What's Cook'n Free Printable Recipe Card from The Cherry On Top and Layout Love From Your Favorite Digital Designers

Welcome back to The Cherry On Top.

Yesterday, we had a hip hopping blog full of fabulous page inspiration, a lot of freebies and I started talking about healthy eating and our fun game we are playing in our group.

Today, I've got more on that as well as new goodies from other designers.

Do you recycle templates?  I sure do and a lot!  Just putting a different kit or collection on a page can make a big difference.  I'm recycling our Celebrate Scrap templates with Clever Monkey Graphics, Book Lover. What a super fun kit and a great pack of templates that you can use over and over.

Celebrate Scrap Templates

I gave the letters on the template some puffy styles for more bad'a bing.  A little paint behind the letters also makes the page more interesting.

Celebrate Scrap Templates

Book Lover from Clever Monkey Graphics

Also new in the Sweet Shoppe is this great collaboration with Tracey and Wendy.  Again, I'm recycling templates.  This time, Live, Laugh, Love.  Super versatile templates great for anything you want to scrap.

Live, Laugh, Love Templates and Doctor's Orders

I bet it's the same in your house.  When one is sick, they're all sick!  I'm looking rather optimistic for all of these sick kids.  Ah, youth!

Live, Laugh Love Templates

Doctor's Orders

Here's another new page with some older templates, Live Laugh Love and JoCee Designs, Ice Cream Shoppe.

Live Laugh Love Templates and Ice Cream Shoppe

Jo's also got this pretty new kit, Gone But Not Forgotten.  I scrapped up my precious, boy Puka.  He was my very first furry pet I've ever had.  He was the best cat ever.  I'm on my 5th cat and none come close to Puka.  He was the sweetest kitty and I can't believe how much I miss still miss him, years later.

I used my Got Ink templates.  They are a very artistic set of templates and obviously not just for tattoos.  This is the kind of kit that's perfect for them.

Got Ink and Gone But Not Forgotten

Got Ink Templates

Gone But Not Forgotten

Winter Chill Templates and Fly High from Aimee Harrison

Winter Chill Templates

Aimee Harrison also has something new in the shop and again, I recycled some older templates, Winter Chill. Not just for winter as you can see.  Some really cute pictures of my precious babies and the hubs, too.  Look at all of those fun outdoor elements.  The boys had so much fun that day.

Here's a look at the kit we are all working hard to get.  Well, not that hard.  It's really fun!  Come over to the group and join in and get all of the parts of this.

Free In The Group

I'll be blogging a bit about healthy eating for the rest of the month and into next.  It fits with our newest freebie and it's really important, right?

I'd like to give you this free printable recipe card and I'm hoping I'll get some in return, all filled in with a favorite, maybe healthy-ish recipe of yours?  Then we can put them all together and make a book!

Get the free recipe card, today!

Thanks for checking out The Cherry.

Happy scrapping!

Egg-Cellent Tips

Welcome to The Cherry On Top.

We are keeping it short and sweet with this one because it's cut and dry easy. We'll tell you how to test an egg without cracking it.  Have you ever smelled a rotten egg?  UGH!  By far, the worst thing I've ever smelled.  Even worse, breaking a bad egg into a bowl full of ingredients!  I learned my lesson the hard way.  Break all eggs over a separate container or dish.

Plant Seeds from Amanda Creation can be found at the Digital scrapbooking Studio.

Chickens totally rock!  Even in the congested cities of Belgium, you'll hear the cock-a-doodle-doo of roosters and the clucking of the ladies.  I wondered why so many people had chickens.  They eat a lot of left overs as well as the peels and other parts of fruit and veg that we throw away.

We have two garbage bags less, per month since we got the girls and I don't feel nearly as bad giving my girls leftovers rather than disposing them in the trash.  Of course, they also give us something in return, eggs.

We've had chickens for several years now.  I've noticed that when I let the girls walk around the yard and enjoy the grass and all of the critters they can find, that they are much, much healthier and lay eggs all year round, despite freezing or continuous rain.

I have one chicken that always manages to escape and she often retreats to my neighbour's, very overgrown garden.  She often lays eggs there and I forget to get them.

All you have to do is gently drop an egg into water and if it floats, it's bad.  That's it! When an egg starts to turn it emits gas, hence the floating. How convenient that I just happened to have discovered an old egg at the neighbours for this blog?!  Hehehe...

Some other egg-cellent tips I can give are telling the difference between a raw and cooked egg that is still in the shell.  It's all in the spin!  Give the egg a spin if it rotates quickly, then it's cooked because it's solid.  If it hardly moves, it's raw because it's liquid.

There is absolutely no difference between a brown and white egg.  If ya got a white chicken, then you are going to have white eggs.  If ya got a brown chicken, they'll be brown.  Neither is more nutritious than the other.  The best eggs for you are those that are organic.

There is great debate on how to make the best boiled egg.  Here's what I found on HowStuffWorks.

"First, place fresh eggs in a pot filled with cold water and bring to a rapid boil. Then, remove from heat and cover. Let the eggs sit for 20 minutes, take them out of the water, peel and enjoy. If you like your eggs cold, place them in a bowl of chilled water or run them under the tap for several seconds."

If you click on the high lighted link for HowStuffWorks, they give tips on the perfect scrambled eggs, omelets and the most delicious, poached eggs.

There is a whole lot of information out there about eggs and the health benefits from them.  Check out this article from Huff Post.

There ya have it.  You've got the facts and the skills to get those eggs just right and enjoy eating them without the guilt that they are not good for us because they are!