• Blog

    Too busy for Tea

    August 23, 2011 - By 

    I’ve noticed that I’ve been somewhat unplugged from the blogosphere lately…even from my computer completely.  It’s been kind of refreshing. With the end of summer wrap-up we have so many things on the calendar in such a small amount of time.

    I’ll be around here and there over the next couple weeks very randomly. I’m not trying to ditch you, if i don’t answer an email as promptly as I used to…I’m just not checking email very often.

    Happy end of summer to everyone! I’ll be back to my “normal” self after Labor Day.

  • Blog - Kitchen

    Every once in a while…

    August 17, 2011 - By 
    …I feel very domestic.
    As in old school… starting from scratch with all basic ingredients.
    Today was one of those days.
    I was inspired by this blog post by Krista to try making butter.

     

     

    Into the mixer goes the heavy whipping cream…

     

     

    Several minutes of high speed mixing brought me to here…
    Notice the solids separated from the liquid….that liquid would be buttermilk. Cool huh!

     

    After draining the buttermilk off and “washing” the butter…see Krista’s recipe…

    I ended up with this nice ball of butter.

     

    Remember the buttermilk I mentioned earlier…
    Oh yeah..pancakes for lunch baby!
    During the midst of all that mixing I made a batch of salsa or maybe it would be pica de gallo depending on how you want to look at it.
    Aren’t veggies beautiful!?!