• Blog - Kitchen

    It’s been a pretty good day…

    March 29, 2010 - By 

    Now that I’m four days into Spring Break, I could be a mom on the edge of sanity knowing myself and my children. I have to say, over all, things are going quite well.

    I had another successful morning of bread making. This time I made buns and a small round loaf. The buns were a little short but tasty. The loaf has not yet been sampled.

    The kids are sticking to their chore charts, we ran errands and no blood was spilled. 

    The stop at the post office brought a package… My OWOH prize has arrived from Angelina’s Trinkets. Thank you!!

  • 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.