A Winter Treat

So I don't think it's a secret that we've had alot of snow here recently.

(a neighbor's car...thank goodness for our garage!)

But there is one thing to definitely make the snow a little more...delicious :)

Snow Ice Cream!!

Mmm!  Yummy and perfect for a good brain freeze! 

(would not recommend to people living in a city)

Blueberry Muffins

That Malachi can eat!

If you want the recipe for this, I will try.  It was alot of substituting and improvising, I don't know if I can even duplicate what I did!  Haha.

Vegetable Soup

I am going to try to cook most of the recipe's from the book "French Women Don't Get Fat", a book Taumi gave me a while back.  I have no time limit for myself, because I don't really care if I ever get through them all.  But I did start!  I didn't include a recipe for this one, so if you are interested, just ask :)

The recipe called for 3 leeks.  Good thing I like leeks!  I actually added extra of everything in the recipe except leeks and at the end, I'm glad I did.  That would have bee really leeky.

Almost done!

And voila!

It almost looks like a squash soup, but no squash was included, I promise.

Happy Birthday Dad (a while ago)

My dad's birthday was August 3rd (which shows you how far behind I have been on blogging).  And I decided to make him some cupcakes!

Putting the batter in the oven...

Time to make some green frosting.

And now to make it even more green...

And if you can't see where I'm going with this...Here is a brown sugar 'sand trap'

Time to make some flags.

and the finished product:

I think he liked them!

Then we headed out to Coldstone for our date for his birthday!

Malachi met us there too.

And a little later, my mom showed up.

We stayed and chatted for quite a while, it was a great evening.

Hope you enjoyed your birthday, Daddio!

CSA

Malachi and I signed up for a Community Supported Agriculture program last year and it just started a couple of weeks ago.  We get our produce through Threshing Table Farms.  The website now has recipes up, but last week it didn't.  And we got beets.  And I have never even eaten a beet before, much less prepared and cooked one!  So I went to trusty ole Allrecipes.com and used their ingredient search for beets.  We also got red potatoes, which I definitely have prepared before, because I love them.  But I wanted to try something at least a little new with them, so I went to allrecipes for them as well.

The chopped up beets.

The potatoes.

And I don't have a picture of the finished taters.  Mostly because I was starving at this point, but also because they just looked like potato spears, nothing special.  However, they did have a little kick of lemon in them because I used this recipe.

But back to the beets.  I made Beet Soup and although it just looks like pureed beets, it did have a little extra somethin' somethin'.  And was actually tasty.  A flavor I've never experienced before, but still delicious!

And I think Malachi was very happy with the meal his wife cooked for him.  (Cause let me tell you, it doesn't happen too often!)

Anyways, we already have our second installment of the CSA food, and we have more beets this week!  So I have more planning and learning to do!

But if any of you have the opportunity to join a CSA, I highly recommend it!

Made some taters.

And they didn't taste too shabby, if I do say so myself.

Matthew 1:14

"Azor the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Akim, Akim the father of Eliud,"

Sorry for the lack of writing for the past few days.  But look!  Christmasy bells!  :)

Pecan Pie

I made my second pie ever last night, and it had to be pecan. And it's my first pie CRUST ever that I made. Probably my last too. Not that it was a horrible experience, just that it is completely unnecessary.

I made my first pie ever!

And it was called ... Apple.

everything

Let's start off with the least important of all of these unimportant things. I bought a new comforter for my room. (actually a duvet). And I really love it. It's so purdy with all the paisley's.

So you know when there is road construction and its down to one lane and there are flaggers directing if you can go on the lane or if the oncoming traffic is using the lane? Well, I guess the flaggers of the world are losing their jobs to machines. As my dad and I drove past this contraption that served that purpose...

I took a picture of this bike because it is taking a whole parking space! Who does this person think they are? I mean, bikes can park on sidewalks typically, right? And not only that, he took one of the best spots closest to the door.

Lemons...

I made a virgin Cosmopolitan (in a margarita glass, but thats the best I could do). It was okay. But quite tangy. I would hold some of the lime next time.

Malachi and I made some sugar/dairy free oatmeal raisin cookies. They tasted good, but they were waaay too crumbly. So more tweaking needs to be done to this recipe as well.


The chefs:

Also, tomorrow I'll be watching football (cowboys vs packers) and cheering along with my dogs, who I forced to be cowboys fans...


Hope everyone has been having a happy sabbath!