January 13, 2010
This is intended as a bread machine recipe for a 1 1/2lb loaf, sweet bread cycle, light crust setting.
Ingredients:
1 1/4c buttermilk (or water)
3T honey
1/2t. orange flavoring
3/4c old fashioned rolled oats
1 1/2t. salt
1 1/2T sugar
3c bread flour
1 1/2t. yeast
1/2c sweetened cranberries (added at the beep)
The bread is a not-too-sweet version of orange cranberry quick breads that is particularly good toasted with either butter or cream cheese. When made with buttermilk, it has a denser texture than when made with water.
Current Mood: 
accomplished
Categories: Baking, Recipes.
December 15, 2009
I recently discovered that it is surprisingly easy to bake sweet potatoes in their skins. In fact, the Joy of Cooking suggests that if one can avoid peeling sweet potatoes before cooking them, no matter the cooking method, one should. Considering the relative difficulty of peeling them, that’s advice after my own heart! I should probably mention that due to the winter farm share, we have a *lot* of sweet potatoes in the house.
Categories: Uncategorized.
November 16, 2009
At our tea-themed party this past Saturday, we served the following:
Cucumber sandwiches
Curried chicken salad sandwiches
Turkey bacon, tomato, and cream cheese sandwiches
Fruit and yogurt parfaits
Veggies with hummus
Atkins Farms apple cider donuts
Chocolates with cashews and cranberries
Teapot shaped gingerbread cut-out cookies with purple icing
A teapot-shaped pound cake (using marshmallow fondant) with a matching teacup cake
Raspberry-oatmeal mini muffins with chocolate chips
Brie, cheddar, peach jam, and crackers
And naturally there was tea, coffee, cider, and soda for beverage selections. The cider was also from Atkins Farms.
Categories: Uncategorized.
November 2, 2009
The first batch of sprouts took five days to grow, and holy cow 2T. of seed makes a lot of sprouts!
Categories: Indoor Growing.
November 2, 2009
Ingredients:
1 1/2c. whole wheat flour
1/2c. packed dk. brown sugar
1/2c. old-fashioned oats
1 T. baking powder
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg
1/3c. vegetable oil
1c. rice milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 Cortland (or other cooking variety) apple, peeled, cored, and chopped
1/2c. raisins
Method:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Whisk together dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients and stir to combine. Fold in chopped apple and raisins. Pour into a greased cake pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean; about 25-30 minutes. Alternately, pour into muffin cups and bake 20 minutes – makes 12 muffins.
Categories: Baking, Recipes.
