It's Dinnertime!

Today I am making:

chicken sausage

sauteed spinach w/garlic

pineapple chunks w/shredded coconut

Parmesan Potatoes

Here is the recipe you asked for Mrs. C. We hope you like it as much as us.

1/2 cup flour of choice
1T salt
1/2-3/4 cup parmesan. cheese
2 tsp lemon pepper
1-2 tsp garlic powder
1-3 tsp dr. parsley
2/3 cup butter or oil
4-5# potatoes



~Split butter in half and melt in 2 9x13 pans
~Wash and cut taters into chunks
~Mix seasonings together in large bowl or bag
~Toss wet/damp potatoes in seasonings to coat
~Lay in single layer in 9x13 pan on the butter and bake for 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees

hope you like it:-)

Shabbat Shalom

We wanted to introduce to you my sisters; (My mom calls them our mini-maidens in training.) And share a couple Shabbat Blessings with you for your table tonight.

Shabbat Shalom,

Hailey, Naomi and Eliana

Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookies for Shabbat

It is preparation day again! YAY!!!

For the last couple of weeks I have been preparing our Shabbat dessert. This week I made cookies.

Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yield: Makes about 5 dozen

Ingredients

* 3/4 cup butter, softened

* 3/4 cup granulated sugar

* 3/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar

* 2 large eggs

* 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

* 2 cups all-purpose flour

* 1 teaspoon baking soda

* 1 cup uncooked quick-cooking oats

* 3/4 teaspoon salt

* 1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate morsels

* 1 cup raisins

Preparation:

Beat butter and sugars at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla, beating until blended.

Combine flour, soda, oats, and salt in a small bowl; gradually add to butter mixture, beating well. Stir in morsels and raisins. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto lightly greased baking sheets.

Bake at 350° for 8 to 14 minutes or until desired degree of doneness. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Quilting Maiden and Goat Girl

This is my finished quillow. It was quite easy to make, and I learned a lot about quilting in the process! It goes well on my bed and it is really warm at night (it's winter here).

it looks nice on my bed 

this is the back of the quillow. The inside of the pocket.

the front of the quilt

This is how to fold it so it fits into the pocket. 

Pulling the pocket inside out...

And there! Now it is a pillow! 

I hand embroidered the butterfly :) 

I don't have any instructions, as my sewing teacher showed me how to make it week to week. But Mum noticed that if you google 'making a quillow' there are lots of instructions on the internet! There are a few links HERE if anyone would like to make one too. 

Now to my goats! Keeping and raising goats is a family project for us. At the moment I am responsible for milking the dairy goats and feeding our two weak kids that needed a helping hand to get going. 

Here they are at 4 days old...Rebekah and Pip. When they were born neither of them could stand and we thought they wouldn't make it. Their mother had 5 kids! They are both very small, but we brought them into the laundry and started bottle feeding them and they are now doing really well. They are almost ready to go back in the paddock with their brother and sisters. Harmony, their mother, is happy to let them hang around but she won't let them feed so we will have to keep bottle feeding them for about 3 months. 

This is Harmony with her other 3 kids. 

and this is baby Rebekah thinking that my cheek is a teat! 

So far we have 14 kids...6 girls and 8 boys, and still have one doe to kid (which should happen tomorrow! Check my blog for updates!)

It's Dinner time!

Today we had:

Nachos! They were made with leftover Corn and Bean Salad and some rice and cheese on top of nacho chips. Baked at 350 degrees until they start to smell good.

Pretty simple :-)

Love,

Baked Zuccini

Here is the zuccini recipe you asked for, this works nicely with yellow squash too. We also use matza farfel or crumbs in place of the bread crumbs some times.

You will need:

abuot 4 zuccini
grated cheese
basil(dried)
oil
bread crumbs/stuffing mix

Grease a 9 x 13 or 11 x 15 with oil.
Cut fat 1'' thick rounds and lay in bottom of the pan.
Sprinkle the rest of the ingridients on top.
Bake at 350F for 30 min.+


This is really good, my Dad really liked it!



Love,

It's Dinner Time

Today I made:

Parmesan Potatoes

Grilled Chicken (I can take almost No credit for it,Elijah, my 10yr old brother, grilled it and it was really fantastic!)

Sauteed Spinach (I learned that it takes a lot of raw spinach when you are cooking it. It shrinks a lot! I used a whole pound)

and boy was it good!

Love,

Psalms 23 in Hebrew

When we were learning this we thought, "This is so long
will we ever learn it all!" Now, it's pretty easy to recite :-b

We learned this from hebrew 4 christians and

we also downloaded a narration

of it here and listened to it every day

over and over till we learned it.

We also made up a melody for it, we might share that

some day... I don't know were kinda shy about

the music we make up... :-b

It's Dinner Time!

Tonight for dinner I made:

Roasted Chicken

Salad

Baked Zucchini

I also made some raw pickles, but they take a few days to be ready.

Making Sourdough Starter

Our family would like to start using sourdough instead of using commercial yeast. So Mom put me in charge of making a starter (with her supervision). Personally, I really like sourdough. It takes a lot of time but it is worth it! We are taking the GNOWFGLINS Sourdough eCourse together to learn how to make the change to sourdough.

It is best to start this project in the morning or before bed because you will need to feed your starter every 12 hours.

In a pint jar, put 3/8 cup of wheat flour and 1/4 cup water, and mix vigorously. Cover jar loosely and let sit on the counter for 12 hours between feedings. (It is important that it be filtered because chlorine kills sourdough.)

It is best if both are at room temperature. The starter grows best between 65 and 85 degrees.

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First Feeding

If you don't see any activity,(bubbles) than let sit for another 12 hours. If you do, feed it 1/4 cup of water and mix well than add 3/8 cup flour and mix well. Cover loosely.

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Second Feeding

If you still do not see life, toss it and start from scratch. If you do, Remove half of the starter and add 1/4 cup water and stir, than add 3/8 cup flour and again stir. Cover loosely.

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Third Feeding

Take out half of the starter, than add 1/4 cup water and mix, than add 3/8 cup flour and mix vigorously. Keep in mind that your feedings are every 12 hours,so you need to get into a morning/ night routine.

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Fourth Feeding

Take out half of the starter, add 1/4 cup water, mix than add 3/8 cup flour and mix vigorously.-------------

Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Feeding

Repeat above process until it consistently showing signs of life, at least one week. Well done! your starter is complete!

You may start using your starter, but it is reccomended that you keep it on the counter and feed it regularly for the next three weeks at a ratio of 1:1. (Doing this will strengthen your starter for long term use.) Afterwich time you may store in the fridge if desired, feeding it once a week.

When you want to use the starter you feed the amount of water and flour you intend to use. For example if your recipe calls for 1C of starter, you feed your started 1/2C water and 1/2 C flour and you mix it really good and let it sit a couple hours (or longer). Than you take what you need and leave the rest.

We'll show you some things we try as we go... check out GNOWFLGINS - there courses are great and you pay what you can! (And its Homeschool Science!)

Hope you have fun,