1/2 ounce active dry yeast
1/4 cup hot water
1-1/2 cups hot milk
1/3 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4-1/2 to 5 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup butter, melted
In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in water, let stand until creamy. Add milk and butter; stir for 1 minute. Add sugar, eggs, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon and 2 cups flour; beat on low speed until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (do not knead). Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. For best results I placed mine in front of my fire place. But since in the summer there is no use for a fire place, I would use the front porch.
Punch dough down. Turn onto a floured surface; roll out to 1/2-in. thickness. Cut with a 2-3/4-in. Cut donuts with a steel ring or a jar lid approximately 3 1/2 inch diameter. Place donuts on baking sheet and brush with butter. If you would like to make little mini donut bites save the donut holes and place on a pane together. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes.
Bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
Bake the donut holes for 15 minutes on a lower rack until golden.
For the donut icing I used Equality Creamy fudge icing.
Scoop a generous amount of icing in a pot. Heat on medium until melted, lower to minimum heat. Dip donut in melted icing and pull donut out of melted icing slowly. Place on pan with parchment paper to reduce mess. Leave in cool and out of site from husbands and children ;) Best of luck!!
Nutrition Facts: 1 serving (1 each) equals 233 calories
Friday, February 26, 2010
Amazing Soft Pretzels Recipe
You may want to double batch this recipe, since it never lasts long at my house, which is one of the explanations I have for not having a picture to show you. This recipe is one of my all time favorite to make. Its fun and easy, but time consuming. Perfect for those snow days or on a weekend with the kids.
4 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 teaspoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
5 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 cup baking soda
4 cups hot water
1. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and salt. Add the water and yeast mixture. Mix and form into a dough. If the mixture is dry, add one or two tablespoons of water. Knead the dough until smooth, about 7 to 8 minutes. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
3. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). In a large bowl, dissolve baking soda in hot water.
4. When risen, turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a rope and twist into a pretzel shape. Once all of the dough is all shaped, dip each pretzel into the baking soda solution and place on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with kosher salt (optional)
5. Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes, until browned.
To this recipe I added my own twist, to create a sweeter and more like the ones you can get at the mall, movies and flea market try adding this solution.
2 tbsp butter, melted
1/4 tsp salt
Combine salt and butter until blended well. Brush on to pretzels and let dry on pretzels.
Enjoy!!
4 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 teaspoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
5 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 cup baking soda
4 cups hot water
1. In a small bowl, dissolve yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, 1/2 cup sugar, and salt. Add the water and yeast mixture. Mix and form into a dough. If the mixture is dry, add one or two tablespoons of water. Knead the dough until smooth, about 7 to 8 minutes. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
3. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). In a large bowl, dissolve baking soda in hot water.
4. When risen, turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a rope and twist into a pretzel shape. Once all of the dough is all shaped, dip each pretzel into the baking soda solution and place on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with kosher salt (optional)
5. Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes, until browned.
To this recipe I added my own twist, to create a sweeter and more like the ones you can get at the mall, movies and flea market try adding this solution.
2 tbsp butter, melted
1/4 tsp salt
Combine salt and butter until blended well. Brush on to pretzels and let dry on pretzels.
Enjoy!!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Cream of mushroom Chicken Dinner
Level: Easy
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 hour
For a tasty, easy meal that even the kids will love, try this recipe.
Cream of mushroom Chicken breast
4 to 6 piece of chicken
1 can Cream of mushroom soup
1 c. water
4 to 6 peeled and sliced potatoes
2 pinches Rosemary (optional)
Preheat oven to 350F
Rinse thawed chicken and place in 9x13x2 pan with skinned potatoes. Mix soup and water and pour over chicken, don't worry if it looks like to much. To this recipe I like to add a couple sprinkles of rosemary on each chicken breast, you don't have to do this step. Place in oven and cook for one hour. Use soup once chicken as done as gravy for the potatoes and chicken.
Steamed Broccoli
Broccoli bunches
1/4 cup water
Place broccoli and water in pot, close lid and steam for 10 to 15 minutes on medium.
Cheese sauce (for broccoli)
2 tbsp melted butter
2 tbsp flour
1 cup milk
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
Melt butter, mix in flour well. Add milk stir well over medium heat until it thickens. Add cheese, stir until melted and thick.
Wine to complement: White Merlot
Juice: Cranberry
Dessert: Peach Cobbler
(I Currently cant post pictures to blogger, The pictures will be posted ASAP)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 hour
For a tasty, easy meal that even the kids will love, try this recipe.
Cream of mushroom Chicken breast
4 to 6 piece of chicken
1 can Cream of mushroom soup
1 c. water
4 to 6 peeled and sliced potatoes
2 pinches Rosemary (optional)
Preheat oven to 350F
Rinse thawed chicken and place in 9x13x2 pan with skinned potatoes. Mix soup and water and pour over chicken, don't worry if it looks like to much. To this recipe I like to add a couple sprinkles of rosemary on each chicken breast, you don't have to do this step. Place in oven and cook for one hour. Use soup once chicken as done as gravy for the potatoes and chicken.
Steamed Broccoli
Broccoli bunches
1/4 cup water
Place broccoli and water in pot, close lid and steam for 10 to 15 minutes on medium.
Cheese sauce (for broccoli)
2 tbsp melted butter
2 tbsp flour
1 cup milk
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
Melt butter, mix in flour well. Add milk stir well over medium heat until it thickens. Add cheese, stir until melted and thick.
Wine to complement: White Merlot
Juice: Cranberry
Dessert: Peach Cobbler
(I Currently cant post pictures to blogger, The pictures will be posted ASAP)
Brown Sugar Facial mask: Beautiful skin on a dime
Beautiful Skin on a Dime
So I'm creating a theme here on blogger. I want to provide you with ways you can do and make things for more than a fraction of the price. This week its beautiful skin on a dime. I am currently having issues with loading pictures onto blogger, so I will post them at a later time.
Brown Sugar Facial Mask
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 - 2 tbsp milk, not skim
Mix ingredients well. An additional option I added is heating it up for 10 seconds, making a nice warm sauna mask. You will most defiantly want to put your hair up and wear a bandanna, headband, or scarf. Open pours with warm water and massage lightly on skin. Leave on for 15 minutes, then wash off with warm water. Be sure you get all the brown sugar off your skin. Now enjoy fresh clean beautiful smooth skin!!!
So I'm creating a theme here on blogger. I want to provide you with ways you can do and make things for more than a fraction of the price. This week its beautiful skin on a dime. I am currently having issues with loading pictures onto blogger, so I will post them at a later time.
Brown Sugar Facial Mask
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 - 2 tbsp milk, not skim
Mix ingredients well. An additional option I added is heating it up for 10 seconds, making a nice warm sauna mask. You will most defiantly want to put your hair up and wear a bandanna, headband, or scarf. Open pours with warm water and massage lightly on skin. Leave on for 15 minutes, then wash off with warm water. Be sure you get all the brown sugar off your skin. Now enjoy fresh clean beautiful smooth skin!!!
Friday, February 12, 2010
Decorating on a dime
So I'm stuck. Stuck in a room that screams out, an old woman lived here. With a boarder that was tan with brown geraniums and an assortment of flowers I would sit in my room of a some what stupid layout and would stare at the border. So one day I had it, I took a spray bottle of water and began spraying and scraping. So now, with a bare wall and blooming creativity i get a fresh start on a new room. So with me I will take you on my mission to create the ultimate oriental paradise, and due to unemployment and not being a hotel heiress, I will be attempting this under $100. So far I have spent...
12.00- Faux silk drapes (2, $4 each) (Jysk)
1.50- Oriental Candle holder (Goodwill)
Fortunately I have many things I have collected from the past, gifts from family and friends, and just simple crafts I have created on my own (which so far have not cost a cent.)I would be required by my own rules to include the dangling see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil fish bone monkeys I bartered(if you know me like I know me, thats a huge strech for my character!!) for in Mexico on a very recent vacation, but since I bought them for my boyfriend and he will not let me go back on my word and keep them I can't include them in the compilation. I wish you could see them hanging here now beside me on an unsightly massive hook sticking out of my wall. Oh how i love those monkeys...
Most of all what I love in my room...
1. My night stand drawer: My drawer is absolutely my night time survival kit (if necessary), the ultimate woman's drawer. Its got your body lotions, sleep mask, chap stick, note pad, pen, body mists, a current book i am reading at the moment, matches, and candles. Yes, I love my night stand drawer, though I love the convenience of the drawer, I did not say I love the night stand its self. I am pretty sure its one my grandpa got for me at an auction, like my dresser, which is an eye sore. Not saying I hate it, i just think it is a charming nightstand... for a preteen, no, I actually love it, but it could use some saving, which I will discuss later.
2. My window: Though my window is leaky and typically my room is 15 degrees warmer that outside, which isn't good in our cold Canadian winters. But it provides me with a beautiful view of our barn, fields and forests, but best of all in the summer a view of the soy beans in sunset that look like a blazing fire. breath taking. I hope to convince my dad to put in a larger window though, my room is big, but its a box, the closet sticks out weird, the ceiling droops weirder, and there is a nook where the door is which is frustrating since, the only thing that can go there without blocking me in my room is my over stuffed bookcase.
3. The art: I love the art in my bedroom. I love art, I love to make art!! just recently my (we will call her my Mother in law, my boyfriends Mum) gave me a beautiful painting of a (looks Himalayan) girl carrying her baby brother in a sack on her back. Another, which has been the building block of the design of my room is a Vietnamese painting my step grandma gave me from when she was a missionary in Vietnam. a beautiful red and gold painting of bamboo with the Vietnamese calligraphy. As far as paintings go, that's it, though I hope once i get the paint on my walls I can get some paintings of Geisha's from the ever reliable Jysk.
My mission for my room, much easier. The perfect way to let my creativity flow.
1. Create more storage and minimize clutter: Wouldn't you just die for some sort of wicker storage?
2. Create a mature, relaxing zen room with a romantic setting: yes i know romantic isn't something a room for an unmarried girl should be but, relax, a girl needs a palace. A private place where I can write, read, and be me. :)
3. Spend as little as possible: Yes, I am cheap, I'll give you that, but I am smart with money.
4. Some space: my room, a disaster, I love to work out to dvds, (Kathy Smiths Flex Appeal belly dancing, yoga, ect.) But it is next to the impossible, with my clingy cat and the indescribably DISGUSTING couch in my way, and you girls know how it is not wanting to work out in the living room where some one can see you, UGH!! Hate that!
I am not sure if anyone reads this, or cares, but the next blogs in this series I will provide you with ideas, tips I learn, and updates. Thanks for now, leave any comments or tips :) Blessings XX
12.00- Faux silk drapes (2, $4 each) (Jysk)
1.50- Oriental Candle holder (Goodwill)
Fortunately I have many things I have collected from the past, gifts from family and friends, and just simple crafts I have created on my own (which so far have not cost a cent.)I would be required by my own rules to include the dangling see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil fish bone monkeys I bartered(if you know me like I know me, thats a huge strech for my character!!) for in Mexico on a very recent vacation, but since I bought them for my boyfriend and he will not let me go back on my word and keep them I can't include them in the compilation. I wish you could see them hanging here now beside me on an unsightly massive hook sticking out of my wall. Oh how i love those monkeys...
Most of all what I love in my room...
1. My night stand drawer: My drawer is absolutely my night time survival kit (if necessary), the ultimate woman's drawer. Its got your body lotions, sleep mask, chap stick, note pad, pen, body mists, a current book i am reading at the moment, matches, and candles. Yes, I love my night stand drawer, though I love the convenience of the drawer, I did not say I love the night stand its self. I am pretty sure its one my grandpa got for me at an auction, like my dresser, which is an eye sore. Not saying I hate it, i just think it is a charming nightstand... for a preteen, no, I actually love it, but it could use some saving, which I will discuss later.
2. My window: Though my window is leaky and typically my room is 15 degrees warmer that outside, which isn't good in our cold Canadian winters. But it provides me with a beautiful view of our barn, fields and forests, but best of all in the summer a view of the soy beans in sunset that look like a blazing fire. breath taking. I hope to convince my dad to put in a larger window though, my room is big, but its a box, the closet sticks out weird, the ceiling droops weirder, and there is a nook where the door is which is frustrating since, the only thing that can go there without blocking me in my room is my over stuffed bookcase.
3. The art: I love the art in my bedroom. I love art, I love to make art!! just recently my (we will call her my Mother in law, my boyfriends Mum) gave me a beautiful painting of a (looks Himalayan) girl carrying her baby brother in a sack on her back. Another, which has been the building block of the design of my room is a Vietnamese painting my step grandma gave me from when she was a missionary in Vietnam. a beautiful red and gold painting of bamboo with the Vietnamese calligraphy. As far as paintings go, that's it, though I hope once i get the paint on my walls I can get some paintings of Geisha's from the ever reliable Jysk.
My mission for my room, much easier. The perfect way to let my creativity flow.
1. Create more storage and minimize clutter: Wouldn't you just die for some sort of wicker storage?
2. Create a mature, relaxing zen room with a romantic setting: yes i know romantic isn't something a room for an unmarried girl should be but, relax, a girl needs a palace. A private place where I can write, read, and be me. :)
3. Spend as little as possible: Yes, I am cheap, I'll give you that, but I am smart with money.
4. Some space: my room, a disaster, I love to work out to dvds, (Kathy Smiths Flex Appeal belly dancing, yoga, ect.) But it is next to the impossible, with my clingy cat and the indescribably DISGUSTING couch in my way, and you girls know how it is not wanting to work out in the living room where some one can see you, UGH!! Hate that!
I am not sure if anyone reads this, or cares, but the next blogs in this series I will provide you with ideas, tips I learn, and updates. Thanks for now, leave any comments or tips :) Blessings XX
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