Homemade Wholewheat Pitas

Homemade Pitas are really a great treat. I have a few links for some great websites that explain best how to make these :)
Brown Eyed Baker's Pitas
Simple Daily Recipe's Pitas
Farmgirl Fare's Pitas
Tammy Recipes Pitas
Enjoy :)

English Muffin Bread

This bread is delicious and tastes like an English Muffin :)

Recipe From BHG Diet Cookbook

Ingredients

•     Cornmeal
• 6  cups  all-purpose flour
• 2    packages active dry yeast
• 1/4  teaspoon  baking soda
• 2  cups  milk
• 1/2  cup  water
• 1  tablespoon  sugar
• 1  teaspoon  salt

Directions

1. Grease two 8x4x2-inch loaf pans. Lightly sprinkle pans with cornmeal to coat bottom and sides; set pans aside.
2. In a large mixing bowl combine 3 cups of the flour, the yeast, and baking soda; set aside. In a medium saucepan heat and stir milk, water, sugar, and salt just until warm (120 degree F to 130 degree F). Using a wooden spoon, stir milk mixture into flour mixture. Stir in remaining flour.
3. Divide dough in half. Place dough in prepared pans. Sprinkle tops with cornmeal. Cover and let rise in a warm place until double in size (about 45 minutes).

4. Bake in a 400 degree F oven about 25 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove bread from pans. Cool on wire racks. If desired, serve with Honey Butter. Makes 2 loaves (32 servings).

Celebrating Trent

OurCrazyFarm: A New Home

I became friends with a beautiful lady, Terri, maybe two years ago. She has a blog called Our Crazy Farm, where she shares her faith and her journey as a mom, farm wife, friend, and the like. Her daughter, Grace, and my daughter Lizzy, became pen-pals through snail mail about a year ago.

On Friday the 18th of February, her 12 year old son went to be with Lord. Please be in prayer for her, her husband, Rob, and their family, friends and community during this difficult time.

Yogurt Treat

Cayla made this for Lizzy the other day. It is just Vanilla Yogurt with cut up strawberries. Cayla even took the picture for me.

Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I thought because my girls are 8 years apart that they would never fight with each other. I grew up in a house of 5 children and we fought t-e-r-r-i-b-l-y! It was not a christian home and not even a home filled with love, so things got ugly at times.

I guess I never took into consideration that my children would be sinners as we all are. Understandably, no parents like to consider their beloved children as evil, just as parents would reject any thought that their newborn is ugly.

But it's so nice when they do something sweet for each other :)

Because we are sinners it is important to teach our children the Moral Law before they become self-righteous. This shows them God's standard of "good" instead of them accepting what the world teaches that they are good and do not need God.

A few years ago I found this video on teaching the 10 Commandments. It's a great tool for teaching our kids :)

Cherry Crumb Pie

 

LoL Well the picture turned out way worse than the pie actually did. This wasn't from scratch. It was my oldest daughters birthday cake. She has asked for cherry pie instead of cake for a few years. I finally did it for her. I had other goodies for our non cherry pie lovers. 

It was always within our means to make cherry pie instead of cake yet I thought it wasn't a good thing to serve b/c it didn't fit into what I thought was expected of others. It was good to do this small thing, it really make her happy. 

Your friend,

The Still Learning Parent

Felt Clothes

After a play date with lil friends and much talk about inspiration and creativity, Lizzy made new clothes for Strawberry Shortcake.
Again and again I don't make time to do special things like getting together with friends. I was truly blessed to sit with my new friend as our daughters played together.

Morning Breakfast

These french toast slices were made another day and then frozen. This is a great way to use up stale bread. It's great to have some things prepared! :)

Calzones

A weekly meal in our house are calzones made from whole wheat pizza dough. We fill ours with ricotta (re-goat-ta) cheese and mozzarella cheese, served with marinara sauce on the side. Sometimes it is great to have a special tool to make your food pretty.... but sometimes it is great when you already have something to do the job just as well. Calzones need to have their edges sealed. I've done it with my fingers and with a fork. If I had a fork that was bent to fit my pan I wouldn't have looked farther, but on a cookie sheet with a lip a normal fork doesn't now work well. So... I opened my utensil drawer all the way and looked and looked and then tried a beater... I think I like the look <3
For a nicer presentation you can brush off the cornmeal and brush milk on before it is baked.

 

Gifts

For Valentines my Valentine gave me very pretty roses. We visited my mother in law as well which is always fun.

 Also that day a dear friend, Terri, send me a surprise after reading this.

Gorgeous unscented soap!

Berry Sunset Soap (Smell delicious)!

I didn't blog for a few months and didn't even realize she and her family had started a soap business. Please
visit Nubian's Delight when you have a chance. I have started using the Pure and Simple, it is beautiful. It doesn't dry my hands and it is really unscented. I can't tell you how many unscented things are really scented.

If you enjoy blogs, you will love to visit Terri at Our Crazy Farm too. She is a great encouragement to me. Thank you Terri for the soaps <3 They are lovely!

Today is my oldest 18th Birthday. I feel like she's turned 18 already because we have been helping her prepare for college, lots of forms and applications. Happiest Birthday dear Cayla!

Banana Bread

 

Who would have ever known that you can make a wonderful loaf of Banana Bread from yucky bananas. The recipe I use is from the Better Homes and Gardens new Cook Book. I visited there website here and found really helpful hints. I was going to add my recipe, but you will see at the website there are many many varieties to this simple and sweet bread. 

 I've tried to make this bread in my bread machine but it was not good. It is worth making this with out your machine.

This time I had substituted almonds for walnuts and it was very good. If you can always wrap your cool banana bread and serve the next day when the flavors have had time to meld beautifully.

Banana Bread with walnuts