Baking is a lot of fun, but when you work with yeast for your baked goods, you need to set aside a much longer period of time to complete your project to allow for the rising time of the dough. Plus you need a favorable temperature of your surroundings to have success with your baking.
I am dedicating this post to all my bread and rolls, and all recipes requiring yeast as the leavening agent.
This year I tried a new cookie recipe for Speculoos Cookies, to cater to my grandchildren who do like chocolate or have food allergies to certain ingredients in some of my other cookies. This recipe is a combination of several I found online, hence instead
Crocheting is a fun activity anytime, but even more fun during a quite intense election time. While others were busy counting votes, I enjoyed counting stitches of my crocheting project.
I managed to crochet a beautiful baby blanket and a baby hat, which I will display in this post.
Three years ago I changed the layout of my original veggie garden, turning it into 3 rectangular beds, using over 120 cinder blocks (one cinder block weighs 30 lbs. so it was a really good workout for me…:-)
I was pretty happy with my new garden, until this year after reading an article about cinder blocks, and finding a lot of conflicting information about Fly Ash used in concrete production. I contacted the concrete manufacturer and was reassured that they use only .35% of fly ash, which is quite safe and nothing to worry about.
Now that your memory is so sharp, I thought it would be helpful to post the Smooth and Healthy Skin Smoothie.
This recipe is also from one of my favorite blogs, which I highly recommend to all of you, and I know you will enjoy reading their posts.