• Blog - Kitchen

    Breakfast tea

    November 15, 2011 - By 
    …actually coffee. Kimmie is nice that way…she doesn’t mind if we join without the proper beverage. Thanks Kimmie!
    I have yet another busy Tuesday. Although I feel much better that I have a few things crossed off the list already.
    Tomorrow, I’m sending my oldest off on his 6th grade school trip. They will be gone 3 days and 2 nights.  This is a huge step!! For both of us. 🙂
    He is super excited. I’m nervous because it’s 4 hours away.
    I have the packing list at hand and am checking and rechecking it.
    What are you doing today??
  • 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!?!
  • Blog - Kitchen

    Special eggs and muffins

    June 15, 2011 - By 

    So my baby girl…started the process of getting braces today.
    Getting the impressions taken…gack!
    And having spacers put in to move the teeth slightly for the bands.

    A day like today needs “special eggs”.
    I’m not sure what you call them but they are “special eggs” at our house.

    I also tried out a recipe I found over at the Smitten Kitchen for Whole Wheat Rhubarb muffins. I made one batch with rhubarb and one substituting the rhubarb with zucchini.

    My picky children noticed that something was up right away.
    I couldn’t just pass them off as yummy streusel  muffins.