Thanksgiving bananas

Remember all those bananas we had? Well Troy put them in a brown bag with an apple. He read it helps them to ripen up. We looked everyday and they were still just as green as ever.........except for today!

four bunches in all.....

They are really good too, very sweet.

This is Caitlin's art work she did the other day. It's a family portrait! We are so proud!

This is Fridays cupcake....rolled up and dipped in chocolate!

I found this recipe on bakerellas website and had to try it. Very rich! Make small balls!

That finishes a week of cupcakes! whew!

I don't have a Thursday cupcake.

BUT....I have a good excuse........

and my favorite.....

yep....It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!! :)

Wednesdays cupcake!

This is Wednesday's cupcake....in-a-jar!

This was so fun to do! About a month ago my mother in law gave me 2 boxes of canning jars with recipes to make mixes in a jar. I looked at the recipes first and picked some to make. Then I opened the box to find out they were little 8 oz. size. I found out you can bake right in the jars, so now we have cute little one serving desserts. I am going to keep experimenting with this idea with different flavors but this one is a plain chocolate cake with added chocolate chips and chocolate fudge frosting.

You take your jars and boil them for 10 min. then you butter and flour the insides. Fill the jar with batter, but make sure you go only half way maybe even a little less. I added the chocolate chips to the batter. Bake on a cookie sheet at 325* no hotter or they will shatter, for about 25 min. While it's baking boil the lids and keep them warm. When the cake is done you put the lid on and soon you will start to hear them POP. As it cools the lid gets suctioned on. And there you have a cake in a jar to send or eat whenever. The only thing I did was add some chocolate fudge on some and leftover caramel frosting that I poured over the top before I put the lid on. I don't think I will do it that way again if I were to give this as a gift, instead I am thinking of making a thicker frosting and inserting it as a filling, kinda like a hostess cupcake thingy.

The kids thought this was so cool! Gone in seconds!

Cupcake Week

I have been baking the last few days. I think it's the cold weather. We have been enjoying hot cocoa and cupcakes. I know it's a big switch from the whole wheat grass thing. ( I am such a sanguine )



Anyway....I got to thinking that a week of cupcakes would be fun to blog about! Now my recipes are vegan, only because little Caitlin is allergic to milk and eggs, but so far the rest of the brood has not complained one bit. So here we go..........



Mondays cupcake...Frosted Lemon



Ingredients:
1 lemon
1 1/2 C flour
1 C sugar
1 tsp. baking soda
6 Tbs. oil
1 tsp. vinegar
1 tsp. vanilla
water

Directions: mix flour, sugar, and baking soda in bowl. in another bowl grate all the lemon peel then cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice into the bowl. Add 1 cup of water to the lemon mixture. pour the lemon mixture into the flour and add the oil, vinegar, and vanilla. Mix well and pour into muffin cups. Bake 25 min. at 350*

My frosting is just powdered sugar with a tiny bit of soy milk and vanilla, but I bet some cream cheese frosting would be really good on these. The next time I use this recipe I think I will add blueberries.



enjoy!

Troys bananas.....I mean Troy's bananas

Today was harvest day! We have been waiting for a long time..........

Dylan said they were heavy!

hmmm, banana pudding, banana cream pie, banana bread..........

Thanksgiving crafts

We have been crafting this weekend.

First is a project that I found online. It's a t.p. roll wrapped with yellow crepe paper and covered with green tissue paper to look like corn. I filled the insides with little toys and candy. They get one to open when they have been good.

The other craft is a turkey wreath with the turkey head being a cut out of their foot.

More to come.........

the fun we are having

O.k. growing wheat grass is very easy to do! I don't think I planted enough to have juice but I read that cats love this stuff and it's good for them so Sammy gets this batch to chew on. The kids liked this project and loved to touch the grass. They commented everyday how fast it was growing. I will have to get organized and try it again using a bigger ( and prettier ) container.

I bet this was an exciting week for all of you! What shall I do next to keep you in suspense?!? It's a wonder that I only have 1 follower on my list! Maybe we will watch paint dry next week! :)

day 3

It's hard to get a good picture but here is the sprouting wheat grass after about 2 days. About an inch tall, woo hoo!

This is Caitlin in her car seat. I don't know how she can sleep that way.......

Thanksgiving Lessons

Not a pretty picture but this is step two for wheat grass. put the soaked seeds in dirt. Now we wait it out for a few days. I read that it needs indirect sunlight so a window sill should be good enough.

The kids think this is crazy. ( growing grass in a cup) but it was a great way to talk about how the Pilgrims came over and started their crops. They didn't have hoses to water, they had to pray for rain. They didn't have a grocery store to go pick up some bread all wrapped up, their grain had to grow first, then harvest it, and then pray some more that it produced enough to get through winter! The Pilgrims first winter in 1621 was a hard one, but the Lord took care of them and they had a day of Thanksgiving to pray and to praise God for taking care of them. They didn't have Thanksgiving every year after that, there was only a day of Thanksgiving when God brought people through a hard time. In 1789, G. Washington had a day of Thanksgiving for a new and free country. It was in 1860 that President Lincoln made the 4th Thursday in November a Thanksgiving Day.

My kids liked the lesson better than planting the seeds. :)

Wouldn't it be something if we all had to plan for Thanksgiving Day by raising a turkey, growing vegetables, fermenting grapes.......and only eating what we produced. I bet I couldn't feed myself let alone my whole family...to be honest, I don't think I will be able to grow wheat grass! :) But if I can get an ounce of juice from my crop........and I hear your giggles when I say crop, I should say my "cup" of seeds, I will thank God!

big sigh

Well I have to say I am glad it's all over. My guy ( and gal ) didn't win, so now we just move forward. I was getting so tired of it all, it just gets worse every election. nuff said...

I have a new project I have been working on. I have been looking into wheat grass. One ounce of this juiced is like having a pound of veggies, and I have read, you can grow it very easy. That sounded like a school project for me! You can plant the seeds and harvest the grass in about a week! You can also take the wheat berry (seed) and sprout it in a jar. Then you can grind up the wheat to make sprouted wheat bread. ( like Ezekiel bread ) It is easier to digest and better for you than flour.

We are going step by step.....so follow along and see what happens

First soak the wheat berries in water over night

So far so good. We'll see what happens...........