Baking

Aunt Elsa’s bread recipe

April 9, 2010

I love bread. As in, I could live on bread and tea. Homemade bread that is. I am part of a bread making legacy. I learned to bake bread from my Mom, who always baked our bread when I was little. I remember helping mix the dough until it got too stiff.  I can hear [...]

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C is for Cookie

March 28, 2010

This weekend we were not as successful at thrifting as we have been in weeks past. We have been very successful lately though and this time we went out late without much of a plan. The only glimmer was a cookie jar at a rummage sale which I passed up as I have a vintage [...]

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Three Snow Days!

February 26, 2010

Today was my third snow day in a row. A nice 5 day weekend! Lee had snow days yesterday and today, so we were all home together. We made messes. I made muffins. We made pizza. Lee and the dogs shoveled. Kaylee played. I made a mini zip purse. And tote bag twins. Both have [...]

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Bread and Tea

February 3, 2010

For eons I wanted a KitchenAid stand mixer. And this is how I was able to justify purchasing one. Thing is, we have had the mixer for nearly a year and I only finally attempted bread baking 2 Sundays ago. I had visions in my head of fresh baked bread on the weekends, the mixer [...]

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