Pioneer Woman at Heart

Monday we woke up to lots of fog.  Although school was delayed, our youngest still had to be up at her school (33 minute drive) earlier than normal bus pick up time.  She was heading to her first hair show.  I'm gonna assume next year she'll be going and spending more money as she learns more. The temps heated back up again, but it came with rain.  So frustrating as I cannot get in the garden to get the garlic planted.  I don't want to say it, but it may be the first fall we do not plant garlic.  This year has taught me that planting too late is just not worth the work followed by loss of harvest. I remembered I had pears in the freezer, so those pie crust crumbles came in handy.   It was my very first time to bake a pie using frozen fruit vs. fresh.  I thawed them completely, but they didn't look like the normal 2 1/2# fresh (meaning not enough).  I thawed 5# of frozen and drained them. It turned out perfect.  A...

I don't know why I have never thought of millet vs. rice when I stuffed peppers to freeze last summer.   I'm very happy with the taste of my "thrown together" recipe too.  We had a so-so bell pepper year, so I had to (gulp!) buy these (organic of course).  They were pretty large, so I purchased 4, however the amount of filling I made, would have stuffed 5 large peppers. Here is how I made them, and the next batch I make will be doubled and some frozen for winter.  I have never frozen cooked millet, but from what I have read, it will freeze well.  However to freeze these, I will blanch the peppers first, so the crunch won't be there.  When cooked with fresh peppers, you get a nice crunchy pepper. Made with organic ingredients, home grown etc.   Millet Stuffed Peppers 5 large bell peppers, cut in half, seeds removed Set aside and continue: 1 cup millet, rinsed 3 cups broth (your choice, vegetable or chicken) Cook millet per instr...

Weather was nasty. School was canceled.  It's was a perfect excuse to bake a cake for dinner.  We woke up to ice, sleet, slu sh, then pouring down rain on a layer of half melted ice....then in the evening 55 mph winds.  We may have lost a pi llow to the back porch swing (should have run out and collected them, but forgot abou t them).  It's too dark and early to tell.  When t he sun is up, I'll go tak e a look see.   I dug out my old, hand-me-down cake pan, and baked a maple-rum pound cake with maple-rum glaze.  It was a new recipe that had been floating around the kitchen.  I believe I tore it out of a King Flour magazine. The results?

Yes terday mo rning, the sunrise w as just gorg eous.  I took this in the beginning.  Then I took this pho to... That was about the time the school bus came.  Then I was getting ready to do laundry, and another dog wanted to go out. I ran back inside and grabbed my camera befor e that little bit of rainbow disappeared.  Do you see it?  In the center?  I heard it was a double rainbow, as one of my d aughter's s aw it going to class.   A few months ago, I pre-ordered a 1 /2 pound of Ru ssian G iant garlic. I counted 29 cloves cloves. This is new to the garden.

We woke up to thick fog Monday morning.  School was delayed 2 hours, then eventually closed .  As I took the dogs out, it started to rain.  Urghhh.  Rain.  Like we need anymore.   Tuesday t he fog was ba d again - another school delay.   However, some lovely green peppers were stuffed and

I've been playing around with new breakfast recipes.  This one I printed from the internet, and is a diabetic friendly dish.  I like their recipes (Diabetic Living recipes online), because they are very healthy recipes.  This one won over.  Everyone liked it.  Some grocery stores sell non-gmo/organic hash browns in the organic freezer section, or you could make them from organic potatoes too.  If you google it, it's called "Sweet Pepper Hash Brown Baked Eggs."  It was sort of fun to make this too.

There are so many versions of using walnuts for dye, including making a dye for stamping fabric.  I decided to soak some walnuts in water for 3 days  (slightly browned).  I ran the liquid through a strainer, lined to catch all the small stuff.