New Kid, Another Mouth To Feed

Just got an 8 week old Nigerian dwarf buckling. He was one of triplets. He is still taken some milk twice a day and will for about another month or so. We just picked him up yesterday, he did not eat well for us on first try, strange place and I'm sure missing his mama. This morning he took 8 ounces of Kid Milk (milk replacement for goats), and again this afternoon 8 ounces. He caught on like a champ.

All done

                    Nature's Beauty

Is there anything more beautiful than a butterfly? Maybe there is, but for me these are beautiful and I enjoy each and everyone. One of my favorite photograph (taken by me) is a butterfly on a Day Lily. Today I'm sharing them with you, hope they bring some beauty to your day!

My favorite, this one is now framed and hangs on my living room wall

                      Baked Beans

4 - 15 oz. cans Van Camp's pork and beans
1 1/2 cups ketchup
3/4 cup dark brown sugar
3 tablespoons prepared mustard
1 tablespoon molasses
1/2 cup finely chopped onions
1/2 cup finely chopped green pepper (optional)
1/2 pound Applewood bacon cooked, drained and cut into small pieces
cooking spray

Place bacon on a foil lined cookie sheet, bake at 350 for 35 to 45 minutes, until desired crispness is reached. Drain on paper towel.
Drain pork and beans, set aside. Place in a large bowl. Add next four ingredients and mix well. Add chopped onions and/or green peppers. Place mixture in a baking dish sprayed with cooking spray. Top with bacon. Bake at 350 for 40 to 45 minutes.
I been making this baked bean recipe for years.

                 Bag Worms - Yikes!!

These little guys (bag worms) can destroy a tree in no time flat. They make their home in a cocoon (bag) that is attached to the tree limb with web like fibers. When they get hungry they stick their little heads out of the cocoon and proceed to make a meal of the host tree while growing larger with more of an appetite each day, until the tree is dead. A real nuisance, the best way to rid the tree of these pest is to hand pick them off. I wear gloves when doing this, and drop them into a empty milk jug. If you throw them on the grown, they will crawl back the the host tree with cocoon in tow to set up house again. You may have to pick the bag worms off the tree several times. As they grow they are much easier to see. The first couple of times you do this it is easy to miss some. They start out very tiny. Creepy yes, but if you do not deal with them you will lose a tree.

Cocoon they live in

If you look closely you can see the black head sticking out

This one is really coming out for it's meal

Trying to crawl out of the jug, with cocoon in tow

Look how many, I'm starting to get the creeps!

Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread, So Easy, So Good!!

I made potato rolls the other day and had some dough left over and decided to make a quick Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread with it. Just like cinnamon rolls, but faster. Quick and easy. I made a simple glaze to go on top. So good!!! This pull-apart can be made using frozen bread dough or ready made biscuit dough, for an even faster treat.

Warm out of the oven

Ready for the glaze

Ready to enjoy, with a cup of coffee

Chocolate Chip Cookies - Ice Cream Sandwiches

I have made this recipe twice, the second time was at the request of my husband. They turned out great both times. I then made them into delicious ice cream sandwiches for dessert, by adding vanilla bean ice cream. Either way, you can't go wrong.

  

Ice cream Sandwich, with homemade cookies

For complete recipe please visit:
http://www.stuckonsweet.com/bakery-style-chocolate-chip-cookies/

My 100th Post, What Better Than One Of My Favorite Things To Make, BREAD! Let's Get Baking!

First of all I would like to tell you that I took first place in the special Red Star Yeast Contest at the local fair again this year, for me that is a prize of a years worth of yeast. If you like making bread and rolls this indeed is a great prize. I took first place last year and won lots of yeast, I still have some left, the date is good until July 2017. I love this yeast, it is the best, the dough rises beautifully ever time. The bread pans that I used. I won last year from the special King Arthur Flour contest at the local fair. They are the best. Nothing ever sticks to these pans, and when using them to bake bread, the bread comes out with nice lines from the pans. The only thing I do is lightly spray with cooking spray, that is it. Beautiful bread ever time.

My favorite yeast (Red Star)

My favorite bread pan (King Arthur)

For this bread, Rosebud's Butter-Topped Bread. I used a recipe that you can find all over the internet, a basic white bread recipe. It turned out beautiful and delicious. The recipe is slightly adapted from the original. Hope you give it a try. I did not roll out my dough after first rise, and my second rise period was about half the time, as the original recipe called for.
For the complete recipe please visit http://www.thecurvycarrot.com

             Farmhouse Breakfast

Made a delicious breakfast this morning with homemade sausage gravy and biscuits, home grown fried potatoes, fluffy farm fresh scrambled eggs with sliced homegrown tomatoes. I did use canned biscuits, for me these are what I grew up on. I can not ever remember my mom making homemade biscuits. But I do make the same sausage gravy that my mom made. My new flock of hens are just starting to lay fresh eggs, nothing better.

                     SUNFLOWERS

These sunflowers where suppose to be a fair entry this year, but they didn't quite make it in time for the entry deadline. That's O.K. because I still get to enjoy them. The bees are enjoying them as well. Good for me and good for my garden. These sunflowers are about nine feet tall. Next year I plan to plant one garden with nothing but sunflowers, of different varieties. I am already looking for the best varieties to plant. Would love some pink sunflowers.

                  Dinner Is Ready !!!!

Made a delicious dinner tonight. Shared with my mother in law, brother in law, my son and his wife, my mom and a good friend.
The meat of choice was lightly seasoned pork chops, with a German Potato Bake and corn. For dessert I made a German Chocolate Pie. 

For complete recipe for German Chocolate Pie please visit

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/german-chocolate-pie

My recipe was slightly adapted from this recipe, it was given to me by my sister and I made mine with the changes that she had made.

         Girls - Chickens Getting Big !!

All of my baby chickens are really big now. The Buff Orpingtons, Golden Wyandotte, Silver Lace Wyandotte and the Amber Link, they are all beautiful birds. We are starting to get beautiful brown eggs as well. The eggs are a little on the small side, but in a few weeks they should start getting normal size eggs. My brown leghorns are not laying yet, their eggs will be white.

Buff Orpington

Amber Link

Golden Wyandotte

Buff Orpington

Silver Laced Wyandotte