Pumpkin Bread

This is the Worlds Best Pumpkin Bread!

Moist!!!! Fluffy!!! Savory Sweet!!!

Great Cold or Warm!

You don't even need anything on it!

I Love This Bread!!

Preheat Oven to 350 Degrees Fahrenheit

In a large bowl mix:

3 Cups Sugar

1 Cup Oil

4 Eggs

3 Cups Flour

2/3 Cup Water

1 tsp Cinnamon

1 tsp Nutmeg

1 1/2 tsp Salt

2 tsp Baking soda 

1 Tbs Baking Powder

2 Cups of Pumpkin

Bake 2 Loaves for 1 hour

or

5 dozen Muffins for 30 mins.

Enjoy!!!  

My Cookie Filled Day

I had a fun filled day of 8 dozen cookies!

I made Yummy Butterscotch Cookies today.

I'll have pictures to follow.

Tomorrow or Friday I am making Pumpkin bread and

Spice bread. I'm really excited to give these loaves as

Christmas gifts.

These are not your common breads!

This pumpkin bread will stop your friends and family

on the spot. They are very most, smooth, fluffy and

flavorful. Definately try these recipes I post. These

are some of my best recipes.

Really excited to share these with you!

=]

Enjoy!

Market Ideas

I am not sure how many people I have told about my plans, so here goes.

I am keeping this blog of my baking and cooking and 

everything I hope to build off of.

I want people to read it and get inspired,

get creative, and even just get a kick out of my poor grammar. 

:)

But this isn't all that I am working on.

I have decided that I want to do something with my baking.

SO

This summer I would like to sell some of my baked goods at 

the Skaneateles Farmers Market.

I live in just about 45 minutes away from there.

And a good friend of mine takes her yummy farm goods to 

market every year, on Thursdays and Saturdays.

I want to sell baked yummy-ness there and see

where it takes me. So I have lots to do to get ready for that.

I'm thinking tonight about how to may the table look nice.

I want to make a table cloth and find some simple plates

or platters. Maybe a cake stand or something of that kind.

I may find that I need help bringing it all together. 

But I am lucky because I do have people

that are talented and wonderful that may be up for that.

I think I would like to make it so people can pick out things

they like and be able to order them from me.

I want to offer options, 

like gluten free, different flours, different types of sugars. etc.

I don't know how it will go just yet.

But I'm working on it one step at a time.

I am so lucky

Yesterday I frosted cookies for hours.

By the time I was done frosting I did not feel like cleaning

up the dishes and everything else. 

So I saved it for today. No big deal right?

Well because I am so lucky, my boyfriend cleaned everything!

I asked him why he did all the dishes and he said
 "so you could bake more today if you wanted"!!!!!
 He is so wonderful! I love him!

So guess I'm baking more today =]

<3

Day Two of Anise Cookies!

Anise Cookies Frosting

3 sticks of butter at room temperature

1/4 cup milk

1 bag of confectioners sugar

1/2 tsp Anise flavoring

Mix well with hand held mixer

add food coloring till desired color is reached.

I had a mishap with the colors because I

had bought the wrong food coloring.

So instead of red blue and yellow, 

I have Pink, Purple, Green and Orange. =/

Ooops.

No big deal. I still like them.

Here are some pictures.

Candy Heart Cookies!

I really enjoyed these. 

<3

Day One of Anise Cookies

Anise Cookies

Made Yummy Anise Cookies.

Here is the recipe in step-by-step order.

Cookies

Step One: 

In a large bowl combine,

6 eggs

2 cups sugar

1 cup of shortening

3 Tbs Anise Flavoring

1 cup milk

Pinch of Salt

6 tsp of baking powder

6 cups flour

mix well, roll out

cut out shapes and place on cookie sheet.

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes

I plan to ice them all tomorrow.

More Pictures to follow.

<3

Good Grocery List

I don't think there is anything more irritating than going to the store,

getting home, and realizing you forgot something important. 

Ever gone shopping and spent over a hundred dollars,

and with in 2 days you have no food left?

It happens when you are not prepared.

So here are some ideas of how to fix that.

I know you don't have time to sit down with everyone in the house

and come up with a grocery list for the week/ months etc.

So think of meals that everyone likes that you can have on hand 

in the cabinets or freezer for those sudden meals.

Perfect example:

Mac and cheese.

Freeze a brick of cheese and have noodles in the pantry.

You'll prolly have milk and butter already.

So when you get in from a long day and don't want to run out and shop,

you already have a meal.

ALSO, frozen veggies and meats.

Buy your veggies in season, they are cheaper that way. Then freeze them.

Buy your meat on sale and freeze it.

If you're going to be home late. Take some meat out in the morning to defrost.

make a quick stir fry and lay it over microwaveable rice. 

So Simple.

But for a good grocery list. 

Have an idea of some meals you would eat right away and some that can be 

in the fridge for a while and not go bad.

I'd make the fresh salad tonight and have the frozen pizza later in the week.

Also, think of meals that use the same ingredients. This way you buy one large container of 

sour cream and it gets used for two or three meals.

Or your fresh herbs are used in two meals so they don't just go bad in the crisper.

Make A List!!!!! Once you make a meal list you can divide

it into the sections of the store you are going to. 

EX: Meats, Dairy, Dry Goods, Frozen...etc.

Save yourself a lot of time and money. 

I hope this helped.

<3

My Twice Baked Potatoes

Twice Baked Potatoes

Bake one potato per person, this will yield roughly 2 servings

per person, good for seconds and left overs. 

Cut each Potato in half and scoop out MOST of the potato center,

leaving about a 1/4 inch think layer on the skins.

This will make the potato stay together better in the second half of this process.

In a large bowl:

Place the scooped out potato centers

Mash with a fork.

Add:

Buttermilk

Butter

Sour Cream

Parmesan Cheese

Salt and Pepper

Grated Chedder Cheese

Whip with electric mixer until smooth and fluffy

Add additional Butter and Buttermilk if needed

Fill Reserved potato skin halves with mixture

Sprinkle tops with Parmesan Cheese

Bake in Oven at 350 degrees

for Roughly 30 minutes 

Once cooked sprinkle with chopped chives.

<3 

Tales of the Lost Cook Book

I just obtained my mothers cookbook. Like I have said before

she was a fantastic cook. And I am really excited to have her cook book 

and to be able to make the food we remember so well. 

You know that moment when you are in a new environment

 and you smell something that takes you back to a good memory?

That is the power of cooking!

To come home to a house that smells like something from the past.

To taste your memories. 

I'd like to make some things this Christmas that my family

always made around the holidays.

Anise Cookies

Pies

Chicken Cordon Bleu 

Twice Baked Potatoes 

Cranberry Sauce

Mom's layer'd Chip dip

Tiramisu

Stuffed Mushrooms

Stuffed Baked Clams

Appetizer platters Mimi Style   

Yum!!! 

I'll follow up this post with at least one new recipe.

Enjoy <3