MotherKaren’s Weblog
Just another WordPress.com weblogNot Quite an Orange Julius
So here’s Shannon and Whit’s recipe:
One can of orange Shasta soda
Lots of vanilla icecream
Blend. Voilla.
Beware: to much pop and pop goes the blender lid.
JNae’s English Muffins
Check out this recipe in the comments section of Gotta Have Homemade.
Gotta Have Homemade
Kokopelli Karen’s Pizza Crust & Sauce
Bread Recipe:
Soften 1T. yeast in 1/4 C. warm water in which a pinch of sugar has been added.
From here on I use the DUMP method for making bread.
6-7 C. bread flour (You may use any %whole wheat to refined white flours. I usually use 50/50.)
1/3 C. sugar
1 scant T. salt
2 T. oil (olive)
1 egg
2 1/2 C HOT water.
Mix in KitchenAid or similar appliance. Add foamy yeast water and let knead for several minutes. Adjust amount of water or flour according to how wet the dough looks. My dough is fairly sticky. After rising and kneading once more (in the metal bowl with the dough hook of course) the dough usually pulls away from the sides of the metal bowl–but, just barely. I use flour to handle the dough and divide into two lumps for two cookie sheet pizzas.
I form the pizza crust. It rises for 5-10 minutes and then I prebake at 425 F the crusts before applying sauce, cheese, pepperoni, ham, pineapple, olives, whatever.
Pizza Sauce:
Combine the following in a microwave able measuring cup or bowl:
One small can of tomato sauce (6-8 oz.?)
1 t. oregano
1/2 t. rosemary
1 T. olive oil
2 t. sugar
1/4 t. pepper
salt if necessary (Taste the canned sauce first. It may be salty enough.)
Microwave on high for 2-3 minutes.
Check Out this Chullo Hat
I’ve included a link to my family blog where darling Dan is modelling his new hat. His favorite color? ORANGE! http://kokopellikaren.blogspot.com/
Knitting Slippers
I’ve been having fun shoveling snow. Most of the time I borrow my brother Paul’s 4-wheeler with a shovel. Turns out to be fun attacking all that white stuff with machine. All that shoveling tires me out and then I sit and knit at night. I was lucky enough to win a pair of knitted slippers from Jeanee S. at a YW’s Christmas party. I knit them in the round from the toe and use three needle bind off at the back of the heel. Very quick knitting with doubled yarn and size 7 needles. I’ll write up instructions upon request.
Gingersnap Pumpkin Dip
Be sure to click on the comments for Gingersnaps. Jeannee has left a pumpkin/cream cheese dip recipe for these cookies. Now that’s somewhere for my Jack-O-lanterns to go.
Carmel Apples
They looked so good, BUT…Aynie’s first try at making carmel apples seemed to be a success. She bought several pounds of cubed cello-wrapped carmels at Macey’s and washed, dried some perfectly-sized apples. Friends helped her unwrap all those little critters.
She melted the carmel in a pyrex bowl, dipped the apples then dipped them again in melted chocolate. I don’t know how long she cooked the carmel in the microwave, but the carmel was not chewable. It was terribly hard. Proves again that looks aren’t everything.
