Good Afternoon Everyone,
I stopped from kitchen duties to wish all of my blogs readers, wonderful blog friends, and and my European blog friends a most joyous Holiday/Merry Christmas/Yule season.
I also want to thank all of you for your wonderful comments, emails, readership and just wonderful companionship through the year. I feel so, so blessed to have readers from all over the world. I learn so very much from all of you, and all that you share of your lives, recipes, and just daily living.
I am currently in the kitchen making Ilene's Hot Milk Sponge Cake. Ilene has a wonderful, fun, to the point blog called "The Rock Whisperer. Ilene lives in Oklahoma and has wonderful, recipes and just good fellowship. Please find her blog on my blog and go visit. If you want to make her hot milk cake, just go to her blog, find recipe index, and she has it listed there. It is a wonderful, cake, and it looks so good right now in the oven, can't wait to eat it. Its for the Holiday table here. Then comment that you tried her cake.
I am also cleaning my cast iron cookware along with the kitchen and baking, since I have the oven fired up. I have my great-grandmother's and grandmother's cast iron Lodge, and Wagner cookware and it is something I treasure the most in my kitchen. I will post pictures after the first of the year. I am going to take a little break from the computer, and try to come up with some different things for the blog, and I think that taking care of cast iron cookware may be the first for the next year. Yes it takes a little time to season it, but nothing more than what you normally do in a kitchen, in fact, along with Ilene's cake, I have a small and medium fry pan in with it curing. Kill two birds with one stone.
I will try to learn to post better, try to come up with interesting things. My problem is, right now, my weather is very cold. Can't talk about the garden, maybe when I start seeding, and setting up my make shift cold frames I can talk more. Again, I am a boring individual, not too much going on in my life but the bills. No snow, and in fact it is down right nice for us. We are supposed to hit 40* F today and throughout the next week. Some days next week will be in the 50's. Wow, that's pretty warm for us in January, when it usually is below zero till the end of January and first part of February.
I have been sand bagging a little on all of your blogs. I have been somewhat busy, just doing everyday things. Have been a little stoved up with arthritis and in the mornings, I just plain crip around, but I get going, have a few cups of coffee, or tea and then an aspirin and away I go, but by late afternoon, evening, I am painful and ready to call it a day.
Well, I can smell the cake, yum, I can hardly wait. So I had better get off my rear and get it out.
Again, I wish everyone a wonderful, peaceful, Christmas Holiday for all of you and many blessing in the coming year.
Thank you for your following and friendship.
Love and Hugs to all
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
William F Cody (Buffalo Bill) home decorated for the Holidays
Good Evening Everyone,
I just got back a little while ago, to go out and take pictures of William F Cody's home, which is only about a mile away from my home. Every year, the Nebraska Game and Parks decorates his home for the holidays and for a few days, you can go out and tour the home, and they put on chestnut roasts, and serve holiday hot cocoa and coffee, tea.
Yep, I live in the community where Buffalo Bill lived. This home was a beacon for the elite of the world during his time. There were extravagant parties held here, and a lot of general elite mingling and A list participants.
I thought you all would enjoy it. I hope the photos turn out, its very hard to take photos at night. But you can't see the lights during the day. This photo was the best I could get. Sorry.
I will see if I can go out to get a daytime photo of his home and the huge barn.
Enjoy!
I just got back a little while ago, to go out and take pictures of William F Cody's home, which is only about a mile away from my home. Every year, the Nebraska Game and Parks decorates his home for the holidays and for a few days, you can go out and tour the home, and they put on chestnut roasts, and serve holiday hot cocoa and coffee, tea.
Yep, I live in the community where Buffalo Bill lived. This home was a beacon for the elite of the world during his time. There were extravagant parties held here, and a lot of general elite mingling and A list participants.
I thought you all would enjoy it. I hope the photos turn out, its very hard to take photos at night. But you can't see the lights during the day. This photo was the best I could get. Sorry.
I will see if I can go out to get a daytime photo of his home and the huge barn.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Boo Boo'd Again
I see that my noodle recipe didn't get on the recipe page. Maybe someday I'll get it. Sorry.
egg noodle recipe
Mabel's Egg Noodles
2 1/2 Cups flour (I used all purpose)
Pinch of salt
2 eggs beaten and set aside
1/2 cup milk
1 Tablespoon butter
I get everything out and let sit to room temp. Like the milk and eggs. I do slightly heat up my milk, to warm and add to my flour.
I place flour in a large bowl, make a little hole in the center and then add your salt, then I add my heated milk, then the eggs in the center.
I mix with a heavy wooden spoon I favor, blend well, and then I leave this mixture sit in the frig for about a half hour to an hour.
After chilling, I take flour out, place on a floured cutting board and knead with my hands well, until everything is blended and the dough feels silky.
I then make a long roll, and then using a pastry cutter, cut into manageable chunks that you can flatten out and run through the machine.
If you do not a pasta machine, just roll out like a pie crust, and then you can use a pizza cutter to make your noodles, cutting the size you want. I have also used a hand wheel that was my grandmother's that tenderized meat.
makes about a 1 pound bag of noodles.
I place my noodles in the freezer to chill and then toss them in a little flour to coat and then place them in bags for portion sizes.
2 1/2 Cups flour (I used all purpose)
Pinch of salt
2 eggs beaten and set aside
1/2 cup milk
1 Tablespoon butter
I get everything out and let sit to room temp. Like the milk and eggs. I do slightly heat up my milk, to warm and add to my flour.
I place flour in a large bowl, make a little hole in the center and then add your salt, then I add my heated milk, then the eggs in the center.
I mix with a heavy wooden spoon I favor, blend well, and then I leave this mixture sit in the frig for about a half hour to an hour.
After chilling, I take flour out, place on a floured cutting board and knead with my hands well, until everything is blended and the dough feels silky.
I then make a long roll, and then using a pastry cutter, cut into manageable chunks that you can flatten out and run through the machine.
If you do not a pasta machine, just roll out like a pie crust, and then you can use a pizza cutter to make your noodles, cutting the size you want. I have also used a hand wheel that was my grandmother's that tenderized meat.
makes about a 1 pound bag of noodles.
I place my noodles in the freezer to chill and then toss them in a little flour to coat and then place them in bags for portion sizes.
Noodles! Noodles!!!!!
Well, I'm shocked. I did it. The noodles turned out pretty good for me doing it.
Starting the second batch, my pasta machine was jamming up. Checked it, no dough caught in the mechanism, got through the noodles, and then D said he would look at it to see what it is hanging up on.
I am sorry the photos aren't too good. It's dark in my kitchen and trying to take shots of things and I don't think that they turned out that well. And my little digital camera is very cheap, cheap.
I will post the recipe for the noodle dough on my recipe page. Hope I can do that too.
Enjoy
Hugs
Starting the second batch, my pasta machine was jamming up. Checked it, no dough caught in the mechanism, got through the noodles, and then D said he would look at it to see what it is hanging up on.
I am sorry the photos aren't too good. It's dark in my kitchen and trying to take shots of things and I don't think that they turned out that well. And my little digital camera is very cheap, cheap.
I will post the recipe for the noodle dough on my recipe page. Hope I can do that too.
Enjoy
Hugs
Icy Palace
Good Morning/Afternoon Everyone,
Well the weatherman predicted freezing rain/drizzle and guess what.....HE WAS RIGHT!! I knew that it would be but still when you go out in the morning, and then try to get the paper even a couple of steps, you take your life into your hands.
Even the dog did a sash shay down the steps, I got after her to slow down, and down she went, then proceeded to get up and the back end slipping around to go do her business and then back in. That was at 7 am this morning.
I hate ice. I hated it when D and I drove truck. I tried to learn to drive on it, but even seasoned drivers like D, with 35+ years behind the wheel says, if its ice, forget about the load being on time. You cannot keep anything on the road with a fourth inch of ice on the road, period.
So, I am working in the house, just puttering around as FlowerLady says, and then decided to make egg noodles. I have my grandmother's pasta machine and I a going to master it today, without pinching my fingers in the roller.
I'm having roast chicken for dinner with leftovers planned for the rest of the week.
I love it when I can get in the kitchen and try to re-master things like noodles. I also like to get in the kitchen to forget about the worlds problems which are so very great at the present time. I also went to the grocery yesterday as I knew it would be icy today, and looked at prepackaged egg noodles in the freezer case and they are over $4.00 a package. Yikes! I don't think so. And the packages are so small to boot, so I am planning on trying to do more noodles and letting them dry a little and then freeze them in packages myself. Take that Grandma's Egg Noodle company.
Still having problems finding parts for the car. So I am driving the old dually, which I do love to drive. Its big and rough riding but I do enjoy it. The only thing about it is the fact its hard on fuel and you have to remember that you have to park someplace where you can get out, its large fenders stick out, and its a little hard to back out, and you definitely don't go to the bank drive up window!!!!
Well, I think that I will get back to my noodles, they are chilling in the frig, and then off to squeeze them in the pasta machine. I also am going to try to email a few emails to friends, it seems life just plain gets in the road and you can't just sit and write.
Well everyone, I wish you a blessed week and I am sure that all of you are getting ready for the Holidays and family.
Please enjoy everyday and I will try to blog later this week. I will see if I can get a few photos of pasta or my fingers!!
Love and Hugs to all
Well the weatherman predicted freezing rain/drizzle and guess what.....HE WAS RIGHT!! I knew that it would be but still when you go out in the morning, and then try to get the paper even a couple of steps, you take your life into your hands.
Even the dog did a sash shay down the steps, I got after her to slow down, and down she went, then proceeded to get up and the back end slipping around to go do her business and then back in. That was at 7 am this morning.
I hate ice. I hated it when D and I drove truck. I tried to learn to drive on it, but even seasoned drivers like D, with 35+ years behind the wheel says, if its ice, forget about the load being on time. You cannot keep anything on the road with a fourth inch of ice on the road, period.
So, I am working in the house, just puttering around as FlowerLady says, and then decided to make egg noodles. I have my grandmother's pasta machine and I a going to master it today, without pinching my fingers in the roller.
I'm having roast chicken for dinner with leftovers planned for the rest of the week.
I love it when I can get in the kitchen and try to re-master things like noodles. I also like to get in the kitchen to forget about the worlds problems which are so very great at the present time. I also went to the grocery yesterday as I knew it would be icy today, and looked at prepackaged egg noodles in the freezer case and they are over $4.00 a package. Yikes! I don't think so. And the packages are so small to boot, so I am planning on trying to do more noodles and letting them dry a little and then freeze them in packages myself. Take that Grandma's Egg Noodle company.
Still having problems finding parts for the car. So I am driving the old dually, which I do love to drive. Its big and rough riding but I do enjoy it. The only thing about it is the fact its hard on fuel and you have to remember that you have to park someplace where you can get out, its large fenders stick out, and its a little hard to back out, and you definitely don't go to the bank drive up window!!!!
Well, I think that I will get back to my noodles, they are chilling in the frig, and then off to squeeze them in the pasta machine. I also am going to try to email a few emails to friends, it seems life just plain gets in the road and you can't just sit and write.
Well everyone, I wish you a blessed week and I am sure that all of you are getting ready for the Holidays and family.
Please enjoy everyday and I will try to blog later this week. I will see if I can get a few photos of pasta or my fingers!!
Love and Hugs to all
Sunday, December 11, 2011
More info on New Zealand food control
Good Morning Everyone,
I have been doing some research and then did a search on a search engine that does not record your ISP. I keyed in "New Zealand food growing illegal and came up with startling information.
I urge you to do the same, and please start mentioning this on your blogs, or just start talking about it.
This law is based on a food safety law, and it included, guns, seeds, herbals, and of all things, WATER that are illegal. It is meant for the dominate seed companies to control food. And the government will seize everything and throw you in the clinker, probably for good.
This is something that we all need to watch and start pounding your state's Representatives as this is serious business and this will bring all of us to our knees.
I am having some issues posting links, so please start doing searches and please relay the information and message that if New Zealand citizens are going to roll over and let this happen, then it will migrate to us as well and other nations.
I think that you may remember last year when we were having problems with the local law here, and the cop told me that gardens were illegal.....well folks, I rest my case.
I will keep posted on this issue.
Try to have a wonderful weekend.
I have been doing some research and then did a search on a search engine that does not record your ISP. I keyed in "New Zealand food growing illegal and came up with startling information.
I urge you to do the same, and please start mentioning this on your blogs, or just start talking about it.
This law is based on a food safety law, and it included, guns, seeds, herbals, and of all things, WATER that are illegal. It is meant for the dominate seed companies to control food. And the government will seize everything and throw you in the clinker, probably for good.
This is something that we all need to watch and start pounding your state's Representatives as this is serious business and this will bring all of us to our knees.
I am having some issues posting links, so please start doing searches and please relay the information and message that if New Zealand citizens are going to roll over and let this happen, then it will migrate to us as well and other nations.
I think that you may remember last year when we were having problems with the local law here, and the cop told me that gardens were illegal.....well folks, I rest my case.
I will keep posted on this issue.
Try to have a wonderful weekend.
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