• Blog - Kitchen

    Bread not bricks!!

    March 10, 2010 - By 

    I did it!

    I made bread. Not my usual bricks!!

    After nearly 16 years, I decided to get out my Kitchen Aid mixer recipe book for guidance. Before someone asks…  Yes, I use my mixer all the time but never reference the manual.

    I still had to improvise a bit since the recipe called for powdered milk and I only had DariFree.  Not sure if the proportions would be the same or not but it seemed to work.

    We’ll have to see what the rest of the family thinks of it later…

  • Blog - Kitchen

    Natural Dyes

    February 27, 2009 - By 


    Just like last year, I’m using a natural dye process to color our eggs. I used this tutorial for the process.

    The purple/blue eggs were made with red cabbage.

    The reddish eggs were onion skins..both yellow and red gathered from the bottom of my onion drawer. Based on the tutorial, I expected I’d get a greenish yellow color.

    I also threw a few scraps of muslin in the dye bath. The orange is really puzzling to me. One side is more orange than the other but the blue pieces are the same color on both sides. You can also see where I dripped a little blue dye on the orange. Opps!

    Note to self and others: USE GLOVES!! My fingers are horribly stained.

  • Blog - Kitchen

    Krumkake

    December 24, 2008 - By 


    This is what I spent the morning making! The first 6 or so didn’t turn out but the next 50+ turned out just fine. Tricky little buggers to make but oh so good to eat!