Recipes wanted!

Now that I have a beautiful kitchen, I've quickly discovered how absolutely BORED I am with all my recipes. You can only eat the same chicken, with the same seasonings, cooked the same way so many times before the thought of it makes you want to scream. So! I need your help! Post below in the comments your favorite recipes. I'd love to try them out and add them to my recipe book! Don't worry, you don't have to be part of blogger to comment. It will let you comment anonymously BUT be sure to leave you name so I know who suggested it!

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Upgrade - Kitchen Reveal!

Sometimes when you work really really hard, like 10 hour days and 7 days a week, you deserve to treat yourself to something you have really wanted for a long time. Some people treat them self to a day at the salon, others to video games but I decided to finally say goodbye to ugly yellow walls and HORRIFYING cabinets so....

....14 hours of manual labor and $300 later and I'm left with a BEAUTIFUL kitchen!! I'm not so certain Paul is sold on the color but I am in L.O.V.E. with it. He doesn't cook anyway, so his opinion is void. I still have to do some touch up painting on the cabinets but 14 hours took its toll on me. Also, we have handles to go on our drawers but Paul broke his bit doing the cabinet doors. So I will finish the rest next weekend.  I hope you all like it as much as I do! :)

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Make Shift Pantry

The biggest thing I HATE about my kitchen, on my list of many things, is the lack of any space to store food. Yep, no pantry. Sad, right?

Well, yesterday evening, my husband and I hung out with at our friends house (for the first time) and I stumbled across the most perfect solution ever. I'm kind of mad I didn't think of this before because I have a similar shelf in my craft room AND downstairs that we use as a book shelf. I thought it looked really awesome so I wanted to share!

The best part about this is that you wouldn't even know it is storing food unless I told you. Which is wonderful since it's sitting more in my living room than my kitchen due to the lack of space. On top of that this whole set up only cost me $65! I picked up the shelf at Lowes for $45, picked up the 4 pantry cans for $10 at Goodwill (and they are BRAND NEW and only missing the serving spoons) and the 2 pictures at K-mart on sale for $5 each! I luckily already had the canvas drawers, which by the way I picked up when they were on sale for $2 each about a month ago).

I'm in love with my new "pantry".