Look At ME!! I'm A Domestic!!

I've been baking again!!

Next weekend I am going camping back home (kind of) with my family. I asked what I could contribute to the camping trip. As my Brother is bringing the tent (we just need our sleeping bags) My Dad is bringing all the food (or so I was told anyway.)

I asked my Sister-in-Law what we should bring. She said munchies and chips and whatnot. You know the JUNK FOOD!

Shoot I can do junk food! I am GOOD at junk food!! I love junk food! lol

So I still have a big bag of pumpkin cookies that are coming with us.

Today I got busy making buns. (I know buns are not junk food. But my Dad asked me to make some.. well bring some. I decided to make them!) I also made some Chocolate No Bake Cookies (if any of y'all want the recipe comment and I will post it)

With the same recipe that I made all my 'buns' with last week. Today I just made plain ole buns! 2dozen each hotdog and hamburger buns. They are now placed in bags, in the freezer to maintain the delicious fresh taste!

Next week camping all the campers will be jealous of our fresh homemade buns!! That is if I remember to pack them! haha So here is to hoping that I remember to throw them in the car on Thursday when we leave!

Don't worry! I will still be picking up some 'proper' junk food later this week (so it doesn't all get eaten before we leave) Chips, chips and more chips, and cookies!! What more could you ask for??

:: No Internet at Home :: AGAIN!!

Once again we are stuck with no Internet at home. Or TV for that matter. Okay, so that's not ENTIRELY true! We do have a few channels. I have to admit that although I DO really like The Food Network and HGTV. When those are the only things that there are to watch I don't really want to!
So that being said. Here I sit. At Starbucks. Thanks for the free, WORKING Internet!

Now I get to start working on the REAL post of the day!!

See you soon Folks!

I Appreciate You!

ATTENTION: To my international readers.
I appreciate y'all!! I don't know you. (or maybe I do?) But Thanks for checking out my blog! Who knew a 'little girl' from Canada just blogging about her life and thoughts would reach out to people in Canada, United States, Germany, Malasia, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, and the Netherlands!! -WOW- Thanks guys!! Keep on checking back for all my random thoughts and new baking!!
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Martha Stewart Ain't Got Nothin' On Me!!

As we all know the other day I made cookies. They were Delish BTW!

Alex made dinner 4 nights in a row so I was in a baking mood!!

SO I pulled out my trusty NO FAIL BREAD recipe and made 3 dozen cinnamon rolls, 20 pizza pops and 12 pizza pretzels!!

No big deal!!!

This looks like the 
BIGGEST
bowl of dough ever.. 
Nope! Its not! ha ha.. that is after I used almost half of it!

 Here are the cinnamon rolls ready to go into the oven..

And the pizza pops ready to go in!! My Mum used to make these when we were kids!! YUM!! I am pretty sure homemade pizza pops are my favorite!!!

 After >>>

That ladies and gentlemen what DELICIOUS looks like!  

Pizza pops out of the oven! (sorry I forgot to take a picture before I covered them in plastic.. I know they don't look like anything special.. but they sure taste good!

 And THIS^^

is a pizza pretzel.. It looks like a big cheesy blob.. and THAT is what makes it SO dang good!!

If anyone is interested in the bread recipe here it is.

(trust me when it says No Fail. that's what it means!!)

If any of y'all figure out how to mess this up, you are a special kind of stupid and maybe you should just go to the grocery store instead!!

No-Fail Bread:

6 cups warm water

2 tbsps salt

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup oil or melted margarine

3 beaten eggs

14+ cups flour

4 tbsps instant yeast (heaping) 

Mix ingredients until dough is easy to handle. On a flat surface, knead, adding flour until right consistency. Put in bowl and let rise 30-40 minutes. Beat down. Separate into 6 portions, shape and put into bread pans. Let rise 30-40 minutes. Bake at 325*F. for 30-45 minutes. Take out and smear with margarine for a soft crust.

For cinnamon rolls just cut off a hunk of dough roll it out to pretty thin. (maybe 1/4" a little more/less depending on what you want) brush on a thick layer of melted butter cover with brown sugar sprinkle with cinnamon, roll. Cut into 1-1.5" 'buns' place in a buttered pan. let rise 30-45minute and bake until done!!

For Pizza pops cut off little chunks of dough(enought to make a regular bun) Flatten to about the size of your hand. Smear with pizza sauce and add any fillings you want pinch the edges together place that side down on a buttered pan. Let rise 30-45 minutes. bake until golden bown ontop and bottom.

For pretzels cut little hunks of dough off rolls into a little snake, fold up like a pretzel. Smear with pizza sauce, add cheese. Let rise 30-40 minutes. Bake until done. (I bake them on parchment paper for easier removal) I check the bottom to see if they are done.

HAPPY BAKING Y'ALL!!

Also I would like to say Thanks to My Mum for being a great example and teaching me to do things like this when I was a little girl!!

THANKS MUM!!

I appreciate you!

Cookies, Cookies and MORE Cookies!!

today at work i decided i wanted to bake when i got home. so i did!

here is the recipe i found:

pumpkin chocolate chip cookies

1 1/2 cups butter (no substitutes), softened

2 cups packed brown sugar

1 cup sugar

1 (15 ounce) can solid pack pumpkin

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

4 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups quick-cooking oats

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

1. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars. Beat in the pumpkin, egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
2. Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.

now let me just tell you. don't dare make this recipe if you just want a few cookies!! i ended up with a few more than 11 dozen!! yikes! i feel like we will be eating cookies for a while!

There is SOOOO much batter!!

Finally!! An empty bowl! Happiest part of my day!

Before

After!

DELISH!! 134 cookies later. Now I haven't got a clue what to do with them all!!

Y'all should try this recipe out! Let me know how yours turn out...

OH YEAH.. I also added ground ginger and cloves.. about 1tsp of each. I could have added 2tsp of each..

Happy Baking y'all!!

Project #2 version 2.0

Okay so as y'all may be well aware I just posted a week or two ago that I had project #1 complete, and I was starting on project #2. Since then I have officially QUIT project #2. I can't make a zig zag blanket. No matter how hard I try! (I tried twice. That was enough for me! I got frustrated and wanted to cry.)

So I decided to try something that I know how to do! And considering that when Grandma taught me how to crochet, this was the project that I was supposed to do in the first place. Here I go. With the stupid impossible zig zags behind me!! I have a NEW project #2.

Here is my very small stack of squares that I have so far. (I think there are about 20)

Granny squares that is!! I am VERY excited for this blanket to be done! It will by far be the largest thing I have ever made.. and the prettiest!

I have 3 different designs that I will be making. Stripes(left) 3x3(middle) and plain(right)

It will look similar to this picture. Only MUCH much bigger! It is going to be a 10x10square blanket! So a little bit bigger than a queen size blanket!

(hopefully there will be enough of it that Alex and I won't have to fight over it. Hmm on second though. I doubt it!! But here's to hoping!!)

I will be sure to post a picture when I have it finished!

MIA

SO Friday night during the first football game it started raining and hailing.
There was thunder, and I'm sure there was lightning too.
(I couldn't see any though. I was in the dungeon watching the game!)

Well anyway I was in the middle of making a nice blog post about version 2.0
Of Project #2. And that's when the internet stopped working!!
Talk about being Frustrated!!
I had the entire post written. I previewed the post.
And I EVEN pushed the publish post button!! Then the internet blew up!!

The landlord said that it should be back up in 24-72 hours...
And that's what he was told on Saturday, and it still wasn't working this morning!!

So here is to hoping that the internet will be put back together by
The time I get home from work!! (Let me tell you, I sure am happy that I'm not actually
Paying the internet bill! If I was I would be on the phone every stinking day complaining!!)

What good is my computer to me if I have no internet!!
(Yes I know I can play solitaire) but that is an awfully expensive deck of cards!!

So until the internet is fixed!! Have a great week!!
Hopefully this will be my last blackberry post!!