I may be late with this but it takes me a while to go through all the blogs I read...I found this link via disdressed. Wanna make your own softie patterns? Check this out! I wonder how a spazimal pattern would turn out?
Thursday, February 07, 2008
this is super nifty!
I may be late with this but it takes me a while to go through all the blogs I read...I found this link via disdressed. Wanna make your own softie patterns? Check this out! I wonder how a spazimal pattern would turn out?
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008
Gearing up for Pancake Week
or quite possibly "Too Late for Pancake Week" depending on which calendar you look at...
Puff pancakes, popovers or dutch babies, however you call these they are just dandy! Here's my take on a classic recipe:
What you need:
1/2 c flour
1/2 cup milk (or your fave substitute)
2 eggs
a wee bit o' butter, slated is yummier
cinnamon and/or ginger
lemon
powdered sugar
small muffin pan (or whatever you got, you can do this in a pie pan even)
What you do:
Toss your empty pan into a warm oven (425 f) and let sit. Mix up eggs, flour & milk. If you are brave, add a half teaspoon of baking powder (this will add to your pancakes puffiness). Mix in a little spice if ya like, maybe a we bit o' sweetness like some vanilla or sugar, but not necessary. Set aside.
Using a nifty fun oven mitt, pull out your now hot empty pan. Add a dollop of butter to each cup and marvel as it melts. Add a dash of cinnamon and/or ginger then scoop about 1/4 cup of the mixture into each muffin cubbie. Bake at 425 for about 15 minutes. If you added baking powder don't peek or else you will feel like you are in that episode of I Love Lucy where the bread just keeps rising and rising. It will all deflate once you take it out of the oven but man, can these tiny pancakes puff up!
Plop out onto a pretty serving dish and sprinkle with fresh squeezed lemon juice and a pinch of sugar. Add some black pepper to experience it "jek style". These babies are so good, soooo many ways. Check out how Heidi made hers! If you don't feel like making them, you can always pick up a dozen or so in Solvang.
Puff pancakes, popovers or dutch babies, however you call these they are just dandy! Here's my take on a classic recipe:What you need:
1/2 c flour
1/2 cup milk (or your fave substitute)
2 eggs
a wee bit o' butter, slated is yummier
cinnamon and/or ginger
lemon
powdered sugar
small muffin pan (or whatever you got, you can do this in a pie pan even)
What you do:
Toss your empty pan into a warm oven (425 f) and let sit. Mix up eggs, flour & milk. If you are brave, add a half teaspoon of baking powder (this will add to your pancakes puffiness). Mix in a little spice if ya like, maybe a we bit o' sweetness like some vanilla or sugar, but not necessary. Set aside.
Using a nifty fun oven mitt, pull out your now hot empty pan. Add a dollop of butter to each cup and marvel as it melts. Add a dash of cinnamon and/or ginger then scoop about 1/4 cup of the mixture into each muffin cubbie. Bake at 425 for about 15 minutes. If you added baking powder don't peek or else you will feel like you are in that episode of I Love Lucy where the bread just keeps rising and rising. It will all deflate once you take it out of the oven but man, can these tiny pancakes puff up!
Plop out onto a pretty serving dish and sprinkle with fresh squeezed lemon juice and a pinch of sugar. Add some black pepper to experience it "jek style". These babies are so good, soooo many ways. Check out how Heidi made hers! If you don't feel like making them, you can always pick up a dozen or so in Solvang.
The Week in Review: January 28-February 3
In a nutshell, busy as always. Crafting, cooking, baking, gardening and school. How was your week?
Friday, February 01, 2008
I need a few more hours...
...in the day or the week or something.
I'm in the middle of the kind of busy where even when you write it down you miss it. It's the kind that has you so frazzled that you decide to bake cookies instead or maybe reorganize your fabric pile or balance your checkbook even. Yes, THAT kind of busy. I'm quite behind being behind and so many things were due so many days ago, I need some sort of clone to assist me to the finish line. There are swaps, shop packages, grocery shopping, cleaning, homework and paper writing all due already.
I'm not sure what I was doing this week (other than playing diamond mine, ssshhhh.) all I know is that I need some super powers right now to pull it all off. I will log off, wash the dishes, bathe and then make a list of EVERYTHING that needs to be done all before 5pm...and maybe, just maybe I'll bake up a little something and run to the market for milk and cereal...wish me luck!
I'm in the middle of the kind of busy where even when you write it down you miss it. It's the kind that has you so frazzled that you decide to bake cookies instead or maybe reorganize your fabric pile or balance your checkbook even. Yes, THAT kind of busy. I'm quite behind being behind and so many things were due so many days ago, I need some sort of clone to assist me to the finish line. There are swaps, shop packages, grocery shopping, cleaning, homework and paper writing all due already. I'm not sure what I was doing this week (other than playing diamond mine, ssshhhh.) all I know is that I need some super powers right now to pull it all off. I will log off, wash the dishes, bathe and then make a list of EVERYTHING that needs to be done all before 5pm...and maybe, just maybe I'll bake up a little something and run to the market for milk and cereal...wish me luck!
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