P and I make some Brownie Roll-Out Cookies this week.
They are great when they are still warm out of the oven.
They are also excellent for home made ice cream sandwiches.
P has made this recipe for us to try next. She calls them Cinnamon Sugar Cookies
2 sticks butter
3 cups sugar
4 cups cinnamon
5 cups chocolate chips
Last night in an effort to use up the last of the pears we remade the Italian Pear Cake. This time we added cinnamon and chocolate chips - a brilliant addition if I do say so myself.
With last week's peach ice cream fresh on our minds we thought we'd try pear ice cream with the cake. D used the same recipe but substituted pears.
Have you ever had pear ice cream? It was DELICIOUS!I don't think he measured anything but the basic recipe is something like this:
1 cup cream
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup fruit (I think he used more pear than this)
1/8 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup sugar
Mix the ingredients with a blender and then pour into the frozen ice cream maker, ours is similar to this but smaller. Churn until frozen.
The ice cream was surprisingly pear flavored. Really.
It was excellent. We had to eat the ice cream quickly so I don't have a photo of that. But trust me, it was good.
I have some pears set aside in the fridge for another batch!
We have a bumper crop of pears again this year. After eating, freezing, and canning three bushels of purchased peaches we now have lots of pears from our trees. Yesterday, we tried this Italian Pear Cake.
It used quite a few pears and tasted pretty yummy.
We could possibly be getting lots of raspberries too but we haven't battled the pumpkin vines to find them all yet. The pumpkins have grown from their patch up and over all of the raspberry plants.
I am busy cooking and canning tomato sauce every couple of days and this weekend will be trying my hand at canning pears. The canned peaches turned out great so we thought we would try the pears.
Ahhh. This is August.
"There was nothing but pie. But there were all nine kinds of pie that Harold liked best. When Harold finished his picnic there was quite a lot left. He hated to see so much delicious pie go to waste. So Harold left a very hungry moose and a deserving porcupine to finish it up."
Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, 1955.
I seem to learn a lot of things on flickr these days. I checked in this morning and learned that today is National Pie Day. So, naturally I made a pie.
Put it on your calendars for next year. January 23 - National Pie Day.If you're quick you still have time to make a pie tonight!I mixed up a pie crust and used this easy recipe with blueberries from the freezer.
Happy Pie Day.
If you missed the celebration today you get another chance on March 14: Pi Day.
Every major clean up project needs a snack break.
Today's clean up required two.
That ceiling is coming down TOMORROW!
Back to work. Today's portion of the sewing room clean included sewing a doll quilt top together. Now I don't have to worry about losing parts to that project.---------Peppermint bark is WAY easier to make than I thought.
Melt. Pour. Melt. Pour. Sprinkle.
It is THAT easy.
It might be a really bad thing that I stocked up on candy canes when they were on sale after Christmas.
P and I had a play day today. I got to wear my fantabulous vintage apron that was in my stocking while we prepared a tea party with some of P's new (vintage) tea party stuff.
Ack. I can hardly stand the cuteness of it all --the "Three Little Kittens" dishes, those little ice cream bowls, and wood handle utensils. And don't you just love that tiny cake holder???!!!
We set out this morning making some tiny shortbread cookies.
After the first tray which only held four tiny cookies we switched to a slightly larger play tray. The tiny cookies bake in about half the time of the regular cookies.
We also made a tiny layer cake to fit in that little cake holder. With the cake, ice cream, cookies, and milk it was a fun party! And the servings weren't so big that they spoiled dinner.
Actually, the boys said that you could accidentally inhale one of those cookies and never even notice!
Boys.
What do they know? I guess that is why they were not invited to the party.
This is a redo of the Chocolate Chip Pumpkin muffins that we like so much. I had to take snack to preschool this week and didn't want to put chocolate in the muffins so I tried apple instead. They turned out super!!
Apple Pumpkin Muffins
1 1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon grounds nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
3/4 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup applesauce
1/3 cup vegetable oil
2 cups cooked and pureed pumpkin (or one 15 oz can)
several apples cut in pieces (I used three apples of different varieties for a good flavor mix)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix flours, and other dry ingredients together in a bowl.
In a different bowl, beat the eggs and add oil, applesauce, pumpkin.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir in the apple pieces.
Bake 20 minutes.
Makes 24 muffins.
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