Freshly baked homemade bread, still warm with real butter and topped with some homemade strawberry jam or slices of thick cheese, delicious! Homemade bread is not only heavenly, it’s a frugal treat made with wholesome ingredients and no added preservatives. This week’s Recipe Hit List is a collection of a variety of breads: White, Oat, Rye, Whole Wheat and more. Enjoy!
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CONGRATULATIONSCongratulations to my beautiful sister and her wonderful family on the birth of their new little one... Greyson! He is adorable and healthy and my sister is AMAZING!! :)Also, Congratulations to my winner! #36 CHALLICE!!!!!!!! I will contact you about your prize!!! :) Have a wonderful weekend my friends! My Cup Runneth Over... Haven`t posted for awhileSo much has happen since I posted last. I am no longer homeschooling the kids. They started back to school on Friday and Monday of this week and last. I can`t say I am a hundred percent happy about it. But things were getting to the point of me being so stressed with everything I was having chest pains. For right now, I think it is for the best.We are still downsizing our homestead as far as the animals goes. I am getting ready to get rid of all the chickens. All but the boer goats are gone. I hope to find a home for her soon. We will be butchering the hog sometime in January. Course, the turkeys, will be butchered sometime this week. I have a horse I want to sell. The reason we are getting rid of the animals is because Hannah is highly allergeric to all of the animals. She was tested last week for them. She is highly allegeric to cattle, horses, goats, cats and feather which takes in chickens. She is also highly allergeric to white oak and some other trees. So us burning wood isn`t helping. She has had a time. She starts on the drops Tuesday. She has also tested postive for asthma. Which just about everyone in my family has asthma. She has had a time. The kids are playing basketball now and that is keeping us hopping. They both are really enjoying it. It is funny Hannah is the tallest one on her team. They have eight players, 5 boys and 3 girls. I say she will be playing center. My mom and stepdad are still living in our camper. They hope to be in the house by Christmas. I hope too, that way, we can have Christmas at her house. I won`t have so much cleaning to do. lol. I have been trying to get the house cleaned up for Thanksgiving Dinner. It is such a mess. I am so far behind on my cleaning. I just haven`t had the time to clean like I normally do. Well Beth is on her way with her boyfriend and I need to go. Hopefully I will have more time to get on here. It's giveaway time again! A Christmas Package
I posted once before about all the "free" stuff I receive in the mail from many organizations and charities that I sometimes donate to. Well once again I have an abundance of items that I will not be using. This times it's Christmas cards and gift labels. I am not the type of person that throws ANYTHING away. I always try to find another use for it or another home for things. So I thought with times being the way they are and just yesterday on the blog someone mentioned that they can not afford to buy or mail cards this year, I thought I would offer a package that may be helpful to someone. I have a package that I have put together that includes the following items.
Sorry I don't have a picture, my camera is still not working, I'm so lost without it too. So if anyone is interested in these items just leave a comment here on my blog. If I should get more than one comment I will draw a winner from the bunch. I will let this ride over the weekend and pull on Monday morning. Hope this is helpful to someone. Prize 3 in the giveaway To you my friends, number 3 in the Milestone giveaway. You can use Sammy the Snowman as an ornament on your tree, or just sit him somewhere sweet.Like I said, I will be choosing a winner this evening around 6:00 pm EST. UNLESS I am still awaiting my little nephew and then it will be as soon as I get home. Have a beautiful day! Recipe Hit List: 12 Homemade Bread Recipes...TIPNUT!!Recipe Hit List: 12 Homemade Bread RecipesOrnament #2 in the giveaway! Ornament number 2 in the giveaway. Hop on down to the Milestone giveaway to enter! I will pick a winner by 6:00 pm tomorrow evening! Great Quote...Benjamin FranklinWell done is better than well said.-- Benjamin Franklin CHUNKY APPLE CAKECHUNKY APPLE CAKE 12-14 svgs 13 x 9" baking dish 350ºTaste of Home 1/2 C butter, softened 2 C sugar 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 2 eggs 2 C flour 1-1/2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking soda 6 C chopped peeled tart apples BUTTERSCOTCH SAUCE: 1/2 C packed brown sugar 1/4 C butter, cubed 1/2 C heavy whipping cream In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, sugar & vanilla. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after ea. addition. Combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt & baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture & mix well (batter will be stiff). Stir in apples 'til well combined. Spread into greased baking dish. Bake for 40-45 mins. or 'til top is lightly browned & springs back when lightly touched. Cool for 30 mins. before serving. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine brown sugar & butter. Cook over med. heat 'til butter is melted. Gradually add cream. Bring to a slow boil over med. heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Serve w/cake. My daughter finally finished college, after six years, lolWell, she's done it, finally!!!!! Kristy graduated high school in 2001 with honors and went straight to NSU. Thank God that the university is about 10 minutes away across our little town. She could remain living at home and didn't have far to travel. I made all my children wait until they were 18 before getting their drivers licenses, so she had just started driving. She started college with an open mind and no real agenda. She was taking general studies courses at first until she decided that she wanted to become a nurse. It was always something that she thought about, so nursing it was. By the middle of the first year she had switched and started taking classes that would lead her to becoming a nurse. Three years into it she got a professor that was sooo mean. When I tell you the class started with 30+ students and within two weeks had lost almost half and that my daughter came home crying almost everyday, I'm not exaggerating a bit. She stuck with it though, until the women got into her face and literally screamed and spat on her face for something Kristy was even taught. The professor would skip over things in the books because she "expected" the students to know these things. Well how are they going to learn things that they aren't being taught? I told her to hang on that the year was almost up, but she informed me that once your assigned a professor, your stuck with them for two years, until you've finished the program. That wasn't an option at that point for Kristy, she couldn't take it anymore. She left school that day and did not return for a little over a year. I was so upset to say the least. I even called the school and told someone the story. They told me that they heard several complaints per week about this women, but that they were so short handed, they had no option but to keep her on staff. So for a year my daughter beat herself up for what she had done to herself. I was disappointed but never let her see that. I'm not one to push my children into things that I myself probably could not do. I prayed that she would come to figure out what she wanted in life and work to get it. While she was off, she did work at several odd jobs, but nothing made her happy. She knew that she had made a big mistake so back to school she went. She found out that she could get back into the nursing program but with a different teacher. She was so excited. Well two more years into the program all is going well. Her grades are fantastic, she even made the Dean's list once or twice. THEN, my husbands little nephew died in my daughter's arm. He was one year old and died of heart failure earlier this year. She was giving him CPR and couldn't revive him. OK, once again she was tramatized. I'm sure you can figure out where this is heading. Yes, she dropped her nursing classes AGAIN, BUT she dicided that she would get that diploma. She was short only one credit to graduate. She picked up a speech class and Monday night was her last class. She has to email in her last exam and she's done. THANK YOU JESUS!!!! LOL She now has a great job that she loves. She is working for a home health care company as a data entry clerk. With her partial medical background she is good at this job. She works with nurses and some doctors, so she is in at least the area of her choice, lol. She called me yesterday from work and asked me if I would go and pick up her diploma from the school on December 16th because she doesn't want to miss work. She isn't one for big ta-dos or events, so graduating with the large class was never an option for her. So for her long six years of hard ups and downs, I get to go pick her diploma. I won't even get a picture of her receiving it, LOL. But, as long as she is happy, isn't that all that matters to us moms! One of the ornaments for the giveaway Snowball, ornament number one for the Milestone giveaway... see post below to enter!
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