Apple cinnamon rolls

I made these for breakfast the other day. they were soooooooo goooooooooood!! I just used a sweet dough recipe for my bread machine but with half whole wheat and half white flour. When the dough was ready I rolled it our and spread it with brown sugar, cinnamon and grated(squeeze out the juices and drink it!) apples. No butter or margarine spread on the dough....this is important as the apples add enough moisture! I rolled it up and cut it and put it on a greased pan just like regular cinnamon buns. Let them rise double and baked them to perfection. We ate them with a dab of cream cheese on top and milk on the side. YUM! The kids were happy to see such a treat for their breakfast:)

Pork steak

We had pork steak last night for dinner (a rare treat!). I used the marinating sauce
that I use on beef steak and fried it in a pan. Everyone liked it!

A crisp with little chef

I tried a new recipe last week then forgot to blog about it! I made rhubarb blueberry crisp found at http://tammysrecipes.com and we had it with ice cream. Oh boy was it ever delish!! It's definitely a keeper!

The rhubarb was from our very generous, green thumbed neighbor who cut them for us fresh from the garden. My 4 year old(otherwise known as little chef:) likes to help water the neighbors garden and pull weeds. The neighbor rewards his hard work with juice and cookies on his porch. This time though he also gave little chef a grocery bag full of rhubarb. Little chef was VERY exited to help make the crisp so we can take some back to the neighbor:) He as so cute slicing the rhubarb just so...nice and thin. So very cute!

Rhubarb crumb cake!!

Originally posted in 08:)

Today was the day!! I finally made some rhubarb crumb cake!!
Here we are slicing up the rhubarb into thin slices. I used my regular crumb cake recipe found HERE but with rhubarb.
Here it is just after I sprinkled on the rhubarb and slightly patted them into the batter.
Then I sprinkled it with a generous amount of brown sugar and sprinkled and patted on the reserved crumbs. Then it was baked to perfection.......
Mmmmmmmmmm!! Serves great with vanilla ice cream or a sprinkling of icing sugar!!
Enjoy!!

Friendship bread

Here is my basket of starters sitting on the kitchen counter. I was given the first one by a friend.


The other day I got to bake a nice big one! The original recipe calls for using a pudding mix in the batter. Why would I want to run to the store to get that? So I messed with it and made the recipe without the pudding mix. I'm sure it's purpose would be to hold the dough together right? I'll share the recipe I came up with:)

I also ended up making it into a bunt instead if a loaf....

(this one is baked into a loaf with the pudding mix~I think the one without the mix looks fluffier!)

Starter Feeding Directions

DO NOT use any type of metal spoon or bowl for mixing.

Don't refrigerate the starter



Day 1: Do Nothing

Day 2: Mash the Bag

Day 3: Mash the Bag

Day 4: Mash the Bag

Day 5: Mash the Bag

Day 6: Add to bag: 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup milk. Mash the bag.

Day 7: Mash the Bag

Day 8: Mash the Bag

Day 9: Mash the Bag



Day 10: Do the following:

Pour entire contents of bag into a non metal bowl and add

1.5 cups flour

1.5 cups sugar

1.5 cups milk

Measure out four separate batters of 1 cup each into gallon size ziploc bags.(I found there wasn't enough for 4 so I did 3 and used the rest in my bunt!)

Keep one starter for yourself and give the other 3 to your friends, along with a copy of the recipe.

Cinnamon Amish Friendship Bread Baking directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

To the remaining batter in the bowl add:

3 eggs

1 cup oil

1/2 cup milk

1 cup sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp baking soda

2 cups flour

1 large box vanilla instant pudding(I left this out as I think it's silly to buy a pudding mix just for this and added a couple of teaspoons of baking powder instead!)

Grease 2 large loaf pans.( I greased a large bunt pan)

In a small bowl, mix an additional

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Dust the greased pans with
1/2 the cinnamon/sugar mixture.
Pour the batter evenly into the loaf pans. Sprinkle the remaining mixture on top. Bake 1 hour. Cool.
( I baked this covered loosely with aluminum foil to make sure it cooked through in the middle.)