One of my all time favorite “veggies” is corn on the cob. I know it’s more of a grain than a veggie, but it’s my veggie!  I remember growing up and going up to my grandmothers property up on Lake Huron, before her house was built, and we’d camp out on the weekends and we’d have corn on the cob. It was basically grilled, but instead of being cooked on the grill it would be wrapped in the foil and tossed in the fire pit to cook so it didn’t take up precious room on the grill.  There were usually a lot of people up there during this time because they were all there helping my grandmother clear off the property so it would be ready to have her house built on it.

Anyway, this recipe is basically the same concept, just using the grill.

Ingredients

• Corn on the cob; we prefer sweet corn over yellow corn.
• Salt
• Butter or cooking spray

Directions

1. If you’ve done this right, you will have purchased fresh corn on the cob that is still in the stalk. Remove all of the stalk and rinse the corn.
2. Place into a piece of foil and put some butter all over the corn along with a little salt.  This is mostly to keep the corn from sticking to the foil too much and to keep some moisture.
3. Toss onto the grill and cook for about 20 minutes.  You will want to roll the corn throughout grilling to get a nice even grilled look on the corn otherwise it’ll just burn on the one side.
4. Remove corn from the foil, add butter and salt or however you want to season it and enjoy!

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I’ve used the Olay Regenerest Micro-Sculpting Eye Cream & Lash Serum Duo along with the Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream for a few days now.  My face is soft, feels good, and I like it.  But, what would you really expect from a product that has vitamin E, pro-vitamin B5, and green tea extract?  Those are all things that are said to be good for you.  They also contain other anti-aging ingredients such as allantoin and glycerin.

The Olay Regenerist products are said to help strengthen your skin’s moisture barrier and regenerate skin surface:

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Now, as I’ve said, I’ve only been using two of the products and only for a couple of days so obviously it’s not going to make me look any younger and I don’t think I have wrinkles that are too bad so maybe using this will help prevent them from showing up more?  I don’t know, and honestly I don’t care. I personally just like the way my face feels soft after using the products. 

I do know that I do have dark circles under my eyes and I hope that the eye cream helps with that, but there is no guarantee it will and I’m OK with that. Plus, I couldn’t expect a product to dramatically show a difference after just a couple of days. I’ll continue to use the products and hope that they do.

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Grilled seasoned potatoes were introduced to our family and they are a hit! We even did up a pretty good size batch of them for the birthday party this past weekend and even the extended family and neighbors enjoyed them.

So, how easy are they to make? Super easy!

Ingredients

• Small golden potatoes
• Salt and/or other desired seasoning(s)
• Oil or cooking spray
• Skewers; wood or metal

Directions

1. Wash and cut potatoes into halves.
2. Put potatoes onto skewers, coat with oil or cooking spray.
3. Season with salt on all sides, add any additional seasoning you may want.
4. Place on grill and cook for about 20 minutes or until fully cooked.

That’s it, just take them off the skewers and enjoy! We like to dip them into sour cream, but they are good without!

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One of my most favorite burgers is when my husband makes them from scratch. Fresh ground beef with a few little ingredients and BAM! you have an awesome fat and juicy burger!  Usually when we buy our fresh ground beef we buy it in bulk so that we can measure it out into our own portion sizes and perfect for our family size meals. Lately we’ve been using a new retro looking scale that we received from EatSmart for the purpose of review.  This isn’t your ordinary scale, it’s an actual retro looking scale that is not digital!  I love these kinds of scales because you are able to use the bowl that came with it or another bowl and adjust the starting weight as needed.

What makes this EatSmart Precision Retro Mechanical Kitchen Scale so nice? Well, for me it’s that it goes wonderfully with our retro kitchen.  OK, so it’s not that it goes with our kitchen, it’s because it works and it’s super easy to use.  It comes with its own bowl for holding your items you want to weigh and it comes in several different colors. Oh and let’s not forget to mention that unlike most non-digital scales, this one has a capacity of 11 pounds!  That’s right, if you are wanting to measure something up to 11 pounds you are good to go with this one. Kind of makes it nice if you have a box to ship and need to know the weigh, just saying!

The EatSmart Precision Retro Mechanical Kitchen Scale is very affordable, at $39.95 and often found on sale!  You can get it in black, red, or silver. It comes with a 1.5 quart stainless steel mixing bowl to make it super easy to hold your items and is super easy to clean!  Oh and if you order from Amazon, you can order it Prime and get free shipping!

I recently decided to go to Eastern Market here in Detroit with another blogger and pick up a bunch of fresh fruits, veggies, and other items.  Most of which was to be used that day for the birthday party we were having for the boys.  These burgers were supposed to be done for the party, however we ran out of time and ended up not making them, so I ended up really needing to use my new and fancy EatSmart Precision Retro Scale to measure out our four pounds of beef that wasn’t going to make burgers.

For the recipe we used one pound of the beef and separated the remaining into one pound portions for later use to make Meatloaf, burgers, or whatever else we decided.

OK, time for that recipe I was talking about up there. This is the way Brandon always seems to make his burgers when we are making them fresh and they are so good! The Retro Scale is great for weighing out all kinds of ingredients, I’ve even been using it for fruits and veggies throughout the last month.

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1/4 cup quick oats
• 2-3 tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
• Salt & Pepper

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl until well blended.
2. Pat mixture into hamburger patties; size of your choice – we usually make 3-4 from this batch.
3. Grill until done how you prefer your burgers; well-done for our family!

The rest is up to you on how you prepare your burger. You can add a slice of cheese if you like cheese on your burgers.

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Ingredients

• Watermelon and assorted fresh fruits

Directions

1. First you will need to cut the watermelon in half.  Using a melon ball tool you will remove just about all the watermelon from within each half. Depending on the amount of fruit you have you may not want to put all the watermelon back into the “shell”.
2. Take any other melon type fruits and do the same thing as with the watermelon. To make it easier you can cut the melons into quarters.
3. Take all other assorted fresh fruits and slice them into pieces; strawberries into halves (unless large than quarters), pineapples into chunks, peel and separate the oranges, blueberries whole, kiwi’s into slices, and any other fruit you’d like to add to your fruit bowl.
4. Take all fruit layer them into the “shell” of the watermelon.  You can also mix all the fruit up and then poor it into the “shell” so you get a variety of fruit with each spoonful.

Super easy, just a lot of cutting and the use of a melon ball tool.

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Don’t forget to take the kids to see Monsters University on June 21st!  Visit Monsters University on Facebook & Twitter.

Just click on the image to download the printable version.

The trip was for a day at Michigan’s Adventure, in which we received complementary passes for one day, the post about that is on Mitten Moms but I wanted to share with you many of the pictures from out complete trip (there may be a couple duplicates).  There are a lot of pictures and each will have their own little description.

Enjoy, we sure did!  Oh and be sure to click the image to view larger, you can then scroll through them all very easily.

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