Thursday, March 18, 2010

peppermint marshmellows

So, I have always wanted to make marshmellows and since I got my Bosch for Christmas I can, (mwahhh ha ha ha). Having no vanilla is a hardship (I am holding out for a Penzy's spice order I'm putting together) so I went with pepeprmint. Note to self. Add only 1/2 A tsp. of peppermint for 1 tsp. of vanilla. Strong little marshmellows. Also note. Marshmellows need to sit for four hours or overnite before being cut to shape. DO NOT PUT PLASTIC WRAP OVER THE MARSHMELLOWS before dusting them with the mixture of powdered sugar and corn starch. messy, messy, messy. Luckily I only had it halfway down before my brain kicked in.

We will be cutting them when we get back from the church (when you talk to your friend and you know she is prepping for Relief Society Meetings that evening beware asking 'do you need anything? You know where that is going). LOL I knew where that was headed. OK and the gym first. If I am going to bake I had best be going to the gym.

My girl looks so cute today. She is finding her own style and it is gorgeous. I will try and post pictures. I do have one of the lemon rosemary cakes.

-Eea

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

March 2010

I read in Oprah, in a glancing view, that 'people say that they love to eat but that is not true, they need love in other ways in their life and it comes out through eating'. Now, I may need more love in my life. I like love. But I argue that I do love food. I love to bake. I love to feed people. When my children refuse to eat it drives me crazy!

My food day:

breakfast two cutie tangeries, yummy

lunch, homemade pizza. An olive oil, wildflower honey white wheat crust with a evoo pesto sauce base (dried herbs from my garden last fall) sun dried tomatoes (from my garden last fall), part skm mozzerella,portabello mushrooms, orange and yellow bell peppers, feta and a little more basil and some fresh cracked black pepper. YUMMY!

dinner, Greek swiss chard pie with the rest of the portabello mushrooms and feta wrapped in layers of phyllo dough touched with evoo.

then we made little rainbow muffins with lembas flour (a fresh ground mixture of wheat, barley, oats, lentils, white beans) colored in six colors and placed in layers with pink sugar on top.

Then the kids helped me make lemon rosemary cake. We stopped and smelled all of the flavors as we put them in. Now I just need to make the lemon glaze.

The sad part is I put too much salt in the muffins and forgot the salt in the cake so... it's not perfect, but oh, it still smells so yummy in here.

I am working on only eating when I am hungry...Kylee is so good at that. I try not to mess with my kids hunger signals. (I have to watch Dylan though. The other two are such good eaters that I forget that he ate NOTHING for lunch and is holding out for something with sugar in it).

I am reading the biography of Hillary Bell and all of the great things that she accomplished in her life and I want to be doing those great things. But I admit that most of the women I can think of that have done those very big things have been denied motherhood or have sacrificed a large part of their motherhood. I believe in the power of mothers. I don't want to give up on other dreams and aspirations but I want to hold strong to the idea that what I am doing right now is just as important (actually more important) than my other goals. I want to be confident in my decisions. I want to be a great mother. I think I will have to earn that. I know I will have to earn that. It is not just given to me.

Good night, another day is won.