Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Party in Your PJs #200!! Join our Thank You Giveaway!

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Happy Tuesday!

Welcome to the Party in Your PJs Link Party, where your posts will be seen on four different blogs each week.

You'll also find the Awesome Life Friday link-up here at RCHReviews, every Thursday evening at 8pm ET so we hope to see you there as well.

What are you up to in this week? I can't wait to see what you've brought to share! If your post is SPRING THEMED, we'd love if you'd also share it with our month-long Welcome Spring link up, where it will be seen on several blogs:







 Meet the Co-Hosts


Nina @ Grandma Ideas 

Lynda @ Reviews, Chews & How-Tos 

Facebook // Pinterest // Twitter // Instagram

Teresa @ Aging Like a Fine Wine

Facebook // Pinterest // Twitter // Instagram



 We've hit TWO HUNDRED here at Party in Your PJs! Wow!!  We're all so happy that you come and visit with us each week, that we've decided to hold a special Thank You Giveaway! 

 One of our readers in the US will receive $100 cash via PayPal from Party in Your PJs!

 We'll be closing the giveaway on on April 2 at 11:59pm, so don't forget to enter! And thank you so much for stopping by each week! We're grateful for every one of you!




Lynda's Features!

 Make sure you head over to the other members of Party in Your PJs
 to see their features - we each pick our own!




All links are pinned to a Party Board...you can follow the board on Pinterest...feel free to follow the board, there is lots of inspiratioPn to be found there.

Ok...let's party!

Rules -Link to post, not your home page
-Link to something YOU made, wrote or thought
-No Etsy or Business Pages
-Link Parties, Roundups and Giveaways welcome
- Don't Link and Run! Please visit other links, make friends, learn something new, leave a comment.


Monday, March 19, 2018

Welcome Spring! Link Party

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Welcome Spring! We're celebrating warmer weather and blooming flowers with a group of our blogging friends. You're invited to share your spring time posts with us from March 19 through April 19.

 I'm not sure how the weather is where you are, but here in the DC area, we've been stuck in the low 40s for weeks, not quite winter weather, but hardly what I'd call Spring either.  But ready or not,  it is just a few days away, and I'm so looking forward to seeing how everyone's celebrating it!


Meet the co-hosts of our Welcome Spring Link Party


 Each co-host will be sharing a spring time post to kick off the party. You'll find their links first in the Link Up below. Please visit their links and check out their posts. You're sure to find lots of inspiration!

I'm sharing a simple and delicious way I discovered for making glazed carrots something more than a boring side dish:

Ginger Beer Glazed Carrots


You’re invited to share any spring related posts: Crafts, Decor, Activities, Gardening, Recipes & More. If it’s a way to celebrate spring, we’d love to have you share it with us! We're looking forward to seeing your spring time creativity!

 All of the co-hosts will be sharing a Welcome Spring Link Party features post on April 23, so be sure to check back.


Sunday, March 18, 2018

Ginger Beer Glazed Carrots

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If you're looking for a sunny side dish for your spring table, I've got one here that I think you'll enjoy! ,
Cooked carrots don't always have a great reputation - they tend to be overdone, bland, and leached of all the flavor that makes a carrot such a sweet pleasure to eat. It really is a matter of cooking properly and seasoning well to take them from sad to celebratory!

These started on a whim - somehow, I'd managed to have far too many carrots for my husband and I to eat raw, and needed to use some of them as a side dish rather than being a minor player in stews or salads.  My husband tends to be in the 'no cooked carrots' camp, although he is polite about pushing them around the plate and nibbling at a few, so I wasn't expecting him to like this.  Which means it was all about pleasing myself!

We had some ginger beer on hand which, unlike Ginger Ale, tends to be on the spicy ginger side rather than sweet - I thought it might result in something interesting here.  I pulled these little golden gems together, to go along with some chicken thighs and wild and mixed rice pilaf.


Ginger Beer Glazed Carrots
serves 4

7-8 carrots, peeled, and sliced into thin coins
2 Tablespoons butter
12 oz. Ginger Beer
1 Tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon Hungarian Paprika
salt and pepper to taste

Heat pan with half the butter, and lightly saute the carrots until they are slightly softened.

Add ginger beer, remaining butter, honey, and seasonings, and simmer on medium, stirring occasionally, until the liquid cooks down.  The honey will help create a glazed effect.

Taste, and adjust seasonings as needed.

The surprising verdict from my husband: he liked these, and even helped himself to extras!  The leftovers had a bright, gingery taste that reheated well, too.  We will certainly be doing these again, and I think they'd be a perfect side dish for St. Patricks Day (Leprechaun Coins, anyway), Ostara or Easter.

Ginger Ale would work instead of Ginger Beer (though you may wish to avoid adding honey, since Ginger Ale is plenty sweet already), but I encourage you to find some Ginger Beer - it has a much spicier gingery taste to that really made these carrots sparkle!

 (originally posted March 2016)








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