Oh! Pioneer

You read Pioneer Woman already, don’t you?  Tell me you read Pioneer Woman?  I had, but then hadn’t for awhile.  Then I realized her cookbook (drool, swoon) had just come out.  Just a few days before I visited and I wanted it, oh I wanted it, but I’m trying to control my spending and acquiring, [...]

Solo Baking

So, really I’m a copycat because D posted about her daughter’s solo run, but reading that nudged me that Ems has been asking to do a solo bake, so I let her do it Sunday.  She chose chocolate chip cookies since we seem to make them a lot around here and she’s helped me quite [...]

Apples.

From the orchard.

Applesauce beginning.

Good partners:  Apples & Lemons

Apple Puff Pancake:  Did the super puff????   Was dee-lish though.
See the tablecloth, my Grandmom made it for me, Saturday afternoon!

Pie on the Fly:  Yes, that is a Pet-Ritz frozen crust, but made up for it with the Oat & Honey, Dried Berries, Walnut & Brown Sugar topping.
No [...]

Wordless Wednesday: 1st Day of Fall

Organized Living: The Meal Plan

Our dinners fell by the wayside this week.  In fact, it was just quite pitiful.  One thing I am in the process of becoming is Organized.  Now, this is not easy for me.  Getting organized is one thing, staying organized is another.  Meal planning for me is a MUST, when I don’t, well things like [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Marble Bread With Bittersweet Chocolate Ganache

Chocolate Marble Bread With Ganache recipe courtesy MSL.

Pie Eating Contest

The baking binder is done.  And in all honesty after this post going to be split in two, it’s way too heavy.  After spending the better part of two days weeding through recipes and lovingly giving them this home, you better believe I”m trying one of these babies tonight.  This afternoon my Mom, sister and [...]

Finally-Blueberry Boy Bait

Isn’t that what every single mama needs?  I finally made the Smitten Kitchen Blueberry Boy Bait recipe I have been drooling over for a month now, but then there is not much over at Smitten Kitchen I don’t drool over.  In fact, I have made three Smitten Kitchen recipes this past week and not one [...]

Emmy’s Summer Breakfast

I have her exclusive permission to publish her recipe (Mama’s privilege).
She made it for herself this morning and then agreed to teach me, because it is so very delicious.
I give it to you word by word:
1. Put handful of blueberries and blackberries in a bowl.
2. Add banana.
3.  Put banana peel in the stinky compost jar.
4. [...]

Saturday’s Farm Finds

2 lbs ground beef, bulk pork sausage, a dozen eggs, 1 lb local honey, bulk fresh butter, dozen cider donuts (notice we upped the ante from last week), homemade raspberry and peach yogurt, three tomatoes, six peaches, pint blueberries and pint gigantic blackberries.
$45.38
We could have done more damage, but I was short on cash so….with [...]