Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! May you all have a wonderful day, and know that I am giving thanks for having everyone of you in my life! cheers !

Recipes!

Ok following through with my promise- here are some recipes from the past few weeks- I hope you enjoy them:

Whole Wheat Carrot Muffins

¼ cup wheat germ

½ cup wheat bran

1 ½ cup all purpose flour

1 ¼ tsp baking soda

4 Tbs Brown Sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

¼ tsp nutmeg

1 cup shredded carrots

¼ cup golden raisins

¼ cup apple sauce

2 Tbs maple syrup

1 Tbs apple cider vinegar

1 cup almond milk

2 tsp ground flax seed

¼ cup warm water
½ cup chopped walnuts

Preheat over to 375. Sift dry ingredients together in a medium bowl. In a separate bowl mix sugar, spices, carrots, raisins, apple sauce, syrup, vinegar and milk. Mix flax seed and water together and add to carrot mixture. Stir in the dry ingredients- careful not to over mix, then fold in walnuts. Bake for 20 min, or until golden brown. Makes 12 Muffins

 

 

 

Coffee Cake Muffins

½ Cup margarine or butter

2 ¼ cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 Tbs ground flax seed mixed with ¼ cup of water

1 cup Almond or Soy milk

1 Tbs white or apple cider vinegar

2 tsp baking soda

½ cup nuts

½ cup raisins (optional)

Preheat oven to 375* grease muffin cups. Combine flour and sugar. Melt butter and pour over flour mixture, mixing until crumbly. Set aside 1 cup of flour mixture for topping. To the remainder of flour mixture, add the rest of the ingredients, stirring just until moistened. (batter will be thin and lumpy.) Fill muffin cups ¾ full and top with remaining crumble mixture. Bake fore 15-20 minutes. Makes 12 muffins

 

Roasted Vegetable Gallette

(sorry about the photo, we dug in before I could get a picture!)

1 pie crust (my mom made this one- I have to get the recipe, it's amazing!)

1 medium head of broccoli, chopped into florets

1 large handful on plum tomatoes

3 garlic cloves, peels left on

2 handfuls of Brussels sprouts, trimmed

1 handful of fingerling potatoes, quartered

2 medium carrots, chopped

*feel free to add any vegetable you like*

3 Tbs Grape seed oil

3 Tbs olive tampenade (for pie base)

2 medium onions, thinly sliced

Salt and Pepper

Preheat over to 375* and arrange veggies on a baking sheet- toss with 2 Tbs of oil and sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper. roast veggies for 15-20 min, tossing regularly. In a saucepan, add the remaining Tbs of oil and sauté onions until they are soft and begin to caramelize (15-20 min). when the veggies and onions are done, you can begin assembling the gallette- rolls out the pie crust - top with olive tampenade, then caramelized onions, then add the roasted vegetables. sprinkle with a little more salt and pepper. Then begin to fold up the sides of the pie, careful not to tear the crust- (work clockwise, folding up the sides as you go) Bake at 375* for 15-20 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown.

Gingerbread

( From James Beard's American Cookery Cookbook, this is delicious served with chutney! )

1 cup light or dark molasses

(2 Tbs ginger spread- the ginger people* I added this, it was not in te original recipe)

1/2 cup boiling water

5 Tbs butter (Smart Balance)

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 to 2 tsp of ginger

1 tsp baking soda

2 cups all purpose flour

Put Molasses (and ginger spread) in a mixing bowl and add the boiling water and butter. stir until well mixed. Add the salt, ginger, and soda, and stir lightly. Stir in the flour just enough to moisten and mix. Turn into a loaf pan and bake at 375* for 25 to 35 minutes, or until the top springs back when pressed lightly and the mixture is pulling away from the sides of the pan.

So there you go, some recipes for you! I hope you enjoy them, and I will try my best to put up some more. Here are just a few random pictures of some knitting projects I've recently completed- if you want any of the patterns, just ask!

Sorry if it's a bit blury, whoops! I did all the little block seperatly awhile ago- they have been sitting in a bag since last spring! I finally just crocheted them all together today!

Here's a nine stitch braid beenie- pretty quick and easy to make

Well everyone- that's all I can do for today- hope you enjoyed it- now go home and bake something!

I wish I looked this good....

Overview of patterns ~ DROPS Design S
So I lied about the recipes being put up this week, but it wasn't my fault- sick computer! but now it seems to be better, so I will post some new recipes later-

But first, check out the link above. This is where I get some awesome knitting patterns from Norway- But the page that I posted for you, is there very first patterns from the 80's they are awesome. It's photos like these that truly make you wonder how people thought they looked good! anywho enjoy them, and I will post some other recipes later!

Long time no blog....

Hey everyone! Sorry I keep spacing blogging- but Jim's computer is
sick so I'll have to just write this time- pictures soon, I
promise :-) I will also post some new muffin recipes tomorrow!!
Mmmm..... I have been busy baking since we got back from mexico- so
get ready for a bunch of new recipes ( Roasted Vegetable
Gallette anyone?)

In other news, I have officially changed my name, I am now an
Anderson :-) (still getting used to it!) very exciting! Something else
exciting that just happened, the first meeting of the Aspen Craft
Collective was tonight. (thanks JoAnn for setting it all up :-)
it was great just hearing and seeing the other crafts people are doing
in the valley. Can't wait for more meetings- I as usual forgot to
bring samples of my very eclectic and random craft projects! (next
time :-)

Other than that guys, I hope everyone is staying warm and laughing
everyday! Skal!

Sent from my iPod

Halloween thoughts

> Hola from mexico everyone! It's hotter than you can imagine, yet
> people still dressed up for halloween! Except myself - first time in
> years, forgot a costume- plus it's flipping hot! But we did have two
> adorable trick or treaters! Riley (2.4 as a princess) and her little
> brother kieran (1 on the fifth of this month, dressed as batman-
> both are our friends kids) and I can safetly say it was awesome
> hanging out with them and their kids for halloween :-)
>
> hope everyone else had a safe and great all hallows eve and I can't
> wait to get to cold weather! ( I say that now!) but 90 degrees and
> humid is not for me :-)
>
> Take care everyone , lots of love and i'll talk to ya soon
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