Baking with Grandma Day 4

Today my mom and son decided to bake cookies "The size of your head"!

This is what they came up with.  Not quite the size of a head, but almost!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Baking with Grandma Day 3

Today my mom and son made Cinnamon Buns!!

The house smelled fantastic when I got home after work, and they were delicious.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Baking with Grandma Day 2

Today was day number two of my mom and son baking.

They made a favorite of both of theirs: Ginger Cookies!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Baking with Grandma

Today my mom and my son made chocolate chip cookies.

These are the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies, and of course that bag of Hershey's Kisses was a nice addition to the top! 

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Oh S"crap"! It's Monday....

Oh bother, it's Monday!

What's for dinner?

Well, after searching the kitchen in vain (well not for too long), I decided tonight was time for Cottage Cheese Casserole.  A classic fill in for dinner around  our house.  Today I doubled the recipe however, because the Costco size cottage cheese in my refrigerator was going to reach its best before date tomorrow.  The other 2 containers are now in the freezer as they will be thawed at a later date for use in this recipe.

The recipe is below:

Cottage Cheese Casserole (for 1 casserole)

1/2 cup non hydrogenated margarine

1 small onion chopped

- saute together til onion is translucent

250 ml cottage creamy cottage cheese

5 eggs

1 pkg of chicken seasoning

- mix together and add the onion mixture

- then add in:

4 cups Special K cereal

3 heaping tablespoons flax seed

Bake at 350 degrees F covered for 1 hour.  Take off cover and bake another 10 minutes til golden brown.

Serve with salad, and enjoy!!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Pajama Day

Today is pajama day!  Every so often I let my son celebrate this family holiday.  On pajama day one gets to stay in their pajamas all day and only do fun things around the house one of which is bake cookies.

Of course, Chocolate Chip cookies are a favorite!

Here is the recipe for these yummy favorites:

Chocolate Chip and Friends Cookies:

1 cup non hydrogenated margarine 

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1 cup oatmeal

1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

1 1/2 cups butterscotch chips

Mix wet ingredients together then add dry ingredients.  Bake at 350 degrees F for 12 minutes.

Enjoy!

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Pillow For Grandma

So of course when Stampin Up came out with their Fall Mini catalogue, there was new a new fabric line introduced called Orchard Harvest.  Now, since I love fabric, I had to get it of course.

This is probably one of their better fabrics as the thread count is better on it than previous fabric lines they have introduced, however, upon opening the package I realized that once again it is either designed by or for people  who remember the 1920's vividly!!!!  Well, another project to be sent to Grandma : )

I found the pattern for this pillow case in the Fall 2012 issue of Quilting Celebrations.  Their pattern has a template for an acorn in the center, so I changed it for this one to a pear (I drew it on Wonder Under - it was not hard and appliqued in place).  

The entire pillow case is quilted, and I love the idea that if Grandma uses it or the cat sits on it, she can simply take the cover off, wash and stuff the pillow back in!  The pattern called for a 14 x 14 pillow, and since I did not have one of these just lying about (but did have a 16 x 16), I used a 16 x 16 size pillow and stuffed it tightly into place.  Seems to work.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy