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Recipes by YOU: DFW's Modern Mommies!
EASY VEGGIE PASTA: Courtesy of Modern Mommy Kim Lopez
cut, dice, and roast your fave veggies on a cookie sheet. Set aside.
Put 1 box pasta in a casserole dish (dry), pour your fave sauce over it and fill the jar up halfway w/water.. pour water and mix.
Mix in roasted veggies.
Put in oven (at 400) for 35 minutes (give or take, I never am exact) and sprinkle cheese over for the last 10 minutes, uncovered.
JELLO MUSH: Courtesy of Modern Mommy Keri Holloway
1 pkg jello
2 cups boiling water
2 cups yogurt (any flavor)
2 cans favorite fruit (i.e. pineapple and tropical mix)
Add 2 cups boiling water to the jello and let dissovle, in a 13 x 9 glass dish. add 2 cups yogurt and mix in the fruit. Let sit in the refrigerator over night or until hardened. And there you have it... mush.
TACO SOUP: Courtesy of Modern Mommy Trisha Mihalik
1lb ground beef
1 pkg taco seasoning
1 onion chopped
1 can kernel corn w/ liquid
1 can kidney beans w/ liquid
1 can rotel
1 can chili beans
2 cans stewed tomatoes
Throw it in the crock pot all day – serve with cheese and sour cream!!!
This ROCKS on cold days and gets better as it sits so it is great for nights when you do not know when Daddy will make it home!
MONKEY BREAD: Courtesy of Modern Mommy J. March Baremore Dough BANANA/APPLE JUICE: Courtesy of Modern Mommy Eledy Gomez Half of a banana, half of an apple, and one cup apple juice, then mix in blender. Makes a great juice and my son loves it ICE CREAM OREO CAKE (NUT-FREE): Courtesy of Modern Mommy Melanie Williams
2 T butter (softened)
2 T butter melted
1 cup warm milk
1/3 cup warm water
¼ cup sugar
1 pk quick rise yeast
3 ¼ cup flour
2 t salt
Coating
1 cup brown sugar
2 t cinnamon
1 stick butter melted
1 cup pecans
Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
2 T milk
1. Preheat oven to 200. When it reached temperature. Turn off oven. Butter a bundt pan with the 2 T softened butter.
2. In a bowl mix milk, water, melted butter, sugar and yeast. Set aside.
3. In bowl of a mixer with dough hook attachment mix flour and salt. Slowly add milk mixture until it comes together and forms a ball. Remove from bowl and knead for a few minutes. Place in an oiled bowl cover and place in oven for 1 hour until it has doubled in size.
4. Remove dough from bowl and shape into a square. Cut into 4 even pieces. Cut each piece into 16 pieces.
5. Fill a Ziploc type bag with brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll each piece of dough into a ball. Working in groups of 10 place dough balls in butter and then in the bag of sugar. Shake to coat and place in greased bunt pan. Once a layer is in the pan sprinkle with pecans. Repeat until all dough is used. Place back in oven and let rise 1 hour.
6. Bake bread for 30 to 35 min at 350. Let cool 5 min and remove from pan.
7. Mix powdered sugar with milk and drizzle over bread.
What you will need:
1 rectangle carton of vanilla ice cream (frozen well, for slicing)
1 package of Oreo cookies
Chocolate Syrup
13x9 dish
large ziplock for crushing Oreos
Directions:
First, Place Oreo's in ziplock for crushing, Set aside one cup.
Next, Carefully and quickly remove carton from ice cream block
Slice some ice cream and place one bottom layer in your dish.
Then, sprinkle some Oreo's over the ice cream from your bag.
Repeat ice cream layer and Oreo's.
Last, finish off your final layer of ice cream and top it withyour final cup of Oreo's and drizzle with chocolate syrup. Cover and freeze for one or more hours.
This is a treat everyone will enjoy and safe to give to children!
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Congratulations to Casey Binkley Snyder, she has won The Learning Tower for her sweet daugther! Thanks for being a fan of Modern Babies & Children, Casey and have fun with The Learning Tower!
GattiTown is having a HUGE birthday celebration and has invited one of our Modern Mommies to come FOR FREE! Congratulations to Shelly Rios of McKinney, she was won a Free Family Pack - 4 meals and 2 - $10.00 game cards. Enjoy Shelly and Happy 4th Birthday to GattiTown!
Mandi has won a Noah's Ark Animal Workshop birthday party for 8 for her little girl, Aspen! This birthday party is courtesy of Regina Boyett, Workshop Party Leader!
They have won a BOPPY!
She has won a set of 4 Gro Baby diapers by The Natural Baby Company. Brandy is due in August with a baby boy! Congrats Brandy and thanks for going green!
She has won a 3D/4D Ultrasound from First Vu Imaging. Heather is expecting twin boys in November! Congrats!
Amanda has won a hip, designer labor & delivery hospital gown by C-U-Soon! These gowns are perfect & let modern mommies have a sense of fashion while recovering at the hospital http://www.DesignerDeliveryGowns.com
Congrats to Tonia Ramos! Tonia and her family will be enjoying a FULL year of free open play for a family of 4!
Congrats to J.March Baremore of Dallas, Texas. She and her family will be going to The Wiggles Go Bananas concert in August at Nokia Theatre!! Thank you, March for bringing your friends over to the Modern Babies & Children facebook fan page :)
Congratulations to Cindy Drake! She has won a sonogram package with First Vu Imaging! Good luck with your pregnancy, Cindy and thanks for being a Modern Babies and Children fan!Good Morning Texas Christmas in July
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Congratulations to Brianna Gonzales of Cedar Hill! She will be gracing the cover of Modern Babies & Children in September. Congrats to our 15 "too cute to cut kids" as well: Alexis Zamora, Savannah Glass, Brooke Slusser, Sidney Garcia, Temperance Gorman, Sydney Brooks, William Borel, Nikolas Garza, Brody Budman, Nicholas Blevins, Lauren Ferguson, Victoria Wilson, Brendon Weber, Lux VonDavid McBroom, Sierra GlazebrookNot So Perfect Parent - Giving Back
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Recent Prize Winners
We do bi-weekly give aways online each month. Here are just a few of the prizes we have already given away in 2009!
Posted: 5/4/2009
CRIB WINNERS!
Congratulations to Christi and Jade Edwards - they are our grand prize winners of the 4-n-1 Bonavita Metro Crib by LaJobi!
BABIES R US WINNERS!
Congratulations to the Chen Family of Lewisville. They have won the $250 gift card compliments of Modern Babies and Children! We give away a Babies R Us gift card every time one of our new issues comes out, for your chance to win, register online at www.ModernBabiesAndChildren.com/Dallas
More Winners in April!
Congratulations to Yahaira Rodriguez of Denton and Kim Leslie of Allen, both of these ladies have won a 3D ultrasound package with First Vu Imaging in Plano!
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Congratulations to Kristi and Wade Freeman, Iris and Rene Aguilar and Amber and Jeremy Lamb. These 3 lucky families won a Gro Baby Eco-Friendly Cloth Diaper along with 3 soaker pads to get their journey to green living started with their new babies!
Congratulations to J. March Baremore who has won the Cash Bash game by Learning Resources which was featured on Good Morning Texas' Not So Perfect Parent segment in January. Enjoy this game with your kids, March!
Amy Chesser, Sarah Milem, Stephanie Barrett, Trisha Mihalik and Meredith Liewehr have all won family 4 pack tickets to see Sesame Stree Live, Elmo's Green Thumb. Congrats to these families and have fun at the show!
Congratulations to Kimberly Read of Keller, Texas and Shamettra Hill of Irving, Texas. These DFW Moms have won a Money Savvy Piggy Bank which were featured on Good Morning Texas' Not So Perfect Parent segment! Thank you for visiting our website and good luck to the other contestants, as we still have plenty to give away!
Ticey Geyer of Frisco is the lucky winner of both a pink and a blue Paci Partner. She and her husband are expecting twins, both a boy and a girl in April. Congrats and good luck to the Geyer family!
Mommy Memo of the Month
Each Month, Modern Babies and Children selects a Mommy Memo of the Month, which is submitted by a local DFW Mom and is shared with all MBC moms via an email newsletter
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January's Mommy Memo is brought to us by: Trisha Mihalik of Corinth. Mother of 2 girls TIPS I have two beautiful daughters 9months & 2.5 years so my tip relates to babies from my mother When you are running around stressed to the max and just want these kids to be self sufficient…. l STOP for a minute and enjoy the chaos, you will blink and they will be 10 and you will be wishing for them to be toddling and crawling around! J It is so clique’ but it goes by way too fast LAUGHS Pretty Pretty Potty - My 2 year old, Mallory, began asking about going potty so we decided to go get her a little potty. I sent my hubby to Target to get one and he came home with the CUTEST pink princess potty that looks like a throne and sings when you go on it!! Mallory was thrilled and immediately said she needed to go and closed herself in the bathroom. Finally she emerged TOTALLY naked and announced that she had pooped! Brian and I ran to the bathroom with pride only to find that our darling daughter had pooped NEXT TO the potty!!! We asked her why she did not go IN the potty and she looked at us and said “Mommy, Daddy, My potty too pretty to poop in!!” Inspiring side note – at 2.5 years Mallory it completely potty trained and now goes in not only her pink princess but the big girl one as well J EATS TACO SOUP – SO QUICK – SO EASY - & SO YUMMY!!!! 1lb ground beef 1 onion chopped 1 pkg taco seasoning 1 can kernel corn w/ liquid 1 can kidney beans w/ liquid 1 can rotel 1 can chili beans 2 cans stewed tomatoes Throw it in the crock pot all day – serve with cheese and sour cream!!! This ROCKS on cold days and gets better as it sits so it is great for nights when you do not know when Daddy will make it home! If you would like to submit your MOMMY MEMO, please email ONE tip, ONE recipe and ONE laugh to Misti@ModernBabiesAndChildren.com |
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Recent Winners
Recent Winners of $500 Babies R Us gift cards:
Modern Babies and Children awards one lucky mom a $500 or a $250 gift card to Babies R Us every four months. Mothers and Families can register at any DFW Babies R US.
Here are our two recent winners
- Summer 2008 - Tracy and Bill (Plano, TX)
- Fall/Winter 2009 - Julie and Wes (Fort Worth, TX)
Cutest Kid
Modern Babies and Children puts DFW's cutest kid on cover
At the recent "Everything Babyfest" trade show, MetroplexBaby.com hosted the "DFW’s Cutest Kid" contest. The winner and runner ups are featured in our Fall/Winter 2008 issue.