seem time consuming to make your nut milk by hand, but the payoff is worth it.

OH LORD, HELP ME.

Maybe I should just stop using the term nut milk and we’d be in way less trouble here. Let’s get more specific. Let’s call it cashew milk. Ah, there we go. That is so much better already. I can just feel this post taking a turn out of the gutter and straight to Classyville. Welcome.

The truth is (If you are still reading this. I totally don’t blame you if you stopped tuning in around the fourth sentence. It got weird.) this recipe is a certain kind of mind-baffling delicious that makes you want to dance with your arms up in the air! I got the idea from my friend Becca’s blog. We’ve totally talked cashews before. Check it out. However, she inspired me to take cashew magic to a whole new place. I used the bones of her recipe and took it from there.  First things first, you’ve gotta soak your cashews so that they soften.

Cardamom & Honey Cashew Milk | So...Let's Hang OutLet them soak for at least two hours before straining them. The two hours of anticipation will be the hardest part of this recipe, I promise. You know how to make that time pass by quickly though. You are resourceful. You have books to read, laundry to do, and maybe a Real Housewives Of  Beverly Hills Reunion to catch up on. Wait, you don’t watch that trash? Oh. Okay. Me either. Heh. What is that? Oh you also don’t DVR episodes of Laguna Beach re-runs? I got the message loud and clear. You are better than me. Moving on…

Cardamom & Honey Cashew Milk | So...Let's Hang OutOnce they are done, drain off the water and transfer them to your blender. You are going to add in five cups of fresh water and blend, Baby, blend!!

Cardamom & Honey Cashew Milk | So...Let's Hang OutAfter your mixture is completely blender-fied, you are going to run it all through a fine mesh strainer to seperate the pulp from the milk.

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It may look crazy, but set it aside in a separate bowl. You are going to want to make THIS recipe later!

Once you have seperated out all of the pulp, you are going to transfer the milk back into your blender along with all of these flavor-enhancing ingredients!

Cardamom & Honey Cashew Milk | So...Let's Hang OutThe combination of it all together is wonderfully aromatic  sweet and creamy! I could literally drink this entire jug myself in a day. It’s rich in protein and satisfies a sweet tooth without having to go crazy on a pan of cookies. Although, some days need cookies. I get it. Cookie up. OR, better yet, DIP THE COOKIES IN THIS CASHEW MILK!!! OMG, I just died a little inside at the thought. I literally blew my own mind.

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Once it’s all blended together, you can bottle it up and keep it in your fridge for up to a week. I dare you to make it last that long. I have plans for this milk. It is going in a smoothie that I’m bringing to you later this week. It will blow your socks off. Is that an actual saying? Did I just mix two things together? Oh well. Socks will be blown off. Mark my words.

Cardamom & Honey Cashew Milk | So...Let's Hang OutBottoms up!!

Cardamom & Honey Cashew Milk

Ingredients

  • 2 cups of raw cashews
  • 5 cups of water
  • 2 pitted medjool dates
  • 1 tbs raw honey (If you are vegan and do not eat honey, you can sub maple syryp)
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tbs vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Soak your cashews in water for at least two hours. This will help to soften your cashews and make them easier to blend.
  2. Once two hours have passed, strain your cashews so that there is no water left.
  3. Add your soaked cashews to a blender. A high powered blender such as a Vitamix will work best. Add your five cups of water on top of your cashews and blend until smooth. The timing will vary depending on the blender you are using. In the Vitamix it comes together relatively quickly. I blended it for about two minutes total to really make sure everything had blended together nicely.
  4. Once your mixture is completely smooth and creamy, you are going to want to strain out the cashew pulp. I did this with a fine mesh sieve and a mixing bowl underneath to gather the strained milk. You could also use a double layer of cheesecloth. Whichever method you prefer will work fine. Set aside all of your nut pulp.
  5. Once your milk mixture has been strained and is free of nut pulp, add it back into the blender with your dates, honey, cinnamon, cardamom, and vanilla extract. Process your mixture until all of the ingredients have mixed in completely and broken down to create a smooth and creamy milk.
  6. After everything is blended together, add it into an airtight container. It is ready to drink! You can store it in your fridge for up to a week.
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(Recipe adapted from The Dabblist)

DIY Sugar Cookie Foot Scrub | A Valentine To Yourself

DIY Sugar Cookie Foot Scrub | So... Let's Hang OutI was blessed with a lot of things. I have a great family and a wonderful husband. I live in a beautiful part of the world. My friends are the coolest and usually laugh at my jokes. I feel fortunate. However, one thing I wasn’t blessed with was pretty feet.

I was made aware of this fact when my Hawaiian grandfather looked down and my flat, calloused, chubby-toed footsies, and then looked at his equally flat, calloused and chubby-toed footsies. He smiled at me and said “Look at those Hawaiian feet! You got cute feet. They look just like mine!”  It was true. They did. Uh oh. Maybe I just needed a fresh coat of polish.

Later in life, someone (my mother) would tell me that every time they heard Jack Johnson’s song “Bubbly Toes” on the radio they thought of me. Cute. Is this because my big toes actually have fat rolls? Perhaps, yes.

Even later in life I would try to snuggle in bed with my husband and he would gingerly tell me “Honey, do you want to go get a pedicure? I will go with you.”  This is his polite way of telling me that I had hooves, and it totally hurts to snuggle with someone who has hooves.

So…it turns out sometimes you have to put in a little extra work to make your feet soft and socially acceptable for cuddling. Fine.

I crafted a Sugar Cookie Foot Scrub out of simple ingredients that most of you will readily have at home. I figured, if I have to pay attention to these paws of mine, I at least want to smell like cookies doing it. Do you have these things around your house? I think you do.

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This could make a cute Valentines Day gift for your girlfriends, your sisters, your mom… or in my case, yourself.  The whole process takes only a few minutes. It is about as easy as those five minute Rosemary Bath Salts I whipped up around Christmas time.  Plus did I mention it smells like cookies? Yum.

Simply combine your sugars in a bowl and whisk them together.

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Add in your oil and your vanilla and combine together with a fork (or you can use your whisk).

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Package it up into your mason jar. Slap on a label that you decorate yourself. Tie a little bow. Voila!

DIY Sugar Cookie Foot Scrub | So... Let's Hang OutCute, right? Then it is ready for gifting (OR immediate use.) It’s just that simple.

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Sugar Cookie Foot Scrub

Ingredients

  • 2/3 cup granulated white sugar
  • 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1 tbs vanilla extract
  • 1 half pint mason jar
  • Baker's twine
  • Label (with a sticker back)
  • Fine point black marker

Instructions

  1. In a medium sized bowl, combine your brown sugar and white sugar. Whisk them together until they are completely combined.
  2. Add in your olive oil and vanilla extract and mash together with a fork until all of the oil is combined into the sugar mixture.
  3. Pack the mixture down into your mason jar.
  4. To finish, tie a bow around the mouth of the jar with some baker's twine. Create your own label and stick it on the front of the jar. Now, it is ready for gifting or for immediate use!
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Cranberry Ginger Simple Syrup | A New Year’s Eve Cocktail

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It’s nearly New Year’s Eve and although I don’t have any fancy plans, I DO intend to be holding a fancy drink when the clock strikes twelve (Midnight. Not noon. Unless I have one at noon. It’s a holiday)

I’ve made you a cranberry and ginger simple syrup and cocktail to match. Actually, I kind of made it for me. I am currently sipping on the one pictured above. I had to test it for you. Make sure it wasn’t awful (It’s not.).  You’re safe. Drink away.

I had never made my own infused simple syrup before, and it turns out it’s totally easy (perhaps this is why they call it “simple” syrup). Boil some water and sugar, add your desired infusing ingredients, let it all cool and you are in business. It’s not a lot of work, and you will seem super fancy. Nay, you ARE super fancy. No seeming about it.

Let’s make some simple syrup!

Cranberry Ginger Simple Syrup:

2 cups granulated sugar

3 cups water

2 cups fresh cranberries

1 inch of ginger root, peeled and thinly sliced

Add your water and sugar into a pot over medium heat.

Bring it to a boil. Let it bubble together until the sugar dissolves into the water and it becomes thicker. Stir it occasionally. The whole process will take around ten minutes.

Once it has come to a boil, add in your ginger and your cranberries and reduce the heat.

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Allow it to simmer for an additional five minutes over low heat.

Once five minutes have passed, turn off your flame, remove the pot from the heat and stir.

Allow your mixture to cool completely and then bottle it.

You can use a fun bottle or keep it simple and use a mason jar.

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It should last for a few months in the refrigerator.

Now… it’s cocktail time! There are tons of  possibilities with this simple syrup! I suspect that it would be very tasty with your champagne. I, however, threw it in some vodka, shook it up, and it turned out pretty darn delicious.

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Cranberry and Ginger Fizz

4 shots of vodka

4 tbs of cranberry ginger simple syrup

Soda water (I used water from my Sodastream)

Ice

Sugar, for garnish

Lime, for garnish

First, take your martini glasses and using a lime wedge, wet the rim of your glass.

Place your glass rim down in a shallow dish of sugar.

Now you have a fancy sugared rim! How festive!

Add your ice, vodka and simple syrup to your martini shaker… and, you guessed it, SHAKE!!

Pour your mixture into the martini glass until it is a little more than half way full.

Add in some sparkling water.

Garnish with a lime.

Note: No matter how much your husband insists that it is okay to SHAKE your fizzy water vigorously in your cocktail shaker, don’t believe him. There is a reason we don’t shake soda. This reason is currently all over the top of my dress and my counters. Just add it in later. ;)

A toast to you, my friends!

Wishing you love, happiness, and all that is good this new year! Once again, thank you for making 2012 so major. How do you say? Oh yes. You are all the cat’s pajamas. The snake’s hips. The polar bear’s top hat. I might have fabricated that last one… but if you know me, you know I love nothing more than a polar bear dressed up festively. Cheers!

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A Homemade Christmas: Rosemary Bath Salts

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Christmas is swiftly approaching our doorstep.  I am reminded of this every time I leave the house. There are no longer good times to go shopping. The malls are crowded with families clambering for time with Mall-Santa and fellow last-minute shoppers. Even the grocery store is a battleground. I had to drive to three different stores in my small town yesterday to find shredded coconut. Holiday baking is in FULL swing. Tensions are high. Coconut is scarce.

As much as I love buying people anything and everything, it’s hard on the wallet. Plus, there is a certain sentiment about receiving a homemade gift. It feels extra special.

This is one of the ideas that I came up with recently.

I have been going through a real bath phase. Is that a thing? I dunno.  Go with it. Until recently I didn’t really appreciate the magic that is the bath.  Well, not since I was six years old and would re-enact the entire Little Mermaid from beginning to end DAILY in the tub. I wanted to be Ariel. I dream big.  My mom would have to start playing my Little Mermaid tape on my Lil’ Tikes tape deck before my toe would touch the water. She also was not allowed to get me out until I had belted out my last glorious note. Obviously the best part of this whole process was the part where I got to flip my hair over and sing the “AHHHH-AH-AHHHHHH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AHHHH!”. Magical.

Although bath time is no longer prompted by soundtracks (although…that sounds fun). It has been this beautiful relaxing winter meditation time. A time to get warm and relaxed and just zone out. Maybe read. Maybe just sit and breathe.

I’m a huge fan of Epsom Salts. Have you ever read the side of the bag of those things? They literally do everything. Sore muscles? Epsom salt it up. Gardening difficulties? Epsom salt it is. Digestive issues? Knock back some Epsom.  It’s the girl Friday of salts.

So why not create our own lovely smelling bath soak?  It’s basically like giving someone the gift of relaxation. Here, have a little miracle in a jar, on me. You are important. Breathe.  Relax, you so deserve it.

*Side Note: This gift might go really well with the Little Mermaid Soundtrack.*

Want to know the best part?  It  takes just a few minutes to put together.  I make them with a per-jar ratio.  If you want to make multiple jars, just double, triple, or quintuple the recipe.

You Will Need:

2 cups of Epsom Salt

2 tbs Baking Soda

2 drops of Food Coloring

4 drops of Essential Oil (I used Rosemary)

Funnel

1 Pint Mason Jar

Label for jar

String for packaging

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Measure out your salt and your baking soda, and dump them into a mixing bowl.

Add in your essential oils and your food coloring. Mix together until the color is evenly distributed throughout the salts.

Funnel your bath salts into your mason jar.

Create a label.

Tie a bow.

Look how cute it turns out!  Just a few minutes of work. You are a total champ.

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Have a great Friday, Friends! xo

Apple Cinnamon Whiskey | Musings From A Birthday Girl Mess

This is the whiskey that turns a non-whiskey drinker into a friendly, sloppy, whiskey-filled birthday girl mess.

It is delicious.

You’ll think it’s good enough to drink by the half glass. Don’t bother with what your mother taught you…that whole “Stick with one kind of liquor” nonsense. What does she know? You are twenty-eight now. Total grown-up. You can make decisions. When your girlfriend asks you to have a Skinny Girl Margarita with her, you do it. It’s your freaking’ birthday, right? So what if you switch from tequila to vodka? That should be fine. You are twenty-eight. You know what you are doing. Not your first rodeo.  So what if you’re not a big drinker? You just want to play Dance Central and show off some moves.

How do I know all this? I might have been this birthday girl (yup).

Flash forward to the next morning.

Headache. The rays of bright late-morning light beaming into your twenty-eight year old  eyeballs, scorching them open. Nope, close your lids. That hurts. Do you have a massive head injury? You check for bleeding. Nope, all clear. That is ALL headache. You think to yourself that your mom has some wise advice. She knows what she’s talking about. You will not tell her this.

You manage to guzzle down a bottle of water and a couple of Advil. It helps. The whole rest of the day you feel like you got hit by a party bus. You ate too much cake. You drank everything. You danced like it was a disco. You hugged most of your friends for a suspicious amount of time and told them all just how TOPS you think they all are. You made some inside jokes that you no longer remember.

This is the year that it becomes glaringly clear that you cannot “party” like it’s 1999.  Why did you think you could? Your hobbies are baking scones, and crocheting hats and maybe some light canning. You go to bed at 9:30 pm pretty much daily. You play eight Words With Friends  games at a time with your Grandmother. You are about five years away from shaking your fist at hooligans when they try to walk on your lawn.

This is what twenty-eight looks like.  Real.

Now, I don’t think twenty eight is old. I really don’t.  But, this is the first birthday in a long string of birthdays that has hit me like a stampede of polar bear paws. Time is passing quickly. How did I get to be two years shy of thirty?

Time. Is. Flying. I am thinking about creating a “things to do by the time I am thirty” bucket list. Wring the most out of my twenties. Maybe I will even add a “Don’t mix whiskey and tequila” note at the bottom of it. It is a good note.

I assure you that when consumed properly and not like a hollow-legged sailor, this whiskey beverage is fantastic. Respect it, and it will treat you like a lady (or gentleman) right on back. It is smooth and sweet and needs no fancy mixers. It is a cocktail all by itself.

Do not drink with vodka, tequila or rum.  I don’t care how “skinny” those margaritas claim to be. It will be a bad choice tomorrow.You will get a headache. Listen to your mother, no matter how old you are. She knows things.

This entire bottle went very quickly and was a huge hit among my friends. I think it would make a really great Christmas gift! I’ve been asked how I performed this magical whiskey makeover, so, let me tell you!

It’s easy.

Ingredients:

1 bottle of whiskey

6 apples

6 cinnamon sticks

airtight container

 Wash your apples well. Cut them up and put them into your clean airtight container.

Pour in your whiskey.

Add your cinnamon sticks.

Allow it to sit for two weeks in a cool, dark place.

Once it’s done, strain it.

Although you are tempted, I would recommend not eating the apples. It looks like they’re going to be tasty. They are not. The sweet apple flavor now lives in the whiskey, leaving the apples tasting of rubbing alcohol (we tried them to take the guess work out of it for you).

Now you can bottle it up!

Funnel it into a bottle of your choosing. I found this appropriately festive, apple-covered bottle at my local Ross.

It’s really that easy.

Bottle it up and share it with some great friends! WARNING: might induce hugging, dancing, and general need to celebrate.

Cheers, to YOU and you and YOU and you. xo

 

Homebody Halloween | Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Seeds

Happy Halloween,  Human Friends, Bear Friends, Ghoul Friends and Everyone in between!

Admittedly, this year I have been a bit of a Halloween bummer.  It completely snuck up on me.  There was no costume planning.  There was no party planning.  I wasn’t one of the people that put out spooky spider webs or cardboard graveyards on their lawn.  There was, however, some long pauses made in a very well stocked candy aisle at Target. Oh, and some lingering on Etsy for pet costumes. Nothing was purchased (biggest Halloween regret?  Yup.) That is about as far as I went this year.

The whole fact that Halloween can sneak up on you is such a grown-up notion.  Do you remember when you were a kid?  As soon as you had emptied your pillowcase full of candy and strategically hidden all of the snickers bars  from your father’s sticky fingers, you had already come up with next years costume.  It was never a hassle (for us kids at least… I can’t speak for my Mother and Grandmother who would sew most of my costumes.  Thank you, ladies.) It was always fun and always joyous and always meant free candy.

See that kid? (Me.)  Getting caught red handed in the act of eating candy when her father was trying to give her a bottle.  A face full of sweat smeared clown make-up from hitting the mean streets so hard with her candy bag.  She knew what was up.  Life was easier.

This year, after brooding in my Halloween grumpy pants, I decided to just go small and have a nice little pumpkin carving party for two.  The husband and me.  (admittedly, it turned into three.  Emma tried to eat all the pumpkin guts.  She also made out with my jack o’lantern.  She is kind of easy.)  We carved, we laughed, we made some pumpkin seeds.  It was good. It made me realize that you don’t have to go big and crazy to get into the spirit.

I hope you enjoy our video.  A little peek into our humble Halloween with a side of stop motion.  Our wonderful and talented friends Ampersand allowed us to use their song to jazz it up a bit.  You can find them at their website here.  Give them a visit and a listen.

Here is a recipe for our Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Seeds.  Granted, I will tell you now… It was late, things didn’t get measured and it turned out okay.  I advise you, like I did, to just get a little sloppy with it.  Be creative.   I believe in you.  Throw away the measurements.  The kitchen is your canvas.  They turned out tasty.  I only burnt them a little on the edges of the pan.  Not everyone is perfect, ya know?

Ingredients:

2 tbs of butter, melted (this is a gross approximation.  Perhaps a “chunk” would be a more proper measurement)

1/4 cup of sugar

Cinnamon ( lots of it.)

A splash of vanilla extract

Scoop, clean and prep your seeds.  After washing them, let them dry for a bit on a plate with paper towels.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees

After your seeds are dry,  add them to a mixing bowl.  Add in your butter, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla.  Mix it all up until your seeds are coated all the way through.  Line a pan with parchment paper.  Spread out your seeds evenly onto the parchment paper.  Put your seeds in the oven.  Check them every 10 minutes  and give them a bit of a stir so they cook evenly. Do not let them go too long because you are editing a Halloween video.  They will burn.  Pumpkin seeds wait for no one.

Have a wonderful Halloween!

Lemon and Rosemary Air Freshener

Sometimes life doesn’t smell great.  Maybe you decided to have egg salad for lunch. Maybe you forgot to take the garbage out last night.  Maybe things just get a little funky. It happens. Maybe (definitely) you have one of these:

She’s beautiful.  You call her Emma.  She likes to roll in dirt.   She is funky.  So funky that she needs a bath.  Now you have a wet dog.  She thinks that your whole carpet is her towel.  She proceeds to rub herself on your carpet.  Double funky.  You hustle her outside to dry, and now deal with the smell.

You remember a pin you saw on pinterest.  It tells you to boil lemons and rosemary and some vanilla.  It claims that your home will suddenly smell like Williams  Sonoma.  You think this is better than your home smelling like a dog park.  You try it.  It’s awesome.   And easy.  Who doesn’t love easy?

Ingredients:

Water

2 Lemons

5 Sprigs of Rosemary

1 Tbs Vanilla

Fill a stock pot 2/3 of the way full with water.  Add in your sliced up lemons, rosemary and your vanilla.  Let it simmer on low all day long, adding extra water as needed.   Easy as that.

(Inspired by One More Moore)

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