It seems like a long time since I have blogged. It has been.
I keep thinking of things to write and now that I sit down to do that I have pretty much a blank of what to write about.
I made english muffin bread this spring and thought it was pretty good but I am pretty sure that it was made as an accident when someone was trying to make regular bread. When it turned out chewy and dense they called it something else and everyone loved it. I liked it but I don't think it impressed anyone else around here so I have only made it a few times. It is really fast so I have continued to make it when I need bread done quickly. No kneading, not much rising time it is pretty handy.
I also made dolmas this summer. Some times I out do myself with how yummy they turn out. These pictured were a good batch. Also a big batch. These are some I froze for a later meal. That worked out well. I had never frozen them before so I was glad to find out that that worked. I should go see if there are any fresh grapes leaves I could pick tomorrow. We haven't had dolmas in quite some time.
We got to take a ride on a train in June. As a train funded family I feel like we should travel that way some day but as yet we have only gotten to ride on them for a little while. Someday maybe we can really go far in a train.
I ordered and have received all of our school books now. I still need to put most of them away, mostly they are still in the boxes. We have carefully browsed them and I am quite excited to get started with them when it is time. We still have several weeks of summer left. I am trying to get as much out of it as I can.
We also took a picture of we sisters. I like this one that Keren took the best of the pictures on my camera. I think the three of us in the middle look the most alike. We practically look like triplets. Maybe it is just our silly smiles here, I don't know.
Today was National S'Mores Day. We ate s'mores all day long to celebrate. We started with oatmeal served with chocolate chips and marshmallows. I liked mine stirred while the oatmeal was really hot so it melted them all together. Quite a yummy treat.
Then at lunch we had traditional s'mores for desert, and for afternoon snack we melted chocolate and drizzled it over ice cream cones and served marshmallow with our ice cream in the cone. We were all pretty happy about that too. We debated on making s'more milk shakes after supper but I felt like, maybe, we had had enough. there is always tomorrow. Deborah was pleased with her marshmallow line up so she took the above picture.
I have really utilized our grill this summer. Well, usually the grilling part is done by the men of the family. I am just the interior designer and the director. Since it has been so hot I felt like it was better to cook as much as I could outside of the air conditioning. Mostly we have been quite pleased with our victuals too. Tonight we had pork chops and biscuits grilled, with broccoli salad on the side. I do love broccoli salad. We have made pizza on the grill, both frozen and homemade, quite a bit of potatoes, and other standard grilled foods. Grilling corn was a first for me last week too. I really liked it. My other hot times cooking tip is plugging in the crock pots on the porch when cooking in them. I probably use my crock pots more in the summer than any other time, for this reason.
Well, toodle-do, good-bye for now,
~Anna
