HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today you 22 and oh so much fun to be around.
We miss you SOOOOOOOOO much and wish we were closer to help you celebrate.
We hope you have a wonderful day.
Love you
From ALL of us.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Happy Birthday Ethan!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Today you 22 and oh so much fun to be around.
We miss you SOOOOOOOOO much and wish we were closer to help you celebrate.
We hope you have a wonderful day.
Love you
From ALL of us.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Recipe
So I know its been forever since my last blog I am sorry but life has happened and it needed me to participate not just sit on the side lines.
So my last post was about bread and a lot of people have asked for my recipe. And so today with not much else to write about I figured I would type my recipe to share.
Whole Wheat Bread........... Sorta..
In a small bowl mix 1/2 cup warm water
2 Tbsp. yeast
1 Tbsp brown sugar or honey I use honey
mix together so to get your yeast going
In a big mixer..
1/2 cup brown sugar or honey
1/4 cup apple juice concentrate
2 tsp salt
3 1/2 cups warm water
6 Tbl. oil
5 cups flour ( now with my experience using only whole wheat flour my bread comes out hard if I dont have 3 hours to kneed it. So I use about 1 to 2 cups of white flour just to lighten it up.)
You may need more or less flour depending on your area. ( the last time I made this it was humid so I needed more like 8 cups flour but in the end it made 4 loafs.)
mix until sponge and soft in bowl then on floured counter or board kneed for at least 20mins.
I also added some flax seed mill about 1/2 cup here to my bread.
Then place into a oiled bowl. I just spray a big metal mixing bowl and then put in there and then spray my dough so as it rises it doesn't dry out. Then cover with a towel and let rise for 1hour or until doubled in size.
Then punch down and let rise again for 30mins. Then cut into loafs and ( I always just before I put mine in the pans hit the flat tops to get any extra air pockets out). Cover with towel and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled.
Bake in a 350 oven on the middle rack for about 30 mins or until done.
As soon as they come out of the oven take them out of the pans and spray with cooking spray this keeps the crust from getting to hard and as soon as they are cool place in a zip lock bag.
**Tip also if you want your bread to stay fresh a little longer I will mix into the dough about 1 tbls full of baking soda.
Good luck and enjoy.
So my last post was about bread and a lot of people have asked for my recipe. And so today with not much else to write about I figured I would type my recipe to share.
Whole Wheat Bread........... Sorta..
In a small bowl mix 1/2 cup warm water
2 Tbsp. yeast
1 Tbsp brown sugar or honey I use honey
mix together so to get your yeast going
In a big mixer..
1/2 cup brown sugar or honey
1/4 cup apple juice concentrate
2 tsp salt
3 1/2 cups warm water
6 Tbl. oil
5 cups flour ( now with my experience using only whole wheat flour my bread comes out hard if I dont have 3 hours to kneed it. So I use about 1 to 2 cups of white flour just to lighten it up.)
You may need more or less flour depending on your area. ( the last time I made this it was humid so I needed more like 8 cups flour but in the end it made 4 loafs.)
mix until sponge and soft in bowl then on floured counter or board kneed for at least 20mins.
I also added some flax seed mill about 1/2 cup here to my bread.
Then place into a oiled bowl. I just spray a big metal mixing bowl and then put in there and then spray my dough so as it rises it doesn't dry out. Then cover with a towel and let rise for 1hour or until doubled in size.
Then punch down and let rise again for 30mins. Then cut into loafs and ( I always just before I put mine in the pans hit the flat tops to get any extra air pockets out). Cover with towel and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled.
Bake in a 350 oven on the middle rack for about 30 mins or until done.
As soon as they come out of the oven take them out of the pans and spray with cooking spray this keeps the crust from getting to hard and as soon as they are cool place in a zip lock bag.
**Tip also if you want your bread to stay fresh a little longer I will mix into the dough about 1 tbls full of baking soda.
Good luck and enjoy.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Bread
This was my afternoon project... It has made my whole house smell heavenly.
Can't wait until dinner...
Hanger
It all started with a little hanger....
Today has been a very slow day here at the Whitmer house. We have a sicky so we are sticking close to home. So I took this as a gift of time. We don't have to go anywhere so why not get some of the little things around here done that just get over looked.
So I hit the boys closet. I pulled out all there old not fitting things and hung up things that had fallen down. They didn't even notice.
Then it was onto Riley's, she was very excited and wanted to help even though she doesn't feel good. A couple of Saturday's ago we had hit a HUGH sale at the mall and ended up getting all of the clothes that she will need for school this year. And all under a 100 bucks thanks you.
So I pull out the little hangers and put the newly washed clothes onto them something that rarely happened before now in our house as the kids never really had anything other then play and church clothes. But as I was hanging them up she comes into me and says"Oh mom I really get to hang my clothes up just like you? And I am ALL ready to go to school now." And then it hit me this hanger was doing more for her then just hanging her clothes up, it was a step forward. It was telling her that she was growing up and changing.
If life was that simple that we could all see our "hangers" and know that we were doing what we need to be doing. So my question to you have you seen any "hangers" in your lives?
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