Have flour?? Make bread!!!

I am pulling up an old favorite!!  I think it may come in handy in the coming months for many.

How to make homemade White Bread!!

I personally use bread flour, however if you only have All purpose I strongly recommend at least sifting it.  If you don't have a 'real' sifter, use a strainer with small holes or whatever you have on hand to help loosen up any clumps!

I use a basic bread recipe for many things:

*Pizza (add less flour for a thinner crust)
*Rolls (make balls and raise them in a muffin pan or on a cookie sheet)
*Cinnamon rolls (that is shown in the link below)
*Cinnamon raisin bread
*Of course loaves of white bread.

This is my recipe:  I find it is very similar if not the same as many recipes I find related to Amish breads.

2 1/2 c. hot to touch water
2 T (or 1 pkg) dry yeast
2T sugar
2t salt
1/4c. oil
3 c. flour

Step by steps instructions are on my post from 2007 (back when I was not allergic to cinnamon.. sigh!!)

Homemade White bread

Enjoy!!

Banana Bread

I have been working on getting my recipes all typed out and into a printable format.  I even made a goal to print a cookbook for at least my family....  for a few Christmas's ago lol..

Many of my favorites are posted on this blog already so I am consistently referring friends and family and decided THIS is where I should focus!

For those who have never seen my blog before, it was really active quite a few years ago, a quick search should find you a few good recipes to try!   Life changed and my posting slowed down but it's time to finish what I started, more recipes that use up ingredients you can actually find in the stores!!

Here is one I get asked for often!!

This recipe will work well if you use GF flour blend in place of the Flour listed here as well!

Cornbread chicken pot pie..

** I found I have two post that were never published.. from 2018.  So here they are!! **

Ok, so I kinda made up this recipe, but adapted it from several ideas. Either it was really good, or everyone was really hungry, because the pan was practically licked clean.

I start almost EVERY recipe with sauteed onions, garlic and mushrooms.  No I don't measure, just use bacon grease or butter and cook them up!

I then added some fresh peeled and cubed carrots and potatoes, as well as leftover chicken!
You can easily replace the leftover chicken with canned chicken or any cooked meat.

Simmer with some cream of mushroom soup and broth until they are almost cooked and it thickens a bit.  I use Progresso GF Cream of Mushroom soup but you can use which ever your go to is.







Pour into your favorite casserole.  I feel deeper dish is better, but as long as it fits, it should work.

I topped with our corn bread recipe (posted below).  You can use a box mix or make it from scratch.  Aldi has a GF corn bread mix as well!

Bake @ 400  until the bread is cooked. 

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SETX animal sightings ~

SETX animal sightings.... with wings

Dragonflies are all over the place.  They are bigger than I expected as well.  BRIGHT blues and green colors.  A very beautiful addition to the landscape

SETX animal sightings.~ Lizards

One of the awesome things about being in a new place is seeing new wildlife.  Going from Michigan to Texas has been quite the adventure. 

We see a huge variety of animals that we would never have seen in MI.  Here is a collection of some of them. I will have a few post about all the things we have seen here.

Part of our schooling has been learning about all of them.

SKINKS

Skinks are very common here.  We find them all the time.  Some have bright blue tails, some are more red.  They are pretty fast and are hiding unless it's a sunny day.

ANOLES

They are EVERYWHERE!!  They are in the lizard family but are not a true chameleon. They change colors from green to very dark brown.  They have a dewlap aka a red neck flap that puffs out.  They are to fast for me, I have not been able to get a good picture of the dewlap yet. 

Can you find me???

Another Hobby ~ photography

Here is a slightly random post for you.  Usually I post about recipes, which happens to be one of my favorite hobbies..  Here is another, Photography.  It travels well and takes little space which is great for our traveling style.  I am by no means a professional, but I love capturing those moments in time.  Candid moments with kids or just the beauty of nature. I miss it when I can't get out and grab some snaps.  I am not a huge fan of highly edited photos, I prefer to keep it natural.  There are many really neat features you can do with editing, layers, colors, etc... I just like to keep it as natural as possible.  I almost always have my camera with me, not just my phone camera but a Canon 12.1 pixel.  Nothing special but works great for me.  It only cost $350 (a few years back) so that helps to. 

Here are a few (because I literally have thousands of photos saved) of my favorites.  These are my easy assess ones (I have thumb drives full as well).

I LOVE water photos, the reflections of the water are just so beautiful. 

~Enjoy~