Foospiration July 29th

Thought:

"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." - Soren Kierkegaard

Recipe:

Brownies

2 sticks butter
2 cups sugar
2 tsp pure vanilla
4 eggs, room temperature
2/3 cup unsweetened special dark cocoa
1 cup white or unbleached flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup pecans, chopped or in chunks
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Method
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Very lightly butter a 13 X 9 pan. Melt butter and place in mixing bowl. By hand, cream sugar into melted butter. Add vanilla and eggs and mix well. Add dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda) and mix well, then add pecans and milk chocolate chips. Fold ingredients together and put into baking pan. Use a spatula or spoon to spread thick mixture in pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Cool a bit before you try to cut them up.

Southern Girl!

We have only been here two months and Jade has already become a southern girl.

Justin and Bella

This is how Justin and Bella sept last night. I found them this morning.

Happy Birthday to me

Today is my birthday, and this is my of my birthday present from Joe and the kids. I was so excited! I am making him pick it up at midnight when he get off work!!!!!!!!

Silly girl!

Shaunee put all this pretties in her hair. I took her an hour to put them all in. There is a whole bunch that I couldn't get with the camera. Silly girl!

Shopping

This afternoon I went and woke Jade up from her nap. After snuggling with her a few minutes, she says, "Lets go." I asked, "Go where", and she says, "Shopping." I said, "Shopping for what?" Jade says, "For me." I ask, "What do you want to buy for you?" Jade says, "I don't know."

Handsome Boy!

Look at my handsome boy! Joe went home teaching and his partner couldn't go, so Justin was his partner. I couldn't resist pictures of him.

Pizza in a pot

I was putting lunch together in the crock pot, and I had a little helper. I kept trying to tell her to stay out of the sauce, and everytime I would turn my back she was eating sauce out of the pan. What can I say, this kid loves to eat.

Recipe books

The Elders in our ward have become like family to us. We have them over twice a month and we really enjoy the time that they spend here. They beg to come over to our house, which makes us feel good. We just love having them. Anyway here is my latest project. One of the Elders has been collecting recipes through out his mission and I had mentioned putting a book together for him. Well I couldn't do just one, so I did one for all four. I put together 26 recipes for each Elder. Do the math. LOL Anyway I gave the books to them today when they came over for dinner. One asked me if I had gone to culinary school, because I was such a good cook and knew a lot about food. I just had to laugh.

Foospiration July 23

Thought:

Corage dosen't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."



Recipe:

Cranberry-Pecan Crescent Sausage Wraps


1/2 cup sweetened dried cranberries, coarsely chopped
1 cup orange juice
1 can (8 oz) Pillsbury refrigerated crescent dinner rolls (8 rolls)
32 cocktail-size smoked link sausages (from 16-oz package)
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
2/3 cup chopped Pecans

Heat oven to 400°F. In small bowl, mix cranberries and orange juice. Let stand 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, separate dough into rectangles; press each into 8x4-inch rectangle. Cut each rectangle into 8 (about 2-inch) squares.
Place 1 sausage on each square; wrap dough around sausage. Pinch edges to seal. Place sausage rolls seam side down in 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish. Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown.
Meanwhile, drain orange juice from cranberries into 2-quart saucepan; reserve cranberries. Stir brown sugar into orange juice. Cook over medium heat 2 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved.
Remove sausage rolls from oven. Pour orange juice mixture evenly over sausage rolls. Sprinkle with cranberries and pecans. Bake 10 to 13 minutes longer or until golden brown and bubbly. Serve warm.
Yum!

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I got the idea for this post from my friend Kim!
I am a little slow on my posts. I have been doing some back posting and trying to post them on the date they have been taking place. ( A week time period). Make sure that you are scrolling down the page so you won't miss out on what is happening with the Barrow bunch.

Thanks, Kim!

The things kids say.

The other night, Justin and I had to go meet my sister-in-law by the freeway, so that she could follow us to our house. Don't know if any of you saw the moon, but it was huge. Anyway Justin asked me where the sun was, and I said that it had gone to bed. Justin then asked, "Did he brush his teeth."

Last night we were watching the Food Network Channel, and they were doing a show called, "All wrapped up." In this show they were showing how companies made different things like, spring rolls, tortillas, sushi, tootsie rolls. Well Shaunee says, "Tootsie rolls are very healthy for you because they have milk and vegetable butter in them.

Rest in peace!

(Second attempt!)

Last year for Christmas I received this beautiful kitchen aid! Absolutely loved it. I would make bread in it about once a week. We have been counseled to have food storage and to have wheat on hand. We have a HUGE grinder that we have used to grind our wheat. At our house in Caldwell, we would store it in the garage. Whenever we needed to grind some wheat, we would just do it on the floor of the garage instead of trying to pack the thing in the house. The other day I was out of wheat flour, so I went out in the garage to grind some wheat so I could make some bread. I learned that there wasn't enough amps in the garage to run it, so it kept kicking the circuit breaker. Joe being the nice guy that he is ordered me a grinder attachment for the kitchen aid so that I could just grind it in the house. The attachment came and he decided to give it a try. After carefully reading the directions we learned that you could grind up to ten cups of wheat before you needed to let it cool. We didn't even get two cups ground, when it burnt up!!!!! A FYI.... the kitchen aid artisan style the gears are plastic and will over heat A LOT faster. Joe then lugs the HUGE grinder into the house and sets in on the counter. He proceeds to grind some wheat and has about 10 cups ground in 5 minutes........................

Rest in peace my friend!!!!!!

Bubbles!

It was bath night, and the kids had been begging to take a bath in our jetted tub. Of course they wanted bubbles.......See for yourself!

Nail Polish

Here lately Jade has been getting into our bathroom drawers when she is in our room watching Hairspray. She will get into one thing, and we will move it and then she finds something else to get into. Today I walked into my room to check on here and I could smell nail polish, Walked into the bathroom and sure enough. Jade says," Look I'm painting my toes." I guess I wasn't too upset, as I snapped pictures. Needless to say the outfit she had on was new and today was the first day she had worn it, and now it has nail polish on it.

Foospiration July 16

Thought:

"As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest." - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne

Recipe:
There is a little bit of a story behind this recipe. We have had the opportunity on many occasions since we have been here to have the missionaries in our home. We love having them, and they beg almost every week to come to our house. LOL Anyway, one of the missionaries has been collecting recipes from the different areas of his mission. He has asked if I would put a little book together for him with recipes he has collected, and this is one of them.

Oreo Surprise
1 pkg. (8oz) cream cheese, softened
½ cup powdered sugar
1 regular size cool whip
¼ cup milk
Mix all together

1 box Oreo pudding, mix according to pkg
directions

1 pkg Oreo cookies, crumbled ¼ reserved
1 reg. size cool whip

Put Oreos in bottom of a 9x13” pan. Top with cream cheese mixture. Top with pudding. Top with cool whip. Top with ¼ Oreos.

Blueberries

The other day I had the opportunity to go and pick blueberries. I went with a couple of older sisters from the ward and we drove to this blueberry orchard. You could pick blueberries for $6.00 a gallon. We started a little after nine and by eleven I didn't have quite a gallon. LOL It gives one a whole new appreciation for the bag of frozen blueberries that one can buy in the store. I then made blueberry jam, and it tasted pretty good on homemade bread.

Foospiration July 9th

Thought

"Sleep is the best meditation." - Dalai Lama

Recipe

Amish Rhubarb Jam


•5 c Rhubarb, diced
4 c Sugar
6 oz Jello, strawberry
•Mix rhubarb and sugar together and let stand overnight. In morning, cook mixture until rhubarb is soft. Remove from heat and stir in jello until it is dissolved. Jar and seal.

Enjoy! Make some for me, as we can't grow rhubarb here. it's too HOT. LOL

Frogs

Last night before we went to bed we opened our bedroom windows, as it was cooler outside than it was in the house. Well it had been storming earlier and after it storms all the frogs come out. We went to bed being serenaded by frogs and rain dripping off the roof. LOL

4th of July

Happy Fourth of July!!!!!!!!! Hope that everyone had a wonderful 4th and took some time to spend with family and friends as you reflected on our great country. We spent the day together as a family and went to dinner. Later that day we met up with some people from the ward and went to a lake to watch fireworks.

Relaxing in the heat

The kids earned a swimming pool, and couldn't wait to get water in it and go swimming. They had a lot of fun. "Grandpa, we want you to come play in our pool."

More dress up

Shaunee and Justin were playing pirates. They were too cute, I couldn't resist a picture.

Foospiration July 2, 2008

Thought:
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin

Recipe:
Pepper Jack Enchiladas

•Prep Time:15 min
•Total Time:35 min

•1 lb. lean ground beef
•1 cup chopped onions (about 1 medium)
•2 cups enchilada sauce, divided (one can green sauce, one red)
•8 oz. Pepper Jack Cheese, grated
•12 corn tortillas (6 inch), softened

•PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Cook and stir meat and onions in large skillet on medium heat until meat is browned and onions are tender; drain. Return meat mixture to skillet. Add 1/2 cup of the enchilada sauce; mix well.
•SPREAD 1/2 cup of the remaining enchilada sauce onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking dish. Spoon 1/4 cup of the meat mixture down center of each tortilla; roll up. Place, seam-sides down, in baking dish; top with the remaining 1 cup enchilada sauce and the cheese
•BAKE 20 min. or until enchiladas are heated through and cheese is melted.