we recently had a grains
class and this recipe was made!

Simple Whole Wheat Waffles / Pancakes
pg. 18 of Cooking & Baking with Fresh Ground Flour
by Christine Downs

A great book to have by the way!!!

1 cup freshly ground red or white hard wheat flour
1/4 level tsp salt
2 level tsp Baking Powder
4 eggs
1 cup Milk
2 tbsp melted butter

1. Combine the flour salt and Baking Powder in a medium size bowl
2. Beat the eggs and milk until batter is smooth. Stir in the Melted Butter. Mix Well.
3. Pour the batter into Hot, well oiled waffle iron or skillet. Cook until brown.

These were quite wonderful even with out any toppings -
honestly no need for butter or syrup! --
although I was in charge of the toppings
and was sure to bring plenty of less than healthy choices there.
haha.

Check it...

Just found this on Nic's Blog and thought it was kinda cool! Click the image to find the site!

Spoon Tacos

1.5 lbs ground Beef

1 tsp Salt

2 tsp Taco seasoning

1 tsp chili powder

1 Onion Chopped

1/2 cup Chopped Celery

1 Cup Shredded Zucchini

1 Can Stewed Tomato's

1 can tomato sauce

2 cups refried beans

1 cup Jack Cheese

1 cup Cheddar

Cook meat until brown adding taco seasoning,

Celery, zucchini & Onions , & spices to taste

Once meat is cooked add stewed tomato's,

beans, and cheese forming a sauce

And you are done --

Serve over tortilla Chips and lettuce

top off with Sour Cream

& enjoy - These are so so yummy!

From the Kitchen of Carol White (Jeb's Mom)

PS - I have also added carrots to this recipe --

I am sure there are lots of things you could

add that would taste just fine

Just Peachy!

Meet our "Just Peachy" jam.

Homemade with love by:

Brooke Baker & Haley Earnshaw

I understand this is not a recipe, but I was mainly hoping to get everyone in the mood for baking/cooking/whatever! Learn something new that you always wanted to try! Make jam, make your own pickles, anything! It's just so fun to learn new stuff.

Bread Machine Wheat Bread...

Well - I have always been sort of intimidated by our food storage -- And I have all this wheat that Carol has been so kind kind to give us - She often gives food storage or preparedness items to us for Christmas - She has given me all the tools to be able to do this - I even Have a wheat Grinder! - so what am I so afraid of - well I thought recently that maybe if I had a Breadmaker recipe to use my wheat in it wouldn't be so scary - so I search the internet for a recipe with whole wheat flour that I could do in the bread machine &  yesterday I buckled down & Tried it out --- And you know what - not so scary --- 

Brayden Actually did most of the work - Go Brayden...
I felt Really fancy at the store buying Vital Wheat Gluten & Flax seeds -
What the heck is that!

It really came out so perfect ---
Tastes just like the fancy bread I've been buying lately!
Even Better! Yay Me!
Can you tell that I am
quite Proud of Myself!


So Here it is ---

100% Whole Wheat Bread

For 1 1/2 lb. bread machine
1 1/4 cups water
2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil
1/4 cup honey or maple syrup
3 cups 100% Whole Wheat Flour
1/4 cup sunflower sesame or flax seeds, or a combination
1 tablespoon vital wheat gluten
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast

Put all of the ingredients into the bread pan in the order listed.
Making sure to not let the Yeast touch the water yet
( I make a little hole in the flour and pour the yeast into that)

Program for basic white bread, and press Start.

And Walla! Almost no thinking invovled - My kind of baking!

Good Luck!