Cher's Amazing Rice Pudding Recipe

3/4 cup uncooked Jasmine rice

2 cups vanilla Silk soymilk (devided, 1 1/2 cup and 1/2 cup)

1/3 cup white sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 egg, beaten

1 Tablespoon butter

cinnamon (I didn't measure, I love cinnamon so I used about THIS MUCH!)

1. In a medium saucepan, bring 1 1/2 cups WATER to a boil. Add rice and stir. Reduce heat, cover aned simmer for 20 minutes.

2. When rice is tender and water is all absorbed, add in 1 1/2 cups Soy milk, sugar, salt and cinnamon. Cook over medium heat until thick and creamy, 15-20 minutes. Stir in remaining 1/2 cup Soy milk and beaten egg. Cook 2 minutes more, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in butter. Add to serving bowls and top with a dash of cinnamon. Serve warm.

Trash to Treasure

Have you watched American Pickers or Picker Sisters? I am obsessed and want to buy an old truck and start visiting some old farm houses and pick through their stuff and bring it home and make it into cool new stuff.

That's really all I have to say today. I do have a project happening that I will post soon.

peace and blessings <3

Update on DIY Dishwasher detergent

I don't like it. I've been using it for a couple weeks now. It seemed pretty good during the first couple clinical trials but after that it all went downhill.

It just doesn't seem to work that great. Some dishes I even had to rewash after they went through. No thank you! And the glasses do not sparkle.

So the search goes on.

DIY Dishwasher detergent

Ok, so this evening we ran out of our usual dishwasher detergent and so what a girl to do? GOOGLE IT! Yep! I found a recipe right here.

Here it is. (Notice: its very similar to my Laundry Soap recipe, so I already had 3 of the 4 ingredients)

1/2 cup Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda
1/2 cup 20 Mule Team Borax
1/4 cup Kosher Salt
4 packets Lemonade Kool-aid (unsweetened)

Mix together in a resealable plastic container (I used the plastic tub that was empty from the store bought detergent)

Add 1 TBSP to dishwasher.

PS. It worked fabulous!

Homemade fabric Softener

Going with the laundry theme... I have found a recipe for Homemade Fabric Softener on eHow. Its ridiculously easy so I didn't have time to gather some pics. And its CRAZY cheap!! (Less than $2)

What you need
1 cup baking soda
1 cup white vinegar
2 cups water

Instructions

1. Mix 2 cups of water and 1 cup of baking soda in the plastic container. (I used some Gladwear) Stir to dissolve baking soda, although it might not completely dissolve.

2. Slowly add 1 cup of vinegar to the container while stirring. Expect a chemical reaction with a fizzing sound. This was pretty cool.

3. I added 5-6 drops of essential oil  (this is not in the original instructions, but I wanted it to smell better than the vinegar)

4. Place Fabric softener in an empty bottle for storage. I used a Nalgene bottle. 


Use 1/3 cup for each laundry load. Shake bottle gently to dissolve baking soda before using.


Its in the testing process right now, will let you know how it goes!


I wonder what's next for us in the wonderful world of DIY!

 

DIY Laundry Soap Update

I'm impressed! The laundry soap seems to work out rather well. Go ME!

I originally found it on Pinterest (which I am addicted to and you will here about often) the recipe came from www.whynotsew.blogspot.com who I now love very much, and will now stalk. Jk.

DIY Laundry Soap

So I have found this recipe for homemade laundry soap on countless websites. In the future, I will give credit where credit is due, but this time there is to many to list.

This is a very simple DIY project, if you can boil water you can do this. Here is a list of ingredients that I used and how much they cost at Walmart.

2 gallons water $1.00 (I only got these because I needed the jugs they came in, you can certainly use tap water and re-use milk jugs)
1 cup Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda $3.24 (for a 55 oz box) (enough for 6 more times)
1 cup 20 Mule Team Borax $2.98 (76 oz box) (enough for 9 more times)
1 bar of soap $0.97 (grated with cheese grater) (I used Yardley English Lavender, because I love the smell of lavender)

That is a total of $9.19, the washing soda and borax will last you MANY MORE times, the only thing you should have to buy in the future is the bar of soap.

TOOLS-
Cheese grater
Big pot (mine was 2 1/2 gallons)
Big wooden spoon
Funnel


STEPS-
In a large pot, mix about 1/2 gallon water with the grated soap. Stir often and bring to a boil. When the soap is mostly dissolved add the rest of that gallon of water and the Borax and Washing Soda. Turn heat down to medium, DON"T FREAK OUT! This is when it starts to gel. Keep stirring until all mixed. Turn off heat.  Add second gallon of water and continue stirring.

I let mine cool just a few minutes and then started adding it back into the gallon jugs. This is where I came into a little trouble. It seems that it is not that easy to add this gel like creature to the gallon jugs. So I used a plastic bowl (my daughter hates when I save butter bowls and what not) to transfer the gel into the funnel then into the jug.

Use about 1/4 cup for small loads and 1/2 cup for big loads. This is where I used another bowl that I saved from the trash. I even measured and  marked it with a sharpie for each load size.

I have a test load in the washer right now, so I will let you know how it goes!