Prep Time: 15 min Total Time: 58 min
Makes: 6 servings
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
4 medium green onions, sliced
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 package (10 oz) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed to drain
½ cup small curd creamed cottage cheese
½ cup Bisquick® mix
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon juice
¼ teaspoon pepper
3 eggs
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
Heat oven to 350ºF. Grease 9-inch pie plate. Melt butter in 10-inch skillet over medium heat. Cook onions and garlic in butter 2 – 3 minutes or until onions are tender. Stir in spinach; spread mixture in pie plate. Spread with cottage cheese.
Stir Bisquick® mix, milk, lemon juice, pepper and eggs until blended. Pour into pie plate; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and nutmeg.
Bake about 35 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes. Sprinkle with additional Parmesan cheese, if desired.
Prep Time: 10 min
Total Time: 45 min
Makes: 6 servings
1 ½ cups frozen broccoli florets, thawed, drained (from 12-oz bag)
1 cup shredded reduced-fat sharp Cheddar cheese (4 oz)
1 cup cut-up cooked chicken breast
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
½ cup Bisquick® mix
1 cup fat-free (skim) milk
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
2 eggs or 1/3 cup fat-free egg product
Heat oven to 400°F. Spray 9-inch glass pie plate with cooking spray. Layer broccoli, 1/2 cup of the cheese, the chicken, and onion in pie plate.
In medium bowl, stir Bisquick® mix, milk, salt, pepper, and eggs with wire whisk or fork until blended. Pour into pie plate.
Bake 20 – 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup cheese. Bake 3 – 4 minutes longer or just until cheese is melted. Cool 5 minutes.
A canvas doesn’t have to be just a canvas. You can easily turn it into another creation—a bulletin board or a magnet board.
Instructions for a bulletin board and magnet board are virtually the same. For our purposes (and because I like the idea of a magnet board better—no holes through the canvas), we are going to focus on a magnet board.
Items needed:
A Canvas print
A magnetic metal sheet 1 1/2 inches smaller than the canvas on all sides
Heavy-duty staple gun
Instructions:
Create a canvas, any size (I suggest the bigger sizes—not the 8×8 or the 8×20). Put any design and any photographs you want. Then publish and order it. Once your canvas arrives, you continue with the next steps.
Place the metal sheet behind the canvas. (You can get a metal sheet from a home improvement store—you may have to cut it down to size—or from a metal supply shop.
Staple the metal sheet into the canvas frame as you would a picture in a picture frame. You’ll want make sure the staples are close enough to the canvas to secure the metal sheet in place, but far enough away so you don’t puncture the canvas.
Optional: instead of stapling the metal sheet into the frame, you can use a strong tape (such as duct or gorilla) to attach the metal to the back of the canvas, as shown below.
Once you’re finished, place the new magnet board on your wall. You now have a decorative and useful addition to your home.
One of the best parts about My Studio is the photo storage system. And to help you make the most of your storage and use of photos, we’ve got a few tips from the home office.
Before Uploading Pictures
By Bryndi Cloward, Leadership Services
Because of the digital age and because camera memory is not an issue, we can take 100 pictures of some small-hour events. Many times we will take the same shot five to seven times just to make sure we get a good shot. But for a book, we don’t need all seven shots of Billy Joe eating his corn on the cob.
Before uploading to Heritage Makers, go through your pictures and clean them out. Pick your one or two best sunset pictures. Don’t clutter your HM folder with 15 pictures of the same sunset. Choose the ones that are most vibrant to you. By doing this, not only will you clean up space on your hard drive, but you will make creating your book that much easier.
Manage Your Photos First
By Debbi Heaps, HR/Exec. Admin
Take the time to manage your photos before you take them off your camera. Doing so will help eliminate some of the overwhelming frustration of having to search through all your photos later. It’s that ole “take time to sharpen the saw” wisdom.
If Problems Occur
By Marshyl Cloward, Director of Client Services
When uploading your photos, if you get a 2038 error, or only a couple of images load while others don’t or get stuck loading, go to the original file on your computer and open it using an image view program. Resave the image as a JPG and re-upload the image to Heritage Makers.
Rotate Photos
By Lynda Angelastro, Project Manager
Before you upload photos to Heritage Makers, rotate images so they are set at the right angle. You can rotate inside Studio (not within your photos folder); however, when you submit a project as a template with photos that have been rotated inside Studio, new photos—if in the correct rotation before—will no longer be rotated correctly. Making sure your photos are rotated correctly before hand will help your design and other designs flow mush easier.
For Basic Account Members
By Megan Vernon, Client Services Rep.
With a Basic account, you have limited photo storage space (1 GB), compared to the space Premier members have. To help save space, only upload the photos you know you are going to use in the project.
Submitted by Lauren Foutz, Consultant Service Rep.
Make that breakfast favorite just a little bit healthier. Still not exactly healthy, but an improvement. Mix in some berries to add a little something more. You can use other fruits as a topping, with whipped cream or syrup if you need that sweet taste.
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon common granulated sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons oil
additional oil for frying
Oil a frying pan. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in one bowl. In another bowl, scramble the egg, then add the milk and the 2 tablespoons of oil. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together, well enough to eliminate dry spots, but no more.
Heat the frying pan to medium temperature. Pour a pancake. The pancake will bubble. When the bubbling settles down and the edges are slightly dry, flip the pancake. When the pancake looks done, remove it and start another one.
It is my favorite with a little bit of natural peanut butter and sugar free syrup! Yum, yum!
March brings a fun celebration: National Nutrition Month. And that means recipes!
This month, we’ll be posting some more nutritional recipes right here. Go ahead and try them out! (The all look so yummy!) And if you want to include them in a cookbook or make recipe cards with them, I assure you I don’t have any objections.
Today’s recipe: “Healthified” Impossibly Easy Chicken ‘n Broccoli Pie Submitted by Debbi Heaps, HR/Executive Admin.
Prep Time: 10 min
Total Time: 45 min
Makes: 6 servings
1 ½ cups frozen broccoli florets, thawed, drained (from 12-oz bag)
1 cup shredded reduced-fat sharp Cheddar cheese (4 oz)
1 cup cut-up cooked chicken breast
1 medium onion, chopped (1/2 cup)
½ cup Bisquick® mix
1 cup fat-free (skim) milk
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
2 eggs or 1/3 cup fat-free egg product
Heat oven to 400°F. Spray 9-inch glass pie plate with cooking spray. Layer broccoli, 1/2 cup of the cheese, the chicken, and onion in pie plate.
In medium bowl, stir Bisquick® mix, milk, salt, pepper, and eggs with wire whisk or fork until blended. Pour into pie plate.
Bake 20 – 25 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup cheese. Bake 3 – 4 minutes longer or just until cheese is melted. Cool 5 minutes.
It’s March. And that means new art. You’ll love the new and featured collections for this month. It’s time to make that long awaited March scrap page, a St. Patrick’s Day card, a spring canvas… As always, the possibilities are endless.
New Art By Chance - A Mini Kit
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
Lucky Charms CarsonPark Ladies Tee Box
Spring-a-Ling Add On
Brace Face
Already Existing Art- Featured for March A New Leaf Collection
Eggstraspecial Embellishments
Spring Fresh Kit Collection
Sunshine in My Soul
The women in our lives have done so much for us, from raising us, to teaching us how to sew and cook, to comforting our broken hearts… and on and on. So, it’s time to celebrate and honor those women, even you.
Yes, if you are a woman, you should most definitely honor yourself. Know that you too are special; you have many talents and skills that make you a special woman in many people’s lives. And your story deserves to be heard just as much as anyone else’s.
Ready for the fun activity ahead of you as you observe Women’s History Month? How about create a storybook all about that special woman in your life. The following is a great example of what you can do to honor her.
