Mouth Watering Pastrami Egg Rolls

My husband has a long standing reputation for making delicious egg rolls. But this variation, devised by my oldest son, tops anything his father has ever produced. I don’t generally eat meat, and even I love it!

Ingredients:

1 lb. shredded cabbage

vegetable oil

5 tsp. sugar

2 tsp. salt

1-2 tsp. soy sauce

1/8 tsp. ginger

1/8 tsp. black pepper

3 oz. cooked chicken, chopped

3 oz. deli pastrami, chopped

For Dipping :

Dijon Mustard

Duck Sauce

Directions :

Saute the chopped cabbage in a small amount of vegetable oil, till limp. Add all of the other ingredients, except for the dipping sauces, and cook for 3 more minutes.

Set aside.

When cabbage mixture is cool enough to handle, stuff and cook egg rolls according to the package directions.

Serve with both Dijon Mustard and Duck Sauce for dipping.

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The Best of CraftBits

Here is a list of my favorite projects from CraftBits.

I divided the projects by the same category system that CraftBits uses, to make perusing the list easier. Don’t worry if I left off your favorite…Just send me a comment with the url and I will be glad to add it.

Bath And Beauty Crafts

Bead Crafts

Crochet Patterns

Jewelry Making

Paper Crafts

Recycled Crafts

Scrapbooking

Sewing Crafts

Soap Making Crafts

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Pizza Cake

Description : To decorate the Pizza Cake, cover a round cake with red frosting and embellish with fruits.

Craft Link : Pizza Cake

Source : FamilyFun

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Embroidered Elephant Card Tutorial

I’ve been seeing a lot of embroidered greeting cards around the blogosphere over the last couple of months, and today I decided to try my hand at making my own.

It actually came out quite nice (the picture really does not do it justice!).

Here’s what I did:

First I located an easy embroidery pattern. Because I wanted to make a baby card, I picked out this elephant. It’s got enough detail to be interesting, but not so much detail as to be overwhelming.

I printed the elephant out and cut off most of the excess paper.

Then, I positioned the elephant over the center of the card and taped it down. I pressed the tape against my arm a couple of times first, to make sure it would be easy to remove.

After that, I used a needle to carefully prick holes where I wanted to stitch. Each hole is about 1/4 inch apart, except in detailed areas. In detailed areas, the holes are about 1/6 inch apart.

Finally, using three strands of floss, I embroidered the entire card.

Here is a close-up.

The entire project took less than an hour.

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Elegant Velvet Desktop Organizer

Description : You’ll need to purchase an antique velvet photo album from eBay before starting the Elegant Velvet Desktop Organizer.

Craft Link : Elegant Velvet Desktop Organizer

Source : Country Living

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Forest Animals Embroidery Pattern

Each week I re-publish a work that fall under the creative commons guidelines.

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”

Baby With Forest Animals Embroidery Pattern

Note: Click to enlarge

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Colored Pencil Tutorials

Colored Pencils offer a lot of control for the new artist. The ability to erase, redraw, and erase again is one of the big advantages of colored pencils over fine arts such as watercolors. Colored pencil projects can also be put down for long periods and then restarted with no loss of quality of work. All in all, colored pencils are a very flexible medium to work with.

In case you have no training in using color pencils, here are some color pencil tutorials to get you started.

General Information On Colored Pencils