Homemade Noodles

It's noodle making day.  I hand roll my noodles, so it took all morning - 2 dozen egg yolks.  The barred rock's eggs are still a bit smaller, so I use 2 of them for every egg in a recipe now.

I have noodles drying every where in my kitchen today.  Since we were gone most of the day yesterday, it's a mess and difficult to maneuver in.

My oldest daughter has reminded me that we have not had "tea time" all summer long.  It was just way too hot or we had too many mosquitoes to enjoy the front porch.

Today, I am making them iced green tea with a bit of peppermint in it.  I'm not sure what I will bake yet, as I need to put two whole chickens in the roaster still.  

We have a good strong wind today, so I need to get as much on the clothes line as I can.  The weather is turning much colder and it with the storng wind, should dry fast.

I saved my egg whites for another angel food cake.  I just don't have the counter space to bring my mixer out and make it.  That will have to wait for tomorrow, and I'll have to come up with something else for today.

Update:  I decided to make the kids another batch of zucchini banana bars.  We like to call them brownies.

I used Swiss chard stalks, in place of buying celery, in my roaster pan.  We'll see how it tastes.  

I still have a few carrots in the garden, but will use those for muffins this week.  The ones in the roaster are from the store, but organic.


Speaking of food, we grilled burgers with our tomato jelly last night.  It really doesn't have a ton of flavor like I thought.  It's good, but I think I will try a tomato jam or preserves next time. 

Record Attendance ~ Spending Labor Day at the Zoo

I tried telling my husband that it's not a good idea to visit the zoo on a holiday.  

"No way, everyone will be having cook-outs and family parties.  No one will be at the zoo," he said.

We went and we are very tire people today.   When we took the shuttle back to our parking location, the driver gave us some information.  He told us that the zoo had the highest attendance ever - over 8500 people (according to him at the time) and they closed admission for a while, turning 100-150 cars away (no parking spaces available).

Meet Tuli and her Mom

 Meet Lucas and his Mom

Guess what I did?  I touched this Eastern Fox snake!  I hate snakes.  This one doesn't bite, so all but one of the kids got to pet this.  

The daughter that did not pet it, was out taking pictures.  Check her blog of many other zoo pictures:  Life as A Teen Farmgirl.

More pictures of our first zoo trip (in over 6 years):