Breakfast Quiche

I always thought making a Quiche was difficult, well I guess I never checked out a recipe. We will be getting chicks next week so I thought I should try it out.  SOOOO easy a child can make it, and she did. CG made a beautiful breakfast Quiche.

1 Cup cheese (we used Mazzarella)
2 Tablespoons flour
1 Cup milk
4 eggs
1/2 Cup parmesan cheese
1 1/2 Cup veggies/ meat (this works for dinners as well)

Mix all together and put in pie shell, bake for 60 minutes at 350 degrees.

Coffee Cake with Strawberries

We had some leftover strawberries and didn't want them to go to waste. We love coffee cake in this house so we made that with strawberries.

Ingredients
2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1T baking powder
1/2t salt
2 eggs
1/4 cup applesauce
3/4 cup milk (we used almond milk)
1cup strawberries

Topping
2/3 cup flour
2/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup softened butter
2t cinnamon

Mix eggs until foamy add milk and applesauce, set aside. In another bowl add together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet then fold in strawberries.  Mix together the topping ingredients and sprinkle on top bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 50 min.





Pineapple Banana Bread

I hope to get back in the swing of things with my blogging. Sometimes life gets so busy.  Today I am posting about a wonderful bread recipe that we made. It is one that we had never tried before but it was delicious. This recipe makes 2 loaves. We made one with walnuts on top and one without, your choice.

Ingredients
3C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon

1/8 tsp nutmeg
3/4 tsp salt
3 eggs
2C sugar
1 C oil
2 tsp vanilla
4 bananas mashed = 2 cups
1 C crushed and drained pineapple
1/2 C walnuts

In a large bowl mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
In another bowl beat eggs and sugar.  Add oil, vanilla, banana, and pineapple beat until well mixed.
Stir wet ingredients into bowl of dry. Pour into loaf pans and sprinkle the walnuts on top then bake for 60 minutes.   ENJOY!

Vanilla Wafers recipe

We found an old recipe card from my Grandmothers little wooden recipe box. It reads:

Vanilla Wafers

2/3 cup butter
1/2 cup suger
1 egg
2 Tablespoons milk
1 1/4 teas bk pd
salt-vanilla
slap on sheet and bake 10 min (Love that)

I had to look at some recipes online to find out how much vanilla and salt and what temperature to put the oven on other than that I could follow. We used 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1 Tablespoon of vanilla with the oven on 400 dgrees F. On we went.

Thay tasted really good although we made them too large. The kids liked them.
We are going to try some other recipes from this old wooden box. I think my Grandmother would like that.



They were too big



They look like suger cookies and taste like a mix between suger cookie and shortbread cookie. Doesn't really taste like the store bought vanilla wafers but still yummy

Kids Cake Auction

We hosted a kids cake auction at our local library this past year. We had so much fun. CG and SA picked the design of the cakes that they wanted. SA made a lego cake and CG a guinea pig cake.

Children in the community made cakes and bid on cakes. All proceeds went to the library.   

He is being very careful not to spill the sugar.

This was her first time using the mixer!

The lego cake. I failed to get a picture of the guinea pig cake, it was really cute though.

My favorite cake recipe.

Preheat oven to 350 F

3 C cake flour
1 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
1/4 t baking soda
 mix in bowl and set aside

1 1/2 C melted butter
1 1/4 C sugar
Beat in large bowl until fluffy

2/3 C milk
1 1/2 t vanilla extract
4 lg eggs
Then beat all ingredients together when all blended beat for two minutes.

Bake for 18 - 25 min depending on the pan you use.

We made BUTTER!

 We made our own butter. I never knew it was so easy. All that we needed was heavy cream and a mixer with a whisk attachment.  First let the cream come to room temperature. Pour it into the mixing bowl and use the whisk attachments. You may need to put a small towel over it because it does splash a little.

This would be how you would make whipped cream, it will look like that. You will go past the whipped cream stage and you will notice that it will start to separate.  When it looks like this then it is done. Buttermilk and butter.

 

Scoop out the butter and pour the buttermilk in a jar. Wash the butter in cold running water and work it a little until the water runs clear.  You can add herbs and freeze it if you want. Use the buttermilk for baking see our Donut Muffin recipe.

We also made some fresh English Muffins to go with the butter.

 This was a website that we found. It also has some suggestions on books. 

http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/index.html This was a fun and easy project for the kids to learn. You can explore history and science.