Grape Salad

I first had this Grape Salad at my step-daughter Amber’s wedding shower and immediately fell in love with it. Until recently, it had been a while since I made it — out of sight, out of mind! I remembered it last month when Steph was here visiting from Pennsylvania and made it for her. Now her and her family & friends are addicted to it as well. It is super easy and a great summer treat!

1 bag red, seedless grapes
1 bag green, seedless grapes
8 oz package of cream cheese
1/2 c sour cream
1/2 c sugar (you can also use splenda)
1 t. vanilla
1/4 c brown sugar
chopped pecans (to your taste, I love em so I use more!!)

Remove grapes from stems, wash and allow to dry. In separate mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla. Beat with mixer until well blended and no lumps remain. Stir in grapes until they are completely covered in cream cheese mixture. Pour into a 9 X 13 pan and sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans. Refrigerate and serve.

DELICIOUS!!!! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

~ Chanin

Visit us at the Fair!!

We will be having a booth at the Warren County Fair from Monday, July 20th through Saturday, July 25th. We have some great Breast Cancer product that we will be selling to raise money for our walk.

In addition to all of the great product available, you can adopt a pink ribbon rubber ducky for a chance to win our “Taste of Warren County” gift basket that we have put together! There will only be 100 ducks available for adoption at $20 each. As a “thank you” for adopting one of our adorable ducks you will be given a free dessert or appetizer card for a local area eatery!!

Hurry and adopt your duck, they won’t last long!!!

See ya at the fair!

~ Chanin

Putting the cart before the horse ...

So I totally thought that I had to get a blog going, not just for friends and family to follow us on this amazing journey, but also for myself .. to ‘clear my thoughts’ so to speak. My mind always seems to be going a million miles in totally different directions. Having a husband and three kids living with me that have been diagnosed as “Attention Deficit”, I would not consider that to be me. What I would consider myself??? Well, I’m not really sure .. soooo .. if you have a label, let me have it!!!

The reasons for me to have a blog were also to help friends and family learn some of the wonderful things that I have picked up on since I have been stalking um, following the blogging community and all of the wonderful blogs that are out there. I have learned so much about couponing, financial frugality, cooking .. you name it .. by all of the blogs that I have stumbled across.

Since I started couponing, I have gotten some close friends and customers addicted to it as well. It’s so great to see all the savings that those around me have been having by what I have be able to “teach” them from what I have learned and read about on-line.

Uh hum, back to the topic .. so, I started the blog for our team not completely realizing that as soon as I set it up WE WERE LIVE!!!! I guess I just assumed that I would be able to set it up, start to create, fine tune things and then go live. I am still trying to find the perfect theme for the page as well as the logo .. I have so many ideas swimming around in my head but, being the blog virgin that I am and knowing absolutely nothing about HTML, I don’t know the in’s & outs of putting it all together and getting everything to look “just so”.

SOOOOO what I’m getting at .. please bear with us as we get up and running. We most likely will not have daily posts for a while but I’m hoping to get there soon!!! Please be patient with us and keep checking back and .. if you have any ideas for us, feel free to leave a comment. We look forward to hearing from you!!

~ Chanin

Abuelo's Gift Card Fundraiser

Abuelo’s in the Deerfield Towne Center on Mason-Montgomery Rd has been and continues to be a great support for our team! Besides donations that they gave us for the Taste of Deerfield, they have graciously given us the opportunity to sell gift cards!

Now through the end of October, we are taking orders for the gift cards. Gift cards will be delivered as orders are received. Our goal is to sell a minimum of $1000 worth! This is a great fundraising opportunity for us and we hope you can help!

We are also planning a fundraising benefit in the next few months at Abuelo’s and will earn 10% of the sales from that day. More information will follow at a later date concerning this. Unfortunately, gift cards purchased from us cannot be used to pay for your meal at the fundraiser. We look forward to seeing you at Abuelo’s!!!

~ Team Quest 4 the Breast