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In My Other Life …

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I had three children who requested red velvet cupcakes with homemade butter-cream frosting for their friends and teachers for Valentines Day.  😛 

In this life, cupcakes are cooling, waiting for the homemade butter-cream frosting to be packaged in the love bags with some homemade peppermint patties for my co-workers.   The cupcakes were not made from scratch, but I know they’ll enjoy them anyway.  I used the good ole Duncan Hines mix.  I’ll make the frosting from scratch, that should make up for it!  😀  The peppermint patties are currently cooling in the fridge waiting for me to melt the chocolate, dip, then they’ll be finito!

The end.  😛

 

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First Yeast Bread

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So, I’ve been trying to make bread like my mother’s FOREVER!!!!!  There are some things I can do in the kitchen better than she can but for that good ole soul loving cooking — that lady is AHMAZING!!!   Where bread is concerned,  I’m inching CLOSER!!!!!!  😀 

Today I tried a no-knead bread  recipe from Steamy Kitchen and O.M.G!!!!  Although I hadn’t left it to rise for the 12 hours required ( I did 8), I got the most amazing bread.   A wonderfully crisp crust with an amazingly soft inside!    I’m not going to lie, not kneading it means that you have to wait hours for it to rise, but the end result is awesome!

Next go round, I’m going to add 7 seeds so I can get a more grainy and fibrous bread!

I was so excited, I couldn’t wait to get a decent picture of it, so forgive me. 

Here’s my bread:

First Bread

Just ignore the sections I already ate!  LOLOL!!!  😀