Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Grandma Bell

After many years of life on earth, we will dearly miss our Grandma "Bell."

See you in Heaven.

In Memory of Lorraine C. Isbell



She always opened her home, and welcomed us with food and love every time we came to visit.

She tolerated all our cousin shenanagans and let us eat treats from her neighboor.

She always had a hug to give, and we will miss her dearly, but are glad her suffering on earth is done and she is rejoicing with the Lord in heaven!

Missing Fall :[

September 28, 2010

Cherry Valley, IL 67degrees

Colorado Springs, CO 83 degrees.

Where is fall in Colorado????? Please come soon!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Zucchini Bread Day 2010

Here it is. Zucchini Bread Day 2010. Well, this is really just one of the many days- but alas. I baked up a storm.

So I share, once again, the delicious recipie, with a few changes.

Zucchini Bread
Yields 2 loafs.

Ingredients:
WET
3 beaten eggs
2 cups sugar (whisk/blend well into eggs)
1 cup cooking oil (I use canola)
2 tsp vanilla extract
DRY
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1.5 tsp baking powder
3 tsp ground cinnamon
0.5 tsp ground nutmeg
0.25 tsp ground cloves
3 cups flour
Add last:
3-4 cup grated zucchini (with rind, loosely packed)
1-1.5 cups chopped nuts (optional) (I use walnuts)
05-1 cupRaisins (optional)


Instructions:
Mix all ingredients together.
(I find that doing it in the order listed, and preparing all the dry ingredients together then slowly adding them to the wet mixture is easiest, but it doesn't matter.)
Grease 2 loaf pans (medium or large size)
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour in the middle of the oven
Cool in the pan first on cooling rack (approx 10 min), loosen sides of loaf from pan with butter knife, remove from pan and finish cooling on cooling rack.


These freeze nicely!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

My Garden

This is my first real attempt at a garden, and while it is very late blooming and producing, it looks like I will have at least some delicious home grown veggies of my own before it frosts!!!!!!!!!!
baby zucchini
baby pumpkin
more baby zucchini
growing, growing, growing big
beautiful sqash blossoms
baby yellow squash
baby cucumbers
first carrot harvest
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topsy turvy tomatos
delicious tomatos!