Baking Day Update #4 (The Apple Pie, Cornbread, Chicken Edition)
Before I knew it, it was time to get dinner ready! Whipped (stirred?) up some cornbread to go with the... ...chicken. And then in went the... ...apple pie (made with butter crust, brushed with milk, and sprinkled with sugar). I'm about to lick my screen. Oh, wait....
Baking Day Update #3, Things Are Being Finished!
Granola bars are cut up. Half-Whole Wheat Honey Oat Flax Bread (aka Bread With Longest Name Ever) is cooling. Zucchini bread is baking. I totally spaced and make it all white. To make up for the lack of nutrients, I added two tablespoons of ground flax seed. There,...
Pie Crust is Better with BUTTER
More expensive, yes, but BETTER. Ingredients for a double-crust: 2 1/4 c. flour 3/4 tsp salt 2/3 c. butter 8-10 tbs COLD water* *The main thing to remember when making a butter vs. shortening crust is to keep everything as COLD as possible. Shortening does not...
Baking Day Update (and Child Melt-Down) #2
The children helped me pack down the granola bars. Benjamin threw a fit when I told him he couldn't eat it with a spoon. The bread came out of the machine to rise in a warm, draft-free place. The Cinnamon Crunch Granola came out of the oven to cool on racks. The...
Baking Day Update (and Child-Related Spill) #1
First, I made the Half-Whole Wheat Honey Oat Flax Bread. Then I tackled the Cinnamon Crunch Granola. While stirring the syrup, I let the two-year-old stir the dry ingredients. This happened: I totally wouldn't have punished him. Even though I was rather upset about...
Baking Day Tomorrow!
Apparently, everyone who's anyone is baking and bragging and blogging about it tomorrow. And I wanna be someone. So expect to see some baking and bragging and blogging on here tomorrow. (And possibly the next day.) The proposed plan: Half-whole wheat waffles. At...
Meet-and-Greet: A Yoda, a Spider, and a Princess
The Yoda: I did not make his costume. We bought it for Olivia. And every.single.child since has been Yoda for their first Halloween. Yep, both of 'em. The Princess: I did not make her dress. It is a flower girl dress from a wedding she was in this summer. I did...
Meet-and-Greet: Pure Pumpkin Patch Pleasure
If we're friends on facebook, these are old hat. Sorry to those who had to wait, I procrastinated in resizing them. Because now I host my own pictures. Sick of Picasa and other sites letting me down. Don't know what I mean? Check out older picture posts like this....
Jesus v. The Shark
So recently, I started to get concerned that perhaps Benjamin thinks Christmas is only for Snobrods and other such luxuries we won't let him get from the Wal-Mart check-out lane. (Or Meijer. Or Target. Or Amazon.com) (Yes, he frequently requests that we search for...
Tired
Sorry for the absence. Levi spit up on my lappy and it hasn't been working. So think twice before leaning your four-month olds over the keyboards for their webcam close-ups with family and friends, mmk? Tired. I'm tired. Being self-sustaining is exhausting. Using...